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Primus!
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (/hk2L) 2
Nooded.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (/hk2L) 3
Now to the content...
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (/hk2L) 4
Excellent job, Ben Wolf, on that airplane phone. Kudos. (Do people still say "kudos"?)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (/hk2L) Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:24 PM (/hk2L) 6
Probably found the first cistern to be too cold, and the second cistern to be too hot. The one they got stuck in however . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (rbvCR) 7
Why put any effort into rescuing bears? Bears are ugly, smelly, shit-assed murderbeasts that do nothing for humans. Just shoot the damn things.
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (2Drhq) 8
Dinner almost ready! Taco salad, grilled chicken, pintos, fajita veggies.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (ZdaMQ) 9
Cat hammock that mounts in a window frame. Clever.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 07:26 PM (Jr5Lq) 10
6 Ha!
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 07:26 PM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:27 PM (2Drhq) 12
Kindltot, well played, sir.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:28 PM (PbWRL) 13
Piper, that sounds delicious!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 07:29 PM (aJQbY) 14
Offering a nice Cab with blackberries to snack on.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:29 PM (PbWRL) 15
Pupper actually wants treats.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 07:29 PM (NnhvP) 16
Groundskeeper Willie promptly posted a 'Stay Out' sign on the cistern.
If there are cisterns there must also be transterns. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 07:29 PM (Jr5Lq) 17
Cesar Milan used to say that giving a dog a chore when walking was a help if they were pulling or getting distracted - carrying something like the bag, putting on a pack and carrying water, putting a little wagon, something like that.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:30 PM (uhVAy) 18
If there are cisterns there must also be transterns.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 07:29 PM (Jr5Lq) [golf clap] Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:31 PM (rbvCR) 19
Goldilocks and The Three Bears?
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:31 PM (LHPAg) 20
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0) 21
20%. A great start to the Café week! Let us hope, for our spiritual and olfactory-sense well-being, we can continue!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1) 22
My cats are starting to be a pain in the ass in their requests to go out for a walk. They now expect it every morning . It's like having dogs. Eliminated one of the advantages of having a cat instead of a dog.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (KC5Lt) 23
Sorry I’m late. Tankdemon sent me on a snipe hunt. Again.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (u73oe) 24
What kind of cat is with the Great Dane? Great coloring.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 07:34 PM (viF8m) 25
7 Why put any effort into rescuing bears? Bears are ugly, smelly, shit-assed murderbeasts that do nothing for humans. Just shoot the damn things.
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (2Drhq) Really? https://tinyurl.com/tbe4383r Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:34 PM (/hk2L) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:34 PM (u82oZ) 27
{i]Why put any effort into rescuing bears? Bears are ugly, smelly, shit-assed murderbeasts that do nothing for humans. Just shoot the damn things.
Posted by: Delurker Because then you'd have a bunch of bear carcasses you'd have to haul out of the pit? Much better to figure out how to get them to climb out on their own. Then you can shoot them. Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 07:34 PM (C0Nlv) 28
Duke Lowell, how are you doing?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:35 PM (PbWRL) 29
Goldilocks and The Three Bears?
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:31 PM (LHPAg) That hussy! She ate our food, ruined my chair, stole my bed, and then we threw her out as a squatter Posted by: Baby Bear at August 31, 2026 07:35 PM (rbvCR) 30
Sorry I’m late. Tankdemon sent me on a snipe hunt. Again.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM Did you wear a cowboy hat whilst upon it? You know, Rhinestone thong cowboy and all ... ;-) Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1) 31
What kind of cat is with the Great Dane? Great coloring.
Posted by: JackStraw Either a Bengal or a Savannah cat, I think Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 07:36 PM (C0Nlv) 32
Bears are climbers. Stick a ladder down there and walk away.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL) 33
11 Airplane phone?
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:27 PM (2Drhq) Photo. Stupid autocucumber. Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:36 PM (/hk2L) 34
Bottom doggeh has a very cute punim.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:36 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m) 36
Poor bears. The low water levels is probably what allowed the bears to find a way in that is usually under water. Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 07:37 PM (OkYzo) 37
San Franpsycho, is Molinari's still in business?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:38 PM (PbWRL) 38
23 Sorry I’m late. Tankdemon sent me on a snipe hunt. Again.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (u73oe) Come back with a snipe sometime and we'll see if further excursions are necessary. Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:39 PM (/hk2L) 39
Hey Salty and Ben! Getting better every day. Still not where I’d like to be but getting closer.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:40 PM (u73oe) 40
Dove season opens in the morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:40 PM (PbWRL) 41
Dinner almost ready! Taco salad, grilled chicken, pintos, fajita veggies.
Posted by: Piper Tell us the taco salad contains kale! Lie if you must! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 07:42 PM (NnhvP) 42
I've got a concrete-capped outhouse pit in the backyard. When I show guests around, I call it a cistern. They oooh and aaah.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 07:42 PM (Jr5Lq) 43
Man, you can't travel to any of those tropical-type or exotic places without wanting to rescue an animal. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 07:43 PM (mmrXZ) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++) 45
Tell us the taco salad contains kale! Lie if you must!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 07 It would be a lie! Hydroponic lettuce is the base. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (ZdaMQ) 46
Golden Dumdums will preen in the mirror.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:45 PM (RIvkX) 47
1 Primus!
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (/hk2L) ==== There is no excuse for this. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:45 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:45 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 07:46 PM (NnhvP) 50
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(Do people still say "kudos"?) Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos the executioner. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++) Kudos is what they give you when they won't give you a pay raise. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:46 PM (LHPAg) 51
Bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers stuffed with dove breast and oxaca cheese on the menu soon.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:47 PM (PbWRL) 52
San Franpsycho, is Molinari's still in business?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:38 PM (PbWRL) ===== Yeah, as far as I know. BTW used your tuscan herb oil to soften the mire poix for soup tonight. Had a little spoonful too, could easily be addictive. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:48 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 07:48 PM (viF8m) 54
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos the executioner.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++) ===== Me too. Posted by: Lt. Kevin Kyle at August 31, 2026 07:50 PM (RIvkX) 55
San Franpsycho, I wasn't kidding when I said I could drink it out of the bottle.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL) 56
Picked up Dutchess's ashes at the vet's this afternoon. Our merry, star-crossed girl is home for good. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 07:53 PM (O0L8i) 57
Mike Hammer, I use a Remington 20 ga.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:54 PM (PbWRL) 58
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos the executioner.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++) ===== This is an interesting episode, there is little action but the story, directing, and acting are very good. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:56 PM (RIvkX) Quick Hits![]() Eric DaughertySpeaking of stolen land, the Supreme Court has rebuked a lower court order to halt Trump's repair and remodeling of the East Wing of the White House. Specifically, they issued a stay, putting the lawless rogue lower court's injunction against Trump on hold. On April 17, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stayed the district court's injunction, effectively allowing construction to proceed, while it considered the government's appeal. On August 7,Essentially this is a full and final reversal -- by the time the full case is decided, the remodeling will be concluded, rendering this lawsuit moot. Two points: The Supreme Court ruled that the National Trust, which brought the suit, has no standing to sue at all, and Chief Justice Roberts, of course, sided with the liberals, because he is one. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed tells his audience to fake their enthusiasm for his stump lines -- he actually tells them to "go nuts" -- so that his Advertising Jihadis can use the crowd's reaction in its political ads to "push back on AIPAC." Mike Rogers makes the subtext into text in an anti-Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed ad: "ABDUL IS JUST WEIRD." Indeed. Speaking of radical Muslims who hate America: Tuq'r Qarlson has on a "Missouri farmer" -- who he refuses to tell his audience is a former Democrat lieutenant governor -- to trash Trump for allowing the importation of Argentinian beef. (Was this ever not allowed? They make a lot of it.) The Islam First agitator then explains who The Real Villain Here is: Can you guess?
Benjamin Ryan Even leftwing media hacks have to admit that X's user-produced community note system of corrections works. And I'd add it works 10,000% better than media hacks' tendentious, political-ax-grinding "corrections." The Vigilant Fox 🦊Some things in life just aren't funny, and prominent among them is Bill Maher. So I don't find this funny, but it is an accurate point: RedWave PressThe Babylon Bee: ![]()
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Quickies!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e) 2
I haz nooded.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e) 3
James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII UNDEFEATED: It was early Friday morning that my attorney, @BenjaminBarr1A, called me with the news neither of us will ever forget: we had just overturned the verdict against me in Democracy Partners v. O’Keefe before the hostile D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This established undercover reporting as protected by the First Amendment in federal court as a matter of law. https://tinyurl.com/5n7kjwpj Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (ExV1e) 4
Its depression thays doing it
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:05 PM (Ia/+0) 5
LOL @ "Intense," hahaha!
Eilish is stultifying. Soporific. It's music for elderly heroin addicts waiting to die in hospice. This is like if Slayer introduced their new fragrance "Tranquility." Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (BI5O2) 6
Gay North Dakota is a pretty good description of the majority of Canada.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Shi2G) Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:07 PM (KC5Lt) 8
Billie Eilish is very strange looking. No idea how she can sell fragrance/cosmetics to the masses. Sure, her followers will buy, but who else?
Posted by: Ann at August 31, 2026 06:08 PM (SHHm+) 9
Now that's a TicToc vidya.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 06:08 PM (9tX4s) 10
In "Just try and see what happens" news, The New Republic is lamenting that "soaring number of mail in ballots are being rejected for lateness."
You mean, like they are supposed to be? If anyone ever bothered to try and enforce the law--as written? Trump, by just trying, is doing more than 30 years of "iron-clad, rock-solid, I guarantee it" establishment Republican promises. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:09 PM (3cUTc) 11
Is my good friend and prayer partner Jimmy Said the second-greatest hero in history or is he merely one of many patriotic Americans who have been victimized by a vicious cancel culture at the behest of money men eating hummus in Tel Aviv?
Just asking questions. Serious questions. Posted by: C. Tarlson at August 31, 2026 06:09 PM (5PF8b) 12
you know what doesn't help kids? Five buck a pound hamburger at Costco.
Screw it, bring Argentine beef in until the herds are back to size. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR) 13
Eilish doesn't look like she uses soap, shampoo, or deodorant.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (9tX4s) 14
Neo had a article the other day about lonely people and young people are off worse than older people.
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0) 15
"Balding pink-haired man pretending to be a woman appears to be praying for the death of President Trump."
===== "Embrace my psychosis, you MAGAts!" We closed the asylums, and now the lunatics are in the wild. Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (rj6Yv) 16
At no point did that girl in the car crash appear to lose eye contact with her cell phone.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:11 PM (Shi2G) 17
Almost killed herself. That's sad.
Speaking of sad, since we were talking about that hottie Rosie, I decided to further punish myself, watch local Detroit news and see what they are saying politics wise. All three covered VP Vance in Michigan. CBS actually brought up El-Sayed's comments about 9-11 and let him explain it away. The others didn't even mention it. Commie, terrorist supporting assholes. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:11 PM (Sco7b) 18
10=400000. It's transmath you bigots
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 06:11 PM (j/Ml9) 19
Speaking of radical Muslims who hate America: Tuq'r Qarlson has on a "Missouri farmer" -- who he refuses to tell his audience is a former Democrat lieutenant governor -- to trash Trump for allowing the importation of Argentinian beef. (Was this ever not allowed? They make a lot of it.)
---- He abated the tax on ground beef for three months or something like that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:12 PM (ogcfP) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:12 PM (ndZc7) 21
Remember:
If you don't call that man by his fake female name and treat him as a female, he will go and kill himself. So please don't call him by his male name that he was born with and that will cause him to kill himself. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (3cUTc) 22
Billie is cute I think but certainly not gorgeous. She seems always to homely down herself.
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0) 23
Speaking of stolen land, the Supreme Court has rebuked a lower court order to halt Trump's repair and remodeling of the East Wing of the White House.
====== The judiciary is out of fvcking control. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (RIvkX) 24
6 Gay North Dakota is a pretty good description of the majority of Canada.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Shi2G) The eastern part is probably more like gay New Jersey. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (dEHLq) 25
I bet that lonely woman's man requirements are unattainable.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (KC5Lt) 26
I save myself a fair amount of angst by not looking at any videos of leftists acting nutty in their Tic Top or other "performance" videos. . Besides, at this point , I would probably be unable to tell if the videos were really people or AI.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:14 PM (W90Ou) 27
>>The eastern part is probably more like gay New Jersey.
Gayer Minneapolis, I'd say. And, Montreal. Which is French. And nothing is gayer than that. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:15 PM (Shi2G) 28
Speaking of radical Muslims who hate America: Tuq'r Qarlson has on a "Missouri farmer" -- who he refuses to tell his audience is a former Democrat lieutenant governor -- to trash Trump for allowing the importation of Argentinian beef. (Was this ever not allowed? They make a lot of it.)
- Were they Jew cows? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:15 PM (ndZc7) 29
Most disturbing part of the car crash girl's video is that the airbags didn't deploy. Did she turn them off?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (nlLAo) 30
"Tic TocK" not "Tic Top"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (W90Ou) 31
There was a very effective anti-Mike Rogers ad her really hammering the war and gas prices.
The ad didn't mention Abdul was the alternative but if I was struggling in Michigan, that'd hit a few pain points. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b) 32
White liberal filming a TikTok video ends up almost killing herself in a crash.
===== I have some advice for her. Call me. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (RIvkX) 33
>>Most disturbing part of the car crash girl's video is that the airbags didn't deploy. Did she turn them off?
Depends. Takata Airbags might have actually killed her. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (Shi2G) 34
12 you know what doesn't help kids? Five buck a pound hamburger at Costco.
Screw it, bring Argentine beef in until the herds are back to size. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR) I would be very happy if they lowered the price of ground beef to $5. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (dEHLq) 35
Hypocrite all around. From the CA Post:
Billie Eilish is being mocked for officiating her brother’s wedding on what she may refer to as “stolen land.” The singer, 24, hosted 29-year-old Finneas O’Connell’s marriage to longtime girlfriend Claudia Sulewski, 30, at the luxurious San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Calif. Saturday. Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (kX27y) 36
Eilish doesn't look like she uses soap, shampoo, or deodorant.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory ...... or personal shavers. Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (UjdFS) 37
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed kissing another guy, that's disgusting, it's pornographic. Will the people of Michigan accept this?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (ogcfP) 38
29 Most disturbing part of the car crash girl's video is that the airbags didn't deploy. Did she turn them off?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (nlLAo) Yeah, I was going to mention that; I'm wondering if it's fake. Also, who would post something that embarrassing? I would think even an uber-performative wyt womyn would hold off on that one. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (9ZFZd) 39
Many musicians are swept ito Leftism yet living the high life of capitalism. Probably feeling guilty about it yet not giving it up.
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (U/Byj) 42
Were they Jew cows?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:15 PM (ndZc7) So hard to tell if the cows are Jews. They are the girls, so, no permanent marks on them. But maybe check to see if they keep their hair covered? /s Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (dEHLq) 43
>>Most disturbing part of the car crash girl's video is that the airbags didn't deploy.
..... and the lack of blood. Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (UjdFS) 44
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b)
Society has lost the ability to look beyond a day . That's the big picture for them. And it's worse for the Left because they already are without the ability to determine cause and effect. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (KC5Lt) 45
Gay North Dakota is a pretty good description of the majority of Canada.
Posted by: garrett No, it's not a majority of Canada. and, North Dakota is MAGA, the top producer of wheat and the 3rd oil producing state. Posted by: old chick at August 31, 2026 06:20 PM (F3Dlr) 46
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 06:20 PM (V362x) 47
From Trump Announces:
90 We should be building more refineries. That would help lower prices in the long term if we had more capacity and output. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt) The Feds should buy the California refineries (at a more than fair price) that are being forced to close by socialist overregulation, then use Pre-emption to overrule the state and run the facilities profitably. They really do have a legitimate national security interest in fuel availability for all their military assets in the area, and in particular the supply for a hypothetical war with a country that rhymes with China. Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 06:21 PM (ke3zm) 48
I could only watch sad girl for 45 seconds. I may not be the man for her.
Hey, accident lady held my attention for her entire video. She needs to do that every day. That big yellow thing may have saved her life. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:21 PM (Sco7b) 49
White liberal filming a TikTok video ends up almost killing herself in a crash. How did this generation end up this way????
- Willowed but maybe on point. I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted. - New Tik Tok trend. J͎Λ͎Y͎u @TakeThiamine I remember seeing a TikTok where some girl was at a birthday party(?) going around interviewing people wrt meds and everyone was on like 2-6 things. It’s bleak. swan song @swansong When I lived in America a girl looked at me in complete horror when I told her I wasn't on any meds. She couldn't believe it - Well, at least all the AWFLs are completely sane now. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:21 PM (ndZc7) 50
I don't know squat about Eilush so I looked her up. She was diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, synthesia and depression. She a vegan and bisexual
In other words your typical idiot celeb Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 06:22 PM (j/Ml9) 51
The positions of Chief Justice John Roberts might be more easily understood if he would just remove Norm Eisen's cock from his mouth.
Posted by: Sam Adams at August 31, 2026 06:23 PM (X+xvk) 52
>>The Feds should buy the California refineries (at a more than fair price) that are being forced to close by socialist overregulation, then use Pre-emption to overrule the state and run the facilities profitably.
Never understood why the Native Tribes didn't get into the refinery business. Being your own sovereign does wonders for dealing with regulatory impediment. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:23 PM (Shi2G) 53
Is Javier Milei, who is forcing cheap Argentinian beef down the throats of our children, history's second greatest monster, behind only Winston Churchill, or is he merely one of many supposed popular leaders who seem to have won elections but were really installed in office due to the machinations of money men eating hummus in Tel Aviv?
Just asking questions. Serious questions. Also, have you noticed how expensive it's become to fill your burrito with beef? Another failure of this administration that puts Israel first and America last. Posted by: C. Tarlson at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (5PF8b) 54
>>>Gay North Dakota is a pretty good description of the majority of Canada.
Posted by: garrett No, it's not a majority of Canada. >Gay North Dakota was from 2024. Now it Trans North Dakota. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (nlLAo) 55
25 I bet that lonely woman's man requirements are unattainable.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (KC5Lt) I bet not. It's a totally atomized generation. It's a lot of stuff that feeds into that, but these people are increasingly isolated from one another, particularly in urban areas. There is no shared community left in many places, and none of the social structures remain outside of artificial, sterile digital engagement - and now that online dating is going the way of the buffalo, they can't even find a date on the stupid phone anymore. It's just them and their phones. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (BI5O2) 56
>>>ends up almost killing herself in a crash.
--- When she crashed, she was looking out the side window, she was not looking where she was going. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:25 PM (ogcfP) 57
How does Billie Eilish's parfum smell compared to Gwenyth Paltrow's?
Asking for the Commentariat. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1) 58
garrett might have an idea there. Refineries certainly would beat casinos for "social impact".
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 06:26 PM (U/Byj) 59
Most disturbing part of the car crash girl's video is that the airbags didn't deploy. Did she turn them off?"
It's either AI or British... Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:26 PM (XuXeR) 60
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (dEHLq)
Hell, ground beef is going for what we used to pay for New York's. New York's are now what we used to pay for King crab. It's nuts. Posted by: Bosk at August 31, 2026 06:26 PM (VMFAF) 61
I am alone with my phone.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM (UjdFS) 62
$ 88 for 3.4 oz. That stuff must smell like cat piss. Any decent perfume starts at $200 an oz.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM (PbWRL) 63
Eilish Intense Eau de Parfum 3.4oz bottle at Ulta: $88.00.
Eight Eight. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Jr5Lq) ========================= Favorite perfume for the ladies of the Aryan Nation Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:28 PM (INNA5) 64
She seems always to homely down herself.
I saw something that said that when she first got a boyfriend she prettied herself up and her fans lost their shit so she stopped. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:28 PM (ExV1e) 65
Never understood why the Native Tribes didn't get into the refinery business."
No need. The "elders" are all in on extraction (less risk) Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (XuXeR) 66
Look on the bright side, Dems: if Michelle Obama ever gets back in the White House, now there's a great place for you to hold her balls!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (IhL8c) 67
I am alone with my phone.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM The call is coming from inside the phone! Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (0sNs1) 68
My new perfume makes fun of Ronnie Reagan's "Rising Tide" ... Try my new perfume, L'eau Tide. Be the hit of the party!
Posted by: Billie Eilish at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (cXHM+) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (ndZc7) 70
I know it's unimaginably past the comprehension or ability of the GOP (usually) to actually make a point/educate/change the landscape in their statements or ads, but how about explaining that gas prices were even worse under the Dems for no good reason. And explain the reasons. Then explain current all-time maximum domestic production, and that current prices are temporary and will resume their downward trend once a vile nutso generational foreign adversary is defeated.
Of course that last part would be beyond the understanding of almost all voters including robot GOP types, as well as most of the commentariat, but include it just for fun. Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 06:30 PM (U/Byj) 71
That stuff must smell like cat piss.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM You say that like it's a bad thing. Posted by: Fritz the Cat & Fat Freddie's Cat at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (0sNs1) 72
Just a side note: Molly Jong-Fast is a major advisor for The Lincoln Project. Yet the Lincoln Man-Boy Love Project is totes conservative, yo. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (y9nCu) 73
Any decent perfume starts at $200 an oz."
What's an 8 ball run nowadays? /asking for a friend. Yeah, that's it Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (XuXeR) 74
...and now that online dating is going the way of the buffalo, they can't even find a date on the stupid phone anymore. It's just them and their phones.
------ I worry about our society and the addiction to the dopamine hits from our phones. I've started paying attention to social gatherings I've recently attended. 6 of us gather to have a meal and watch the horse races from the comfort of an air-conditioned restaurant, and at any given time 2-4 of the people there are scrolling their phones. A work team meeting with a *legitimate* big hitter from our industry, and at any given time 6-8 of the 12 people in the room are scrolling their phones. There's "Next Generation" episode where Ryker gets introduced to a tech-game while on leave and brings it back to the ship...where it spreads like wildfire and soon the entire crew is addicted to the game and only the game and no longer maintaining the Enterprise or the mission. Its revealed that the "game" was created to do just that by the Romulans. I fear we're well on our way to that ourselves. Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (TN0g+) 75
I thought the ground beef was $5.99/lb today at Costco.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (VCgbV) 76
Cute girl? In that one video? But I, like, hate uptalking?
Annoys the fuck out of me? Make a declarative statement! FFS! I have actually been told, timidly, of course, that I speak too directly. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM (0aYVJ) 77
That chick in the D'Souza video could have a man in less than 15 minutes. I'm convinced these are actresses practicing their craft.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM (wGerL) 78
Its revealed that the "game" was created to do just that by the Romulans. I fear we're well on our way to that ourselves."
Hey, check out this tic tac vid! Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (XuXeR) 79
So this figure has been all but plucked out of the air and was not actually reached by NORC themselves.
I think the figure was pulled out of a tranny fake hole...also known as a second asshole... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK) 80
I am alone with my phone.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM (UjdFS) Me: "Is that a good thing?" Zod AI: "Kill yourself" Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (j10i6) 81
>>>Eilish Intense Eau de Parfum 3.4oz bottle at Ulta: $88.00.
Eight Eight. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Jr5Lq) ========================= Favorite perfume for the ladies of the Aryan Nation Posted by: Huck Follywood >Wait until the bees, hornets and yellowjackets get a whiff of that fragrance. Just call her fuckface. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (nlLAo) 82
Society has lost the ability to look beyond a day . That's the big picture for them. And it's worse for the Left because they already are without the ability to determine cause and effect.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (KC5Lt) I've been watching a lot of stoicism videos on YouTube. Idea one is you can only control your reaction to items out of your control. And the Left wants full control over how everyone thinks, everything they say, no bad times to ever arrive, etc. No wonder they're so miserable. Nightly News updates. Americans are being gaslit on these items.... I love how Dems have no indication in their ads that they're Dems. -stabbings in Times square "woman with a knife' -Grand Canyon flooding -storms -Nepal -Ballroom goes forward. Roberts is a prick -Secretary of Army? Resigns -youth football update. -Dolly, Lionel Ritchie hospital ABC - stabbing - a woman....we'll see about that. NBC - stabbing - looked like a big, black 'woman' CBS - Grand Canyon Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b) 83
I'm convinced these are actresses practicing their craft."
Well, there just aren't a lot of daytime game shows anymore... Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:34 PM (XuXeR) 84
I am alone with my phone.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM It is dark. You will be eaten by a grue. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (9Q+nP) 85
That chick in the D'Souza video could have a man in less than 15 minutes.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM A dab of parfum on the popliteal regions if very effective. Posted by: Things I learned in the AoSHQ comments at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (0sNs1) 86
Many musicians are swept ito Leftism yet living the high life of capitalism. Probably feeling guilty about it yet not giving it up. Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0) Nuh unh! You lie! Posted by: Rage Against The Machine at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (y9nCu) 87
The clown trans with pink hair: who is on her necklace? That's all I want to know. I can tell he made his trashy earrings. Did not listen.
The chick wailing about being alone almost made me laugh because she's so pathetic. Not in how she wants to be for pity clicks. Pathetic in weeping online because she's lonely. Waaa! She walks the Pacific Hwy alone & is going to Swizerland alone. Alone time. I figure when she is around others it is I,I,I blah, boring. Shut up. Do you expect a prince in Swizerland to pop out and marry you? She never mentions a job, just snotting into her dinner, which I've also never done. I've never been lonely or bored in my entire life, being a feral farm girl who liked parties. While I didn't date much in college I had a posse of mostly male friends I hung out with at concerts or parties or bonfires, camping, hiking, skiing. She also goes in & out of a lisp like a Gilmore girl. Maybe stop looking at your phone and read a book. The second chick who wrecked her car, nearly filming her death...what did she say at the beginning? She needs to be locked up. I missed her point and thought the yellow thing on the rear view mirror was a weird airbag at first. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (hzuYO) 88
Molly Jong-Fast's mother is Erica Jong who wrote popular crap like Fear of Flying. She's a complete nepo lefty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 06:36 PM (j/Ml9) 89
Posted by: Sam Adams at August 31, 2026 06:23 PM (X+xvk)
Pretty sure that is why his positions are understood. Posted by: Ann at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (SHHm+) 90
...allowing the importation of Argentinian beef...
This is retarded on so many levels. Its a 90 day pause on the tariffs on imported ground beef. 90 days—which is 2-3 years less time than it takes for a calf to be ready for market. Ranchers are greedily exploiting the current high price of beef by culling young heifers now — their future herds. Herds are at a 1960s low. its ground beef not steaks, not regular cuts of meat. its the cuttings and trimmings to make hamburger. Also no mention that the Trump administration is working to break up the slaughter house cartels that have been screwing ranchers for decades. I hate these lying grifters. Sowing hate and distrust through lies stacked upon lies. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (+4Cf6) 91
Re: ballroom
I can’t think of a times when there has been universal well earned hatred toward the president, senate, congress, SCOTUS, republicans and Democrats. Every layer of governance has failed us. Means next president has the full green light to tear everything the fuck down and do whatever they want to alter Trump's monstrosity since no one will have the standing to stop them. What is the point of the Supreme Court at this juncture in history? They act like a Republican super legislature, with special handouts for their favorite president. To know something is illegal, shrug and say “no one has standing” is a joke. start by tearing down SCOTUS and let the justiced work out of construction trailers for 10 years. Strip them of their right to pick and choose cases. If we can’t pack the court, humiliate them into submission because they are an equal branch, not a super legislature. There is literally no decision that they won't roll over on. They've lost any claim of legitimacy. This is why elections matter. And none of this both sides shit. EVERY. SINGLE. STATEMENT. CONVINCING YOU. NOT. TO. VOTE. IS. DRIVEN. BY. AN. IDEOLOGY. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (2b4M2) 92
Looking at that young, fit women talking about loneliness gives me one thought. Just one.
Is her grandmother widowed? Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (u82oZ) 93
I, for one, grill only the finest of hamburger.
Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at August 31, 2026 06:38 PM (0sNs1) 94
"Molly Jong-Fast"
I like the way she twists and strangles her hair while she's talking. Like wringing a mop. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:38 PM (Jr5Lq) 95
Missed opportunity. He could've named it Lake Dontario.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ndZc7) 96
The Feds should buy the California refineries (at a more than fair price) that are being forced to close by socialist overregulation, then use Pre-emption to overrule the state and run the facilities profitably. They really do have a legitimate national security interest in fuel availability for all their military assets in the area, and in particular the supply for a hypothetical war with a country that rhymes with China.
Posted by: SciVo --- Yes. And, The Fed will eventually take over greater parts of the West Coast. It will segregate all Federal properties from the indigenous peoples and their rules. Military presence will increase to insure safety and security of fed properties, which will increase by community petition and acquisition for more bases and import infrastructure. Parks and joined communities will be safe for tourists and communities within the new federal jurisdiction. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (ogcfP) 97
Its revealed that the "game" was created to do just that by the Romulans. I fear we're well on our way to that ourselves.
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (TN0g+) It worked on everybody but Wesley Crusher who refused to play it or something. Social Media is more addictive than that game. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt) 98
First time I had heard of Molly Jong Fast she was tweeting about Sidney Powell unleashing the Kraken after the 2020 election. She referred to Sidney Powell has he, meaning she had no idea who she was or had not watched any of the daily news conferences with Rudy and Jenna Ellis. Just a complete clown.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (wGerL) 99
The urban atomization is interesting to me. I notice it more than others because I only ever lived in a big city for six years, but I commuted into one from an early age.
When I was young, I was never attracted to city life, but many of my friends moved to the city for one reason: the social life. School, work, blah blah, sure. But the main attraction was all the people to meet and and things to do, and the opportunity to build a new friend group outside of small town life. By the time I had to move down there, it was completely different than when I was in college or starting my career... very, very hard to meet people my own age. Wherever you go, it's just older people hanging out, going to bars, events, etc. The strange way our society has developed, you now have to go to small towns and rural areas if you want anything we used to recognize as a normal social life, and it's been a very rapid change. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:40 PM (BI5O2) 100
Me thinks crash test dummy girl will learn zero from her experience and has probably already started a go fund me page because...Trump bad.
Posted by: Lloyd Loar at August 31, 2026 06:40 PM (Mx+TJ) 101
I can’t think of a times when there has been universal well earned hatred toward the president, senate, congress, SCOTUS, republicans and Democrats. Every layer of governance has failed us.
Yes, Gov't left to its own devices is an evil thing. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK) 102
No need. The "elders" are all in on extraction (less risk)
And zero effort. Let others do all the work and DD the royalties into the tribal bank accounts. Gives the "elders" more time to spend with their fire water. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (/TiS1) 103
It worked on everybody but Wesley Crusher who refused to play it or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM And yet, I receive nearly 100% condemnation here. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1) 104
I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:42 PM (PbWRL) 105
Welp, turned in my resignation/retirement effective September 30. Either a leap of faith or a really dumb move.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 31, 2026 06:43 PM (F5T1n) 106
The Fat Electrician had a vid short come up on yootoob about Robert Smalls, the first Black US Naval captain, during the Civil War, dood was awesome. And hated Donks with the heat of a thousand Suns. I did a quick wiki search and found this anecdote. When Woody Wilson the Klan Lover was running for President in 1912 Smalls wrote the following: "I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place." Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 06:43 PM (y9nCu) 107
104 I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had Maybe adding the pregnancy time? Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (2b4M2) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (u82oZ) 109
I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had Gil Favor will get that beef to market. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ndZc7) 110
Cute girl? In that one video? But I, like, hate uptalking?
Annoys the fuck out of me? Make a declarative statement! FFS! I have actually been told, timidly, of course, that I speak too directly. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM (0aYVJ) Mmm hmmm. My thought exactly. But I do feel sorry for her- at her age, she shouldn't be eating dinner at 5 or she'll have nothing to look forward to when she turns 60. Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 06:45 PM (lCppi) 111
Molly Jong Fast also hated her Fear of Flying famous mother, Erica Jong. Wrote a memoir called Losing Your Mother. She hated her mother and allegedly abused her when she was old and suffering from dementia.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 06:45 PM (kX27y) Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (Sco7b) 113
Its revealed that the "game" was created to do just that by the Romulans. I fear we're well on our way to that ourselves.
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (TN0g+) It worked on everybody but Wesley Crusher who refused to play it or something. ----- Yep, and the others eventually got Wesley too, but not before he had repaired Data who eventually figured out something was wrong and began reversing things (I think I have that right). Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+) 114
I wonder if Roberts understands that in 3 years the SCOTUS will be irrelevant?
Either Vance wins, and so he'll have enough of a mandate to just ignore the courts. Or Harris wins and the Dems stack the Court. But there is no path to "and then America realizes the Supreme Court is the Best and Most Wise Institution in America." Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (3cUTc) 115
111 Molly Jong Fast also hated her Fear of Flying famous mother, Erica Jong. Wrote a memoir called Losing Your Mother. She hated her mother and allegedly abused her when she was old and suffering from dementia.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 06:45 PM (kX27y But she doesn't mind using her mother's name.. Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (+gK6I) 116
And yet, I receive nearly 100% condemnation here.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1) ****************** Can't imagine why. Posted by: Usenet group alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (8jn83) 117
Sigh, another girl crying on social media. Just stop. Finding meaning in your life or yourself isn't "bullshit." Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (mmrXZ) 118
I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:42 PM (PbWRL) How many cows are being slaughtered at 18 months if you are trying to rebuild a cattle herd? My understanding is that the steers are done in at about a year and a half, and the cows are kept for at least a couple of years to have calves before they are slaughtered. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (rbvCR) 119
Mmm hmmm. My thought exactly. But I do feel sorry for her- at her age, she shouldn't be eating dinner at 5 or she'll have nothing to look forward to when she turns 60.
Posted by: LASue She'll always have us. Posted by: Box wine, cats and anti-depressants at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (2b4M2) 120
But I do feel sorry for her- at her age, she shouldn't be eating dinner at 5 or she'll have nothing to look forward to when she turns 60.
Posted by: LASue --- Right??? Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (VCgbV) 121
I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had --- Can't they just eat veal? LOL Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (3cUTc) 122
...start by tearing down SCOTUS...
One thing about the Left that is purely their signature—the lack of Theory of Mind. Curiously, Koko the Ape and possibly Kanzi, a bonobo, were able to understand English phrases, had cognitive abilities compared to a young human child, yet also lacked theory of mind. I'm wondering if these shaved apes have learned how to type. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:48 PM (/TiS1) 123
{{{Ben Had}}}
Had discussions with two ranchers in the area. They run with my peeps. Using Hereford cows, 3 years works for a grass fed self-sustaining herd size. For grass-fed Angus, the other rancher culls at 18 months for some, but likes 3 years for the extra weight. If you need fodder, 18 months works. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:48 PM (u82oZ) 124
"O, Gay North Dakota"?
O Gay North Dakota! Our home and native land! True patriot love thou dost in us command. We see thee rising fair, dear land, The True Gay North, strong and free; And stand on guard, O Gay North Dakota, We stand on guard for thee. It works for me! Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (lCppi) 125
I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had I have a PhD in cattle ranching from Twitter University. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (/TiS1) 126
76 Cute girl? In that one video? But I, like, hate uptalking?
Annoys the fuck out of me? --- Uptalk? I turn it off. If it's live I walk away as soon as possible. I don't want input from a brain weaker than mine. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (ogcfP) 127
BTW, there's millions of tons of beef available in America.
Ready to harvest beef. Just stop subsidizing milk and dairy farmers. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (3cUTc) 128
I did like the part where, after her car did several uncontrolled donuts followed by rolling over a few times before finally landing in a ditch, the first thing the girl did after figuring out up from down again was to look straight at her phone to see if it was still recording her in frame.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (6ydKt) 129
AI sez "Theory of mind is our ability to understand that other people have unique thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions that differ from our own." IDNKT!
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (Jr5Lq) 130
I'd forgotten what beef tastes like. I went to Fogo de Chao and got unlimited beef and had forgotten what I was missing. Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (OkYzo) 131
If you need fodder, 18 months works.
Posted by: NaCly Dog You need to wait until at least 7 or 8 years...they can't even lift a pistol until that age! Posted by: African Warlord abducting child soldiers at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (2b4M2) 132
People;s Hippo Voice. You got it . Veal is processed at 90 days. Eat more veal!
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (PbWRL) 133
103 It worked on everybody but Wesley Crusher who refused to play it or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM And yet, I receive nearly 100% condemnation here. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1) You're forgiven because in this case you WERE trying to score with that rules chick. And you weren't slapping the device on her or asking the replicators for chloroform and a rag. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (Sco7b) 134
Moo. Posted by: Candy Crowley at August 31, 2026 06:51 PM (UjdFS) 135
My understanding is that the steers are done in at about a year and a half, and the cows are kept for at least a couple of years to have calves before they are slaughtered.
In my post I specifically referred to heifers, not steers, since taking a heifer to slaughter early is a sign that the ranchers are not interested in growing the herds but taking their profits now. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:52 PM (/TiS1) 136
African Warlord abducting child soldiers
Cannon fodder is lit. Now where is that video of the chimpanzee given a full auto AK-47 and an attached 20 round mag? Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:53 PM (u82oZ) 137
Wasn't sure if Tim.Curry was dead or just close, looks room temperature
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0) 138
Malogato's take on Lake America is that it is a huge flex on Trump's part, and it is a flex on the Libs and Canadians who have been renaming streets and changing nouns, tearing down and cancelling memorials, reversing history and making everyone miserable and afraid.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (rbvCR) 139
This makes me so happy. Leftists owned the Supreme Court for decades and obviously they own much of the federal court system but we get a conservative court for a couple years and the whole system is now corrupt.
>>What is the point of the Supreme Court at this juncture in history? They act like a Republican super legislature, with special handouts for their favorite president. To know something is illegal, shrug and say “no one has standing” is a joke. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m) 140
Where's the Beef? Posted by: Little old Gray haired Wendy's customer from 1984 at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (OkYzo) 141
Rebuilding a herd requires heifers not steers. You can have all the grass fed beef you want. I prefer mine with a 90 day corn finish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (PbWRL) Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (+gK6I) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:55 PM (u82oZ) 144
Old McDonald had a dog
And Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was his name-o! A-M-ELS! A-M-ELS! A-MELS and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was his name-o! Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:55 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:56 PM (u82oZ) 146
Wasn't sure if Tim.Curry was dead or just close, looks room temperature
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0) --- Only Miracle Max knows for sure... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (FZ29D) 147
Why would you post that accident?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy) 148
142 Moo.
Posted by: Candy Crowley at August 31, 2026 06:51 PM (UjdFS) More like long pork Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (+gK6I) Sure she's not a river horse (Hippopotamus)? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (l3cgK) 149
By the way there is a *great* post on Substack by Mark Atwood. Its titled "All the Worst Features of Church" and shows how Communist took their communication model from traditional church, and kept the worst aspects of it while discarding grace, love, and any of the beautiful parts of Christianity. Its worth a read!
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (TN0g+) 150
40 Eilish Intense Eau de Parfum 3.4oz bottle at Ulta: $88.00.
Eight Eight. Posted by: gp LoL!!! How soon will she be a special guest on Tuq'r Qarlson's show? Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (sAmhv) 151
129 AI sez "Theory of mind is our ability to understand that other people have unique thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions that differ from our own." IDNKT!
Posted by: gp There is a theory of sorts that citizens of ancient civilizations didn't have the same full consciousness we do today... https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75 Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2) 152
116 And yet, I receive nearly 100% condemnation here.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1) ****************** Can't imagine why. Posted by: Usenet group alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (8jn83) Good times. Posted by: alt.sexy.bald.captain at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (9ZFZd) 153
Why would you post that accident?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy) ---- Ego is a helluva drug... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (FZ29D) 154
Paid $10.43# for markdown NY Strips. Ridiculous.
Posted by: Miflin at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (aA6YN) 155
From Reddit: "Means next president has the full green light to tear everything the fuck down and do whatever they want to alter Trump's monstrosity since no one will have the standing to stop them."
In fact, Congress certainly has standing to try and oppose this move, if they wanted to. They do not want to. Someone rando walking down the street who has "feels" does not have standing to sue in federal court. It's another demonstration of what a disgrace John Roberts, who sided with the three Trump hating libs is. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (edUvp) 156
151 129 AI sez "Theory of mind is our ability to understand that other people have unique thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions that differ from our own." IDNKT!
Posted by: gp There is a theory of sorts that citizens of ancient civilizations didn't have the same full consciousness we do today... https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75 Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2) Probably because their educational systems didn't turn them into semi-functioning retards... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (l3cgK) 157
153 Why would you post that accident?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy) ---- Karma Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (+gK6I) 158
109 I don't know where people are getting this 2 to 3 years for cattle going to slaughter.
18 months is the average age. Posted by: Ben Had Gil Favor will get that beef to market. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ndZc7) Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' Though the steams are swollen Keep those doggies rollin'... Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (5rh/l) 159
146 Wasn't sure if Tim.Curry was dead or just close, looks room temperature
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0) According to his resume, Jason Arday could have brought him back. But, um... Good night. I'm going to bed early. I have a bird corpse to pick up tomorrow, Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (Sco7b) 160
Interesting angle on it I had not considered. Thanks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:55 PM (u82oZ) Well, you can thank Adam Curry, that is where I got the initial information from. He also has some critical things to say about the EO on slaughtering, which I have to comb through before I am willing to make known my opinion. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (rbvCR) 161
154 Paid $10.43# for markdown NY Strips. Ridiculous.
Posted by: Miflin at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (aA6YN) All the prices are ugly. I've been doing oink and cluck for quite a while...when on sale. $1/lb chiki legs and thighs... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK) 162
Taking a heifer to slaughter around 2 to 3 means that she is a poor producer and not worth keeping.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (PbWRL) 163
The more fevered leftists want the next democrat president to tear down the new ballroom. Really, I’m not making this up.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:01 PM (IkLDu) 164
’Scuse me while I kiss the sky, but: WHO GIVES A FUCK about Eyelash, Carlsson, etc etc ad nauseam ad vomitus … I am SO fucking fed up with these people I think I'm just gonna go pleasure myself for a little while (at least I know how that ends).
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:01 PM (ayRl+) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (ogcfP) 166
162 Taking a heifer to slaughter around 2 to 3 means that she is a poor producer and not worth keeping.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (PbWRL) I prefer to think of my beef purchases on Styrofoam trays with saran over them not the icky slaughter.. Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (+gK6I) 167
There is a theory of sorts that citizens of ancient civilizations didn't have the same full consciousness we do today...
https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75 Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2) I would argue, on the basis of reading some highly intelligent ancient writings, that many, if not most citizens of ancient civilizations had a much greater consciousness than we do today. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (edUvp) 168
I wonder if Roberts understands that in 3 years the SCOTUS will be irrelevant?
Either Vance wins, and so he'll have enough of a mandate to just ignore the courts. Or Harris wins and the Dems stack the Court. But there is no path to "and then America realizes the Supreme Court is the Best and Most Wise Institution in America." Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (3cUTc) Roberts is the dumbest person on the Supreme Court. Ok, you want to make an empire out of the Court system for your own power. Yet every decision he makes is sure to bring his SC into disrepute by allowing every random judge to play to the press instead of him, I can't recall any decisions he has given a written opinion on to wow history, he votes left or right by flipping a coin along with his clique. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy) 169
it's me donna, the old " where does beef come from" gambit.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:04 PM (PbWRL) 170
In fact, Congress certainly has standing to try and oppose this move, if they wanted to. They do not want to. Someone rando walking down the street who has "feels" does not have standing to sue in federal court.
It's another demonstration of what a disgrace John Roberts, who sided with the three Trump hating libs is. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (edUvp) its trivial, make it a historic building. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy) 171
AI sez "Theory of mind is our ability to understand that other people have unique thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions that differ from our own." IDNKT!
Posted by: gp Jean Piaget spoke about the levels of human child development, and the earliest stages, pre-terrible 2s, the child does not have this understanding. As they get older, it becomes important, but it is also inevitable in proper development. I never considered it in other primates, I figured it was also innate like having a thumb. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR) 172
Tom Servo
Time is a great filter to preserve the best. All the dross is lost. We laud Elon and Thomas Sowell, not the woman driving the car that she crashed. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (u82oZ) 173
All the prices are ugly. I've been doing oink and cluck for quite a while...when on sale. $1/lb chiki legs and thighs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK) Chicken legs here are about $1.99 a pound or less at times. I hate cooking them every week. I still have tons of Whey powder and 600 cans of sardines and sardine fillets from the supply shock times. I'm fine with that. And my sardine portfolio is up about 100% Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (Sco7b) 174
Children need encouragement.
If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling. Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (V362x) 175
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (BI5O2)
She's actually attractive. You can't convince me she couldn't have a date every Friday if she wanted . Something else is going on with her. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt) 176
@ 86 Many musicians are swept ito Leftism yet living the high life of capitalism. Probably feeling guilty about it yet not giving it up. Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Nuh unh! You lie! Posted by: Rage Against The Machine at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (y9nCu) ___________________________________________- I can't remember ANY of the musicians I played with in the '60s and '70s being anything other than straight-up conservatives … but yeah, the times, they been a'changing … It was still surprising that, in the days of Woodstock, etc that as many musicians were still not only conservative but anti-lib … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:07 PM (ayRl+) 177
Ben Had, you spoke of "cattle" and average of 2-3 years, which between steers for slaughter and cows meant for breeding to increase the herd, would be averaged higher than just the steers going down at 18 months.
I think I misunderstood your point. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (rbvCR) 178
Ugh - from the Daily Mail:
A knife-wielding woman was shot and killed by police officers in New York City on Monday after she allegedly went on a stabbing spree in the heart of Times Square, killing one. The unidentified woman had stabbed a woman and a man just before 4.30pm at the intersection of West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's busy downtown, sources told the New York Post. She then fled north toward the New York Police Department substation, where police confronted her. Video from the scene showed the woman pointing a large knife as NYPD officers surrounded her, while frightened tourists screamed and swarmed the area. When the suspect - dressed in a pink T-shirt, jeans, and a cross-body bag - then charged at cops, several officers drew their guns and shot the woman multiple times, causing her to fall to the ground. The women and her two victims were then rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where the suspect and one of her victims, a female tourist, were pronounced dead, according to AMNY. Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (kX27y) 179
She's actually attractive. You can't convince me she couldn't have a date every Friday if she wanted . Something else is going on with her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt) No man is good enough for her. Maybe that was her brainwashed thinking. Could be she's coming out of it. Hopefully so. You're right. There's plenty of guys out there who would be lining up for a date if she's not whacko. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:09 PM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at August 31, 2026 07:10 PM (wGerL) 181
AI sez "Theory of mind is our ability to understand that other people have unique thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions that differ from our own." IDNKT!
Posted by: gp Jean Piaget spoke about the levels of human child development, and the earliest stages, pre-terrible 2s, the child does not have this understanding. As they get older, it becomes important, but it is also inevitable in proper development. I never considered it in other primates, I figured it was also innate like having a thumb. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR) I doubt that is true, babies I've interacted with seem to know I'm not the same as them when I've thrown the toy over their head to make them chase it for the 27th time. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:10 PM (uhVAy) 182
Kindltot, I am famous for not being clear.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:11 PM (PbWRL) 183
168 Roberts is the dumbest person on the Supreme Court.
I dissent!! Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at August 31, 2026 07:10 PM (wGerL) She's ideologically crippled. Roberts can't help acting against his stated aim pretty much every other day. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:11 PM (uhVAy) 184
>>>a huge flex on Trump's part, and it is a flex on the Libs and Canadians who have been renaming streets and changing nouns, tearing down and cancelling memorials, reversing history and making everyone miserable and afraid.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (rbvCR) --- Heck of a billiard player, he is. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 07:12 PM (ogcfP) 185
The women and her two victims were then rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where the suspect and one of her victims, a female tourist, were pronounced dead, according to AMNY.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (kX27y) There's some feminism for you. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:12 PM (uhVAy) 186
154 Paid $10.43# for markdown NY Strips. Ridiculous.
Posted by: Miflin at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (aA6YN) We get Costco cryo-vac prime rib eye and new works, trim it and freeze it at home. Usually about $17/lb before trimming for fantastic, rich steaks- I think they're a better deal because you can't eat as much as a leaner cut. Dinner at 5 pm, sharp. Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 07:13 PM (lCppi) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 07:13 PM (Ujrb8) 188
All these idiots falling for the "Democratic Socialist Party" are really Super Low IQ.
Democratic Socialism contradicts itself and does not exist .. Does the younger generation that supports this crap remember the Hippies from the 1960's and watch out for "Big Brother" ie the Federal Government. Now the Federal Government is your mother, and you can suck on the governments Tit only if you vote for these Commies. Welcome to Obamacare on Steroids, Section 8 Housing for all, Minimum wage of $50 and 500% inflation. Let's build a wall around California and send all these idiots to live there in the Mandani/Newsome Paradise and see how they like it .... I spend 10 years babysitting a B-52 on Nuke Alert for these F**king Idiots....... I think Not !!!!!!!! Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 07:13 PM (j93VM) 189
Children need encouragement.
If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling. Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (V362x) lol Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 07:15 PM (lCppi) 190
it becomes important, but it is also inevitable in proper development.
Other than the Sally/Anne Test, I find that those who have not had proper social development show evidence lacking ToM, one course grain "test" is to see if the subject ever asks any questions or just asserts knowledge all the time. One of the more peculiar examples is when a Mill potential home buyer brings along a posse to evaluate homes during Open House. They aren't necessarily asking them what their thoughts on the property are, but are they getting the crowd's approval. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:15 PM (a3CJ+) 191
This SC did basically overturn Wade v Roe and has ruled in favor of almost every 2nd amendment case.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:15 PM (KC5Lt) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (u82oZ) 193
Who the hell is Billy Eyelash?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (P4bJX) 194
Re last vid:
Hammer rule No. 5: Disregad vids made in automobiles, if bird hands are used, just shut it off immediatedly. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (XeU6L) 195
I would argue, on the basis of reading some highly intelligent ancient writings, that many, if not most citizens of ancient civilizations had a much greater consciousness than we do today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (edUvp) I think there is a number of things to sieve out the ancient writings. Learning writing involved much deeper education than average, and was such an investment in time that higher outcome was required to justify it Copying was time and labor intensive, and books needed to have value to have that effort put into them Maintaining libraries of books was time and labor intensive, as was translating into modern tongues, printing them is time and cost expensive, and then they had to get some currency by being taught widely. Supposedly the dullest book from Classical times was Caesar's Gallic Wars and that was because it was so simple it was used as a entry level text for teaching Latin Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (rbvCR) 196
*disregard
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L) 197
179 She's actually attractive. You can't convince me she couldn't have a date every Friday if she wanted . Something else is going on with her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt) No man is good enough for her. Maybe that was her brainwashed thinking. Could be she's coming out of it. Hopefully so. You're right. There's plenty of guys out there who would be lining up for a date if she's not whacko. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:09 PM (1Ff7Z) ************** No one is good enough for her as she wants to marry herself. Or something. I think, based on her perfect hair for dinner alone, she's full of herself. Talks about HER adventures. I guess to spark interest. The only thing I was interested in is shy she had a lisp to be girlie (I guess), then did not have a lisp. If nothing else go out and read a book at dinner alone vs in your kitchen performing for a phone. And weeping. I remain unclear what the weeping is supposed to do for the audience? Have others weep with her? Join a cult? She does it will less blotching and red nose, I'll give her credit for that and her pretend tears. What does the wrecking girl say at the beginning? Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (hzuYO) 198
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (kX27y)
Really, it's Stabbi McStabperson who's the victim here. Posted by: lindsay clancy juratrix at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (88C+u) 199
Brother Tim, Prayers for you with your retirement/resignation. Hope your situation improves.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (yTvNw) 200
@ 174 Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling. Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (V362x)
_________________________________ Dr Spock wouldn'ta agreed wit' dat - but that'd be one helluva way to teach math, yes … ? And later they could hear "No, Jonny, a + b ≠ 27" … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (ayRl+) 201
Probably good news...
A live-action reboot of the mid-90s animated television series Gargoyles is not moving forward at Disney+. It had previously been reported that a live-action reboot of the series from Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman and James Wan‘s Atomic Monster was in early development at the streamer in 2023, but original series co-creator Greg Weisman told Comics Online in an interview that a live-action series is not in the works. “That’s dead,” Weisman replied, when asked about the project. “I have no idea about animation, but there are no current plans for live-action,” he said Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (Sco7b) 202
No one is good enough for her as she wants to marry herself. Or something.
Judging by the internet, women are only interested in dating Troy Aikman in his prime. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (+4Cf6) 203
The dating issue- the left has made it unbelievably scary for men to actually ask a girl out. It’s easier to just hook up on an app.
I am wholly convinced one of the few places for women to meet men and be asked out is a vibrant Church where you attend the socials. Which if you are on the left, you aren’t a member of such a place. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (ZdaMQ) 204
The very best beef to be had is a jersey steer. Makes angus taste like shoe leather.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (PbWRL) 205
Supposedly the dullest book from Classical times was Caesar's Gallic Wars and that was because it was so simple it was used as a entry level text for teaching Latin
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (rbvCR) its not dull at all, I've translated a lot of it and read the rest a few times. It was written to be clear to be posted in the Forum in Rome so the general public could read it themselves, or if illiterate have a passerby read it to them. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy) 206
No one is good enough for her as she wants to marry herself. Or something.
Judging by the internet, women are only interested in dating Troy Aikman in his prime. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (+4Cf6) Tom Brady got cheated on. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (uhVAy) 207
Cafe NOOD!
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (/hk2L) 208
Alone Girl needs to enlist in the Marine Corps, go to Parris Island, she'll never be alone again.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (LHPAg) 209
Stabby Girl might be a tranny. They used “she”, “woman” and “her” very prominently.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (IkLDu) 210
I am wholly convinced one of the few places for women to meet men and be asked out is a vibrant Church where you attend the socials
Tried it. It might work if I were in the market for 72 year old widows. Which I'd have considered if I was 72. Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (88C+u) 211
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
Lot of places to meet guys other than bars. In your house ain't one of them. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (KC5Lt) 212
its not dull at all, I've translated a lot of it and read the rest a few times. It was written to be clear to be posted in the Forum in Rome so the general public could read it themselves, or if illiterate have a passerby read it to them.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy) The argument was made by scholars who considered its simplicity to be a mark against it. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (rbvCR) 213
Dr Spock wouldn'ta agreed wit' dat - but that'd be one helluva way to teach math, yes … ? And later they could hear "No, Jonny, a + b ≠ 27" …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (ayRl+) At one point they were teaching reading by guess and hope methods in school. Lucky for me my mom had taught all of us to read before kindergarden to keep us relatively quiet for her sanity. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy) 214
88C+u
72? Those are the young widows. I was hit on by one that is 93 years old. Dodged that incoming, I did. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:23 PM (u82oZ) 215
@ 203 The dating issue- the left has made it unbelievably scary for men to actually ask a girl out. It’s easier to just hook up on an app. I am wholly convinced one of the few places for women to meet men and be asked out is a vibrant Church where you attend the socials. Which if you are on the left, you aren’t a member of such a place. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
____________________________ Dating … ha! When I go to W'mart or Da Kroge, I flirt my ass off with ladies in the aisles (or at the register). It's my 'social time, it's fun, I meet new ladyfriends, and some I'd prolly consider askin' out if it weren't for that 'keep away' rock on 3d finger left hand. One of these days, tho' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:24 PM (ayRl+) 216
its not dull at all, I've translated a lot of it and read the rest a few times. It was written to be clear to be posted in the Forum in Rome so the general public could read it themselves, or if illiterate have a passerby read it to them.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy) The argument was made by scholars who considered its simplicity to be a mark against it. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (rbvCR) The actual Romans of the time disagreed, loved the purity of the language. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:24 PM (uhVAy) 217
The nood is losing freshness, come join me.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (/hk2L) 218
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (hzuYO)
Sure, she could be full of herself, but she seems at least to recognize what she's been told is best, ain't. She won't change overnight. She's been led astray by today's philosophy of feminism's anti-man positions. It won't be easy, but it seems her hiking interest should be enough to get her started on being with other people. It can be a group first, then a guy later. Are her tears pretend? I dunno. Hope not. I have to watch close with my own kids to make sure they don't fall into that trap. One seems to be on her way there. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (1Ff7Z) 219
Have no idea what the young woman in the last vid is ranting about, but I note that she is in a right-hand drive vehicle.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (XeU6L) 220
I am wholly convinced one of the few places for women to meet men and be asked out is a vibrant Church where you attend the socials
Tried it. It might work if I were in the market for 72 year old widows. Which I'd have considered if I was 72. Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (88C+u) There is a trend for 'born again virgins' to work the local churches in a lot of places. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:26 PM (uhVAy) 221
@ 220 I am wholly convinced one of the few places for women to meet men and be asked out is a vibrant Church where you attend the socials
______________ Tried it. It might work if I were in the market for 72 year old widows. Which I'd have considered if I was 72. Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (88C+u) There is a trend for 'born again virgins' to work the local churches in a lot of places. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:26 PM (uhVAy) _______________ I could prolly do that if I could avoid all the 'Let me tell you about Jesus!' stuff all the time. It's kinda like, "Honey, when can we talk about gittin' all nekkid 'n stuff?"… I've run into some 'aged hotties' in Da Grocery 'n other places - and some of 'em still have 'the gleam' in the eye (and 'the rock' on the finger). They still look mighty damned good, tho' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:35 PM (ayRl+) Trump Announces Truly Huge Deal to... Take Over 65 Billion Barrels' Worth of Venezuela's Oil Reserves?!Why would they do this? Because successive socialist governments have, get this, run the oil industry into the ground. They did not do basic maintenance and never bothered to upgrade and modernize their infrastructure. They have billions of barrels of oil they never invested any money in so the oil remains underground. The socialists, if you can believe this, simply extracted oil (and embezzled the money) while doing nothing to safeguard the future health of the industry. So Venezuela needs outside help to do the most basic things. Let's elect socialists in America to work the same Economic Miracles! I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry. But, who knows, if there's a Trumpian president, maybe they'll remember what happened to Maduro before nationalizing the newest capital improvements.The US has struck a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves, Donald Trump said. The US president wrote that the agreement would more than double American oil reserves and "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans". In a late-night address on Saturday, Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez hailed the deal as one that would help her nation's economic revival.The media's stories all push the same attack line: The oil will not be extracted for years so Trump is a Big Orange Liar when he says that the deal will lower gas prices. Try Googling it. Every single media story claims Trump is a liar about this reducing gas prices and he's doomed, doomed in the midterms. They've managed 100% narrative coordination. Putin is envious.
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Trump is playing the long game
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (+gK6I) 2
I believe the President over whatever bitter teenager is copy-and-pasting the "news."
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (lCppi) 3
The Paolo, how you say, he also plays the long game.
Posted by: The Paolo at August 31, 2026 04:59 PM (01XUU) 4
This was great news.
MS Now hated it. The words colonialism and dictator were being tossed around like it was a day ending in 'y.' Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:59 PM (Sco7b) 5
Still not tired of winning.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 05:00 PM (zjgNU) 6
And PDT can continue the WH Ballroom project. Of course Roberts sided with the insane portion of the Supremes.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (2NHgQ) 7
This deal along with crushing Iran is moving the center of gravity in the oil world from the Middle East to the US. Ramifications go way beyond the price of a gallon of gas.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (viF8m) 8
The media is in full gaslight mode for Trump's entire presidency.
Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS) 9
Increasing America's oil supplies is a bad deal, because we won't get it immediately. OK. Go with that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (BI5O2) 10
"The media's stories all push the same attack line: The oil will not be extracted for years so Trump is a Big Orange Liar when he says that the deal will lower gas prices.
Try Googling it. Every single media story claims Trump is a liar about this reducing gas prices and he's doomed, doomed in the midterms" Also... The debt is $40 TRILLION dollars! Why do you care about a little fraud here and there. It's so tiny. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b) 11
From a philosophical point of view I don't like this. However it will lower oil prices, keep an eye on the Venezuelans and does stick it to the Canadians
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (j/Ml9) 12
Of course the media hates the idea.
They hate everything they don't understand. Which is *EVERYTHING.* Completely illiterate on EVERY. SINGLE. TOPIC. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (FZ29D) 13
8 The media is in full gaslight mode for Trump's entire presidency.
Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS) Trump hurt their widdle feelings... He called them fake news... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (+gK6I) 14
Prices are up 20 cents more since this was announced. I don't blame Trump, I blame the assholes in Olympia and their bullshit carbon tax nonsense.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB) 15
Look up the conditions we have put on how Venezuela uses the money they make from this deal. It goes into an account we monitor and control. Any disbursement has to be approved by us and be beneficial to the Venezuelan people so the leadership there cannot simply embezzle it.
There is also a whole separate set of incentives and punishments aimed at making them liberalize. We have some really smart people in charge now. They think outside the box and are highly competent. Posted by: Thatch at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (S6YCM) 16
14 Prices are up 20 cents more since this was announced. I don't blame Trump, I blame the assholes in Olympia and their bullshit carbon tax nonsense.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB) Up that much here .. Of course I'm in CA. so.... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (+gK6I) 17
We have a lot of untapped oil fields . Why aren't oil companies pumping like crazy?
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt) 18
Pump up the jams, pump it up Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (NtVYv) 19
Trump's position changes little with regard to midterms. Vetos. Impeachment theater. That's all that changes.
It's not as if Republican legislatures do a fucking thing he wants, ever. He always has to do everything by EO. He can't possibly care about midterms as much as all the professional jabberers and news junkies do. He's living this reality. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (BI5O2) 20
"9 Increasing America's oil supplies is a bad deal, because we won't get it immediately. OK. Go with that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (BI5O2)" eh, whatthehell, it worked when they did it to Sarah Palin ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (VyBeY) 21
The media is in full gaslight mode for Trump's entire presidency.
== It reminds me of Reagan. Even when the economy had obviously turned around and everyone was working who wanted to work, the media keep trying to sell despair every night on the news. Reality would not cooperate with their wishcasting. Yes, I am old. Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:06 PM (anL5R) 22
It is crappy oil ( harder to refine) but seems like a good deal. Also a good time to build a national refinery.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (KC5Lt) 23
"17 We have a lot of untapped oil fields . Why aren't oil companies pumping like crazy?
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt) " all run by demonrats, all in on making Trump look bad for midterms? Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (VyBeY) 24
Increasing America's oil supplies is a bad deal, because we won't get it immediately. OK. Go with that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice The left has been using the "it won't reach the market for ten years" excuse for at least 50 years. Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (DbObV) 25
However it will lower oil prices, keep an eye on the Venezuelans and does stick it to the Canadians
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (j/Ml9) I laughed. This was an amazing move. And Lake America rules. I'll care after all the unpronouncable Indian crap that replaced white guys is reversed. I'm not responsible that they fought and negotiated like shit. Hmmm. Door, I never get visitors. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (Sco7b) 26
6 And PDT can continue the WH Ballroom project. Of course Roberts sided with the insane portion of the Supremes.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine ======= The funny part was that the 5 member majority shoved "no standing" for the plaintiff up Robert's chapped ass. You just know that Clarence and Alito were laughing their ass off at that turn of events. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv) 27
>>> Prices are up 20 cents more since this was announced. I don't blame Trump, I blame the assholes in Olympia and their bullshit carbon tax nonsense.
I'm confused... Trump announces this deal today, and suddenly gas prices jumped 20 cents higher in WA? Doesn't that require legislative edicts, or is it some bullcrap rule already in place? Posted by: LizLem at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (Toos7) 28
Literally every article mentioning Venezuela and oil casually remarks that Venezuela has the ‘world’s largest oil reserves.’
I find that very very hard to believe. In fact, I don’t believe it. Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (DKeOf) 29
Remember their line about ANWAR drilling was the same " it won't do any good for 10 years"
Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (YwEeS) 30
I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry.
__________________________ Well, less than a year ago they did sign an energy and security deal with Russia (under Maduro). That seems to have been negated. Venezuela certainly has the crude, but they don't have the ability to refine. They were circumventing economic sanctions by sending to Iran for refining (who would push it back to Cuba and over to China). Each of these countries was ignoring economic sanctions, and this was the vehicle. Now, the US is in negotiations with Canada who uses Crude as a negotiation point. Well, that leverage just took a nose dive with the Venezuelan agreement. Since January (Maduro's exit) the US has be averaging 500,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude to be refined at Gulf state refineries. By, comparison Canada provides 4 Million barrels to the US daily for refining. So, we covered 1/8th of that amount without an agreement in place with Venezuela...and now it will speed up. Wouldn't want to be Canadian right now. They are royally and truly screwed. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske) 31
6 And PDT can continue the WH Ballroom project. Of course Roberts sided with the insane portion of the Supremes.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (2NHgQ) Here's a small sentence from the dissent... "Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized." https://tinyurl.com/5avdap56 Basically, some chick's feelings would be hurt seeing the ballroom and thus its construction needs to end. Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (Rl7KJ) 32
And Lake America rules. I'll care after all the unpronouncable Indian crap that replaced white guys is reversed. I'm not responsible that they fought and negotiated like shit.
Hmmm. Door, I never get visitors. Posted by: Stateless I guess Trump might as well name the rump area north of that lake, Non-Terio. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:09 PM (E4rtv) 33
Over 20 years ago, the entire media was singing the same chorus:
We can't "Drill, baby, drill" because it'll take ten year for the oil to come online. So they shut down drilling in ANWAR, costing tens of thousands of jobs, and billions and billions in revenue all so they can continue to complain about the high price of gas. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 05:09 PM (3cUTc) 34
I just realized that the coconut oil I use to make the bread dough manageable probably causes the soft crust and lack of oven spring.
Posted by: Accomack at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (T8bqm) 35
How long does it take to set up a rig and start drilling at a spot you are 100% certain of hitting oil? And again, and again.
How long after establishing a platform do you have to pump before recouping your initial investment? That's the ticket. After you have recouped your investment it's profit. Even if Venezuela does go Chavez it may be a write off but it's not a loss. You made bank with it. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (ogcfP) 36
Of course the media hates the idea.
They hate everything they don't understand. Which is *EVERYTHING.* Completely illiterate on EVERY. SINGLE. TOPIC. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. == Well, you are correct, fundamentally. However, you seem to be laboring under the impression that they even think. They do not. They do what they are told. The average news reader is a simpleton. Nice teeth, nice hair, can read. That's what they do. They read whatever is put in front of them or say what is whispered in their ear. Have you read any Jake Tapper Novels? I rest my fcking case. Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (anL5R) 37
24 The left has been using the "it won't reach the market for ten years" excuse for at least 50 years.
i'm right here, you know Posted by: nuclear fusion, power too cheap to meter at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (sGtp+) 38
Here's a small sentence from the dissent...
"Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized." https://tinyurl.com/5avdap56 Basically, some chick's feelings would be hurt seeing the ballroom and thus its construction needs to end. Posted by: Thrawn And that is specifically against prior precedent in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992). AI summary below, The Court established that plaintiffs must demonstrate a concrete and imminent "injury in fact," rather than a generalized grievance or hypothetical harm. Although the plaintiffs argued that the lack of consultation for foreign projects increased extinction rates, the Court found their alleged injuries too speculative and not sufficiently distinct from those of the general public. This decision effectively hindered the ability of private citizens to bring environmental citizen suits for much of the 1990s by requiring a direct, personal stake in the outcome. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv) 39
Venezuela can only refine about 300-400,000 barrels per day, on good days, so much of the refining capacity for their oil has traditionally been the US anyway. In recent years both China and India have built refineries that can handle heavy, sour Venezuelan oil, so this may well be as much a way to control oil flow to those countries as anything else.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (yE2CW) 40
They'll throw us out again or the next Dem President gives it all back to them.
Isn't it funny that socialism basically needs a cheat code to "work" like billions in oil treasure that's free? And even then, it fails. Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (eIzlH) 41
Oil is a futures market. So a deal to bring substantial new reserves online in the future will reduce the futures price and thus the overall price.
We saw that in reverse during the Iran war. The threat of oil shipments that wouldn’t be refined for years affected the price of gas at the pump. This is economics 101. Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (DKeOf) 42
I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry.
But, who knows, if there's a Trumpian president, maybe they'll remember what happened to Maduro before nationalizing the newest capital improvements. - Ace It's possible the Venezuelans have had enough of "21st Century Socialism" for awhile. For at least a generation or two. Then they'll be right back at it. Get all the oil you can get while the getting is good, I say. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt) 43
Based on a Council of Foreign Relations article from June 3, 2026, I'd say we're off to a good start.
"Based on tanker-tracking data from Bloomberg and reports on discounts applied to Venezuelan crude, the estimated value of U.S.-controlled oil exports has increased from $600 million in January (about 380,000 barrels per day) to about $3.7 billion in April alone (about 1.1 million barrels per day). The largest recipients of Venezuelan oil since January 3 have been the United States (43 percent), India (26 percent), and Spain (8 percent)." LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3uc4thh3 Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:12 PM (rj6Yv) 44
They are and always have been parrots of the Democrats.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 31, 2026 05:12 PM (Q/FnY) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (Cqx++) 46
36 Well, you are correct, fundamentally. However, you seem to be laboring under the impression that they even think. They do not.
hmm. lefties are llms, thus explaining the massive push for data centers? Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (sGtp+) 47
"Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
https://tinyurl.com/5avdap56 == HOLY SHIT. Now anyone with a focused and substantial interest in viewing something can potentially stop me from building???? Talk about unleashing lunatic Karens and Kens Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (anL5R) 48
We should be building nuclear plants in every state right now . And if the blue states don't want to then the red states should double up and not sell any power to the blue states.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (KC5Lt) 49
Nobody wants Trump’s Venezuela oil deal to pay off. Not even the oil companies.
Posted by: Accomack at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (T8bqm) 50
Between this, and managing to grab Iran's oil infrastructure (mostly) intact... the US becomes the largest exporter of petroleum products on Earth.
Bold move Cotton. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (2Cry5) 51
Oil is a futures market. So a deal to bring substantial new reserves online in the future will reduce the futures price and thus the overall price.
We saw that in reverse during the Iran war. The threat of oil shipments that wouldn’t be refined for years affected the price of gas at the pump. This is economics 101. Posted by: Elric the Blade == Let's be honest and say Trump deeply cares about the short term price movement of oil on his watch probably more than any long lasting "deal" this forges. I mean the reality is, it will probably take a decade of American investments to make venezuela an oil powerhouse again Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (eIzlH) 52
her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
Posted by: Thrawn Someone should tell Roberts his smug, shit-eating grin causes aesthetic injury. Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (diia5) 53
If the GOPe were losers some things congress could do right now...
1) No federal funds for any state that doesn't suspect its gas tax 2) No federal funds for any state that requires special gas blends Yes the blue states would refuse and sue...let them Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (RIvkX) 55
President Trump should rename the "Milky Way" galaxy to the "American Way" galaxy. That way everyone in the whole world would get a good, patriotic feeling about being in the best galaxy ever.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (V362x) 56
We saw that in reverse during the Iran war. The threat of oil shipments that wouldn’t be refined for years affected the price of gas at the pump.
This is economics 101. Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (DKeOf) It happened in the mid-00s as well. When prices were about to hit $140 because of the Iraq War and the instability of supply Bush signed an executive order opening up more territory on the coasts for oil exploration. Oil prices dropped almost immediately and never really got that close to $140 again, because fracking was on the horizon. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt) 57
OT - "needs of the world"??? She is nuts.
Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness · 1h To: Michigan AG Dana Nessel From: Jews Nuts ------------ Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar · 7h Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday. “We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival" https://jta.org/202 Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y) 58
Anything to rely less on middle east oil is fine with me.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (n5tGW) 59
This is economics 101.
== Which is so far beyond the reasoning capacity of the average democrat that the media can safely ignore it completely. Posted by: Livin' in America at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (anL5R) 60
39 Venezuela can only refine about 300-400,000 barrels per day, on good days, so much of the refining capacity for their oil has traditionally been the US anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (yE2CW) ______________________________ Much higher than that. The US is documenting (receiving) over 500,000 barrels daily. That's about to increase significantly. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (dIske) 61
Basically, some chick's feelings would be hurt seeing the ballroom and thus its construction needs to end.
Posted by: Thrawn ------ Chief Justice Taft, had this snowflake raised her suit in the 1920's would sit on her just like the Court ruled in Frothingham v. Mellon in 1922. Taxpayers do not have standing to sue over spending of fed gov with the only exception as violations of the US Constitution or where statutes specifically authorize such lawsuits. As Frothingham wisely noted, the redress is political, not courts. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (E4rtv) 62
This is yuge re:negotiating with Canada.
In the current trade talks, Canada was threatening to cut us off from their heavy, dirty oil. But now that we have access to Venezuela's lighter, clean oil that's easier to get to America, Canada doesn't have anything to threaten us with. They should be coming to the realization that we really don't need them at all. Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (0MjtC) 63
>>>The largest recipients of Venezuelan oil since January 3 have been the United States (43 percent), India (26 percent), and Spain (8 percent)."
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3uc4thh3 Posted by: mrp --- Thinking that Spain's cut may sharply decrease. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (ogcfP) 64
re 9: "Increasing America's oil supplies is a bad deal, because we won't get it immediately"
wsj 2018: "Readers of pre-millennial vintage may recall the 2008 presidential campaign when Republicans and especially Sarah Palin picked up the chant "drill, baby, drill" as a response to soaring oil prices. The theme was much derided, not least by Barack Obama, who as late as 2012 called it "a slogan, a gimmick, and a bumper sticker" but "not a strategy." Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (CWTWj) 65
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (dIske)
We can't refine much more than that. It ink we only have a couple of refineries in Texas that can handle that heavy oil. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt) 66
Lower the price of kerosene so I can afford to soak my feet to get rid of toenail fungus.
Posted by: Todd the Bum at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (JM9I6) 67
I've been hearing about container-portable micro reactors since I was a kid. We're almost there.
A company called Radiant has shipped their prototype 1MW helium-cooled, TRISO-fueled micro reactor from California to INL/Battelle (on a semi!) as a PoC... its review process at INL has been fast-tracked and is expected to be approved with 8-10mos. They have selected the old K-25 site in Oak Ridge as the production facility, due to its proximity to X-Energy's TRISO-X fuel production plant, and plan to build one reactor per week there, once they have commercial approval. The first 15 have been pre-ordered by the Army for Ft. Benning. Alongside the salt-cooled modular reactors being developed there by Kairos and others, the face of energy is about to change. It really is just over the horizon, now. This is in its infancy, but the toothpaste is out of the tube. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (BI5O2) 68
55 President Trump should rename the "Milky Way" galaxy to the "American Way" galaxy. That way everyone in the whole world would get a good, patriotic feeling about being in the best galaxy ever.
and he should rename the "solar system" to the "american system". Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (sGtp+) 69
60 39 Venezuela can only refine about 300-400,000 barrels per day, on good days, so much of the refining capacity for their oil has traditionally been the US anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood I have come to believe that most analysts on TV are simply bullshit actors there to say what market players want them to say. Same group of assholes during the Iraq crisis argued it would take years to fix Kuwaiti oil wells and infrastructure from the fires and other damage. Too many hedge funds are frantic for volatile commodity prices and end up like the recent silver squeeze, often getting their tits in a wringer. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv) 70
If leftists can sue over the ballroom can I sue over welfare for illegals?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (sKqQm) 71
Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday.
== this is suicidal empathy. Its right there. She's running on: VOTE FOR ME I'M SUICIDAL AND I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU WITH ME. And, sadly, a lot of women in Michigan are going to do just that. . . Michigan, you are SUCH the disappoint. Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (anL5R) 72
Dear AG Nessel, if you wish to commit suicide , like Ms Richner a white lady who works for al-Sayed, feel free. Leave the rest of us alone.
Sincerely , non idiots Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (j/Ml9) 73
Thinking that Spain's cut may sharply decrease.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (ogcfP) Yep. Because fuck them. And India can go horsefuck, too. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (9tX4s) 74
"Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
How can any serious person, much less a Supreme Court Justice write those words with a straight face and sign his/her name below them? Gobsmacking stupidity. Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (vTZFs) 75
Pretty sure this is heavy crude-in my pants!
Posted by: Pride Of Wilmington! at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (JM9I6) 76
Right now it's all about the price of Diesel. It's in that $5-$6 range and really hurts a lot of commerce.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (eIzlH) 77
Leftists: You need to put the greater good over your own wealth and health
Also leftists: Of course I and my clients need to get paid, we don't do this shit for free Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (sKqQm) 78
It happened in the mid-00s as well.
When prices were about to hit $140 because of the Iraq War and the instability of supply Bush signed an executive order opening up more territory on the coasts for oil exploration. --- His dumb-ass brother, gov of FL, signed a bill - No drilling off the FL Gulf Coast. _Skull and Bones Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (ogcfP) 79
76 Right now it's all about the price of Diesel. It's in that $5-$6 range and really hurts a lot of commerce.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (eIzlH) $7.19 here.... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (+gK6I) 80
Chy-na hardest hit ...
... having absorbed approximately 65–80% of total Venezuela oil exports prior to Maduro's arrest. Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (RW1OD) 81
Try Googling it. Every single media story claims Trump is a liar about this reducing gas prices and he's doomed, doomed in the midterms.
They've managed 100% narrative coordination. Putin is envious. --------------- Who needs enemies when the media will do the enemies' job? What's even funnier, they insist that Trump is a tyrant. If he were a tyrant they would be singing his praises. Just look over at North Korea, China, Russia, Iran. Posted by: Decaf at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (ZNpJk) 82
We can't refine much more than that. It ink we only have a couple of refineries in Texas that can handle that heavy oil.
Posted by: polynikes ======== That appears to be a canard nowadays. Part of the increased flexibility in more US refineries comes from the import of even heavier tar sands petroleum from Canada. Should help with diesel prices, asphalt, and tar as well. Second, Venezuela does produce light crude as well from different fields that can be mixed onsite to fit what refineries can handle. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv) 83
Dear AG Nessel, if you wish to commit suicide , like Ms Richner a white lady who works for al-Sayed, feel free. Leave the rest of us alone.
Sincerely , non idiots Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (j/Ml9) ===== Do not mistake it. In no way was she referring to herself. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX) 84
Aesthetically the Ball Room design kicks ass.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (KC5Lt) 85
This is in its infancy, but the toothpaste is out of the tube.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (BI5O2) SMRs are going to change the world. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (HwKLm) 86
Alongside the salt-cooled modular reactors being developed there by Kairos and others, the face of energy is about to change. It really is just over the horizon, now.
This is in its infancy, but the toothpaste is out of the tube. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice Good to read. Now, about that Thorium... Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (diia5) 87
>>> "Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
Not that democrats and turncoat republicans care what the founding fathers wanted... but the founders were split on how grand DC and the White House should be. Washington wanted it all huge and grand. Big bold layout, a fancy White House. Washington and Trump were on the same page. Jefferson wanted DC as small and as ungrand as possible, as a sign the people ruled and DC didn't turn into an empirical city. I believe he slept in like one tiny room or wing of the WH as president and did everything possible to keep it unfancy. Which vision should we have, libs? You hate both men, whose vision prevails? Posted by: LizLem at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (Toos7) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (ogcfP) 89
>>Let's be honest and say Trump deeply cares about the short term price movement of oil on his watch probably more than any long lasting "deal" this forges.
It's not just about the price of oil today or next year, it's about national security as well. For all intents, the US is now the big dog in the oil world. OPEC is breaking down. The UAE has already left and Venezuela is on the way out. China and Russia were all over Venezuela, China was Venezuela's biggest customer. They also controlled the Panama Canal. If you step back and look at what Trump is doing with Venezuela and Iran he is moving the the US into the leadership role of the world's energy. He's also making the hemisphere the place of the future which is exactly what he said he was going to do. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m) 90
We should be building more refineries.
That would help lower prices in the long term if we had more capacity and output. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt) 91
In regards to the ballroom, I hope the first event in which Roberts is invited to the ballroom, Trump sits him by the kitchen entrance and his chair gets smacked every time a waiter comes out.
Posted by: WisRich at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (G0vdT) 92
Josh Kraushaar
@JoshKraushaar · 7h Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday. “We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival" https://jta.org/202 Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y) ==================== So, she says, please vote for Hitler. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (Zjq06) 93
How can any serious person, much less a Supreme Court Justice write those words with a straight face and sign his/her name below them? Gobsmacking stupidity.
Posted by: Oddbob Seriousness went out of the court during the Warren Court era and the liberal wing of the court does not realize that the era of winging bad judicial decisions by writing crap like this no longer flies. Like academia, Big Med over covid, and other institutions, the left has put on clown makeup and dress for judges and the judges concur by issuing bizarre and fantastical rulings that have no basis in history, nor law. But muh feelz instead. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (E4rtv) 94
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
It's not a canard if you can't tell me where the oil is being refined. Also when did our Pre Venezuelan deal lack of refineries issue disappear? Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (KC5Lt) 95
I have come to believe that most analysts on TV are simply bullshit actors there to say what market players want them to say. Same group of assholes during the Iraq crisis argued it would take years to fix Kuwaiti oil wells and infrastructure from the fires and other damage.
Too many hedge funds are frantic for volatile commodity prices and end up like the recent silver squeeze, often getting their tits in a wringer. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv) whig, you are so correct about this. My latest bugaboo with the financial media is their view on Warsh and hiking interest rates. It was not two weeks ago that Core PCE was flat, and three weeks ago that CPI was down. The press pesters Warsh to sound more hawkish or else 'Fed credibility' is in jeopardy, and he folds and sounds more hawkish. It's like the press wants to tank the economy in Sept just to hit Trump on Election Day. Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 05:25 PM (0CU3H) 96
Next announcement will be for new refinery construction, which will truly drive the leftards insane.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:26 PM (Zjq06) 97
I remember back in the Obama era Dems ridiculed the idea of drilling to lower gas prices because it would take 5 years or something to produce so investing in renewables and electric cars would be so much better. That was 20 year years ago. And here we are and those renewables and electric cars are STILL mostly just a pipe dream but those oil well are producing and bringing benefits.
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (GUOwU) 98
The first event Trump should hold in the Ballroom is a State Dinner for King Charles III.
Democrats will of course refuse to attend any event in TRUMP'S Ballroom. (While Trump is in office.) But the top Democrats who are invited will cry all night long about missing an opportunity to be at a glitzy party with their favorite royal in the world! Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (5rh/l) 99
Needs of the world. Fuck you, bitch.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (9tX4s) 100
If you step back and look at what Trump is doing with Venezuela and Iran he is moving the the US into the leadership role of the world's energy. He's also making the hemisphere the place of the future which is exactly what he said he was going to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m) Canada is natural resource rich but national leadership poor. It's a shame they can't get their shit together up there with their oil & mineral exports. Net zero & environmentalism has hobbled the country's economy worse than any other G7 member, and the Liberals are too busy playing politics and counting their money to do anything about any of it. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt) 101
It's like the press wants to tank the economy in Sept just to hit Trump on Election Day.
== Oh come now. How could you possibly suggest a coordinated effort by the press to hurt Donald Trump? Pshaw. Such a conspiracy could never be kept secret if such a thing ever existed! My word how outlandish a suggestion. Its almost as if you are suggesting there is fake news or something. Posted by: Mock Serious Guy at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (anL5R) 102
96 Next announcement will be for new refinery construction, which will truly drive the leftards insane.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:26 PM (Zjq06) That does seem like the pt 2 of the announcement...planned for next Tuesday or so (or Labor Day as a jobs thing)... Posted by: Nova Local at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (tOcjL) 103
After 30 years of the Left chanting "No war for oil" I'm thinking, why the f not?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (X8xt3) 104
>>> Aesthetically the Ball Room design kicks ass
Georgian revival was about symmetry, and I hate the ballroom makes it so asymmetrical. The solution, clearly, is to knock down the other wing and make TWO huge symmetrical ballrooms! (I'm kidding. Sort of.) It's annoying that because the libs were so screechy about the details, our enemies know we're putting a huge master bunker under the ballroom. But then they also know POTUS will be safe and ready to kick their butt if crap goes down. Posted by: LizLem at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (Toos7) 105
If you step back and look at what Trump is doing with Venezuela and Iran he is moving the the US into the leadership role of the world's energy. He's also making the hemisphere the place of the future which is exactly what he said he was going to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m) This is important as you just stated it. Thank you for posting that. Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (Oy/m2) 106
Chy-na hardest hit ...
... having absorbed approximately 65–80% of total Venezuela oil exports prior to Maduro's arrest. Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (RW1OD) --- Yes. This is about making it impossible for China to invade Taiwan for lack of fuel. And of course the oil will flow in a non-linear way. There will be some lag, but even the expectation of future supply is going to drive prices down. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (ZOv7s) 107
88 Diesel is over taxed. It's cheaper to produce than gasoline and has more btu's.
Posted by: Braenyard Big trucks do a lot more damage to roads than cars. Mass times velocity does a number on interstates, bridges, and highways. Reason that they should never be on regular streets not designed for heavy trucks either when they use those streets for a shortcut. So either tax diesel appropriately which catches most of the heavy truck damage or apply mileage taxes to them. Or you raise car fuel taxes and/or mileage taxes. Your choice. FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv) 108
I remember back in the Obama era Dems ridiculed the idea of drilling to lower gas prices because it would take 5 years or something to produce so investing in renewables and electric cars would be so much better. That was 20 year years ago. And here we are and those renewables and electric cars are STILL mostly just a pipe dream but those oil well are producing and bringing benefits.
Posted by: Ripley == Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires? And mccain made fun of it and then quickly had to apologize, lest he be called a racist. Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (eIzlH) 109
We have refineries all over the Mid West even Mon f'ing tana that their primary function is to refine Canadian tar sand. They can handle Venezuelan just fine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (ogcfP) 110
How can any serious person, much less a Supreme Court Justice write those words with a straight face and sign his/her name below them? Gobsmacking stupidity.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (vTZFs) ------------------- You've obviously never been to a good ol' fashion DC Cocktail Party (emphasis on "Cock" & "Tail") Ho Down Throw Down, Plebe!" /Only WE Have Standing, Sitting, and Laying there ... Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (RW1OD) 111
Needs of the world. Fuck you, bitch.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (9tX4s) --- Orange Man Bad is term-limited. He's also old. So Jews are willing to elect their executioners for what, exactly? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (ZOv7s) 112
It ink we only have a couple of refineries in Texas that can handle that heavy oil.
Well, ink it that we have three hum-dingers in Ahia that can handle it just fine, and a nice pipeline from Texas, too. The Canadians are going to have to sell their tar on the west coast. I wish them luck getting it over Mount NamedforInjuns. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (zdLoL) 113
101 It's like the press wants to tank the economy in Sept just to hit Trump on Election Day.
== Oh come now. How could you possibly suggest a coordinated effort by the press to hurt Donald Trump? Pshaw. Such a conspiracy could never be kept secret if such a thing ever existed! My word how outlandish a suggestion. Its almost as if you are suggesting there is fake news or something. Posted by: Mock Serious Guy ========== I think a stock meltdown is unlikely in September/October this time. If you note, the AI tops have receded a bit and the economy continues to pour investment into the US economy. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (E4rtv) 114
I love this whole the deal sucks because nothing will happen for 10 years, when- the same retards are always telling us about the great deals to cut the budget that always seem to be negotiated to happen 10 years later. A. Holes. Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (iJfKG) 115
It's not a canard if you can't tell me where the oil is being refined. Also when did our Pre Venezuelan deal lack of refineries issue disappear?
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (KC5Lt) =============== American refineries are (except when geopolitics gets in the way) a major export destination for Venezuelan crude, and the best suited US refineries are several in Port Arthur, two in Baymont and Beaumont (Texas), Marathon Galveston Bay, and many other Gulf Coast refineries. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (Zjq06) 116
I remember in like the late 2000's it was pointed out the US hadnt built a new refinery since the 70's. Curious if that has changed.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (eIzlH) 117
Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
== and not letting the last drops dribble out of the pump handle to the ground. He was the first Karen president. Posted by: Mock Serious Guy at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R) 118
107 88 Diesel is over taxed. It's cheaper to produce than gasoline and has more btu's.
Posted by: Braenyard Big trucks do a lot more damage to roads than cars. Mass times velocity does a number on interstates, bridges, and highways. Reason that they should never be on regular streets not designed for heavy trucks either when they use those streets for a shortcut. So either tax diesel appropriately which catches most of the heavy truck damage or apply mileage taxes to them. Or you raise car fuel taxes and/or mileage taxes. Your choice. FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv) I wonder what the collective effect of a whole lot of heavy electric cars has on bridge and road lifespan over time. Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (0CU3H) 119
We have refineries all over the Mid West even Mon f'ing tana that their primary function is to refine Canadian tar sand. They can handle Venezuelan just fine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (ogcfP) --- The Premier of Alberta flat-out said that if Canada tried to embargo the US, they would lose access to our refineries, which would simply use Venezuela to take up the slack and they would be completely screwed. She also reviewed how there are no pipelines going to Ontario and Quebec that don't entire US territory. They were proposed, but blocked. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (ZOv7s) 120
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m)
This is important as you just stated it. Thank you for posting that. Posted by: dantesed Agree with dantesed, props to JackStraw for a pithy and correct statement. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv) 121
"Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
Posted by: Leupold" To be fair I recall I happened to put some air in my tires around that time and prices dropped 10 cents the next few days. I never received any credit for that though. Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU) 122
>>Chy-na hardest hit ...
... having absorbed approximately 65–80% of total Venezuela oil exports prior to Maduro's arrest. I did not know that. Cool. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (X8xt3) 123
Predent obama makes this happen and they cl I wn trump taking kresdet !!! This bothers us ands calls on Presdent obonodew something abouts this
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (FAEmw) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Cqx++) 125
The market will tank if the Democrats win in November. Look for the economy and markets to rocket up if the Republicans win. The history is pretty clear on this. Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (iJfKG) 126
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (ogcfP)
It was faster for me to copy and paste why Montana and Midwest refineries aren't getting Venezuelan oil. Incompatible Chemistry: Refineries in Montana (such as the refinery near Billings) are built to process light-to-heavy crude oil coming overland from western Canada.Logistical Focus: Venezuelan crude is a heavy, sour blend. It goes to specialized refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana, which were specifically designed for that type of dense, sulfur-rich oil. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (KC5Lt) 127
>>Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
That was Obama's way of saying FU to normies. He knew it was ridiculous, and no doubt enjoyed everyone having to pretend it was a serious recommendation. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (X8xt3) 128
I wonder what the collective effect of a whole lot of heavy electric cars has on bridge and road lifespan over time.
== They are already crushing elevated parking garage floors... Posted by: Mock Serious Guy at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (anL5R) 129
Big trucks pay for the highways that Eisenhower intended for them. The intent of the Interstate Highway System was not for our easy commute to work or a long trip vacation. It was built for big military trucks to move materiel across country.
Big trucks pay the lions share of road taxes. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (ogcfP) 130
>>This is important as you just stated it. Thank you for posting that.
USAID gets taken down and 7 Latin American countries flip to conservative leaders. Trump takes down Maduro and basically kicks Iran and China out of Venezuela. Cuba is circling the drain. The Panama Canal is back in western hands. The largest funder of state sponsored terrorism is being strangled to death. China's economy is sucking air. I don't think these are all random occurrences. Trump is literally realigning the world order and giving us the country we deserve. Not happening overnight but for something of this magnitude it's happening at light speed. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m) 131
Cloggenstein is especially bad today.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (9tX4s) 132
I wonder what the collective effect of a whole lot of heavy electric cars has on bridge and road lifespan over time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris ===== They do accelerate damage being heavier as a rule. Dunno about outside of specialist publications thought where any popular studies exist other than parking deck problems with weight. Has been some work on that because those decks were designed for lighter vehicles and substitute 25-50 percent electric for gas burners probably means that the decks are not rated for that weight. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv) 133
The first event Trump should hold in the Ballroom is a State Dinner for King Charles III.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (5rh/l) ==================== Better to host a dinner for the construction workers who built the place. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (Zjq06) 134
The market will tank if the Democrats win in November.
Look for the economy and markets to rocket up if the Republicans win. The history is pretty clear on this. Posted by: naturalfake == I feel like it's usually a short term phenomenon. My best guess is Dems narrowly take House and Republicans keep Senate. They cant repeal the BBB so the effect will be limited. But Trump ill be impeached again, 100%. The lunatic Left will demand it. Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (eIzlH) 135
131 Cloggenstein is especially bad today.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory ===== ExLax will open that passageway right up. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv) 136
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Cqx++)
Suicidal empathy. And clearly none of them are students of history. Posted by: Ann at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (SHHm+) 137
She also reviewed how there are no pipelines going to Ontario and Quebec that don't entire US territory. They were proposed, but blocked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (ZOv7s) That's because Danielle Smith isn't entirely stupid and realizes where the oil comes from and how it gets to places in Canada, unlike her fellow politicians, and she has been begging for an East-to-West pipeline from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with ports on each end so they can transport their own oil across their own country and export some to the world instead of just south of the border. If they'd listen to her, and other Albertans, for decades about a pipeline they wouldn't be in the pickle they've put themselves in. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt) 138
USAID gets taken down and 7 Latin American countries flip to conservative leaders. Trump takes down Maduro and basically kicks Iran and China out of Venezuela. Cuba is circling the drain. The Panama Canal is back in western hands. The largest funder of state sponsored terrorism is being strangled to death. China's economy is sucking air.
I don't think these are all random occurrences. Trump is literally realigning the world order and giving us the country we deserve. Not happening overnight but for something of this magnitude it's happening at light speed. == HOW DARE YOU BE OPTIMISTIC!!!! Posted by: Black Pill Crowd at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (anL5R) 139
China's economy is sucking *polluted* air.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m) --- Fixed it for ya. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (ZOv7s) 140
127 >>Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires
Yea but that was air from the moon which is lighter then air on the earth. So according to the laws of physics Barry Soetoro, PHD Bullshitology has was correct and you MAGA Rednecks just hate him because he is a 0.5 Black Man. Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (j93VM) 141
Prices are up 20 cents more since this was announced. I don't blame Trump, I blame the assholes in Olympia and their bullshit carbon tax nonsense.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB) Up that much here .. Of course I'm in CA. so.... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (+gK6I) Oil prices are up because 'investors' are still pretending that Iran matters. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (ExV1e) 142
>>"Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
How can any serious person, much less a Supreme Court Justice write those words with a straight face and sign his/her name below them? Gobsmacking stupidity. - - - - Honestly, I think it's all a game to them. They know this is coordinated, petty lawfare and they get to pretend it's serious while laughing with its originators at DC parties. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (X8xt3) 143
"Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
Posted by: Leupold" To be fair I recall I happened to put some air in my tires around that time and prices dropped 10 cents the next few days. I never received any credit for that though. Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU) Then prices went back up, and then some. Thanks a lot. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (8EdAy) 144
131 Cloggenstein is especially bad today.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory Any time the month has 31 days, she runs out of meds. Posted by: Rex Ulti at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (JM9I6) 145
The price of energy is a big deal, but think about the remote power capacity as well.
Did you find a mineral deposit in the middle of nowhere and you want to mine it? I know! Build a big ass power station that depends on local fuel sources, at an ungodly cost. Or... lease a set of modular reactors and have them come drop it off on some trucks, put it together, and get cracking. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (BI5O2) 146
108 Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
carb remembers. Posted by: california air resources board, outlawing the tires you want at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (sGtp+) 147
99 Needs of the world. Fuck you, bitch.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (9tX4s) It's all about Tikkun Olam. Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (kX27y) 148
...and DC didn't turn into an empirical city.
Well that worked. I've never heard DC described as "empirical." Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (zdLoL) 149
If they'd listen to her, and other Albertans, for decades about a pipeline they wouldn't be in the pickle they've put themselves in.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt) --- It's being said that the tariff war was set up by Obama's people and the Clintons (a Hillary staffer is now "advising" Carney) in the hopes to crater the economy for the midterms and also boost the Liberals in bye elections. Also create a "rally round the flag" movement in Alberta. I don't think that's going to work. Trump is playing coy at the moment, but at some point he's going to release the draft agreement. He's not doing that now, because timing is everything. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s) 150
>>Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires
Yea but that was air from the moon which is lighter then air on the earth. So according to the laws of physics Barry Soetoro, PHD Bullshitology has was correct and you MAGA Rednecks just hate him because he is a 0.5 Black Man. Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (j93VM) To be fair, we only hated the black half. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (8EdAy) 151
65 Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (dIske)
We can't refine much more than that. It ink we only have a couple of refineries in Texas that can handle that heavy oil. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt) ______________________ Apparently Louisiana is getting in on it. Lake Charles and St. Charles refineries are taking in Venezuelan crude. Pascagoula Refinery in Mississippi is also doing the same in addition to the Texas refineries. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (dIske) 152
When I lived up North I kept my tires under inflated in the winter .
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (KC5Lt) 153
Yes, the Gulf Coast is the main end point for Venezuelan oil.
I went through this last week with AI and made a post here. There are refineries in Ohio, Michigan and a couple of other states capable of refining Venezuelan oil. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (ogcfP) 154
118 107 88 Diesel is over taxed. It's cheaper to produce than gasoline and has more btu's.
Posted by: Braenyard Big trucks do a lot more damage to roads than cars. Mass times velocity does a number on interstates, bridges, and highways. Reason that they should never be on regular streets not designed for heavy trucks either when they use those streets for a shortcut. So either tax diesel appropriately which catches most of the heavy truck damage or apply mileage taxes to them. Or you raise car fuel taxes and/or mileage taxes. Your choice. FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv) I wonder what the collective effect of a whole lot of heavy electric cars has on bridge and road lifespan over time. Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (0CU3H) One effect: Local politicians, construction contractors, and unions were drooling at the coming opportunity to build, or rebuild to new specifications, a whole lot of roads, overpasses, and bridges. Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:40 PM (5rh/l) 155
OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!
Defiant L’s @DefiantLs Rosie O’Donnell: “We’re making concentration camps. We’re rounding up people without a warrant. We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant." I think Rosie has been reading some ficton. How do you even say this with a serious face? She has completely lost it Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 05:41 PM (ndZc7) 156
Sarah Palin campaigned on Drill, baby drill! in 2008 and these people laughed at it because it would take 10 years to get any of this oil to the pump. That was 18 years ago.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 05:41 PM (wGerL) 157
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (dIske
Yes I meant to say Louisiana too and I'm from Lake Charles though I didn't know Mississippi had one that could refine Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (KC5Lt) 158
>>To be fair I recall I happened to put some air in my tires around that time and prices dropped 10 cents the next few days. I never received any credit for that though.
Yeah, but this advice was equivalent to a finance guy advising you to stop buying Starbucks to save money, or a time management person telling you to not answer the phone (no interruption = stay on task). It is the most basic, obvious advice, the lowest of hanging fruit that will not fix the overall, complex problems at hand. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (X8xt3) 159
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Cqx++)
It's chilling to me that Nessel would say that and the Jews gathered there might nod their heads in agreement Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (5JD6s) 160
The first event Trump should hold in the Ballroom is a State Dinner for King Charles III.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (5rh/l) ---------------- I heard last week that Trump has threatened to demolish The [Trump] Kennedy Center if Rogue District Clown and other Judges keep obstructing his plans to renovate it. At this point, he should just go ahead and do it on general principle. Plus, I could use a good schadenboner and exploding heads fireworks show ... Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (kqBRX) 161
129 Big trucks pay for the highways that Eisenhower intended for them. The intent of the Interstate Highway System was not for our easy commute to work or a long trip vacation. It was built for big military trucks to move materiel across country.
Big trucks pay the lions share of road taxes. Posted by: Braenyard Eisenhower intended both. And exactly how to allocate road taxes is a political question that each state has to answer. A few states like Arkansas designed their highways way back when 73k was the maximum weight limit. They were forced to go to 80k along with some other states and the road bed simply could not take it. And fwiw, when trucks speed, it increase the damage because of physics. So another way is to reduce truck speed to 55-60 mph maximum to limit damage. And Eisenhower never intended for trucks to replace heavy rail either. It was more both than either or. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (E4rtv) 162
How do you even say this with a serious face? She has completely lost it
== She never had it to lose. Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (anL5R) 163
And if the blue states don't want to then the red states should double up and not sell any power to the blue states.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (KC5Lt) Or... sell to the blue states at a price which allows you to charge people in the red states less. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (ExV1e) 164
But I've already voted for Trump three times.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 05:43 PM (FmCOO) 165
To be fair I recall I happened to put some air in my tires around that time and prices dropped 10 cents the next few days. I never received any credit for that though.
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU) Then prices went back up, and then some. Thanks a lot. _-_ Must have sprung a leak. Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 05:43 PM (8cylk) 166
146 108 Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
Remember Al Gore's Carbon Credit Scam ???? Sad thing about it was people actually bought some of his bogus credits for millions. The question is why are this people so stupid ??? Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (j93VM) 167
It is the most basic, obvious advice, the lowest of hanging fruit that will not fix the overall, complex problems at hand.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (X8xt3) ----------------- AKA Cult "Virtue" Signaling Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (kqBRX) 168
GPT-5.6-Luna
Several Midwestern refineries were historically capable of processing Venezuelan heavy, sour crude, especially refineries connected to the former northbound pipeline system from the Gulf Coast. Examples include: Citgo Lemont refinery near Chicago, Illinois Citgo Corpus Christi–Midwest supply system, historically supplying the Lemont refinery with Venezuelan crude Marathon Petroleum’s Robinson refinery in Illinois Marathon’s Detroit refinery in Michigan BP’s Whiting refinery in Indiana ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery in Illinois Potentially other complex refineries in the Chicago and Wood River markets Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (ogcfP) Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (sGtp+) 170
The intent of the Interstate Highway System was not for our easy commute to work or a long trip vacation.
----- Yup. Thus the actual name: The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (XeU6L) 171
Nothing exposes the baboon's red ass of the judiciary more than the suit over the WH ballroom.
Roberts et al. are just throwing a tantrum. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (3cUTc) 172
Yes I meant to say Louisiana too and I'm from Lake Charles though I didn't know Mississippi had one that could refine
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (KC5Lt) ____________________ From what I've read, the Mississippi refinery is the primary and they're unloading right from their own personal harbor to speed up the process. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (dIske) 173
166 Remember Al Gore's Carbon Credit Scam ????
Sad thing about it was people actually bought some of his bogus credits for millions. The question is why are this people so stupid ??? *whistles innocently* Posted by: nft of a monkey at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (sGtp+) 174
CBC is echoing MS Now hopium.
The vast American population is against...the trade war with Canada, the Iran war, tariffs, insert issue,...and only Trump and the hardcore MAGA don't realise this. When WILL THEY WAKE UP and revolt, etc, etc, yawn. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b) 175
On an unrelated note I saw an AI video pitting various movie martial artists against each other so I in turn asked a duck AI who was the great actual fighter.
Its answer? Chuck Norris or Benny Urquidez with Bruce Lee as a potential third but he just didn't fight competitively enough The most interesting part of this list? These are older guys. Newer artists aren't in the list Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (sKqQm) 176
Ike drove a Chrysler. Heavy car. Should have been taxed more.
Posted by: VW Trends at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (JM9I6) 177
It's chilling to me that Nessel would say that and the Jews gathered there might nod their heads in agreement
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (5JD6s) --- It's perfectly on brand for her, though. Nasty piece of work and completely corrupt. Also a falling-down drunk. Only got re-elected because of the FBI fake plot and vote fraud. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (ZOv7s) Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (KC5Lt) 179
I hope gas prices drop soon, still above $4,15 in se Pa and PRoNJ
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (XeU6L) 181
Hang down your head, John Roberts
Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, John Roberts Trump's ballroom is going to fly Supreme Court approves Trump's ballroom construction despite Roberts siding with liberals Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (ndZc7) 182
Yeah, but this advice was equivalent to a finance guy advising you to stop buying Starbucks to save money...
To be fair, if you spend $5 at Starbuck's on your way to work 200 days a year, that's a thousand dollars which is real money for most people. It's more like advising you to stop tipping at Starbuck's. Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (vTZFs) 183
Or... sell to the blue states at a price which allows you to charge people in the red states less.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (ExV1e) It's already happening... Nevada sells Electricity to Calif at a WAY higher rate than to Nevadans. Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj) 184
Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
--- Remember when Biden's plan was to tell you to download the GasBuddy app? And all the news, right down to the locals, breathlessly ran stories on how you could save up to 2 cents a gallon if you'd but drive half an hour out of your way. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (3cUTc) 185
CBC is echoing MS Now hopium.
The vast American population is against...the trade war with Canada, the Iran war, tariffs, insert issue,...and only Trump and the hardcore MAGA don't realise this. When WILL THEY WAKE UP and revolt, etc, etc, yawn. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b) ---- Michigan Dems are trying to make hay out of this by of course siding with Canada, you know, the assholes who make it hard for use to BREATHE. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (ZOv7s) 186
No, wait, that was Truman.
Posted by: VW Trends! at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (JM9I6) 187
Rail is better for commodities and bulk and items so large they won't fit in trailers.
We lost a lot of that traffic because of manufacturing off-shoring and then the railroads consolidated due to loss of business and went to hubs. Trucking became the answer for a lot more shipping, especially when containerized shipping took off and you could move the containers around so much more efficiently. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt) 188
Rosie O’Donnell: “We’re making concentration camps. We’re rounding up people without a warrant. We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant."
------ Oh, boy. Somebody's getting hot and bothered. Get ready for Rosie's shocking and transgressive bodice ripper "Sophie's Choice II: Passion Camp," wherein an obese and mentally defective Irish girl is forced to the live in the shadows... of the hulking, musclebound ICE agents whose contempt for The Other is overtaken by their forbidden desire. Will Sophie choose Alex, the stern but sensual guard-tower sniper? Or Steve, the strapping border patrolman with his proud steed and trusty bullwhip? Or will she embrace the power of "and?" Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (BI5O2) 189
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (ogcfP)
None of those refineries are receiving any of the current Venezuelan oil imports. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (KC5Lt) 190
And Eisenhower never intended for trucks to replace heavy rail either. It was more both than either or.
Posted by: whig --- We were talking taxes, the cost of fuel and road maintenance. Big trucks pay a disproportionate amount of money for road maintenance that an automobile driver. And diesel fuel is disproportionately taxed. If it were not for the tax and CAFE we would be driving diesels. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (ogcfP) 191
162 How do you even say this with a serious face? She has completely lost it
== She never had it to lose. Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (anL5R) Only 5-4 on this case? Good Grief! One vote away from SCOTUS allowing one person in every neighborhood, town, and city to effectively stop all future construction in the US. Leftists, especially Leftist lawyers, would be ecstatic! Roberts is insane. Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (5rh/l) 192
And fwiw, when trucks speed, it increase the damage because of physics. So another way is to reduce truck speed to 55-60 mph maximum to limit damage.
---------------- Not to mention the damage to highways & freeways caused primarily during icy & snowy winters (including de-icing chemicals, chains, et. al.) plus the freeze-thaw cycle in such climates (e.g. the interstates -- 40 & 17 -- around Flagstaff). Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (kqBRX) 193
We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant
When an illegal raped a 14 year old in MA the governor responded by saying, "Well these things happen". That's a real rape not one of Rosie's theoretical ones And for added fun is she claiming ICE agents are raping illegal alien kids or that other illegal alien kids are doing it? Because if its that later it is not a good argument for "hey we need to keep them here" Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (sKqQm) 194
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydK
Criminals have rediscovered hijacking trucks again like in the 70's. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (KC5Lt) 195
I hope gas prices drop soon, still above $4,15 in se Pa and PRoNJ
Posted by: Skip --- Paid $3.49 here twodays ago. As an aside, I see that you are reading 'The Gathering Storm'. The parallels of the actions/non-actions of politicians and diplomats during the inter-war years bear an uncanny resemblance to the past 20 or so years of dealings with Iran. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:51 PM (XeU6L) 196
>>Rosie O’Donnell: “We’re making concentration camps. We’re rounding up people without a warrant. We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant."
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OBAMA'S "UNACCOMPANIED MINORS" POLICY/PROCESSING LEGITIMATELY CREATED THE HORRORS SHE'S DESCRIBED (W/OPPOSITE FLOW OF HUMAN TRAFFICK). AND REALLY, DOESN'T SHE LIVE IN IRELAND NOW? Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 31, 2026 05:52 PM (X8xt3) 197
Roberts is insane.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (5rh/l) -------------- W's greatest mistake ... whose daddy GWB was Reagan's greatest mistake (although my understanding is that Ronnie had little choice in the matter). Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:52 PM (kqBRX) 198
OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!
Defiant L’s @DefiantLs Rosie O’Donnell: “We’re making concentration camps. We’re rounding up people without a warrant. We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant." I think Rosie has been reading some ficton. How do you even say this with a serious face? She has completely lost it Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 05:41 PM (ndZc7) ===== I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted. Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:53 PM (rj6Yv) 199
Not to mention the damage to highways & freeways caused primarily during icy & snowy winters (including de-icing chemicals, chains, et. al.) plus the freeze-thaw cycle in such climates (e.g. the interstates -- 40 & 17 -- around Flagstaff).
Posted by: ShainS True. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv) 200
Whoo hoo the BBB continues
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 05:54 PM (Ia/+0) 201
I don't know if the country has become just a bunch of whiny pussies or haven't considered the big picture . Probably a little of both.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:54 PM (KC5Lt) 202
I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:53 PM (rj6Yv) Doesn't she have kids to strangle? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (8EdAy) 203
Speaking of EVs... While I was out today I happened to drive by Rivian showroom, So I thought I'd check it out for yucks. I test drove the their R1S. I have to say I liked it a lot. Well-made, one pedal driving is cool, their driver's assist was scary good. If it weren't for all the issues associated with EVs, I might consider buying one. But then there's the price, you can get a pretty great ICE spending roughly half what it would cost for an R1S. Nice car though. Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (iJfKG) 204
Rosie was on a few episodes of 'Mom' and didn't look completely untouchable.
Unlike today when TDS took away all and the only cure is a woodchipper. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b) 205
None of those refineries are receiving any of the current Venezuelan oil imports.
Posted by: polynikes --- Didn't say they were. Said they have the capacity. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (ogcfP) 206
I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted. Posted by: mrp ------ See also: Sugar intake Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (XeU6L) 207
As an aside, I see that you are reading 'The Gathering Storm'. The parallels of the actions/non-actions of politicians and diplomats during the inter-war years bear an uncanny resemblance to the past 20 or so years of dealings with Iran. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:51 PM (XeU6L) Are we talking about the Wheel of Time novel or something else? Posted by: pookysgirl, girding for The Last Battle at August 31, 2026 05:56 PM (Wt5PA) 208
it would take 10 years to get any of this oil to the pump. That was 18 years ago.
We now produce about four times as much as we did then. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:56 PM (zdLoL) 209
And Eisenhower never intended for trucks to replace heavy rail either. It was more both than either or.
Posted by: whig --- We were talking taxes, the cost of fuel and road maintenance. Big trucks pay a disproportionate amount of money for road maintenance that an automobile driver. And diesel fuel is disproportionately taxed. If it were not for the tax and CAFE we would be driving diesels. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (ogcfP) ===== Eisenhower wanted an American Autobahn. Think AFV carriers and towed 240mm howitzers. Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:56 PM (rj6Yv) 210
197 Roberts is insane.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (5rh/l) -------------- W's greatest mistake ... whose daddy GWB was Reagan's greatest mistake (although my understanding is that Ronnie had little choice in the matter). Posted by: ShainS ====== I think Roberts is fighting a losing battle to maintain judicial supremacy over the policy process. But the clowns judges appointed by Dems just keep getting more idiotic and spastic in their rulings. And Mr. Roberts who intoned no standing over and over again to thwart investigation of Democrat voter theft in 2020 just cashed in his principle to join with the idiotic opposition of Orange Man Bad. Standing because one person was 'offended' esthetically which is fundamentally stupid and contrary to past precedents. It is the muh feelz addendum to standing. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (E4rtv) 211
194 Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydK
Criminals have rediscovered hijacking trucks again like in the 70's. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (KC5Lt) There were some train cars being broken into and looted a few years back. In Los Angeles I think it was. There were TV helicopters filming it they were so brazen. They were running out of the car with big flat screen TVs. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt) 212
Looked it up. Ike drove a Chrysler, too.
Posted by: VW Mann at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (JM9I6) 213
W's greatest mistake ... whose daddy GWB was Reagan's greatest mistake (although my understanding is that Ronnie had little choice in the matter).
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:52 PM (kqBRX) The 'true conservatives' pushed hard for Roberts. Also Thomas was appointed by Sr. He could have easily abandoned him but he did just the opposite. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:58 PM (KC5Lt) 214
176 Ike drove a Chrysler. Heavy car. Should have been taxed more.
Posted by: VW Trends --- Many states taxed by the pound until VWs and Nissans became the rage. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:58 PM (ogcfP) 215
Are we talking about the Wheel of Time novel or something else? Posted by: pookysgir ------- Churchill's memoir of the inter-war period. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:59 PM (XeU6L) 216
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Eisenhower wanted an American Autobahn. Think AFV carriers and towed 240mm howitzers. Posted by: mrp -- Too heavy/ not allowed. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:00 PM (ogcfP) 217
My understanding is the interstate system was.built with national defense in mind for aircraft use.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:00 PM (KC5Lt) 218
Yeah, but this advice was equivalent to a finance guy advising you to stop buying Starbucks to save money, or a time management person telling you to not answer the phone (no interruption = stay on task).
It is the most basic, obvious advice, the lowest of hanging fruit that will not fix the overall, complex problems at hand. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (X8xt3) Is this about the price of burritos? Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:01 PM (rbvCR) 219
From a philosophical point of view I don't like this. However it will lower oil prices, keep an eye on the Venezuelans and does stick it to the Canadians
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (j/Ml9) We need to replenish our reserves squandered by Biden. Deals like this give it to us cheaper, in exchange for our operating and repairing their fields and equipment. I'd guess they were operating at a loss for a while before Maduro was grabbed. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy) 220
Man, the Freedom 250 Indy race came and went without a hitch and hardly anyone in the MSM mentioned it.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 06:01 PM (rj6Yv) 221
Nood. Quickies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e) 222
Rosie needs a .38Fuck-it-all.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (9tX4s) 223
You give all of the lunatic muslim savages a billion dollars for their resources, allow them to enter the country with their tribal psychosis, and then everybody wonders why they are rampaging on 4 continents with a huge bankroll and an IQ of 65.
We shouldn't be giving these fucking scumbags anything. Let them develop their own resources. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (nlLAo) 224
Eisenhower wanted an American Autobahn. Think AFV carriers and towed 240mm howitzers.
Posted by: mrp ====== The original principle was for defense, but everyone wanted a piece of the new interstate system because it allied construction, developers, state governments that would administer them, industry, tourists, etc. But to address your point Braenyard, trucks do pay more but the question is whether they pay enough or not. This is Brave AI's take "Heavy trucks cause significantly more damage to interstate roadways than passenger cars, with estimates ranging from 300 to 10,000 times more damage per pass, depending on the pavement type and calculation method. This disparity exists because pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the axle load." You can dig up highways studies that add support to this. Even the Amer Trucking Institute admits the ratio is They cite studies suggesting the actual damage ratio is 300:1 or so. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (E4rtv) 225
218 Is this about the price of burritos?
i expected it to come down once the alameda-weehawken burrito tunnel was completed. sadly, there's no longer a page about it on wikipedia... Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (sGtp+) 226
I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted.
- New Tik Tok trend. J͎Λ͎Y͎u @TakeThiamine I remember seeing a TikTok where some girl was at a birthday party(?) going around interviewing people wrt meds and everyone was on like 2-6 things. It’s bleak. swan song @swansong When I lived in America a girl looked at me in complete horror when I told her I wasn't on any meds. She couldn't believe it - Well, at least all the AWFLs are completely sane now. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (ndZc7) 227
I have come to believe that most analysts on TV are simply bullshit actors there to say what market players want them to say. Same group of assholes during the Iraq crisis argued it would take years to fix Kuwaiti oil wells and infrastructure from the fires and other damage. Along with the dumbass "military analysts" who confidently promised that we would lose 10s of thousands of troops in the Gulf War when US units would charge the Iraqi trenches and be cut down like Limeys at the Battle of the Somme. In fact, we lost less than 150 in combat deaths, about the same number in non-combat accidents. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 06:14 PM (y9nCu) 228
FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well.
Its even worse than that. RRs pay property taxes on their rail roads. I'm sort of curious if RRs will start to reclaim the railbanking they have done over the years. Could you imagine if these massive retailers dropped Lights Out distribution centers on Rails-to-Trails and the RRs reverted those trails back to spurs to feed the distribution centers. With AI inventorying, Lights Out warehouse operations and with CP and KCS merging into CPKC making a continuous Mexico to Canada routes and Union Pacific impending merger with Norfolk Southern, making a contiguous east-west route, rail operations should become even more efficient than they are now. With DOT crushing the illegal alien and fake trucking training centers, the move to rail may just increase. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:22 PM (a3CJ+) 229
The funny thing about this oil deal is that it’s a direct flick in the dick to the Chinese. Remember, it was their diplomats nearly caught in the middle of the Maduro raid, no doubt trying to squeeze the country for some sweet crude and get a foothold in America’s backyard.
Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 07:51 PM (Ve/HL) Muslim Brotherhood Spawn Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins Deleting Old Tweets Making Light of 9/11, Claims That Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture"Some people deleted some tweets about some people doing some things. Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed an old tweet trashing America on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to disavow far-left streamer Hasan Piker. In the now-deleted tweet, El-Sayed mourned the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 and then noted that he planned to grieve the deaths he blamed on America over the wars that followed. "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called. "Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed must know he's in trouble because he's apologizing to, get this, Jews, over his justification/minimization of a fellow Muslim's murder of Jewish children at a synagogue by saying "Hurt people hurt people." In other words: Muslim get mad, Muslim kill Jews. Deal with it, and stop making Muslims mad. By the way: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's white female liberal communications director hates, get this, white women. No, she's not a self-hating white woman. Because her ideological religion makes her among The Elect and above the contempt that normal (spit) white women deserve. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is a gleeful leftwing cancel culture asshole, but he says that, if you ask him about his prior statements or associations in judging his fitness to be one of only two federal senators from Michigan, You're doing cancel culture, you Soyboy Beta Cuck. And he still refuses to say a single cross word about the man he has repeatedly invited to campaign with him.
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Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 31, 2026 03:40 PM (hG5L0) 2
2nd
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 31, 2026 03:40 PM (hG5L0) 3
If he has nothing to hide, why delete?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:41 PM (EaLE4) Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (tpKiB) Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak) 6
Technically I believe some people did some tings.
Posted by: Clay at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (qMBeu) 7
Free Kaya!
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (EaLE4) Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (tpKiB) 9
He's going to somehow be swapped out.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (eIzlH) 10
Why does UT have Talarico ahead by 3?
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak) 11
Shock, Shock, Shock...
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (Shi2G) 12
The Jews deserve a thousand 9/11's is free speech, grab them by the pussy is End of Days. Got it.
Don't you love how quick the Left transitions to watching every single thing every person says for 20 straight years and ending lives over syllables of words, to "fuck you, we'll say what we want and who gives a shit what you thin and by the way the Jews deserved 9/11". Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (eZQ1g) 13
I see China caused the disaster in Nepal. An energy project they were working on upstream caused the glacier to collapse.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak) 14
Macaca
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (eZQ1g) Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (1wjle) 16
Still a lot of yard signs up in nice neighborhoods for him around here. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (Y8DZL) 17
. Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (UjdFS) 18
It is unfathomable to me we are so balkanized as a country that this human is a serious candidate for an important position.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (ZdaMQ) 19
Tomorrow the Left plans to lecture us that there are only two genders.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (eZQ1g) 20
Excellent! The commie communications bint has given us the perfect response to people who advocate for the revocation of sane women's right because Leftist women are crazy on Xwitter:
"You sound like a communist woman" Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (vJrRc) 21
He's a plant, he will "win".
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (eZQ1g) 22
Nobody trained Mr Goatraper how to deal with the media.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (UdymR) 23
Piker is a funny character. He's a gym bro that obviously has used performance enhancing drugs to get his body. It's not a stretch to imagine him snorting lines of coke off a hooker's ass.
How very bougie. I wonder where in the Koran that's allowed. Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (tpKiB) 24
If it ain't close, we can't fund-raise.
Posted by: The Political Class at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (Q+gd/) 25
Most of the islam cult followers truly believe we deserved 9/11. They celebrate it as a great day for them. Same with the attack on Israel. These people are ignorant, murderous savages who want nothing more than the complete collapse of our country.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (0RGA5) 26
Are Jewish voters going to be fooled by a guy named Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed?
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS) 27
That Hasan Piker, 'I never said I hate America...I hate America' vid is hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (Shi2G) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (EaLE4) 29
I suppose they could use him to show they are rejecting their crazies - but I don't think that's the direction of this particular op.
This op is a Brand New Day in America Time. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (eZQ1g) 30
Michigan, Michigan, Michigan. I did not think it possible you could disappoint any more. And yet, you Michigan on.
Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (anL5R) 31
Some people deleted some tweets about some people doing some things.
Mistakes may have been made. If so, they were done in the enthusiasm of the moment. What difference, at this point, does it make? Old news. Time to move on. This is all a distraction from the Epstein Files. OrangeMan Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (0sNs1) 32
“Cancel Culture”
It’s not cancel culture to consider the previously stated views or opinions from a candidate for U.S. Senate to judge who they are as a person and how they will conduct themselves in office, you slick-talking Persian rug salesman. This is called “politics” and “running for office”, you mealy-mouthed, islamo-communust, dogkiller Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (6ydKt) 33
'Piker', the actual name of a Democrat politcian.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (XeU6L) 34
Fuck that guy in particular.
Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (2Xqig) 35
13 I see China caused the disaster in Nepal. An energy project they were working on upstream caused the glacier to collapse.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak) Oops...I don't see China paying Nepal and the dead damages for that. But this no longer surprises me... Posted by: Nova Local at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (tOcjL) 36
>>>9 He's going to somehow be swapped out.
hmmm. Yeah, hmmmmmm. I don't see it. They'd rather lose this election than alienate a prospective big new voting bloc. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (Riz8t) 37
We got this seat. Mike Rogers is gonna roll this loathsome toad in bacon fat and throw him to the rats. Electorally speaking, natch.
My only fear is that the oppo on this scumbag is peaking too soon and will be forgotten--or dismissed as old news-- by the time of the November elections. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/) 38
It's not a stretch to imagine him snorting lines of coke off a hooker's ass.
I wonder where in the Koran that's allowed. Posted by: Robert Germany being Germany, I'm sure that's on the brothel's menu. As long as the hooker he's rented is not muslim, where isn't it allowed? ... I am so terminally online... Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (vJrRc) 39
Muslims consider all non Muslims to be kaffars , aka infidels. All Kaffars must be killed , reconverted or enslaved. Muslims can lie about this to non Muslims to further or protect Islam. It's called taqqiya.
Act accordingly Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (j/Ml9) 40
If he was gonna be swapped out he would have been Honged. Somebody clearly thinks he can win, and wants him to.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (eZQ1g) 41
I see China caused the disaster in Nepal. An energy project they were working on upstream caused the glacier to collapse.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak) China building up energy infrastructure? A win for China. China causing a disaster that kills thousands of Nepalese along their shared border? Also a win for China. Fucking commies... Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (tpKiB) 42
Muslim Brotherhood Spawn Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins Deleting Old Tweets Making Light of 9/11, Claims That Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture"
=== He is a hero ace, he does not want to bend the knee and be cancelled ! Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (g47mK) 43
When you've lost Dana Nessel... Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL) 44
Fuck that guy in particular.
Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM Sorry, not even with David F. bull's minotaur-like member. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (0sNs1) 45
Abdul (not condemning): "I'm telling you this is not a campaign about a single streamer in California."
You sir are totally being judged by the people you associate with, every day. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (NnhvP) 46
No. Charlie Kirk was Cancel Culture you motherfucker.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (eZQ1g) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (Shi2G) 48
The MSM will not call these assholes out.
40% of the general population has no clue. And they will hop and skip to the polls and vote for the D. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (W2Pud) 49
Piler and El-Sayed are really lame characters, hamhanded operatives. Of course the knuckleheads who are their supporters do not care about any of that.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Gqar8) Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (g47mK) 51
35 13 I see China caused the disaster in Nepal. An energy project they were working on upstream caused the glacier to collapse.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak) Oops...I don't see China paying Nepal and the dead damages for that. But this no longer surprises me... We were discussing this this morning. I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it. Likewise, I've seen precisely no evidence that it was caused by global warming. I'll wait until there's some actual evidence to decide. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t) 52
"all white women are policy failures"
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/) 53
Whenever I see a candidate like this (and there are more than a few)...and understanding the ultimate strategy/ goal of overtaking the West through slient (and not so silent Jihad), I question the overall orchestration. Who is running these guys? This isn't just the serendipity of being in the right place at the right time.
There has to be coaching, planning, and advising going on from a specific source. Because, candidates like El-Sayed are going to continuously "shit the bed" because they can't help themselves. And, considering the outlandish truths that have popped up so far, you have to wonder what this guy has in his skeleton closet. Are the Saudis running these guys? Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (dIske) Posted by: The Truth at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (+iYtA) 55
This guy is a plant, an embed. Why is he offering opinions about anything but what concerns his Michigan constituency? This dude is a malignant anti-American infiltrator.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (nlLAo) 56
Piler and El-Sayed are really lame characters, hamhanded operatives. Of course the knuckleheads who are their supporters do not care about any of that.
+++++++ I KEEL YOU!!! Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (anL5R) 57
These are the best Muslims have to offer. Everything you need to know about them happened 25 years plus 11 days ago.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (bX16E) 58
China building up energy infrastructure? A win for China.
China causing a disaster that kills thousands of Nepalese along their shared border? Also a win for China. Fucking commies... Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (tpKiB) It's also going to be used as more "evidence" of "climate change" and thus reason to neuter even more Western energy production. Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (Rl7KJ) 59
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's communications director Roxie Richner previously posted a series of messages targeting white people and white women, including one declaring that "all white women are policy failures."
She's so close. All Democratic women are failures. Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 03:53 PM (2ocoG) 60
This guy is a plant, an embed. Why is he offering opinions about anything but what concerns his Michigan constituency? This dude is a malignant anti-American infiltrator.
=== So you're sayin he's completely at home on the campus of Ann Arbor? Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 03:53 PM (anL5R) 61
>>It's also going to be used as more "evidence" of "climate change" and thus reason to neuter even more Western energy production.
Earthquakes are from Fracking!!!/ *Lights Tap Water on Fire* Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (Shi2G) 62
Does Xi do land acknowledgement statements when visiting Tibet? Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (Y8DZL) 63
45 Abdul (not condemning): "I'm telling you this is not a campaign about a single streamer in California."
You sir are totally being judged by the people you associate with, every day. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (NnhvP) That guy running against Asshole-off in Georgia gets nearly daily hit pieces written about him about people loosely associated with him (one was linked to him via marriage) saying something kooky. Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (Rl7KJ) 64
I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t) Dude, it's China. As sure as the sun rises you can bet they fucked up somehow. Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (tpKiB) 65
Ads on Detroit tv have already shown up showing other Dem candidates and linking them to El-Sayed and the crazier parts of the DSA Dems. There's one ad like that showing up for Jocelyn Benson running for Governor.
I have to imagine their are ads like that in other battleground states linking any Dem running with the asylum people. Considering how easy it is to simply create a few web pages and fund a few ads, I'm actually kind of surprised we haven't seen 'natural outpouring of support' with fake, made-up groups like "Michigan Jews for El-Sayed" or "Michigan Gays for El-Sayed" They do it with other issues. Some fake made up coalition with a great name and if you do research you find they stand completely opposite to the values you'd expect them to have. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 31, 2026 03:55 PM (Sco7b) 66
>>> islam is not compatible with America.
GTFO. Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak) ===== Ninth circuit judge says "Nein!". Posted by: Turn 2 at August 31, 2026 03:55 PM (QFchU) 67
>>"Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called. "Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country." ================ What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ) Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (Av6i5) 69
Are the Saudis running these guys? Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (dIske The Saudi’s hate the Muslim brotherhood so I doubt it. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (ZdaMQ) 70
It doesn't matter that Abdul is a lying liar, every mussie in MI will vote for him. ( and they'll bring the cheat as well)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (NnhvP) 71
Prioe me wron = Prove me wrong.
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (Av6i5) 72
I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t) Dude, it's China. As sure as the sun rises you can bet they fucked up somehow. === Hold up Hold up - its almost as if you are trying to say they don't run safe bioweapons facilities either. That's crazy talk bro. Being Chinese means never having to skimp on safety. Everybody knows the highest priority is safety followed closely by environment. Posted by: nothing in china ever fails at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (anL5R) 73
see China caused the disaster in Nepal. An energy project they were working on upstream caused the glacier to collapse.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak) Oops...I don't see China paying Nepal and the dead damages for that. But this no longer surprises me... We were discussing this this morning. I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it. Likewise, I've seen precisely no evidence that it was caused by global warming. I'll wait until there's some actual evidence to decide. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t) _______ It's not that uncommon for glaciers or pieces of glaciers to collapse in that area. Collapses and avalanches happen. It's just that this time it was a big collapse in a populated area. Avalanches happen all the time in mountains. We only hear about them when they kill people. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (iFTx/) 74
"Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."
================ What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ) Who is he talking about with that "1M lives in the name of my country" you need to ask yourself. Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (g47mK) 75
He goes beyond the saying of if you get in a hole stop digging.
He's excavated himself in lies and trying to cover up his truth. I say "his truth" because I'm cool, man. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (hzuYO) 76
I love how the left uses variations of the Chewbacca Defense all the damn time.
And the sad thing is, it works. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (fqnOq) 77
51 We were discussing this this morning. I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it. Likewise, I've seen precisely no evidence that it was caused by global warming. I'll wait until there's some actual evidence to decide.
where's the fun in that? Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (sGtp+) 78
"all white women are policy failures"
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/) ----------- She seems nice. Posted by: That guy who thinks people seem nice at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (amcLV) 79
Likewise, I've seen precisely no evidence that it was caused by global warming. I'll wait until there's some actual evidence to decide.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t) Southeast Asis into Tibet and Nepal have had a really wet summer and several typhoons come ashore because of the El Nino affect this year. The North Atlantic usually gets less storms and hurricanes because of increased wind shear while (which is proving true - we’re only on storm F which just formed today) the North Pacific gets the opposite less shear, warmer water and lots more storms. China has been getting hammered with flood after flood all summer. I think that was the cause, a lot if upstream rainfall, but the media will call it climate change and everybody will nod and go on with their day. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt) 80
Sure, yes, it's Cancel Culture.
What you and your side have been doing for over a decade. ALINSKY #4 M'FER Good and hard. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (X8xt3) 81
This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together.
== False moral equivalence is a leftist paradigm Posted by: sheesh at August 31, 2026 04:00 PM (anL5R) 82
Local communist congressmonster Hillary Scholten has disassociated her self from the turd. Not sure if Debbie Dingle has jumped ship yet. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:00 PM (Y8DZL) 83
Dems sure have had a lot of false starts this election cycle. Do not seem like a juggernaut.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 04:02 PM (Gqar8) 84
The Hiroshima & Nagasaki jokes were a riot. Posted by: Tetsuo Sekiguchi at August 31, 2026 04:03 PM (OkYzo) 85
all white women are policy failures"
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard. == Wine moms are acutely effected by bullying from another in group woman or women. It triggers their safety checks of in group status and they comply with the demand, no matter how stupid, as long as it is sufficiently threatening to their in group status. Being in the group is a survival mechanism. Posted by: sheesh at August 31, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R) 86
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 04:04 PM (V362x) Posted by: Senator "Beatoff" O'Roarke at August 31, 2026 04:05 PM (A3xvt) 88
A liar lands on Politician Island. A sign on the beach says, "Welcome to Politician Island. Everything a politician says is a lie. This sign was written by a politician."
He walks off the beach and comes to a fork in the road, with an old man sitting next to it. The old man says, "This road leads to paradise, with a chicken in every pot and free stuff for everybody. The other road leads to a Mad Max hellscape of roving cannibals and toxic waste." The liar says, "I don't believe you." The old man says, "Well, since you're a liar, that means you do believe me. The liar says, "Are you a politician?" The old man says, "Vote for me and find out." Which road do you take? Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (Av6i5) 89
>> "all white women are policy failures"
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard. A guess? She 100% into the Saira Rau brand of BLM feminism that told white women that they were ultra-totally racist by default, privileged by default, and that they should both STFU and LISTEN to brown* women yet also, silence is violence, so they MUST SPEAK OUT on behalf of brown people*. *Their terminology, not mine. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (X8xt3) 90
Fauci deleting emails.
Abdul deleting tweets. AWFLs deleting children. Sensing a pattern here..... Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (wtvvX) 91
Talarico is going to win and then go on to become the next President of the United States in a huge landslide!!!!
Posted by: Polling which is really wishcasting you pay for at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (anL5R) 92
I love it when every cocksucker running for office thinks he can speak for America on a national level. Shut the fuck up do your job. If you come to my state and get cocky, I will punch you in the face. You have no authority here.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 04:07 PM (nlLAo) 93
I say "his truth" because I'm cool, man.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat Oprah will come looking for her royalty check. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:07 PM (Y8DZL) 94
Yeah, no shit, fuckstick. It's not about one guy in California. It's about you and a billion of your sandmaggot compadres, and how we don't want your barking-mad retard homo inbreed religion in our country.
Hope that clears things up. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:07 PM (BI5O2) 95
I just dont think the Dems are going to allow this guy to be the face of the midterms.
Republicans had this issue with some of the retards running in 2010. Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 04:08 PM (eIzlH) 96
He walks off the beach and comes to a fork in the road, with an old man sitting next to it. The old man says, "This road leads to paradise, with a chicken in every pot and free stuff for everybody. The other road leads to a Mad Max hellscape of roving cannibals and toxic waste."
The liar says, "I don't believe you." The old man says, "Well, since you're a liar, that means you do believe me. The liar says, "Are you a politician?" The old man says, "Vote for me and find out." Which road do you take? ==== Take off and Nuke the whole place from orbit. Its the only way to be sure. Posted by: Hicks at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (anL5R) 97
>>"Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."
================ >>What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together. He is mourning Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (X8xt3) 98
Which road do you take?
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (Av6i5) The one less travelled? Can I just get back on the boat, leave Politician Island and move to Florida? Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (6ydKt) 99
Why is it that every election every two years feels like the most important election in history, in an ever-escalating spiral of apocalyptic urgency? 2028 feels more important than every election since 1980 combined.
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (Av6i5) 100
IT but I keep getting ads for Prep on YouTube that are the fucking hysterical. One with a woman walking outside of a gay nightclub with the most absurd flaming queers behind her. It's so over the top I wouldn't be surprised if it was made by a closeted self-hating gay man. Only thing it's missing is the balding gay pedo diddling an eight year old boy.
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (tpKiB) 101
90, exactly.
destruction is the only thing they actually believe in; everything they say is a lie. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (VyBeY) 102
Hasan Piker is a psyop created by Trump to take down the entire American left.
Nah, he's real and was created by Chunk Yogurt so there'd be somebody more cringe on the left than his horse-fucking self. Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG) 103
Which road do you take?
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (Av6i5 Mad Max road. If the government tells you something is dangerous it will extend your lifespan by twenty years, whiten your teeth, and add three inches to your dick. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (BI5O2) 104
What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ) In that moment - pure insult. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (eZQ1g) 105
I just dont think the Dems are going to allow this guy to be the face of the midterms.
=== I think on this one, they are all in. Not much time left. Biden was forced out in July, and they still whined that was not enough time for Kramala to do a good job. With 60 or so days left, this is it! Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (g47mK) 106
Yeah, no shit, fuckstick. It's not about one guy in California. It's about you and a billion of your sandmaggot compadres, and how we don't want your barking-mad retard homo inbreed religion in our country.
Hope that clears things up. ===== This is concentrated Islamophobia. I KEEL YOU!!! Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (anL5R) 107
Taqqiya reminder # 5,432.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (Gqar8) 108
Dude, it's China. As sure as the sun rises you can bet they fucked up somehow.
---------- Hold it...are you saying that all of the Yang Poon* products being used here are crap? *Hat Tip to Bers Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (XeU6L) 109
Ugh --
He is mourning the loss of those killed by American soldiers in the ME wars following 9/11. The problem is the framing. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:11 PM (X8xt3) 110
Talarico > Buttigieg
Posted by: Scale of Gayness at August 31, 2026 04:11 PM (UjdFS) 111
After Obamas shucking and jiving chickens have come home to roost pastor on 9/16/01, I don't think there's anything people won't vote for as long as it has a (D).
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 04:12 PM (eZQ1g) 112
This "outrage" is just islamophobia. Muslim politician says anything about 9/11 and is condemned because muslim.
At a glance idk if I disagree with him. Saying during COVID that there should be a commensurate response to COVID compared to 9/11? Think I would have upvoted that at the time Agreed, I don’t see anything inherently wrong with these statements. Probably a good idea to completely disavow the “America deserved 9/11” terrorist supporter guy His comments aren't crazy, some are incredibly based. Reading that "he hoped 'that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty'" makes me like him more. especially as we're seeing the consequences of RFK and MAGA dismantling public health. I'd love to get back to no measles or diarrhea lettuce. This is the best snark that Bari Weiss could find? What a fucking moron. She can't even bad-faith regardlican snark correctly. Trump has a special ability to always pick the worst person for the job, even if that job is being bad at your job. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 04:12 PM (2b4M2) 113
I keep getting ads for Prep on YouTube that are the fucking hysterical. One with a woman walking outside of a gay nightclub with the most absurd flaming queers behind her.
== I don't know what that is, and I don't want to know either. Posted by: seriously we can do better can't we? at August 31, 2026 04:12 PM (anL5R) 114
I'm not fan of Mitch Mcconnell but I remember all sorts of poling that showed his race being "close" and then he wins by nearly 17%.
texas is still a red state and talarico is not the right Dem that could somehow threat that needle. Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 04:13 PM (eIzlH) 115
Ughh. I came upstairs, look out the patio window and my friends' cat Snowflake is going to town on a bird. Ralphy barked. Situational awareness is your friend.
News 4:09 CBC - 3 by-elections. We'll see how popular the libs are. CNN - El-Sayed apologizes for comments about Synagogue attack. They have scrolling comments from their retard viewers. Oh boy. MS Now - WAPO - it must be true. Military leaders warn against prolonging Iran war. Give up now. FoxNews - Vance in Michigan Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b) 116
Reminder on Hasan Piker: He was part of a show named after a genocidal group - "Young Turks" - who mass-murdered Armenian Christians.
Imagine a couple of immigrants hosting a mainstream, Google-promoted podcast named after the Red Guard. How would you feel about a Senate candidate palling around with those guys? Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:14 PM (X8xt3) Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (Jr5Lq) 118
Imagine a couple of immigrants hosting a mainstream, Google-promoted podcast named after the Red Guard.
How would you feel about a Senate candidate palling around with those guys? === Its only a matter of time, and money. Posted by: sad but true at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (anL5R) 119
The Saudi’s hate the Muslim brotherhood so I doubt it.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (ZdaMQ) ______________________________ One thing I've learned about the Saudis is that there is no unified position. I'd cite 9/11 as a good example of that. There are always a multitude of "Princes" in the royal family that don't subscribe to the powers that be. AND, someone is running these interlopers. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (dIske) 120
I keep getting ads for Prep on YouTube that are the fucking hysterical. One with a woman walking outside of a gay nightclub with the most absurd flaming queers behind her.
The ads should just be Fauci burning in Hell. I forget what the fake vaxx he was pushing back then was called, but he certainly made history rhyme. Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:16 PM (2ocoG) 121
Which road do you take?
The one behind me, back to the boat Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 04:16 PM (aJQbY) 122
especially as we're seeing the consequences of RFK and MAGA dismantling public health. I'd love to get back to no measles or diarrhea lettuce.
—- RFK is responsible for letting in hundreds of thousands of non-vaccinated people from around the world and germy lettuce from Mexico? You give the man way too much credit. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt) 123
There are always a multitude of "Princes" in the royal family that don't subscribe to the powers that be. AND, someone is running these interlopers.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (dIske) Yes, but give MbS his due - he imprisoned his MB cousins in a hotel and tortured them until they adjusted their attitudes. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (BI5O2) 124
Why is it that every election every two years feels like the most important election in history, in an ever-escalating spiral of apocalyptic urgency? 2028 feels more important than every election since 1980 combined.
-- I feel the same. Because every 2 years, we inch closer and closer to communist takeover. Because that's where the Democrat Party sits right now, and one look at the incoming crop of freaks, weirdos and other assorted anti-Americans running for office corroborates this. They turn farther and farther left with each passing day, with each passing election. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (qBdHI) Posted by: just another black pill pusher at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (A3xvt) 126
114 texas is still a red state and talarico is not the right Dem that could somehow threat that needle.
Posted by: Leupold Losing the Jasmin Crockett support was devastating! Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (Y8DZL) 127
Mad Scientists who keep brains in jars: why not add a slice of lemon, for freshness?
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (V362x) 128
I'm not fan of Mitch Mcconnell but I remember all sorts of poling that showed his race being "close" and then he wins by nearly 17%.
Polls are for strippers. This was made clear 2 weeks ago when a 21 year old kid admitted he just made shit up and the MSM immediately all cited it as a real poll. Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (2ocoG) 129
Thunderstorms just struck! It is pouring.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (ZdaMQ) 130
We've gone from war to gas prices to lettuce
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (eZQ1g) 131
The country of Mexico is famous for ...
yes a GI problem caused by a lack of sanitation. But of course that's Trump's fault. Posted by: face palm at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (anL5R) 132
>>especially as we're seeing the consequences of RFK and MAGA dismantling public health. I'd love to get back to no measles or diarrhea lettuce.
Imagine typing that unironically, like these measles and poop lettuce just magically started happening. No acknowledgement of WHO brought measles back into the US, and who is taking a poop in the lettuce field. Oh right, that would be racist. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:19 PM (X8xt3) 133
It is unfathomable to me we are so balkanized as a country that this human is a serious candidate for an important position.
----- I think a lot of it is an illusion, gaslighting to the extreme for so long. These candidates are empty suits forced upon the electorate with big money donors, and electoral fraud does the rest. We're not nearly as balkanized as they would have us believe. It looks that way, because that's how comprehensive propaganda and gaslighting works. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 04:19 PM (n1B4F) 134
You've been THUNDERSTRUCK!!!
Posted by: Brian Johnson at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (anL5R) 135
It is designed and intended to demoralize you. And it works, that's why they do it, after all.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (n1B4F) 136
0 I keep getting ads for Prep on YouTube that are the fucking hysterical. One with a woman walking outside of a gay nightclub with the most absurd flaming queers behind her.
That’s not a woman. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (W2Pud) 137
Fauci killed Klaus Nomi!
Posted by: Late Riser at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (JM9I6) 138
124 Why is it that every election every two years feels like the most important election in history, in an ever-escalating spiral of apocalyptic urgency? 2028 feels more important than every election since 1980 combined
Because each side keeps getting more 'extreme.' Dems - 'Hey! If you hated Clinton, wait until you see Obama! And puppet Obama afyer that! Repubs - 'Yeah, remember calling 'W' Hitler! Here's Trump! Be more crazy!' Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:21 PM (Sco7b) 139
Nah, he's real and was created by Chunk Yogurt so there'd be somebody more cringe on the left than his horse-fucking self.
Posted by: Ian S. Goats and sheep: What are we? Chopped liver? Posted by: nerdygirl at August 31, 2026 04:21 PM (0Htd1) 140
Is the bad ad gone? I only noticed it a couple of weeks ago and wrongly assumed that whatever company was paying for the ad would just stop paying for it and it would go away. I didn't expect them to camp on the site forever.
I think it's gone now. I hope. It is not gone. Posted by: STAY FOR THE POP-UPS at August 31, 2026 04:21 PM (mc0fD) 141
It is unfathomable to me we are so balkanized as a country that this human is a serious candidate for an important position.
== Well, you could argue that Michigan really is more Canadian than the average US state. Its obviously not right and hasn't been for decades. Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 04:22 PM (anL5R) 142
103, *fistbump*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 04:22 PM (VyBeY) 143
Polls are for strippers. This was made clear 2 weeks ago when a 21 year old kid admitted he just made shit up and the MSM immediately all cited it as a real poll.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (2ocoG) RON PAUL!! I miss those crazy assholes. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:22 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: Graham Platner at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (xy5Sp) Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (Jr5Lq) 146
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:19 PM (X8xt3)
_________________________________ The primary reason for the "loaded lettuce" and other products from Mexico (such as the green onion issue that shut down Chi Chi's and had Taco Bell stop putting green onions on tacos) is their lack of proper sewage treatment (also a problem in a lot of countries...India being a big one). Mexico dumps raw sewage in the ocean, AND the Tijuana River. Irrigation from that river includes human waste. They, also, have piss poor (excuse the pun) drainage from livestock areas, also leading to infectation of crops. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (dIske) 147
Still getting my revenge!
Posted by: Montezuma at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (JM9I6) 148
Anyone see this presser where a black woman speaking on behalf of Abdul looks like she's being held hostage???
https://tinyurl.com/32p5s5pb Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 04:24 PM (kX27y) 149
No acknowledgement of WHO brought measles back into the US, and who is taking a poop in the lettuce field.
As I understand, most of the measles cases are in Amish and similar communities. Not sure it they're getting it from unvaxxed illegals or not. But illegals pooping in vegetable fields because they work under terrible standards because Dems love their field slaves is certainly true. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 04:25 PM (2b4M2) 150
>>>RFK is responsible for letting in hundreds of thousands of non-vaccinated people from around the world and germy lettuce from Mexico?
You give the man way too much credit. Posted by: SpeakingOf >Does that mean he's a Democrat plant trying to ruin the Trump Administration? Or a victim of circumstance? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 04:25 PM (nlLAo) Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (2b4M2) 152
I come from a long line of field crappers, yet we never got exotic diseases/parasites.
Posted by: Must Be Immune at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (JM9I6) 153
141 Well, you could argue that Michigan really is more Canadian than the average US state.
Posted by: O H EYE O The irony is the Michigan democrat witches' coven greatest enemy up to a few months ago was Canada's Enbridge Energy's Line 5 pipeline. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (Y8DZL) 154
Hasan Piker is a psyop created by Trump to take down the entire American left.
Prioe me wrong. Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM No, he's a distraction from the Epstein and UAP Files. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (0sNs1) 155
[Sophomoric Humor:] Trump allegedly thinking about renaming Lake Michigan “Lake Michelle Obama”
x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/ 2094492626791584179 Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 04:27 PM (RW1OD) 156
We're not nearly as balkanized as they would have us believe. It looks that way, because that's how comprehensive propaganda and gaslighting works.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 I truly hope you are correct. I was also starving, so I may have been a hair more dramatic than was called for. I just ate yogurt and an apple, I feel much better now. 😊 Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:27 PM (ZdaMQ) 157
That’s not a woman.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM Who's to say what a woman is? Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (0sNs1) 158
136 0 I keep getting ads for Prep on YouTube that are the fucking hysterical. One with a woman walking outside of a gay nightclub with the most absurd flaming queers behind her.
That’s not a woman. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (W2Pud) Are we talking about the orangutroon? The size of "her" hands. lol. Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (wAvmd) 159
The irony is the Michigan democrat witches' coven greatest enemy up to a few months ago was Canada's Enbridge Energy's Line 5 pipeline.
== Its because the proper parties weren't greased. In Michigan its all about who is getting paid to move things along. Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (anL5R) 160
As I understand, most of the measles cases are in Amish and similar communities. Not sure it they're getting it from unvaxxed illegals or not. But illegals pooping in vegetable fields because they work under terrible standards because Dems love their field slaves is certainly true.
a) there are tons of illegales in Lancaster County b) that said, PA govt has been pushing MMR vaccines HARD on the Amish communities. they have popups and immunization centers ALL OVER. trying to get everyone shotted up. c) Amish don't all eschew vaccinations it's very much an individual decision d) we still have zero info on the second case if it exists, I assume they're piecing some nonsense together. the first case was a birthing accident during an Amish home birth. very tragic. measles had zero to do with this death and the spotlight on the grieving parents is KILLING me. I really and truly hate Penn Med Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (j+aD2) 161
Roxie Richner is a red headed white chick yelling about white supremacy and working for a muzzie. If you're suicidal lady go right ahead, leave the rest of us alone
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 04:30 PM (j/Ml9) 162
Orangutroon. Heh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 04:30 PM (9tX4s) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 04:30 PM (ZxPkt) 164
Baby killer mom jury done for the day
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 04:31 PM (ZxPkt) 165
I think the family with the lost newborn had other children. and the MMR vax is famous for triggering measles "mini cases"
so maybe the family did have the measles - with all the vaccinations being pushed they will go through a period of more illness. MMR includes live measles virus Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2) Posted by: "Mrs." Obama at August 31, 2026 04:31 PM (anL5R) 167
12 The Jews deserve a thousand 9/11's is free speech, grab them by the pussy is End of Days. Got it.
Don't you love how quick the Left transitions to watching every single thing every person says for 20 straight years and ending lives over syllables of words, to "fuck you, we'll say what we want and who gives a shit what you thin and by the way the Jews deserved 9/11". Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (eZQ1g) We never said the Jews deserve a thousand 9/11s, liar. It was a thousand 10/7s. Posted by: Hamas lovers at August 31, 2026 04:32 PM (9ZFZd) 168
164 Baby killer mom jury done for the day
ugh this is really bothering me I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:32 PM (j+aD2) 169
Abdul the al-Qaeda guy is not a true Democrat. If he were, he would be announcing he's transitioning to female and converting to Judaism in order to win the race.
Power is all that matters, if you are a true Democrat. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:33 PM (iTZ6k) 170
>>>a) there are tons of illegales in Lancaster County
>There are many fronts in this war, the Amish seems to be a soft target. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 04:33 PM (nlLAo) 171
ugh this is really bothering me I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!! === I have been avoiding this like the plague. I'd rather listen to a pod cast of Keith Olberman. Posted by: its a hysterical madness that has descended on liberal women at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (anL5R) 172
I'm thinking maybe this El-Sayed and his buddy Piker might just be a couple of twats, eh?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (dEHLq) 173
I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!!
-- Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (qBdHI) 174
The Saudi’s hate the Muslim brotherhood so I doubt it.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (ZdaMQ) They went to Aytaollah's funeral...after Iran bombed them. The are very "nuanced"... Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (g47mK) 175
Parts of the dead bird carcass are outside my patio door.
That cat sleeps in my bedroom with the dog and I. Purrs sweetly in my lap every night... I'm screwed.... Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b) 176
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Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (RW1OD) 177
SC allows the White House ballroom construction to continue. Vote was 5-4 , with Dread Judge Roberts sucking the farts of, excuse me, siding with the leftists
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (j/Ml9) 178
Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get.
yep praying for hung jury no idea why they can't push to exclude those jurors now. it's two of them. they should have alternates. Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (j+aD2) 179
***Abdul El-Sayed says you're engaging in cancel culture if you call out him and Hasan Piker_ _ _
- I'm good with that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (ogcfP) Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (Jr5Lq) 181
177 SC allows the White House ballroom construction to continue. Vote was 5-4 , with Dread Judge Roberts sucking the farts of, excuse me, siding with the leftists
Jesus well that's a TELL, Judas Roberts! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (j+aD2) 182
168 164 Baby killer mom jury done for the day
ugh this is really bothering me I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:32 PM (j+aD2) I think the notion that you can be psychotic from post-partum depression is idiotic. Likewise, it was clear the acts were premeditated. Bitch should be locked up for life. And why in hell are they putting her ass in a wheelchair in court? Talk about prejudicial. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 04:36 PM (dEHLq) 183
Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Had no mobile connection today, no.idea why Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:36 PM (Ia/+0) 184
Here's a clue Abdull
It ain't hate and it certainly not a phobia. It is merely recognition of who is the enemy of America. Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 04:36 PM (2WIwB) 185
skip there was a big outage around me I know that
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (j+aD2) 186
168 164 Baby killer mom jury done for the day
ugh this is really bothering me I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!! Posted by: Black Orchid Mental insanity defense is legitimate is rare cases, like Austin Harrouff (deep case analysis here: https://tinyurl.com/yc4f6vyn ) You compare that case to the baby killer, and there's no comparison. She just murdered them. Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (2b4M2) 187
"several women on the jury showed up in pink."
== because for a lot of women, its more important to be part of their "in group" than it is to be reasonable. They'd rather signal "virtue" than apply real virtue to the job at hand. Posted by: its a hysterical madness that has descended on liberal women at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (anL5R) 188
We're not nearly as balkanized as they would have us believe.
The media and internet are not real life. But I suspect the balkanization is at least in part real. We increasingly lack a common culture. Teaching of civics is largely dead. Immigrants have not been expected to assimilate for a long while. We've drank pretty deeply from the "diversity is our strength" bowl when the opposite is true (homogeneity is our strength, so strong all sorts of weirdos and outsiders can harmlessly orbit around the core of normalcy that homogeneity provides). This kind of thing yields results. Not good ones. But results nonetheless. Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (wAvmd) 189
177 SC allows the White House ballroom construction to continue. Vote was 5-4 , with Dread Judge Roberts sucking the farts of, excuse me, siding with the leftists
Posted by: Smell the Glove --- Gotta' do something about that guy. He's looking old and tired. Maybe it's time to retire. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:38 PM (ogcfP) 190
>>>Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture"
Not our fault for noticing. That's all the law will allow, for now. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 04:40 PM (dK+Kv) 191
189 177 SC allows the White House ballroom construction to continue. Vote was 5-4 , with Dread Judge Roberts sucking the farts of, excuse me, siding with the leftists
Posted by: Smell the Glove Roberts said it was likely "unlawful"... Really ? So everything that previous Presidents did to the WH and it was a lot, Is unlawful ? Roberts is a POS. --- Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:41 PM (+gK6I) 192
Democrats For Mike Rogers @DemsForMike · 1h Unhinged. Unfit. Too extreme. @cspan · 3h Michigan Sen. candidate @AbdulElSayed on the Trump-Canada trade war: "So if you're starting a trade war with Canada is cause you're the asshole." Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 04:41 PM (kX27y) 193
I think the notion that you can be psychotic from post-partum depression is idiotic.
== Well I take no position on that. I would listen to the evidence and make a call based upon the evidence and reason. I would not dress up in costume "signaling" my "virtue" while the deliberations are ongoing. Making it all too obvious that my priority was how I was going to be perceived by the public, rather than reaching a verdict with my fellow jurors. You get a couple of wackos on a jury that stick together, anything can happen. And if those whackos realize they might have a book deal coming .... Posted by: don't ask me how I know at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (anL5R) 194
When it comes to lies, deceit, insults, and graft, it looks like Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed found his happy home in the Democrat Party.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (rj6Yv) 195
You compare that case to the baby killer, and there's no comparison. She just murdered them.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (2b4M2) And she did research on how to do the murdering... She's acting, and will most likely not get the conviction she deserves... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I) 196
Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM That's insane. I find it depressing how low these women have gone. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 04:43 PM (i9SW2) 197
189 177 SC allows the White House ballroom construction to continue. Vote was 5-4 , with Dread Judge Roberts sucking the farts of, excuse me, siding with the leftists
Posted by: Smell the Glove _________________ It was an inconsequential ruling for a number of reasons. First, Trump ignored the case and the ballroom is 65% done, and they didn't stop building waiting for the decision. They are knocking it out with a 24 hour schedule...which means by the time they get another lawsuit rolling it will be completed. The second reason the ruling is inconsequential is because it only found the suing party didn't have standing (some historical society or some entity of the like). Thirdly, the lower courts said the WH required congress to rule on funding to build it. Only, Honey Badger don't care. He's just building it anyway. Make them knock it down when it's done. Roberts wanted to give the National Trust for Historic Preservation standing. That's all this decision was about. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:44 PM (dIske) 198
>>>>I would not dress up in costume "signaling" my "virtue" while the deliberations are ongoing. Making it all too obvious that my priority was how I was going to be perceived by the public, rather than reaching a verdict with my fellow jurors.
--- That should be enough for the prosecution to request a re-trial. Those jurors have dismissed themselves. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:45 PM (ogcfP) 199
Good. From the CA Post:
Federal officials are set to launch a massive criminal investigation into voter fraud in California as part of a national effort to clean up the nation’s elections. Sources with knowledge of the effort said that the Golden State is among eight states targeted in the sweeping operation to be executed by Homeland Security Investigations starting next week. Other states slated for investigations include New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, Washington, Nevada, Wisconsin and Missouri. Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 04:45 PM (kX27y) 200
You compare that case to the baby killer, and there's no comparison. She just murdered them.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (2b4M2) And she did research on how to do the murdering... She's acting, and will most likely not get the conviction she deserves... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I) "Say goodbye to your children" is compelling evidence of premeditation and knowledge and recognition of the wrongness of the intended acts. Bitch should burn in hell. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv) 201
Roberts said it was likely "unlawful"... Really ? So everything that previous Presidents did to the WH and it was a lot, Is unlawful ? Roberts is a POS.
== The worst sort. He's obviously far more effective than Justice Jackson Brown. If Eddie Haskell were Supreme Court Justice, he'd be Roberts. Unctuous, Deceitful, Selfish, Jealous and probably Depraved. Posted by: Its the enemies within that get you at August 31, 2026 04:46 PM (anL5R) 202
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Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM Maybe they were wearing pick for the 5 year old girl ,her daughter, Clancy murdered... Of course we know it's for solidarity with women power or something... Clancy really put on a good act... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:46 PM (+gK6I) 203
I would not dress up in costume "signaling" my "virtue" while the deliberations are ongoing. Making it all too obvious that my priority was how I was going to be perceived by the public, rather than reaching a verdict with my fellow jurors. You get a couple of wackos on a jury that stick together, anything can happen. And if those whackos realize they might have a book deal coming .... Posted by: don't ask me how I know at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (anL5R) If she is acquitted all of the jurors responsible should be forced to watch the most realistic AI video of that monster murdering her children. More than once. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (i9SW2) 204
SCOTUS issued yet another order today in the silly litigation against PDJT's ballroom, saying he can build it.
The decision was 5-4, with John Roberts now fully transitioned to female libtard. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (AuLQB) 205
Roberts wanted to give the National Trust for Historic Preservation standing. That's all this decision was about.
Posted by: Orson -- Haven't they screwed up enough neighborhoods? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (ogcfP) 206
Posted by: don't ask me how I know at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (anL5R)
Why is this not evidence to declare a mistrial?. Jurors basically declaring their partiality before a verdict had been declared? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (gsYaF) 207
Roberts said it was likely "unlawful"... Really ? So everything that previous Presidents did to the WH and it was a lot, Is unlawful ? Roberts is a POS.
--- Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 All men should be removed from being judges! They are far too emotional in their decision making. 😛😛😛 Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:48 PM (ZdaMQ) 208
Ore election records clearing
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:48 PM (Ia/+0) 209
I think Roberts votes with the left on lost cases to pretend impartiality. He wants to pretend to be fair. It's taxing. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:48 PM (Y8DZL) 210
People always warn of balkanization in the US. Look around. You're swimming in it. This hasn't been a country in a long time. Just a political unit being held together by fraud and force.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2) 211
Why is this not evidence to declare a mistrial?. Jurors basically declaring their partiality before a verdict had been declared?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (gsYaF) The jurors didn’t say they were wearing pink in support. Are they supposed to be sequestered from news on the case? If so, they wouldn’t know the significance of wearing pink. But I am not a lawyer. So who knows, maybe it will come out they knew and it will be an issue. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (ZdaMQ) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (ogcfP) 213
210 People always warn of balkanization in the US. Look around. You're swimming in it. This hasn't been a country in a long time. Just a political unit being held together by fraud and force.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2) __________________________ Trademark infringement ™ "You're swimming in it" is an obvious play on "You're soaking in it." Posted by: Palmolive Legal Team at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (dIske) 214
islam is not compatible with America.
GTFO. Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak) This. 1000X this. Nothing but this. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (S41Gd) 215
SCOTUS issued yet another order today in the silly litigation against PDJT's ballroom, saying he can build it.
The decision was 5-4, with John Roberts now fully transitioned to female libtard. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (AuLQB) ---- Which branch of government is responsible for maintaining the Supreme Court building? "Nice courthouse ya got here. We're gonna need to tear it down and move it ten feet to the left. Because why not?" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (FZ29D) 216
People always warn of balkanization in the US. Look around. You're swimming in it. This hasn't been a country in a long time. Just a political unit being held together by fraud and force.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2) ==== The USA - Hanging together since 1865. Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (rj6Yv) 217
I have not looked into it, but I assume the prosecution would want a hung jury rather than a mistrial. Mistrial late in the proceedings could come with double jeopardy complications.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (wAvmd) 218
And she did research on how to do the murdering... She's acting, and will most likely not get the conviction she deserves...
== Well, I don't know the facts. But if a woman doesn't want to be a Mom anymore a lot of them just LEAVE. Pick up their shit and boogie. The ones that kill the kids seem to do it either because they think they are helping the kids - sending them to Heaven - or they do it because they are really trying to hurt someone else - Husband, or relatives. A malicious killing is generally speaking the act of criminal depravity. Just because a normal person would never do it, doesn't mean it was insane. Posted by: But hey, if women can kill a child at its most defenseless state why not toddlers also at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (anL5R) 219
I get the feeling the Clancy jurors aren't going to find first degree, but probably depraved indifference. It won't make sense legally or factually but it will serve the purpose
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 04:53 PM (j/Ml9) 220
197 189 177 SC allows the White House ballroom construction to continue. Vote was 5-4 , with Dread Judge Roberts sucking the farts of, excuse me, siding with the leftists
Posted by: Smell the Glove ---------- It's obvious the party didn't have standing. I can't believe Roberts would say yep, that little old lady, who says she walks by the WH once a month (WTF), is harmed and has standing. Really Roberts? Posted by: WisRich at August 31, 2026 04:54 PM (G0vdT) 221
Gotta' do something about that guy. He's looking old and tired.
Maybe it's time to retire. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:38 PM (ogcfP) --- Maybe Roberts just joined the Supreme Court for the cocktail parties. He didn't expect to actually *work.* Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 04:54 PM (FZ29D) 222
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)
Uh at least for 180 years. Let's not act like this is not the default setting for every country. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt) 223
From Deadline...
Never heard it but good for her. Ella Langley‘s stone smash “Choosin’ Texas” has racked up a phenomenal 20th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first non-holiday single to hit the milestone. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” holds the overall record with 22 weeks at the summit, but that includes chart-topping runs during the past seven years. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:55 PM (Sco7b) 224
The jurors didn’t say they were wearing pink in support. Are they supposed to be sequestered from news on the case? If so, they wouldn’t know the significance of wearing pink.
But I am not a lawyer. So who knows, maybe it will come out they knew and it will be an issue. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (ZdaMQ) ____________________________ I think the big problem here is Juror coordination. They are not allowed to communicate outside the courtroom. No peer chats; No outside talk. These are CORE RULES of being a juror. Posted by: Palmolive Legal Team at August 31, 2026 04:55 PM (dIske) 225
islam is not compatible with America.
GTFO. Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak) ------------------ In a nutshell. But then it's not compatible with anywhere on earth, it hates everyone. Posted by: Decaf at August 31, 2026 04:55 PM (ZNpJk) 226
What the F are the jurors thinking on this open and shut case.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt) 227
"Nice courthouse ya got here. We're gonna need to tear it down and move it ten feet to the left. Because why not?" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel --- or In our on going effort to balance the budget we have ceased maintenance and upkeep of the Supreme Court Building Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (ogcfP) 228
"f one more white ann arbor person dms me asking why i'm 'dEFeNdiNG LoOtiNG' i'm seriously gonna explode. your racism is showing. check yourselves. I'm not holding back on this s--- anymore, i'm dropping names if u keep it up," she wrote.
==== I'm calling bullshit on this. No self respecting Ann arbor awfl would be caught dead judging the looters like that. They'd be booted right of of Zingermans. Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (4HoLg) 229
I think the notion that you can be psychotic from post-partum depression is idiotic. Likewise, it was clear the acts were premeditated. Bitch should be locked up for life.
——— Post partum psychosis is a thing. Unfortunately I know first hand. But what seems to be missing here is in the majority of cases, agency still exists. She needs help. She also needs to be in jail for the rest of her life. Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (ZdaMQ) 230
Well, there you go. He's drawn the line...and he's trash. (IMO)
He 1st 'mourned' the victims of the September 11 attacks, noting they were "perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith" (Islam). He then states he would mourn the roughly 1 million lives lost of the subsequent post-9/11 wars fought "in the name of my county" (the United States). Media coverage and analysts widely identify the three countries impacted by the post-9/11 military operations as Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. My G-d, all as we rapidly approach the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, 3,000 dead with more & more still dying... Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (NFX2v) 231
I'm tired of temporary insanity defenses. What a crock of shit.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (KC5Lt) 232
The grand psychotic brainwashing of America is being tested. Do they have the inertial energy to escape the earth's gravity and enter into lunacy (commie) orbit? idk
Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (vbXSk) 233
islam is not compatible with America.
GTFO. Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak) ------------------ In a nutshell. But then it's not compatible with anywhere on earth, it hates everyone. == This is concentrated Islamophobia. I KEEL YOU!!! Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (anL5R) 234
Of the National Trust For Historic Preservation's eight Trustees, six are white suburban women who are just appalled by Donald Trump. Board minutes usually start with "Don't you just hate that man?!!!".
The other two members portray themselves as men, and who am I to say different? Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (JYE7p) 235
NOOD
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (+gK6I) 236
"Nice courthouse ya got here. We're gonna need to tear it down and move it ten feet to the left. Because why not?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel --- or In our on going effort to balance the budget we have ceased maintenance and upkeep of the Supreme Court Building Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (ogcfP) === You can bet that CJ Roberts will be one of the first in line waiting for an invite to the Ball Room's Grand Opening. Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (rj6Yv) 237
So what exactly is this Michigan Man cocksucker a doctor of? Is he more like Dr. Jill or Dr. Mengele?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 31, 2026 04:59 PM (FrJ8O) 238
What the F are the jurors thinking on this open and shut case.
== Its not what they are "thinking" its what they are feeling. They are feeling if they don't vote for acquittal they will be cast out of their social groups.... Posted by: Feelings, whoa whoa whoa feelings at August 31, 2026 05:00 PM (anL5R) 239
Representative Ilhan Omar used the phrase "some people did something" during a March 2019 speech to describe how the 9/11 terrorist attacks were followed by a loss of civil rights for Muslim Americans.
He's doing, saying the same thing. Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (NFX2v) 240
You can bet that CJ Roberts will be one of the first in line waiting for an invite to the Ball Room's Grand Opening.
== Oh believe me when I tell you, he's not making the list. Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (anL5R) 241
I want my pool back
_ghost of FDR I want my bowling alley back _ghost of Richard Nixon Rifle test range on the lawn _both T.R. and Abe, both Winchester men Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (zdLoL) 242
215 SCOTUS issued yet another order today in the silly litigation against PDJT's ballroom, saying he can build it.
The decision was 5-4, with John Roberts now fully transitioned to female libtard. Posted by: Huck Follywood ========= You left out the punch line. Now altogether now, The Plaintiff has NO STANDING. Thank you very much. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv) 243
These evil bastards should never be allowed to participate in government at all.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (Q/FnY) 244
Fuck 'em. Kill all of them and be done with it. Think they'd hesitate if they were the ones with the power to do it … ? Think again …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (ayRl+) 245
"If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews," Piker said earlier this month.
Sounds a lot like: If international finance Jews succeed in starting a war in Europe, it will not be the end of Germany, but it will be the end of the Jews in Europe. Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (wGerL) Released Emails Show Anthony Fauci Routinely Told "Scientists" To Delete His Emails (So That Congress and Other Investigators Couldn't See Them)No one is above the law, especially not a three-foot-seven malignant dwarf Bond villain. I did a quick search, and it appears that the statute of limitations for illegally deleting official federal records is just five years. So, no, not based on that email. Despite the Biden pardon, states like Florida -- through the work of Attorney General James Uthmeier -- have subpoenaed Fauci over his diary entries released by Paul. "Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if Fauci personally profited off of the 'guidance' he issued, that very well could have broken Florida law," Uthmeier said. Hans Mahncke
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Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:34 PM (g47mK) 2
fauci will remain safe
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 02:35 PM (CWTWj) 3
dos
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 02:35 PM (u82oZ) 4
The best we can hope for is a stalinesque stroke.
Posted by: Turn 2 at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (QFchU) 5
All is fine. Everything's looking up!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (hUS/0) 6
He was pardoned for all his past misdeeds. Save America Act is more important than stale emails for which he was already pardoned.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (g47mK) 7
But Trump's bookkeeper--without his knowledge or direction--mislabeled some entries on the internal ledger!!!!
34 felonies, rheeeeee!!! Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (3cUTc) 8
This malignant little gnome is unlikely to face justice on this earth.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (zjgNU) 9
even with statute of limitations, they will find that deleting emails is not criminal in itself
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (g47mK) 10
Numpty.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (E4rtv) 11
He's a little old for dwarf bowling, but maybe an exception can be made.
Posted by: Perfect Game at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (JM9I6) 12
Hell, Hillary, as SoS, just did her e-mails on an unsecured server. So they couldn't be read.
But Comey said he couldn't prove intent to deceive so no one could reasonably prosecute. Makes me puke, still. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (i2VYc) 13
"In another email about a "doomsday virus," Dr. Cliff Lane was instructed to "please delete this email and then delete from the deleted file.""
Gee, wonder what would happen to small fry (postdocs) like myself if we used emails to direct our peers and subordinates to delete emails and "delete from the deleted file" data that we didn't want others to see. Especially now since there's a large push to digitize everything. Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (Rl7KJ) 14
Hang them all.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv) 15
This e-mail will self-destruct in five seconds. Unless you save it for future blackmail.
Posted by: Mission Impossible at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Q+gd/) 16
I don't know if it would apply in this case, but there are scenarios where the statute of limitations can be tolled for fraudulent concealment.
Posted by: There are some who call me ... Tim at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (UMEOI) 17
Speaking of deletions:
Abdul El-Sayed's deleted 2 tweets regarding 9/11 per CBS https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/2094455890434826279 Hmmm, wonder why? Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Rl7KJ) 18
Chasing Fauci, who knows so much that he earned more money than any other government employee, and who is protected by many, many people, seems like a dead end.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (g47mK) 19
I see that the "Nothing Will Happen" guy is going to be busy today in mortal combat in the Comment Thunderdome with that "And So it Begins" dude...
Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (NTVPI) 20
Hopefully Fauci will end up in an old folk's home being beaten by a large breasted Negress when she changes his diaper 2 or 3 times a day.
Posted by: Fate at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (+iYtA) 21
Progtards don’t care.
The medical “professionals” I work with blow all this off and say, “mistakes were made. Fauci saved millions of lives at The end of the day. He had to inflate the danger to make people pay attention and take Covid seriously.” They don’t care Fauci lied. Over and over and over again. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (W2Pud) 22
I'm a little surprised Fauci hasn't been eliminated yet.
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Q+gd/) 23
16 I don't know if it would apply in this case, but there are scenarios where the statute of limitations can be tolled for fraudulent concealment.
Posted by: There are some who call me ... Tim ======== Yep. Assholes like Fauci, like the fine folks at Enron before him, represent boundary cases. All were purposefully trying to skirt and get around specific federal law provisions and then destroy evidence in order to conceal their activity so they could not be charged. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (E4rtv) 24
I'm certain our judiciary will keep Fauci safe from any repercussions.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (2Cry5) 25
I see that the "Nothing Will Happen" guy is going to be busy today in mortal combat in the Comment Thunderdome with that "And So it Begins" dude...
Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (NTVPI) ---- Through an unholy merger the end result will be "And So It Will Happen" guy and "Nothing Begins" guy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (FZ29D) 26
Put him on trial.
Make a court say "sure he's guilty but the Democrats pardoned him so you gotta let him go" Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm) 27
Nevada secretary of state warns that Republicans are trying to keep non-Americans from voting in American elections 😱
- Bastards! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (bt9Ux) 28
Innocent people always ask that proof of wrong doing be destroyed. Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (OkYzo) 29
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday his department is shutting down 110-plus driving schools that gave licenses to drivers who failed English language proficiency (ELP) tests. In a release, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said it is shutting down the schools after they issued driver’s licenses to more than 5,000 individuals who failed ELP exams. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (Cqx++) 30
Of course chasing Fauci is a dead end. Chasing anyone in the ruling class is a dead end. They're all above the law - it's the only reason this country still has for existing.
But beating the drum on his story (or anyone else's) helps to further erode the already severely damaged public confidence in these rotted edifices, and hastens the day when people finally kick the structure over. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2) 31
He just absolutely had to lie about everything to get everyone to do the "right thing".
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (hUS/0) 32
I'm a little surprised Fauci hasn't been eliminated yet.
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Q+gd/) Well, if you're suffering back up from Fauci constipation - a little explosive elimination lettuce from Taco Bell might be the solution... Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (NTVPI) 33
""Nothing Will Happen" guy is going to be busy today"
Put me down as the "I have no frickin idea WTF will happen next" guy. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (Jr5Lq) 34
The drug companies have his back. He's a made man. He's a member of a crew. Nobody fucks with Big Tony.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (nlLAo) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (bt9Ux) 36
Nevada secretary of state warns that Republicans are trying to keep non-Americans from voting in American elections
I see this discussion repeated over and over again in various forums: Lefties: Trump can't send ICE to election facilities that is intimidation!!! Non-lefties: Why would a citizen by intimidated by ICE? And why would an illegal be in an election facility anyway? Lefties: See this will stop people from voting! Non-lefties: Will stop which people from voting? Lefties: People that will vote for progressive non-fascist candidates! Non-lefties: Like...illegals? Lefties: That's racist! Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: blaster at August 31, 2026 02:47 PM (xhfG9) 38
Fauci at age 6 = Kieran Cullkin character in "Home Alone".
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:47 PM (dIske) 39
35 Something must be done!
Milwaukee strip club shuts doors because downtown is too violent Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (bt9Ux) The Badda-Bing in Jorsey seems like a more welcoming environment now. Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:48 PM (Rl7KJ) 40
21 Progtards don’t care.
The medical “professionals” I work with blow all this off and say, “mistakes were made. Fauci saved millions of lives at The end of the day. He had to inflate the danger to make people pay attention and take Covid seriously.” They don’t care Fauci lied. Over and over and over again. Posted by: nurse ratched -------- I don't think those idiots trying to minimize what happened with Covid realize how many ordinary people have become radicalized by what the sheeple in the med community did. People lost loved ones due to lies, people had loved ones die alone, people saw dancing nurses and other kabuki bullshit while losing their jobs because they did not want the vaxx. The insider Big Pharma dealing, the slow and burning release of the lies of the Public Health Establishment. Lot of sullen anger out there and each new revelation is like a red hot poker in those people's asses that were lied too, maltreated, lost jobs, and often their health by listening to 'professionals'. Like academia did with slow poison over 50 years, Big Med decided to dump all their credibility in a couple of years at once. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv) 41
It proves once and for all that Fauci himself unleashed the Proximal Origin fraudsters on the intelligence community.
_________ Then at that WH press conference, he acts like he doesn't even know the names of the authors of this totally independent paper that he had nothing to do with. Said something like "I don't have their names now." Might have even done the glasses sucking move while he was saying it. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (XvL8K) 42
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>>This sounds serious! That means there will be consequences, right? The consequences will be that he will continue to sip Pina Coladas on a beach in Tahiti, comparing notes with Lois Lerner, and they will laugh and laugh, while cashing their taxpayer funded retirement checks. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (fqnOq) 43
Could there be a way to prosecute Fauci for violating the Federal Records Act?
------- There are about 976,000 federal, state, and local laws. (at a guess) The problem is not a dearth of laws, nor guilty parties. There is " a way" but it hasn't been used for purpose since I don't know when. Maybe some of the Soviet spies in the 1940s. A few of the 60 anarchists and bomb throwers. Then the latter took over, and now they seem to run everything, or at least conveniently untouchable. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 02:50 PM (n1B4F) 44
I don't think he understands how emails are tracked from sender to recipient.
Posted by: Huxley Orwell at August 31, 2026 02:51 PM (j3Fsw) 45
The consequences will be that he will continue to sip Pina Coladas on a beach in Tahiti, comparing notes with Lois Lerner, and they will laugh and laugh, while cashing their taxpayer funded retirement checks.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (fqnOq) Well, for a season, then... "But God said unto him, ‘Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" (Luke 12:20). Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:51 PM (Rl7KJ) 46
There is no lack of ways to prosecute Fauci but there is a lack of will.
The GOPe doesn't want to and the MAGA set are afraid the Dems will prosecute them for going after Fauci Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm) 47
Never see a day in jail, let alone prison. But if his reputation and fan base can be destroyed, its enough for this life. IF we can just get the sycophantic worshipers who bought Fauci tree ornaments, shirts, hats, and votive candles to turn on him, my heart will warm just a little.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:52 PM (K32Fz) 48
"especially not a three-foot-seven malignant dwarf Bond villain"
Bond villains are very cool. Fauci is a fumbling homunculus with the emotional maturity of a star-struck tween writing in her diary that one of the guys in BTS looked at her during a concert. Know the difference! Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/) 49
24 I'm certain our judiciary will keep Fauci safe from any repercussions.
Posted by: Martini Farmer They may not be able to keep him safe from some state prosecutions--pardons don't cover that. My guess is IC is desperate not to have Fauci on trial because of all the unpleasant facts he can drop about gain of function and the intel community paying for that in foreign labs. That is why he got protected. And there is a nonzero possibility that the virus might have purposefully been dumped onto the world by Chicoms in conjunction with some in our IC that wanted Trump gone by any means, even killing millions world wide. Trillions were at stake and the WEF crowd is perfectly happy with millions of us dying if they can make a buck. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv) 50
Consequences would be so nice.
Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (286+n) 51
I'm a little surprised Fauci hasn't been eliminated yet.
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Q+gd/) ------ Why would he be? He's taking the rap for something much larger forces carried out (with his enthusiastic assistance). Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (eZQ1g) 52
Lot of sullen anger out there and each new revelation is like a red hot poker in those people's asses that were lied too, maltreated, lost jobs, and often their health by listening to 'professionals'.
Like academia did with slow poison over 50 years, Big Med decided to dump all their credibility in a couple of years at once. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv) And my PCP wonders why my BP is 20 points higher in the office than at home. He's knows why, and I know he knows. He's stopped pushing "all the shots" in order to conduct the yearly physical with out me striking out in rage ... Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (oCio0) 53
Fauci had to operate in secrecy because if his genius advice ever got out, The Right Wing and possibly also The Jews would get a hold of it and use it against him! He was doing it to keep all of us safe. Bless Fauci!
Posted by: Leftists, probably at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (oqH4h) 54
whig - "essential businesses" really, really torqued a lot of people off. It's a completely out of touch phrase.
Every business is "essential" from the standpoint it puts food on the table and pays the bills. It was obviously coined and deployed by the usual suspects who in all likelihood have never had a real job in their life, much less ran an actual business. Clown World. "The Business of Business is Business" could have been the American Motto at one time. They managed to kill the golden goose, that's for sure. Free enterprise, the rule of law, property rights, all that stuff was what made America so successful compared to nations that went before. And it wasn't even close. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 02:55 PM (n1B4F) 55
If I recall several states have announced an investigation of Fauci but none has done so yet.
And I look at this with what NYS did to Trump over a dispute in the value of a property put up as collateral... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm) 56
44 I don't think he understands how emails are tracked from sender to recipient.
Posted by: Huxley Orwell ======= Nor backup systems. I was very careful with my official email and very circumspect in whatever I said in them. And imagine if he was comfortable sharing illegal actions with his recipients to delete federal records, what might he do or say when he talks to them in private meetings. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:56 PM (E4rtv) 57
We could make him talk if we really wanted to.
Posted by: Sturdy Chair Bolted To The Floor at August 31, 2026 02:57 PM (7Q0e+) 58
>>>I did a quick search, and it appears that the statute of limitations for illegally deleting official federal records is just five years. So, no, not based on that email.
But the charge against Fauci wouldn't be the deletion of the email since he was asking someone else to delete it, but rather the conspiring with others to get the email deleted. Maybe a different statue of limitations? Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (8mulE) 59
This is similar to what happens in global warming.
Michael Mann sent 'Delete all e-mails re AR4? We are getting X & Y to do so as well.' Posted by: MikeN at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (EzRIp) 60
57 We could make him talk if we really wanted to.
Posted by: Sturdy Chair Bolted To The Floor at August 31, 2026 02:57 PM (7Q0e+) Word ... Posted by: Le Chiffre at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (oCio0) 61
54 whig - "essential businesses" really, really torqued a lot of people off. It's a completely out of touch phrase.
Every business is "essential" from the standpoint it puts food on the table and pays the bills. It was obviously coined and deployed by the usual suspects who in all likelihood have never had a real job in their life, much less ran an actual business. Clown World. "The Business of Business is Business" could have been the American Motto at one time. They managed to kill the golden goose, that's for sure. Free enterprise, the rule of law, property rights, all that stuff was what made America so successful compared to nations that went before. And it wasn't even close. Posted by: Common Tater I think the whole cabal that foisted and supported this fiasco are at risk. And frankly, it was and is Trump's largest policy failure as president and probably why he never talks much about it. I think he is a sadder and wiser man now but the human cost of the Covid years could not have been done without him giving way to Pence, Fauci, and Birx. He realized too late that he was sandbagged. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (E4rtv) 62
Midget Mengele never thought he'd be called on his bullshit. Total arrogance.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (hUS/0) 63
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V) 64
Firing squad is too good for Fauci.
Why have no other countries come a calling for this walking crime against humanity? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V) 65
62 Midget Mengele never thought he'd be called on his bullshit. Total arrogance.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (hUS/0) Midgit Mengele ... lol Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 03:00 PM (oCio0) 66
Word ...
Posted by: Le Chiffre at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (oCio0) This presumes his equipment down south still can feel something. Still, worth a try. Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 03:00 PM (Rl7KJ) 67
But the charge against Fauci wouldn't be the deletion of the email since he was asking someone else to delete it, but rather the conspiring with others to get the email deleted.
Maybe a different statue of limitations? Posted by: No Name Today ====== Conspiracy charges can get around the tolling (fancy word for time elapsed) because the stopwatch begins when the conspiracy is uncovered. Difficult and not well studied area of the law. The question is whether a plenary pardon would have undercut any subsequent charges based on that. I think that would be an open legal question without resorting to my now non existent Lexis and Westlaw accounts. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:01 PM (E4rtv) 68
A million sand fleas + Fauci, make it so.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:01 PM (EaLE4) 69
I'd prefer, pour encourage les autres, for Mengele-Pauci to swing, or at least live out his days in prison.
But, even if that is not possible thanks to autopen, I am glad his reputation is going to be shattered by the release of these papers of his and, thanks to these releases, even the idiot left is being educated. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 03:03 PM (BVbFo) 70
Michael Mann sent 'Delete all e-mails re AR4? We are getting X & Y to do so as well.'
Posted by: MikeN ======== Depends on whether he was required to keep those emails as he was not a federal employee. So it would have been a PA state matter and whatever their records retention would be. Dunno about the nexis though between accepting federal grants and being an employee of PA State at the time. Can't recall whether accepting a federal grant would also then require following Federal laws on document retention. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv) 71
Willowed from previous thread.
344 It’s a war. We just don’t know we’re in it. But islam sure does. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 02:50 PM (5/BcT) Deepstate will fall to socio/commies, and those will fall to islam. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (5/BcT) 72
Republican linguini will not take care of the fauch but the deep state will. The fauch is a liability, jus' sayin'.
Posted by: kingsman at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (ehY6c) 73
Fauci knew and was up to his ears in gain of function. It was being done in a Level 2 lab and escaped either intentionally or accidentally. Every jurisdiction wherein someone died from COVID could prosecute him for Criminally Negligent Homicide. A presidential pardon doesn't help at state level IMHO
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (j/Ml9) 74
The overriding problem we have is that we have an "elite" class that is made up of nepos and con artists and those who really belong in fulltime psychiatric care instead of actual achievers and leaders. They are also fully aware of that, just like Hollywood actors who know there are 100s of people who could replace them at any moment. They DO NOT want to give up their incredible perks and lifestyle. So every moment and idea of this crew is to defend and guard against outsiders taking them away. They would gladly sacrifice anyone who isn't them to do that. So the behavior of Fauci, WEC types, or the vast majority of pols and corporate execs doesn't surprise me one bit.
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (3/XaG) 75
I think Fauci's relationship with the CIA is what's going to keep him safe. There's no way the CIA will allow any of their work with him to be fully exposed.
Otherwise, I think Fauci might have a case of sudden death. There may be hope yet.... Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 03:05 PM (2Cry5) 76
Sinister forces are why this little rat-fuck is still walking free.
The fact is, there are many billionaires that want you dead. It's not that difficult to see. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 03:05 PM (nlLAo) 77
And Biden pardoned this asshole because they all knew it had to be covered up.
Can’t have Trump coming in and Rand Paul making Fauci his mission with a FBI & DOJ that isn’t corrupted by Dem operatives. The truth would’ve come out in open court, if Fauci didn’t take a plea deal to avoid that, and the media would not be able to deny the evidence we are seeing now. Instead they just go along, pretending nothing is happening, because the Bureaucrats, Dems, and the Media all got together in 2020 and made it happen and then made it worse. The hubris of the international left in the name of “The Science” killed millions of people and they covered it all up so they won’t get the blame due them for their arrogance, partisanship, incompetence and indifference while wearing a Science skinsuit.. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:06 PM (6ydKt) 78
But, even if that is not possible thanks to autopen, I am glad his reputation is going to be shattered by the release of these papers of his and, thanks to these releases, even the idiot left is being educated.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 03:03 PM (BVbFo) ------ If torturing beagles didn't tarnish his reputation with the left, nothing will. Everyone who would be made to think that Fauci is an evil bastard by these emails already thinks that, and none of the retards on the left that would crawl over broken glass to sniff his taint will have their minds changed by any of this. Posted by: ballistic at August 31, 2026 03:06 PM (oqH4h) 79
Did Midget Mengele open for Thousand Millimeter Reich in Berlin?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:06 PM (EaLE4) 80
Consequences would be so nice.
Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (286+n) So would a pony that shits gold. There will be no consequences for any of these monsters, until there are, and those will come all at once - and that won't be nice. That's gonna be a whole thing. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:07 PM (BI5O2) Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2026 03:09 PM (vbXSk) 82
68 A million sand fleas + Fauci, make it so.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:01 PM (EaLE4) The problem, of course, is that the sand fleas would not harm him out of professional courtesy and a lack of motivation to harm one of their own. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:09 PM (dEHLq) 83
I declare myself First Runner-Up to the Nothing Will Happen guy.
If for any reason the Nothing Will Happen guy is unable to fulfill his duties, I stand ready to carry on in the proudest traditions of Nothing Happening. Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 03:09 PM (ZxPkt) 84
The lackey representatives of the masses cannot begin to contemplate the service that we are actually doing them, thus for the good of SCIENCE, I beseech you to delete this email once you have read it!
Posted by: Dr. Tony Fraudci at August 31, 2026 03:10 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 03:10 PM (RHGPo) 86
If torturing beagles didn't tarnish his reputation with the left, nothing will. Everyone who would be made to think that Fauci is an evil bastard by these emails already thinks that, and none of the retards on the left that would crawl over broken glass to sniff his taint will have their minds changed by any of this.
Posted by: ballistic ======= And how many people in the general public actually know that? Our media practices omerta for made guys like Fauci and a discouraging word to the plebes is never heard. Fewer people, even here mention the horrible AIDS and deadly trial drugs used on orphans that killed enough of them to get a monument to them in NY State. This guy has been causing people and animals to suffer for decades. A true psychopath. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv) 87
Sorry I'm late. I've been really busy. Lots of stuff not happening.
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (MWfyi) 88
Thanks for covering me, Don!
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (MWfyi) 89
Every year, I had to repeat a class that explained the penalties for deleting anything that might be a government record. It defined what constituted an official government record, and how they must be preserved, else I went to jail and was fined punitively.
That little fucker knew it, too, and did it anyway. Damn that little shit to hell. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (dEHLq) 90
A "pony that shits gold" is not a reasonable expectation.
It is not unreasonable to expect a bunch of goddamned crooks and psychopaths be removed from the levers of government power. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (n1B4F) 91
I’m confused… I thought that even if I delete an email I receive that a copy of it is still saved on the email server used to deliver it and that saved copy can retrieved. So deleting an email really doesn’t accomplish anything
Don’t put anything in an email you don’t want the whole world to (potentially) read Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (sBAAu) Posted by: Polka will never die at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (rPBx2) 93
74 The overriding problem we have is that we have an "elite" class that is made up of nepos and con artists and those who really belong in fulltime psychiatric care instead of actual achievers and leaders. They are also fully aware of that, just like Hollywood actors who know there are 100s of people who could replace them at any moment. They DO NOT want to give up their incredible perks and lifestyle. So every moment and idea of this crew is to defend and guard against outsiders taking them away. They would gladly sacrifice anyone who isn't them to do that. So the behavior of Fauci, WEC types, or the vast majority of pols and corporate execs doesn't surprise me one bit.
Posted by: Azjaeger ===== As usual, your observation nailed it. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (E4rtv) 94
hans deserves a medal
i used to listen to fool nelson’s twitter spaces with him and all the other greats from the sleuths corner and they were awesome Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (WEIfr) 95
@55
>>And I look at this with what NYS did to Trump over a dispute in the value of a property put up as collateral.. There was no dispute over the value of properties, LaTit James made up fraud charges out of whole cloth. Deutsche Bank even testified in Trumps behalf basically saying, we have no idea what this bitch is even talking about, we'd do future business with Trump in a New York Minute. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (fqnOq) 96
This guy has been causing people and animals to suffer for decades. A true psychopath.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv) A lot of lefties know and don't care. They kill babies for the crime of being unwanted. Puppies for #Science ain't gonna move their needle. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (eZQ1g) 97
It was a late lunch.
Posted by: The REAL Guy Who Says Nothing Will Happen at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (Fi81e) 98
85 Reports:
BREAKING: Trump WIPES Out IRGC Commanders - Iran Launch Missiles At Arabs Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 03:10 PM (RHGPo) This would solve a lot of problems. Hope it’s true. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (6ydKt) 99
This guy has been causing people and animals to suffer for decades. A true psychopath.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv) Just looking at his pinched little face or hearing his whiny voice is torture enough. Dude is a fucking murderer and should be ended, legally. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (dEHLq) 100
I AM The REAL Guy Who Says Nothing Will Happen !
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 03:15 PM (ZxPkt) 101
Just looking at his pinched little face or hearing his whiny voice is torture enough. Dude is a fucking murderer and should be ended, legally.
Posted by: tcn in AK No argument here but I would include his enablers and the yes men that he had carry out his deeds. Tony was like a crime boss, he didn't get his hands dirty, he let those he gave grants or hired to do that. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv) 102
You're too tall to be the guy who says nothing will happen.
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 03:16 PM (Q+gd/) 103
100 I AM The REAL Guy Who Says Nothing Will Happen !
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 03:15 PM (ZxPkt) Looks like What's My Line is making a comeback at the AoSHQ. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:16 PM (dEHLq) 104
Heard one IIRG commander got vaporized during a live broadcast.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (EaLE4) 105
87 Ha!
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: burp at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (+yda9) 107
More fun from X
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Mark under what a shame.
Post See new posts Conversation Insider Wire @InsiderWire #BREAKING: Trump admin shuts down 270 fraudulent CDL schools licensing illegals. 10:59 AM · Aug 31, 2026 · 164.2K Views Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv) 109
He testified that he didn't delete emails. He did not testify that he never told anyone else to delete emails.
Posted by: Tom Locker at August 31, 2026 03:19 PM (RwkpB) 110
Heard one IIRG commander got vaporized during a live broadcast.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (EaLE4) during his MagBar Amrika, MagBar Israel rant ! Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:20 PM (g47mK) 111
He was pardoned for all his past misdeeds. Save America Act is more important than stale emails for which he was already pardoned.
-- By all accounts, we know he'll never face any kind of justice for his past deeds...and we'll never get the SAVE Act passed with this Senate full of serpents and spineless quislings. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 03:20 PM (qBdHI) 112
Speaking of Iran, it sounds like at least one of our shitstain flag officers leaked non-concurring strategy opinions overruled by Hegseth to their shitstain media pals who publish this as if it's something shocking.
Tipping off our enemies about our general staff briefings, to get a measly news item for Democrats to use for campaign season... that's the Pentagon we know and love! Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (BI5O2) 113
91 I’m confused… I thought that even if I delete an email I receive that a copy of it is still saved on the email server used to deliver it and that saved copy can retrieved. So deleting an email really doesn’t accomplish anything
Don’t put anything in an email you don’t want the whole world to (potentially) read Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (sBAAu) Same with text messages. My policy is say it forget it, write it regret it. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (i9SW2) 114
Trump should release like $5 million to the ICC to investigate Fauci's crimes against humanity.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (EaLE4) 115
By all accounts, we know he'll never face any kind of justice for his past deeds...and we'll never get the SAVE Act passed with this Senate full of serpents and spineless quislings.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 03:20 PM (qBdHI) we'll know in #twoMonths Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (g47mK) 116
That guy who says nothing will happen is overrated.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ) 117
"I thought that even if I delete an email I receive that a copy of it is still saved"
NSA Bob prolly has every keystroke and mouse gesture you've ever pumped into the internet. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 03:23 PM (Jr5Lq) 118
What little shocks me still about this isn't that he's a malicious self-worshipping twat. It's that literally you could fill out a bingo card of him hitting every single trope there is! If you tried to present someone this over-the-top in fiction, people would call it unbelievable!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 03:24 PM (aJQbY) 119
From Enron to Mortgage Backed Securities to Obamacare to Woke to TDS to COVID to the 2020 election, it’s obvious for awhile we’re being ruled over mostly by greedy idiots & psychos.
Our Elites are not, and probably never have been for two centuries, worthy of the name. They all despise Trump, and his supporters, for pointing this out to them early and often. I think most of the blame falls on education from K - College, but stupidity at the top seems to be a universal feature of every region and era. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:26 PM (6ydKt) 120
Hi! Just got home, have to catch up with the world. Dr. Fauci is an arrogant, tiny, tiny man, isn’t he?
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:26 PM (ZdaMQ) 121
It is not unreasonable to expect a bunch of goddamned crooks and psychopaths be removed from the levers of government power.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (n1B4F) Morally? Perfectly reasonable. In practical terms? It’s unreasonable. Some scientist may conceivably invent a gold-shitting pony. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:26 PM (BI5O2) 122
At least he cured the boil on Streisand's ass.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:28 PM (UjdFS) 123
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 03:28 PM (V362x) 124
The states: Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut 🔥
good bc PA is FILTHY Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (j+aD2) 125
In the movie Twins, should cast Fauci instead of DeVito.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (EaLE4) 126
If torturing beagles didn't tarnish his reputation with the left, nothing will.
Posted by: ballistic ======= And how many people in the general public actually know that? Our media practices omerta for made guys like Fauci and a discouraging word to the plebes is never heard. Fewer people, even here mention the horrible AIDS and deadly trial drugs used on orphans that killed enough of them to get a monument to them in NY State. This guy has been causing people and animals to suffer for decades. A true psychopath. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv) ______ Most lefties and commies wouldn't care even if they did know. The "wrong" kind of people were killed in those AIDS tests. Mostly low-class orphans and nobodies that were easily expendable in the quest to find a way for homosexuals to continue their insanely risky sex conduct. Kinda like the old Tuskegee experiments. Sure, modern race pimps have tried to turn them into a white supremacy issue, but the reality is the experiments were conducted by blacks. Nobody cared about a bunch of dirt-poor black sharecroppers. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/) 127
Even if Jupiter us harmless I’m keeping an eye on that sneaky little bastard Europa.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt) 128
Same with text messages. My policy is say it forget it, write it regret it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM "Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can wink." Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 03:31 PM (bFu5X) 129
A million sand fleas + Fauci, make it so.
Posted by: Anna Puma ...... Stake him to a beach in Costa Rica. Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS) 130
Shocking, shocking, I tell you...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 03:35 PM (XeU6L) 131
129 A million sand fleas + Fauci, make it so.
Posted by: Anna Puma ...... Stake him to a beach in Costa Rica. Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS) — I think North Sentinel Island would work better. The natives there would kill him before the sun set. With any luck, they’d tie him to a spit, light him up, and have a Fauci-Q. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt) 132
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 03:31 PM (bFu5X)
Or as a friend of mine who I no longer associate with used to say "Don't say shit about shit to anyone ever" Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:38 PM (eZQ1g) 133
I still think the timing of the 2020 ammo shortage is mighty suspicious.
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (Q+gd/) 134
"Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can wink." Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 03:31 PM (bFu5X) I like that one. When my friends get in fights with their other friend I don't know well and they screenshot the text exchange to get my opinion, that's all it took for me to realize the say it forget it and write it regret it line. The ladies love sharing screenshots. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (i9SW2) 135
"I knew nothing of these experiments" -- From 'Stuff that Josef Mengele Said at the Nuremberg Trials" Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (XeU6L) 136
nood
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (Jr5Lq) 137
Speaking of ponies that shit gold, I've been hearing about container-portable micro reactors since I was a kid. We're almost there.
A company called Radiant has shipped their prototype 1MW helium-cooled, TRISO-fueled micro reactor from California to INL/Battelle (on a semi!) as a PoC... its review process at INL has been fast-tracked and is expected to be approved with 8-10mos. They have selected the old K-25 site in Oak Ridge as the production facility, due to its proximity to X-Energy's TRISO-X fuel production plant, and plan to build one reactor per week there, once they have commercial approval. The first 15 have been pre-ordered by the Army for Ft. Benning. Alongside the salt-cooled modular reactors being developed there by Kairos, the face of energy is about to change. It really is just over the horizon, now. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:41 PM (BI5O2) Posted by: A Blind Horse at August 31, 2026 03:41 PM (XeU6L) 139
If you tried to present someone this over-the-top in fiction, people would call it unbelievable!
One of the toughest parts of writing or doing other art is that real life contains stuff nobody would believe if you presented it to them as your creation. "Nobody has eyes that look like that, you suck as an artist!" (show a picture of Jack Elam). Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (K32Fz) 140
I posted up thread that Fauci's accomplices in the CIA are his real threat. They will not stand by if he begins to talk about his relationship with the Agency, specifically who he conned or worked with. Putting pressure on Fauci, or the CIA to come clean about their relationship is likely not going to end well for the doctor.
If Rand Paul has any info on the CIA's involvement, he needs to release it. That would make Fauci's position a bit more tenuous. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (2Cry5) 141
If Rand Paul has any info on the CIA's involvement, he needs to release it.
He'll get to it after Massie reads his list of names Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (K32Fz) Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (sGtp+) 143
Speaking of Iran, it sounds like at least one of our shitstain flag officers leaked non-concurring strategy opinions overruled by Hegseth to their shitstain media pals who publish this as if it's something shocking. Tipping off our enemies about our general staff briefings, to get a measly news item for Democrats to use for campaign season... that's the Pentagon we know and love! Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (BI5O2) One of the really bad legacies in US military history is how often flag officers engage in gross insubordination against their superiors and especially against the civilian authority. Starting right at the beginning with Gates and the Conway Cabal, McClellan and Ripley in the Civil War (Ripley was the shit head who disobeyed Lincoln's order to buy Spencer Rifles), McArthur during WWII and Korea, etc. Even McCrystal criticizing Chocolate Fonzie during the GWOT. If he felt that strongly about Obama being a shit head, he should have resigned his commission first, rather than commit clear violations of UCMJ. Put a few generals up against the wall and the problem solves itself. To quote Stalin "No man, no problem." Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (y9nCu) 144
Fauci was always praised by Trump
Trump was in charge not Fauci Posted by: Paul at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (gNnNz) Grifter Narcissist Milo Yiannopolis Deported by Homeland Security for Illegally Overstaying His VisaHe's to be deported. Good. Not only is he a self-promoting grifter who tried to set Trump up by inviting the Nazi Nick Fuentes to a dinner with Trump, he's also a loud and proud degenerate. And frankly, this is good counterpoint for when the left claims Trump is only deporting Black and Brown Folx.Yiannopolis is a loud, fake grifter advocate of deporting illegals. He champions whatever people will pay him money to champion. Currently he's working to advance the "political" interests of mentally-ill moron Kanye West. Good riddance. International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country. Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this," the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport." Reports indicated that Yiannopoulos was in New Orleans ahead of a concert by the formerly known as Kanye West. Yiannopoulos has done work for the political and corporate ambitions of West, who's now known as Ye. ... He has also been a supporter of ICE's immigration enforcement efforts in the past. "California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally," he posted on social media in June 2025.He has now been deported back to the UK. British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the United States after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and one time political aide to rapper Kanye West, was deported on Friday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Yiannopoulos, "an illegal alien from the United Kingdom" had been sent "back to his home country", a DHS spokesperson said in a statement given to the BBC.A Biden judge just ruled that the US cannot deport foreigners who advocate for Islamism. Which in turn justifies terrorism and murder against Americans. @EricLDaugh 🚨 UPDATE: ONE BIDEN JUDGE just stepped in and ruled AGAINST Sec. Marco Rubio having noncitizen students deported if they advocate for Islamism and other anti-American ideology Judge Noël Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
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Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (UjdFS) 2
Judges.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e) 3
If he had self-deported using one simple app, he would have gotten $3,000 and a chance to re-enter the country.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (2GVsD) 4
FIRST CONTENT IS THE BESTEST CONTENT
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (iFTx/) 5
Whatever will we do without Milo?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:25 PM (Gqar8) 6
Slap a hot iron to it.
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 01:25 PM (2Ez/1) 7
Ace, stop flapping!!!
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:25 PM (Gqar8) 8
Please amuse yourselves and provide content in the comments more than usual.
= This will end in fire Posted by: Some Technomancer at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (vSvIl) 9
Milo used to have clever and useful things to say but that's been years now and over time he's gotten increasingly bizarre and irrational. I don't know if its the AZT or recreational drugs or he's always been crazy but he's broken.
And I never have ever liked a super flamboyant homosexual being the voice of conservatism even when he did it well. Part of conservatism is SOCIAL and without that part, the other always inevitably corrupts and fails. For a while at least he claimed he was no longer a homo, now I have no idea what he is saying. All I know is that his Visa expired and he has to go. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz) 10
FUCK THE FUCKING FAGGOT POP AP ADS
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (r4LUb) 11
The Dublin mosque is asking for a workplace accident.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (2GVsD) 12
I've got a bad rotator cuff strain from sleeping wrong a week ago.
I'm sorry but this is just sad. Do you even lift, bro? Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (wfgYt) Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (sFNX2) 14
Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury.
---- Now I'm picturing an Ewok running around his back porch at night, flapping his arms and going, "CAW! CAW!" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (FZ29D) 15
Which is harder smuggle-in, 1,000 military-age males or one shipping container filled with rifles and ammunition?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (8cylk) 16
If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.
= Presumably this applies to Milo as an object lesson, yes? Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (vSvIl) 17
10 FUCK THE FUCKING FAGGOT POP AP ADS
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (r4LUb) You seem upset. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (Gqar8) 18
BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations
Just do it anyway. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (hUS/0) 19
I completely adore the way they used the announcement to remind everyone that they can get paid to self-deport so they don't have to be taken into custody.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (lFFaq) 20
I just took a dump on that judges Mercedes.
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (vbdXu) 21
I get that from time to time Ace - I used various pillows to set the arm in position and keep from rolling over, especially when I had a broken arm some years back.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (uhVAy) 22
And no, the 1st amendment does not protect people from deportation if there is cause. If you are not a citizen, you are a guest. The executive department does not need special permission to exile you.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (K32Fz) 23
Nevermind his visa he overstayed the alphabet.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (eZQ1g) 24
If he had self-deported using one simple app, he would have gotten $3,000 and a chance to re-enter the country.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM Yeah, the lifetime ban is much worse than the deportation. No more vacations in Miami for Milo. Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (wfgYt) 25
Was that a First, for Noel?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (Gqar8) 26
Noel Wise needs to have a government paid vacation to Gaza.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (2GVsD) 27
That "woman" judge looks like a trans Ron Howard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (1z8ji) 28
Milo used to have clever and useful things to say but that's been years now...
IIRC, he was the only gay person willing to admit that underage grooming was real. Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (vTZFs) 29
I am so old I remember when we were given permission to approve of Milo for saying the right things, before we were given permission to agree with the Left that he was the sort of people who should be cancelled for not saying only the right things.
But here we are, and now we get to beat on Milo in concert with the Progressive Left. Yay, us. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (rbvCR) 30
BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations
Just do it anyway. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (hUS/0) Use that as a counter to deport all the other ones. By restricting it just to the terrorists, she's sanctioning everyone else being deported. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (uhVAy) 31
I'm sorry but this is just sad. Do you even lift, bro?
You must be young, heh Nick DiPaolo has a bit where he talks about how he threw out his back flipping off his wife. As we age, things just stop working well. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (K32Fz) 32
These fucking assclown in robe "judges" must be reined in. They have done profound damage to this nation over and over, and over, for decades now. Considerable blame is due to Congress, who first confirmed said assclowns in the first place, and then predictably refuse to impeach and convict, and instead act like spectators to the whole sordid affair.
It's all fake and gay at this point. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (n1B4F) 33
It's surprising how far this clown has fallen. Not long ago, he was a very well-known and influential political figure. I never trusted the guy -- I don't trust any of these guys -- but a lot of people on our side liked a lot of what he said.
Now he's ... some rando getting deported. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/) 34
Was Ace flapping his arms to impress the crows?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (2ocoG) 35
IIRC, he was the only gay person willing to admit that underage grooming was real.
At least seriously. George "oh my" Takei admitted it but he framed it as a joke. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (K32Fz) 36
>>This is going to be a slow day for me. I've got a bad rotator cuff strain from sleeping wrong a week ago. Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury.
Are you sure it isn't from you giving Reach-a-Rounds on Fire Island all weekend? Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (Shi2G) 37
Have CBP check passports coming AND going to catch visa overstays. This is why they check your passport when you are leaving the Schengen Zone, Australia, Japan, the ROK, etc.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (WB/3O) 38
FUCK THE FUCKING FAGGOT POP AP ADS
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats Sounds like somebody needs a festive little hat. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ) 39
Ouch. The pic just loaded up. I wouldn't trust that thing just lookin' at her. Jeeze Louise.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (n1B4F) 40
Advertising Nude Milo in the last thread and then having nothing of the sort is false advertising. You'll hear from my big gay lawyer
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (j/Ml9) 41
The moment Trump ever openly defies a court order they will jump on him for contempt. It will fill the Enemedia with ammo against him for months, or more.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (Gqar8) 42
BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations
Just do it anyway. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (hUS/0) And send her with them. Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (vSvIl) 43
These fucking assclown in robe "judges" must be reined in. They have done profound damage to this nation over and over, and over, for decades now.
For all the wisdom beyond their age that the founding fathers showed in concern over abuse of power, government being a consuming fire, and so on... they seriously blew it on judges. Not enough checks and balances, not enough controls. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (K32Fz) 44
The Dublin mosque is asking for a workplace accident.
I was sort of hoping it would turn into one of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Award videos. Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (vTZFs) 45
Sounds like somebody needs a festive little hat.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ) I hear synagogues stockpile those. Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (88C+u) 46
threw out his back flipping off his wife
_-_ That's the way it happens - do heavy work all weekend (or all week if your collar is blue), then pick up a pencil off of the floor the next day and BAM! your back is messed-up good. Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (8cylk) Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Cuisine Critic . . . at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (3ZUWJ) 48
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (ccf/V) 49
10 FUCK THE FUCKING FAGGOT POP AP ADS
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (r4LUb) FUCK YOU YOU FUCKIN FUCK Posted by: Random t-shirt at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (WB/3O) 50
This guy was immediately deported. Immediately. What, no NGO-funded leftwing lawyer showed up to take his case, like they do for every other scab and criminal scumbag facing deportation?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/) 51
ONE BIDEN JUDGE just stepped in and ruled AGAINST Sec. Marco Rubio having noncitizen students deported if they advocate for Islamism and other anti-American ideology
Congrats on making the State Department revoke visas for all foreign students regardless of religion. You sure showed Rubio who's boss. *sarcastic slow clap* Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (vJrRc) 52
is this the case those idiots at FIRE were crowing about? (on previous topic!)
so free speech! and yet so quiet when actual people on the Right have their speech pulverized Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (j+aD2) Posted by: RI Red at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (rYvai) 54
Grifter Narcissist Milo Yiannopolis Deported by Homeland Security for Illegally Overstaying His Visa
Frilly homos do frilly homo things, get noticed......sometimes you don't want to be noticed. Silly fag...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (ccf/V) 55
Off sock
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (j/Ml9) 56
I thought Milo said he had found religion and was giving up teh ghey.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ) 57
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' ~ Steven Wright Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1) 58
Flapping your arms?
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays? Posted by: Bosk at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (VMFAF) 59
50 This guy was immediately deported. Immediately. What, no NGO-funded leftwing lawyer showed up to take his case, like they do for every other scab and criminal scumbag facing deportation?
I mean ... I laughed, I admit it Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (j+aD2) 60
That's the way it happens - do heavy work all weekend (or all week if your collar is blue), then pick up a pencil off of the floor the next day and BAM! your back is messed-up good.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (8cylk) Pounded into my head since I was 20 working in manual labor. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (WB/3O) 61
Honestly... I'm getting more than a bit fed up with the judiciary in this country. I dislike the "hands off" approach the administration is using. Letting things sort themselves out though endless litigation isn't winning in my opinion.
The judiciary is clearly a tool of the left. They're squarely aligned with the left's agenda, so we constantly get shit like this. It'll be weeks or months before it's sorted out. It shouldn't be like that. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (2Cry5) 62
That picture of Neol Wise, Chat Music would be singing about her eating a banana sideways.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (NnhvP) 64
These fucking assclown in robe "judges" must be reined in. They have done profound damage to this nation over and over, and over, for decades now. Considerable blame is due to Congress, who first confirmed said assclowns in the first place, and then predictably refuse to impeach and convict, and instead act like spectators to the whole sordid affair.
It's all fake and gay at this point. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (n1B4F) ---- To add insult to injury, how many of these judges are naturalized citizens, born elsewhere? They never grew up in America. They never fully integrated American values. Nor do they fully appreciate our legal system. Yet they keep getting placed into positions where they are able to subvert the intent of our laws to suit their own whims, rather than implement the law as written. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (FZ29D) 65
I was sort of hoping it would turn into one of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Award videos.
Its almost inevitable, isn't it? His last set had some truly gruesome mortar incidents. Launching, not hitting. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz) 66
One of these days we're simply going to have to contravene these judges, if we want to save our country. I suggest making a very public issue out of it in explaining the reasons to the American people.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (b4LBp) 67
Judge Wise would look fetching in a burkha
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (j/Ml9) 68
What, no NGO-funded leftwing lawyer showed up to take his case, like they do for every other scab and criminal scumbag facing deportation?
He said the quiet part out loud, that gays reproduce by molestation. The left REALLY can’t allow that to get out. Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (2ocoG) 69
And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV) 70
'Judge' Noël Wise … ? Really … ? ONE effing ADMINISTRATIVE judge? When are the 'pubs gonna learn to crack down on these assholes who think they have power/authority to make NATIONWIDE pronouncements when their charter is NOT nationwide … ? Can we not put their collective asses in jail for treason and/or subversion of our Constitution? If yes, why haven't we? If no, why not?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (ayRl+) 71
Well I guess those Irish will just have to go to those mosques with their own guns... oh, wait nevermind.
Not that they would if they could. They're all gay for Islam. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2) 72
Yiannopolis is a loud, fake grifter advocate of deporting illegals. He champions whatever people will pay him money to champion.
You just described a vast majority in the blogosphere, twatterverse (Xcrementverse?), TicTokverse, Instagramverse......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (ccf/V) 73
I thought Milo said he had found religion and was giving up teh ghey.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ) Meh. He's a grifter. Said the right things for a while, and took in some folks here. Maybe the musloids who run Britain now will throw him off a roof. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (1z8ji) 74
That picture of Neol Wise, Chat Music would be singing about her eating a banana sideways.
Yeah she doesn't look hideous to me, on the outside. I mean it will eventually show but for now she's okay. Foolish and wicked, but not ugly. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (K32Fz) 75
The left and some of the channels were somehow cheering this like our political world was somehow going to collapse. I'm pretty sure I saw this on both CNN (670,000 viewers) and MS Now (1.7 million viewers.)
But they also believe you can play Mr. Potato Head with your privates, so research and reality aren't their strong suits. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Sco7b) 76
"BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations" they are deported for breaking the conditions of their Visa application and stay..I hope Rubio shows the way and IGNORES this judicial criminality Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (g47mK) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK) 78
back flipping off his wife.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor I think I can identify the problem! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (NnhvP) --------- Failed to nail the dismount? Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (amcLV) 79
IIRC, he was the only gay person willing to admit that underage grooming was real.
Posted by: Oddbob Which was then spun - by the QUERTY crowd! - as him advocating for it. As if they weren't advocating for it themselves when the accusation couldn't be used to hurt someone at least nominally on the right. Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (vJrRc) 80
what is she gonna do, arrest Rubio ? HAHAHAHAH!!
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (g47mK) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (ebJJx) 82
While you were sleeping the Left turned executives into kings, legislators into pawns, and judges into lawmakers.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (eZQ1g) 83
These fucking assclown in robe "judges" must be reined in. They have done profound damage to this nation over and over, and over, for decades now.
------ Centuries. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (BI5O2) 84
18 BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations
Just do it anyway. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory My thoughts exactly. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (W2Pud) 85
77 like Steven Seagal running
He runs? I thought he more like waddled around these days... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK) Steven Sea Gal has the body of a god...Buddha... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK) 86
I was sort of hoping it would turn into one of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Award videos.
Its almost inevitable, isn't it? His last set had some truly gruesome mortar incidents. Launching, not hitting. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz) I knew of a war game designer who burned his thumbs partly off slipping when firing a mortar and putting them in the blast zone. Had a good career, bought one of his Civil War games at the Gettysburg 125 reenactment. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (uhVAy) 87
He said the quiet part out loud, that gays reproduce by molestation. The left REALLY can’t allow that to get out.
This bears repeating. Homosexuals REALLY like young boys, they like to use terms like "twink" and "femboi" but what they mean is "barely through puberty if that." Its not universal but its extremely common. Lesbians less so from what I have seen, but still a real thing. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (K32Fz) 88
This is going to be a slow day for me. I've got a bad rotator cuff strain from sleeping wrong a week ago. Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury. And I wind up getting little sleep because I keep waking up.
So expect posts to be brief and sporadic. Please amuse yourselves and provide content in the comments more than usual. Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:22 PM I really do pray for the trainwreck of a human being you appear to be, Ace. I really do..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V) 89
I am so old I remember when we were given permission to approve of Milo for saying the right things, before we were given permission to agree with the Left that he was the sort of people who should be cancelled for not saying only the right things.
But here we are, and now we get to beat on Milo in concert with the Progressive Left. Yay, us. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (rbvCR) Maybe don't pay attention to the people who ostensibly act as if it is their role to grant you permission to speak? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (qIGFJ) 90
A few years ago, then-Alameda County Superior Court judge Noel Wise gave me an epic order sustaining my demurrer to the 30+ bullshit affirmative defenses in an answer to a complaint I had filed. So I'm 1-0 in her court.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (Fv808) 91
I kind of enjoyed Milo, he was a sort of conservative version of owning the leftist squares.
He was among the first to be cancelled-cancelled, and seems to have lost touch with reality. Sad. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (pIwiO) 92
Is Segal still married to Kelly LeBrock? Talk about a smokeshow back in the day...
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (77rzZ) 93
If the sex crazed hippies like Gaza so much why don't they go there? Yeah, go be free in Gaza.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (wxsGM) 94
yeah ace how do you do that sleeping?!?!
diet stuff is fine but you need muscle and core work!!!! and don't do GLPs they remove what little muscle tone you have! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2) 95
Ace, this is most appropriate about Milo, from Ben Shapiro:
https://tinyurl.com/mrxk44hd Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (ebJJx) Saw you post this earlier. It would be funny and poignant were I to give a flying f*ck about either one of those 2 bloviating sacks of protoplasm....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V) 96
Note well, note very well:
The outfit suing Trump to give terrorist the right to come here and advocate for terrorism is Insty favorite FIRE. They believe it's free speech--and anyone who steps toe on US soil should have full Constitutional rights. Even (especially) those who explicitly advocate for the overthrow and destruction of America. I've already put them on my shitlist due to being behind the suits against Trump's tariffs. FIRE was all supposed to be the "conservative" alternative to the ACLU--turns out, they're just like the ACLU. Fuck FIRE. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 01:39 PM (3cUTc) 97
They sure fast tracked the Milo punt I think we all can agree on. Must have pissed off the wrong person.A lot.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:39 PM (Gqar8) 98
Ace, don't ever get rotator cuff surgery unless it's an absolute last resort. Very high failure rate.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K) Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (i2VYc) 100
Judge No�l Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment. UNBELIEVABLE!� If we were leftist retards, this judge would be doxxed, hounded, pestered, granted no peace anywhere whatsoever for this type of dipshittery. But that's not who we are........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (ccf/V) 101
I really do pray for the trainwreck of a human being you appear to be, Ace. I really do.....
We men really do honestly need a woman around to help us be better and take care of us. Without it we are too self-destructive and stop caring. And not just a piece to have around once in a while, a wife. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (K32Fz) 102
Would love to see laws that 1) was able to remove judicial activists much easier and 2) removed people’s citizenship if they subscribed to an ideology that specifically subverts the Constitution as the law of the land.
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (sIwi8) 103
INA, et al clearly allows removal based on incitement or support for terrorism ( see 212(a)(3)(B). Also Brandenburg v. Ohio.
This judge is about as smart a one of my turds. This will be immediately reversed upon getting to a sane court. Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (vbdXu) 104
Did anybody bring popcorn … ? The cartoon's almost over and the movie's about to start … Bueller? … Bueller … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (ayRl+) 105
They sure fast tracked the Milo punt I think we all can agree on. Must have pissed off the wrong person.A lot.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:39 PM (Gqar One of the still functioning female GOP reps who grabs headlines, from what I heard. But she's in the right here. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy) 106
Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury.
That can only be referring to the Oscar winning classic Seagal movie, "Hard to Kill". Nothing but the finest. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (iIyc0) 107
It would be funny and poignant were I to give a flying f*ck about either one of those 2 bloviating sacks of protoplasm.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V) This. At least BS's sister has big knockers we can talk about. Not a whole lot redeeming about MY, except that he is a loud mouth from a leftist protected group who sometimes says sane things. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (qIGFJ) 108
I thought Milo had stopped having sex with men. Did he relapse?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (xcxpd) 109
Fat chugger and pudgy GOPe lover Erick Erickson was on X claiming the whole of the right was suddenly reversing themselves deportations, saying "not that person, not that skin color" don't deport him.
Of course, he neither quoted nor cited a single person on the right saying that. He's such a nasty, passive aggressive little bitch. He should spend more time sucking off David French while they finger each other over how great Christians they are. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (3cUTc) 110
I've got a bad rotator cuff strain from sleeping wrong a week ago. Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury. And I wind up getting little sleep because I keep waking up.
====== They need to tighten the straps. Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (RIvkX) 111
IIRC, he was the only gay person willing to admit that underage grooming was real.
Posted by: Oddbob Unless they put it to music. Posted by: Smalltown Boy at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (88C+u) 112
I've got a bad rotator cuff strain from sleeping wrong a week ago. Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury. And I wind up getting little sleep because I keep waking up.
===== Prayer for a complete and speedy healing. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (RIvkX) 113
This judge is about as smart a one of my turds. This will be immediately reversed upon getting to a sane court.
The judge who blocked the Post Office rules again? This time she didn't even bother citing any legal precedent or justification, she just didn't like it. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (K32Fz) 114
This bears repeating. Homosexuals REALLY like young boys, they like to use terms like "twink" and "femboi" but what they mean is "barely through puberty if that." Its not universal but its extremely common. Lesbians less so from what I have seen, but still a real thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (K32Fz) And this is precisely why I am vehemently opposed to homosexuals adopting kids. Especially male homosexuals. The lesbians probably don't do the sexual abuse but they will still fuck the kid up mentally. In my not so humble opinion. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (i2VYc) 115
WHO will rid the US of these turbulent judges? It's such complete Bull SHIT.
Posted by: Pamazon at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (b5MGU) 116
He overstayed. Deport him.
That said, he and McInnes were offered up on a silver platter by the Right to the Leftist cancel mob, and just as I warned at the time, it immediately gave them carte blanche to cancel anyone to the right of Hasan Piker, and boy did they ever use it. Don't lose sight of that. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2) 117
Of course, he neither quoted nor cited a single person on the right saying that.
yeah I called him on that but since I am nobody and mean nothing he ignored me, as well he should. But I thought it was particularly egregious. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (K32Fz) 118
@ 98 Ace, don't ever get rotator cuff surgery unless it's an absolute last resort. Very high failure rate. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
_________________________________ I'm down with that advice. Every one of my friends who's had rotator cuff surgery seemed to recover quickly from it, but afterwards they never held their arms the way they did before they had the surgery. Don't know what caused that, but it was a commonality for all of 'em … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (ayRl+) 119
Fat chugger and pudgy GOPe lover Erick Erickson was on X claiming the whole of the right was suddenly reversing themselves deportations, saying "not that person, not that skin color" don't deport him.
Of course, he neither quoted nor cited a single person on the right saying that. He's such a nasty, passive aggressive little bitch. He should spend more time sucking off David French while they finger each other over how great Christians they are. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (3cUTc) Well said Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (xcxpd) 120
That said, he and McInnes were offered up on a silver platter by the Right to the Leftist cancel mob, and just as I warned at the time, it immediately gave them carte blanche to cancel anyone to the right of Hasan Piker, and boy did they ever use it.
Don't lose sight of that. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2) They are coming close to cancelling Hasan Piker himself. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (uhVAy) 121
I remember I used to sleep however I wanted (and I sleep in strange contortions). No longer.
First it was the left shoulder. Now it's the hip. Not even a weekend warrior, and I've got injuries from sleeping. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (w6EFb) 122
Not sure which annoys me more....women who insist on the hyphenated surname, or women who use an umlaut.
Tough call. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (dIske) 123
I thought this homo was kind of maverick-y, rightwing curious at one point
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 01:45 PM (ZxPkt) 124
I can hear Space Ice doing commentary on Ace's sleeping patterns now.
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 01:45 PM (CYBB0) 125
>>Lesbians less so from what I have seen, but still a real thing.
That doesn't explain the Gym Teaching and Softball Coaching. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:45 PM (Shi2G) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (NnhvP) 127
Not sure which annoys me more....women who insist on the hyphenated surname, or women who use an umlaut.
Tough call. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (dIske) Boy a hyphenated german woman must be a real problem. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (uhVAy) 128
Blah blah blah, safety, blah blah, we know better than you, blah blah,
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (wxsGM) 129
@ 98 Ace, don't ever get rotator cuff surgery unless it's an absolute last resort. Very high failure rate. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
I've had the same experience with back surgeries. I've had 3 now and am far worse off as a result. I seriously regret getting them. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (i2VYc) 130
See, ace, you just need one of those big tiddied Goth girls, who will tie you up at night so you can't flop around.
Try to get one that will untie you in the morning, though. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (rbvCR) 131
I thought Milo had stopped having sex with men. Did he relapse?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (xcxpd) I'd heard he wasn't running around sucking BBC and bragging about it to anyone happening to listen to his words, but don't know if he denounced the whole blasphemous lifestyle and repented........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (ccf/V) 132
Hello Horde!
Posted by: CA Token at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (3X4Mc) Posted by: Harrison Ford Running at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (GR1ap) 134
Is Segal still married to Kelly LeBrock? Talk about a smokeshow back in the day...
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (77rzZ) They divorced back in 1996 and both have since remarried. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (iIyc0) 135
@ 122 Not sure which annoys me more....women who insist on the hyphenated surname, or women who use an umlaut. Tough call. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (dIske)
_______________________________ What about the ones who use strap-ons … ? Just askin' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ayRl+) 136
BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations
Sounds like Aid and Comfort being provided to those providing Aid and Comfort. Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (DbObV) 137
135 @ 122 Not sure which annoys me more....women who insist on the hyphenated surname, or women who use an umlaut. Tough call. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (dIske)
_______________________________ What about the ones who use strap-ons … ? Just askin' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ayRl+) On girls? Hot. On guys? Not. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (xcxpd) 138
Cant debunk the terrorist wog video with the Linda Trip time and date stamp. Erin go brah!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (wxsGM) 139
>>I've had the same experience with back surgeries. I've had 3 now and am far worse off as a result. I seriously regret getting them.
Sounds like you got Fusion and/or hardware installed? I had them do the old school discectomy and have never been better. Took me a long time to find the right surgeon, though. Everyone wanted to do the Robot-Assisted Fusion Bullshit. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (Shi2G) 140
Oh yeah? Every night I flap my arms around like a hummingbird at one of my feeders.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (i2VYc) 141
Not sure which annoys me more....women who insist on the hyphenated surname, or women who use an umlaut.
"He, ze hell vit you too!" --Hilde Müller-Schröder Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (K32Fz) 142
I've had the same experience with back surgeries. I've had 3 now and am far worse off as a result. I seriously regret getting them.
Posted by: Chairborne! ___________ It too has a high failure rate. There's even something called "failed back syndrome." Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (XvL8K) 143
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (qIGFJ)
Wait. Have we confirmed that the sister is related and the mommy milkers are real? For science. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (eZQ1g) 144
Point of order: in this case, that's a diaraesis, not an umlaut.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (BI5O2) 145
131 I thought Milo had stopped having sex with men. Did he relapse?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (xcxpd) I'd heard he wasn't running around sucking BBC and bragging about it to anyone happening to listen to his words, but don't know if he denounced the whole blasphemous lifestyle and repented........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (ccf/V) ah, ok. Thanks Sponge Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (xcxpd) 146
WHO will rid the US of these turbulent judges? It's such complete Bull SHIT.
Posted by: Pamazon at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (b5MGU) Constitution says the impeachment process can only be used against Trump and any of his supporters. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (ccf/V) 147
Sounds like you got Fusion and/or hardware installed?
I had them do the old school discectomy and have never been better. Took me a long time to find the right surgeon, though. Everyone wanted to do the Robot-Assisted Fusion Bullshit. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (Shi2G) Fusion and hardware both. I have more titanium in my back than an F-15. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (i2VYc) 148
Milo used to have clever and useful things to say but that's been years now and over time he's gotten increasingly bizarre and irrational. I don't know if its the AZT or recreational drugs or he's always been crazy but he's broken.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM ———— Excessive splooge intake fogs the brain. Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (m/MJs) 149
No such thing as a Biden Judge.
Posted by: Judas Roberts at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (eZQ1g) 150
Point of order: in this case, that's a diaraesis, not an umlaut.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (BI5O2) There's a reason English has spent 1000 years throwing that crap out of the language. Aint nobody got time for that. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (uhVAy) 151
> Every night I flap my arms around like Steven Seagal running and re-aggravate the injury.
Somebody swaddle the ewok, please. Posted by: bonhomme at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (mkw2N) 152
>>What about the ones who use strap-ons … ? Just askin' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ayRl+) >>On girls? Hot. I have to disagree, here. It's comical to watch a woman try and fuck another woman with one of those things. The physics just don't work out for them. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (Shi2G) 153
Cows with guns >>> Muslims with guns
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) 154
They divorced back in 1996 and both have since remarried. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (iIyc0) It was often rumored that he would lock her in closets and was pretty mean and abusive to her....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (ccf/V) 155
I had them do the old school discectomy and have never been better. Took me a long time to find the right surgeon, though. Everyone wanted to do the Robot-Assisted Fusion Bullshit.
Posted by: garrett ________ Did you go with a neurosurgeon or orthopedic surgeon? Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (XvL8K) 156
The problem is that too many congressmen are lawyers who never want to upset a judge, and lazy fools who rely on judges to implement what they are afraid and too worthless to pass into law. So they don't want to do any impeachment on judges unless really forced to. And my quick look at what federal judges have actually been impeached all seem to be money-related crimes, like the only thing a judge can do wrong is take a bribe.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz) 157
Milo used to have clever and useful things to say but that's been years now and over time he's gotten increasingly bizarre and irrational.
____________ The ghey Ann Coulter. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (AOKQ/) 158
They divorced back in 1996 and both have since remarried. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (iIyc0) She lives near me and we used to go to the same hair person. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (i9SW2) 159
Cows with guns >>> Muslims with guns
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V) 160
It was often rumored that he would lock her in closets and was pretty mean and abusive to her.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (ccf/V) His closets have locks? Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (uhVAy) 161
heh. I'm working on my personal projects and 'Sodom and Gomorrah' just popped up. Perfect timing.
Sucks to be in a cesspool where you can't find 10 righteous men. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Sco7b) 162
>>Fusion and hardware both. I have more titanium in my back than an F-15.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (i2VYc) Man, sorry to hear that. First surgeon I went to was all in on that procedure. He told me I would never be able to Mt Bike or Backpack again. I had the old school surgery and have been back on my bike and in the woods since about 8 months after the procedure. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Shi2G) 163
It's comical to watch a woman try and fuck another woman with one of those things.
The physics just don't work out for them. Posted by: garret And you have seen this WHERE, exactly? Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ) 164
Point of order: in this case, that's a diaraesis, not an umlaut.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (BI5O2) If you eat an umlaut, and get diaraesis as a result, kaopectate can help. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (1z8ji) 165
Milo's one of those people who's relevance has diminished. Bigly. I would imagine people like this really have a difficult time adjusting to being a fairly insignificant nobody after years of popularity. I see this with politicians too. It's not all ego either. I think there's a mental defect somewhere that's in play too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (2Cry5) 166
>I have to disagree, here. It's comical to watch a woman try and fuck another woman with one of those things.
----- so you've seen this, then Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxPkt) 167
Milo used to have clever and useful things to say but that's been years now and over time he's gotten increasingly bizarre and irrational.
____________ The ghey Ann Coulter. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (AOKQ/) Similar trajectory and timing too. Not unhappy she's off my radar too. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy) 168
Excessive splooge intake fogs the brain.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (m/MJs) Man should not swallow man juice. It effects the brain negatively. Same with women. Avoid woman juice intake, ladies. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V) 169
>>Did you go with a neurosurgeon or orthopedic surgeon?
Orthopedic Surgeon. Guy was a gem. Like talking to a mechanic, rather than a doctor. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (Shi2G) 170
The problem is that too many congressmen are lawyers. Period. Full Stop.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (i2VYc) 171
Oh, provide content in the comments more than usual? We've heard about the latest Medicaid fraud in Maine, right? Unlike Minnesota, it's not autism care except there is no autism (i.e., no patients) -- Maine's fraudsters, mostly Iraqis, Somalians, Central Africans and Rwandans, have autism care except there's no care. The patients are being horrifically neglected. They were somehow the most profitable home health care centers in the US. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (mmrXZ) 172
The ghey Ann Coulter.
Somewhat related; I have long considered her at least a hermaphrodite She lives near me and we used to go to the same hair person. either she's had really good work done or has aged gracefully. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (K32Fz) 173
163 It's comical to watch a woman try and fuck another woman with one of those things.
The physics just don't work out for them. Posted by: garret And you have seen this WHERE, exactly? Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ) Textbook Begging the Question. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (Gqar8) 174
@ 159 Cows with guns >>> Muslims with guns
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial ....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V) _____________________________ That is SUCH a great mind-picture … ! Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (ayRl+) 175
And you have seen this WHERE, exactly?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ) 97.35% of porn movies made since 1984, I'd imagine. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (ccf/V) 176
Maybe don't pay attention to the people who ostensibly act as if it is their role to grant you permission to speak?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (qIGFJ) I don't but it is the ones who actively hate on me for not bending the knee that are the problem. That sort is a liability since they don't need a reason to hate, they just need permission and a target. One day it is Milo because reasons. The next day they run off to hate on Left-handed Coptic Armenians or whatever, for reasons. Being vocal about not bending the knee makes me the thing next to a troll. So yay. The abuse also makes me choose what I say carefully which I think is the purpose for ginning up the lynch mobs in the first place Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR) 177
The problem is that too many congressmen are lawyers who never want to upset a judge, and lazy fools who rely on judges to implement what they are afraid and too worthless to pass into law. So they don't want to do any impeachment on judges unless really forced to. And my quick look at what federal judges have actually been impeached all seem to be money-related crimes, like the only thing a judge can do wrong is take a bribe.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz) Take the WRONG bribe, you probably mean. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (uhVAy) 178
To be honest, sadly...the law states that Non-citizens to the US enjoy the same protections under the Bill of Rights that Citizens receive. AND, as a proponent of absolute free speech (Movie theater "fire" shout excluded), I believe non-citizens have every right to profess who they like or hate with impunity. I agree with the judge.
I DON'T AGREE, with the immigration laws that make it so difficult to remove a non-citizen from the US. However, someone here legally with a VISA (which is, in effect, a contractual agreement) has every right to say whatever the hell they want to. I'd suggest an adendum to all VISA's that allow for removal in providing support (moral, financial and otherwise) to America's enemies, however. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (dIske) 179
>>And you have seen this WHERE, exactly?
On top of several on-line instructional videos... there is a time and a place for everything and it is called: College. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (Shi2G) 180
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (mmrXZ)
Never forget when the GOP claimed that 4 billion was far too much to spend on a wall. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (eZQ1g) Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (K32Fz) 182
...I had the old school surgery and have been back on my bike and in the woods since about 8 months after the procedure.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Shi2G) I'm glad to hear that my friend. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (i2VYc) 183
His closets have locks? Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (uhVAy) I mean, the miracles of modern science. Posted by: Matt Laurer's Rape Button at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (ccf/V) 184
I thought Milo had stopped having sex with men. Did he relapse?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM More likely prolaspe. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (bFu5X) 185
Elsewhere the terrorist wog video would end with a drone. But with no audio.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (wxsGM) 186
It was often rumored that he would lock her in closets and was pretty mean and abusive to her.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer His closets have locks? Posted by: Oldcat Go on. Posted by: Matt Lauer at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (DbObV) Posted by: Right-handed Coptic Armenians at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (eZQ1g) 188
Steven Seagal can run?
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS) 189
Take the WRONG bribe, you probably mean.
Yeah, probably true. As long as we have government we will have corruption, but it would be nice if we could keep it to a dull minimum. Slashing the power of governments would go a long ways toward this. Nobody bribes the traffic cop eighteen million dollars because he doesn't have enough power to make it worthwhile. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (K32Fz) 190
181 And you have seen this WHERE, exactly?
Old Ace of Spades post probably Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (K32Fz) The HQ has always danced well on the Porn Display Line. Very artfully done. Huzzah!! Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (Gqar8) 191
I had the old school surgery and have been back on my bike and in the woods since about 8 months after the procedure.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Shi2G) Is there anything a hot iron can't do? Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (eZQ1g) 192
I tried to give Milo a chance when he was allowed back on Twitter, but he proved he wasn't worth it very quickly.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (PE5pE) 193
Regarding Milo, I liked him, and then right when he was at the pinnacle of his success, someone surfaced an old half-drunk comment he made about sexual activity of very young gay boys when he obviously meant very young gay men -- but it was enough. He was canceled left and right and driven out of public life. He spiraled and seemingly has never recovered. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (mmrXZ) 194
>>>The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now.
>I'm an American citizen. Will the federal government provide me with a passport and $3000 holiday pay? Is there something wrong here? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (nlLAo) 195
@ 159 Cows with guns >>> Muslims with guns
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial ....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V) _____________________________ That is SUCH a great mind-picture … ! Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM Ask and ye shall receive: https://tinyurl.com/2s3bsytu Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (bFu5X) 196
either she's had really good work done or has aged gracefully. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2) 197
Steven Seagal can run?
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS) Not in years. But when he did, it looked like a Special Olympics regional tryout session....... https://youtu.be/nkskuSXqUD0 Sorry about the music, tho....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (ccf/V) 198
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either she's had really good work done or has aged gracefully. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2) Ann Coulter? Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar8) 199
>>>The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now.
>I'm an American citizen. Will the federal government provide me with a passport and $3000 holiday pay? Is there something wrong here? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (nlLAo) If you are about to cost the Feds about 10-100 times that sometime soon, you can call them up and ask for them to do so. It might work. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (uhVAy) 200
It's officially a tropical depression in the northern Gulf of America.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (J4Dwc) 201
@ 167 The ghey Ann Coulter. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (AOKQ/) Similar trajectory and timing too. Not unhappy she's off my radar too. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)
________________________________ Once upon a time, I actually thought Ann Coulter was kinda-sorta-semi-almost 'attractive' or 'cute'-ish-esque, but NOOOO! On closer inspection, she's pretty much just so much skin stretched over so much bone. There's no 'there' there … and I sho' 'nuf din't see much in the way of titties, either (fool me once …) Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (ayRl+) Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (VHUov) 203
I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2) Ann Coulter? Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar Kelly Lebrock. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (i9SW2) 204
Ann Coulter?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar ==== My first comment here was defending her. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 02:03 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 02:03 PM (Shi2G) 206
I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2) Ann Coulter? Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar Kelly Lebrock. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (i9SW2) Phew........ Thought you'd gone completely insane there for a sec...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:04 PM (ccf/V) 207
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I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2) Ann Coulter? Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar Kelly Lebrock. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (i9SW2) Ah. Thanks. Suffering from “ Lost in the Comments Effect”, for a moment. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:04 PM (Gqar8) Posted by: bonhomme at August 31, 2026 02:04 PM (mkw2N) 209
Something something, about fornicating a bag of antlers.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (n1B4F) 210
Somebody swaddle the ewok, please.
Posted by: bonhomme I'll wait for the Marco Rubio's New Job meme. Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (DbObV) Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (XvL8K) 212
https://youtu.be/nkskuSXqUD0 Sorry about the music, tho....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer =============== That stunt man in the first part was doing his best to lose that race. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (mmrXZ) 213
Weird that a throwaway comment about Ann Coulter got more engagement than any of the ones I put effort into.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (UGvct) 214
Leftist congressional candidate Brad Lander went to some protest over the weekend. Got met with protesters, one of whom said to him "fuck you Zionist ballsack". I'll give the protester credit for creativity, but Lander is still an idiot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (j/Ml9) 215
Weird that a throwaway comment about Ann Coulter got more engagement than any of the ones I put effort into.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (UGvct) So more thought, or less seems to be in order. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (uhVAy) 216
Coulter is rather an interesting specimen. An Odd Duck.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (Gqar8) 217
Steven Seagal can run?
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS) Not in years. But when he did, it looked like a Special Olympics regional tryout session....... https://youtu.be/nkskuSXqUD0 Sorry about the music, tho....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer ....... lol pretty spastic Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (UjdFS) 218
195 @ 159 Cows with guns >>> Muslims with guns Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial ....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V) ______________________________ Dogs with guns > cows with guns > Muslims with guns https://tinyurl.com/5696ke8z Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (dIske) 219
Ann Coulter is all angles and no curves.
Posted by: David Hogg at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (oqH4h) Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (mmrXZ) 221
@197
>>Not in years. But when he did, it looked like a Special Olympics regional tryout session....... I was watching an interview with I believe Alan Ritchson, that because of Steven Segal, there is actually a running school they send actors to to learn how to not run like a spastic clown. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (fqnOq) 222
I saw Zionist Ballsack open for GWAR at Metal Fest in '98.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (ccf/V) 223
The left: You wouldn't be deporting these people if they were right leaning!!! Because you are hypocrites!
Also the left: Look these fascists are even deporting right leaning people it is literally the Holocaust all over! Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (sKqQm) 224
Leftist congressional candidate Brad Lander went to some protest over the weekend. Got met with protesters, one of whom said to him "fuck you Zionist ballsack". I'll give the protester credit for creativity, but Lander is still an idiot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (j/Ml9) Zionist is about the least creative slur there is. They've Zioned themselves for 80 years or something now? Is it Zionist to fly passengers to Tel Aviv? Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (uhVAy) 225
Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) 226
Seagal has the ghey right arm swing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (j/Ml9) 227
Weird that a throwaway comment about Ann Coulter got more engagement than any of the ones I put effort into.
The comments section is chaos by definition. Predictable globally, unpredictable locally. Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (vTZFs) 228
Alan Ritchson just HAD to open his piehole I guess.Big dummy should have just dummied up.Ditto Jelly Roll.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (Gqar8) 229
Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) She's spent her entire career listening to it....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V) 230
She has a long face
like that ex Congressman, Trey something damn their kids would look like horses, in the face Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ZxPkt) 231
Jelly Roll. HA!
Cried about telling his fans to f*ck off. But he just HAD to tell the TRUTH about everything...... Former fat asshole......... Enjoy the reap, dickhead. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ccf/V) 232
BIDEN JUDGE just stepped in and ruled AGAINST Sec. Marco Rubio having noncitizen students deported if they advocate for Islamism and other anti-American ideology
Judge No�l Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment. So it is a suicide pact after all. Posted by: Oglebay at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (2ap+5) 233
The left: You wouldn't be deporting these people if they were right leaning!!! Because you are hypocrites!
----- YD: Yeah? So what, bitch? Now, stop leaning on that shovel. We didn't enslave you to be a sundial, and this canal ain't gonna dig itself. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (BI5O2) 234
Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) She's spent her entire career listening to it....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V) It probably sounds different to her own ears. My voice does to me. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy) 235
The interesting thing about the anti-Trump "right" is how weird they are.
Milo is an obvious one but look at Candace and Nick Fuentes too. They used to be able to just buy real more establishment right leaning pundits to bad mouth MAGA types but now they are getting Temu versions like Milo... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm) 236
I was watching an interview with I believe Alan Ritchson, that because of Steven Segal, there is actually a running school they send actors to to learn how to not run like a spastic clown. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM That's funny and I'd never admit I had to learn how to run without looking like a total spazz. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (i9SW2) 237
Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) I can't get past the adam's apple.......that's a no go for me. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V) 238
NEXTA
@nexta_tv 💊 Back to the past! Stalin returns to a medical university facade in Volgograd after 65 years The bas-relief was removed during de-Stalinization back in 1961 — and now it is hanging once again alongside Marx, Engels and Lenin. What will they bring back next from the era of terror and the cult of personality — and where? 11:00 AM · Aug 30, 2026 ===== A Russian medical school honoring Marx, Engels, and Lenin, but they want me to be upset they're adding Stalin? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (RIvkX) 239
Nothing that Duct Tape or Super-Glue can't fix.
I had a doctor say he could fix me with Duck Tape. He was a quack. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (i2VYc) 240
@ 229 Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) She's spent her entire career listening to it....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V) _____________________________ Ergo … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ayRl+) 241
I'm thinking Steven Seagal and Ann Coulter could hook up for a buddy cop movie to solve crimes and it would be a blockbuster.
Finding a kidnapped child or some shit, with lots of martial arts. Worthy of an oscar. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (nlLAo) 242
It probably sounds different to her own ears. My voice does to me. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy) I absolutely hate how I sound in recordings. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V) 243
She has a long face
like that ex Congressman, Trey something damn their kids would look like horses, in the face Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ZxPkt) Gowdy. Came to hate that dude, another one who vanished. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy) 244
Former fat asshole.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ccf/V) ======= His soul will always be morbidly obese. Posted by: Oglebay at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (2ap+5) 245
For a while at least he claimed he was no longer a homo, now I have no idea what he is saying.
All I know is that his Visa expired and he has to go. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz) He wrote an article for a Catholic publication (I don't remember the name) about his redemption from the homosexual lifestyle. The tone of his account sounded weirdly like he was trying to fake out the Christians by sounding like what he imagined they would want to hear. In other words, he sounded insincere. I figured I'd give him the benefit of the doubt until he confirmed my impressions, and he did end up confirming my impressions. Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (FC7F4) 246
Judge No�l Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
Imagine letting a Japanese guy come here in 1942, putting him on welfare, and arguing he has a 1st amendment right to say the US is inferior to the Divine Imperial Japanese Emperor and therefore we should surrender. Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (sKqQm) 247
Can I eject guests from my house who are advocating beheading the kids and raping the dog? Or would that be violating their first amendment rights? True, they haven't done that yet, do I have to wait for that to happen before I can do anything?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (VaC8w) 248
Ann Coulter wrote some very funny and well informed books but that may as well be a hundred lifetimes ago.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (eZQ1g) 249
235 The interesting thing about the anti-Trump "right" is how weird they are.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm) ------ All of them are just edgelords who say wacky shit to get engagement online. Measured, reasoned arguments for or against Trump or any other person or position don't get nearly the number of clicks and replies that screaming like a retard does. Posted by: David Hogg at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (oqH4h) 250
@ 237 Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) I can't get past the adam's apple.......that's a no go for me. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V) __________________________________ That's prolly a carry-over from her 'Spit or Swallow?' days … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (ayRl+) 251
gross sock
Posted by: ballistic at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (oqH4h) 252
A Russian medical school honoring Marx, Engels, and Lenin, but they want me to be upset they're adding Stalin?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (RIvkX) I'm not calling for statues of FDR to be pulled down. History is History. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy) 253
I'm thinking Steven Seagal and Ann Coulter could hook up for a buddy cop movie to solve crimes and it would be a blockbuster.
Let me suggest they'd be perfect for a Laurel and Hardy remake. Seagal: Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into Ann! Ann: You can't have your cake and eat it, or you'll get a stomach ache. Ann: Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (sKqQm) 254
248 Ann Coulter wrote some very funny and well informed books but that may as well be a hundred lifetimes ago.
Posted by: ... Her books were 99% reposts of old columns. Nothing original. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (W2Pud) 255
Shouldn't Jellyroll stop calling himself that now that he's no longer a fat bastard?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (j/Ml9) 256
I don't always agree with Ann Coulter though it's about 95%. She's a smart no bull shit chick who can hold her own and I like her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (KC5Lt) 257
I'm not calling for statues of FDR to be pulled down. History is History.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy) But they should all include the wheelchair. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (1z8ji) 258
>>>Has no one noticed how much Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice … ? Jeez. Imagine living with that sound day in and day out …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+) ***** That has to be a room in hell. Having to listen to for eternity without any alcohol or handgun. Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (Ap5bg) 259
Can I eject guests from my house who are advocating beheading the kids and raping the dog? Or would that be violating their first amendment rights? True, they haven't done that yet, do I have to wait for that to happen before I can do anything?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (VaC8w) I don't agree with the law or judge that says foreigners have US Citizen rights. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy) 260
>>>Gowdy. Came to hate that dude, another one who vanished.
Posted by: Oldcat >That's because he's a blowhard. Cruz is also headed down that path. You actually have to do something to get credit. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:16 PM (nlLAo) 261
Gowdy. Came to hate that dude, another one who vanished. Posted by: Oldcat >That's because he's a blowhard. Cruz is also headed down that path. You actually have to do something to get credit. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone ================= Is there any legislator who's actually done anything? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ) 262
I don't always agree with Ann Coulter though it's about 95%. She's a smart no bull shit chick who can hold her own and I like her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (KC5Lt) As I said, haven't heard a word from her even though we are surrounded by bullshit for probably 5 years now. That says something. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (uhVAy) 263
**listen to her**
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (Ap5bg) 264
Speaking of Muslims with guns....
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked? I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (2Cry5) 265
Nobody is fat in the Grand North American Dignity Canal Construction Corps, Mr. Roll... we support you on your weight loss journey.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (BI5O2) 266
All of them are just edgelords who say wacky shit to get engagement online. Measured, reasoned arguments for or against Trump or any other person or position don't get nearly the number of clicks and replies that screaming like a retard does.
One of the amusing things of our era is that Trump is the anti-Obama and here I am referring to how Obama would say reasonable sounding things and then do something absurd. Trump says silly things but his actions are fundamentally reasonable. You'd think that would be enough for the anti-MAGA "right" just pick apart what Trump says but that doesn't work for them...they need to claim he's a Jewish NAZI, or he is going to make everyone drink bleach or whatever stupidity they are claiming now... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm) 267
Her books were 99% reposts of old columns. Nothing original.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (W2Pud Some. Godless was mostly its own book and it was genius. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (eZQ1g) 268
I don't agree with the law or judge that says foreigners have US Citizen rights.
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm) 269
@ 264 Speaking of Muslims with guns.... Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked? I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (2Cry5)
____________________________ Did anyone think they were driving bombs into the basement of the WTC in those vans … ? History says 'no' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (ayRl+) 270
I give credit to Coulter for saying that Trump was most likely vto won back in 2017 on the Maher show. She writes a column here and there but otherwise not saying much in these crazed times
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (j/Ml9) 271
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR)
Agreed. It is annoying AF to watch and weather. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (dK+Kv) 272
Maybe Ozempic made Mr Jelly stoopid.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (Gqar8) 273
Some. Godless was mostly its own book and it was genius.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (eZQ1g) I'm looking at it right now on my bookshelf . Time for a re-read. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (KC5Lt) 274
I don't agree with the law or judge that says foreigners have US Citizen rights.
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm) The Battle of Midway is a good approach to handling these floating migrants we have today. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (uhVAy) 275
Maybe Ozempic made Mr Jelly stoopid.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM It WILL make him shit out his kidneys at some point. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (ccf/V) 276
One of the amusing things of our era is that Trump is the anti-Obama and here I am referring to how Obama would say reasonable sounding things and then do something absurd. Trump says silly things but his actions are fundamentally reasonable.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm) --- Heh, never thought of it that way. Good observation. Posted by: ballistic at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (oqH4h) 277
>>>Is there any legislator who's actually done anything?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia >Mitch did a face plant. And Harry Reid was pretty good at taking a beating. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (nlLAo) 278
Presser this morning to announce crackdown on CDLs, trucking schools, etc - via Julie Kelly:
“The initiative focuses on CDL fraud, unauthorized employment, identity-document fraud, financial crime, money laundering, labor exploitation, and potential links to human smuggling, drug trafficking, and cartel activity,” Duffy said. The press conference coincided with a “synchronized surge” at more than 200 driving schools across 23 states to ensure the schools were following federal law; the DOT has already shut down hundreds of CDL schools for issuing permits drivers who did not meet English proficiency standards or employing unqualified instructors. https://tinyurl.com/2unx3rvn Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (kX27y) 279
Speaking of Muslims with guns....
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked? I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it. Posted by: Martini Farmer Good piece on this at PJMedia yesterday. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (hUS/0) 280
As I said, haven't heard a word from her even though we are surrounded by bullshit for probably 5 years now. That says something.
I used to put her in the "says stupid stuff but good stuff too" category like Ben Shaprio but when she went from "Donald Trump is a bloated stupid clown we should all hate" to "Donald Trump is our messiah everyone must vote for or be evil" the night he locked the nomination and then went back to "Donald Trump has utterly failed us all because he didn't personally build the wall completely in a week" soon after.... yeah that was enough. Total grifter. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (K32Fz) 281
I give credit to Coulter for saying that Trump was most likely vto won back in 2017 on the Maher show. She writes a column here and there but otherwise not saying much in these crazed times
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (j/Ml9) Quite the Nostradamus since he won in 2016. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (uhVAy) 282
Speaking of Muslims with guns....
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked? I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (2Cry5) You know, you could probably put a magnetometer on a drone, and fly it over a mosque. If a selection of mosques had stronger magnetic anomalies notably stronger than a selection of similarly-sized non-mosques, that might be interesting. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji) 283
259 Can I eject guests from my house who are advocating beheading the kids and raping the dog? Or would that be violating their first amendment rights? True, they haven't done that yet, do I have to wait for that to happen before I can do anything?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (VaC8w) If you had to pick one capital letter to represent dog rapist child killers, what would it be? Posted by: LGBTQI2+ Registrars Office at August 31, 2026 02:22 PM (r7+Q7) 284
You know, you could probably put a magnetometer on a drone, and fly it over a mosque. If a selection of mosques had stronger magnetic anomalies notably stronger than a selection of similarly-sized non-mosques, that might be interesting. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji) That would be racist, n shit........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:22 PM (ccf/V) 285
I just read James Carville is absolutely freaking out like the rest of the Dems over Hakeem Jeffries merely meeting with Trump adviser Jared Kushner. Like the countries leader are expected to do, even if they disagree on everything.
Complete meltdown. And he is the supposed voice of Dem moderation? He is just as vile and crazy as the the current Dem base. Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (GUOwU) 286
279 Speaking of Muslims with guns....
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked? I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it. Posted by: Martini Farmer Good piece on this at PJMedia yesterday. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (hUS/0) Maybe Trump needs to hire Janet Reno to take care of this problem? Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (i9SW2) 287
Maybe Ozempic made Mr Jelly stoopid.
That is a name I once in a while heard, do not know any of his music (he's a musician, right?) and knew almost nothing about. Then he said stupid crap about Trump. Okay I will continue to ignore you. There's a meme on x that resonates so well with me today, about how all the celebrity gossip is basically gibberish to me. "Floon boy and Gerta Gerta have flown to Paris to pull a Barv!" Okay whatever you say, lady. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (K32Fz) 288
You know, you could probably put a magnetometer on a drone, and fly it over a mosque. If a selection of mosques had stronger magnetic anomalies notably stronger than a selection of similarly-sized non-mosques, that might be interesting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji) they have ground penetrating radar for seeing landforms below trees from the air, to looking deeper. A light dose might be analyzed to pick out dense metallic returns as I did for a project to spot guns and drugs at the border. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (uhVAy) 289
Complete meltdown. And he is the supposed voice of Dem moderation? He is just as vile and crazy as the the current Dem base.
Because Trump's policies are reasonable and measured. If they get into a normal sort of discussion about policies details then it is harder for the FNM to call Trump literally Hitler... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: Eric at August 31, 2026 02:25 PM (6VHHP) 291
268 I don't agree with the law or judge that says foreigners have US Citizen rights.
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s Posted by: 18-1 ---------- Never heard this one - linkage or source? Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 31, 2026 02:25 PM (VkY89) 292
Complete meltdown. And he is the supposed voice of Dem moderation? He is just as vile and crazy as the the current Dem base. Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (GUOwU) Why anyone still listens to that undead retard piece of shit is beyond me........He's the Karl Rove of David Plouffe's. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:26 PM (ccf/V) 294
Maybe Marco can take yet one more job and be the judge instead of the judge instead of this idiot Biden judge….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (sBAAu) 295
Does anyone know where Ace hides the keys to the liquor cabinet?
Posted by: Sid Blysters at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (Vu7A1) 296
Alan Rictman is mort
Posted by: doug at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (B1+sW) 297
"he's a moron, but he's not a Moron, moron"
--Whoopie Goldberg Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (K32Fz) 298
Magnospisms we much.
Posted by: Al Sharptato at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (7Q0e+) 299
Complete meltdown. And he is the supposed voice of Dem moderation? He is just as vile and crazy as the the current Dem base.
Because Trump's policies are reasonable and measured. If they get into a normal sort of discussion about policies details then it is harder for the FNM to call Trump literally Hitler... Fucking Hakeem Jeffries is vile and crazy. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (i2VYc) 300
Never heard this one - linkage or source?
Pearl Harbor Midway Wake Guam all times were FDR shot Japanese undocumented workers instead of giving them a trial or even a deportation... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm) 301
Maybe Trump needs to hire Janet Reno to take care of this problem?
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (i9SW2) Or the guy who built the bomb Mayor Good dropped on MOVE in Philadelphia in the 80s. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy) 302
@281 yeah , my hot dog fingers are acting up. I meant 2016
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:28 PM (j/Ml9) 303
Just read that the RNC Senate isn't shelling out any campaign funds designated to Paxton. Is this Thune doing the same thing that McConnell did to Kari Lake?
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:28 PM (dIske) 304
That is a name I once in a while heard, do not know any of his music (he's a musician, right?) and knew almost nothing about. Then he said stupid crap about Trump. Okay I will continue to ignore you.
There's a meme on x that resonates so well with me today, about how all the celebrity gossip is basically gibberish to me. "Floon boy and Gerta Gerta have flown to Paris to pull a Barv!" Okay whatever you say, lady. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (K32Fz) Don't confuse the current "Jellyroll" with Jelly Roll Morton, who actually was a fine musician. And his nickname had nothing to do with being fat, which he was not. Had an entirely different meaning, back in the day. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:29 PM (1z8ji) 305
Never heard this one - linkage or source?
Pearl Harbor Midway Wake Guam all times were FDR shot Japanese undocumented workers instead of giving them a trial or even a deportation... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm) Fun fact - pretty sure First Wake Island was the only naval invasion in WWII that repelled the invaders on either side. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy) 306
Alan Richson is a year out from announcing that he "deconstructed" Christianity and is no longer Christian.
Or the guy who built the bomb Mayor Good dropped on MOVE in Philadelphia in the 80s. Crazy as that was, you never hear about MOVE any more. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:30 PM (K32Fz) 307
Coulter was saying Trump could win in 2015
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:30 PM (eZQ1g) 308
Just read that the RNC Senate isn't shelling out any campaign funds designated to Paxton. Is this Thune doing the same thing that McConnell did to Kari Lake?
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:28 PM (dIske) I don't think Thune inherited that control, Trump's fellows have it now. Probably just means Pax doesn't need any help. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy) 309
Don't confuse the current "Jellyroll" with Jelly Roll Morton, who actually was a fine musician.
Now HIM I know, great stuff. *listens to King Porter Stomp* Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:31 PM (K32Fz) 310
Crazy as that was, you never hear about MOVE any more.
I think they just MOVE'd on to become ACORN...and BLM. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (i2VYc) 311
Crazy as that was, you never hear about MOVE any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:30 PM (K32Fz) I do, one of my favorite all time songs is about that incident. City of Soul by the Aussie band The Eurogliders. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (uhVAy) 312
I recall that Alan Ritchson is diagnosed bipolar, and that he and wife and kids live in a travel trailer, traveling around. He also beat up some kids on mini bikes cause reasons. Interesting character, that Alan Ritchson.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (Gqar8) 313
Crazy as that was, you never hear about MOVE any more.
I think they just MOVE'd on to become ACORN...and BLM. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (i2VYc) I think most were too burned to death for future activity. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:33 PM (uhVAy) 314
Or the guy who built the bomb Mayor Good dropped on MOVE in Philadelphia in the 80s. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy) I like your idea better. Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:33 PM (i9SW2) 315
MOVE moved on to become barbecue, courtesy of Ed Rendell.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:34 PM (BI5O2) 316
John Africa , MOVE AFRICA's leader was killed in the bombing. Evidence that naming yourself after something famous doesn't guarantee success
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:34 PM (j/Ml9) 317
Fun fact - pretty sure First Wake Island was the only naval invasion in WWII that repelled the invaders on either side.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy) Great story. IIRC, they held fire from their 5in guns until the Japanese had closed to a lethal range and then opened fire. Sank a destroyer. And then their remaining Wildcats sank another one. Japs left with a bloody nose. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:35 PM (i2VYc) 318
He also beat up some kids on mini bikes cause reasons.
Actually he had justification for what happened there, the teens were nuts and violent and Alan was protecting his kids. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz) 319
I am surprised the muzzies and their allies haven't pitched a bitch about Zion National Park.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (gm9Sb) 320
>>>the law states that Non-citizens to the US enjoy the same protections under the Bill of Rights that Citizens receive.
The supreme law of the USA is the constitution, and the constitution does NOT state that. Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (8mulE) 321
I don't think Thune inherited that control, Trump's fellows have it now. Probably just means Pax doesn't need any help.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy) _______________________ Not so sure. The NRSC chair is Tim Scott, who was a HUGE supporter of John Cornyn. And Scott may be the chair, but I doubt he calls the shots. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (dIske) 322
I recall that Alan Ritchson is diagnosed bipolar, and that he and wife and kids live in a travel trailer, traveling around. He also beat up some kids on mini bikes cause reasons. Interesting character, that Alan Ritchson.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (Gqar They may have been Gryffindors. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv) 323
Noncitizens have First Amendment rights? I thought that, technically, in the narrowest sense, the Constitution only applies to citizens. We only extend those rights out of generosity.
Posted by: Occasional Commenter at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (RSGvd) 324
318 He also beat up some kids on mini bikes cause reasons.
Actually he had justification for what happened there, the teens were nuts and violent and Alan was protecting his kids. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz) Sounds fair.Probably not much of a fight. The guy is Godzilla. But FAFO, hope the little thuglets learned something. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (Gqar8) 325
Woke Island invited the invaders in and were subsequently raped to death. That's why you never heard of them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (VaC8w) 326
188 Steven Seagal can run?
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS) It's fun to make fun of the guy but yeah, some of his early movies like Marked for Death he was actually skinny and yes, he could run; and like Jean Claude dancing in Kickboxer, it was pretty entertaining for the wrong reasons. Posted by: Nelly at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (6+ehB) 327
322 I recall that Alan Ritchson is diagnosed bipolar, and that he and wife and kids live in a travel trailer, traveling around. He also beat up some kids on mini bikes cause reasons. Interesting character, that Alan Ritchson.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (Gqar They may have been Gryffindors. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv) Heh.Good one, Goyle! Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Gqar8) 328
Fun fact. Marine Squadron VMA 211 was known in the 60s and 70s (maybe still is) as The Wake Island Avengers.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 02:41 PM (gm9Sb) 329
You said:
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s I asked linkage/source. You provide: 300 Never heard this one - linkage or source? Pearl Harbor Midway Wake Guam all times were FDR shot Japanese undocumented workers instead of giving them a trial or even a deportation... Posted by: 18-1 Having been stationed in Hawaii and pretty familiar with the history and I've never heard any "undocumented" Japanese being shot - ever. Not saying you are right or wrong, just saying I'm pretty well versed with the history of Oahu (and the other Hawaiian Islands) and the armed forces operating within them and I've never heard that. Makes sense with Guam, Wake, and Midway since we were what's the word? At war? And also add Kwajalein Island (Atoll) and Roi-Namur into that mix. Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 31, 2026 02:41 PM (VkY89) 330
He also beat up some kids on mini bikes cause reasons. Interesting character, that Alan Ritchson.
Unless it's some other incident I don't know about, that's not remotely close to what happened. The kids on minibikes were his and a neighbor (presumably of his house, not his trailer) attacked him in the street to try to stop them from riding and Ritchson scuffed him up. The neighbor was clearly the aggressor. Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 02:41 PM (vTZFs) 331
Hope you feel better Ace!
Posted by: isolden at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dB99g) 332
320 >>>the law states that Non-citizens to the US enjoy the same protections under the Bill of Rights that Citizens receive.
The supreme law of the USA is the constitution, and the constitution does NOT state that. Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (8mulE) ______________________________ And, in this case the issue is the 1st amemdment which refers to "person" or "people"....not "citizens." So, the Judge was, absolutely, correct. As was I. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dIske) 333
>>>Great story. IIRC, they held fire from their 5in guns until the Japanese had closed to a lethal range and then opened fire. Sank a destroyer. And then their remaining Wildcats sank another one. Japs left with a bloody nose.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:35 PM (i2VYc) **** I just watched a YT channel show about Wake Island last night. It was very well done and I learned a lot. The US forces fought with amazing determination and bravery. Ultimately the Japs prevailed, I think because the Navy had other priorities. Great story with a sad ending. Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Ap5bg) Posted by: Jacques at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (A3xvt) 335
Those are only ceremonial guns going into the mosque to use for religious shooting during baptisms and weddings. Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (OkYzo) 336
Makes sense with Guam, Wake, and Midway since we were what's the word? At war? And also add Kwajalein Island (Atoll) and Roi-Namur into that mix.
That's the point. We shot invaders then. We didn't give them trials. Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:43 PM (sKqQm) 337
335 Guns used only for celebratory gunfire after a successful bowel movement or goat fucking.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (gm9Sb) 338
I've been to Wake three times on refueling stops.. not much happening there but the breezes are nice.. pretty interesting to see the grave markers all around from both sides.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (VkY89) 339
Those are only ceremonial guns going into the mosque to use for religious shooting during baptisms and weddings.
For the traditional celebratory AK47 wedding celebration. These feature commonly in Brendan Hererra's Darwin Awards videos. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (K32Fz) 340
Everybody’s voice sounds different to themselves.
This is why singers will be wearing headphones in studio so they can hear how they actually sound. It’s because our ears are so close to our mouths that the sound waves don’t have to travel far. A quick way to hear how your voice sounds to other people is to straighten your palms out flat and then hold your hands in front if your ears (not covering them). This makes the sound waves of your voice travel around your hands & ears into the ear canal. You’ll have a better idea of what other people hear at that point but it’s not 100% representative because you’ll still pick up some of your voice through your jaw and facial bones to the inner ear. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (6ydKt) 341
On me of the Wake Island marines was a prisoner of war in China. He jumped off a train and was picked up by communist guerillas. After a time a message was gotten to the US and plane came to get him. He took a picture with the commander of the guerillas, Mao.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (j/Ml9) 342
>>I've been to Wake three times on refueling stops..
Spent an overnight there on my way from NAS Moffett Field to Atsugi in '85. You can almost "feel" the history of the place. Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 02:48 PM (J4Dwc) 343
Nood. Dr. Death.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (Ap5bg) 344
It’s a war. We just don’t know we’re in it. But islam sure does.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 02:50 PM (5/BcT) 345
And, in this case the issue is the 1st amemdment which refers to "person" or "people"....not "citizens." So, the Judge was, absolutely, correct. As was I.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dIske) No, it says "the people". Which people? Any collection of people? No. The people in question are the citizens of the USA. Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (8mulE) 346
241 I'm thinking Steven Seagal and Ann Coulter could hook up for a buddy cop movie to solve crimes and it would be a blockbuster.
------------------------------------- It could about a serpent who disguises itself as something else and be called, Finding Adam's Apple. Posted by: Thatch at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (S6YCM) 347
Last time I saw Milo online, he was reallllly on something, or realllly needed to be on something.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 31, 2026 04:25 PM (e9NEt) 348
Advice for shoulder. wear a long sleeve t shirt, pin the cuff to the front of shirt in comfortable spot.
Try to sleep a little propped up on pillows so you don't roll to sides as easily. Post shoulder surgery I got from a surgeon. I mean sturgeon, but that was one wise fish. Posted by: Idiocracy was a documentary at August 31, 2026 07:30 PM (7ID9G) Whistleblower: NY AG and Gigantic Hag "Tish" James Commanded Her Underlings to Find (or Contrive) Criminal Charges Against Trump -- and His Friends and AlliesThis is abuse of office. A prosecutor is supposed to investigate a crime and find the guilty party, not investigate a person to discover crimes (or, in this case, "crimes"). Before anyone can say it: Nothing will happen, of course.Prosecutor in NY AG Letitia James' office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on Trump allies: report A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James' office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups "affiliated with Donald Trump," according to a bombshell report. Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James' Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him "to find and pursue crimes" committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union. Wiesenfeld alleged in his email on Friday that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target "Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)... without having a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals," the outlet reported. ... "If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing," Wiesenfeld allegedly wrote in the message, which went to some 2,000 staffers before being yanked.I don't think Trump is doing this at all. He's prosecuting the people who wrongfully prosecuted him -- and if, as they say, "no one is above the law," then they have endorsed their own prosecutions. Remember, Trump talked about throwing Hillary in jail but as soon as he was elected he ditched that entirely, implicitly conceding it was just campaign fodder. More: His first-hand knowledge doesn't directly implicate James: He alleges only that his direct superior, Investor Protection Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe, told him to target "Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)" without bothering to first find "a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals."Is the bad ad gone? I only noticed it a couple of weeks ago and wrongly assumed that whatever company was paying for the ad would just stop paying for it and it would go away. I didn't expect them to camp on the site forever. I think it's gone now. I hope. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS) 2
Foist?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (2Ez/1) 3
And SPONGE!!
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (bFu5X) Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (dK+Kv) 6
And GREY!
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (NcvvS) 7
Afternoon, Ace. Any crow updates?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (och2J) 9
I take umbrage to this vile comparison.
Posted by: A gigantic hag at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (eZQ1g) 10
Keep in mind this is exactly what the left claims Trump is doing any time some lefty gets charged...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm) 11
I haven't been having problems with the ads lately.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t) 12
i still have at least one of those "fighting trump" election mailers from 2018
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (CWTWj) 13
Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (eZQ1g) 14
I've just about had it up to here *salutes* with the official malfeasance in all branches and at all levels of government. My Plan includes the lot of them.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (RIvkX) 15
I haven't been having problems with the ads lately.
Perhaps the word is out that my liver spots, toenail fungus, and ED are all in remission. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t) 16
“ Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe”. Well, there ya go.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (Gqar8) 17
>>>7 Afternoon, Ace. Any crow updates?
I think I saw them once since the last time I mentioned it. I hear them a lot. Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave. Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle) 18
"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him."
Posted by: Lavrentiy Beria at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1) 19
17 >>>7 Afternoon, Ace. Any crow updates?
I think I saw them once since the last time I mentioned it. I hear them a lot. Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave. Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle) Flying rats are offputting to corvids. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:15 PM (Gqar8) 20
>>>11 I haven't been having problems with the ads lately.
there was an ad that popped up every single time the comments were refreshed and then made you wait five full seconds to close it. And the "X" to close it was, of course, unreasonably tiny so it took a while to close. Super-obnoxious. Sorry about that. A lot of these ads are transitory, short-term. I did not expect this particular ad buy to last forever. Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle) Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (iY+4Q) 22
17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (2xUTf) 23
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She's like a big fat black Richard Kiel, Jaws from Moonraker. Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq ---- She is a big girl. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (vOxCS) 24
I'm I too late to say Nothing will happen ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I) 25
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace You'd think that crows could drive out pigeons. But what do I know? Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ) 26
The All You Can Eat Chinee Buffets within 30 miles of Tish James house have all shuttered. Bitch can Hoover up some Kung Pao!
Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (JM9I6) 27
you know who doesn't have ads? keith olbermann. probably
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (CWTWj) 28
17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.
=== ha. we got you beat Posted by: Illinois at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (anL5R) 29
17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.
Wow, sounds like they were really motivated. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t) 30
If these assholes are ever able to get rid of MAGA, they are coming after us.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (2WIwB) 31
Hey! We gotta eat too!
Posted by: The Lonesome Dove at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (JM9I6) 32
29 17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.
They early voted ? Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (+gK6I) 33
Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (eZQ1g) ===== AHEM Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (RIvkX) 34
>>>I don't think Trump is doing this at all. He's prosecuting the people who wrongfully prosecuted him -- and if, as they say, "no one is above the law," then they have endorsed their own prosecutions.
Given that it's a former Cuomo aide, this is probably as far as she can go without being ostracized at the next Upper West Side cocktail party. "We must be better than Trump" is acceptable; "Trump did nothing wrong" is unforgivable. Posted by: Dr. T at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (F1vmP) 35
"Shamiso Maswoswe"
Why do I picture this guy in an urban intersection with a soggy rag, and a squeegee stolen from a gas station? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji) 36
If these assholes are ever able to get rid of MAGA, they are coming after us.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (2WIwB) But then they are commies and this is right out of that playbook. Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB) 37
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (V362x) 38
There's a bad ad that blocks near the whole page on my native Samsung browser in the comments.
It has a nasty trick of going invisible so you can't see or close it--but it's still there and gets clicked if you tap the page. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (3cUTc) 39
"I hear them a lot."
Soon the season will begin when they all fly into the cities in the evenings to roost. Hereabouts, they look like sky rivers flowing in. In the mornings, about a half-hour before dawn, they'll do their wakeup ritual: one calls, pauses, then they all call, then there's a pause; and then that repeats a few times. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t) 42
They are coming after me, so they can get to you...
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (anL5R) Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (RIvkX) 44
It'd be so nice if some of these people just went away like people who crossed Hillary.
Speaking of which, GatewayPundit had an article about the Clinton crime syndicate looking for an UNPAID intern. This led me to more research. For those of you in the Chicago area, there are $20 / hour security guard positions available at the Presidential Center of Doom. For those who don't mind sleeping in a box in Chicago. And they also have other offsite positions! I thought libs were all about living wages. Even the 49ers owner was feeling lucky and was only goihg to pay $140 for sweet, sweet, Ohio lovin.. Cheap bastards. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Sco7b) 45
17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.
Proof of life after death. Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB) 46
33 Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (eZQ1g) ===== AHEM Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM *Even louder AHEM* Posted by: Comment #18 at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (2Ez/1) 47
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle) Tom Lehrer had a song about this. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (1z8ji) 48
no
the ad lives on Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (WEIfr) 49
18 U.S.C. § 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (kXOuP) 50
Of all the jaw-dropping Third World or Soviet bloc depredations inflicted on the country (which are only possible in a country with a civic culture and populace degraded nearly beyond recognition), the absurd and outrageous Vyshinsky-style prosecutions of Trump (both state and federal) do stand out.
I'd include the holocaust of collateral actions, like state legislatures crafting "laws" to allow this persecution, and especially the (ongoing) mau-mau'ing and actual attempted destruction of lawyers working to defend Trump. There are baby steps being taken (removing ABA as certifying authority for law schools), but in context they are baby steps. The Legal Cult of course can't imagine contemplating that their entire worship-object (the system) is irredeemably rotten due to the degraded people in it (hey, smart guy! went to my law school!). But it's all a symptom of general decline, not usually the driver. Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (U/Byj) 51
Shall we argue the transliteration of my first name?
Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (RIvkX) 52
I hope fatass likes prison food and carpet munching.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (kXOuP) 53
The EU is looking to seize private bank accounts because they know better how to spend the money?
https://tinyurl.com/ypsj3y4t Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e) Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (Cqx++) 56
I haven't been having problems with the ads lately.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t) They've been like flies on rye for me. I don't want to complain, because Ace needs to keep the lights on like the rest of us, but I can't pretend they aren't annoying. Posted by: Dr. T at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (F1vmP) 57
"Say the liiiine, Bart!"
"(sigh) Nothing will happen..." "Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!" Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (CYBB0) 58
>>>the ad lives on
sorry. My ad manager did contact the ad company to ban it. I hope it's gone soon. Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle) 59
48 If you haven't tried uBlock Origin extension yet, please do. Thanks to Ace for working the problem.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (2Ez/1) 61
Even the 49ers owner was feeling lucky and was only goihg to pay $140 for sweet, sweet, Ohio lovin.. == At a trailer part outside Youngstown for goodness sake. Egads, we have to get this inflation under control. Whatever happened to $20 same as in town. Posted by: Mortimer Duke at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (anL5R) 62
56 If you haven't tried uBlock Origin extension yet, please do. Thanks to Ace for working the problem.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (77rzZ) 64
>>.They've been like flies on rye for me. I don't want to complain, because Ace needs to keep the lights on like the rest of us, but I can't pretend they aren't annoying.
No they were totally horrible, I really understand. I hated them too. Like I said, I figured this was some fly by night company who had just bought ads for like a week. I guess it wasn't. Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle) 65
I'm I too late to say Nothing will happen ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I) It's evergreen Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (eZQ1g) 66
sorry. My ad manager did contact the ad company to ban it. I hope it's gone soon.
Hey, everyone! Ace has an ad manager!!! Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (Jr5Lq) 68
>>>and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death
Posted by: Vengeance --- Like the Fauci gang? Or the Covid crew? Or their administrators? Not One will go to jail. Not one. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (vOxCS) Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ) 70
29 17,327 deceased Michigan voters were found to have a ballot cast and counted in the 2020 election who also had a confirmed corresponding obituary.
------- Trying to disenfranchise the trans-living, bigot? Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (CYBB0) 71
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle) Within the last month or so, it is time that they typically congregate as an extended family group with that years' crowlets, teach them the ways of the world, take them to strip clubs, etc. Unless my time frames are running together and this was earlier in the year. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (dK+Kv) 72
no
the ad lives on Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM Look on my ads, ye Morons, and despair. Posted by: Sonobi at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (bFu5X) 73
58 >>>the ad lives on
sorry. My ad manager did contact the ad company to ban it. I hope it's gone soon. Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle) Of historical interest, how did you finally kill Sonobi? With fire, or exorcism? Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (Gqar8) 74
And exactly why is this wrong?
Posted by: Zombie Berria at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (sFNX2) 75
'Tish' *spit* James ran on putting Trump in prison. She's a low-life POS but I really blame the people who voted for her to put Trump in jail.
I'm real close to giving up on our so-called "Democracy". Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (i2VYc) 76
Rather than pursue this, it's much easier for Trump to launch a preemptive war in Iran in a midterm election year. That should really drive up turnout.
Seriously, he was elected on affordability, accountability, and culture -- he's making slow but methodical progress but he really needed this to be his focus. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (qwx/I) 77
53 The EU is looking to seize private bank accounts because they know better how to spend the money?
https://tinyurl.com/ypsj3y4t Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e) Why use a gun? Posted by: Comrade Willie Sutton at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (r7+Q7) 78
it’s ok ace
you’re worth it Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (WEIfr) 79
I think NY is gone. You have the doofus, village idiot governor killing babies, putting nuns in jail, using taxpayer money to find an illegal immigrant takeover and now wearing muslim garb. You also have an AG who has turned that office into a full time attack vector for the president and letting criminals go free. It’s sounds like Bartertown, only Tina Turner had nice cans.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (kXOuP) 80
If you want an aggressive bird, look to hummingbirds. They have regular dogfights around my feeder. I imagine those long, bayonet-like bills can do some damage.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t) 81
Hey, everyone! Ace has an ad manager!!!
Posted by: Archimedes Chuy or Lamont? == Judging by the results, they are doing it by committee. Posted by: sardonic at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (anL5R) 82
did you know.."Many pigeons seen in urban areas today are not wild but are feral descendants of domesticated pigeons. These feral pigeons have escaped or been released from human care and have adapted to living independently in cities." They are also dirty and carry diseases.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (g47mK) 83
Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6) 84
"Tish" and that fat shit Alvin Bragg both should have been put in prison once Trump reassumed the White House.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (2Cry5) 85
Saw a big hawk lazily flying along while a mockingbird was all over it. Looked like a WWI pecking away on a C-130 gunship.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (vOxCS) 86
"76 Rather than pursue this, it's much easier for Trump to launch a preemptive war in Iran in a midterm election year. That should really drive up turnout.
Seriously, he was elected on affordability, accountability, and culture -- he's making slow but methodical progress but he really needed this to be his focus. ------------------------------------ Your concern is noted. What is your per post rate? Posted by: Under paid "infuencer" at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (sFNX2) 87
1) What they did that we know about is only about maybe 10% of what they were doing.
90% of the outright illegal stuff still isn't known. 2) What they did will be 1% of what they will do if they ever get Congress and the WH again. Every man, woman and child who worked for, with or near any and all Trump administration officials will be targeted. What they did to the J6 will be the least egregious abuse in comparison. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (3cUTc) 88
Letitia Beria.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR) 89
Think Matt Braynard found 15K illegitimate votes counted in NV in 2020 within a few days of the "election". Sitting at his desk using public records. Deceased, under-age, or out of state (there's actually a federal database for that, set up in the 90s, when there was a trace of the civic culture left in the "elites").
He then found that number and more (above the official "margin", I believe) in GA. This was a guy in his underwear, with a laptop. It's entirely apart from the hilariously identical xeroxed ballots from one GA county, or the statistically improbably vote shares in late drops in GA and MI, or of course the comical lack of integrity in Wayne County MI basic election checks, or the historically unique and wild vote pattern across the state of WI. Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (U/Byj) 90
84 "Tish" and that fat shit Alvin Bragg both should have been put in prison once Trump reassumed the White House.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (2Cry5 Didn't they try to get her for mortgage fraud and the case was denied ? Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (+gK6I) 91
Tom Lehrer had a song about this.
All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon.... Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM Just stop. Right there. Posted by: A squirrel or two at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X) 92
Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6) DMSO and betadine Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR) 93
I think NY is gone. You have the doofus, village idiot governor killing babies, putting nuns in jail, using taxpayer money to find an illegal immigrant takeover and now wearing muslim garb.
I love this contrast. https://tinyurl.com/mr7hpkan Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t) 94
92 Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6) DMSO and betadine Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR) Amputation.Works every time. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Gqar8) 95
So... Yacht girls on some floating palace off Monaco serving caviler on their belly buttons, or... Ohio trailer park. Kinky way to buy 'merican-made. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (Y8DZL) 96
By the way, since the NPC and automated posters are called bots, I will start calling the posts they make, "warbles"
it is fitting Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (rbvCR) 97
Kathy Hochul looks like the pasty white love child of Little Richard and Rick James.
Super freaky. Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (kXOuP) 98
Amputation.Works every time. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Gqar No more nail fungus ! Or nails... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (+gK6I) 99
Not only will nothing come of this but they cannot apparently even find a way to actually take her to court for blatantly violating the law in multiple ways. BLACK GIRL MAGIC!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (K32Fz) 100
Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6) DMSO and betadine Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR) Amputation.Works every time. == Slap hot iron to it. Posted by: who are you people and what did you do with the regular commenters at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (anL5R) 101
I take umbrage to this vile comparison.
Posted by: A gigantic hag --------- A comment like that to John Master's headquarters left them searching the map for Umbrage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Masters Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (XeU6L) 102
Rather than pursue this, it's much easier for Trump to launch a preemptive war in Iran in a midterm election year.
------- What if he had a reason beyond pure politics? Isnt that what we should expect from a leader? Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (eZQ1g) 103
99 Not only will nothing come of this but they cannot apparently even find a way to actually take her to court for blatantly violating the law in multiple ways. BLACK GIRL MAGIC!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (K32Fz) I am not the Nothing Will Happen Guy, but Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar8) 104
Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
I soaked my feet in straight hydrogen peroxide (well, the 2% solution you can buy off the shelf). A couple times of that and it just stopped. I still have gnarly mangled toenails but they aren't getting worse or spreading :/ Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz) 105
15, LOL! and congratulations!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (VyBeY) 106
I soaked my feet in straight hydrogen peroxide (well, the 2% solution you can buy off the shelf). A couple times of that and it just stopped. I still have gnarly mangled toenails but they aren't getting worse or spreading :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz) TMI Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I) 107
Amputation.Works every time.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Gqar No more nail fungus ! Or nails... Posted by: It's me donna ----- Try this one simple trick to avoid expensive pedicures! Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L) 108
You used to be able to drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park and get good action. Now, in Trump's economy, its $140!
Posted by: Serpent Head Carville at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (JM9I6) 109
80 If you want an aggressive bird, look to hummingbirds. They have regular dogfights around my feeder. I imagine those long, bayonet-like bills can do some damage."
----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- We have four hummingbird feeders; I upped my hummingbird game following Spencer Pratt's example. You are correct about the bickering. Last week my wife sent me a cartoon: a hummingbird approaches a new, large feeder, "The humans have installed a very large feeder. There is space for everyone. This could usher in a new era of peace and ambundance. Another hummingbird enters the frame, "Can I share some of your nec-" "NO!" Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (sFNX2) 110
Rather than pursue this, it's much easier for Trump to launch a preemptive war in Iran in a midterm election year.
The problem with that argument is that its either an election year, or the year leading up to an election year every year. The truth is, everyone's memories are super short, and if they don't feel the direct impact of an event, they soon are on to the next squirrel within weeks. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (K32Fz) 111
106 I soaked my feet in straight hydrogen peroxide (well, the 2% solution you can buy off the shelf). A couple times of that and it just stopped. I still have gnarly mangled toenails but they aren't getting worse or spreading :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz) TMI Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I) Socks with sandals are indeed appropriate, sometimes. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (Gqar8) 112
94 92 Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM DMSO and betadine Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM Amputation.Works every time. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM +++ Sitting right here, boss. Posted by: The hot iron at August 31, 2026 12:34 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:34 PM (j+aD2) 114
I found Shamiso Maswoswe‘s profile on LinkedIn. She looks like Stacy Abrams. Check it out and tell me I’m wrong!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (sBAAu) 115
53 The EU is looking to seize private bank accounts because they know better how to spend the money?
https://tinyurl.com/ypsj3y4t Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e) Of course, Government knows best Posted by: Sardonicus at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (UnmeB) 116
82 did you know.."Many pigeons seen in urban areas today are not wild but are feral descendants of domesticated pigeons. These feral pigeons have escaped or been released from human care and have adapted to living independently in cities." They are also dirty and carry diseases.
Posted by: runner Indeed, just as many NY'ers and their 9/10 thinking and failure of imagination cannot fathom that the sewer intruders could possibly have any noteworthy goal any more than the BatMan Villain/BANE -- as the 60's Klingon/MADMANI looks on with an approving smirk. Yeah, this is NORMAL. What could possibly go wrong? If the Deep State doesn't know and approve of it they wouldn't be very intelligent now would they? Depose DIMON, indict Brennan, the Epstein enabler, and Free the World. with AOC dancin' like nobody's watchin' because she knows we all are. LET's GO BRANDON. BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT. https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-TrumpLaysLowDIMON https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (EMFSn) 117
106 I soaked my feet in straight hydrogen peroxide (well, the 2% solution you can buy off the shelf). A couple times of that and it just stopped. I still have gnarly mangled toenails but they aren't getting worse or spreading :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz) TMI Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I) _________________________ I'd beg to differ. But, I never beg. I just threaten to cut scenes. Posted by: Quenton Tarantino at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (dIske) 118
Nothing Will Happen.
Posted by: I was getting a pedicure at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1) 119
Willowed from previous thread.
250 239 “ Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe“. I see a problem there, most likely. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar Would it be better if they changed their name to Hercules Washington? Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (LHPAg) Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (LHPAg) 120
I would like to see a hummingbird nest with eggs in it, in person, just once.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar8) 121
> If you want an aggressive bird, look to hummingbirds. They have regular dogfights around my feeder. I imagine those long, bayonet-like bills can do some damage.
Posted by: Archimedes ------------- We have a feeder hanging outside on the front porch. There are about 6 of them duking it out daily. One will perch on a strand of outdoor lights and.... just wait. They're also used to us now. So they'll just buzz right by our heads when feeding. Weird little creatures. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (2Cry5) 122
"I imagine those long, bayonet-like bills can do some damage."
I was smelling wild plum on a trail once, when a hummingbird tried to suck my ear canal. No damage to me or him, thanks to my lightning reflexes. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Jr5Lq) 123
Rather than pursue this, it's much easier for Trump to launch a preemptive war in Iran in a midterm election year.
"Herkaleez herkaleez herkaleez!" --Eddie Murphy dressed as an old woman Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (K32Fz) 124
Franz Liebkind was a pigeon fancier.
Posted by: The Concierge at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (JM9I6) 125
114 I found Shamiso Maswoswe‘s profile on LinkedIn. She looks like Stacy Abrams. Check it out and tell me I’m wrong!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (sBAAu) Funny... She doesn't look Japanese... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (+gK6I) 126
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle) Doves and pigeons don't mob other birds, there is a PNW Indian story about how the dove is the Turkey Buzzard's best friend for that reason. Crows tend to stick to a schedule, but they are also are opportunists. A friend of mine says the crows go hang out after lunch at the school because there is tossed food there, and the weekends and during fairs they are completely missing because they hang out at the fairgrounds and the open markets for tossed and dropped food. Put out walnuts and peanuts and they will come back, and that is stuff the pigeons can't eat. You might get squirrels, though. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR) 127
102 Rather than pursue this, it's much easier for Trump to launch a preemptive war in Iran in a midterm election year.
------- Personally, I would have been fine occasionally turning to the news channels this weekend to hear continued shrieking of "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE THAT BASTARD TRUMP NUKED IRAN AND HE'S STILL IN OFFICE!!' Hell, I'm getting soft in my 28.5th year. I would have even settled for "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE THAT BASTARD TRUMP COMPLETELY DESTROYED ALL OF IRAN'S INFRASTRUCTURE LEAVING THEM ALL TO DIE!" Sorry for the all caps. It really is the only way to accurately capture the TDS. Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (Sco7b) 128
Just what IS the best treatment for toenail fungus?
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM --------- I found a product called FungiNail that worked a treat. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (amcLV) 129
>> I would like to see a hummingbird nest with eggs in it, in person, just once.
Hummingbirds nest in the Willows behind my house. Their nests and eggs are clownishly small. Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (Shi2G) 130
"Trump talked about throwing Hillary in jail but as soon as he was elected he ditched that entirely, implicitly conceding it was just campaign fodder."
That was Trump 1.0. T1 didn't fully understand what time it was. T1 thought that he won the election and would be given the same discretion to govern that every other president was given. He didn't realize how feral the government really was and how deep the rot went. But Trump 2.0 knows. If T1 knew what T2 knows, then I think he wouldn't have let Hillary slide. Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/) 131
I would like to see a hummingbird nest with eggs in it, in person, just once.
I have. My dad pointed it out to me when I was young. We always have had a feeder around and the little things had to live nearby beause they were always around. Dad finally spotted their nest and carefully showed it to me in a nearby tree. Its cartoonishly tiny with itty bitty eggs. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (K32Fz) 132
Trump is the only person tried and convicted for being blackmailed where the blackmailer testified as a prosecution witness.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (6p0Jv) 133
Nothing will happen but, hope springs eternal.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (4NO2D) 134
I would like to see a hummingbird nest with eggs in it, in person, just once.
=== The like mature tall pines with short dense needles and nest near the top. So plant one that will grow next to your second story window, or find a house that already has one next to the upper floor window. Posted by: you'll have to plan ahead or buy a new home at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (anL5R) 135
We have a crow feeder. That's when things got weird.
Posted by: 13times at August 31, 2026 12:39 PM (6iKlf) 136
There's a fungus among us!
Posted by: Five Little Piggies at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (wVcYX) 137
They're also used to us now. So they'll just buzz right by our heads when feeding. Weird little creatures. Posted by: Martini Farmer --- While sitting on the porch, I've had one fly up and hover about 3 feet from my face, as though it was apprasing me. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t) 139
At least she did what she said she would...going after Trump...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK) Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (j0Tky) 141
tea tree oil btw
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (j+aD2) 142
My mom "raised" hummingbirds in the backyard for years. The nests are tiny. The eggs are no bigger than a jellybean.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/) 143
Prometheus tied to a rock?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t) And they claim the classics are forgotten. Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (rbvCR) 144
I've twice had a bear raid my humming bird feeders.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (XeU6L) 145
While sitting on the porch, I've had one fly up and hover about 3 feet from my face, as though it was apprasing me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer _________ They make plastic face shields with a feeder attached. Wifey got me one but I've never used it. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (XvL8K) 146
At least she did what she said she would...going after Trump...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK) Oh yeah a real stand up lady Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (eZQ1g) 147
Slap hot iron to it.
Posted by: who are you people and what did you do with the regular commenters " *golf clap Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (XuXeR) 148
You could put your Barack Obama Seal Team 6 action figure out on the deck so the pigeons can shit all over it.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (UjdFS) 149
146 At least she did what she said she would...going after Trump...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK) Oh yeah a real stand up lady Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (eZQ1g) As much as the failed, one-balled Austrian painter was... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK) 150
So, past 100, and news of colleges taking more of a hit
Colleges have been a bubble for decades, it could not continue. Parents eventually will decide its not worth half a million dollars to turn their kid into someone that hates them, hates their home, and has no valuable skills or learning. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (K32Fz) 151
I would like to see a hummingbird nest with eggs in it, in person, just once.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar Had one in a scrubby bush on the lot line of my place in Arizona. Less than 3 feet off the ground. Eggs about the size of chick peas. Feral cats got it. Hummingbird mama not too smart. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (1z8ji) 152
Some hummingbirds will fly as far south as Central America for the winter, crossing parts of the Gulf of America without stopping.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5) 153
151 I would like to see a hummingbird nest with eggs in it, in person, just once.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar Had one in a scrubby bush on the lot line of my place in Arizona. Less than 3 feet off the ground. Eggs about the size of chick peas. Feral cats got it. Hummingbird mama not too smart. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (1z8ji) Several hummingbirds made their nests in blackberry brambles...smart hummingbirds... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK) 154
Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (Y8DZL) 155
Some hummingbirds will fly as far south as Central America for the winter, crossing parts of the Gulf of America without stopping.
They need drop tanks. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t) 156
152 Some hummingbirds will fly as far south as Central America for the winter, crossing parts of the Gulf of America without stopping.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5) Do they run into Monarch butterflies on the way? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK) 157
Anything red, of course, will cause hummers to investigate. Fire extinguishers, gasoline jugs, etc. They are easy to attract, but there ain't hardly any meat on 'em!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (n1B4F) 158
I see the media has decided to ignore the disaster in Nepal was caused by the Chinese undermining a glacier while building a hydro electric plant.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (ZaHhH) 159
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck.
Sounds like Goodfeathers have taken over. Posted by: far cry at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (pBJ6M) 160
The EU is looking to seize private bank accounts because they know better how to spend the money?
== Is the EU like a Roman Emperor now? Have the soldiers go around taping up their officially stamped scrolls onto surfaces in the public square saying they're going to take your stuff just because they say so? So it shall be written, so it shall be done. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (qBdHI) 161
And why are partisan state and city AGs allowed to bring Federal charges against a President they don't like. Especially after the DoJ refused to bring the same charges?
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (6p0Jv) 162
In terms of foot care, having torn my achilles tendon forced me to have to sit to shower.
Consequently, I've taken better care of my feet than I ever have in my life, and their look and appearance have improved dramatically. Most people don't really wash their feet adequately. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (tjgV0) 163
152 Some hummingbirds will fly as far south as Central America for the winter, crossing parts of the Gulf of America without stopping.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5) Hope they have their documents in order. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (Gqar8) 164
154
Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (Y8DZL) An not to bait said birds, or feed said birds for eating later... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (l3cgK) Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (XuXeR) Posted by: Fun Guy at August 31, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6) 167
157 Anything red, of course, will cause hummers to investigate. Fire extinguishers, gasoline jugs, etc. They are easy to attract, but there ain't hardly any meat on 'em!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM I have to keep my light turned off. Posted by: Roxanne at August 31, 2026 12:47 PM (2Ez/1) 168
Some research indicates hummingbirds hitch a ride on other, larger migratory birds.
They sure look rode hard and put away wet when they arrive north in the Spring. What's cool, if you put feeders out every year, they remember your house. They will let you know they have arrived by hovering in front of every window to herald their arrival. "Why isn't the feeder out yet!" in bird speak. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (n1B4F) Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (K32Fz) 170
We've got two varieties of hummingbirds here that are native and don't "winter" somewhere else. One feeder out back, interesting to see the pattern of "demand" for the free food. Varies quite a bit with the seasons. Amazing to me they can find enough to eat in this ecosystem, but there it is. They're vicious, but birds generally are very nasty critters - to each other.
The old hummingbird exhibit at the SD Zoo was great. Small, kinda cramped. Cool. A million varieties of birds, all close by, easily viewed. The new, fancy-with-the-donor-names-on-the-side exhibit? Have gone in a few times, literally haven't seen a hummingbird. Nicely done! Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (U/Byj) 171
My vote for most aggressive thug bird - BlueJay.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (Gqar8) 172
Most people don't really wash their feet adequately.
Posted by: Thomas Bender That's why we install footbaths in the airport, Infidel! Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober.. at August 31, 2026 12:49 PM (JM9I6) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 12:49 PM (W2Pud) 174
Whatever happened to the Tish James wannabe in Georgia? Fanny, Fauni, whatever.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 12:49 PM (vTZFs) 175
They will let you know they have arrived by hovering in front of every window to herald their arrival. "Why isn't the feeder out yet!" in bird speak.
They do it when the feeder is out or gone bad too. Hey! Hey! Fix da foods! Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (K32Fz) 176
Bad ad gone. Nope
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (DbmIv) 177
Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds.
=== It was of ace's Keto concoctions, so not really food food.... Posted by: First Time Commenter at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (g47mK) 178
The amount of water released was massive. It had to have been a huge lake or reservoir sized body of water. Visible from space or satellite photos.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (n1B4F) 179
The greatest trick I ever pulled was convincing the internet that I didn't exist.
Posted by: Sonobi at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (jyFsD) 180
152 Some hummingbirds will fly as far south as Central America for the winter, crossing parts of the Gulf of America without stopping."
-------------------------------- Do they bicker and complain all the way down to Gulf of America just like human married couples? Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (sFNX2) 181
The like mature tall pines with short dense needles and nest near the top. So plant one that will grow next to your second story window, or find a house that already has one next to the upper floor window.
Posted by: you'll have to plan ahead or buy a new home at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (anL5R) ___ They nest in the large pines near the house here. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (Rln0i) 182
@172
>>That's why we install footbaths in the airport, Infidel! Dunking ones feet in tepid water is not adequately washing one's feet. You have to really get in there with a stiff brush and scraper to shape up those tootsies. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (tjgV0) 183
I see the media has decided to ignore the disaster in Nepal was caused by the Chinese undermining a glacier while building a hydro electric plant.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (ZaHhH) Good to know there's reasons besides "global warming" so we can push back on warmist claims. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (lFFaq) 184
177 Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds.
=== It was of ace's Keto concoctions, so not really food food.... Posted by: First Time Commenter at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (g47mK) It was kale, so NOT food. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (Gqar8) 185
50 Of all the jaw-dropping Third World or Soviet bloc depredations inflicted on the country (which are only possible in a country with a civic culture and populace degraded nearly beyond recognition), the absurd and outrageous Vyshinsky-style prosecutions of Trump (both state and federal) do stand out.
I'd include the holocaust of collateral actions, like state legislatures crafting "laws" to allow this persecution, and especially the (ongoing) mau-mau'ing and actual attempted destruction of lawyers working to defend Trump. There are baby steps being taken (removing ABA as certifying authority for law schools), but in context they are baby steps. The Legal Cult of course can't imagine contemplating that their entire worship-object (the system) is irredeemably rotten due to the degraded people in it (hey, smart guy! went to my law school!). But it's all a symptom of general decline, not usually the driver. Posted by: rhomboid === The nat sec peeps started the ball rolling with their coup against Nixon. The whole Watergate idiocy came about because of the Deep State, the law was after the fact. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv) 186
They do it when the feeder is out or gone bad too. Hey! Hey! Fix da foods!
I buy a brand that says it contains micronutrient levels of copper, which I assume is supposed to act as a bactericide. It's probably 100x more expensive than just plain sugar. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t) 187
Do they bicker and complain all the way down to Gulf of America just like human married couples?
Posted by: Martin Tell If the ones in my yard are typical, Signs Point to YES. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv) 188
I see the media has decided to ignore the disaster in Nepal was caused by the Chinese undermining a glacier while building a hydro electric plant.
I have seen a lot of different things, the latest being that it looks like maybe the ground under the glacier was unstable too, something Chinese engineers did not find or care about. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (K32Fz) 189
I feed the hummingbirds. They will let me know the "nectar" needs to be changed by hovering in front of the window I hang out near. They don't do it any other time. They will be leaving soon, as I don't see them much after first week of September.
Posted by: Sugar, Suga' at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (JM9I6) 190
Trump is the only person tried and convicted for being blackmailed where the blackmailer testified as a prosecution witness. Posted by: polynikes ================ Unscramble that, please? And good morning. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ) 191
I see the media has decided to ignore the disaster in Nepal was caused by the Chinese undermining a glacier while building a hydro electric plant.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (ZaHhH) Good to know there's reasons besides "global warming" so we can push back on warmist claims. Google AI says the Chinese theory is incorrect, pointing instead to global warming. I think we really don't know what caused it at this point. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t) 192
BTW, the saying “ eats like a bird” is not accurate in its’ implication.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar8) 193
>>My vote for most aggressive thug bird - BlueJay.
Visited a wildlife shelter once. Three birds in big floor-to-ceiling cage, don't remember what they were in for. Blue jay was bullying cardinal, but gave the robin all and any space the robin wanted. Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (NcvvS) 194
The whole Watergate idiocy came about because of the Deep State, the law was after the fact.
Yeah at this point in my life I assume anything a Republican is busted for, has been going on for decades by everyone and they were just selected to be destroyed despite everyone else doing it. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (K32Fz) 195
I’m the opposite of Rex Ryan. I think feet… all feet… are incredibly ugly. Even beautiful women, I don’t want to dwell on their feet, no thanks…. I hide my own feet like stolen goods
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (sBAAu) 196
Don't eat the kale, it's stale.
Pass it on. Posted by: Spanky at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (7Q0e+) 197
Google AI. Just, no.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (Gqar8) 198
Google AI says the Chinese theory is incorrect, pointing instead to global warming. I think we really don't know what caused it at this point.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM The true cause may never be known, they vowed. Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (wfgYt) 199
Yup.
Trace amounts of copper (usually as copper sulfate) are added to hummingbird nectar—sold under names like Nectar Defender—to slow microbial and bacterial growth, keeping the sugar water fresh for up to two weeks, even in hot weather. I have buckets of copper sulfate. Maybe I'll just mix some in to regular sugar. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t) 200
184 177 Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds.
=== It was of ace's Keto concoctions, so not really food food.... Posted by: First Time Commenter at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (g47mK) It was kale, so NOT food. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (Gqar Hah. I was eating outside in a food court with Thai food on my plate. One of those little black birds (a female, not as glossy) bounded up to my table. I threw it a piece of cucumber... The bird looked at the cucumber, looked at me, looked at the cucumber, looked back at me... LOL. It was like that meme of the black kid with the doubting look on his face. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (l3cgK) 201
Speaking of unsolved crimes… who blew up Nordstream 2??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (sBAAu) 202
I don't know about DMSO and other stuff but I tried it for my corns and WOW
I've battled the damn things my whole life! now my feet are nice and smooth! crazy what's in that stuff?!?! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2) 203
My vote for most aggressive thug bird - BlueJay.
Posted by: tubal ___________ The Aussies have some flightless bird that has killed people. Can't think of the name and too lazy to look. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (XvL8K) 204
202 I don't know about DMSO and other stuff but I tried it for my corns and WOW
I've battled the damn things my whole life! now my feet are nice and smooth! crazy what's in that stuff?!?! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2) Kale, mostly. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (Gqar8) 205
By the way I finally saw Naked Gun (2025) and its a lot funnier than people were saying. It goes too far a few times and sometimes gets really daffy but it was worth a lot of laughs to me. Lots of fun wordplay and surprising twists of conversation, some great performances, a suitably bizarre plot, and everyone played it absolutely straight. Its not as gut-busting hilarious as the first one, but still, fun enough.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:57 PM (K32Fz) 206
Cassowary, Biff.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:58 PM (Gqar8) 207
203 My vote for most aggressive thug bird - BlueJay.
Posted by: tubal ___________ The Aussies have some flightless bird that has killed people. Can't think of the name and too lazy to look. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (XvL8K) Cassowaries are killers... Auzieland has emus. South America has Rheas. Madagascar used to have Elephant birds. New Zealand used to have Moas... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:58 PM (l3cgK) 208
Jena Griswold in Colorado is running for AG. She has already promised to sue Trump over anything and everything that she can think of. Her campaign so far has been to show how hard she hates hates hates Trump.
The snobby Californicated elites up and down the I-25 Front Range corridor love her. She will be our new AG, come January. Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 31, 2026 12:58 PM (bufu1) 209
I have seen a lot of different things, the latest being that it looks like maybe the ground under the glacier was unstable too, something Chinese engineers did not find or care about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (K32Fz) I wonder how stable the ground under the Three Gorges Dam is? And if Chinese engineers cared to find out, being the dirty stinking, incompetent commies that they all are. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (i2VYc) 210
Google AI says the Chinese theory is incorrect, pointing instead to global warming. I think we really don't know what caused it at this point.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t) It certainly wasn't global warming. Even though the USDA pushed all the planting zones up by a half a couple of years ago, actual safe planting dates are now about two weeks *later* than they used to be. Making the real zones a half step colder than before. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (lFFaq) 211
The Aussies have some flightless bird that has killed people. Can't think of the name and too lazy to look.
Emus? Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t) 212
Good to know there's reasons besides "global warming" so we can push back on warmist claims.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (lFFaq) Massive landslides are a natural occurrence in mountainous country. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (1z8ji) 213
Once saw a Cooper's Hawk take a Blue Jay in midair. One squawk and it was over. Five minutes later, nothing left but wings, feathers, feet.
Posted by: Backyard Shenanigans at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (JM9I6) 214
I missed the Ruffalo thread.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (2MN4W) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (l3cgK) 216
The bird looked at the cucumber, looked at me, looked at the cucumber, looked back at me...
I got a "burrito" on the pier in Seattle once. I was starving and finally found some place with food and it was... it was literally stew, like Dinty Moore stew in a tortilla. They didn't even try to disguise it or make it Mexican in any way. I couldn't eat it, threw it away and the seagulls flew over to eat it... even they rejected it. I have no idea how that dump stayed open. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (K32Fz) 217
Hummingbirds can, sort of, be a sign of fall coming early or late based on when they leave. Same for spring.
Our spring was "early" this year. Warm weather and no frosts in early April. The bird were looking for the feeder by the last week of the month. I have photos of heavy frost in mid April here. Hummingbirds didn't show until late May that year. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (2Cry5) 218
215 Now, the Terrorbirds...they were scary...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (l3cgK) But tasty . Sous vide them suckers. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (Gqar8) 219
Speaking of Melissa DeRosa, what the heck is she doing on Bret Baier's show panel? I thought she and her family were involved in the nursing home to Covid shenanigans during Cuomo's run.
Posted by: Random PJ at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (+jscL) 220
This is abuse of office. A prosecutor is supposed to investigate a crime and find the guilty party, not investigate a person to discover crimes (or, in this case, "crimes").
-------- Eh, it's pretty commonplace for prosecutors to look at a truly vile bastard who's evaded justice for years, someone like El Chapo or Chuck Lorre, and tell the cops "stick to this sonofabitch like glue, and tell me everything you find - there's a crime I can prosecute somewhere." But it's supposed to be someone who's guilty of actual crimes. Not Donald Trump. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2) 221
Cassowary is something to be wary of.
Posted by: Bird Brain at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (JM9I6) 222
Massive landslides are a natural occurrence in mountainous country.
Unpossible, I was told they only started happening now because of global warmening Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (K32Fz) 223
I wonder how stable the ground under the Three Gorges Dam is? And if Chinese engineers cared to find out, being the dirty stinking, incompetent commies that they all are.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (i2VYc) They probably decided it didn't matter since the base of the dam isn't tied into the rock anyway but just set on the surface. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (lFFaq) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: Subterranean Lizard People at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (Riz8t) 226
And if Chinese engineers cared to find out, being the dirty stinking, incompetent commies that they all are.
"I got paid, Gwailo, who cares what happens afterward?" Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (K32Fz) 227
Google AI says the Chinese theory is incorrect, pointing instead to global warming. I think we really don't know what caused it at this point.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t) Google lies. It's what thy do. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (1z8ji) 228
This sort of crap will only accelerate people fleeing NY, on top of everything else. The HP merger bit in particular.
Posted by: heya at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (ND37T) 229
Cassowary, Biff.
Posted by: tubal _________ Yes, thank you. AI says "Native to Australia and New Guinea, this flightless bird is highly territorial and has been responsible for human fatalities using its 12cm inner toe claw." Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (XvL8K) 230
Afternoon Ace
Still waiting for decisions on the appeals in NY state courts. I had a couple of cases at the Appellate Division and it never takes more than 6 months for a decision. We're well into year number two This tells me the judges know the cases sick but want to keep Trump hanging as long as possible Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (j/Ml9) 231
Massive landslides are a natural occurrence in mountainous country.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (1z8ji) True, but glacier collapses are much less common. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (lFFaq) 232
When you have a drop-dead gorgeous powerful woman like Leticia James the knives really come out.
Posted by: No one ever at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (wGerL) 233
This is so stupid, Marvel will probably do it.
There are rumors they will change Magneto's backstory of being a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust to being a Palestinian. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (2GVsD) 234
I've battled the damn things my whole life! now my feet are nice and smooth! crazy
what's in that stuff?!?! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2) Dimethyl Sulfoxide. If you want to know about DMSO and its promises, look up the substack for A Midwestern Doctor Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR) 235
In the desert slickrock country the hummers will make a nest in a huge smooth expanse of cliff face sandstone. It's kind of neat, there's an entire wall of nothing, and then a little nubbin "porch" thing, with a hummingbird sitting there 150 feet off the ground. Predators can't get at them.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (n1B4F) 236
Pro tip. Do not eat outdoors along the sea wall in Galveston no matter how nice the weather and the view. You will have to shoo grackles off of your table like flies.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (vTZFs) 237
Jena Griswold has Active Bitch Face.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (BI5O2) 238
Oh yeah I'll second bluejays. Little bastards.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (eZQ1g) 239
Sigh not surprised but still incredibly disappointed: I really want justice for all the Dem lawfare. At a minimum, lawfare acknowledgments (similar to land acknowledgements but requirements for Dem to apologize for their failure of lawfare and Obamacare). Maybe an L tatoo on foreheads. with QR code to details.
Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (286+n) 240
If you are talking is the pop up ad gone, no.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (sl73Y) 241
But it's supposed to be someone who's guilty of actual crimes. Not Donald Trump.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2) ---- If they can't even find video surveillance of him jaywalking in NYC, they got nothin'! Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 01:06 PM (FZ29D) 242
By the way I finally saw Naked Gun (2025) and its a lot funnier than people were saying. It goes too far a few times and sometimes gets really daffy but it was worth a lot of laughs to me. Lots of fun wordplay and surprising twists of conversation, some great performances, a suitably bizarre plot, and everyone played it absolutely straight. Its not as gut-busting hilarious as the first one, but still, fun enough.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:57 PM (K32Fz) Saw Coyote vs Acme over the weekend. For those of us who grew up with Looney Tunes in the 50's (first at the movies, then on TV) it was a cool premise. Acme getting sued for supplying defective equipment Coyote, in his pursuit of the roadrunner and the other Warners cartoon characters. It was a fun movie. Lots of little hidden tributes to the original directors and animators who created those great cartoons. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2026 01:06 PM (hmYU4) 243
I got a "burrito" on the pier in Seattle once. I was starving and finally found some place with food and it was... it was literally stew, like Dinty Moore stew in a tortilla. They didn't even try to disguise it or make it Mexican in any way.
I couldn't eat it, threw it away and the seagulls flew over to eat it... even they rejected it. I have no idea how that dump stayed open. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (K32Fz) Ahs. the "Oregon Burrito" Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR) 244
But it's supposed to be someone who's guilty of actual crimes. Not Donald Trump.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2) "Framing the guilty". What happened to Trump, and Alaska's Stevens (which is where I first heard the term), is why it's a terrible policy. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:07 PM (lFFaq) 245
True, but glacier collapses are much less common.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (lFFaq) Happens all the time. When a mountain glacier gets overextended, the ice at the toe breaks off. Glaciers are a potent form of erosion. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:08 PM (1z8ji) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:09 PM (2GVsD) 247
Framing the guilty". What happened to Trump, and Alaska's Stevens (which is where I first heard the term), is why it's a terrible policy.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:07 PM (lFFaq) Geese & ganders, etc. If they make me AG, I'll find an oubliette for every Democrat, even if I have to manufacture evidence in my basement. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:10 PM (BI5O2) 248
Glacier collapses can result in icebergs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:10 PM (2GVsD) 249
We, being very crafty and intelligent, have evaded detection and blame for the Nepalese Land/glacier slide.
Posted by: The Mole People at August 31, 2026 01:10 PM (JM9I6) 250
Saw Coyote vs Acme over the weekend.
-------------------------------------------------- Wifey and I plan ot attend bargain (well, 20% off) matinee this afternoon. I am psyched! I will wear my "Super Genius" t-shirt. Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 01:11 PM (sFNX2) 251
If they make me AG, I'll find an oubliette for every Democrat, even if I have to manufacture evidence in my basement.
Pretty sure you will find a lot of PDF stuff on their electronic devices. Then you search their property for the bodies. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:11 PM (2GVsD) 252
236 Pro tip. Do not eat outdoors along the sea wall in Galveston no matter how nice the weather and the view. You will have to shoo grackles off of your table like flies.
_-_ Sounds like there needs to be a sporting event every Tuesday at 10am....Pull! Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (8cylk) 253
Happens all the time. When a mountain glacier gets overextended, the ice at the toe breaks off.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon __________ Toe hungus Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (XvL8K) Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (2Cry5) 255
Pull!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (8cylk) I tried that one as a pickup line. Didn't work too well. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (eZQ1g) 256
the "Oregon Burrito"
Posted by: Kindltot That's when Sid blows the smelly hobo in his sleeping bag Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (88C+u) 257
someone who's guilty of actual crimes. Not Donald Trump.
_-_ If they can do this to him, what can they do to any one of us? Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (8cylk) 258
There are rumors they will change Magneto's backstory of being a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust to being a Palestinian.
I don't think even Marvel is that dumb but... they have surprised me before. I still expect him to be a black man who was abused as a child during the 1960s. Saw Coyote vs Acme over the weekend. I do want to see that, but people who have kids need to take them along too (as expensive as that gets). This is our heritage! Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (K32Fz) 259
As part of the Greater Greenland strategy, we will soon control the Glacier Market, in conjunction with the Trump Organization.
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at August 31, 2026 01:14 PM (JM9I6) 260
Big Penguin delenda est!!
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (Gqar8) 261
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle) _____________________ Pigeons and Crows are indifferent to each other. Different food source (grains vs. protein or bugs). So, pigeons aren't scaring them off. Raccoons, Foxes, some species of owls on the other hand could keep crows wary. Or, it is possible that one of the crows saw your Vespa in the garage, and crows talk. So, they'd all be concerned about their reputations due to association. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (dIske) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (Csh33) 263
Pretty sure you will find a lot of PDF stuff on their electronic devices. Then you search their property for the bodies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:11 PM (2GVsD) Of course. They're all guilty as hammered sin. All you have to do is bother chasing down the crimes. It's not as if they're careful. The problem is finding cops to arrest them and judges and juries to convict them. Not to worry! AG YD will reward his Oprichniki who fry them in giant pans in front of their neighbors with all their worldly goods, and their family members as chattels, thus obviating these late-republuc follies. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (BI5O2) 264
Unexpectedly.
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (zBNb3) 265
I am all for West Virginia in most things (being the fucking leave me alone state) but, West Virginia burritos are not good. It's like they once heard someone describe a burrito and thought Sure, I can make that.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (wfgYt) 266
Magento the black woman of Selma, AL?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (2GVsD) 267
Before anyone can say it: Nothing will happen, of course.
So, ummmmm, like, is my work here done? Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (0sNs1) 268
Pigeons and Crows are indifferent to each other. Different food source (grains vs. protein or bugs). So, pigeons aren't scaring them off. Raccoons, Foxes, some species of owls on the other hand could keep crows wary.
Or, it is possible that one of the crows saw your Vespa in the garage, and crows talk. So, they'd all be concerned about their reputations due to association. Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (dIske) Pigeons. So nasty, even a crow won't eat them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (1z8ji) 269
There are rumors they will change Magneto's backstory of being a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust to being a Palestinian
----- I refuse to believe it but believe it. Either way don't give a fuck, AI can't obliterate that industry soon enough. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (eZQ1g) 270
262 Posted by: Martini Farmer
Very nice! _-_ Have not had the pleasure of meeting Martini Farmer (as far as I know), so I'll take your word that Martini Farmer is very nice. Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (8cylk) 271
nice Martini!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (j+aD2) 272
There are rumors they will change Magneto's backstory of being a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust to being a Palestinian
----- Fagneto Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (BI5O2) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (2GVsD) 274
Endless recipes for pigeon pie on the internet, BTW. Usually bundled with recipes for Hobo Stew, funnily enough.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (Gqar8) 275
I like crows, I know they sound awful but they are smart and friendly and look cool.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:19 PM (K32Fz) 276
I’m back motherfucker, and I ain’t dancing for peanuts. Do I look like f’n Bojangles, ponce?
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:19 PM (Q6Bu6) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:19 PM (2GVsD) 278
Crows all have a Joisey accent.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (Gqar8) 279
Birds in general are really hard to photograph for some reason. Hummingbirds more than usual because they're so freaking fast.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (2Cry5) 280
275 I like crows, I know they sound awful but they are smart and friendly and look cool.
_-_ Must have been a raven. Posted by: Guy Who Can't Tell the Difference Between a Crow and a Raven at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (8cylk) 281
Endless recipes for pigeon pie on the internet, BTW. Usually bundled with recipes for Hobo Stew, funnily enough.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (Gqar Well, the pigeon pie is used to bait the hobo traps. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (1z8ji) 282
And don’t call me Blackie, racist.
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (vbdXu) 283
Ravens croak, Crows bitch and carry on.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (Gqar8) 284
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (W2Pud) 285
Did the Counting Crows ever open for the Black Crows?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (2GVsD) 286
The only thing funnier than watching a gooney bird attempt to takeoff is watching one attempting to land.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (J4Dwc) Posted by: Guy Who Can't Tell the Difference Between a Crow and a Raven at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (8cylk) 288
Two crows walk into a bar. One chokes to death and dies because Ace gave it a stale bread crust.
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:22 PM (vbdXu) 289
The guy who did the Transformers voice, I feel no especial tragedy over his death. Yeah sad for his family and friends but I always though the Transformers were really goofy and stupid even when I was young. Maybe I was the wrong age group, I was in high school when they came out. He Man, same thing: meh. Dumb cartoon. But I have always hated stupid cartoons, even as a kid I though Flintstones and anything Hanna Barberra was idiotic. Scooby Do was insulting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:22 PM (K32Fz) 290
Did you know pigeons are my gay cousins?
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (vbdXu) 291
Nude Milo
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (wfgYt) 292
Nood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e) 293
The first Transformers movie was a gem.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (Gqar8) 294
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
That was a real thing, too. Bored chefs or bizarre, spoiled royalty always demanding novelty? Who knows. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (K32Fz) 295
Look at the beak. If you can’t tell the difference from a raven and a crow, congratulations you’re an idiot.
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (vbdXu) 296
Did the Counting Crows ever open for the Black Crows?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (2GVsD) Or the Old Crow Medicine Show? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (1z8ji) 297
NOOD Milo
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (2CeDH) 298
they are deported for breaking the conditions of their Visa application and stay..I hope Rubio shows the way and IGNORES this judicial criminality
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (g47mK) 299
124 Franz Liebkind was a pigeon fancier.
Posted by: The Concierge at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (JM9I6) Somehow Chang from Community yelling 'PIGEON FANCIER' doesn't roll off the tongue as well. Posted by: Nelly at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (6+ehB) 300
I refuse to believe it but believe it. Either way don't give a fuck, AI can't obliterate that industry soon enough.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (eZQ1g) I will happily take AI slop over r*tard slop any day of the week. The r*tards can go back to tumblr and be poor; tired of them destroying things created by people 1000 times more talented. Posted by: Nelly at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (6+ehB) 301
Beria didn't think that anything would happen, either
Then a firing squad was assembled............ Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (jrgJz) 302
Abraham Lincoln sails past Singapore homeward bound. Captain opens channel D stating," she won't love you long time."
Posted by: kingsman at August 31, 2026 03:27 PM (ehY6c) Hampton Prescott on “The Curley Effect” – Municipal Mismanagement that Perpetuates Political Power by Driving Away Responsible Opposition[I needed backup for today’s Morning Rant, so friend-of-the-blog Hampton Prescott kindly offered up another of his excellent essays on the need for a revival of “municipal conservatism” to rescue failing cities. Specifically, I asked Hampton if he would discuss the subject of productive citizens fleeing cities - why it’s happening, the business community’s indifference to it, and what can be done to reverse the problem. I always assumed that the flight of law-abiding, tax-paying residents was a consequence of liberal mismanagement, but as Hampton explains, there is actually a term, “The Curley Effect,” for destructive municipal governance that benefits those in power by driving away responsible citizens who might otherwise vote incumbents out of office. Mr. Prescott’s essay is below the fold. – Buck] Being a student of history is indispensable, in that it equips you with the capacity to cut through the “we are living through unprecedented times” noise. It also helps tremendously in spotting past parallels to current social, political and economic dynamics. One aspect of history that is of particular interest is the political career of James Michael Curley, four-time mayor of Boston and governor of Massachusetts in the early-to-mid 20th Century. Curley’s influence persists to this day through what is known as “The Curley Effect,” defined as a political strategy and economic model where targeted, inefficient, or divisive public policies are intentionally leveraged to drive political opponents out. By encouraging wealthier or opposing demographics to flee, the politician employing The Curley Effect alters the local voter base to secure permanent power, even if the strategy causes long-term economic decline. The impact on Boston and Massachusetts in general was disastrous, as Curley’s tenure coincided with Boston suffering from economic stagnation that took until the "Massachusetts Miracle" in the 1980’s to truly shake off. I can’t help but think of The Curley Effect when I see the abysmal governance of our major cities today. Specifically, it came to mind when I saw a clip of Seattle’s newly elected Mayor Katie Wilson respond to the outflow of the private sector from the City with a vapid response of (verbatim) “To the ones that leave, like bye! Hahaha!” You don’t have to squint hard to see the connection between the high property taxes and spending policies in Boston that drove out the private sector and the anemic response to crime, vagrancy and other quality of life matters in Seattle that is driving away stalwart institutions like Starbucks and Amazon. No shortage of ink has been spilled on the rise of the far left in major cities over the past decade. What is missing from much of this commentary is the idea that this incompetence could be intentional in order to lock in long-term political power. The good news is that the Curley Effect is not an immutable law of urban physics (contrary to the opinion of many commentators.) It thrives in environments of low accountability and general apathy. The solutions are there for those serious about reclaiming the cultural and economic beacons that are our cities. First, business communities nationwide need to shake off the apathy and ineffectiveness that has defined their “activities” in the past decade and re-assert the influence that they once had in their respective cities. Two destructive causes of this unfortunate development: 1) Short-sighted libertarianism that puts a mask on lack of interest in the hard work of fostering on-the-ground relationships; or 2) ESG-type grifting which outsourced much of the work out of “community involvement” for executives. Other major causes include corporate consolidation that removed many institutional pillars from many major cities and increasing financialization of the real estate sectors. The major real estate owners who had breakfast with city council member once a week were displaced by faceless institutions lacking long-term interest in the viability of the cities they purchased property in. Sun Belt cities have always been held back due to the lack of a healthy urban core (this has arguably kept them from reaching the prominence of a New York or San Francisco, despite predictions to the contrary stretching back to the 50s), so a scenario where cities like Seattle emulate this structure is one that will make for a less productive and sadder country. The business community needs to get out from behind the Zoom call taken from Palm Beach and take action. Second (covering the nuts and bolts of policy solutions here) there is a need to impose hard fiscal and governance constraints. Strict balanced-budget requirements, supermajority thresholds for tax increases, and independent performance audits make it harder to fund patronage networks or soft-on-crime experiments indefinitely. Term limits for mayors and city councils reduce the payoff from long-term demographic engineering. Recall mechanisms and robust citizen-initiative processes give remaining residents tools to reverse course before decline becomes terminal. Beyond formal reforms, people concerned with The Curley Effect taking over their hometowns can utilize their social media accounts to hold governance to account. There are many excellent accounts in Atlanta who draw attention to shortcomings in things ranging from mass transit experience to permitting timelines. Social media can be a very valuable tool in this regard. Third, prioritize the basic public goods that keep productive people in place: competent policing, clean streets, functional schools, and predictable property rights. Cities that restore order and reverse the visible decay of public spaces reverse the outbound migration of the tax base. These are not ideological luxuries; they are the minimum conditions for retaining the human capital that funds everything else. In my experience, my posts on restoring law and order and urban beautification get likes across the wide political spectrum, so the idea that these issues are firmly partisan is a highly questionable one. History shows that the Curley Effect can be broken. Boston eventually recovered once policy shifted toward growth and competence under Governor Dukakis in the 1980’s. Today’s cities face the same choice. The politicians who wave goodbye to departing employers and residents are not invincible; they are simply betting that voters and institutions will remain passive. Raising the price of that bet, through aggressive counteraction, constraints, and competence, is the practical path out. HAMPTON PRESCOTT Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (3Ae0s) 2
Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS) 3
So I am assuming Boston is now a bastion of good government since they shook off the effect in the 80's, Right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Y/06r) 4
Nobody wants to live in a shit hole city/county/state. Except the people who created the shit hole in the first place.
But they too tire of it and move elsewhere to start the shitification process all over. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (2Cry5) 5
the practical path is the Hershey highway to the old dirt road
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (dL8V2) 6
One aspect of history that is of particular interest is the political career of James Michael Curley, four-time mayor of Boston and governor of Massachusetts in the early-to-mid 20th Century. Curley’s influence persists to this day through what is known as “The Curley Effect,” defined as a political strategy and economic model where targeted, inefficient, or divisive public policies are intentionally leveraged to drive political opponents out. By encouraging wealthier or opposing demographics to flee, the politician employing The Curley Effect alters the local voter base to secure permanent power, even if the strategy causes long-term economic decline. T
Interesting that China has chosen to apply this model to an entire country. Of course, it's not always possible for the undesirable demographics to physically flee, and China is doing its best to prevent capital from moving as well. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t) 7
Decline is a choice. Trump is showing us that there is another way.
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (E/qck) 8
Hey, we had effects, too!
-- Moe and Larry Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ) 9
No monkey.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:04 AM (zjgNU) 10
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Detroit at August 31, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1) 11
the politician employing The Curley Effect alters the local voter base to secure permanent power, even if the strategy causes long-term economic decline.
*shifty eyes* Posted by: The Uniparty at August 31, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t) 12
“The Curley Effect,” defined as a political strategy and economic model where targeted, inefficient, or divisive public policies are intentionally leveraged to drive political opponents out. By encouraging wealthier or opposing demographics to flee, the politician employing The Curley Effect alters the local voter base to secure permanent power, even if the strategy causes long-term economic decline.
Memphis, Chicago, East St. Louis, Atlanta... Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:05 AM (3Ae0s) 13
Are we sure Israel isn't at fault? Just asking questions.
Posted by: T'Qatar Carlson at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (BVbFo) Posted by: The Uniparty at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t) 15
By encouraging wealthier or opposing demographics to flee, the politician employing The Curley Effect alters the local voter base to secure permanent power, even if the strategy causes long-term economic decline.
The left really would prefer to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (ndZc7) 17
LA is about to return to power one of the people responsible for the Palisades burning to the ground.
Or barring that, their other option is putting in power, a person who was given the duty to do something about LA's homeless problem, that person failed spectacularly. They were given an option to vote for a Republican who actually had skin in the game and wanted to tackle the problems head on. The citizens of LA rejected this option. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (tjgV0) 18
What a shithole that place became! I, however, am unchanged and will stay here until it reaches the same level of shithole-ness.
Posted by: Urban Flyers at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (rJhDk) 19
Memphis, Chicago, East St. Louis, Atlanta...
Any large city in California. And, of course, DC under Marion Barry. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t) 20
Oh. Well, then …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:08 AM (ayRl+) Posted by: The Vote-Counters of LA at August 31, 2026 11:09 AM (rJhDk) 22
They were given an option to vote for a Republican who actually had skin in the game and wanted to tackle the problems head on.
The citizens of LA rejected this option. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (tjgV0) ---- This assumes that the citizens of LA were given an honest chance to make a difference. Voter fraud is so ingrained in CA, it seems nearly *IMPOSSIBLE* for anyone who really wants to change things to rise above it. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 11:09 AM (FZ29D) 23
"prioritize the basic public goods that keep productive people in place: competent policing, clean streets, functional schools, and predictable property rights"
Competent policing without competent prosecutors and judges and effective laws is futile. Functional schools? We forgot how to do that 60 years ago. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq) Posted by: DC Wash at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (JM9I6) 25
1. Vote early. 2. Vote often.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (ayRl+) 26
Hampton Prescott kindly offered up another of his excellent essays on the need for a revival of “municipal conservatism” to rescue failing cities.
Nothing will happen until those failing cities decide to change. As it is, they're still counting on government bailing them out and subsidizing their shiftless lifestyles. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t) 27
No, it's because of the content of their character.
Posted by: White guy with his family in a minivan pulling a U-Haul trailer at August 31, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1) 28
Meh, they deserve what they voted for, just pray they don't move to your state.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 31, 2026 11:11 AM (Q/FnY) 29
Kicking the can down the road works until there is no more street.
Has Gary, IN gotten their power back yet? Or are they still shooting at utility workers? Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 11:11 AM (2GVsD) 30
Those are some ideas, but how exactly are the cities going to implement them?
Our main issue is that everything is too big and governance is too separated from the populace. If your vote, your involvement has almost zero effect on the outcome, why bother? If the places where you could affect the outcome have almost zero effect on your life, again, why bother? We need to bring governance much closer to the people who it governs and make politicians more accountable. If you govern a ward of 50,000 people, like in Chicago, how much of an effect does each individual have? But, if your ward was 5,000? You might not know everyone in your ward, but you'd know most families and you'd be much more connected. 50,000? You know the people who fund your campaign. Our government overall is too big. It needs to be much smaller and much more local. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU) 31
Memphis, Chicago, East St. Louis, Atlanta...
Is there power? It is corrupt. But I live in the Northeastern Corridor of Corruption, so I may be biased. Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (P5C/E) 32
Competent policing without competent prosecutors and judges and effective laws is futile.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq) ---- Yep. Police might be very competent at their jobs, but they are downstream in a system that prioritizes criminals over law-abiding citizens. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (FZ29D) 33
@22
>>This assumes that the citizens of LA were given an honest chance to make a difference. Barring a smoking gun, vote fraud is always assumed, but can never really be proven emphatically. At the end of the day, the citizens of LA either through apathy or simply not giving a f**k has allowed this system to take hold and become the defacto state of play. Until the people of LA take control of their government, they are going to keep getting the short end of the stick. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (tjgV0) 34
"We're comin' to your town / We're gonna shut it down / We're an American Band!" … who sang that?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (ayRl+) 35
Anyone with a serious interest in "The Curley Effect" ought to read Jack Beatty's The Rascal King and, for a fictional portrayal, Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah.
As an aside, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones had a song called "The Rascal King," which was a paean to Curley. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (qRla/) 36
hmm
well I'm not as sanguine the Left is attempting to, via control of cities and certain states, collapse the USA and take it over. The Curley effect is a TOOL they are using for this. to strengthen THEIR redoubts! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (j+aD2) 37
Term limits do nothing but make an already lazy electorate more lazy. A lazy electorate is what got us to where we are today.
Participating in governance, being self-governing and participating in government is just TOO HARD, I suppose. But we have to do it. Term limits are a very poor substitute for demanding the kind of government you want, but it’s great to help people shirk their civic duty. San Antonio city government has term limits and they have done nothing to improve the governance there. Dude lost me right there. But he makes sense otherwise. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (WB/3O) 38
I suspect attacks on 9/11, and those attacks not in blue sh tholes.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (LHPAg) 39
Has Gary, IN gotten their power back yet? Or are they still shooting at utility workers?
One wonders if the utility workers were black or white. If white, they hate whitey so much they'd rather live without power just to get to shoot at him. If black, well, I admit I'd be puzzled by that one. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t) 40
22, perfesser is spot-on
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (VyBeY) 41
But, if your ward was 5,000? You might not know everyone in your ward, but you'd know most families and you'd be much more connected.
You said it, pal! Posted by: George Washington Plunkett at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (qRla/) 42
36 hmm
well I'm not as sanguine the Left is attempting to, via control of cities and certain states, collapse the USA and take it over. The Curley effect is a TOOL they are using for this. to strengthen THEIR redoubts! Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (j+aD2) Except for one thing. People do have One Final Freedom. Voting with their feet. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (WB/3O) 43
As the song goes, "They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please."
Look at how incandescently enraged they are over the improvements Trump is making to DC*. It's not just the White House or the cost that infuriates them: It's that he's showing 1) you don't have to live like this and 2) the degradation and dilapidation was intentional by the Democrats. They WANT* the disgusting, scummy, run-down, crime-ridden cities. * Note well, this is why they so openly cheated to stop Spencer Pratt Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (3cUTc) 44
Remind me again why we can't have public hangings of corrupt officials … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (ayRl+) 45
Any large city in America. Maybe world wide.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (Cqx++) 46
The citizens of LA rejected this option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender Ballots rejected that option. Note that not one word above addresses a major cause of urban dysfunction--a) gimmedats, and b) election fraud. Thieves take over city halls because they steal and sell favors to people like real estate developers for forever. Smart thieves don't rob banks because like Willie Sutton said, that is where the money is. Instead, they play a longer game and take over municipalities to loot and sell favor. Washington Plunkitt called it honest graft. And that has been going on since cities got big enough to loot from the taxpayers. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (E4rtv) 47
“Gresham’s law” (bad money drives out good money) applied to politics.
Decent people, businessmen and women, they don’t want to touch politics with a ten foot pole. And local politics is where the feeder stock for higher office is drawn. Diane Feinstein was a supervisor in San Francisco for just one of many many examples. I’m reading a book about the 1960s and beyond, how SF was deconstructed over the years and she keeps popping up. Real piece of work right there. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (IkLDu) 48
"We're comin' to your town / We're gonna shut it down / We're an American Band!" … who sang that?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (ayRl+) Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, IIRC. And I believe the lyric is "We're comin' to your town / We're gonna party down" Posted by: George Washington Plunkett at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (qRla/) 49
That CCP puppet Wu is worse than Curley. At least they had the decency to jail.him back in the day. Today NWH.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (bX16E) 50
The Curley Effect certainly operates in Portland, and the Democratic Socialists of America (which controls half of the city council) encourages it.
Seventy percent of the population of the Portland metro area lives in the suburbs, so people who are sick of the poor quality of government services in Portland can simply move a few miles and avoid them. So, if only twenty percent of the population are lunatic leftists, and they all live in Portland, they have a voting majority in Portland. The problem, of course, is that the people fleeing Portland bring their political beliefs with them, so the suburbs become progressively more left-wing (if more moderate than Portland) over time. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:16 AM (aD4fx) 51
Grand Funk Railroad
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 11:17 AM (hUS/0) 52
48 Grand Funk. They say the guitar solo is greatly admired to this day.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 11:17 AM (bX16E) 53
If black, well, I admit I'd be puzzled by that one.
——- Black utility linemen are just “acting White”, you see. Commence firing!! Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (IkLDu) 54
>>"We're comin' to your town / We're gonna shut it down / We're an American Band!" … who sang that?
Grand Funk, aka Bland Gunk, Railroad. Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (NcvvS) 55
As the song goes, "They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please." They're feeding our people that government cheese https://t.ly/NPTMT Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++) 56
@46
>>Ballots rejected that option. Note that not one word above addresses a major cause of urban dysfunction--a) gimmedats, and b) election fraud. The system rejected that option, but the system is instituted by the people. As maxim goes, nobody is coming to save us. Or in this case, the system is the system and barring a citizen revolt, the system will keep on keeping on. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (tjgV0) Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (P5C/E) 58
Has Gary, IN gotten their power back yet? Or are they still shooting at utility workers?
Posted by: Anna Puma ==== Website sez they're down to about 70 sites. Not sure if they're under fire. Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (39WC0) 59
Yep.
Police might be very competent at their jobs, but they are downstream in a system that prioritizes criminals over law-abiding citizens. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (FZ29D) Where do we see this? Houston. The cops there might well be competent, but the judges voted in there assure a revolving door to jail, or letting people out with stupid low bonds, etc. And the Harris County DA is a soft on crime zealot as well. The thing keeping Houston from being like Chicago, IMHO? The fact that people there are armed to the teeth and are not hesitant to defend themselves. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (WB/3O) 60
Which spreads the virus.
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (P5C/E) It can. Not always. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:19 AM (WB/3O) 61
>>So I am assuming Boston is now a bastion of good government since they shook off the effect in the 80's, Right?
As someone who lived through the revival and eventual return to idiocy in Boston I have a slightly different view of how Massachusetts and Boston in particular rebounded and are now sinking again. When we bought our condo in Boston back around 1980 they were practically giving them away. They were so eager to sell they tossed in a parking space for free and if you know Boston parking that was big. What caused the Massachusetts Miracle It was really the advent of the computer age. Long before Silicon Valley was a thing there was Route 128 in MA. Companies like Digital Equipment, Wang, Lotus BB&N and many more sprang up all over the region, largely fed by the colleges and universities in and around Boston. It was an absolute gold rush. And people with money started demanding better services from the politicians and they complied. Briefly. And then, of course, politicians started feeding off it, property values went through the roof, and lots of those jobs moved out of state taking lots of money with them. That opened the door for the new Curley politicians. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 11:19 AM (viF8m) 62
33 @22
>>This assumes that the citizens of LA were given an honest chance to make a difference. Barring a smoking gun, vote fraud is always assumed, but can never really be proven emphatically. At the end of the day, the citizens of LA either through apathy or simply not giving a f**k has allowed this system to take hold and become the defacto state of play. Until the people of LA take control of their government, they are going to keep getting the short end of the stick. Posted by: Thomas Bender ======= I have come to the conclusion that unlimited franchise simply is unworkable. But, if we want to actually give it a fair chance first, that requires reducing the endless election of minor offices into a few and having those elections during the regular primary and general election cycle. We have too many elections essentially which means that only about 10-15 percent of the electorate, many of which depend on gimmedats from government (jobs, welfare, favors), end up voting on municipal elections. And who does what in many governments is hard to comprehend even for a specialist as urban areas vary and have overlapping offices, jurisdictions, and powers. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv) 63
Sooooo … how many cities should have Don McLean's "American Pie" as their theme song … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (ayRl+) 64
I believe it was a Grand Funk Railroad firm, who generously offered their enthusiastic assistance at “partying down” in your town.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (IkLDu) 65
If black, well, I admit I'd be puzzled by that one.
——- Black utility linemen are just “acting White”, you see. Commence firing!! You think that black people have a problem shooting other black people? Most mass shootings in the United States are ignored, because the shooting occurs in a black neighborhood. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (aD4fx) 66
52 48 Grand Funk. They say the guitar solo is greatly admired to this day.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 11:17 AM (bX16E) Mark Farner, I think. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (LHPAg) 67
My daughter, formerly of NYC, was over for dinner last night, and was regaling me with tales of her visits with her old friends there. Almost all of them are the scions of wealthy parents, and almost none of them have real jobs, choosing instead to rely on their parents for support into their 30s. They do, however, have their precious degrees in Film Arts. They are all very, very woke, and insist that Mamdani is great, while living in their parentally-subsidized apartments on the East Side of Manhattan. Even my fairly liberal daughter is becoming red-pilled, and took pride that she has a good job in a real field (software development) and doesn't need us to support her.
Decline is a choice. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t) 68
Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, IIRC. And I believe the lyric is "We're comin' to your town / We're gonna party down"
Posted by: George Washington Plunkett at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (qRla/) GFR BTO were Canadian. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (WB/3O) 69
Memphis, Chicago, East St. Louis, Atlanta...
Is there power? It is corrupt. But I live in the Northeastern Corridor of Corruption, so I may be biased. Posted by: t-bird Sad to say, but if there is an MLK BLVD. Is almost an even bet. Then there's all of Louisiana. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (3Ae0s) 70
Once the corruption takes hold, and people begin to profit off it, it's next to impossible to stop. It just keeps growing until there are only two demographic populations:
- Politicians and their supporters making bank - Everyone else, living next to, or in, poverty Whatever's "in the middle" of those two groups is desperately trying to flee. Be it R or D. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:21 AM (2Cry5) 71
When we moved to Missouri, we had to go through the dreaded changing vehicle titles, DLs, and vehicle registration and other fees.
The DMV in the small town we had to go to was the most...pleasant experience I ever had in a DMV. It was like being in grandma's living room, with knick knacks and Bible verses hanging on the walls, couches, and locals just shooting the breeze while conducting their business. There were maybe a dozen at most in the office, which used to be someone's very nice home at one time. I never really had a bad experience at a DMV, but living in a town with maybe 1200 people, the very small town charm is enticing to even lefties, who then proceed to destroy that charm. So yes, I pray for our cities, and I pray for lefties, as well as everyone else that need to repent. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (Rln0i) 72
Term limits do nothing but make an already lazy electorate more lazy. A lazy electorate is what got us to where we are today.
-- We do not need more laws. We need less laws. Laws reducing the size, scope and reach of government at every level. This Byzantine leviathan of laws we have erected has conditioned a public to assume the government must--and that only it can--take care of everything. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (3cUTc) 73
So I am assuming Boston is now a bastion of good government since they shook off the effect in the 80's, Right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! *gasps* You're killin' me, here! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X) 74
If black, well, I admit I'd be puzzled by that one.
——- Black utility linemen are just “acting White”, you see. Commence firing!! You think that black people have a problem shooting other black people? Most mass shootings in the United States are ignored, because the shooting occurs in a black neighborhood. Posted by: The ARC of History! It's "putting it to the man", not necessarily the individual. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (3Ae0s) 75
63 Sooooo … how many cities should have Don McLean's "American Pie" as their theme song … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (ayRl+) Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry And the good ol boys singing Whiskey and Rye Drinking “this will be the day that I die, this will be the day that I die” Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:23 AM (WB/3O) Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:23 AM (Rln0i) 77
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
*gasps* You're killin' me, here! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X) Huh. That's weird. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r) 78
It's Elephant God Day in Paris! https://tinyurl.com/mmbcu3zn Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (ndZc7) Hilarious! It's just like Christmas only with throwing garbage till it's ankle deep all over the streets. Why don't we change the name of San Francisco to Ganesh City? It's already got the garbage everywhere. Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (iJfKG) 79
Or in this case, the system is the system and barring a citizen revolt, the system will keep on keeping on.
Posted by: Thomas Bender ======= Localities fail when the money fails. US is facing a debt crisis in the near future--Trump saw that there is and was no constituency for austerity and kicked the can down the road, hoping that the economy growing faster than the debt might save us. And we are leaning on the residual reserve currency to save us in the short run, perhaps too much, perhaps the new crypto linked to government securities might prolong it. But if the national government money becomes worthless, then too does all the spending that localities do. So you get something like Germany post WWI--repudiation by massive inflation or even formal repudiation. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv) 80
Rule in hell, of their own making, rather than live in paradise.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (xvV+O) 81
We do not need more laws.
We need less laws. Laws reducing the size, scope and reach of government at every level. We need immediate, draconian, implacable punishment for crimes already on the books. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t) 82
So I am assuming Boston is now a bastion of good government since they shook off the effect in the 80's, Right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Y/06r) So it would seem, haha. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (1z8ji) 83
Sooooo … how many cities should have Don McLean's "American Pie" as their theme song … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM I dunno. How many have levees? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X) 84
Maybe the best musical accompaniment for today's cities is Mr Duane Allman's 'One Way Out' from their 'Fillmore East' album …
('Ain't no way I'm goin' out that front door … ') Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (ayRl+) 85
Police might be very competent at their jobs, but they are downstream in a system that prioritizes criminals over law-abiding citizens.
——- This is easy to figure out, by logical deduction. If your “leadership” will throw you under the bus if anything goes sideways, if you risk life and limb to arrest bad guys and they are back out on the street before you’ve filed the report, then you’re going to learn to be invisible - aka “tourist in blue”. And then they often hire people who don’t belong, aren’t capable, don’t meet standards, etc when recruitment and retention craters. Nobody wants to work for low frequency defective people if they can help it. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (IkLDu) 86
Most mass shootings in the United States are ignored, because the shooting occurs in a black neighborhood.
Posted by: The ARC of History! It's "putting it to the man", not necessarily the individual. Posted by: rickb223 ====== Subgeniuses using cargo cult thinking--if we shoot at the repair guys, we can make the power company do as we like. Third World thinking. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv) 87
@ 83 Sooooo … how many cities should have Don McLean's "American Pie" as their theme song … ? Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM
I dunno. How many have levees? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X) ___________________________________ How many of 'em have a river … ? Or a lake? Creeks don't count. Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:26 AM (ayRl+) 88
o I am assuming Boston is now a bastion of good government since they shook off the effect in the 80's, Right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Y/06r) So it would seem, haha. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM Of course...it's an absolute Wutopia here in Boston. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X) 89
Our government overall is too big. It needs to be much smaller and much more local.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU) True, but never forget that the assholes you see populating Congress got their start at the very local level. Many of them, anyway. Working their way up from school boards, county courthouses, city government, etc. Local does not always mean better, as you can see by local governments in TX spending the taxpayers into penury. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:28 AM (WB/3O) 90
If Greasy Gavin Newsom ran Grand Funk Railroad they wouldn't be coming anywhere.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 11:28 AM (ndZc7) 91
Cities are safer now
Murder rates are low. Blue states have higher incomes live longer lower crime than red states. Posted by: Paul at August 31, 2026 11:28 AM (n3y/k) 92
Sad to say, but if there is an MLK BLVD. Is almost an even bet. Then there's all of Louisiana.
Posted by: rickb223 ___ It wasn't all that bad living on MLK Jr Ave in hubby's hometown in South GA back in the 90s. The girls walked to school, and a lot of the neighbors knew Ex-ex and his family since they all went to school together. Now...it's bad. Real bad. We last drove through there back in 2023...and we were both armed...just in case. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:29 AM (Rln0i) 93
Functional schools? We forgot how to do that 60 years ago.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq) Didn't forget. We handed control of the schools to people who aren't interested in functional schools, but a pliable populace. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:29 AM (zjgNU) 94
@ 91 Cities are safer now
Murder rates are low. Blue states have higher incomes live longer lower crime than red states. _______________________ I'll have whatever he's having … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:29 AM (ayRl+) Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Rln0i) 96
Paul is correct. Cities are safer now, because Trump has deported so many criminals. Thanks for that observation, Paul.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t) 97
Grand Funk, aka Bland Gunk, Railroad.
Posted by: Nazdar ________ Hey, I really like Bad Time. Nice harmonies and key changes. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K) 98
Blue states have higher incomes live longer lower crime than red states.
And yet, people flee blue states for red states. It's the strangest thing. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (aD4fx) Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Rln0i) 100
First time "competence" and "Dukakis" have been used together in the same sentence?
Posted by: toddg at August 31, 2026 11:31 AM (ceFtv) 101
First time "competence" and "Dukakis" have been used together in the same sentence?
*contemplates possible limerick incorporating Dukakis and Arrakis* Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t) 102
At bleepingcomputer, "Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates."
Cripes. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Jr5Lq) 103
And yet, people flee blue states for red states.
___ Yep, that's why we moved to Missouri. Because Illinois was too...safe. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Rln0i) 104
Yep, that's why we moved to Missouri.
Because Illinois was too...safe. Posted by: SMH It sounds like your new place is wonderful. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ) 105
As observed above, Blue cities are safer because of Trump. Does that mean Paul is going to vote for Trump? or, nah? Shocka! Bluebird is Bluetarded! Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG) 106
We do not need more laws.
We need less laws. Laws reducing the size, scope and reach of government at every level. This Byzantine leviathan of laws we have erected has conditioned a public to assume the government must--and that only it can--take care of everything. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice That byzantine web of laws occurs because you either have government punish people or society. We decided long ago to not let society punish (which avoids lynching, witch burning, etc.) but instead creates these web of laws. Your neighbor decides to ignore basic hygiene and crap in the ditch and strew trash, rather than beating his ass into compliance, we instead employ code enforcement and perhaps even law enforcement if he proves recalcitrant. The local teacher decides she is going to teach all the boys that they are she--instead of having the witch burned at the stake, we get the school board meeting, due process with a lawyer attached, the firing process, etc. etc. The local druggie decides to fund his habit by selling to anyone, including kids, ditto. To quote Madison, if men were angels, no government would be necessary. And so it becomes Leviathan. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv) 107
Paul is correct. Cities are safer now, because Trump has deported so many criminals. Thanks for that observation, Paul.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t) ___ Okay, there's that. St. Louis is much more pleasant to go to nowadays. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (Rln0i) 108
Well, that interview went. It was more of a screening call anyway, and despite how the job description read, they were looking for one end of things - the end I didn't have.
Oh well. *scratches it off the list* Back to the treadmill. Still got hopes for a couple from last week plus some recruiters that owe me a response. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 11:34 AM (aJQbY) Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (kYmoU) 110
A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew8) 111
89 Our government overall is too big. It needs to be much smaller and much more local.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU) True, but never forget that the assholes you see populating Congress got their start at the very local level. Many of them, anyway. Working their way up from school boards, county courthouses, city government, etc. Local does not always mean better, as you can see by local governments in TX spending the taxpayers into penury. Posted by: Cow Demon ======= Absolutely true. And that is a real cost when the population does not agree on basic ground rules--diversity gives those officeholders more power essentially because they become arbiters rather than representatives. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv) 112
And yet, people flee blue states for red states.
The Left is now claiming that 400,000 trannies have fled red states for blue states since Trump was reelected. This was based on a very dubious survey, but what makes it even funnier is they assume that 1.3% of the population is trans - four million trannies in the United States. Portland doesn't come remotely close to being 1.3% trans, let alone 1.3% of the whole country. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (aD4fx) 113
St. Louis is much more pleasant to go to nowadays.
My daughter left StL about 8 years ago. It was pretty bad when she was there, but there was incessant talk about an incipient turnaround. From what little I've seen, that hasn't happened, but it would be nice if it did. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t) 114
110 A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons ======= As long as the bomb bay doors stay shut. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (E4rtv) 115
Of course...it's an absolute Wutopia here in Boston.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X) "Wutopia" LOL, Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji) 116
108 Good luck to you, RandomDave.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq) 117
A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound.
If it drops a single object, head for the basement tout de suite. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t) 118
91: Paul and his programmers are at it again. How many times does he spout this nonsense?
Crime is down thanks to criminals being kicked out of the country in droves and loosened restrictions on firearms. The programmers talk about how blue states have higher incomes than red states. Maybe. But states like TX don’t gobble up incomes with sky high state income taxes. And cost of living in red states are way lower. Try buying a house in CA, IL or NY and let me know how that goes compared to TX or other “inferior” red states. Program Paul better. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (WB/3O) 119
102 At bleepingcomputer, "Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates."
Cripes. Posted by: gp ======= Microsoft is melting down in real time with enshittification. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (E4rtv) 120
@ 110 A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew
__________________________ Don't look at the bright flash when it comes, 'kay … Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (ayRl+) 121
Hey Bulg, it is!
Mother-in-law and sister-in-law are visiting this weekend from south GA. They're driving. This will be Nana's first time in Missouri, and she's gonna love the place. And she's gonna love the horses. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:38 AM (Rln0i) 122
117 A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound.
If it drops a single object, head for the basement tout de suite. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t) That close? I’d say you are fucked. Maybe yell “yee-haw” like Slim Pickens (without the benefit of the ride). Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (WB/3O) 123
Of course...it's an absolute Wutopia here in Boston.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X) "Wutopia" LOL, Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM I forget who I stole that from. There was also "Wuville," but I'm still waiting for the Grinch of reality to dopeslap the mayor of Wuville. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (bFu5X) 124
And she's gonna love the horses.
Posted by: SMH Do you have horses yourself, or just live among folks who do? Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ) 125
As long as the bomb bay doors stay shut.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (E4rtv) I can think of a few cities where the converse might be welcomed. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:40 AM (1z8ji) 126
We'll keep you safe. Posted by: Flock cameras at August 31, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X) 128
"A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound."
Google AI sez there are only two left flying worldwide. I got to tour one once, very cool. Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Jr5Lq) 129
Program Paul better.
Posted by: Cow Demon One advantage of a primitive interface here, is that the non English speaking trolls have a hard time, they usually just like to drop AI or photoshopped memes on X that are essentially thread jacking. You can always tell what the internal talking points are to the paid and unpaid trolls that way--they drop their little balls of turd regardless of the subject. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv) 130
This is happening statewide. People credit DeSantis with turning Florida red. He's great but mostly it is Republicans fleeing New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. California is also permanently blue due to rational people fleeing.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (wGerL) 131
108 Well, that interview went. It was more of a screening call anyway, and despite how the job description read, they were looking for one end of things - the end I didn't have.
Oh well. *scratches it off the list* Back to the treadmill. Still got hopes for a couple from last week plus some recruiters that owe me a response. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 11:34 AM (aJQbY) Sorry man. Been there done that. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (WB/3O) 132
MA has significantly worse government now then under Curley.
The current governor and mayor are arguing that the massive increases in crime and government expenditures are just the price to be paid for living in a modern society and most of the MA electorate seems to agree. I've gotten into it with lefty LIVs in MA and while they agree things are far worse they'll still offer up "But I can't vote for a Republicans, they are NAZIs. Better crooks then fascists right?" Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (sKqQm) 133
Try buying a house in CA, IL or NY and let me know how that goes compared to TX or other “inferior” red states.
___ A house and over four acres for less than $250,000 in the Ozarks. I'm fine with less people here. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Rln0i) 134
A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound.
Some day I'd really like to see a B-36 Peacemaker fly by, but I'm not sure there are even any airworthy ones left. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t) Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv) 136
I forget who I stole that from. There was also "Wuville," but I'm still waiting for the Grinch of reality to dopeslap the mayor of Wuville.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (bFu5X) She sounds like Olivia Chow, the deranged NDP mayor of Toronto. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (1z8ji) 137
> A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
--------- Pretty rare sighting of one flyable. Not sure how many are in operational condition, but it's got to be in the single digits. Saw one up close at Monterey's airport years and years ago. They also had a B-24 and a B-25 on display. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (2Cry5) 138
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 11:34 AM (aJQbY)
___ Prayers up. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (Rln0i) 139
Most people are dumb, selfish and lazy. Living in big cities comes natural to this type as they would starve to death if they lived elsewhere.
Being self sufficient does not appeal to them. Posted by: Feed Me at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (+iYtA) 140
"B-36 Peacemaker" Six turning, four burning.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (Jr5Lq) 141
"A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound."
Google AI sez there are only two left flying worldwide. I got to tour one once, very cool. Maybe ten years ago, there was an airshow in DC, and my old lab backed directly onto the Potomac, down which the planes flew. A B-29 was among them; it was just stunningly beautiful. You know, if you aren't Japanese. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t) 142
137 > A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
--------- Pretty rare sighting of one flyable. Not sure how many are in operational condition, but it's got to be in the single digits. two. fifi and doc. Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (sGtp+) 143
One advantage of a primitive interface here, is that the non English speaking trolls have a hard time, they usually just like to drop AI or photoshopped memes on X that are essentially thread jacking. You can always tell what the internal talking points are to the paid and unpaid trolls that way--they drop their little balls of turd regardless of the subject.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv) Absolutely. On one YT post there was an AI apologist for the PRC. The topic was Canada and I could tell it was a bot because no matter the objections to the PRC, it kept saying over and over again “China is Canada’s largest wheat export market.” In EVERY post. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (WB/3O) 144
112 And yet, people flee blue states for red states.
The Left is now claiming that 400,000 trannies have fled red states for blue states since Trump was reelected. This was based on a very dubious survey, but what makes it even funnier is they assume that 1.3% of the population is trans - four million trannies in the United States. Portland doesn't come remotely close to being 1.3% trans, let alone 1.3% of the whole country. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (aD4fx) Could it be possible that's it's all a LIE? P.S., The scripture was right Old and New Testaments both. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (LHPAg) 145
You don't have to be Jewish to love levees.
Posted by: Chicken Salad On Rye at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (JM9I6) 146
If you ask a leftist, cities have never been better. They gush about “high density” housing and new transit, bike lanes and their new favorite word… walkability.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (iY+4Q) 147
MA has significantly worse government now then under Curley.
I lived in Chicago under Mayor Daley The First, and I joked that Chicago's motto was "Good Government, Plus 10%". Far, far better than what Chicago has now. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (aD4fx) Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t) 149
Some day I'd really like to see a B-36 Peacemaker fly by, but I'm not sure there are even any airworthy ones left.
Posted by: Archimedes Looked it up, the only surviving examples are all museum display pieces. The rest were scrapped long ago. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (OUMaO) 150
Another fun Boston story...
Not long after the current anchor baby mayor was first elected she decided to implement a clot shot mandate for going to a restaurants and public functions in Boston. She then had an ask my anything where pretty much everyone complained about the mandates and the restaurant business went to her and said they expected at least a 50% loss in revenue. Amusingly government stats said 90% of Boston was clot shotted and 80% of MA (which makes me pretty sure those stats were false). She eventually relented but she ran and easily won in 2025... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm) 151
She sounds like Olivia Chow, the deranged NDP mayor of Toronto.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM We've secretly swapped Boston's and Toronto's mayors. Let's see if anyone notices... Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (bFu5X) 152
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We'll keep you safe. Posted by: Flock cameras at August 31, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1) I keep me safe. Posted by: Cow Demon and his trusty LTC and 9mm at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (WB/3O) 153
Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (2Ez/1) 154
@ 121 Hey Bulg, it is! Mother-in-law and sister-in-law are visiting this weekend from south GA. They're driving. This will be Nana's first time in Missouri, and she's gonna love the place. And she's gonna love the horses. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:38 AM (Rln0i)
__________________________________ Y' gonna take 'em to Sweetie Pie's and Melroy's too … ? Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (ayRl+) 155
The Left is now claiming that 400,000 trannies have fled red states for blue states since Trump was reelected. This was based on a very dubious survey, but what makes it even funnier is they assume that 1.3% of the population is trans - four million trannies in the United States. Portland doesn't come remotely close to being 1.3% trans, let alone 1.3% of the whole country. The estimate is based on a sample group of...wait for it...ten people. I kid you not. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t) 156
Google AI sez no flying B36s remain.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM (Jr5Lq) 157
Some day I'd really like to see a B-36 Peacemaker fly by, but I'm not sure there are even any airworthy ones left.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t) I used to hear them flying very high over our area when I was a kid. They were especially loud during the colder months. A deep throbbing noise. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM (g8Ew8) 158
There was a Reddit post asking what did Fauci do to make people so mad?
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs” These are the people who live in cities and vote for people like the mayor of Boston. They are still true believers to this day and will never not believe. Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:47 AM (iY+4Q) 159
The citizens of LA rejected this option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (tjgV0) --------------- Ameri-gorn: You already voted. DNC Pippin: Yes, we had one, but what about second voting? DNC Merry: I don't think they know about second voting. Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 11:47 AM (CYBB0) 160
Tee hee. I'm not in jail.
Posted by: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (2Ez/1) 161
The NDP is simply the Communist Party of Canada at this point.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (WB/3O) 162
The estimate is based on a sample group of...wait for it...ten people. I kid you not.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM So...a fraction of one of those 10 people was trans? That math ain't mathin'. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (bFu5X) 163
1.3 of the 10 were trannies?
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:49 AM (iY+4Q) 164
The estimate is based on a sample group of...wait for it...ten people. I kid you not.
Meanwhile, the Left continues to be confused that there isn't more evidence of people fleeing hellish red states. A Portland example: blue cities/states need to build a metric fuckton more homes to make room for those who want to live somewhere they can raise a trans kid, get an abortion, live in a hospitable climate. If we don’t make room for all the new neighbors we clearly aren’t as welcoming as our lawn signs suggest Almost no new housing is being built in Portland, because it doesn't pencil out, despite all the alleged demand for that housing. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:49 AM (aD4fx) 165
"; it was just stunningly beautiful. You know, if you aren't Japanese.
Posted by: Archimedes" ********* My brother is married to a German woman. When his family visited I was showing him my newly acquired M1 Garand. His half German son asked what the rifle was used for? Before I could reply with "killing krauts" my brother explained that it was the US military's battle rifle of WW2. Posted by: Cosda at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (5Mso3) Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (zdLoL) 167
You think a B-29 carried a big bomb load, you should see our pants!
Posted by: Biden/Nadler 2028 at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (JM9I6) 168
The estimate is based on a sample group of...wait for it...ten people. I kid you not.
Posted by: Archimedes ===== The media depends on lies and innumeracy. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv) 169
The last B-29 ('Fifi') I saw was at a Alvin Callendar Field air show put on by the (wait for it) — CONFEDERATE Air Force. Then they got all 'politically correct' and went to 'Commemorative Air Force' … what bullshittery …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (ayRl+) 170
There was a Reddit post asking what did Fauci do to make people so mad?
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs” Then they'll tell you there was never a clot shot mandate and no one ever said it stopped the spread of COVID...but you should get it anyway But I want to take this back a step, by any objective measurement Fauci absolutely failed. Take the official government death numbers and compare them with say China. Yes both are lies but the left tells me its real. By those numbers Fauci should have been fired an hell, we should have hired some Chinese bureaucrat instead... Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (sKqQm) 171
The NDP is simply the Communist Party of Canada at this point.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (WB/3O) It's never been otherwise. Filthy Commies. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (1z8ji) 172
That byzantine web of laws occurs because you either have government punish people or society. We decided long ago to not let society punish (which avoids lynching, witch burning, etc.) but instead creates these web of laws. ...
(several examples) ... To quote Madison, if men were angels, no government would be necessary. And so it becomes Leviathan. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv) You're missing another founder: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" We have a byzantine amount of laws because we rejected Christianity and morality. (I'm not going to pretend that Adams thought any other religion would have worked, because he meant Christianity.) The underpinning of Christian morality allowed for self-governance. It was never perfect, but the law was generally not necessary to enforce compliance for the vast majority of people. (NOW, you did get excesses where some pharisees insisted that children were not allowed any fun on Sundays, but I think that's a smaller problem than wilding gangs attacking passersby in "Street Takeovers".) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (zjgNU) 173
The estimate is based on a sample group of...wait for it...ten people. I kid you not.
Michael Mann's classic global warming "proof" was based on just one tree. Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:52 AM (sKqQm) 174
Don't look at the bright flash when it comes, 'kay …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (ayRl+) And be sure to hide under your desk and pull your coat over your head,. Posted by: A Boomer who grew up in the 50's with that advice at August 31, 2026 11:53 AM (hmYU4) 175
The left is fighting a full war on single family housing. They want everyone living in Soviet style apartment blocs.
And they’re winning this war. California does not allow single family zoning anymore. Someone can build an apartment complex virtually anywhere. Several other states have something similar and a ton of cities do as well. It’s one of the most under reported stories of what’s happening in the country. One day you too will wake up with a construction crew next door to your suburban home with a section 8 apartment complex ready to be constructed. Because nobody’s paying attention ton and fighting it. Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:53 AM (iY+4Q) 176
(NOW, you did get excesses where some pharisees insisted that children were not allowed any fun on Sundays, but I think that's a smaller problem than wilding gangs attacking passersby in "Street Takeovers".)
One thing that bothers me is a lot of LIVs don't realize how much things have changed compared to the 90s or moreso the 50s. It has always been dangerous to be out at night anywhere in America right? Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm) 177
My brother is married to a German woman. When his family visited I was showing him my newly acquired M1 Garand. His half German son asked what the rifle was used for? Before I could reply with "killing krauts" my brother explained that it was the US military's battle rifle of WW2.
Posted by: Cosda at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (5Mso3) ___ lol Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (Rln0i) 178
Grand Funk's "Bad Time" was produced by Frank Zappa.
They were, and are, from Flint. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver _________ Brave AI says it was produced by Jimmy Lenner, but that Zappa produced their last studio album a couple of years later. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (XvL8K) 179
158 There was a Reddit post asking what did Fauci do to make people so mad?
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs” These are the people who live in cities and vote for people like the mayor of Boston. They are still true believers to this day and will never not believe. Posted by: Lake America ======= Some are real, somewhere between 50-80 percent are fake bots/paid commenters or foreigners that have no stake in the US. About in X indicates that these various Mikes, Katies, etc. are often located in Bangladesh, India, etc. And the scam is old, Democrats used to have an organized system to spam letters to the editor using key buzzwords such as claiming to be Republican, etc. Fake and gay theater kid bullshit. Modern era just outsourced Moby-ing to bots and foreigners. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv) 180
Don't look at the bright flash when it comes, 'kay …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (ayRl+) And be sure to hide under your desk and pull your coat over your head,. And, of course, kiss your ass goodbye. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t) 181
It’s one of the most under reported stories of what’s happening in the country. One day you too will wake up with a construction crew next door to your suburban home with a section 8 apartment complex ready to be constructed. Because nobody’s paying attention ton and fighting it.
It's always been grimly amusing that suburban AWFLs vote for people who intend to destroy the suburbs. Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:55 AM (aD4fx) 182
Modern era just outsourced Moby-ing to bots and foreigners.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM Rush's "seminar callers" for the digital age. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:55 AM (bFu5X) Posted by: Democracy does not do a great job of weeding out psychos, but neither does any other form of governm at August 31, 2026 11:56 AM (anL5R) 184
Pennsylvania. Once just Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and York...now an ever growing part of each SE county (& maybe more.)
Keep increasing state and municipal jobs & funding 'social service' non-profits so we'll never break free of ever increasing pensions, benefits, grants. The rulers' millage is always less and their deductions much more. Posted by: L - No nic... at August 31, 2026 11:56 AM (NFX2v) 185
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (Rln0i)
Morning there hon. Sending my best, which isnt really good enough, but sending it all the same. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (eZQ1g) 186
> A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
--------- Pretty rare sighting of one flyable. Not sure how many are in operational condition, but it's got to be in the single digits. Saw one up close at Monterey's airport years and years ago. They also had a B-24 and a B-25 on display. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (2Cry5) We had a nicely restored Grumman Goose fly into our small municipal airport for a car and plane show. What a work of art. And those rotary engines get you going. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv) 187
Tom goes back to vet today for a followup on his sneezing. Looks like the treatment worked; no more sneezing or runny nose. He'll get his rabies shot, and maybe get his ears cleaned out. Next appt will be for Flash, for shots, and to get his ears cleaned too.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (Jr5Lq) 188
B36 had 6 recip piston engines, 28 cylinder each or whatever.
Needed spark plug change after every flight. Or before, whatever you prefer. Kept the crew chiefs from getting into trouble in town I betcha. They topped off the fuel tanks again, after it got taxiing to the runway. Nobody could afford to fly it today, other than Uncle Sam Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:58 AM (IkLDu) 189
War on single family homes is also aided by chamber of commerce “conservatives”. More profitable to build up than out. So they love it. It’s an unholy alliance of far left and corporate right which fucks over regular people.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:58 AM (iY+4Q) 190
> A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound
----------------- Once at the USAF museum I saw a group of Japanese tourists posing for pictures around Bock's Car and a replica of Fat Man. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WtXXf) 191
It's always been grimly amusing that suburban AWFLs vote for people who intend to destroy the suburbs.
In a town near me they seized the town's historic hotel/event location to build a slum for "newcomers". And the Karens were all on board. But now I see their latest posts are around "Why has our town become a city?" "Why is their traffic everywhere" "What is with all the petty crime that is just being allowed now" and... "Why does the town want to raise my taxes?!?" Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm) 192
It’s one of the most under reported stories of what’s happening in the country. One day you too will wake up with a construction crew next door to your suburban home with a section 8 apartment complex ready to be constructed. Because nobody’s paying attention ton and fighting it.
Posted by: Lake America It's not quite that cut and dried, unfortunately--in many areas with a distinct lack of housing inventory there are also zoning and regulatory burdens that are making building anything nearly impossible, which is great for the property values of owners but sucks for anyone trying to acquire housing and still have a few cents left over for niceties like food and such. A mix of types to work with existing neighborhoods would be helpful, but unfortunately you get opposition to most solutions. I get the association, but it's not some magical effect of the high-density housing that causes the problems. Maybe try dealing with the troublemakers directly...and overhaul all those "civil rights" laws that have less to do with spreading liberty and more to do with destroying accountability... Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (OUMaO) Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (Rln0i) 194
Just surfed over to airplaneboneyards dot com
Info about retired military and commercial aircraft stored here in the states and overseas. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:00 PM (2Cry5) 195
You're missing another founder: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
Posted by: Formerly Virginian ====== I don't use that quote because Adams himself backed off of it after seeing the aftermath of the American Revolution. See his lesser known and much later Defense of the Constitutions of the United States (when he was US ambassador to England). Even during the war, he and his cousin Sam was forced to realize reality when his idea that voluntary militiamen and trying to repeat Bunker Hill again and again simply could not beat the British. We needed a permanent national army aka the Continentals and they were not going to risk life and limb without some guarantee that they would get something, land , retirement pay, etc. in the end. Public spirit only takes you so far, working in the direction of self interest, as Adam Smith observed, takes you a lot further. So the incentives have to be changed to emphasize better behavior rather than depend on some innate virtue. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv) 196
According to a report from the Council on Criminal Justice, homicide fell 17% and other violent crimes dropped between 10% and 24% in 30 U.S. cities during the first half of 2025, attributing these declines to ICE removing "the worst of the worst."
https://tinyurl.com/drjzpabp Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 12:00 PM (2Ez/1) 197
Wright-Patterson has the B29 that dropped the Nagasaki bomb.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K) 198
I recently watched an Indian documentary on NF about the final retirement of their last Mig-21 squadrons in 2025. It first flew in 1955. The doc was surprisingly interesting. It was clear that the pilots felt a real bond with that aircraft.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t) 199
> A B-29 just flew low over my home. Absolute beauty in form and sound
----------------- Once at the USAF museum I saw a group of Japanese tourists posing for pictures around Bock's Car and a replica of Fat Man. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WtXXf) lol Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (dK+Kv) 200
>>>as you can see by local governments in TX spending the taxpayers into penury.
Posted by: Cow Demon --- And the taxpayers keep voting to raise taxes. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (vOxCS) 201
And the Karens were all on board. But now I see their latest posts are around "Why has our town become a city?" "Why is their traffic everywhere" "What is with all the petty crime that is just being allowed now" and... "Why does the town want to raise my taxes?!?"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm) Uhm it’s all Trump’s fault, silly. Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (iY+4Q) 202
Once at the USAF museum I saw a group of Japanese tourists posing for pictures around Bock's Car and a replica of Fat Man.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WtXXf) ___ It took nukes for them to stop fighting us. They have every right to be proud, lol. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (Rln0i) 203
Civil Defense survival instructions were based on Hiroshima-scale bombs delivered by manned bombers to a handful of cities a certain party might reach. They made pretty good sense at that level. The US largely abandoned mass survival strategies in the H-bomb and ballistic missile era.
It was the 1990's before the 'bomb shelter' status was removed from the federal building where my office was. Same water barrels and ration packs as when they went into the tunnel, 1965, and I suspect they were moved there from the former federal building. I managed to score a sign, a geiger counter, and the alarm button boxes. I retired not long after that. "Didn't feel safe." Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 12:03 PM (zdLoL) 204
>>>as you can see by local governments in TX spending the taxpayers into penury.
Posted by: Cow Demon --- And the taxpayers keep voting to raise taxes. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (vOxCS) That's usury the case. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:03 PM (dK+Kv) 205
get the association, but it's not some magical effect of the high-density housing that causes the problems
— Yeah it pretty much is. Apartments are populated by transient people who give zero fucks about their neighborhood. And generally speaking renters are on the lower end of income. No, not every renter is a poor deadbeat. But a poor dead eat is usually a renter. When you bring a lot of apartments into an area the area turns to shit. Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (iY+4Q) 206
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (Rln0i)
I just meant compared to you but Amen. Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (eZQ1g) 207
It's not quite that cut and dried, unfortunately--in many areas with a distinct lack of housing inventory there are also zoning and regulatory burdens that are making building anything nearly impossible
We imported tens of millions of legal and illegal immigrants. They have to live somewhere. And if we had some discussion on immigration this is something that would have been addressed that by letting these people in: Rent/Housing prices will go up Cities will get denser Towns will become cities There will be more "suburban sprawl" but we never had a discussion because the FNM doesn't want to talk about it and the GOPe has been mostly useless Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (sKqQm) 208
As long as federal taxpayers foot the bill for most of the wasteful spending (transit, Medicaid, schools) in the cities, no one cares.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (RIvkX) 209
Have the Moe and Larry japes been made yet? Just got here and jumped right in.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar8) 210
We needed a permanent national army aka the Continentals and they were not going to risk life and limb without some guarantee that they would get something, land , retirement pay, etc. in the end.
Public spirit only takes you so far, working in the direction of self interest, as Adam Smith observed, takes you a lot further. In, IIRC, 1781, Washington despaired of the Revolution, because his soldiers weren't being paid, and he recognized that the "Spirit of '76" that had once motivated them had long since disappeared. He understood that in the long run, eating and supporting your family will come before patriotic fervor. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t) 211
189 War on single family homes is also aided by chamber of commerce “conservatives”. More profitable to build up than out. So they love it. It’s an unholy alliance of far left and corporate right which fucks over regular people.
Posted by: Lake America ========= Yep, with their libertarian economics types that they pay for their support. As in attacks on all zoning laws as an affront to property rights. Instead of viewing them as a historical continuation of what used to be common law disputes--riparian damages for example. A classic example was yesterday in the news, some citizens in a small town were trying to prevent a dude (appears to be foreign extraction) that bought a single family house and is trying to turn it into a 72 bed nursing home in the midst of a single family neighborhood citing the California law at issue. City issued the initial permit but the legal battle is just beginning. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv) 212
The left is fighting a full war on single family housing. They want everyone living in Soviet style apartment blocs.
———- And they fully explained what they wanted to do in the 1990s, and why. This should not be a surprise. It was bullshit then, too. They won’t shut the fuck up, and they won’t change the subject. This is one reason they’ve been flooding the zone far and wide nationwide with millions of unassimilated “migrants”, it will completely break any local control, budgets, law enforcement, everything. Every thing. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:05 PM (IkLDu) 213
Have the Moe and Larry japes been made yet? Just got here and jumped right in.
Posted by: tubal I made one in the first 10 comments, or thereabouts. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (77rzZ) 214
When you bring a lot of apartments into an area the area turns to shit.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (iY+4Q) ==== You are probably presuming rental apartments, I don't think you would expect the same for condo or co-op apartments which are owner-occupied? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t) 216
This is one reason they’ve been flooding the zone far and wide nationwide with millions of unassimilated “migrants”, it will completely break any local control, budgets, law enforcement, everything. Every thing.
------------------- Cloward-Piven Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (uPjcb) 217
We imported tens of millions of legal and illegal immigrants. They have to live somewhere.
—— We did no such thing. Not even a little bit. Not no way no how. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:07 PM (IkLDu) 218
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:05 PM (IkLDu)
But imagine if some actual communists get elected as Democrats. In place of these totally sane and reasonable "moderates". Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:07 PM (eZQ1g) 219
But imagine if some actual communists get elected as Democrats. In place of these totally sane and reasonable "moderates".
Socialism is an open conspiracy against the constitution and should be treated as so. Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (sKqQm) 220
Google AI sez no flying B36s remain.
Well, they would say that, wouldn't they. They were hard enough to keep flying when they were on duty. So I suppose a Hustler is out of the question? You'd have to look real fast. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (zdLoL) 221
And those rotary engines get you going.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv) Radial engines. Posted by: engine configuration pedant at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (wXgT/) 222
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It took nukes for them to stop fighting us. They have every right to be proud, lol. Posted by: SMH --- They are fighters. They respect a good fight. Better that they are on our side. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (vOxCS) 223
In my very Republican small city the mayor is all about building more density. Nobody asked for it. Nobody wants. But fuck you tax paying citizens we know what’s best for you is the answer.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (iY+4Q) 224
214 When you bring a lot of apartments into an area the area turns to shit.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (iY+4Q) ==== You are probably presuming rental apartments, I don't think you would expect the same for condo or co-op apartments which are owner-occupied? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (RIvkX) When they are new, all is relatively well. Time passes, maintenance must occur, and owners hate to pay. Also compromises are made in screening of occupants. Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (Gqar8) 225
Socialism is an open conspiracy against the constitution and should be treated as so.
== Sharing is caring. Posted by: Every single wine mom, and k -12 teacher BIRM at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (anL5R) 226
And those rotary engines get you going.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv) Radial engines. Posted by: engine configuration pedant at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (wXgT/) Those, too. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (dK+Kv) 227
A classic example was yesterday in the news, some citizens in a small town were trying to prevent a dude (appears to be foreign extraction) that bought a single family house and is trying to turn it into a 72 bed nursing home in the midst of a single family neighborhood citing the California law at issue. City issued the initial permit but the legal battle is just beginning.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv) ===== You have a cite? That's not physically possible. Max beds the state will license in a single family home is 6. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (RIvkX) 228
Perhaps a different economic model than cities with a population over a million which seems to be an utter disaster every time.
You don't have to go full Pol Pot to see the better quality of life in cities of 100,000 and better yet in unincorporated parts of Counties. Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (8YAxX) 229
In my very Republican small city the mayor is all about building more density. Nobody asked for it. Nobody wants. But fuck you tax paying citizens we know what’s best for you is the answer.
He's going to get paid if he allows the increased density and he's going to face a well funded opponent if he doesn't. Our problems are mostly about incentives because all across the board we incentivize bad behavior. Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (sKqQm) 230
They are fighters. They respect a good fight.
Better that they are on our side. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (vOxCS) ____ Amen to that. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (Rln0i) 231
You are probably presuming rental apartments, I don't think you would expect the same for condo or co-op apartments which are owner-occupied? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (RIvkX) If they were owner occupied no, I would not mind as much. But a lot of condos end up as rentals or worse as airbnbs. Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (iY+4Q) 232
Socialism is an open conspiracy against the constitution and should be treated as so.
== Sharing is caring. Posted by: Every single wine mom, and k -12 teacher BIRM at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (anL5R) So is killing commies. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (dK+Kv) 233
They are fighters. They respect a good fight.
Better that they are on our side. The PRC seems determined to test your hypothesis. Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t) 234
Radial engines.
Posted by: engine configuration pedant --- They had enough trouble with the radials. _wankel, wankel, wankel Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (vOxCS) 235
Nood.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS) Posted by: pawn at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (c/R9o) 237
The PRC seems determined to test your hypothesis.
Posted by: Archimedes --- Talk about heads of state that believe their own propaganda. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (vOxCS) 238
"Doc" of "FiFi", the 2 airworthy B-29s. Have been inside both, but only on the ground. Didn't feel like spending the $$$ for the flight in "Doc".
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (U/Byj) 239
“ Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe“. I see a problem there, most likely.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar8) 240
That shoulda been Doc OR FiFi, of course.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (U/Byj) 241
175. It’s one of the most under reported stories of what’s happening in the country. One day you too will wake up with a construction crew next door to your suburban home with a section 8 apartment complex ready to be constructed. Because nobody’s paying attention ton and fighting it.
Posted by: Lake America The practice of creating land preserves, greenbelts, and conservation easements surrounding ultra-wealthy suburban enclaves is a prominent trend across several states. While often framed under the banner of environmentalism, historic preservation, or farmland protection, critics and urban planners note that these preserves frequently act as structural “green walls” that effectively block dense residential or commercial development, maintaining exclusive zoning and sky-high property values. In Pennsylvania, this is most visible in the affluent Philadelphia Main Line and Chester County (e.g., the massive private-to-public Brandywine Conservancy projects protecting rolling fox-hunting hills), as well as Sewickley Heights outside of Pittsburgh. Also see the Direct Comparison of Land Preservation Impacts in NJ, NY, VA, CA and Connecticut. Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (NFX2v) 242
I flew two flights from NAS Glenview to Davis-Monthan AFB delivering P-3Bs to the Boneyard. Got a tour by one of the government CS workers driving me and the other pilot around on a golf cart. It's a very cool place.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (J4Dwc) 243
In, IIRC, 1781, Washington despaired of the Revolution, because his soldiers weren't being paid, and he recognized that the "Spirit of '76" that had once motivated them had long since disappeared. He understood that in the long run, eating and supporting your family will come before patriotic fervor.
Posted by: Archimedes ====== Yep. He was fighting those in Congress that refused to consider half time retirement pay for officers and land grants to the west for soldiers. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv) 244
30 Our government overall is too big. It needs to be much smaller and much more local.
-------------------------------- USA has a representavie government problem. The ratio of political representives to populace is among the worst in the world. Rather than add more corrupt congresscritters, the solution may be to break up in USA into three or more regional republics. Maybe Civil Ware 2.0 will do that for us! Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (sFNX2) 245
Max beds the state will license in a single family home is 6.
Posted by: San Franpsycho -------- They are tearing down the home if they get approval and building a new high density structure. Fox LA yesterday had the story, 71 units. https://tinyurl.com/Woodlands-Hills Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv) 246
Wright-Patterson has the B29 that dropped the Nagasaki bomb.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba ------ And the Memphis Belle. Which has local history here. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (XeU6L) 247
Nobody wants to live in a shit hole city/county/state. Except the people who created the shit hole in the first place.
But they too tire of it and move elsewhere to start the shitification process all over. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (2Cry5) I call that "The Locust Effect". I live in a deep red state but even here we have those invaders that are sentient enough to see the ruin and flee their failed blue state, just to get here and start voting the same way that fucked up their blue state. They are unreachable. And that drives me nuts because eventually there'll be no more states to flee to. FFS! Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (i2VYc) 248
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs”
These are the people who live in cities and vote for people like the mayor of Boston. They are still true believers to this day and will never not believe. Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:47 AM (iY+4Q) Or bots. By the way, since the NPC and automated posters are called bots, I will start calling the posts they make, "warbles" it is fitting Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (rbvCR) 249
Re the Sun Belt cities "not rising to prominence due to the lack of an urban core".. didja ever think maybe they were settled by people leaving " prominent cites with urban cores"? Maybe you get all "culturally significant" like NYC and SF, but you also get at best generational bureaucratic self-interest culture, in the middle the Mafia, and the worst radical leftist socialist foreigners. The elites who can afford the security and the tickets to the "cultural events" may get benefits, but normal people just want to live in sprawling spread out suburbs that aren't regulated for the benefit of the "elites" too much. That seems to be the motif of Sun Belt cities, although a few are getting big enough that big city thinking is starting to metastize
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (3/XaG) 250
239 “ Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe“. I see a problem there, most likely.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar Would it be better if they changed their name to Hercules Washington? Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (LHPAg) 251
The big drumbeat nowadays is to pull your kids from public school. This is the Curley Effect applied to education, putting communities into the choice of either fleeing the public schools to let them self-implode (even as we are forced to pay for that implosion), or stick with it and try to reform the schools.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (bufu1) 252
"Boston eventually recovered?"
Have you seen who they elected as mayor? Posted by: Tom Locker at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (RwkpB) Mid-Morning Art Thread![]() Aert van der Neer At one of the great small museums of the world; Mauritshuis, in The Hague. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS) 2
yow!
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s) 3
And SPONGE!!
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS) 4
That's no moon.
Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (4Je4D) 5
Someone forgot to pay the light bill.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (3Ae0s) 6
No boobs, no dog?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (RKPso) 7
Must be during one of those Canadian wildfires I hear about.
Mornin' Horde. Retirement planning proceeds apace. Either a step towards stress reduction or a really bad decision, not sure which yet. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (OUMaO) 8
And then the murder happened.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (3dxnp) 9
Dark days indeed!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (ibDUx) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (4Je4D) 11
Wow. Lovely. Would hang. Thanks, CBD!
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ) 12
Dreary and bleak.
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (ViCCR) Posted by: I put the "art" in "fart" at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (w81PI) 14
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V) 15
Might just be me but it looks dark and dreary out there.
Posted by: Will Robinson at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (A3xvt) 16
Swamp. Imagine the mosquitos......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V) 17
Cloudscape
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (88C+u) 18
Question: would you say that's a bog or a slough?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (4Je4D) 19
Another cheery day on the bog.
Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (Ve/HL) 20
There's a lot of detail there. You just have to stare at it long enough.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4) 21
The Hague. Was this painted on trial? Crimes against humanity?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V) 22
Bugger, looks like the castle is about to fall into the swamp again. Will it also catch fire again?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (2GVsD) Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (EZWVc) 24
Ominous as heck
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (aJQbY) 25
Boggy, but beautiful.
Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2026 09:33 AM (2Xqig) 26
Beware of Darkness...
Posted by: George Harrison at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (JM9I6) 27
The moon was angry that night, my friends.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V) 29
Something bad is about to happen. I can just feel it.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC) 30
Too dark. Can’t see a thing…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (sBAAu) 31
Alternate title - Artist was out of happy colors.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (2GVsD) 32
When you stare through a lens of urine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V) 33
I say! Rather murky, old chap. Bright it up a bit, eh what?
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (wVcYX) 34
If there's a dike around there I'll stick my finger in it.
Posted by: A Little Dutch Boy at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (4Je4D) 35
Was this from the artist's cataract phase?
Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (Ve/HL) 36
>>Something bad is about to happen. I can just feel it.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM Rain. Again. Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (2Xqig) 37
Nightmare scene. Anti-bucolic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (RIvkX) 38
The sky was angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1) 39
Who names their kid Aert?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC) 40
Apparently, "Aert" was pronounced "Art" by the artist.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (3dxnp) 41
Looks like an old sepia-tone snapshot from the Forties. Where's Uncle Billy?
Posted by: Kodachrome Kenny at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6) 42
28 Good from the respect you can just FEEL the humidity.
"Welcome to The Swamp." Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V) It reminds me of my early morning runs here in Florida. I honestly worry about tripping over a gator in the dark and getting chomped because I’m a newbie… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (sBAAu) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (odBC9) 44
Artist had a sad life. Per Wiki:
"Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued. In 1659 it seemed necessary to supplement his income by keeping a wine tavern, but two years later he went broke. He died at Kerkstraat in abject poverty, and his art was so little esteemed that the pictures left by him were valued at about five shillings apiece. His son Eglon became a portrait painter himself." Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:37 AM (lJ0H4) 45
Stormy
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 09:37 AM (WB/3O) 46
Lunchtime on the Thames, 1952.
Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (Ve/HL) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (2GVsD) 48
It was a dark and stormy night. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (01XUU) 49
No windmill, no silver skates, depressing.
Posted by: Going Dutch at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (JM9I6) 50
He died at Kerkstraat in abject poverty, and his art was so little esteemed that the pictures left by him were valued at about five shillings apiece. His son Eglon became a portrait painter himself."
--------- You have to give Egon credit for his optimism. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (4Je4D) 51
Then a shot rang out and Yvette screamed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (2GVsD) 52
This would make perfect cover art for the Playbill for the next "Hamlet" revival.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (3dxnp) 53
44 >>"Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued.
Perhaps if he'd dropped in a kitschy little light source coming from a cottage along the waterfront... Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (Ve/HL) 54
Perhaps if he'd dropped in a kitschy little light source coming from a cottage along the waterfront...
And be the Dutch Thomas Kincaide? Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (2GVsD) 55
In 1659 it seemed necessary to supplement his income by keeping a wine tavern, but two years later he went broke. . . .
Posted by: Tuna How much of a chooch does one have to be to lose money selling liquor? Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (01XUU) 56
How are those houses on the left not constantly getting flooded? The water is nearly up to the front doors.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (XvL8K) Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (2Cry5) 58
No windmill, no silver skates, depressing.
Posted by: Going Dutch I spotted a wind mill. Center, far right. Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (lJ0H4) 59
Then a shot rang out and Yvette screamed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (2GVsD) Claudine Longet gave a tight smile, then backed into the deep gloom and made her escape. Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX) 60
You know who could make this dreck a winner?
Posted by: Eva Vlaardingerbroek at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (JM9I6) 61
No windmill, no silver skates, depressing.
Posted by: Going Dutch There are windmills in the background. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ) 62
It's no Rothko
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (4Je4D) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (odBC9) 64
Good from the respect you can just FEEL the humidity.
"Welcome to The Swamp." Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V) ---- Sunset on Dagobah... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (FZ29D) 65
Guy had some dark colors he had to use up before their expiration dates.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (ZxPkt) 66
How are those houses on the left not constantly getting flooded? The water is nearly up to the front doors.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (XvL8K) ================= Probably a highly engineered series of complex locks, allowing a below sea level land area to stay dry. At a guess. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (3dxnp) 67
At one of the great small museums of the world; Mauritshuis, in The Hague. While you were there, did you have- the famous Hague Benedict for breakfast? Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG) 68
Mordor looks cheerier by comparison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:43 AM (FZ29D) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V) 70
Here there be tygers.
Posted by: Buck at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (z6ONu) 71
with some governors swingin' from 'em.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s) 72
Claudine Longet gave a tight smile, then backed into the deep gloom and made her escape.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX) ================= sends chills up my spine. Posted by: Spider Sabich at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (3dxnp) 73
18 fen
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s) 74
Wiki:
"Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued. --------- "I'll give you two guilders for it, Aert, but you'll have to throw in your cow." Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:45 AM (4Je4D) Posted by: John Fogerty at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1) 76
Mmmmm......young Dana Delany......
Posted by: Sponge I saw her a few years ago co-hosting something on TCM. She still looked good. Her legs were very shiny, though, which was kinda weird. Shiniest legs I've ever seen. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ) 77
This could have been a brighter, cheerier painting back in it's day. The centuries of cigar smoke from the olde Dutch Masters have done it no favors.
Posted by: Ain't No Ways Tarred at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (JM9I6) 78
At one of the great small museums of the world; Mauritshuis, in The Hague.
Ah...that's where the Girl With the Pearl Earring resides. Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (lJ0H4) 79
66 Probably a highly engineered series of complex locks
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (3dxnp) And bagels? Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (odBC9) 80
There's a bathroom on the right.
Posted by: Misheard Lyrics at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (2CeDH) 81
There's a bad moon on the rise
Posted by: John Fogerty But can you tell me where the bathroom is? Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ) 82
totally ootgezondered.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s) 83
Probably a highly engineered series of complex locks, allowing a below sea level land area to stay dry.
At a guess. Posted by: Huck Follywood ____________ Yeah, I get the dyke thing, but did they really build houses that close to the water? Looks like it's just a few yards away from the front of the house. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K) 84
Landscape at Sunset
Aert van der Neer ************** Saves on Paint Costs - a limerick Van der Neer was an artistic wizard Who admired the chameleon lizard One day for a lark He painted "Landscape at Dark" Then he did "Polar Bear in Blizzard" Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:48 AM (O0L8i) 86
The sniper is in a 🐸 suit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (hUS/0) 87
63 gracht.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s) 88
Probably a highly engineered series of complex locks,
in fact I think you may be looking right at one. Those windmills are not grinding grain; they're pumping water. This may be some high-tech engineering Aert for its period. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (zdLoL) 89
"I'll give you two guilders for it, Aert, but you'll have to throw in your cow."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:45 AM (4Je4D) I'll not tolerate such language directed towards my beloved wife, sir. Get out and don't come back! Posted by: van der Neer at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX) 90
Not bad considering that back then they only had black and white paints.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (QNSrI) 91
Reflection of the water really bothers me, as it is displaced slightly to the right of where it should be.
Would not even give 1 schilling for this. No wonder he died in abject poverty. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (eTPdk) 92
"Dear, I'm no expert, but do you think maybe if you painted your pictures in daylight you could get more money for them?"
Posted by: Mrs. Van der Neer at August 31, 2026 09:50 AM (4Je4D) 93
It's just as well Aert died in poverty. There are no pockets in a shroud.
Posted by: Robert W. Service at August 31, 2026 09:50 AM (JM9I6) 94
No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh I'd give this one the benefit of the doubt. There could be a dog there. You just can't see it. Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:51 AM (lJ0H4) 95
I'd give this one the benefit of the doubt. There could be a dog there. You just can't see it.
Posted by: Tuna Same with the boobs. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ) 96
83 Probably a highly engineered series of complex locks, allowing a below sea level land area to stay dry.
At a guess. Posted by: Huck Follywood ____________ Yeah, I get the dyke thing, but did they really build houses that close to the water? Looks like it's just a few yards away from the front of the house. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K) Prideful. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (LHPAg) Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (iJfKG) 98
Always pay your light bill, or you end up like this.
Posted by: 16 Candles at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (JM9I6) 99
No relation. - Art Vandelay
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX) 100
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Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:53 AM (odBC9) 101
Crisis hits Napa Valley as ranches left to rot while wine industry teeters on a knife’s edge
By Marina Peña Published Aug. 30, 2026, 12:39 p.m. PT ==== Morons must drink moar. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 09:53 AM (RIvkX) 102
The centuries of cigar smoke from the olde Dutch Masters have done it no favors.
When the big group portrait we call The Night Watch was cleaned after several centuries above the fireplace in the smoking room of the militia clubhouse, American Rifleman brought in a legit art critic to write an appreciation. Those guys were all armed to the teeth. Several were involved in cleaning or charging their fire arms, and one muzzle showed a wisp of smoke from having just discharged -- all invisible during the time the work got famous. /Gun thread Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:54 AM (zdLoL) 103
Crisis hits Napa Valley as ranches left to rot while wine industry teeters on a knife’s edge
Nancy Pelosi hitting the bottle a bit too much? Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (2GVsD) 104
it's just about to clear up and be really nice.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s) 105
I'M IN CHARGE HERE!!!
Posted by: Alexander Hague at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (eTPdk) Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 09:56 AM (5rh/l) 107
Nancy Pelosi hitting the bottle a bit too much?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (2GVsD) ================== She's into vodka these days, I believe the problem to be. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:56 AM (iTZ6k) 108
102 The centuries of cigar smoke from the olde Dutch Masters have done it no favors.
When the big group portrait we call The Night Watch was cleaned after several centuries above the fireplace in the smoking room of the militia clubhouse, American Rifleman brought in a legit art critic to write an appreciation. Those guys were all armed to the teeth. Several were involved in cleaning or charging their fire arms, and one muzzle showed a wisp of smoke from having just discharged -- all invisible during the time the work got famous. /Gun thread Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:54 AM (zdLoL) No smoking on the range. Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 09:57 AM (LHPAg) 109
Being past 100 comments...
The job scammers are getting kinda pathetic. Had one with a mussleman displayname this time with the whole 'regurgitate my profile info as if it was a legit job opportunity' thing instead of the normal h1b'er. (inevitably these are either resume stealers or wanting to grift you with resume-writing services... or both, always an option) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 09:57 AM (aJQbY) 110
This is a wonderful use of light to make a dramatic landscape: restrained and natural. van der Neer includes enough detail to set the place with the trees, stream and houses but filtered through the sun setting through clouds. It is quietly dynamic, if such a phrase makes sense, because a setting sun happens quickly and this is just a brief moment.
It reminds me of some of the darker paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael. For my taste, much of the finest art deriving from the European Renaissance was in the northern countries more than Italy. Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (yTvNw) 111
Crisis hits Napa Valley as ranches left to rot while wine industry teeters on a knife’s edge
By Marina Peña Published Aug. 30, 2026, 12:39 p.m. PT ==== Wine mom's not holding up their end? I know the yutes are doing more drugs, weed, vape, than drinking. And there's only so much I can drink, however, not being a wine person....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V) 112
Morons must drink moar.
Posted by: San Franpsycho At my local ABC Store (state-run booze store) there is a big bottle of Weller bourbon on sale for $5K. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ) 113
If Lindsay Clancy is found guilty, will her supporters hit the bottle or the accelerator?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (2GVsD) 114
*Crisis hits Napa Valley as ranches left to rot while wine industry teeters on a knife’s edge.*
Hey, it's Merlot Monday. Doing my part. Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1) 115
"Ne'er do well!"
Posted by: a laconic art critic at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (qgHp7) 116
89 "she smells a bit, but she has a heart of gold."
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s) 117
The job scammers are getting kinda pathetic. Had one with a mussleman displayname this time with the whole 'regurgitate my profile info as if it was a legit job opportunity' thing instead of the normal h1b'er. (inevitably these are either resume stealers or wanting to grift you with resume-writing services... or both, always an option) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 09:57 AM (aJQbY) It really saddens me to see what the job interview proccess has turned into. I've got a bud that is looking for a change. Everytime he gets into a company interview process, it's meeting after meeting after meeting until you're at the CO / Ownership level. Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not? We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V) 118
Skies and the light coming from them can be so very interesting and dramatic- both in real life and in this painting. Thanks, CBD.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (JrHfD) 119
And there's only so much I can drink, however, not being a wine person.......
Posted by: Sponge Wine can get me blitzed faster than hard liquor. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ) 120
"she smells a bit, but she has a heart of gold."
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s) Huh....wife just said similar things about me....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (ccf/V) 121
If Lindsay Clancy is found guilty, will her supporters hit the bottle or the accelerator?
Posted by: Anna Puma That's a big *if*. I'm not optimistic that evil woman will get what's due her. Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (lJ0H4) 122
Wine can get me blitzed faster than hard liquor. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ) Well, that's not the case for me, but the buzz is different and the hangover is SOOOOO much worse. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (ccf/V) 123
At the Bee
Trump Announces Plan To Annex Canada And Rename It ‘Gay North Dakota’ https://buff.ly/bhtfMzJ Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (3Ae0s) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (odBC9) 125
I wouldn't paint this on the side of my Chevy Van. And that's all right with me.
Posted by: Sammy Johns at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (JM9I6) 126
It's September Eve!
Let's celebrate with a nice cold can of America Dry ginger ale. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1) 127
This summer in Sonoma I saw several vineyards that have "gone to seed"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (RIvkX) 128
Trump Announces Plan To Annex Canada And Rename It ‘Gay North Dakota’
https://buff.ly/bhtfMzJ Posted by: rickb223 LOL Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (Y8DZL) 130
It's September Eve!
Let's celebrate with a nice cold can of America Dry ginger ale. Posted by: Quarter Twenty With pumpkin spice! Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ) 131
I'm not much for travel but I'm sorry I won't see that art museum CBD linked to in the post. The paintings on website tour are beautiful.
Thanks for including it. Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (yTvNw) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (ccf/V) 133
It was a dark and stormy night....
Posted by: From about That Time at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (sl73Y) 134
Worst hangover ever was from Soviet champagne. Second worst was Mexican tequila.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX) 135
Crime is Down, Mayor Says, as 30 People Shot in Chicago in One Day
- That's over four Saint Valentines Day Massacres. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7) 136
Listen to Sponge-he's the Hangover Artist-In-Residence.
Posted by: Queasy Mfume at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (JM9I6) 137
112 that's dumb. anyhow, it's wheated.
we used to buy abc malt liquor during daytona bike week. and growlin' gator lager. you need one 12pack each to change a rear tube on a '77 860gts. Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (Bep7s) 138
beautiful painting! thank you
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 10:05 AM (j+aD2) 139
It really saddens me to see what the job interview proccess has turned into. I've got a bud that is looking for a change. Everytime he gets into a company interview process, it's meeting after meeting after meeting until you're at the CO / Ownership level.
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not? We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer When the owner tells him to "sell me this laptop" and points to his laptop, tell him yo pick it up & walk out like he's going to be a salesman. Keep walking. Only answer your phone the next day. When the owner screams "bring back my laptop'", tell him "I will for $2k". Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:05 AM (3Ae0s) 140
113 If Lindsay Clancy is found guilty, will her supporters hit the bottle or the accelerator?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (2GVsD) Let's hope they don't start killing children. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (odBC9) 141
I assume we'll all be receiving personally address strictly written letters:
UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade https://tinyurl.com/52epew5h BITE ME! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (QNSrI) 142
114 did a guinness record thing on the south side this weekend. thousands of simultaneously consumed blablorp shots.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s) 143
Worst hangover ever was from Soviet champagne. Second worst was Mexican tequila.
Posted by: San Franpsycho Mescal. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (3Ae0s) 144
Yeah, this is art. Very well done.
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (E/qck) 145
It really saddens me to see what the job interview proccess has turned into. I've got a bud that is looking for a change. Everytime he gets into a company interview process, it's meeting after meeting after meeting until you're at the CO / Ownership level.
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not? We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V) ---- My department keeps it pretty simple for the low-level jobs. I'm part of two interviews today. We *might* arrange an on-campus visit for a finalist, but that's not guaranteed if we reach a consensus on a candidate. Now, for anyone at the executive leadership level, interviews are a grueling, mind-numbing, multiple step process. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (FZ29D) 146
Let's hope they don't start killing children.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (odBC9) - Unfortunately this is already happening, albeit in a handful of cases. But stay tuned. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 10:07 AM (QNSrI) 147
Still not a fan of dark paintings.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:08 AM (KC5Lt) 148
124 terrible!
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (Bep7s) 149
91 Reflection of the water really bothers me, as it is displaced slightly to the right of where it should be.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (eTPdk) Did you enlarge the painting? Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (odBC9) 150
If interested one of my sunset paintings in nic.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt) 151
UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade
https://tinyurl.com/52epew5h I don't think all those African countries could afford it... Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ) 152
150 If interested one of my sunset paintings in nic.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt) Nice to see your art linked. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:13 AM (odBC9) 153
It really saddens me to see what the job interview proccess has turned into. I've got a bud that is looking for a change. Everytime he gets into a company interview process, it's meeting after meeting after meeting until you're at the CO / Ownership level.
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not? We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer It's one giant humiliation ritual that the corpos do for their own sadistic pleasure. It's a power and control game first and foremost. And don't get me started on the fraudulent job postings for positions that don't exist requiring qualifications that would be impossible to obtain so they can make their fake-ass case for H1Bs to work for half (or less) market pay and be leveraged by threat of deportation. Posted by: It's all about screwing with us at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (TbWk/) 154
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (ccf/V)
So, you've recently ( fake) transgendered, Sponge? Wife calls you "she"?😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (LKoL5) 155
135 one fatality. kid stuff.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (Bep7s) 156
Now, for anyone at the executive leadership level, interviews are a grueling, mind-numbing, multiple step process. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (FZ29D) That I get. You're asking for some of the reigns of the company. You SHOULD be vetted the hell out of. But a f*cking sales job? Can you sell. Do you know anything about our product? Can you LEARN? But interviewing with executive levels? Seems a bit over the top. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (ccf/V) 157
So, you've recently ( fake) transgendered, Sponge? Wife calls you "she"?😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (LKoL5) I said she's said 'similar' things. Not those exact things. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:15 AM (ccf/V) 158
Interesting discussion at the end of the last thread about the causes of WWII and WWI.
Personally, I think that even had we avoided WWII in Europe, there still would've been the Pacific War. Japan was too ambitious, too hungry for China, and too pissed off at the Western powers. There still would've been war with Japan without Hitler. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ) 159
committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade"
Ok. *laughs * That's all the considerations... Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (cGjQu) 160
122 ... "Wine can get me blitzed faster than hard liquor.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ) Well, that's not the case for me, but the buzz is different and the hangover is SOOOOO much worse." The single worst hangover I ever had came from drinking Italian Swiss Colony Rhine Wine. Three days of a migraine-level headache and nausea. That was over fifty years ago. The memory is still vivid, and educational. It taught me to sip small amounts of any alcohol and never to excess. Probably saved me thousands in booze expenditures. Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw) 161
Even though you “don’t have a criminal record”, if you’re here illegally, that is in violation of federal law, you are subject to removal from our country.
Just a friendly reminder to all the media outlets who are now for some reason outraged that we are also removing people who don’t have a criminal record. Here’s a giant clue. If you are in America illegally, you don’t belong here. Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (p5Pt8) Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (3Ae0s) 163
This summer in Sonoma I saw several vineyards that have "gone to seed"
Posted by: San Franpsycho *********** This past weekend we got some tree-ripe Palisade peaches from my brother's orchard. That prompted Missus Muldoon to read up on the history of fruit growing in the Grand Valley just a few minutes ago. First half of the 20th century apples grown west of G.Jct. dominated, but due to some bad irrigation practices and a resistant species of coddling moth the apple orchards were devastated and peaches grew to prominence, now east of G. Jct. in Palisade and East Orchard Mesa. IDNKT Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:18 AM (LKoL5) 165
Can we put a reparations tax on every illegal immigrant as payment for the theft of services and fraud?
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 10:18 AM (p5Pt8) 166
UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade
May we assume they have excluded themselves and the Red Cross? Posted by: Haiti at August 31, 2026 10:18 AM (E/qck) 167
UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade
I bet the countries doing the selling aren't on the list. Nosirree, it was *all* the Euros/Americans clubbing folks on the head like baby seals! Also, how about doing the ishlamic countries that are still actively enslaving folks? Or chy-na, for that matter, not just figurative slave labor! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 10:19 AM (aJQbY) 168
Many exec level personnel now come up through the sales ranks. How many execs want to cull out possible threats to their rice bowls?
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 10:20 AM (Q+gd/) 169
My final job interview was over the phone. It was pretty simple, with a few questions about my current skills and responsibilities. And this final question: "Why do you want to leave California and work here in Kentucky?"
My answer: "Because my wife is working there and I'm still sitting here in California." His reply: "Ok, when can you start?" U.S. Army - civilian Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 10:20 AM (2Cry5) 170
Egypt owes Israel a lot of reparations.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:20 AM (KC5Lt) 171
The US doesn't owe anyone DICK in reparations. The US has been funding every f*cking shithole on EARTH for GENERATIONS.
GFY. You owe US, mutherf*ckers...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V) 172
We really need to leave the UN.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ) 173
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not?
We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!? Posted by: Sponge ====== With weaponized HR, lawsuits, fake and gay news coverage, gubmint vultures, and the sociopaths that go instantly to social media over trivial employment annoyances, I think the point that hiring people in megacorp is essentially looking for a landmine that might blow up the whole place. So in today's environment, a CEO of a fast food restaurant might have to respond to some low level asshole employees and managers misbehaving or lose their job. Ditto for if the low level employee and manager on duty at the time don't respond the way a bunch of online assholes think they should when outrage merchants provoke them. Essentially minor conflicts become skirmishes in broader societal wars. The response is to bureaucratize even minor job hirings and being risk averse to hiring anyone that might cause the CEO to lose their job, no matter what the level. That also explains why H1Bs and hookers share the same characteristics-disposable relationships. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (E4rtv) 174
Germany might as well hand over their country to Israel to pay reparations.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (KC5Lt) 175
The great pumpkin moon ghoul.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 10:26 AM (hzuYO) Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (0sNs1) 177
Californians can now look forward to even higher electricity prices ... the California legislature and Grewsom failed to resolve liability issues for the utility companies after (and for future) fires.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (qwx/I) 178
48 It was a dark and stormy
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (01XUU) FIFY Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (l3cgK) 179
This is a wonderful painting in the quintessential western palette. I just want to look at it while listening to toccata and fugue in d minor or enter sandman.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (2ap+5) 180
177 Californians can now look forward to even higher electricity prices ... the California legislature and Grewsom failed to resolve liability issues for the utility companies after (and for future) fires.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (qwx/I) Thank you Guv'ner, may I have another? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (l3cgK) 181
Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued
Life is rough, man. Posted by: Hunter at August 31, 2026 10:28 AM (yYROg) 182
174 Germany might as well hand over their country to Israel to pay reparations.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (KC5Lt) There are a bunch of commies, Islamists, and notsees there...why would Israel want it? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:28 AM (l3cgK) 183
Didja see this?
New York Post @nypost Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation - High level of discretion indeed! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7) Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (Q+gd/) 185
183 Didja see this?
New York Post @nypost Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation - High level of discretion indeed! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7) Cartoon: Bill Clinton interviewing for a job... Boss Woman: "I have three openings." Bill Clinton: "I know." Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (l3cgK) 186
161 Even though you “don’t have a criminal record”, if you’re here illegally, that is in violation of federal law, you are subject to removal from our country.
Just a friendly reminder to all the media outlets who are now for some reason outraged that we are also removing people who don’t have a criminal record. Here’s a giant clue. If you are in America illegally, you don’t belong here. Posted by: Vengeance I have been bemused by the fact that all the raging, the sob stories, and the various other lying media and political tactics that try to manipulate human emotions are falling flat. The psyop merchants are facing the facts that an electorate that has experiences outweighs all the fake and gay theater bullshit they can dredge up. There is no outrage other than paid drifting leftists that stage a paid protest or so. No one gives a shit that NJ Democrat rep cannot avoid a trial despite being a full card carrying living DEI archetype speaking truth to power, the judges lost on preventing the semi permanent TPS protections from being removed. The Overton Window has shifted to the right on immigration, has shifted even further in most of the US on firearms, etc. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv) 187
From the Morning Report - Israel’s inability to give the Death Penalty to convicted terrorists is a huge and almost inexplicable weakness
—- Can you demonstrate the U.S.A. is any better? Show your work. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (IkLDu) Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2WIwB) 189
@10.
You know what this painting needs? Street Lamps. Cicero The town council had the Street Lamps taken down. Seems they violated the boat thieves fourth amendment rights. Posted by: Case at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (5+vyU) 190
So, you've recently ( fake) transgendered, Sponge?
Wife calls you "she"?😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM Man, if you're not here reading every comment, things happen that you have no clue about. Piper transitioning to the other side, and now Sponge transitioning to the other gender team. AoSHQ. It comes at you Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (0sNs1) 191
Know who else had trouble selling his paintings?
Posted by: I guess SOMEONE has to ask it at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1) 192
183 Didja see this?
New York Post @nypost Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation - High level of discretion indeed! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks ======= Translation, their adechrome reserves are being depleted and they need fresh blood. Preferably free of charge. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (E4rtv) 193
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation I applied for that one. For some reason Bill insisted on a pulmonary function test. Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (yYROg) 194
> Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
------- Why on earth are they advertising for a job? You'd think there are dozens of willing sycophants just waiting in the wings. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (2Cry5) 195
183 Didja see this?
New York Post @nypost Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation - High level of discretion indeed! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7) He didn't have the balls to sell paintings... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (l3cgK) 196
190 So, you've recently ( fake) transgendered, Sponge?
Wife calls you "she"?😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM Man, if you're not here reading every comment, things happen that you have no clue about. Piper transitioning to the other side, and now Sponge transitioning to the other gender team. AoSHQ. It comes at you first fast! Posted by: Duncanthrax ======= Sponge should have never taken Lou Reed's advice to walk on the wild side. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (E4rtv) 197
Crisis hits Napa Valley as ranches left to rot while wine industry teeters on a knife’s edge By Marina Peña Published Aug. 30, 2026, 12:39 p.m. PT I had an interesting encounter related to this yesterday. I was in DFW Airport when I saw Ex-President Barack Obama and some bodyguards walking toward the VIP Lounge. So, I walked up to him and said, "Mr President, what an honor. If I may ask, Where are you headed?" Obama kind of grimaced and said, "I'm going to Napa Valley. I have a stake in winery there that appears to be going bankrupt." And, I said- "Well, I guess that makes you a Napa headed fool." I denounce myself. Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (iJfKG) 198
191 Know who else had trouble selling his paintings?
Posted by: I guess SOMEONE has to ask it at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1) Damnit, copy/paste mishap... Once again: He didn't have the balls to sell paintings... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (l3cgK) 199
189 @10.
You know what this painting needs? Street Lamps. Cicero And Flock cameras. For your safety. Posted by: Local corrupt politicians at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1) 200
Germany might as well hand over their country to Israel to pay reparations.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (KC5Lt) ===== They did indeed pay "reparations." Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX) 201
Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued
********* Reminds me of a guy out here during the Obamacare debates who said, "I have owned my own business for 25 years and on my salary of $20k/year I can't afford health insurance." At some point you might want to consider another line of work. Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (qgHp7) 202
"And today's forecast is … "
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (ayRl+) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7) 204
O.K. This made me laugh. Maybe some others over 29 will find it amusing as well. Husband will be starting up with the school bus route soon and he didn't recall password or write it down from last year. . He had to put in a password and answers to questions ( what was your school mascot? What street did you live in? etc. He gives her his high school graduation date and says kidding " You remember the mascot right?" "What are you asking me for? She responds laughing . "I wasn't even alive back then." Way to make him feel really old.😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (xPsv8) 205
Can you demonstrate the U.S.A. is any better? Show your work.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (IkLDu) Been here? Posted by: Huntsville, TX at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (WB/3O) 206
163 mmm... peach pancakes.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (Bep7s) 207
199 189 @10.
You know what this painting needs? Street Lamps. Cicero And Flock cameras. For your safety. Posted by: Local corrupt politicians at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1) Chinese man in London works for the week, gets paid, changes his money from Pounds to RMB. He gets 500 RMB. A week later, he goes back, changes his weekly salary for RMB, but only gets 450 RMB... So he ask the banker why it was 500RMB one week and 450 RMB this week for the same number of Pounds. The Exchanger tells him, "Fluctuation". The Chinese man responds, "Well, fluck you English!" Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:37 AM (l3cgK) 208
I was able to climb the fence to the country club I don't belong to and they want to throw me out even though I've not broken any of their rules.
It's outrageous !!! Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt) 209
184 somalis remove those.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s) 210
Amusing story on X,
===== Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 HOLY CRAP! The Honduran noncitizen who illegally registered to vote in California was HARASSING and TEXTING an ICE agent how he plans to vote Democrat in the midterms ...so then the ICE agent checked his status and found out he was an ILLEGAL VOTER Major FAFO 🔥🔥 "He had no fear whatsoever harassing an ICE agent, letting him know how he's planning to vote in the midterms and wants to take their immunity away." "That, obviously, got the agent interested to see whether he WAS registered to vote. That's how he came on their radar." "He found out there are consequences. MULTIPLE felonies and DEPORTATION if convicted," Bill Essayli says Send him back! Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv) 211
The Exchanger tells him, "Fluctuation".
The Chinese man responds, "Well, fluck you English!" Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) *snort Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:39 AM (3Ae0s) 212
And Flock cameras.
For your safety. Posted by: Local corrupt politicians I think we're saturated with Flock cameras. We've reached our Flock capacity. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ) 213
AoSHQ. It comes at you first fast!
Posted by: Duncanthrax Please prepare assiduously to remember today's comments . There will be a test tomorrow morning 😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:41 AM (xPsv8) 214
They did indeed pay "reparations."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX) Yes but whatever it was it wasn't enough. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:41 AM (KC5Lt) 215
197 should have sock puppeted don imus.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:42 AM (Bep7s) 216
Recall the first world trade center bombings, this was when, during the Clinton era, it was determined basically that “terrorism” is just another type of crime deserving of all the usual boilerplate bullshit in the courtrooms.
The legal system is not setup nor appropriate for this kind of thing. It just isn’t. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:43 AM (IkLDu) 217
It's one giant humiliation ritual that the corpos do for their own sadistic pleasure. It's a power and control game first and foremost. And don't get me started on the fraudulent job postings for positions that don't exist requiring qualifications that would be impossible to obtain so they can make their fake-ass case for H1Bs to work for half (or less) market pay and be leveraged by threat of deportation.
Posted by: It's all about screwing with us at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (TbWk/) Nothing could prepare me for how horrible the job search would be after AD Air Force life. And it has only gotten worse. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 10:43 AM (WB/3O) 218
Landscape at Sunset
Aert van der Neer Richard Green dot com: A nice bio.: In part, "AERT VAN DER NEER Gorinchem 1603/4 – 1677 Amsterdam Aert van der Neer was one of the most important European landscape painters of the seventeenth century. He was born in 1604 at Gorinchem (Gorcum), a town on the river Waal east of Dordrecht." "In 1635 van der Neer painted his first commissioned landscape, of large dimension. Although this was followed by further commissions around 1640, it is only after 1643 that van der Neer found his personal style. He excelled in extraordinary poetic landscapes of sunrise and sunset and is unrivalled as a painter of moonlight in Dutch art." AI: By 1629 or 1630, he moved to Amsterdam, where he spent the rest of his life and career. Despite his great talent, he struggled to make a living from art. He ran a wine tavern in Amsterdam starting around 1659 to make extra money, but he went bankrupt in 1662 and died in poverty. -- An excellent painter but today's art selection is a bit like at war. His River Landscape, River Landscape at Sunset (both Mauritshuis) and another Landscape at Sunset (Met Museum) are lovely & would be hanged. Thanks. Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:44 AM (NFX2v) 219
Looks like my sky this morning.
Something bad is about to happen. I can just feel it. Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 *** The pathetic fallacy? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9) 220
Reminds me of a guy out here during the Obamacare debates who said, "I have owned my own business for 25 years and on my salary of $20k/year I can't afford health insurance."
At some point you might want to consider another line of work. Posted by: muldoon ======= Small business owners were purposefully screwed on health insurance--they could not band together to get group insurance rates and could not deduct their own health insurance if they did not extend it to all full time employees. Anytime you get a middleman between the seller and the buyer like healthcare and insurance, the insurance company will seek to maximize its takings from the transaction affecting both seller and buyer. In addition, almost every living doctor that practiced since LBJ had their practice subsidized by the fact that Medicare and to a lesser extent Medicaid set a floor price on medical services. Like student loans and grants, the fedgov is responsible for the massive and unsustainable price growth in medical and higher education markets. The result of this is everyone is trying not to be the guy left out when music in musical chairs of government spending stops playing. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:45 AM (E4rtv) 221
I look at the website that's supposed to tell you where Flock cameras are located. There's an intersection near us, that isn't really a major intersection, though it does cross a major street. Man, you'd think are sleepy little middle class area we were crime central. There must've been 20-30 Flock cameras within a roughly quarter block circle around the intersection itself. So, I guess we're safe. Very safe. Or, there's something we don't know. Something anyway. Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 10:45 AM (iJfKG) 222
Didja see this?
New York Post @nypost Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation - High level of discretion indeed! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right? Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (VHUov) 223
I bet this painting would brighten up considerably with a good scrubbing!
Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (cIsFN) 224
Hhahahaha!
I am at our northern satellite location today. Just found out our downtown Seattle location flooded over the weekend. whole building closed down. *snort* Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 10:47 AM (W2Pud) 225
he legal system is not setup nor appropriate for this kind of thing. It just isn’t.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:43 AM (IkLDu) It should be a military tribunal or create a system specific to foreign terrorism . I'm still pissed though the military judge barred info gathered through waterboarding . I thought the SC addressed that. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:47 AM (KC5Lt) 226
32 When you stare through a lens of urine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer And it worked for Warhol. Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:47 AM (NFX2v) 227
Let's see. Flock cameras everywhere. Data centers going up everywhere. Huh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 10:48 AM (hUS/0) Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 10:48 AM (qgHp7) 229
They did indeed pay "reparations."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX) Yes but whatever it was it wasn't enough. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:41 AM (KC5Lt) ==== Paid entirely by the West Germans. The East Germans paid nothingon the basis, "We were victims too." Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:48 AM (RIvkX) 230
Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right?
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton Pronounced discretionage Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:49 AM (77rzZ) 231
216 Recall the first world trade center bombings, this was when, during the Clinton era, it was determined basically that “terrorism” is just another type of crime deserving of all the usual boilerplate bullshit in the courtrooms.
The legal system is not setup nor appropriate for this kind of thing. It just isn’t. Posted by: Common Tater Agree. Part of what ended piracy back in the day is that every government, ship owner, etc. could execute the bastards--universal jurisdiction to terminate with extreme prejudice. They were treated as enemies of mankind by threatening life sustaining commerce. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv) 232
Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right?
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton Reminded me of the quote from I married an Ax Murderer. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt) 233
Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right? Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (VHUov) Who is W M J. Clinton? Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 10:51 AM (WB/3O) Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 10:52 AM (cGjQu) 235
Agree. Part of what ended piracy back in the day is that every government, ship owner, etc. could execute the bastards--universal jurisdiction to terminate with extreme prejudice. They were treated as enemies of mankind by threatening life sustaining commerce.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv) Slavers and Pirates went into the same bucket for the British Navy. This is the History the British Left wants to destroy as well. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (Y/06r) 236
212 I think we're saturated with Flock cameras. We've reached our Flock capacity.
nope. won't happen until flock can take a stereo pair of everyone all the time for oppression in glorious 3d. Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (sGtp+) 237
I read a small post the other day that suggested some Flock cameras might be replaced with another manufacture's device... Axios (I think that's how it's spelled) cameras.
They're purportedly more sophisticated and/or have more AI built in. Typical misdirection ploy. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (2Cry5) 238
Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right?
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (VHUov) * Who is W M J. Clinton? Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 *** Old Lady Rodham's "husband." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9) 239
It should be a military tribunal or create a system specific to foreign terrorism . I'm still pissed though the military judge barred info gathered through waterboarding . I thought the SC addressed that.
Posted by: polynikes Bush, Congress, and federal judges have made a thorough mess of the 9/11 cases. The urgency to prevent more unknown terror plots after 9/11 by interrogating prisoners meant that they could never be tried in the civil court system and Scotus in its stupidity shot down the tribunal system which was both constitutional and appropriate to try terrorists. So the ersatz semi trial system of military commissions was created which was never designed for unlawful combatants in the first place. Tribunals took care of those types. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv) Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v) 241
235 Slavers and Pirates went into the same bucket for the British Navy.
so... not the barrel, then? Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (sGtp+) 242
Good news: I finally sold the fedora hat I've had on eBay for months. Now to package it up. I hope I have packing tape around here somewhere.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (wzUl9) 243
241 235 Slavers and Pirates went into the same bucket for the British Navy.
so... not the barrel, then? Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (sGtp+) 'Targets'. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 10:55 AM (Y/06r) 244
I think we're saturated with Flock cameras. We've reached our Flock capacity.
nope. won't happen until flock can take a stereo pair of everyone all the time for oppression in glorious 3d. Posted by: anachronda I think you missed my pun. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ) 245
They did indeed pay "reparations."
Posted by: San Franpsycho That means they're forever on the hook. Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 10:55 AM (E/qck) 246
Well they have to have a Flock Camera pointed at another Flock camera to catch the persons trying to vandalize the Flock camera and then another camera pointed at that one for same reason and so on and so on. A thousand flock cameras all pointed at each other.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt) 247
Damn white people!
Western Lensman @WesternLensman Maxine Waters claims something called "white media" wants a Dem establishment vs Democrat Socialist fight. "Some of the media, mostly the white media, are interested in a fight in order to get their ratings up." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7) 248
227 Let's see. Flock cameras everywhere. Data centers going up everywhere. Huh.
nothing to see here. move along. Posted by: COLOSSUS at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (sGtp+) 249
Blythe 🤬
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (NFX2v) 250
Is there a Flock camera pointed at Mitch's front door?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1) 251
Blythe 🤬
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 *** He was blithe about answering questions, that was for sure. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9) 252
The legal system is not setup nor appropriate for this kind of thing. It just isn’t.
Do you think that's an accident? Posted by: Globalism at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (E/qck) 253
"Some of the media, mostly the white media, are interested in a fight in order to get their ratings up."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7) I am so tired of 'Everything I don't like is racist.' It's enough to make one consider racism. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (Y/06r) 254
Nood.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS) 255
Buck up!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (3Ae0s) 256
This is the History the British Left wants to destroy as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD ======== That is their tiresome oppressed oppressor commie bullshit. Real history has a succession of different peoples and countries screwing other peoples or countries until recorded history vanishes. No doubt, the line continues all the way until it blurs with nature. Predators and prey, exploiters, and exploited, all the way down. Individuals might not have done so but the rule was my family,tribe, clan, country > your family, tribe, clan, country. What is different is that Christianity as a derivative of Judaism proposed we don't have to live that way and so the West collectively decided that was true with exceptions. Other than perhaps Buddhists or perhaps Bahai, not so much. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv) 257
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)
I disagree in that what they intended was bastardized subsequently by those who disagreed with the process. Today's example is the judge who ruled 'information 'coerced' not admissible' . That's bullshit and not what was intended as shown with the administrations position before the SC. It's a constant internal battle against domestic political enemies who hate America as it was created to be. Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (KC5Lt) 258
Whig - so the courts outlawed military tribunals?? I had forgotten that, or missed it in the veritable mountain of crap that has befallen America since then.
I remember the arguments online, cooler heads prevailed early on, or tried to, pointing out the world trade center bombers were unlawful enemy combatants. Not garden variety criminals. All of this was ignored. Because clown world. Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (IkLDu) 259
Art
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (dcdY2) 260
Very nice article, just what I wanted to find.
Posted by: live sex at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (RfKbf) The Morning Report — 8/ 31 /26
More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. . . . This is what happens when Hollywood’s woke celebrity club substitutes ideology for facts. . . Barghouti, the convicted head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is not in an Israeli prison because Israel disagrees with his politics or because he wrote an anti-Israel manifesto; he was charged with five murders, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization. He received a fair trial in an Israeli civilian court and was convicted, receiving five life sentences. . . . . . Perhaps that is the problem with the Marvel campaign. These are limousine liberals at their most comfortable: wealthy, privileged and insulated from the consequences of the causes they champion. They have spent their careers playing superheroes, but appear to know remarkably little about the history they are now trying to rewrite. They sit comfortably in their movie studio trailers and pronounce moral judgments on a bitter conflict in which they have no personal stake and, judging by this campaign, very little understanding. . . A man convicted of murdering five people, including an American citizen, cannot be transformed into a symbol of peace because the red carpet revolutionaries have decided to make him one.Red carpet indeed: red with the blood of innocents and the red of communism. Well, how did we get to this point. Sadly, it's as plain as the hooked nose on my Brooklyn Jewboy face! And I say that proudly! Numbers from the following Brandeis report, American Undergraduates and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, show 18% support for Hamas among college students and 15% favorability for Israel.. . … this isn’t just about Israel. Or America. Colleges have normalized degrees of extremism on campus that reflect something like the Weathermen and Al Qaeda wrapped in a bow.Yes, Ruffalo is the only American of the bunch that I can spot but along with the others perhaps it's a toxic mix of just innate Jew-hatred along with likely pandering to a receptive audience to their odious beliefs as a means to drive ticket sales. Either way these disgusting degenerates are the useful idiots of those who seek our destruction. Not just the Jews but All of us. Every last one of us who are collectively guilty of preventing them from creating their paradise on earth. University campuses are notorious for promoting “safe spaces” where dissenting opinions are labeled as “violence.” Yet within the cushioned walls of the Ivory Tower, professors are increasingly using their lecterns to encourage literal violence in pursuit of radical agendas.That would be bad enough, but I hate to be the bearer of bad news; the radicalization and brainwashing are beginning long before college. In 2025, Texas passed a law that mandated a financial literacy course requirement for students in grades 9 through 12: HB 27 modifies Section 28.025 of the Texas Education Code to expand and strengthen personal financial literacy instruction for high school students. Under the bill, students will be required to complete a dedicated one-half credit in personal financial literacy as part of their social studies coursework to graduate. This requirement separates financial literacy from the previously combined economics and financial literacy course structure, allowing for more focused and practical instruction in managing money, budgeting, savings, credit, loans, and other real-life financial concepts. . . .NGPF repeatedly champions the notion that people must be made equal through government action––a foundational premise of both socialism and woke ideology. Students taking this curriculum are explicitly asked to find a relationship between justice and reparations. In fact, NGPF utilizes an entire section to promote reparations through biased history lessons that assert that reparations are merely “one step on the path toward racial justice.” A curriculum being pushed on every Texas public high school — and maybe every state by 2030 — teaches students that equal treatment is unjust and equalized outcomes are "justice." That is socialism.You can bet your sweet ass that poison like this is happening as far back as kindergarten if not pre-school. Unless and until we utterly retake academia, we are finished as a nation and society. But never fear, our would-be Islamic overlords will one day be running our schools and they'll all be sharia-compliant. Have a good day.
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Happy Monday
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (/+uur) 2
This is why folks homeschool their children.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 31, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j) 3
ChatGPT does not know of any Lake America when queried:
There’s no well-known lake officially called “Lake America” in standard U.S. geography. You might mean one of these: Lake Amador in California Lake Almanor in California Lake Amera / América as a local or informal name Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:18 AM (qBdHI) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ) 5
Newsom Claims He Never Knew He Had 5,000 Bottle Wine Cellar in Mansion
---- It's always in the last place you look! Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 07:22 AM (FZ29D) 6
It warms the thick pouch that is my scrotum to know that I have no idea who any of those Marvel "actors" are or what they do.
Posted by: Turgid and loving it at August 31, 2026 07:22 AM (+iYtA) 7
Fully intend to try that homeschooling thing if I ever have kids, yep.
Interview in a few hours, prayers from those who do, would be appreciated! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:24 AM (aJQbY) 8
Some of those actors are ones who used to at least keep their mouths shut and let me keep my delusion that they were at least as smart as the characters they play...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:25 AM (aJQbY) 9
RandomDave
Good luck! And a prayer ascending. Have you thought of changing your name to Govindan Rangarajan? From Madras? Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ) 10
thank you, JJ!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 07:25 AM (VyBeY) 11
You'd think somebody as old as Ian McKellen would know better than to support a convicted murderer . . . but I guess not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9) 12
I can't decide if Mark Ruffalo is retarded or evil.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 07:26 AM (WYfFt) 13
How do you say 'Wir Schaffen Das" in Arabic?
40% of Berlin Police Applicants Can’t Speak German ------ This is part of the conquest strategy of Islam--seize the levers of political power by any means necessary. Once there's a saturation point of Muslim cops, they can begin implementing de facto sharia law and no one can do anything about it because their political masters will either be like them or captured by them. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 07:26 AM (FZ29D) 14
"Perfessor" Squirrel
Irony is never dead when Newsom plays on of the people. What a waste of oxygen. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:29 AM (IivNP) 16
I can't decide if Mark Ruffalo is retarded or evil.
Posted by: Huck Follywood Yes. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:29 AM (IivNP) ---- When it comes to Hollywood celebrities you can hardly go wrong by embracing the power of "and." Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 07:31 AM (FZ29D) 17
If we just started hanging folks like Barghouti, Nidal Hassan, KSM, etc. maybe folks would take that stuff more seriously. Sadly, we seem to have lost the initiative.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 07:32 AM (3Ope8) 18
"Perfessor" Squirrel
Their cunning plan is working, for various amounts of work. When the German economy collapses, there is not enough loot to keep Sharia German going as an industrial concern. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ) 19
If the primary purpose of "Skyfall" helicopters is to closely study human landing spots on Mars, then that's progress I can support.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 07:33 AM (WIUCR) 20
Yesterday during a live TV broadcast an IRGC apparatchik was delivering a full on screed about " killing all the Jews" when he fell over dead at the podium.
Justice served. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:33 AM (PbWRL) 21
What I like is when the bagel is so plump that the hole in the middle closes up to where it looks like a belly button
(innie) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt) 22
Thank you JJ
I’m glad I don’t know who Mark Ruffalo (or Water Buffalo… or whatever his name is) is… an inconsequential dunderhead like the rest on that list I remember with fondness my teachers as a lad. They were for the most part nice older ladies (in my younger grades) who would’ve never thought of filling our young skulls full of mush with nonsense It’s a different time now I guess with many teachers of the nose-ringed purple haired persuasion Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:35 AM (sBAAu) 23
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 31, 2026 07:35 AM (2Ez/1) 24
{{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪ Tousi TV had that clip. Alas, no lightning from the sky, or a Hellfire missile. Still, progress. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ) 25
California Democrats Embrace Failure–What Can Republicans Do? They could do something really revolutionary for them: try. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (O0L8i) 26
I always scroll down to the Actual Science, Technology section first on Monday morning in case I missed some news from Uranus over the weekend. All clear.
Posted by: The Great Poof at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (JM9I6) 27
These Hollywood types must think their lives would be spicier if convicted mass murderers were freed to pursue them through the Hollywood Hills.
Oh wait, that'll happen to other people, elsewhere! And they have loads of private security anyway. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (WIUCR) 28
26 I always scroll down to the Actual Science, Technology section first on Monday morning in case I missed some news from Uranus over the weekend. All clear.
Posted by: The Great Poof at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (JM9I6) Uranus is Mianus in Connecticut... Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13) 29
NaCly, we did blow up Larak Island last night.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:37 AM (PbWRL) 30
Have you thought of changing your name to Govindan Rangarajan? From Madras?
Posted by: NaCly Dog I'll have to look that one up carefully closing tags this time Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:37 AM (aJQbY) 31
1 in 5 College Students Support Hamas
-- Please, skulls full of indoctrinated mush, go and live amongst Hamas. No, not here in America on your college campuses. ----> over there You'll come running back to mommy and daddy and the comforts of America and your pampered life before your tears hit the ground. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:38 AM (qBdHI) 32
Here is 1 lesson from the NGPF
VIDEO: Survivor’s Remorse: When a Black Child Receives a White Education School funding impacts the resources available in a school district, including the number of teachers, the quality of school facilities, and the educational tools. In this video, Kandice Sumner explains the impacts of racial and economic segregation on education. Watch the video and answer the questions. Describe Kandice Sumner’s experience with education growing up. Posted by: r hennigantx at August 31, 2026 07:39 AM (/+uur) 33
21 What I like is when the bagel is so plump that the hole in the middle closes up to where it looks like a belly button
(innie) Posted by: Don Black You know how we make the holes? Posted by: Uncle Pervy, The Randy Bagelmaker at August 31, 2026 07:39 AM (JM9I6) 34
Good piece over at American Thinker explaining why polls are for strip clubs and fire stations.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:40 AM (IivNP) 35
If we just started hanging folks like Barghouti, Nidal Hassan, KSM, etc. maybe folks would take that stuff more seriously. Sadly, we seem to have lost the initiative.
Yes. At one time the Tsar's secret police had all the bolshevik big wigs in custody at one time or another. If the Okhrana had shot them while in custody, they would have saved the world a lot of trouble. Posted by: Shoot Them When You Catch Them at August 31, 2026 07:40 AM (+iYtA) 36
Yesterday during a live TV broadcast an IRGC apparatchik was delivering a full on screed about " killing all the Jews" when he fell over dead at the podium.
Justice served. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:33 AM (PbWRL) Reminds me of that passage in 1 Samuel when the Lord’s anger was kindled against Uzzah for touching the ark and he smote him dead. And Uzzah had good intentions! Oh that the Lord would do more smiting amongst the IRGC and mullahs… the US military and IDF could be an instrument of the Lord in that smiting. Smiting… wonderful old word Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:40 AM (sBAAu) Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 07:41 AM (MWfyi) 38
>The sex comedy is legitimately back, and this time it has a conservative twist.
Hollywood’s New Sex Comedies Have a Surprising Twist: Traditional Values ---- I tell you what else is back after a long absence: at football games, the cameras have found the cheerleaders again. This is a positive development for our Country Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:41 AM (ZxPkt) 39
In today's crop report, the corn harvest is in. In Eastern Kansas, yields are excellent, getting worse going west. Western Kansas had drought and persistent 100-degree heat to burn up hopes of a big harvest.
Overall, yields average slightly lower than normal. Federal crop subsidies harm the fragile water table in Western Kansas. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt) 41
21 What I like is when the bagel is so plump that the hole in the middle closes up to where it looks like a belly button
(innie) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt) I prefer a Bialy... Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 07:42 AM (x0n13) 42
Well, the biggest event of the summer here in Fort Collins, CO, the Tour de Fat* was marred by tragedy when a driver drove his car onto a crowded sidewalk, killing one and injuring five. Rumor is that it was a confused old man. Really tragic. Imagine going out for a fun afternoon, out on a restaurant patio with your friends or family, and poof, just like that your life is over.
*It's a wonderfully weird combination of bike race, bike parade, Halloween-in-August and street festival, sponsored by New Belgium Brewery, makers of Fat Tire Ale, hence the name. Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:43 AM (2Drhq) 43
The explosive diarrhea bug must not have come only from that one company's tainted lettuce if it's still spreading to other states. I'd have assumed by now all of that stuff was recalled and not in use. Makes me wonder what other sources it's coming from.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:44 AM (qBdHI) 44
Ben Had
Two launchers. I would hope we sink every boat supplying those SOH islands. Let them starve. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi) 46
Good morning again Horde thx JJ. Happy Monday.
I wish we could go back to the time when actors and actresses, as well as other entertainers were thought of as being less than prostitutes. Most conservatives pay no attention to them but the middle class left hangs on their every word Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:48 AM (EZWVc) 47
The explosive diarrhea bug must not have come only from that one company's tainted lettuce if it's still spreading to other states. I'd have assumed by now all of that stuff was recalled and not in use. Makes me wonder what other sources it's coming from.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:44 AM (qBdHI) Explosive diarrhea and green dildos (WNBA in general really)…. Two news stories that refuse to go away. You don’t want to pay attention, but it’s like trying to not stare at the car accident on the freeway, you can’t help yourself. Morbid curiosity Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:48 AM (sBAAu) 48
Salty,
d'uh. if that was an H1B joke, consider it finally landing... Sadly, I cannot lie to save my life, which is normally a good thing, they tell me. Posted by: RandomDave thinks he got the joke... at August 31, 2026 07:49 AM (aJQbY) 49
@43/(GOYpy) { post tazed into non-existence }
I love the smell of burnt troll flesh in the morning. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 07:49 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ) 51
Explosive diarrhea from lettuce, kale being downgraded as a heavy metals sinkhole, looks like my dietary choices were right after all.
Posted by: Circus Peanuts And Candy Corn at August 31, 2026 07:51 AM (JM9I6) 52
Good morning again Horde thx JJ. Happy Monday.
I wish we could go back to the time when actors and actresses, as well as other entertainers were thought of as being less than prostitutes. Most conservatives pay no attention to them but the middle class left hangs on their every word Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:48 AM (EZWVc) Not really a big fan, but Laura Ingraham had one of the great book titles when she wrote: Shut Up and Dribble Mainly about idiot sports figures but applies to all entertainers Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:51 AM (sBAAu) 53
Prolapse Paul!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:51 AM (IivNP) 54
Kale is evil.
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (2Drhq) 55
CA Secretary of State Insists Gym ID Is All the Voter ID Anyone Needs
In view of all of the means of fraud the Left must engage in to secure any sort of "election" victory, I'm totally convinced that polls are only useful in measuring the effectiveness of Demonic Party vote fraud in any given election. It may explain why polling today is so far from reality—they must keep recalibrating for all of the judicial activism that is employed to thwart any serious attempt at reducing election rigging. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (nAS9C) 56
I posted yesterday that I thought the only thing , unfortunately, that could cure California would be a plague. Reading stories about typhus coming back as well as the story about the food carts being disgusting and I think the plague might be on the way
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (EZWVc) 57
James Clyburn Basically Says Clarence Thomas 'Ain't Black'
And if you don't suck gay dick you ain't a hetero guy, right? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK) 58
Prolapse Paul got zapped quick-like.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:53 AM (IivNP) 59
55 I'm totally convinced that polls are only useful in measuring the effectiveness of Demonic Party vote fraud in any given election.
100% Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:53 AM (2Drhq) 60
Mr Aspirin Factory
He does not appear to be coherent enough to come up with those posts. He must be part of a network, given talking points to post. So someone is paying him to fail. That is so on-brand for the Left. Hope they hit the tip jar. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ) 61
Islamic Charity Group Blames 9/11 On American Support For Israel
Uh-huh. And has nothing to do with Islam's hatred of Judaism and Christianity. Islamic pirates tried to prey on our ships more than a century BEFORE there was a modern nation of Israel... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:54 AM (l3cgK) 62
17 If we just started hanging folks like Barghouti, Nidal Hassan, KSM, etc. maybe folks would take that stuff more seriously. Sadly, we seem to have lost the initiative. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 07:32 AM (3Ope Israel’s inability to give the Death Penalty to convicted terrorists is a huge and almost inexplicable weakness. I believe it’s led to the bizarre situation where it is far preferable to use the military to kill suspects than to ever make any effort to capture them. Short term, I agree that it’s absolutely necessary. But it’s a complete failure of civilian justice systems that has made this necessary. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:55 AM (dqHut) 63
Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 07:56 AM (3Ae0s) Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:57 AM (IivNP) 65
Tom Servo
We have the same weakness in our justice system. El Salvador has an authentic Justice System, that cares about victims. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ) 66
CA Secretary of State Insists Gym ID Is All the Voter ID Anyone Needs
Simple test...can I use the ID to withdraw money at a bank? I mean, MOST folks have bank accounts of some sort, homeless excepted, but even for them, states with voting ID laws make allowances for even them to get photo IDs for voting. The left isn't worried about citizens being unable to vote, they're worried about imaginary, illegal, and multiple voting being blocked. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:57 AM (l3cgK) 67
CA Secretary of State Insists Gym ID Is All the Voter ID Anyone Needs
-- Far be it from me to have smarts real good, but Dear California, can anyone get a gym ID, regardless of age, legal status, and the like? If the answer is yes, it's in-your-face fraud and they know it. I'm convinced Democrats have annual meetings to think of every which way to Sunday they can cheat and manufacture ballots. The election fraud in this country is off the charts, I'm convinced, like never before. It's almost comical if it weren't so dire. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:59 AM (qBdHI) 68
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 60 sunny degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. I was actually hoping for the predicted rain, as I still have a lot of editing to do, as well as other writing projects.
Hoping to get through at least three chapters today. We will see. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 08:00 AM (qRla/) 69
Obama Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail-In Voting Reforms Again.
How many times do these judges need to be rebuffed before they stop? That's a rhetorical question, as they will never stop until they've been removed from their positions of power, hopefully kicking and screaming in front of a large crowd waiting for the judges' comeuppance. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK) 70
Mamdani, AOC and Bernie are the public face of the Democratic Socialists of America. Its roots go back to the 1970s when founder Michael Harrington's decided to take over the Democratic party from within when he concluded that independent socialist parties could never win on their own. The idea was to organize as nominal Democrats to win at the local level and then metastasize.
AOC has always been DSA. She won a literal DSA beauty contest to get their backing to win her seat in 2018. She was a dues paying member at the time but went on the down low after she took her seat. Now she's publicly declaring her allegiance. Mamdami adds Islam to the mix. Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:00 AM (dtajH) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:01 AM (l3cgK) 72
The story about Israelis being physically chased and beaten in multiple countries is very dark and disturbing. The crazies are off the chain everywhere, it seems.
Posted by: The World Is Sick And Getting Sicker at August 31, 2026 08:02 AM (JM9I6) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 08:02 AM (x0n13) 74
70 Mamdani, AOC and Bernie are the public face of the Democratic Socialists of America. Its roots go back to the 1970s when founder Michael Harrington's decided to take over the Democratic party from within when he concluded that independent socialist parties could never win on their own. The idea was to organize as nominal Democrats to win at the local level and then metastasize.
That may be true but I find it hard to dismiss George McGovern. His platform would be welcomed by the DSA. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O) Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (dtajH) 76
Congratulations to Wylie, TX and Pflugerville, TX, who have de-Flocked.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O) 77
A cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to contaminated iceberg lettuce imported from Mexico...
That's all you have to know. Lettuce from Méhico! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:04 AM (l3cgK) 78
Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ
Posted by: The Globohomo Conspiracy at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX) 79
Screw bagels, give me doughnuts.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (WB/3O) 80
Every homeless person has an ID and bank account to access public funds. Everything is direct deposit and their "crazy check" is not a check, it's DD.
Posted by: No More Cussin' Out The Mailman at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6) 81
Why Higher Education Is Likely Doomed
-- I'd like to believe this. But I fear it will be a looooong time before we see either its demise or a rebuilding of what once were actual institutions of higher, enlightened learning. They're trucking along just like Mao's revolution that still has a stranglehold on China. We're in for many more years of academia churning out hay bale blocks of communist idiocy in the brains of once-normal student after student after student... Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI) 82
76 Congratulations to Wylie, TX and Pflugerville, TX, who have de-Flocked.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM ---- It's nice to not feel like you're being watched all the time. Posted by: The sheep at August 31, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1) 83
We’ve clearly got complete and effective surveillance over Iranian assets, if we can take out launchers as they’re getting ready to fire.
Very telling that the Iranian response was full of sound and fury, yet piecemeal and ineffective. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (dqHut) Posted by: Ariana Grande's Tongue at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (JM9I6) 85
I wish the smallest of the Great Lakes would have been renamed Lake New York. Ontario is a province of Canada. Why not name it after the one state that has reline with it?
Plus it would still piss off Premier Ford to no end. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (WB/3O) 86
80 Every homeless person has an ID and bank account to access public funds. Everything is direct deposit and their "crazy check" is not a check, it's DD.
Posted by: No More Cussin' Out The Mailman at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6) DD? They give boobs to the homeless? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (l3cgK) 87
Happy Monday!
>>They have spent their careers playing superheroes, but appear to know remarkably little about the history they are now trying to rewrite. They sit comfortably in their movie studio trailers and pronounce moral judgments on a bitter conflict in which they have no personal stake and, judging by this campaign, very little understanding. . . Stupid question: where are all the Jews in Hollywood on this? Is there any support for Israel and her people in that industry? Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (X8xt3) 88
No More Cussin' Out The Mailman
A hacking attack on those distribution files and income transfer software, including backups, would cause riots in every US city. Good thing everyone and every country loves our President. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ) 89
The article about modern sex comedies: The Invite doesn't sound bad, and I'm always happy to watch Olivia Wilde in anything. Though I doubt I'll pay $20 or close to it to see the film in a theatre. The only "art cinema" I know around here is deep in downtown, which requires $$$ to park as well as the ticket extortion.
I can wait for the DVD from the library. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:08 AM (wzUl9) 90
81 Why Higher Education Is Likely Doomed
++++ What major well known four year university closed in the last year? *taps fingers on counter* Well? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1) 91
The bad news is that a leftist judge has just made it likely that he’ll escape justice.
The Good News is that the Chief 9/11 Plotter is Finally Going to Trial ===== Spare me. Justice delayed is justice denied. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX) Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (dtajH) 93
Congratulations to Wylie, TX and Pflugerville, TX, who have de-Flocked.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 *** So a priest who is against these cameras is also de-Flocked? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (wzUl9) 94
It's nice to not feel like you're being watched all the time.
Posted by: The sheep at August 31, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1) They cited the Fourth Amendment. I suspect among some communities there is a real fear they could get dragged into a years long court case that makes its way to SCOTUS at perhaps great expense where they might have to explain themselves over that one. As to the Internet spying on me…it’s kind of sucking right now. Still plenty of ads meant for LA viewers, and ads in a language I do not speak. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:10 AM (WB/3O) 95
Stupid question: where are all the Jews in Hollywood on this? Is there any support for Israel and her people in that industry?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 *** Probably in private they support Israel. But there seems to be a Gentleman's Agreement (SWIDT?) not to express such sentiments in public. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:11 AM (wzUl9) 96
Very telling that the Iranian response was full of sound and fury, yet piecemeal and ineffective.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (dqHut) Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing! Posted by: The Bard at August 31, 2026 08:11 AM (WB/3O) 97
What I like is when the bagel is so plump that the hole in the middle closes up to where it looks like a belly button
(innie) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt) ===== That is roll shaped in a ring. Not a bagel. Gross. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX) 98
Private colleges without large endowments will fail first.
Will states cut funding? Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 *** Pretty sure my former employer will be all right. It has a huge endowment. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9) 99
What major well known four year university closed in the last year?
*taps fingers on counter* Well? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1) The weakest members of the herd go first, and that’s started happening already. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (dqHut) 100
>>James Clyburn Basically Says Clarence Thomas 'Ain't Black'
Old and busted: Misgendering me is violence, rejecting my identity is genocide! New hotness: We can deny the identity of people we hate and it's totes cool, you guyz! Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (X8xt3) 101
Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at August 31, 2026 08:13 AM (53oGX) 102
The weakest members of the herd go first, and that’s started happening already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM Name three. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1) 103
The Bargouti letter was signed by musicians including Sting, Annie Lennox and Paul Simon.
Simon you're Jewish, WTF Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (EZWVc) 104
Morn' all... I never liked bagels
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I) 105
Good morning horde!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e) 106
I find it hard to surrender something I can never have. In order to have health care, you are required to have health for which to care.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (WB/3O) 107
“If you believe Trump is using (Department of Justice) attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish (James) is doing exactly the same thing,” Wiesenfeld wrote, according to the Times Union.
“I ask that you not serve as Tish’s personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies. Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes,” he wrote. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:16 AM (2xUTf) 108
Quarter Twenty
University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania Hampshire College in Massachusetts Anna Maria College in Massachusetts All in 2026. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ) 109
That may be true but I find it hard to dismiss George McGovern. His platform would be welcomed by the DSA.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O) ===== I think there are clear parallels here with 1972. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX) 110
Clyburn is 86 and will soon join the many other grifters we have lost in the last few years. Auntie Maxine, included.
Posted by: Look Out Below! at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (JM9I6) 111
104 Morn' all... I never liked bagels
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I) I have had them…there was an amazing chocolate bagel I had one time in NY, but on the whole…meh. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (WB/3O) 112
Syracuse is teetering.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (dtajH) 113
>>More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. . . . This is what happens when Hollywood’s woke celebrity club substitutes ideology for facts. . .
Wanna bet if you did a Venn diagram of these people, one circle for supporting Barghouti, and a second circle for supporting Roman Polanski you'd have a perfect circle. These people are bent. Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (X8xt3) 114
One Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps official ended his speech early after a heart attack took him off to his 70 virgins.
Senior IRGC member and candidate Naemat al-Hami suffered a fatal heart attack right in the middle of his campaign speech. Al-Hami was very excited before a heart attack took him out. It was quite a memorable speech. … this IS Allah’s will Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (2xUTf) 115
Morn' all... I never liked bagels
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 *** Growing up, I read the word in books and heard it in movie dialog, but had no idea what it was. Things like bagels and iced coffee were alien concepts in the Sixties in Da Swamp. Maybe those items got served in coffee shops ("coffeehouses"), but I was too young for that. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:19 AM (wzUl9) 116
I've never heard of someone who doesn't like bagels. Shocking news this morning. Is pizza next?
Posted by: Gobsmacked, Here at August 31, 2026 08:19 AM (JM9I6) 117
In NY alone Cazenovia, Concordia and the College of St Rose have closed recently. I went Albany State and St Rose , also in Albany, was a good school for nursing , teaching and other functional careers. The Board that ran the school went left and the school lost enrollment
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:19 AM (EZWVc) 118
Cow Demon
George McGovern changes his philosophy and actions after he tried to work in the private sector. He struggled. All this after he left politics. There should be only political candidates who worked in the private sector. No NGOs, no student government types, few MBAs, no poly-sci majors. They are worse than useless. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ) 119
That may be true but I find it hard to dismiss George McGovern. His platform would be welcomed by the DSA.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O) ===== I think there are clear parallels here with 1972. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX) The only difference is that back then, McGovern supporters wore buttons reading "Come Home And Stop Killing Babies." These days, you practically have to perform a live D&C to be considered a Dem. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/) Posted by: RandomDave thinks he got the joke... at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (aJQbY) 121
The Bargouti letter was signed by musicians including Sting, Annie Lennox and Paul Simon.
Simon you're Jewish, WTF Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (EZWVc) ===== The drama kids were never first in class. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX) 122
108 University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania Hampshire College in Massachusetts Anna Maria College in Massachusetts Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:16 AM ----- You consider each of those to be a "major well known four year university?" Well, ok then. They're probably just some politician's front for a money laundering operation. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt) 124
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was spotted wearing a Muslim Handmaiden outfit (hijab) while addressing a predominantly male Muslim audience in New York City on Friday.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (2xUTf) 125
Hartwick College in NYS near Albany is sinking.
Posted by: Learing Center of Excellence at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (JM9I6) 126
@114 heart attack, cruise missile to his head, it's all good
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (EZWVc) 127
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V) 128
More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. . . . This is what happens when Hollywood’s woke celebrity club substitutes ideology for facts. . . Barghouti, the convicted head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is not in an Israeli prison because Israel disagrees with his politics or because he wrote an anti-Israel manifesto; he was charged with five murders, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization. He received a fair trial in an Israeli civilian court and was convicted, receiving five life sentences. . .
Yeah, keep supporting hollywood. Keep going to see Marvel movies. Keep rewarding them for shitting on the very foundations of what you believe in. I'll be over here....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:24 AM (ccf/V) 129
> The Bargouti letter was signed by musicians including Sting, Annie Lennox and Paul Simon.
---- Radical Chic Radical chic is the fashionable practice of upper-class people associating with politically radical people and causes. The journalist Tom Wolfe coined the term in his article "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's", which New York magazine published in June 1970. The term has since become widely used in American English, French and Italian. Unlike dedicated activists, revolutionaries or dissenters, those who engage in "radical chic" remain frivolous political agitators—ideologically invested in their cause of choice only so far as it advances their liberal elite social standing. Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 08:24 AM (ZxPkt) 130
Former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro has released new photographs from behind bars showing the results of his “US prison diet”.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:25 AM (2xUTf) 131
125 Hartwick College in NYS near Albany is sinking.
Posted by: Learing Center of Excellence at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM Who? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1) 132
Quarter Twenty
I was responding to your #102 comment, asking to name 3 of the weak colleges that closed recently. You are switching premises here. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ) 133
Some larger colleges will start closing or scaling down their operations in the near future. Because 1) people realize their "gender studies " degrees etc are useless and 2) the declining birth rates will strip them of students
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (EZWVc) 134
There should be only political candidates who worked in the private sector. No NGOs, no student government types, few MBAs, no poly-sci majors. They are worse than useless.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ) Given the state of industry and education I sadly don’t think it guarantees much. Also, take a look at the Texas Legislature, whose members get a salary of $7200 a year. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (WB/3O) 135
including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton
=== dumb bitches Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (g47mK) Posted by: Snopes at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (iMotb) 137
@129 Radical Chic by Tom Wolfe is one of the funniest things you'll ever read. You literally shake your head throughout the whole thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:27 AM (EZWVc) 138
Mornin, All. Happy Monday.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (77rzZ) 139
CA Secretary of State Insists Gym ID Is All the Voter ID Anyone Needs
Simple test...can I use the ID to withdraw money at a bank? I mean, MOST folks have bank accounts of some sort, homeless excepted, but even for them, states with voting ID laws make allowances for even them to get photo IDs for voting. The left isn't worried about citizens being unable to vote, they're worried about imaginary, illegal, and multiple voting being blocked. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) Try to buy a gun. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (3Ae0s) 140
52 - Actually, the name of the book was Shut Up And Sing and I believe she wrote it around the time the Dixie Chicks were sticking their foot in their mouths about George W. Bush.
Posted by: jaimo at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (2noDb) 141
> Senior IRGC member and candidate Naemat al-Hami suffered a fatal heart attack right in the middle of his campaign speech.
------------ Campaign speech? I had no idea these clowns were "elected" to the IRGC. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (2Cry5) 142
NYPost:
A New Mexico man allegedly gunned down his cousin during a drunken argument over green enchiladas, according to reports. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:29 AM (2xUTf) 143
Try to buy a gun.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (3Ae0s) CA politicians and other assorted idiots will assure you that task is easier than buying a loaf of bread. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:29 AM (WB/3O) 144
Leonard Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. His Chic has been gone since 1990. Nice view of Manhattan, though.
Posted by: Buried With His Baton at August 31, 2026 08:30 AM (JM9I6) 145
Not to prolong the Lake America debate, but I naively assume Ontario is a native word and not strictly "Canadian". Trump is obviously just triggering the moronic Canadian leaders who are lashing out after being told to play fair.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 31, 2026 08:30 AM (n17eQ) 146
My question began in comment 90:
"What major well known four year university closed in the last year?" +++ Has Penn State closed a major campus? University of California? SUNY? If higher education is in such bad shape, show me the casualty list. Rinky dink schools come and go all the time. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1) 147
Syracuse is teetering.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (dtajH) ===== Syracuse's entire model is catering to the wealthy who know the value of a credential but who's children are not bright enough for Ivy League. Big fraternity/sorority/athletics culture. High tuition. Now they have to consolidate and eliminate all the no-work/cool-sounding majors those people preferred. They are cutting off their bread-and-butter. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX) 148
Never read anything by Tom Wolfe, other than references to him from time to time. Is his work still relevant?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 08:31 AM (Gqar8) 149
actually inside the beltway
No one is discussing a serious trade dispute with one of our biggest trading partners. The Left are focusing on words, not deeds. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ) 150
147 Faber College. Still running. Just dedicated a statue of alumni Senator Blutarski.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 08:33 AM (gm9Sb) 151
Today Is National Trail Mix Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 08:34 AM (NpAcC) 152
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy on Sunday teased an upcoming announcement about the Trump administration’s fraud crackdown.
In a post on X, Duffy said there would be “unprecedented fraud crackdown” announcement on Monday. “TOMORROW: UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD CRACKDOWN,” the secretary wrote. In the post, he also tagged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, suggesting a multi-department effort targeting fraud. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:34 AM (2xUTf) 153
The journalist Tom Wolfe coined the term in his article "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's", which New York magazine published in June 1970.
==== This is included in his book Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers extremely recommended. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX) 154
150 147 Faber College. Still running. Just dedicated a statue of alumni Senator Blutarski.
Posted by: bill in arkansas We all know that Knowledge is Good. Posted by: Emil Faber at August 31, 2026 08:35 AM (JM9I6) 155
Iceland says 'No': Four takeaways from the EU accession referendum
Here are the four takeaways. 1. Fish trumps it all For those outside Iceland, it was tempting to analyse the referendum through a geopolitical lens: Russia's war on Ukraine, China's unfair competition and, of course, Donald Trump and his punitive tariffs and threats to annex Greenland. But the key driver of the vote was none other than fish. The country jealously protects its fishing rights. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (2xUTf) 156
Curious why Charlotte Rampling's "Night Porter" photo above was tarnished with Ruffalo's image. Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (Y8DZL) 157
I was thinking that the Iranian who died while threatening the wrath of Allah was the second case of that happening, but the first one I was thinking of was a Turkish politician in Dec,2023.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (igCg8) 158
Actually, the name of the book was Shut Up And Sing and I believe she wrote it around the time the Dixie Chicks were sticking their foot in their mouths about George W. Bush.
Posted by: jaimo I went in to a Borders Books. & Music looming for a book. I asked at the counter if the had one on Trump & illegal aliens. Blue haired nose pierced broad said, "Get out of here and don't come back!" I said, "That's the one! Do you have it in paperback?" Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (3Ae0s) 159
@148 I think so . Start with Radical Chic, it's a story he wrote for the New Yorker , I believe . It's a true story about a cocktail party at Leonard Bernstein's penthouse where the guests of honor were the Black Panthers. Just as applicable as the stupid left today
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (EZWVc) 160
How many times do these judges need to be rebuffed before they stop?
If I understand the situation correctly, SCOTUS vacated the previous hold because the final rules weren't in place so no one could show how they'd be harmed. Now the final rules are in place. No one has been harmed and no real, legitimate, Democrat voter is likely to BE harmed - postal workers will still discard Republican ballots if they can - but it's a slightly different situation and so we begin the circus yet again. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (ExV1e) 161
Rick, hahahahahha, that's a good one. I'll have to use that at Barnes & Noble.
Posted by: jaimo at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (2noDb) 162
LMAO! BILL MAHER JUST DROPPED:
"Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'" "Just ask my LatinX birthing person!" Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (2xUTf) 163
George McGovern was hard to understand. Flew many combat missions over Europe in WWII and yet still seemed to be pro-communist. Was he just dumb?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (sBAAu) Posted by: Euell Gibbons at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (JM9I6) 165
Brad Lander a Dem far left candidate in NYC faced anti semitic taunts at done rally over the weekend.
The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party members are shocked that leopard's are eating their faces Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc) 166
I've never heard of someone who doesn't like bagels. Shocking news this morning. Is pizza next?
Bagel Bites! Yummy! Posted by: Totino's Pizza Bagels at August 31, 2026 08:41 AM (+iYtA) 167
163 George McGovern was hard to understand. Flew many combat missions over Europe in WWII and yet still seemed to be pro-communist. Was he just dumb?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (sBAAu) A textbook useful idiot? Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 08:41 AM (Gqar8) 168
I went in to a Borders Books. & Music looming for a book. I asked at the counter if the had one on Trump & illegal aliens.
Blue haired nose pierced broad said, "Get out of here and don't come back!" I said, "That's the one! Do you have it in paperback?" Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM ++++ Borders liquidated all of its US stores in 2011. Which was like, 15 years ago. Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 31, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1) 169
CNN: Hegseth fired all of the honest brokers and surrounded himself with “yes men.”
Also CNN: Flag Officers “continuously” non-concur with Hegseth. Pick one, you hacks. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (2xUTf) 170
LinusVanPelt
IN WWII, the Soviets were our ally, needed to end Hitler. They were touted by most. Even though the Soviet government was much more evil than Hitler, and started WWII via a pact with Germany. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ) 171
LMAO! BILL MAHER JUST DROPPED:
"Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'" "Just ask my LatinX birthing person!" Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (2xUTf) I happened to see an old Johnny Carson over the weekend from 1982 or 83 I think. A young Bill Maher made his first appearance, did some standup. He was actually funny… interesting given his later open hostility to religion he actually worked religion into that act in a positive way… talked about how his mom was Jewish and dad catholic; how even though raised Catholic his Jewishness would slip in like for instance when he’d bring his lawyer to the confessional… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (sBAAu) 172
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Borders liquidated all of its US stores in 2011. Which was like, 15 years ago. Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 31, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1) Just means the joke is old and has been slightly updated. Premise still stands. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V) 173
LMAO! BILL MAHER JUST DROPPED:
"Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'" "Just ask my LatinX birthing person!" Posted by: SMOD Bing Lake America. A bunch of Canadian websites have already changed the name. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (3Ae0s) 174
Prunes. Is two enough? Is six too many?
Posted by: Passing Wind at August 31, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6) 175
Never read anything by Tom Wolfe, other than references to him from time to time. Is his work still relevant?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 *** Dunno about relevant (the buzzword of those days -- everything from TV shows to college classes had to be "relevant"). But his work provides a fine glimpse into what America was like then. And his novels, esp. A Man in Full, are well done. You need to . . . Get Used to! . . . his style though. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9) 176
Bing Lake America. A bunch of Canadian websites have already changed the name. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (3Ae0s) Mapquest is holding their ground, tho. Not changing the name. Does anyone still use Mapquest? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V) 177
Borders liquidated all of its US stores in 2011.
Which was like, 15 years ago. Posted by: The Wayback Machine I miss Borders. What a great place to hang out. Barnes and Noble pales by comparison. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ) 178
Borders liquidated all of its US stores in 2011.
Which was like, 15 years ago. Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 31, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1) Just means the joke is old and has been slightly updated. Premise still stands. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer I haven't went to the dark side in 20+ years. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:47 AM (3Ae0s) 179
Not to prolong the Lake America debate, but I naively assume Ontario is a native word and not strictly "Canadian".
The name Ontario originates from Indigenous languages, primarily meaning "no Stanley Cup this year." Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e) 180
177 Barnes and Noble pales by comparison.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ) Momma Sefton called them Barnes and Ignoble. How I miss that great lady! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (x0n13) 181
IN WWII, the Soviets were our ally, needed to end Hitler. They were touted by most.
Even though the Soviet government was much more evil than Hitler, and started WWII via a pact with Germany. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ) You’re right, of course. I just (wrongly) assumed that everyone knew the realpolitik of allying with the Soviets and knew they were almost as bad (just weren’t bent on immediate earth conquest)… maybe not Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (sBAAu) 182
Mapquest is holding their ground, tho. Not changing the name.
Does anyone still use Mapquest? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer What's a mapquest? Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (3Ae0s) 183
Speaking of Syracuse...
Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee Syracuse is in trouble. They borrowed a half billion dollars to build new dorms and now enrollment is sliding. “The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said. 4:22 AM · Aug 30, 2026 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX) 184
Bing Lake America. A bunch of Canadian websites have already changed the name.
Posted by: rickb223 If they're so pissed off about it, why would they do that? Being Canadian, they're under no obligation to follow an order of a US President. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ) 185
If they're so pissed off about it, why would they do that? Being Canadian, they're under no obligation to follow an order of a US President.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ) Maybe they don't like Carney... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (+gK6I) 186
"Syracuse is in trouble. They borrowed a half billion dollars to build new dorms..."
+++ Is that a lot? Posted by: I gotta ask at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1) 187
167 163 George McGovern was hard to understand. Flew many combat missions over Europe in WWII and yet still seemed to be pro-communist. Was he just dumb?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (sBAAu) True story - after he retired from politics, McGovern took to running a small resort hotel that he bought. After a few years he said "Now I understand why owners were complaining about overregulation and government interfering with what they need to do, I never did before." McGovern had a distinguished military career, but before that Hotel stint he had never held a private job in his life. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (edUvp) 188
If they're so pissed off about it, why would they do that? Being Canadian, they're under no obligation to follow an order of a US President.
Posted by: Bulg Canada the government is pissed. But a lot of Canadians hate their government. So, to stick their fingers in the eyes of their government... Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:51 AM (3Ae0s) 189
“The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said.
4:22 AM · Aug 30, 2026 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX) I would imagine it's just a slight bit more than that.......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V) 190
James Clyburn represents Walterboro, SC, a miserable place where I'd be surprised if the average IQ is over 60.
Posted by: Front Porch Of The Low Country at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6) 191
You’re right, of course. I just (wrongly) assumed that everyone knew the realpolitik of allying with the Soviets and knew they were almost as bad (just weren’t bent on immediate earth conquest)… maybe not
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (sBAAu) There were a LOT of pro-soviet cheerleaders in this country, including the NYT. McCarthy was not wrong. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (edUvp) 192
what is the point of Quarter Twenty?
either he's right or not, who cares? anyway 148 Never read anything by Tom Wolfe, other than references to him from time to time. Is his work still relevant? YES! yes yes yes. also easy reads and the man is funny but yeah colleges - esp small private ones, LACs - are in big trouble of course some will remain. but just drive around PA - you will see - so many LACs. SO MANY also some state schools with small populations will suffer and have to consolidate/get smaller somehow when people stick with their own state school (the newest trend). bc they operate mostly from OOS higher tuition Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (j+aD2) 193
Karl also asked whether she could challenge Schumer. Ocasio-Cortez replied that “anything is possible at this juncture.” Schumer’s seat is up in 2028.
Translation: she ruled out nothing, committed to nothing, and left every door open while collecting the goodwill that comes with being coy about a presidential run. But she’s also rejoined the socialists, reshuffled her staff, and gotten cozy with the Sanders machine. For someone who’s just trying to win a House race, that’s a lot of groundwork to be laying. Make of that what you will. ============================ Senator Occasional Cortex lunching with John Thune? Sure, I can see that. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (vM+8K) 194
George McGovern flew 35 missions as the pilot of a B-24 over Europe. Hard to reconcile that with his horrible politics. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (x0n13) 195
176 - start with two. wait & see. overindulgence in prunes can have startling results.
just sayin'. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (VyBeY) 196
Tom Wolfe is as relevant as ever; maybe even a bit more.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:53 AM (VyBeY) 197
After a few years he said "Now I understand why owners were complaining about overregulation and government interfering with what they need to do, I never did before."
McGovern had a distinguished military career, but before that Hotel stint he had never held a private job in his life. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (edUvp) ===== And not a very bright guy to begin with. Accomplished zero in the Senate. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX) 198
Syracuse has a terrible location and is just DEPRESSING
it makes Cornell seem cheery. that's something. another note - parents are not sending their kids to places in shit towns with crime so, trouble for Syracuse, UVM, Albany, Berkeley, Temple, etc etc there are lots - they'd better start pushing their idiotic blue locales to clear out the scum Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 08:53 AM (j+aD2) 199
Canada the government is pissed.
But a lot of Canadians hate their government. So, to stick their fingers in the eyes of their government... Posted by: rickb223 Heh. Looks like Trump made the right call, then. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:54 AM (77rzZ) 200
start with two. wait & see. overindulgence in prunes can have startling results.
just sayin'. Posted by: sock_rat_eez Eat a dozen prunes. Wait twelve hours. Snort pepper. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (3Ae0s) 201
McCarthy was not wrong.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (VyBeY) 202
Heh. Looks like Trump made the right call, then. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:54 AM (77rzZ) He usually does though it seems cringe worthy at first Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (+gK6I) 203
I believe Tom Wolfe was conservative. I saw him interviewed on Firing Line once and it seems he was friends with Buckley. I’ve never read any of his books but apparently Bonfire of the Vanities is quite good
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (sBAAu) 204
Two very important links from DataRepublican:
1. The NOBLOGS network. Clickable map at: https://tinyurl.com/y22pe4c4 2. DR reposted: Anti-globalists pumped up by Russia against the US. Note many of the recognized names: https://tinyurl.com/mry4kcv8 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 08:56 AM (QNSrI) 205
I think there are clear parallels here with 1972.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX) oh absolutely! Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:56 AM (edUvp) 206
No one is discussing a serious trade dispute with one of our biggest trading partners.
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ) ===================== I wonder if Canadians have strictly patriotic views on the dispute, or if there is a diversity of opinion... Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 08:57 AM (vM+8K) 207
Heh. Looks like Trump made the right call, then.
Posted by: Bulg He usually does though it seems cringe worthy at first Posted by: It's me donna He's trying to help Alberta without it looking like he has his fingers in it. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:57 AM (3Ae0s) 208
What's an LAC?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1) 209
Thanks for the Wolfe responses. I may check out one of his books. So much to read, so little time, is my personal mantra.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Gqar8) 210
With 35 flights, statistically McGovern should have been dead.
His politics were classic Minnesota nice. It's a nice sentiment locally but doesn't scale well. Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (dtajH) 211
@203 reread Bonfire of the Vanities recently. Still holds up , still funny and relevant to the Mamdani era
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (EZWVc) 212
McCarthy was not wrong.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (VyBeY) - At a minimum, he was politically incorrect: https://youtu.be/bB3VULfGUUc Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (QNSrI) 213
206 No one is discussing a serious trade dispute with one of our biggest trading partners.
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ) I am... Just renewed a prescription I get in Canada and it went up 60 dollars because of the tariffs... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (+gK6I) 214
Liberal Arts College (?)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:59 AM (VyBeY) 215
No one is discussing a serious trade dispute with one of our biggest trading partners.
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ) ===================== I wonder if Canadians have strictly patriotic views on the dispute, or if there is a diversity of opinion... Posted by: Huck Follywood Huge diversity of opinion. Alberta is trying to use this to drive an even bigger wedge into the Independence initiative. A couple of other provinces are starting to see where Eastern Canada are pissy bitchez. Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:59 AM (3Ae0s) 216
Even though the Soviet government was much more evil than Hitler, and started WWII via a pact with Germany.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ) amusing alternate history; Hitler annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938. Ribbentrop /molotov pact was not signed until late 1939, when Stalin realized in which direction hordes of nazis were moving, thinking he could outsmart and outplay hitler. Hitler invaded first, before stalin was ready. As far as Soviet Govt being more evil the nazi germany, I beg to differ. Hitler's "final solution" was the most evil plot in history. Gulags had nothing on systemic genocide that hitler practiced. Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 08:59 AM (g47mK) 217
LAC= Liberal Arts College
pretty common term since this is of interest to you, clearly. some of them have "University" appended to their names now but in reality ... they're still small colleges Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 09:00 AM (j+aD2) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:00 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:00 AM (QNSrI) 220
Wolfe's The Right Stuff about the early astronauts is great. It got made into an equally great movie.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:01 AM (dtajH) 221
I’ve never read any of his books but apparently Bonfire of the Vanities is quite good
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (sBAAu) =================== Highly entertaining, if you like "puncturing pop culture" types of writing, and enjoy watching performative value signalers getting hit with their own supposed beliefs squarely between the eyes. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:01 AM (vM+8K) 222
"More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. (He should be released into a tank of starving piranha - jjs)
Hollywood celebrities are backing a terrorist murderer — read the facts" The limousine liberals needed a new "Free Mumia!"cause. Free Mumia! is stale. Newly-hatched limousine liberals need an up-to-date political prisoner cause. An Anti-JOOOO political prisoner cause. A cause that appeals to people enamored with the current top-of-the-pyramid oppressed group, Muslims. Who are not oppressed in the West (and not truly oppressed in Gaza) but will be pictured as such. Because the Left sees US Muslims as a fast-growing voting block the Left must capture to stay in power. Same song, different verse. Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 09:01 AM (5rh/l) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ) 224
Syracuse started to go downhill when it was discovered that one of Jim Boeheim’s assistants, Bernie Fine… Fine’s wife was allegedly having sexual relationships with Syracuse players. Very sordid affair… way back in 2012
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (sBAAu) Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (ZxPkt) 226
Tom Wolfe wrote a good, short little book about modern architecture, "From Bauhaus to Our House."
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ) 227
Portland Public Schools taps drag queen ‘Poison Waters’ for back-to-school message
https://tinyurl.com/44yh36bz Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC) 228
227 Portland Public Schools taps drag queen ‘Poison Waters’ for back-to-school message
https://tinyurl.com/44yh36bz Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC) Message ? Escape while you can ? Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:03 AM (+gK6I) 229
Why did we ever have to import so many Canuck game show hosts? Monty Hall, Jim Perry, Alex Trebek, Howie Mandel, for starters. Not prudent, IMHO.
Posted by: Let's Make 'Em Squeal at August 31, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6) 230
The UK started WWII by signing "Peace of Our Time with Hitler" in 1938!
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:04 AM (g47mK) 231
Curious why Charlotte Rampling's "Night Porter" photo above was tarnished with Ruffalo's image.
Posted by: Auspex At least it's not that Rosie O'Donnell in leather pic. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ) 232
Tom Wolfe wrote a good book about test pilots called The Right Stuff.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ) 233
Emperor Wolf was the architect of the PA COVID response that killed thousands.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:05 AM (hUS/0) 234
Leafs vs. Sabres games could have a whole War Of The Lake theme this season, and be pretty energizing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (vM+8K) 235
I miss Borders. What a great place to hang out.
I used to work at one. Their selection of Greek and Roman classics put B&N to shame. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (qRla/) 236
Chinese Firm Buys 1,500 Acres Near California F-35 Base:
https://tinyurl.com/4bmzpsen I'm all for nationalization of enemy assets. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:07 AM (QNSrI) 237
Leafs vs. Sabres games could have a whole War Of The Lake theme this season, and be pretty energizing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (vM+8K) I would doubt either team is interested in getting into that fray, especially with both cities being largely liberal shitholes. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:07 AM (ccf/V) 238
If anything, Euros signing the Munich agreement of 1938, when the UK, France and Italy gave up and handed over the invaded Czechoslovak Republic to hitler is responsible for what happed next.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:08 AM (g47mK) 239
238 If anything, Euros signing the Munich agreement of 1938, when the UK, France and Italy gave up and handed over the invaded Czechoslovak Republic to hitler is responsible for what happed next.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:08 AM (g47mK) And they still haven't learned a thing... Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:08 AM (+gK6I) Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (NcvvS) 241
Yeh, yeh. Ben Shapiro. I know, I know. But when he touches, he touches right in the tuchus:
https://tinyurl.com/mrxk44hd Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (QNSrI) 242
Hell, let's go back to the beginning and say that no-one taking Mein Kampf seriously led us to WW2.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (qRla/) 243
Maybe Trump should have chosen Lake Mohawk for a new name, putting Doug Ford in the position of arguing racist attacks on First Peoples. Heh.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:10 AM (vM+8K) 244
>>What's an LAC?
$20, same as in town. Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (NcvvS) - I have already copyrighted comment 219. Let's discuss licensing fees in private. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:10 AM (QNSrI) 245
This coming weekend, you'll see firefighters collecting money for MDA during their fill the boot campaign. I would encourage everyone not to give their money to this effort. While the money does go to research, some of this money is given back to the IAFF, the firefighter's union. Since 2007, the IAFF has received over $15 million from MDA. It's a kickback scheme for the union. One year I looked at, the IAFF was the second largest recipient of MDA money, only behind John's Hopkins. Don't fall for the "this money only goes to helping kids with MD."
Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (J3Cv/) 246
222 "More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. (He should be released into a tank of starving piranha - jjs)
Hollywood celebrities are backing a terrorist murderer — read the facts" Same song, different verse. Posted by: Gref ======= I suspect all of the celebutards have ideological handlers, probably based in the talent management and its pr functionaries. Years ago, Richard Dreyfuss admitted that he got a lot of his political takes from an anonymous person tied to his entourage as part of his 'education'. I would not be surprised, given the role that managers now have almost complete control of social media, public appearances, lifestyle as portrayed, etc. etc. that they don't also control and manage any political expression of the actors. And management is probably reacting to Arab money that ends up financing a lot of projects as 'partners'. Follow the money and there are no accidents are good rules to follow in this fake and gay age. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (E4rtv) 247
Call me a cynic but I believe that Neville's 'Peace in our time' was about getting Hitler to go East. If you'd read Mein Kampf you'd know that was Hitler's long-term plan
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (dtajH) 248
Bauhaus to Our House, Painted Word, Electric Kool-aid Acid Tests, so many fun books ...
In Our Time is one of my favorites; a collection of essays, with illustrations by Wolfe. as always, YMMV Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (VyBeY) 249
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (qRla/)
Hey, MP4, I recently learned that L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, founded a motion-picture studio, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, in 1914. It went belly-up in 1915, however. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ) 250
I Look forward to discussing The Future of Higher Education in person with folks at an upcoming gathering southeast of Dallas next month.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1) 251
In March 2025, U.S. military officials reported that multiple Chinese satellites were performing advanced and unprecedented “dogfighting” maneuvers in orbit.
===================== Hack those suckers. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:13 AM (vM+8K) 252
Hey, MP4, I recently learned that L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, founded a motion-picture studio, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, in 1914. It went belly-up in 1915, however.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ) - Dwarfed by the bigger studios? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:13 AM (QNSrI) 253
@242
I once had an hour to kill in a bookstore and tripped over a copy of Mein Kampf. It had an index and so I looked for "Jews". Hitler spelled it all out in one long chapter. And his plans for the Slavs. Pity that few took him at his word. Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:13 AM (dtajH) 254
runner
War was not inevitable after the Munich Agreement. Even the subsequent taking all of Czechoslovakia was not the trigger for WWII. It did give time for the UK to bring Fighter Command to an operational status, and other reforms needed. The French squandered the timel. But carving up Poland, with no Second Front for Germany, was removing the chocks from a bulldozer on a hill. The parallel is the Russian Mobilization prior to WWI is what was irreversibly a path to war. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ) 255
245 This coming weekend, you'll see firefighters collecting money for MDA during their fill the boot campaign. I would encourage everyone not to give their money to this effort. While the money does go to research, some of this money is given back to the IAFF, the firefighter's union. Since 2007, the IAFF has received over $15 million from MDA. It's a kickback scheme for the union. One year I looked at, the IAFF was the second largest recipient of MDA money, only behind John's Hopkins. Don't fall for the "this money only goes to helping kids with MD."
Posted by: AnchorPoint ======= Thanks for that. I have come to the conclusion that at least most of the NGO universe is dominated by fake and gay thieves masking as humanitarians. I would ban any NGO from having tax deductible donations and status itself if at least 90 percent of all funds raised do not go directly to the supposed recipients. They want to run a scam to benefit themselves, then they pay taxes on it and so do the donors. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (QNSrI) 257
Someone should ask Shrek Fetterman about those thousands of nursing home patients that were killed during COVID. Lumpy was Emperor Wolf's Lt guv.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (hUS/0) 258
Report: Attorney General Todd Blanche Secured Dominion Voting Machines from 2020 Election that Allegedly Showed Proof of Foreign Involvement
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo) 259
One thing I've learned while going back over the ONT's on Sunday, I spend WAY too much time here.
Must. Get. Off. Ass......... I really need to stop failing. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V) 260
runner
A book on general causes of war, which has held up very well, is The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ) 261
"Follow the money and there are no accidents are good rules to follow in this fake and gay age. "
sometimes I will cut a little slack and allow the Goldfinger Rule ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (VyBeY) 262
Thanks for that. I have come to the conclusion that at least most of the NGO universe is dominated by fake and gay thieves masking as humanitarians. I would ban any NGO from having tax deductible donations and status itself if at least 90 percent of all funds raised do not go directly to the supposed recipients. They want to run a scam to benefit themselves, then they pay taxes on it and so do the donors.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv) Never donate to the Red Cross or the United Way... St Judes is pretty good as is Samaritan's Purse... Most of the others just pay off their "executives." Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (+gK6I) 263
The parallel is the Russian Mobilization prior to WWI is what was irreversibly a path to war.
Posted by: NaCly Dog Yep. Nicholas II bears as much responsibility for that war, or more, as the Kaiser does. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ) 264
Festive British headlines:
https://tinyurl.com/48e5yf8x Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (QNSrI) The proper British take on 'mostly peaceful' events. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V) 265
A federal appeals court has ruled that the private possession of AI-generated child pornography is protected by the First Amendment, so long as no real child was involved in creating the images.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo) 266
It won't happen, sadly, but I would love to see the various teachers unions prosecuted for insurrection as they attempt to overthrow the founding principles of the country. Too many of their 'progressive' procedures should be looked at as crimes against humanity as they try to destroy a child's ability to learn and grow.
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw) 267
>>Let's discuss licensing fees in private.
Alas, missed the copyright notice; didn't see the price mentioned there, either. Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS) 268
zerohedge.com:
Mamdani Begs Capitalists At The Adult Table For Help The socialist mayor wanted to remake New York’s economy. Now he needs capitalists to explain how it works. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo) 269
I always unplug Nana's TV set on Labor Day Weekend, she just won't stop!
Posted by: Uncle Leo at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (JM9I6) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (QNSrI) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ) 272
Alas, missed the copyright notice; didn't see the price mentioned there, either.
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS) 20 dollars... Same as in town Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (+gK6I) 273
>>Report: Attorney General Todd Blanche Secured Dominion Voting Machines from 2020 Election that Allegedly Showed Proof of Foreign Involvement
No. Way. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m) 274
255, a good start, anyway. Currently I am all for abolishing the whole concept of nonprofit-ness. Root and branch. Pay.Taxes.
just like everybody else. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:20 AM (VyBeY) 275
Alas, missed the copyright notice; didn't see the price mentioned there, either.
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS) 20 dollars... Same as in town Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (+gK6I) - /preps class action suit Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:20 AM (QNSrI) 276
Hey, MP4, I recently learned that L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, founded a motion-picture studio, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, in 1914. It went belly-up in 1915, however.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ) Oh, yes. It was at the corner of Santa Monica and Gower. I may be using him as a character in my next book. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:21 AM (qRla/) 277
>>Report: Attorney General Todd Blanche Secured Dominion Voting Machines from 2020 Election that Allegedly Showed Proof of Foreign Involvement
No. Way. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m) - Is that an optimistic "no way", or a nothing will happen "no way"? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:21 AM (QNSrI) 278
266, exactly.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:21 AM (VyBeY) 279
Book-Sellers Alarmed As AI Giants Shred Millions Of Books
"Just the attachment to maybe something you read as a child or in college, I think it's hard for a lot of us to see that kind of destruction," Benne said. She compared AI book shredding to a flood, a museum fire, or a similar disastrous event that wipes out a repository of human knowledge and culture. "It hits the same nerve." Becker agrees with this and thinks the practice of destructive book shredding, particularly to train AI, triggers something "visceral" in people. "I do think we lose something culturally when certain books are deemed as commodities or expendable," he said. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo) 280
JackStraw
President Trump, who has had 7 assassination attempts on him, is the target for evil and evil doers. He has united Evil in a quest to strike him and his policies down. I voted for this, but the cost to him is high. Melania feels this strongly. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:22 AM (u82oZ) 281
Horde crowdsourcing help needed in deciphering a Canadian acronym:
https://tinyurl.com/87k9hc26 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (QNSrI) ======================== Mark Carney, like Justine Castreaux, has a big future in L.A. once he's done screwing Canada. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (3dxnp) 282
The parallel is the Russian Mobilization prior to WWI is what was irreversibly a path to war.
Posted by: NaCly Dog === Because Germany was stupid enough to desire to finish its Eastern and Western enemies by attacking and destroying France and then pivoting to the East. It should have left the rotting Hapsburg dynasty to fight Russia on its own. Dismissal of Bismarck and the pig ignorant German saber rattling for almost twenty years after led to uniting the French and Russians in alliance system which led to the rather pointless Germany counter alliance chaining itself to the dead corpse of the Hapsburg Empire and the duplicitous Italians that wanted Austrian territory itself. And the von Schiefflen plan specifically required violating Belgian neutrality which the German and more importantly the UK government were required to respect by treaty. The plan thought that UK could not deploy in time and the war would be short. Germans were both arrogant and stupid in figuring their tactical needs superseded their strategic needs from the plan all came about from the tumultuous Kaiser, drab and untalented civil government, and the avaricious and arrogant Prussianized military. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (E4rtv) 283
I may be using him as a character in my next book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing Good. I shared the info hoping you could use it in a book. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (77rzZ) 284
has it occurred to anyone that the B in LGBT is tacit acknowledgement of there being only two genders?
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt) 285
The story about Israelis being physically chased and beaten in multiple countries is very dark and disturbing. The crazies are off the chain everywhere, it seems.
Posted by: The World Is Sick And Getting Sicker at August 31, 2026 08:02 AM (JM9I6) Maybe it's time for THEM to organize and go after the ones who are chasing and beating. With extreme prejudice. Otherwise, a repeat of the 1930's will rear its ugly head. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (hmYU4) Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:24 AM (NcvvS) 287
284 has it occurred to anyone that the B in LGBT is tacit acknowledgement of there being only two genders?
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt) You're right... It should be M for multi sexual Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:24 AM (+gK6I) 288
Festive British headlines:
https://tinyurl.com/48e5yf8x Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM There are no little hats in evidence. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 09:24 AM (bFu5X) 289
Just another Monday huh?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:25 AM (2GVsD) 290
>>Is that an optimistic "no way", or a nothing will happen "no way"?
It's an I've been saying this happened since 2020 no way. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:25 AM (viF8m) Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 09:26 AM (RIvkX) 292
War was not inevitable after the Munich Agreement. Even the subsequent taking all of Czechoslovakia was not the trigger for WWII.
It did give time for the UK to bring Fighter Command to an operational status, and other reforms needed. The French squandered the timel. But carving up Poland, with no Second Front for Germany, was removing the chocks from a bulldozer on a hill. The parallel is the Russian Mobilization prior to WWI is what was irreversibly a path to war. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ) All of what you are saying is a supposition based on some "historians' " rosy reading of hitler, and shifting the responsibility from hitler and Western Europe for trying to make nice with him. Taking of Czechoslovakia and inability of the rest of Europe to defend it, gave what hitler needed, proof that no one will stand in the way. a couple of squadrons were not sufficient against hitler's war machine, and no one saw much of a problem with what hitler was doing between 1934-1939 anyway. Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:27 AM (g47mK) 293
whig
After Bismarck, the German Strategic Thinking cap was kaput. They were in Wolkenkuckucksland. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ) 294
Maduro is sitting in a NYC jail and will soon be a star witness over the 2020 steal involving Dominion machines. Crazy as it sounds he was involved.
Jimmy "Drama" Comey goes on trial in late October for inciting murder of a sitting POTUS. SPLC and its leader have been charged with funding Antifa. Soros & Co have recently been swept in. And the mother of all RICO cases is developing in Miami. October surprises! Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:27 AM (dtajH) 295
What's Hebrew for "Star Chamber"?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:28 AM (hUS/0) 296
Gee Mamdani asking capitalists for help. Theater kid hit by reality
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 09:28 AM (EZWVc) 297
Today's markets look a little fragile
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (3dxnp) 298
296 Gee Mamdani asking capitalists for help. Theater kid hit by reality
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 09:28 AM (EZWVc) Mayoring is difficult LOL Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (+gK6I) 299
280 JackStraw
President Trump, who has had 7 assassination attempts on him, is the target for evil and evil doers. He has united Evil in a quest to strike him and his policies down. I voted for this, but the cost to him is high. Melania feels this strongly. Posted by: NaCly Dog Cost to the entire family. I think this is often why in our ancient past, any person trying to buck the establishment and reform ends up becoming a tyrant in order to make the reforms stick. Those in the loose fake and gay ruling class of today don't want their powers and privileges curtailed and will do everything other than fight themselves to save them. These critters have no honor and can/will stoop to the lawfare, the assassinations, the riots, the marches, the deplatforming, the smears, depriving finances, etc. What they won't do is put on a uniform, proclaim themselves to be fighting a civil war, and put their own precious asses on the line. They believe their lackeys will do that for them. They fight like their ally, the Intelligence Community apparatchiks in the dark, stabbing in the back, secret communications, secret networks, and full of lies and deceit. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (E4rtv) 300
297 Today's markets look a little fragile
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (3dxnp) I expect them to drop like a rock Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (+gK6I) 301
where's the guy who's always saying stuff that's overrated
Posted by: Don Black That guy is so overrated. Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (77rzZ) 302
I believe it is conventional wisdom that the real root cause of WWII was the sloppy and disastrous way that the end of WWI was handled by all involved. Like leaving an open wound untreated and open to infection.
The clown Woodrow Wilson boffing around Versailles, what an arrogant buffoon Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (sBAAu) 303
Nood.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS) 304
has it occurred to anyone that the B in LGBT is tacit acknowledgement of there being only two genders?
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt) You're right... It should be M for multi sexual Posted by: It's me donna Or just Messed in the head. Mornin' Horde. Retirement planning proceeds apace. Either a step towards stress reduction or a really bad decision, not sure which yet. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (OUMaO) 305
runner
Without Hitler, there was no historical WWII. I totally agree with you. Lots of alternative history stories start from that premise. But no one writes about a peaceful time with no WWII. Victor Suvorov's book The Icebreaker is one datum for alternative explanations. He claims Stalin helped the Nazi's take power by stopping the German Communists from thwarting him. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ) 306
>>They fight like their ally, the Intelligence Community apparatchiks in the dark, stabbing in the back, secret communications, secret networks, and full of lies and deceit.
Along those lines, Data Republican just dropped a network list of thousands of anarchist (antifa) related websites that exist around the world. Fascinating stuff. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (viF8m) 307
After Bismarck, the German Strategic Thinking cap was kaput. They were in Wolkenkuckucksland.
Posted by: NaCly Dog One did not have to be Bismarck to see that pushing the French Republic and the Russians together was a colossal mistake. But Kaiser Wilhelm II was so volcanic as well as being stupid, that he could not balance the arrogant German military establishment with the civil government. And that military establishment spent all its time, money, and effort figuring out how to defeat its continental rivals on land. Then to add to its insanity, figuring out that Germany, a nation with scant colonial resources, suddenly needed a navy capable of competing with the Royal Navy. Kaiser Wilhelm II being a blustery clown, could never serve as a check on the military and neither could the weak civilian government and its diplomatic corp. Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (E4rtv) 308
Without Hitler, there was no historical WWII. I totally agree with you.
Lots of alternative history stories start from that premise. But no one writes about a peaceful time with no WWII. Victor Suvorov's book The Icebreaker is one datum for alternative explanations. He claims Stalin helped the Nazi's take power by stopping the German Communists from thwarting him. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ) Suvorov wrote a sensationalist book meant to make him rich. It is not historical evidence. Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (g47mK) 309
Suggested Canadian place-name changes in revenge for Ontario:
"Lake of OUR Woods" "Great Escaped-American Slave Lake" "Lake Still Superior to You" "Yu-Kon? ME-Kon!" Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (zdLoL) 310
Judge Rita Lin wrote that while the military should have wide latitude to decide which companies to work with, its actions against Anthropic “constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment” and that the company “was denied the pre-deprivation process required under the Fifth Amendment.”
Seems Anthropic is "butt hurt" over the “supply-chain risk” designation was but I don't see the First Amendment issue. The Pentagon can remove the designation but continue to tell all departments that certain requirements are now in force that would effectively do the same thing. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (RHGPo) 311
Sum Ting Wong - Wi Tu Lo - Ho Lee Fuk - Bang Ding Ow
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (RHGPo) 312
@Haleaziz
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows Our deep look into a deportation flight to Liberia @DHSgov Another day and another hoax about ICE detention from the @nytimes. The media is clearly desperate for these false allegations to be true. NO ONE is being tortured, denied medical care, or beaten in ICE detention facilities. Make no mistake: this type of GARBAGE being peddled by the media is fueling the more than 1,300% increase in assaults against our officers, who put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens and protect the lives of American citizens. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (RHGPo) 313
Sure, Auntie Maxine. (READ) Maxine Waters claims something called "white media" wants a Dem establishment vs Democrat Socialist fight. "Some of the media, mostly the white media, are interested in a fight in order to get their ratings up." What? This race-grifting clown just managed to concoct one of the most brain-wormed takes imaginable. ... so, does this mean she has publicly embraced Socialism ? Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (RHGPo) 314
Ro Khanna calls Jasmine Crockett "brilliant."
This may be his most outrageous attempt at gaslighting to date. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo) 315
Florida becomes first state to ban welfare for tattoos, video games, theme parks, other "non-essential" goods
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo) 316
314 Ro Khanna calls Jasmine Crockett "brilliant."
This may be his most outrageous attempt at gaslighting to date. Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo) The only way those two would be brilliant is if they were set on fire... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 09:50 AM (l3cgK) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (u82oZ) 318
Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.
As above, the UK Guardian "More than 200 leading cultural figures call for the release of jailed Palestinian leader" A bunch of foreign actors, "prominent writers & authors," "major musicians," plus "scholars, activists & businessmen" - a HUGE majority attached to the UK, Canada, even Australia, plus a few homegrown fools including Ruffalo (how is he an actor & one that has endured in the business 🤷♀️ It has continued and grown: WSJ, 'Britain's Surrender to Islamists,' 2009 Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (NFX2v) 319
Last paragraph, "The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is likely to resist his release unless there is strong pressure from the US. Donald Trump this week invited Netanyahu to the While House in he "near future," a visit that, should it happen, would be the Israeli leader's fifth since Trump returned to office in January."
And so much for accuracy in journalism.. However, their appeal to the "United Nations and the governments of the world (is) to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison." The Israeli Prime Minister is expected to visit NY in September to speak at the UN. And so those monsters appear to be looking to stir up even more trouble in the US, perhaps more so in NYC, at a time where increased law enforcement visibility is absolutely necessary. The country is preparing to host a national remembrance of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, across the main attack sites. Additionally, the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset on September 11, and goes through nightfall of September 13th, and then Yom Kippur starts at sunset September 20, and goes through nightfall of September 21st. Unless and until...Amen. Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (NFX2v) 320
319 Last paragraph, "The Israeli prime minister, ...
The country is preparing to host a national remembrance of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, ... So what. 1960's Klingon/MADMANI will continue to smirk as he presides over the ceremonies of 9/11 and Year 1 Kirkaversary with more 9/10 thinking as all eyes will be on AOC in her REMAIN SINWAR camisole and FREE GAZA hotpants while Rama's/Suicide Squad unblinkingly gaze upon her adoringly -- as fuure LIB/President AOC to bring the promise of the FALN's objectives to reality. https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RemainKLINGON There will be NO PEACE as long as Kirk lives -- Klingon Ambassador, libbing out LIB's will pay good money to line up to buy and toss a piece of commemorative wood at their local data center to in memory of the Desperate and Deliberately Evil Sinwar, who's last act in this world was tossing his own piece of wood at a drone. Yeah, this is Normal. LET'S GO BRANDON! BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 31, 2026 10:21 AM (Fxy6Q) 321
"X Takes Down 200,000 Suspected Chinese Accounts in Influence-Operation Crackdown"
Bullshit. My account got perma-band after criticizing Abdul El-Sayed on his account. Posted by: Schoolbus Vegabond at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Rhv3W) Daily Tech News 31 August 2026Top Story
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w00t
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9) 2
G'Day everyone
Its Monday again Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0) 3
Strangely I always thought but I like Billy Idol
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0) 4
>>>Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy.
Quelle unexpected réponse! Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9) 5
I wish I was asleep, but there's always tonight
Lake America was the perfect reply to that fat Ontario Premier telling Trump to kiss his a$$. Unfortunately Canadians have been brainwashed into thinking Trump is the reason for all their problems. Posted by: CanuckJack at August 31, 2026 04:37 AM (HLIsS) 6
BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 04:37 AM (5UTWB) 7
Our gardener's here. He found a huge wasp nest. Exterminator has been called.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 04:39 AM (5UTWB) 8
Rather go back to bed then go to work
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0) Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 31, 2026 04:44 AM (eTPdk) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9) 11
The "NY Post" had an article about Dolly Parton's swan song sung at her funeral , lIf we never meet again this side of heaven we'll meet again on that beautiful
It mentions heaven four times. The headline for the article says the song transcended race, region and religion. Uhh no. It didn't transcend religion. I doubt atheists are belting out about "meeting on that distant shore.." I was not making a judgement about whether atheists are worse people than theists. Now they're all fighting about that." Uggh Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:49 AM (FlBUK) 12
A better title for the article would have been "Dolly's swan song brings people together."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:50 AM (FlBUK) 13
I misheard so many of those lyrics!
One more bad dream/break Ooh, gigolo pool/fool So alive and new/in you and Les yeux sans visage/Pleasure's only ... Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:52 AM (odBC9) 14
Rather go back to bed then go to work
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0) - The People's Republic of New Jersey awaits you! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 04:52 AM (5UTWB) 15
I am over 29. My finely calibrated intestinal tract has been awakening me precisely between 0450 and 0500 quite a while since retirement from paying job. Now the circadian rhythm is drifting a bit. Have volunteer job later today.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 31, 2026 04:54 AM (1FEc1) 16
I ought to get going, don't fell like doing 80mph
Have a great day horde Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0) 17
16 I ought to get going, don't fell like doing 80mph
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0) Good idea! Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9) 18
whether the official lyrics are
You're eyes without a face or Your eyes without a face seems to be a matter of dispute among various lyrics sites Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:02 AM (odBC9) 19
Saw a brief video of an out-of-control robot fighting its handlers. When it took a martial arts stance, I figured, yeah, must be AI. Instagram. https://shorturl.at/kcSp7
Skynet delayed yet again. Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 31, 2026 05:02 AM (llBIB) 20
I'm only here because boy cat started meowing and scratching my door at 2am local time. F'n cat. And no, he's not allowed in my room.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK) 21
Wikipedia
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol The stage name "Billy Idol" was coined after a chemistry teacher, Bill Price, described Idol as "idle" on his school report card. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9) 22
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at August 31, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw) 23
Time is in God's hands . Psalm 31:5 International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:
https://tinyurl.com/bde776rs Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:13 AM (FlBUK) 24
moar Wikipedia
In 1994, he collapsed outside a Los Angeles nightclub due to an overdose.... He stopped his drug use after this incident, as he decided his children would never forgive him for dying of a drug overdose. Yay! Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9) 25
"Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy. (Daily Beast)"
Elections have consequences. *dramatic pause* ...Bitches. Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 31, 2026 05:15 AM (Ot/FD) 26
David Bowie died TEN YEARS ago; omigosh.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9) 27
Good morning! Dogs are fed, sprinklers is out and coffee is pecolatin'. Looking forward to some fall weather in the next 60-75 days.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 05:20 AM (3Ope8) 28
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 31, 2026 05:21 AM (sAmhv) 29
We're still in early days, so the robots can only fight in Tae-Kwon-DOS.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 31, 2026 05:24 AM (Ot/FD) 30
"Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy."
When the Gulf of Mexico was renamed by the United States to "Gulf of America", Google Maps had three ways of presenting the name, based on GeoIP location of the viewer: - Those in Mexico still saw it as "Gulf of Mexico" - Those in the USA saw it as "Gulf of America" - Everyone elsewhere saw it as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" I suspect the same thing is going on now because here in Canada, it shows as "Lake Ontario". Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW) 31
BBC
Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US [photo: A family walks by a sign reading "Lake Ontario, Now and Always," unveiled by Ontario Premier Doug Ford at Fifty Point Conservation Area, near Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.] Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9) 32
in the BBC article:
On Saturday, Google said it had changed the name on its maps for users in the US. "Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS [Geographic Names Information System] for the US, people using Maps in the US will see 'Lake America', those in Canada will continue to see 'Lake Ontario' and those outside of the US and Canada will see both names," the tech firm said in a blog post. This mirrors how Google names the Gulf of Mexico for users after Trump declared it was called the Gulf of America in 2025. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:31 AM (odBC9) 34
@32/m: Well that confirms it. Thanks, m.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW) 35
34 @32/m: Well that confirms it. Thanks, m.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW) You had a spidey-sense that that was what was going on. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9) 36
BBC article
This is some delicate wording! The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America "seeking to" Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9) 37
36 BBC article
This is some delicate wording! The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America "seeking to" Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9) Sounds so indecisive, doesn't it? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK) 38
37 36 BBC article
This is some delicate wording! The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America "seeking to" Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9) Sounds so indecisive, doesn't it? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK) And powerless. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:39 AM (odBC9) 39
It's as if some leftists don't feel alive if they're not ranting about Trump. They should just laugh - less likely to cause ulcers. I think Trump
Likes to see them go crazy about basically inconsequential stuff. A guy who writes in the "NY Post" ( Dan Perry) about the economy sanctions and is basically in favor of them says: "Trump had been shockingly effective at selling millions of Americans on the deeply flawed product that is himself. Now he must sell them on endurance. He needs to find his inner Winston Churchill, however preposterous that may seem." Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:45 AM (GIQYZ) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:49 AM (VyBeY) 41
Dontario....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 05:50 AM (3Ope8) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9) 43
Evening and morning yet again, late toilers and early risers! True, it's a Monday. But remember:
"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9) 44
@41/CrochetyOldJarhead: "Dontario..."
Oh man, "Lake Dontario" would have been an even better troll than "Lake America". It's amusing watching the politicians on our side of the border be completely unable to "ignore the trolling". They literally can't help themselves, they HAVE to react. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:56 AM (O7YUW) 45
I'm awake, not because of Stirling leaping over me, and having coffee. The big black cat has now been on his diet for a week, and while he is still *trying* to get to Dagny's meal when she walks off from it, I've been able to forestall him. Maybe in another week I'll weigh myself with him in my arms, then weigh myself alone, and subtract, to see if there's been any change.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:57 AM (odBC9) 47
for those (like me) who eke out survival between bulk meme-drops over the weekend, Sarah Hoyt has finally clocked in.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:59 AM (VyBeY) 48
*typesetting in monospace
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:59 AM (odBC9) 49
accordingtohoyt.com Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9) 50
The latest tropical storm is forming right off the coast of Lousy-ana. If the local Fox outlet's weather mavens are correct, it will track along the coast westward, affecting Lafayette, Lake Charles, and maybe Houston and Beaumont, more than here. But we will get rain; 70% predicted for today, 60% tomorrow. I guess no car wash today!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9) 51
Post #39 Dan Perry is an Englishman. The recent PM's have been as effective as Churchill? Com'on!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:03 AM (JrHfD) 52
A woman was shot overnight on Bourbon St., the 400 block apparently. My old neighborhood. A lot has changed in the fifty years since I lived there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9) 53
I just be learned that there is a hymn of the day for interested folks. Here is a old time hymn with nice music, "Trust and obey"
https://tinyurl.com/4wn5383a Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:06 AM (FlBUK) 54
for those (like me) who eke out survival between bulk meme-drops over the weekend, Sarah Hoyt has finally clocked in.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:59 AM (VyBeY) She posted on Saturday morning as usual. Gotta have something early on the weekend as most sites don't post on weekends. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 06:09 AM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 06:10 AM (amcLV) 56
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Rejoinder: Number 9...number 9...number 9... Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 *** My favorite love potion Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9) 57
Several years ago on here I used to put up stories behind the hymns. It can be interesting for those who enjoy hymns. Here's the story behind "Trust and obey":
https://tinyurl.com/59kcjkxf Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:15 AM (FlBUK) 58
@46/m: { "I chose words carefully" }
*clicks a few things and increases the entire document's font size by two points* The author: https://youtu.be/Up2rKmrBBmE?t=22 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW) 59
Have a good day, everyone. I'm hopefully going to (mostly) take a day off from politics today. So, may you have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others.
For the pray-ers, please continue to keep Tecumseh Tea's husband in prayer for complete healing from cancer. He is in about the second week of treatment for fourth stage cancer. Also, keep TT and her family in prayer for strength as well. Those of you who have been through this journey with loved ones with cancer treatments know how exhausting it can be. Thanks so much, dear ones. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:22 AM (Tgq0P) 60
philosophically, why wouldn't Omarchy run all processes as root?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:23 AM (VyBeY) 61
58 @46/m: { "I chose words carefully" }
*clicks a few things and increases the entire document's font size by two points* The author: https://youtu.be/Up2rKmrBBmE?t=22 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW) They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa! with Lyrics - Jerry Samuels Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9) 62
The US launched a pre-emptive attack on Larak Island last night taking out launchers and a group of IRGC troops massed there.
The IRGC retaliated by destroying two of our bases in Jordan, OH WAIT, that didn't happen. All 6 missiles were intercepted. Tehran Tim is in full propaganda mode. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:24 AM (PbWRL) 63
Billy Idol at 6:30 in the morning? Sure!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:35 AM (bVoR9) 64
Have a great day Fen (and all the horde).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:36 AM (bVoR9) 65
Not understanding why anyone would install Omarchy.
Just install Arch, install Niri or my new favorite windows manger dot files, ML4W. The dude behind Omarchy is the guy who created Ruby On Rails. He was a Mac devotee but has fallen out of love with it and seems to have a grudge against them over moving away from Intel chips, which broke ruby and caused him headaches. Poor little baby. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 06:37 AM (XV/Pl) 66
Wolfus, is it unusual to have shootings on Bourbon Street? Every other thing in the world happens there (so you'd expect regular criminality) but I'm always up for a surprise. A friends son was a mounted cop there for a couple of years and he told some wild stories.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:41 AM (bVoR9) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:41 AM (VyBeY) 68
My decision not to work out this morning was the correct one. Rain here now; not heavy but steady. I'm thinking about driving out to breakfast after I feed the monsters (and make sure Dagny has eaten so I can take the bowl up and keep Stirling from devouring half of it).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9) 69
mornin yall
"Florida ‘Deputy of the year’ resigns after claims he tracked ex with Flock cameras." I'm sure it's just a one off. Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 06:46 AM (MWfyi) 70
Now, I know there are probably some over 29s here, so a question:
Which do you think is better if you need a hernia repair, taking a Medicare Advantage plan, or a Medigap plan? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 06:46 AM (1Ff7Z) 71
I can't believe the libs would deadname both a lake and a gulf. And I know about not using a correct title.
Posted by: dramyfnbishop at August 31, 2026 06:47 AM (9a3m6) 72
Wolfus, is it unusual to have shootings on Bourbon Street? Every other thing in the world happens there (so you'd expect regular criminality) but I'm always up for a surprise. A friends son was a mounted cop there for a couple of years and he told some wild stories.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 *** It's not unusual any more. The local Fox outlet mentioned another one that happened at the corner of Bourbon and Canal. I guess the only odd thing about these is that the perp is not immediately in custody. In the usual way of things now, an argument starts -- fueled by drugs or liquor -- and one party pulls out and uses a gun. Others video it, and the cops are right there; done. In the Sixties and earlier, the Quarter used to be simply a neighborhood, with service businesses, a Pontiac dealership, gas stations, small drugstores, mom-and-pop groceries, etc. It began to change in the late Sixties-early Seventies, but wasn't as bad as it is now even when my mother passed in 1986. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:48 AM (wzUl9) 73
I left a jar of Blue Plate mayo on the counter all night. Lid on, inside temp about 74. Do you think it will be ok?
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 06:48 AM (MWfyi) 74
I remember hearing about Omarchy months ago, as The New Distro That All The Cool Kids Are Using Now; looked at it, and moved on ...
it is part of the Strange Beauty Of Linux, that such things can be done, by people who think that it's a good idea. Yay! over the weekend I was exposed to the concept of "frictionmaxxing"; deliberately making stuff more difficult ... wondering if that is related. not wondering very hard, though. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:50 AM (VyBeY) 75
fd, if there isn't oil separation it is probably ok.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:50 AM (PbWRL) 76
The Quarter as described in Confederacy of Dunces, basically?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:51 AM (VyBeY) 77
Now, I know there are probably some over 29s here, so a question:
Which do you think is better if you need a hernia repair, taking a Medicare Advantage plan, or a Medigap plan? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 *** I've got a Medigap (Weird Dave of the ONT set me up with it) with Cigna/Healthspring, Mutual of Omaha for dental, and Wellcare for my Rxs. They paid for nearly everything when I had my hernia repair last year. I should have asked if they would accept a Med Advantage plan. Those are supposed to cover hearing and vision as well, and for much less than I'm paying; but Dave didn't think they were as good a deal. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9) 78
I don't get how Trump thinks he can rename a geographical feature. Is he serious, or just f***ing with Canada's head? It's very odd. To me. YMMV.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt) 79
Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US
Would be more appropriate for Canada to write it in their new tongue: Mandarin. Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (a3CJ+) 80
The Quarter as described in Confederacy of Dunces, basically?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 *** Pretty much. Toole was writing that novel when I was a small kid down there. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9) 81
Whew, I just finished reading all of the Sarah Hoyt memes.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9) 82
Omarchy.... reinvented Windows 95 permissions? Or possibly WindowsME?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 06:57 AM (aJQbY) 83
Does nobody remember when the dogeater ordered flags at half mast for Whitney Houston?
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 06:58 AM (MWfyi) 84
Those are supposed to cover hearing and vision as well, and for much less than I'm paying; but Dave didn't think they were as good a deal.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9) Wolfus, I already have dental and vision through wife's work. I'm just trying to get the least amount of monthly premiums and lowest cost for surgery. I suppose you can change your plan each year? Next year get what keeps the most money in my pocket for the surgery costs, then go to the zero premium supplement plans the next year. I don't have any other conditions needing constant care. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 06:58 AM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 31, 2026 06:59 AM (QuiDg) 86
I don't get how Trump thinks he can rename a geographical feature. Is he serious, or just f***ing with Canada's head? It's very odd. To me. YMMV.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt) ---- Didn't BHO also rename a number of geographical features? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:59 AM (FZ29D) 87
52 A woman was shot overnight on Bourbon St., the 400 block apparently. My old neighborhood. A lot has changed in the fifty years since I lived there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9) My grandparents used to live in the Bellfontaine neighborhood of St. Louis from the early 1960s until the mid 1980s. Last time I visited (when Dad passed--2021), it was an entirely black neighborhood where it was unsafe to be around outside after dark. How things change... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:00 AM (l3cgK) 88
@78
>>YMMV. We can name things whatever we want. Remember when Mount McKinley became Denali for some reason? Sometimes streets get renamed or highways or bridges. The left does that sh*t all the time, primarily to own the cons. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 07:00 AM (XV/Pl) 89
The Lake America article starts with this: "Google Maps is facing backlash over its latest capitulation to President Donald Trump’s demands." Trump signed an executive order, which he has the power to do. Like it or not, executive orders have the force of law. This is not "capitulation," it is following the law. Now, I'm not completely on board with the president being able to just decree laws at his whim. But the left started this horrific executive overreach with Obama's pen and phone, and I'm willing to play the game by the rules they wrote until we cut out the rot.
Posted by: DPICM at August 31, 2026 07:01 AM (zweKz) 90
When I was a kid, too, it wasn't necessary to leave the Quarter for everything. Within a mile of my house, Canal Street had multiple department stores, women's and men's clothing shops, and two Woolworth's stores; the public library, newsstands, and the A & P were close, and I recall an Amoco station on one bordering street and the Pontiac dealer on the other. Now it seems if you want something other than expensive antiques, a hotel, a daiquiri, a T-shirt, or some other tourist magnet, you have to drive elsewhere. And there is no place to *put* a car except $$$ parking lots.
I don't recognize it any more and have no desire to see it now. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9) 91
Barky renamed Mt. McKinley
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:01 AM (PbWRL) 92
Thanks Ben Had. It looks and smells ok. I'll risk it.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 07:02 AM (MWfyi) 93
Week Two of my ordeal. Starvation rations. My human has lost it. Always had enough food before. Don't know what I did to deserve this. This is no fun. I'm the only underweight being in N'awlins. Send help!
Posted by: Stirling the Cat at August 31, 2026 07:02 AM (JM9I6) 94
86 I don't get how Trump thinks he can rename a geographical feature. Is he serious, or just f***ing with Canada's head? It's very odd. To me. YMMV.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt) ---- Didn't BHO also rename a number of geographical features? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:59 AM (FZ29D) Who renamed Squaw Peak? Mount McKinley? ::: looking it up ::: one Squaw Peak in 2008 (Bushie) and one in 2022 (Sniffy Joey). McKinley was renamed Denali in 2015 by Obama, renamed to McKinley by Trump. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:03 AM (l3cgK) 95
fd, I've done it before with no ill effect.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:04 AM (PbWRL) 96
78 I don't get how Trump thinks he can rename a geographical feature. Is he serious, or just f***ing with Canada's head? It's very odd. To me. YMMV. Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt) Remember how Trump used to hang out with Vince McMahon of the WWE? This is a WWE move. In fact, from the wiki piece on Vince McMahon, tell me who seems to have been a very good student: “In 1997, he adopted the character of Mr. McMahon, portrayed as an irascible, villainous, swaggering tyrant who obsessed over maintaining control of his wrestling company and often growled the catchphrase "you're fired!" when dismissing an employee.” Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:04 AM (dqHut) 97
@78/Don Black: "I don't get how Trump thinks he can rename a geographical feature."
Naming of geographic features is the responsibility of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which is underneath the Department of the Interior, which is part of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The President, as head of the Executive Branch, can (and did) direct this via an Executive Order. It's a constitutionally valid use of his powers. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 07:06 AM (O7YUW) 98
Trump can rename any thing he wants to, because he's a dictator, right, leftists?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:07 AM (1Ff7Z) 99
If a place is “unsafe after dark” it’s probably unsafe after light, too. You’re just lucky.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:07 AM (IkLDu) 100
100
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:08 AM (odBC9) 101
Which do you think is better if you need a hernia repair, taking a Medicare Advantage plan, or a Medigap plan?
Posted by: OrangeEnt Who do you truss? Posted by: Johnny and Ed at August 31, 2026 07:08 AM (JM9I6) 102
fd, should be fine if it's just overnight with the lid on? And if it's separated a bit, just stir it well before you put it back in the fridge, I'd think...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:09 AM (aJQbY) 103
93 Week Two of my ordeal. Starvation rations. My human has lost it. Always had enough food before. Don't know what I did to deserve this. This is no fun. I'm the only underweight being in N'awlins. Send help!
Posted by: Stirling the Cat at August 31, 2026 07:02 AM (JM9I6) ; ) Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9) 104
(In general - if it's stored in the supermarket on the regular shelves, it's actually probably fine on your kitchen table overnight, we put them in the fridge to increase longevity over the long run, not because they'll actually spoil quickly)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:11 AM (aJQbY) 105
Is this headline from the Daily Mail or Fox "News"?
"Guess which reality star wore string bikinis on a PDA-filled tropical getaway" Either way, it's garbage. Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (MWfyi) 106
If the local Fox outlet's weather mavens are correct, it will track along the coast westward, affecting Lafayette, Lake Charles, and maybe Houston and Beaumont, more than here. But we will get rain; 70% predicted for today, 60% tomorrow. I guess no car wash today!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9) I sure hope it makes it up into East Texas! We have been dry, dry, dry for a month. Two of my smaller trees, a dogwood and a Japanese maple have died from it. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (dqHut) 107
Year ago, I remember reading that Dan Savage's adopted baby's bio mom's boyfriend died just off Bourbon St. He's the depraved homosexual sex advice columnist who writes Savage Love for a Seattle alt-newsweekly, syndicated in a Portland one. It was an open adoption, so he knew that she was one of those "road warrior" hobos that travel a circuit around the country, the same kind that summer in Portland and Seattle. And one time, when she and her boyfriend where there for Mardi Gras, they drank so much that when she finally regained consciousness in an alley, her boyfriend's corpse was there next to her, dead from alcohol poisoning.
Since then, Democrats have thrown stacks of fuel on the vagrancy and criminality problems. So, I expect that everywhere on the hobo circuit has seen crime and disorder skyrocket. They nationalize the problem, taking bad habits developed in one lawless Democrat jurisdiction, and carrying them all over the country. Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (ke3zm) 108
>U.S. Board on Geographic Names
--- this entity is for deciding what the US calls something, not what the world must call it the way I read it, Canada can still call it Lake Ontario Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:14 AM (ZxPkt) 109
I sure hope it makes it up into East Texas! We have been dry, dry, dry for a month. Two of my smaller trees, a dogwood and a Japanese maple have died from it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (dqHut) You're not allowed to water your trees there? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (1Ff7Z) 110
Years ago, not year. Over fifteen, I've lost track.
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (ke3zm) 111
Morning Horde
Thx Pixy Funny story about Billy Idol. He was plastered at some club hanging out with Nile Rodgers. Saw David Bowie walk in and went to meet him but Idol was so drunk on the way over he threw up on himself. Still walked over shook Bowie's hand and introduced him to Rodgers. Led to the Bowie album Let's Dance Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (EZWVc) 112
>>>Speaking of crazies, they're upset that America's education system has stalled out 99% control by communist infiltrators. (LinkedIn)
I wish her luck. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9) 113
Nood JJ
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 31, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j) 114
108 >U.S. Board on Geographic Names
--- this entity is for deciding what the US calls something, not what the world must call it the way I read it, Canada can still call it Lake Ontario Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:14 AM (ZxPkt) Yep. Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:17 AM (odBC9) 115
"Send lawyers, guns, and money."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 31, 2026 07:18 AM (36x1j) 116
111 Morning Horde
Thx Pixy Funny story about Billy Idol. He was plastered at some club hanging out with Nile Rodgers. Saw David Bowie walk in and went to meet him but Idol was so drunk on the way over he threw up on himself. Still walked over shook Bowie's hand and introduced him to Rodgers. Led to the Bowie album Let's Dance Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (EZWVc) hahahahahaha Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:18 AM (odBC9) 117
You're not allowed to water your trees there?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (1Ff7Z) In fact I’ve worked to keep the lawn alive - but these two trees were older and it’s hard to get deep water down to them. It was notable that after two weeks of triple digit temps almost every day, they just turned brown and gave up the ghost. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:27 AM (dqHut) 118
99 If a place is “unsafe after dark” it’s probably unsafe after light, too. You’re just lucky.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:07 AM (IkLDu) a bit safer in the light...cops were patrolling often. I'm sure the criminal elements there would consider that harassment by the po-po... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:49 AM (l3cgK) 119
108 >U.S. Board on Geographic Names
--- this entity is for deciding what the US calls something, not what the world must call it the way I read it, Canada can still call it Lake Ontario Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:14 AM (ZxPkt) Now do South Chinese Sea... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:50 AM (l3cgK) 120
*South China Sea
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (odBC9) 121
Speaking of Billy Idol. There is a good live performance of Rebel Yell on Youtube where he duets with Miley Cyrus and has Steve Stevens on guitar.
He had to be well into his sixties when it was filmed and he still has his abs. You can tell he and Miley were really having fun. Not my favorite artists, but I appreciate a performance that is well done. Posted by: Thatch at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (S6YCM) Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 30, 2026![]() Welcome home, Lieutenant This is a local news story for your humble host. Not sure how much attention it got nationwide. BWI Airport welcomes home fallen WWII pilot, 83 years after his death The BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport community gathered to honor and welcome home U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Walter Bateman on Friday evening, a Maryland native and American aviator killed during World War II. Bateman piloted a B-24D Liberator bomber that was shot down Aug. 16, 1943, during a bombing mission against enemy airfields at Foggia, Italy. Bateman was 22, and there were no survivors among the 10 crew members. ![]() Photo from dignitymemorial.com After more than 80 years, U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Walter R. Bateman is finally coming home.Thank you for your service and sacrifice, Lieutenant. ----- I find this very clever and kinda kewl. What say you?
----- Flock segment of the night Flock has a partnership with Dish Network. Interesting. Dish Network is about to be extremely unpopular Dish Network technician confirms they are the ones doing the majority of the Flock Safety Camera installs across America Dish Network is installing the Flock mass surveillance network Dish was picked as a partner to do the installs because Dish has a large national force of outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting, cabling and similar work with satellite TV installs. Flock’s own materials say they use third party for installs. Looks like we found who It’s time to Bud Light Dish Network
As El Rushbo used to say "demonstrate absurdity by being absurd"
I never thought I'd be aligned with Bernie!
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----- Remember the "dunce corner"? How about a "fart corner"? A ‘gas station' for farts? This Georgia teacher says it's a classroom win-win The first thing to know about this gas station is that it is not a gas station. There are no pumps. No convenience store. No windshield squeegees. And, despite what one might reasonably expect, there is no requirement that anyone actually purchase gas. It is a designated corner of an Atlanta elementary school classroom where students can go when they need to pass ... gas. *** “I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she tells TODAY.com. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”Video of the teacher explaining this at the link. Decades later she translated the coat into red-carpet language, a satin patchwork shirt-dress in orange, pink, yellow, and blue for the Coat of Many Colors premiere. Country memory. Hollywood cut. ![]() The Jolene jumpsuit, 1974 Nashville seamstress Lucy Adams made the blue-and-white striped jumpsuit with the white puffed jacket that became the Jolene album cover. Dolly later said she chose it because it moved. She had to sit, squat, and pose on the floor. Those puffy sleeves were a personal favorite. Jumpsuits mattered for another reason. Onstage they let her work, and, as she once noted, they kept the front row from getting a free show. See? She was practical. ![]() Rhinestones as a work uniform By the mid-1970s the silhouette was locked: tiny waist, plunging neckline, pointy elbows, sequins, crystals, and later those Nudie embroidery insets. And the hair — extensions, wigs, pieces — teased into another stratosphere. That was not a costume. That was the uniform. ![]() The Playboy cover, 1978 Dolly became the first country star on the cover of Playboy. She wore the bunny kit: bodysuit, ears, cuffs, bow tie. And she refused to pose nude. That was just her style. Take a mainstream shock magazine and walk in on your own terms. In 2021 she recreated the look for her husband Carl Dean’s birthday. She was 75. She said he still thought she was a hot chick. I love that so much. ![]() Bob Mackie’s butterfly For the 1979 TV special Dolly & Carol in Nashville, Bob Mackie built her a wing-like “Butterfly” gown. Butterflies were her motif. “They don’t sting, they don’t bite, and they are so beautiful,” she said. Mackie dressed her for other television spectaculars too. His sketches still look like they were drawn for a cartoon goddess who also had to hit her mark.
![]() Pink for 9 to 5, 1980 For the premiere, Dolly asked Ann Roth — the film’s costume designer — what a girl was supposed to wear to a thing like that. She arrived in a pink lace-and-satin gown with a matching fur stole. She later told Vogue it may have been the first time she felt fashionable rather than just “Dolly.” ![]() Miami, NYE 2022 Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party. Opening number: “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll.” Dolly owned the stage in a black leopard jumpsuit — studs down the seams, mesh cutouts at the legs, hoops, platforms, crimped hair. Miley matched her in a black Gucci mini and leopard gloves. Godmother and goddaughter, one silhouette. When Miley called it Dolly’s rock look, Dolly shot back, “Well, you dressed me.” ![]() Halftime Show, Thanksgiving 2023 Dolly took the Cowboys’ Salvation Army halftime show in a customized cheerleader uniform: blue crop, white star vest, tiny white shorts, rhinestone mesh, and a crystal star over her navel. Manager Danny Nozell said even the inner circle didn’t see it until she left the dressing room. Seventy-seven years old. Ninety thousand people. She said if it landed it would be cute, and if it didn’t they could call it an old woman doing a stupid thing. I saw it in real time. It landed. She also said she did it partly for her husband, who loved that squad. Of course she did. ![]() In the end, Dolly has left us a simple instruction: if you’re going to show up, show up shining. ----- Thanks, Piper! The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page. Posts : 107 Comments : 25037 Unique hashes : 1468 Top 10 commenters: 1 [771 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' [109.52 posts/day] 2 [585 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films' 3 [460 comments] 'Quarter Twenty' 4 [407 comments] 'Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _' 5 [404 comments] 'whig' 6 [379 comments] 'Common Tater' 7 [366 comments] 'Oldcat' 8 [354 comments] 'Your Shell Answer Man' 9 [347 comments] 'Bulg' 10 [331 comments] 'San Franpsycho' Top 10 sockpuppeteers: 1 [291 names] 'Your Shell Answer Man' [41.34 unique names/day] 2 [268 names] 'Miklos presages' 3 [215 names] 'Quarter Twenty' 4 [69 names] 'One out of three is fine with me' 5 [49 names] 'Duncanthrax' 6 [31 names] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' 7 [28 names] 'fd' 8 [25 names] 'Count de Monet' 9 [24 names] 'gnflcjcx' 10 [21 names] 'izewepkh' Tonight's ONT brought to you by Gary ![]() Doof Enterprises, LLC offers never ending whelm. Not recommended for break-up purposes Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:00 PM (GebTj) Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX) 3
Good evening morons e grazie Disco
Top pic looks like Maine? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX) Howdy SF! Not Maine. Close though. Want to guess again? Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:04 PM (QLC6i) 4
Yay, ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 30, 2026 10:05 PM (+9wcF) 5
Uh-oh.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (mzqTU) Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (77rzZ) 7
Evenin'
Bernie is a communist. Everything he says and does is in the advancement of communism. His latest take on Flock cameras is fine but his motivations are suspect. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 30, 2026 10:07 PM (sAmhv) 8
Sorry I'm late, my Uber driver showed up on a Schwinn
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:07 PM (PMi3m) 9
Good evening all.
My first thought on that fart corner is that little boys would not toot discretely, but have epic trumpet volleys to see who can fart the loudest. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (kpS4V) 10
Hello!
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (ZdaMQ) 11
RIP Dolly. I'm looking forward to the Dolly Parton International Airport, and probably a lot of her things to be named after her. And re her '70s hair. That's the epitome of the Jeff Foxworthy joke, "If your wife's hair has ever been destroyed by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck." Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb) 12
because Dish has a large national force of outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting
Huh. Huh huh. Huhhuhhuh..... Posted by: Beavis & Butthead at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov) 13
One question for Gary: How do you know when you're halfway through a never-ending pasta bowl?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (4Je4D) 14
Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco and Piper!
Posted by: TRex - rhinestoned dino at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1) 15
Piper thanks for the retrospective on Dolly
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (RIvkX) 16
Great story about the WW2 pilot finally coming home.
22 years old, flying a heavy bomber into combat. Today's 22-year old 'man' is likely to be playing computer games and jerking off to anime in Mom's basement. Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (ZxPkt) 17
Merry Sunday, Hordelings.
"It’s time to Bud Light Dish Network" Yeah, well, problem I have with that is the same as with many scoundrels: I didn't drink Bud. Or use Dish. Posted by: mindful webworker - or vote Democrat at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (ie4vn) 18
Bernie opposes flock because he ain't getting a piece of the flock action.
Posted by: davidt at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Q+gd/) 19
Piper, did Bob Mackie ever design a dress for Dolly?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:11 PM (kpS4V) 20
Lock up your daughters!
New York Post @nypost Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7) 21
Oh duh, I just read the caption!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:11 PM (kpS4V) 22
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
9 [24 names] 'gnflcjcx' 10 [21 names] 'izewepkh' Friends of Blonde Morticia? Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov) Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (77rzZ) 24
19 Piper, did Bob Mackie ever design a dress for Dolly?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 Yes, he did a few but the most famous was the butterfly one pictured up there. Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (ZdaMQ) 25
Damn - I guess I'm a Bernie Bro on this particular issue
US Senator Bernie Sanders will soon introduce a bill to completely ban Flock cameras. If it passes, Flock and other AI mass surveillance systems will be banned in the US to protect people's privacy. While I applaud the idea of getting rid of intrusive cameras like this, I also wonder how realistic it is. It isn't like Flock is the first publicly oriented camera. Are we going to get rid of ALL of them. More to the point, has Bernie actually done any work to ensure that his bill passes Constitutional muster, or is he just trying to garner some quick favorable publicity. I think we all know the answer to that. https://tinyurl.com/ms7cec5e Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (Riz8t) 26
One more day of summer, then it's Pumpkin Spice time!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z) 27
One of my best stories about one of my buddies is when we were in third grade and I was the only one who caught him blast one right when the teacher was reading aloud from Sounder.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX) 28
And Andrew McCarthy got a lot of nice shots of the Nancy Grace blast-off this morning, here on his X feed: https://t.ly/jNipa Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (w6EFb) 29
RIP Dolly. I'm looking forward to the Dolly Parton International Airport, and probably a lot of her things to be named after her.
------------- There's a rumor going around that the State of CA will rename the San Onofre nuclear power plant after Dolly Parton but nobody knows why. https://tinyurl.com/2f9xab3a Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (4Je4D) 30
How much does solar powered chicken cost?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Cqx++) 31
Hey, Doof!
There was a $5,000 bottle of bourbon in my local Virginia ABC store today. Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (77rzZ) Did you buy it for me? Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (QLC6i) 32
My first thought on that fart corner is that little boys would not toot discretely, but have epic trumpet volleys to see who can fart the loudest.
I had exactly the same thought. They'd be stuffing themselves with beans for breakfast. Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t) 33
Bernie is a communist. Everything he says and does is in the advancement of communism. His latest take on Flock cameras is fine but his motivations are suspect.
He doesn't want his Antifa buddies tracked until after the revolution. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (+9wcF) 34
All these raging feminists who invented insane explanations in their heads in which Lindsay Clancy did not actually kill her children remind me of Candace Owen's coming up with insane explanations in which Tyler Robinson did not actually kill Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (PMi3m) 35
Starting to think by your choice of photos you might like the New England coast.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (viF8m) 36
One of my best stories about one of my buddies is when we were in third grade and I was the only one who caught him blast one right when the teacher was reading aloud from Sounder.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX) Did it sound like a Celtic war horn? Because that would have been cool. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 10:15 PM (0aYVJ) 37
One more day of summer, then it's Pumpkin Spice time!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z) The Starbucks stand in my local supermarket was already pushing Pumpkin Spice today. And I saw a glowing reindeer decoration in Costco last week. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq) 38
26 One more day of summer, then it's Pumpkin Spice time!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM It already launched here, the kidlette got a PSL on our way to church this morning. Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ) 39
Okay - this is the shit that happens to us Hordians: Our parish has been selected as one of the sites for the faithful to make a pilgrimage during the year in which we honor St. Francis of Assisi. My wife, as Assistant to the Pastor, has the responsibility to pull this all together.
(Stay with me here. . . ) As part of his Octave Celebration, we are holding a procession during the recognition of St. Francis' Transitus (I know, I know, stick with me) in which we have invited one of our local mostly Spanish speaking parishes to help host. This has caused quite a stir with one or two of our gang since they are racists and assholes. During a VERY contentious planning meeting today, one of our other Diocesan priests offered that he knows a very talented bagpiper who would be thrilled to join the procession. It was claimed he knows The Mexican Hat Dance. Guess which Moron laughed so hard he had to get up and walk out? Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (iUToW) 40
And I saw a glowing reindeer decoration in Costco last week.
Same, but it was most of an aisle of Christmas stuff. In August. Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t) 41
Bulg- it was a rumor that turned into a tumor.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:18 PM (ZdaMQ) 42
All these raging feminists who invented insane explanations in their heads in which Lindsay Clancy did not actually kill her children remind me of Candace Owen's coming up with insane explanations in which Tyler Robinson did not actually kill Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: tankdemon The Jews were behind Lindsay Clancy too?!!! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (ndZc7) 43
That breakwater in the top pic is known as a groin. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji) Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ) 45
Starting to think by your choice of photos you might like the New England coast.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (viF8m) I'm learning to enjoy my time up this way. Definitely lots of picturesque beach views. Not the most enjoyable for lounging and swimming, though. Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (QLC6i) 46
How come we have anger management but not stupidity management? You can be stupid but I can't be angry? Your stupidity is probably why I'm angry in the first place!
Posted by: clarence at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (/2SkZ) 47
Great story about the WW2 pilot finally coming home.
22 years old, flying a heavy bomber into combat. Today's 22-year old 'man' is likely to be playing computer games and jerking off to anime in Mom's basement. Posted by: Savage Henry My mom's cousin was a B17 pilot. They were so young. Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (lJ0H4) Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (Riz8t) 49
So there's a tropical disturbance in the Gulf. Yesterday they were saying 10% of development and spaghetti models had it going into Louisiana. Right now they're saying 70% and it's hitting the Upper Texas coast. They're also saying it won't even be a tropical storm. Which means tomorrow it will be a Force 5 hurricane. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i) 50
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (jPziU) 51
I see we’re going bang bang boom boom back in the straits tonight.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (GWwCk) 52
Thanks for another outstanding ONT, Doof!
And thanks to Piper for the Dolly fashion show. Dolly was an amazing person and she will be missed. Love the photo up top. Moody in a stormy way. Water seems to amplify the darkness of stormy weather. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 30, 2026 10:22 PM (D/6p1) 53
That breakwater in the top pic is known as a groin. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji) Yuck! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:22 PM (QLC6i) 54
The Jews were behind Lindsay Clancy too?!!! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (ndZc7) _________ They used the kids' blood to make matzoh. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (O0L8i) 55
How much does solar powered chicken cost?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Cqx++) I wonder how many chickens get run over each time the coop moves? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (1z8ji) 56
The Starbucks stand in my local supermarket was already pushing Pumpkin Spice today. And I saw a glowing reindeer decoration in Costco last week.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq) It already launched here, the kidlette got a PSL on our way to church this morning. Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ) I've seen PS cheesecake at Kneaders, but no donuts yet at KK or DD. I'll wait until Tuesday to partake. I'll need the energy to put up the fall decor around the house. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z) 57
That breakwater in the top pic is known as a groin. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon It is certainly rock-hard. Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov) 58
Doof, I know that you’re independently wealthy, so, no.
But maybe we can work a deal… Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ) I am?? News to me! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (QLC6i) 59
Moody in a stormy way. Water seems to amplify the darkness of stormy weather.
Like this? https://tinyurl.com/2269zma6 Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z) 61
Piper — Did you see the anti-kale articles that were everywhere over the weeekend?
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (77rzZ) 62
>>That breakwater in the top pic is known as a groin. Make of that what you will.
The New England coast is littered with them. We lack Brandy's. She was a fine girl. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m) 63
I am?? News to me! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (QLC6i) __________ You're a billionaire. Or at least you'll be classified as one for confiscation purposes. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:25 PM (O0L8i) 64
Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco and Piper!
Posted by: TRex - rhinestoned dino at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1) I'll never sing the Glen Campbell song the same way again! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:25 PM (QLC6i) 65
All these raging feminists who invented insane explanations in their heads in which Lindsay Clancy did not actually kill her children remind me of Candace Owen's coming up with insane explanations in which Tyler Robinson did not actually kill Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (PMi3m) If I ran into a demented person like that, I would say, "You are batshit crazy. For your own good, and the welfare of your family, I am going to call the Department of Human Sanitation, and have you hauled off to the gas chamber." Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji) 66
That breakwater in the top pic is known as a groin. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon The wokeipedia article on it has a photo of a sign in SC: WARNING SUBMERGED GROIN grade-school mikeski might have stopped laughing by now..... Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov) 67
61. I did, and it’s being blown out of proportion. You have to eat a shizzle ton of it raw for it to have anti-nutrient properties. Unless you get kidney stones, but that was always the case.
Plus there are lots of kale varieties out there. So not plussed about it. They will change their minds in 3 years. lol. Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (GebTj) 69
My mom's cousin was a B17 pilot. They were so young.
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (lJ0H4) Dick Winters and Lewis Nixon were 26 during the invasion of Normandy and Europe. Old timers. Bill Guarniere was 18. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ) 70
58. Doof, don’t know where I came up with that. Maybe we can just have a beer?
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: wth at August 30, 2026 10:29 PM (oq9dX) 72
If Elon would quit changing my IP, or the commenter counting software could collate my hashtags into one, I'd probably be on the sockpuppet list today.
Whew! Maybe I could be considered an honorary sockmuppet? Posted by: mindful webworker - the secret ingredient is taglines at August 30, 2026 10:29 PM (ie4vn) 73
“I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she tells TODAY.com. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”
__________________________________ I can't tell you how much I abhor the current educational system, and the nitwit, self-absorbed, immature "teachers" that make it up. This is, absolute, nonsense...and the second this hit the public, the principal should have yanked her into the office and explained to her that she has the right to be stupid, puerile and pathetic on her own time. But, as a teacher she sets boundaries and examples for her students. She doesn't act more immature than they are. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske) 74
I am glad everyone enjoyed Dolly. I am off to bed. Even though Saijo just hopped up here with a ball. Sigh.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ) 75
Kaboom
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wxsGM) 76
Picture, if you will, Mr. Potato Head. Now, picture Hakeem Jeffries. Pretty close, isn't it?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 30, 2026 10:31 PM (qx7Zg) 77
...one of our other Diocesan priests offered that he knows a very talented bagpiper who would be thrilled to join the procession. It was claimed he knows The Mexican Hat Dance.
I would consider converting to be there for that. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:31 PM (vTZFs) 78
Plus there are lots of kale varieties out there. So not plussed about it. They will change their minds in 3 years. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ) Nice use of the secret opposite of "nonplussed"!! You're back on track for Employee of the Month at Doof Enterprises! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (QLC6i) 79
9 Good evening all.
My first thought on that fart corner is that little boys would not toot discretely, but have epic trumpet volleys to see who can fart the loudest. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes That’s what boys do. And it doesn’t stop. Not ever. They even teach their sons to trumpet. And laugh every time. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (CwGN+) 80
Lt. Bateman was serving as a pilot with the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group when his B-24D Liberator failed to return from a mission over Italy on August 16, 1943. He and nine fellow airmen were listed as missing in action, and for decades, his and his crew's remains were unidentified. He was 22 years old. ____________ That's nothing next to the mental load women have to endure. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (O0L8i) 81
The Starbucks stand in my local supermarket was already pushing Pumpkin Spice today. And I saw a glowing reindeer decoration in Costco last week.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq) I was in a Home Despot today. They have giant plastic skeletons, maybe ten feet tall, and life-sized pirate skeletons in costumes. The life-sized ones were priced at 400 bucks. Friggin' insane, it is. And you know what I couldn't get? A six-pack or ten-pack of #2 Phillips driver bits for cordless impact drivers or drills. The kind used for driving drywall screws. Probably the best-selling driver bit of any kind. And they are a consumable. They should be sold by the pound, like nails. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (1z8ji) 82
Moody in a stormy way. Water seems to amplify the darkness of stormy weather.
Like this? https://tinyurl.com/2269zma6 Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t) * * * * Exactly! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 30, 2026 10:33 PM (D/6p1) 83
I am off to bed. Even though Saijo just hopped up here with a ball. Sigh. Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ) _______ Now we can talk about Piper. Did you hear about?... Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (O0L8i) 84
G’night, Piper!
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (GebTj) Posted by: Ducks for Trump at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (oq9dX) 87
I did, and it’s being blown out of proportion. You have to eat a shizzle ton of it raw for it to have anti-nutrient properties. Unless you get kidney stones, but that was always the case.
Plus there are lots of kale varieties out there. So not plussed about it. They will change their minds in 3 years. lol. Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ) ===== So what you're saying is, never eat kale. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX) 88
Howdy Doof! Evenin' Horde.
Piper, I'm too much of a fashion clod to genuinely appreciate the things you post here weekly, but this was a very lovely tribute to Dolly - thank Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 10:35 PM (kOluj) 89
you!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (kOluj) Posted by: same as it ever was at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (pBJ6M) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (GebTj) 92
If you were say 27 or 28 years old they called you “Pops” or “Old Man”. Not that much older than everyone else, but it seemed like it then. I joined the .mil when I was 24 and felt out of place.
US Army Air Forces was All-Volunteer, too. It was a hell of a thing, because they had a policy where 25 combat missions had to be completed before getting rotated out. Some missions would lose 10% of the aircraft in one day, and they kept having to go back and try and hit the same target again. Then they (Well, Hap Arnold probably) raised the number of missions to 30, then later 35. I’m not sure I could have handled that well. Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (IkLDu) 93
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM
Is this where I remind you I have the pirate ship? 😂 Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ) 94
Thanks Piper for the fine Dolly content. Grand Ole Opry devoted their whole show last night to Dolly. Very nice tribute.
And thanks Doof for the balance of this fine show. Posted by: Prudence Dictates at August 30, 2026 10:37 PM (JM9I6) 95
There's a rumor going around that the State of CA will rename the San Onofre nuclear power plant after Dolly Parton but nobody knows why.
https://tinyurl.com/2f9xab3a Posted by: Cicero Trump, the Master Renamer of things, is considering changing those mountains — you know the ones — to be the Grand Partons. Posted by: mindful webworker - in the Oklahoma hills where I was born at August 30, 2026 10:37 PM (ie4vn) 96
That’s what boys do. And it doesn’t stop. Not ever. They even teach their sons to trumpet.
And laugh every time. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (CwGN+) ===== I always try to recall the most embarrassing and humiliating moments from my friends' early childhood for the enjoyment of their own children. I feel like I owe this to them. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX) 97
So what you're saying is, never eat kale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX) It is best to avoid it. Just to be safe. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z) 98
Carl Dean was a lucky, lucky man.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2026 10:38 PM (wVcYX) 99
Thanks for another outstanding ONT, Doof!
And thanks to Piper for the Dolly fashion show. Dolly was an amazing person and she will be missed. Love the photo up top. Moody in a stormy way. Water seems to amplify the darkness of stormy weather. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 30, 2026 10:22 PM (D/6p1) Howdy LS! Glad you enjoyed the photo. Was taken earlier today. Sky was actually not gray so not sure why the photo turned out looking like it was. But I liked it so I used it! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (QLC6i) 100
Picture, if you will, Mr. Potato Head. Now, picture Hakeem Jeffries. Pretty close, isn't it?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf ...... Only if he has a removeable penis. Posted by: Ducks for Trump at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (oq9dX) 101
Really going to bed this time! I have all the morning classes, so now 8 minutes past bedtime in my sad world. Luckily, everyone here has settled. Time for meditation music and sleep.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ) 102
Fart jokes are never not funny.
And boys are awesome. They are adventurous and kind and volatile and do stupid shit trying to bend the laws of nature. And they blast into space. And they break the sound barrier. And they love and they cuddle and they cry sometimes. And they fart and stink and make you want to lose your mind. I love boys. I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy Helll. Now what. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+) 103
So what you're saying is, never eat kale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX) It is best to avoid it. Just to be safe. What if one is confronted with a three door scenario? Behind one door is kale, behind the second one are Brussels Sprouts, and behind the third is a rabid badger. Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (Riz8t) 104
Was First! in Sockpuppet Wall of Shame and #8 in the Top Ten Commenter ranks, a board I had never cracked before. Like baseball, I think the key to success if 90% half-mental.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 30, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6) 105
>>I'm learning to enjoy my time up this way. Definitely lots of picturesque beach views. Not the most enjoyable for lounging and swimming, though.
I've never been much of a beach guy, even when I lived and worked on them in the Caribbean. New England waters are about the ocean. Hard to explain, I can't, and not for everyone but if it gets you it's almost like a drug. I can't imagine not being around it. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m) 106
Well done Piper!
Thanxs. Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB) 107
Doof, don’t know where I came up with that. Maybe we can just have a beer?
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ) Sure - you buying? Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (QLC6i) 108
65 If I ran into a demented person like that, I would say, "You are batshit crazy. For your own good, and the welfare of your family, I am going to call the Department of Human Sanitation, and have you hauled off to the gas chamber."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji) There are, unfortunately, a lot more Lindsay Clancy supporters than one would expect. I find it nauseating. Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m) 109
What if one is confronted with a three door scenario? Behind one door is kale, behind the second one are Brussels Sprouts, and behind the third is a rabid badger.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (Riz8t) Hope to get the badger. Just to be safe. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z) 110
I love boys.
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy Helll. Now what. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+) They fart too, ya know! Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:43 PM (QLC6i) 111
And boys are awesome. They are adventurous and kind and volatile and do stupid shit trying to bend the laws of nature. And they blast into space. And they break the sound barrier. And they love and they cuddle and they cry sometimes. __________ That makes them dangerous. They need to be drugged into compliance. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:43 PM (O0L8i) 112
Evening all,
We have a launch in the morning. Rocket Lab - Electron - Owl Around The World LC 1 - Mähia, NZ - August 21, 2026 Launch Date: August 31, 2026 Launch Time: 8:42 A.M EDT (Sept 1st 23:30 NZDT, 1130 UTC, 13:30 CEST) https://youtu.be/agoLNgN7wiU Posted by: Joyenz at August 30, 2026 10:43 PM (2F0/Y) 113
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy
Helll. Now what. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+) You're gonna love it!!! Imagine the day when you teach her that first tumbling run! Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB) 114
75 Kaboom
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wxsGM) Are you ordering breakfast? Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:45 PM (PMi3m) 115
There's a whole Monty Hall Paradox about the three-door scenario.
Posted by: One Of Canada's Finest at August 30, 2026 10:45 PM (JM9I6) 116
Was First! in Sockpuppet Wall of Shame and #8 in the Top Ten Commenter ranks, a board I had never cracked before. Like baseball, I think the key to success if 90% half-mental.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 30, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6) ===== Pretty sure this is something untoward. How can a sock be a nic? Do you fold space too? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX) 117
The Starbucks stand in my local supermarket was already pushing Pumpkin Spice today. And I saw a glowing reindeer decoration in Costco last week.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq) I am tempted to seek out and post MacLean and MacLean's tribute to Dolly Parton. NSFW. Or most anyplace else. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:46 PM (1z8ji) 118
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched Get her a pet otter to hold her hand while she sleeps? Teach her how to shoot? There's so many options! Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov) 119
I can't imagine not being around it.
Posted by: JackStraw I get it. The salt air. The sound of the waves. It’s cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than inland. The wind. The humidity. The smell of low tide. Beachcombing after a storm. Drinking from a flask in the rain. The quiet. The noise. The calmness. The ferocity. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:47 PM (CwGN+) 120
22 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
9 [24 names] 'gnflcjcx' 10 [21 names] 'izewepkh' Friends of Blonde Morticia? Posted by: mikeski --- You know, there's like 15 or 20 actual people here and three of them are, are..... Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:47 PM (GebTj) 121
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq)
------- I had my first ever pumpkin spice latte last week. I gotta admin it was real good. I can see how one could become addicted to them. Fortunately I'm cheap - it won't become a regular thing Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:48 PM (RkrlD) 122
Well said, Nurse.
But granddaughters are amazing. Mine is half tomboy and half stand-up comic (she'll be three next month). And she thinks farts are hilarious. Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 10:49 PM (kOluj) 123
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy
Helll. Now what. Posted by: nurse ratched ....... She will love you. You will love her. You are blessed. Believe me I know. Posted by: wth at August 30, 2026 10:49 PM (oq9dX) 124
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy
Helll. Now what. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+) My son and his lovely wife want to have a lot of kids. They are still newlywed. I would love to have a granddaughter. So different than the bobcats we raised. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 10:50 PM (0aYVJ) 125
Was First! in Sockpuppet Wall of Shame and #8 in the Top Ten Commenter ranks, a board I had never cracked before. Like baseball, I think the key to success if 90% half-mental.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 30, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6) Hey! This is The Horde. We're all half mental! Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:50 PM (GebTj) 127
Rocky shore, dark sky. Maryland shore?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX) 128
Monty Hall was married to his wife for 70 years. They died within a month of each other in 2017. He was 96, she was 90.
Posted by: Marilyn Plotell Hall at August 30, 2026 10:51 PM (JM9I6) 129
Evening, all!
Got an interview tomorrow morning. Different company. I expect to hear from the first company and a third company later in the week! And, for some reason, all this past week I've been thinking Labor Day was tomorrow, but no! My brain lied to me! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 10:52 PM (aJQbY) 130
Nevermind the launch. It has changed to September 1st instead.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 30, 2026 10:52 PM (2F0/Y) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb) 132
>New England waters are about the ocean. Hard to explain, I can't, and not for everyone but if it gets you it's almost like a drug. I can't imagine not being around it.
---- I can dig it, Ishmael. Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (ZxPkt) 133
My mom's cousin was a B17 pilot. They were so young.
Posted by: Tuna -- Dad's friend, bombardier/photographer, 20yo when shot down over Italy. Farmers rescued him, nursed him healthy, got him back across the line. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (GebTj) 134
I get it. The salt air. The sound of the waves. It’s cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than inland. The wind. The humidity. The smell of low tide. Beachcombing after a storm. Drinking from a flask in the rain. The quiet. The noise. The calmness. The ferocity.
You paint a nice picture. Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (Riz8t) 135
I had my first ever pumpkin spice latte last week. I gotta admin it was real good. I can see how one could become addicted to them. Fortunately I'm cheap - it won't become a regular thing
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:48 PM (RkrlD) First one's free. He he he.... Posted by: Pumpkin Spice Pusher at August 30, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z) 136
Rocky shore, dark sky. Maryland shore?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX) You went too far south. I'm at the northern command for another week. Photo is from Stoney Beach in Woods Hole, MA. Southwest corner of Cape Cod. Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:55 PM (QLC6i) 137
I liked Dolly's green rhinestone pantsuit. Didn't like the first dress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:55 PM (JrHfD) 138
118 I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched ______________________ Well, now. Nothing is etched in stone. Posted by: Transgender Grooming Society at August 30, 2026 10:56 PM (dIske) 139
So, despite telling us otherwise, Pookette has not taken her ADHD meds for the last three mornings. They are always next to her glasses and (refilled every night) giant water bottle on her nightstand. And yet she forgets, taking "at least an hour" to wake up enough to get out of bed. My only consolation is that *if* she's taken her meds *and* you remind her, she knocks out 40 minutes of piano practice before school without a problem. She's a completely different person when it comes to playing music, doing things like memorizing the entire music for a bells duet that she had to play at a school concert. I wish I could channel that focus unto all her schoolwork. Sigh....
Posted by: pookysgirl, mother to music-lovers at August 30, 2026 10:56 PM (Wt5PA) 140
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao ----- There's a song about that! Posted by: buddhaha at August 30, 2026 10:57 PM (1QaG1) 141
Ahh. Never been to the Cape.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:57 PM (RIvkX) 142
First one's free. He he he....
Posted by: Pumpkin Spice Pusher at August 30, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z) ------- Heh - it was, actually. And I fell for it hook, line, and sinker Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:58 PM (SW6Ju) Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z) 144
>>I get it. The salt air. The sound of the waves. It’s cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than inland. The wind. The humidity. The smell of low tide. Beachcombing after a storm. Drinking from a flask in the rain. The quiet. The noise. The calmness. The ferocity.
All of that. And the feeling that once I leave the dock I am in a different world that doesn't have anything to do with the rules or conventions of life on land. The combination of freedom and a whole different level of responsibility is something that has to be experienced to understand. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m) 145
Also just wanna say... I love y'all very much!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 11:00 PM (aJQbY) 146
45 Starting to think by your choice of photos you might like the New England coast.
Posted by: JackStraw --- New England doesn't deserve that beautiful coastline with inland water ways. It is a shanty boaters dream. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:00 PM (GebTj) 147
Sigh....
Posted by: pookysgirl, mother to music-lovers at August 30, 2026 10:56 PM (Wt5PA) ===== Get a 7-day pill case. Easy. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX) 148
I've never been much of a beach guy, even when I lived and worked on them in the Caribbean.
New England waters are about the ocean. Hard to explain, I can't, and not for everyone but if it gets you it's almost like a drug. I can't imagine not being around it. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m) I pretty much grew up at the jersey shore because my grandmother had a summer house there. I know where you're coming from. I'm not a beach person either. To me getting greased up and sizzling in the sun like a fucking piece of bacon is right up there with ball surgery with a rusty soup can lid. The water though, I'm not sure I can live land locked. I like seeing the water. I like hearing the water. I would love having a house on the beach. There is something about the water. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (S41Gd) 149
I had my first ever pumpkin spice latte last week. I gotta admin it was real good. I can see how one could become addicted to them. Fortunately I'm cheap - it won't become a regular thing
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:48 PM (RkrlD) I had my first one last year. In November - when it was actually fall weather! I admit, I enjoyed it - but it was too sweet. Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (QLC6i) 150
Heh - it was, actually. And I fell for it hook, line, and sinker
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:58 PM (SW6Ju) Six months later: Hi, I'm 496, and I'm a pumpkin spice - a - holic. Posted by: Fake French Voice at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z) 151
Farmers rescued him, nursed him healthy, got him back across the line.
——- Once shot down over enemy territory, crewmembers generally weren’t allowed back in combat. They might divulge the workings of partisans or resistance groups under torture if shot down again. Chuck Yeager did an escape and evasion routine for a while after getting shot down. Upon return he demanded to be sent back to his unit. He was refused as was the policy. Eventually he finagled a meeting with General Eisenhower himself, who quipped “I just wanted a chance to meet the guy who has the opportunity to get the hell out of here but refuses”. Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (IkLDu) 152
And the feeling that once I leave the dock I am in a different world that doesn't have anything to do with the rules or conventions of life on land. The combination of freedom and a whole different level of responsibility is something that has to be experienced to understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m) ==== Yes. That feeling. That is what we seek to crush. Posted by: The Globohomo Conspiracy at August 30, 2026 11:02 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ) 154
There are, unfortunately, a lot more Lindsay Clancy supporters than one would expect. I find it nauseating.
Posted by: tankdemon --- and somewhat frightening Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (GebTj) 155
From Schloss Hadrian, it's a short drive to the shore near Freeport. I haven't been down there in years. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (O0L8i) 156
Iceland says no, Ursula rages, probably:
https://tinyurl.com/ytcsj47x Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z) Good for them. If they joined the EU, they would probably be swamped by thousands of musloids. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji) 157
Chuck Yeager did an escape and evasion routine for a while after getting shot down. Upon return he demanded to be sent back to his unit. He was refused as was the policy. Eventually he finagled a meeting with General Eisenhower himself, who quipped “I just wanted a chance to meet the guy who has the opportunity to get the hell out of here but refuses”.
Posted by: Common Tater I was never sure how he fit in those tiny test-pilot cockpits with those giant clanging brass balls. Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov) 158
The thing for me about punkin spice latte is I hate nutmeg.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ) Glares. Posted by: Jon Townsend at August 30, 2026 11:05 PM (1Ff7Z) 159
" outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting"
------------ The Paolo picks up and runs with that in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:05 PM (1CvoP) 160
Welcome home, Lieutenant
This hits hard and very personal. I need to find a letter I got a few months ago, from France. I would rather quote verbatim than from memory. Posted by: Miklos at August 30, 2026 11:05 PM (4RYRd) 161
Good for them. If they joined the EU, they would probably be swamped by thousands of musloids.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji) EU: You have room for one hundred thousand refugees. You are required to take them, or else. Oh, by the way, you won't need facilities for females. Posted by: Ursula at August 30, 2026 11:06 PM (1Ff7Z) 162
Isn't Nancy Grace that lawyer woman TV show. The one that did the OJ trial?
Posted by: Braenyard ----- Yeah, and also the one who honcho'd the media.lynching of Richard Jewell. The hag is the living exemplar of the TV "reporter" ghoul who sticks the Mic in the face of the murder victim's mother and says, "Tell.us, how does it feel?" Posted by: buddhaha at August 30, 2026 11:07 PM (1QaG1) 163
and somewhat frightening
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (GebTj) Galileo! Posted by: Figaro at August 30, 2026 11:07 PM (1Ff7Z) 164
I would rather quote verbatim than from memory.
Posted by: Miklos --- I've got a letter my grandmother's brother sent to her from France. He didn't come home. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (GebTj) 165
>>New England doesn't deserve that beautiful coastline with inland water ways. It is a shanty boaters dream.
Oh yes we do. Come for a visit. There are more of us here than you think. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m) 166
23 10 Howdy, Piper!
So, was it the tumor from Soup that killed you, or the kale? Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (77rzZ) Oh no! Did Piper die again??? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:09 PM (1CvoP) 167
Oh no! Did Piper die again???
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:09 PM (1CvoP) O.D.d on Kale smoothies. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:10 PM (1Ff7Z) 168
>> Isn't Nancy Grace that lawyer woman TV show. She started a new career as a telescope now. Posted by: publius Maybe she can find Nancy Guthrie. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 11:11 PM (Cqx++) 169
Come for a visit. There are more of us here than you think.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m) I need to connect with you on my way to or from the Cape some time Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 11:11 PM (QLC6i) 170
Dish was picked as a partner to do the installs because Dish has a large national force of outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting
So are strippers... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK) 171
This is the dork convicted of stalking his ex-girl friend,
turned in to the police by Sam Altman’s Open AI. He was an analyst for Goldman Sachs. https://tinyurl.com/439m36zz Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:19 PM (GebTj) 172
Heading in.
I am now in the VA in my area. I've been impressed with it so far. I am in a kind of high-speed getting things squared away mode. My high blood pressure first and foremost. Have an appointment tomorrow to get my BP meds dialed in. But also some other things. None life-threatening, but, needing attention. Apparently my local VA is one of the best in the nation. Best of all, I got the lifetime national parks pass. Yes! Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ) 173
>> Maybe she can find Nancy Guthrie.
Unfortunately, they can never turn the telescope back to earth. Seriously, and this was something I didn't know about until recently. The mirror for Nancy Grace was "donated" to NASA by the NRO -- they gave them two of 'em in fact. It was part of some super secret spy satellite program they weren't going to need. A part of that was the requirement those mirrors cannot be used for earth observation, as that would reveal too much detail about the secret mirror tech. That tech is probably at least 20 years old by now, probably obsolete, but still. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:23 PM (GebTj) 175
"Clever and kewl."
Homesteadershave used chicken tractors for years. The scale of the one featured is different, but nothing new. Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 30, 2026 11:23 PM (Mz+Gv) 176
>>There is something about the water.
I've been offered a number of jobs over the years, good ones that were in places away from the ocean. This is an amazing country with spectacular places that I love to visit but I could never leave the ocean. Never will. Just getting to see it everyday soothes my soul. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:24 PM (viF8m) 177
>>> 102 Fart jokes are never not funny.
And boys are awesome. They are adventurous and kind and volatile and do stupid shit trying to bend the laws of nature. And they blast into space. And they break the sound barrier. And they love and they cuddle and they cry sometimes. And they fart and stink and make you want to lose your mind. I love boys. I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy Helll. Now what. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+) Congratulations!!! You're bringing her to TX next year, right??? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 30, 2026 11:24 PM (+fdRY) 178
>>I need to connect with you on my way to or from the Cape some time
CBD knows how to find me despite the fact he ends up in France. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:28 PM (viF8m) 179
178 >>I need to connect with you on my way to or from the Cape some time
CBD knows how to find me despite the fact he ends up in France. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:28 PM (viF8m) He shouldn't have taken that left turn at Albuquerque... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 11:29 PM (l3cgK) 180
A tribute to Dolly.
Southern Culture on the Skids: Liquored up and Lacquered Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYrQ_bgVKk Posted by: Butch at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (98xTj) 181
102 Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+)
Excellent tribute to boys and boyhood. Thank you nurse. Every blue-hair face-pierced tatted elementary school teacher should be required to stand and repeat that 3x a day each day at the start of the school day. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (1CvoP) 182
Just getting to see it everyday soothes my soul.
Posted by: JackStraw 100% I’m spending a LOT more than I should by renting my place here on the beach. Quality of life is most important to me. I’ll work until I die. That’s ok. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 11:36 PM (I5z1m) 183
Southern Culture on the Skids: Liquored up and Lacquered Down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYrQ_bgVKk Posted by: Butch at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (98xTj) ----------- SCOTS! Dude, I love that tune. Also, Meximelt is one of my favorite instrumentals ever Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 11:39 PM (kOluj) 184
To see BWI honoring a WWII pilot returning home for the final time is not surprising at all. Arriving there after deployments people there were extremely helpful.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:48 PM (jPziU) Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:50 PM (jPziU) 186
Oh yes we do. Come for a visit. There are more of us here than you think. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m) I have to visit all six New England state capitols at some point. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:51 PM (jPziU) 187
I got a chance to SCOTS live about 10 years ago at a brewpub in Troy NY.
Posted by: Butch at August 30, 2026 11:52 PM (98xTj) 188
There's a song about that!
Posted by: buddhaha at August 30, 2026 10:57 PM And you can go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors. Posted by: Mao at August 30, 2026 11:53 PM (jPziU) 189
Alberta boosts the separatist movement as the October referendum approaches
The movement in favor of the separation of Alberta gained visibility on August 29 with a gathering in front of the provincial Legislature building in Edmonton, as the province approaches a vote that could pave the way for a binding referendum on its independence. The demonstration, organized by the ''Alberta Prosperity Project'', coincided with the commemoration of Alberta's creation as a province in 1905. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:54 PM (GebTj) 190
187 I got a chance to SCOTS live about 10 years ago at a brewpub in Troy NY.
Posted by: Butch --------- https://youtu.be/Vs-P_xSVz60 Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 11:55 PM (kOluj) 191
Cowboy Kent Rollins: I usually watch the regular weekly cooking videos. The long Sunday "podcast" ones, not always. But I watched today's. Learned a few things.
The wild and strange superstitions of the old west - Do we still believe them? youtu.be/SUt-aM8gfVs I'm not superstitious m'self. Or, rather, I've devised my own superstitions. Black cat crosses my path, break a mirror, walk under a ladder, Friday the 13th, they're all good luck to me. But with cautions: don't walk under a ladder that some sloppy painter is standing on.🐈⬛ https://youtu.be/0CFuCYNx-1g Time to depart for tonight. G'nite, y'all.💤 Posted by: mindful webworker - hang that horseshoe points-up at August 30, 2026 11:55 PM (ie4vn) 192
I always thought--and still do--that Dolly was amazing. Thanks for providing more proof.
She's basically the female Elvis--someone who made a mark and no one could fill their shoes (or bra). FU Michael Jackson. FU Bruce Springsteen. Pretenders who would wilt if they touched the Crown. PS: I suppose I should mention that I have had a fair number of drinks. But damn it, I'm still not dead! You mean the movie lied?! Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 30, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1) 193
Excellent tribute to boys and boyhood. Thank you nurse.
Every blue-hair face-pierced tatted elementary school teacher should be required to stand and repeat that 3x a day each day at the start of the school day. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (1CvoP) For summer school I had an (otherwise hot) 9th grade “English teacher” who sneered at my reading The Hunt For Red October because it was “a man’s book”. She would have been shocked to hear that Tom Clancy himself reported that about a third of his fan mail came from women. (I say “English teacher” because in a normal school year, she taught dance and business, but not English. She may have been hot, but on reflection she was a real bitch.) Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:58 PM (jPziU) 194
As hard as I try I can’t get worked up over the city knowing that I drive down certain roads at certain times.
Posted by: Maybe Just Me at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (iY+4Q) 195
189 Alberta boosts the separatist movement as the October referendum approaches
The movement in favor of the separation of Alberta gained visibility on August 29 with a gathering in front of the provincial Legislature building in Edmonton, as the province approaches a vote that could pave the way for a binding referendum on its independence. The demonstration, organized by the ''Alberta Prosperity Project'', coincided with the commemoration of Alberta's creation as a province in 1905. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:54 PM (GebTj) There will be a rally for AB independence there the weekend before the referendum to hold a referendum. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (jPziU) 196
>>I have to visit all six New England state capitols at some point.
Male sure to visit the Lovecraft bookstore when you visit Providence. If I was still in Boston I would give you a guided tour. Despite the current wokeness it's a great city. Go in the fall. Beautiful city. Honestly, despite how all of New England has gone woke there are some great places to visit. Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m) 197
Best of all, I got the lifetime national parks pass. Yes!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ) Same. There is also the veterans park pass for TX State Parks. All day pass fees are waived. If I want to spend a day hiking in the canyons nearest me, I don’t pay the fee. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (jPziU) 198
Read that Dolly called her boobs her “show dogs”.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (EiUt/) 199
There is a disturbing amount of people who are still into 9/11 trutherism all this time later. It’s so messed up.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (iY+4Q) 200
PS: I suppose I should mention that I have had a fair number of drinks. But damn it, I'm still not dead! You mean the movie lied?!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eojJTLf-mIo Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (GebTj) 201
As hard as I try I can’t get worked up over the city knowing that I drive down certain roads at certain times.
Posted by: Maybe Just Me at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (iY+4Q) May your chains rest lightly upon you. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:05 AM (1z8ji) 202
Honestly, despite how all of New England has gone woke there are some great places to visit.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m) I do not doubt or question this, just based on my brief forays into ME and the adjacent Maritimes in Canada. It’s just a matter of me getting out there. And now that I think on it, I gotta hit Springfield. The Basketball HoF is there. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:05 AM (jPziU) 203
199 There is a disturbing amount of people who are still into 9/11 trutherism all this time later. It’s so messed up.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (iY+4Q) Some kid at work asked me if I thought the government was in on it. I promptly shot it down with “the government is too incompetent to pull something like that off”. Not to mention: NO ONE in 25 years has come forward? Really? Conspiracy theories are so dumb. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:07 AM (jPziU) 204
There will be a rally for AB independence there the weekend before the referendum to hold a referendum.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (jPziU) It is still unclear as to whether a clear separation question will appear on the ballot. The wagon burners have challenged the referendum in Federal court. An independent Alberta would treat the indians fairly. They would hate that. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:08 AM (1z8ji) 205
33 Bernie is a communist. Everything he says and does is in the advancement of communism. His latest take on Flock cameras is fine but his motivations are suspect.
He doesn't want his Antifa buddies tracked until after the revolution. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (+9wcF) Leftists are scared that Flock cameras will be used to track their core constituency - non-Americans, like illegal aliens. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:13 AM (jPziU) 206
An independent Alberta would treat the indians fairly. They would hate that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon --- A Mohawk told me that Canada provided them free college. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:13 AM (GebTj) 207
Get a 7-day pill case. Easy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX) She has one! I even let her pick it out. It's green so it stands out but is transparent enough to see the pills inside. She's had the same routine for three years but still forgets and doesn't remember when we ask her. I've been on the sidelines to ADHD my whole life. There are days that I need a break from it. Posted by: pookysgirl, chief facilitator at August 31, 2026 12:15 AM (Wt5PA) Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 12:16 AM (viF8m) 209
A Mohawk told me that Canada provided them free college.
Posted by: Braenyard ----- This sounds supicious. Posted by: The Last of the Mohicans, 1826 at August 31, 2026 12:19 AM (XeU6L) 210
A Mohawk told me that Canada provided them free college.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:13 AM (GebTj) I don't know that for certain, but it would not surprise me. Actually, I could support that, provided the college courses taught useful skills, and not a mass of woke indoctrination. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:20 AM (1z8ji) 211
A Mohawk told me that Canada provided them free college.
Posted by: Braenyard ----- This sounds supicious. Posted by: The Last of the Mohicans, 1826 at August 31, 2026 12:19 AM (XeU6L) It was a free Mohawk haircut and a collage of Indians winning at Little Big Horn. It was a free Mo Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 31, 2026 12:22 AM (qx7Zg) 212
Well, I am off to bed. Two late nights in a row. Tonight is catch-up time. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:22 AM (1z8ji) 213
>>>She's had the same routine for three years but still forgets and doesn't remember when we ask her.
--- Stand mine vertical on the table by my chair, set it down when I've finished. It's a flag up or down. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:25 AM (GebTj) 214
President Donald Trump indicated this Sunday on his social media that he will evaluate rescuing Canadian Jews facing a growing wave of antisemitism by establishing an expedited legal pathway to facilitate their emigration to the United States
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:27 AM (GebTj) 215
It's a fine thing giving Canadian Jews sanctuary. But them being conservative is sincerely doubtful. That should be mitigated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:29 AM (GebTj) 216
To be fair, she did not call off the wedding- she called off the relationship. Before the engagement began.
There are worse times to pull the ripcord. Thanks for the ONT. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 12:31 AM (Y/06r) 217
Unless it is sauteed to surrender, kale is awful. OTOH, stuff like green beans, zucchini, brussel sprouts, asparagus, and lima beans are so disgusting they cannot be made edible under any circumstances.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:33 AM (Fv808) 218
217 Unless it is sauteed to surrender, kale is awful. OTOH, stuff like green beans, zucchini, brussel sprouts, asparagus, and lima beans are so disgusting they cannot be made edible under any circumstances.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:33 AM (Fv80 Mammaw always made the most delicious green beans imaginable. She'd use bacon and onion. I have never been able to recreate them (most likely because the beans she always used were fresh.) Brussel Sprouts though, I heartily agree. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 12:35 AM (Y/06r) 219
I wonder if Doof caught this video of Rush. Annika has grown comfortable as part of the group.
https://youtu.be/VhgwHLFZf4c Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 31, 2026 12:35 AM (qx7Zg) 220
Dolly was so pretty. Even without her famous...assets, her beauty and personality would have her right on the top of my "would" list.
Carl was a lucky, lucky man. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 12:39 AM (IG3/x) 221
Howdy, horde!
Cool day (finally!) so I got some stuff done outside. Back into the broiler tomorrow, though. Ugh. Broken or no-go engagement is sad, but better than what happened to my 2nd cousin. She & BF were engaged, set the date, booked the church and paid for reception venue... and then the dude called it off *day of* !!! At least he had the (I have no word for it.. balls, maybe?) to stand at the church door and greet all their guests, and inform them that there would not be a wedding that day. There was a brief church service, and then a meal for all at the reception hall anyway. At least the guy didn't totally stand her up! Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm) 222
The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, will travel to Asheville, North Carolina, to participate from Monday, August 31 to Tuesday, September 1 in the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank authorities, where he will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and advocate for the economic program of the Government of Javier Milei.
__/derechadiario.com Kudos to La Derecha Diario an Argentine ex X entity moved to a full time website covering, mostly, populace, conservative issues in this hemisphere. Good job and good luck. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:39 AM (GebTj) 223
Summer after fourth grade is the epitome of boy culture. Farts and fart jokes are still hilarious. Girls, while not gross, are generally unnecessary. Stupid stuff doesn't hurt as much because you aren't yet big enough to create enough mass x velocity. And it's the right time/size for tackle football without pads. After which, armpit farts and riding your bike to 7/11 for Slurpees and stealing Tootsie rolls. Oh, and model rockets. When it gets too hot, you can go inside and build them.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:40 AM (Fv808) 224
Brussels sprouts: the only known "food" that can actually ruin bacon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 12:43 AM (IG3/x) 225
194 As hard as I try I can’t get worked up over the city knowing that I drive down certain roads at certain times.
Posted by: Maybe Just Me at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (iY+4Q) I do. Why the fuck should the city know or care? And bear in mind the government knows all about me already. Two cards I have on my pocket at all times ensure that. It’s not that I have nothing to hide - I CAN’T have anything to hide. Even so, they have no business knowing about me or when or where I choose to go. This isn’t the GDR. Don’t tell me about Google either - if the adverts in YT are anything to go by, they suck at figuring out where I am. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:45 AM (jPziU) 226
"Mammaw always made the most delicious green beans imaginable. She'd use bacon and onion. I have never been able to recreate them"
Easy. Pick the green beans out and toss them. Or skip a step and just sautee the bacon and onions. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:45 AM (Fv808) 227
224 Brussels sprouts: the only known "food" that can actually ruin bacon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia The Phlegms aren't good for much, in general. Posted by: Dutch Boy Paints at August 31, 2026 12:48 AM (JM9I6) 228
Welcome home Lieutenant Bateman
I heard my whole life about my Uncle, killed when his B-24 was shot down over occupied France. I remembered, but who else? Late last May I got a letter (paper, La Poste) from someone in France. It was addressed to my mother, but nowadays I get her mail. It was about her only brother (my Uncle) ----Pixy limits---- Posted by: Miklos at August 31, 2026 12:50 AM (4RYRd) 229
Green beans and asparagus can be salvaged by pickling, and then used in drinks like Bloody Marys or Caesars.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm) 230
Bezos grandparents were instrumental in DARPA's start up.
Amazon itself could make a good profile of a customer. Combine that with driving habits, telephone conversations, pics, and texts. They know you better than you do. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (GebTj) 231
Reestablishing the name…
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (WB/3O) 232
---Pixy Limits---
To quote- "This may bring difficult and painful memories, but you should know that the American Airmen who fought and sacrificed for France are not forgotten here. I am a local historian who researches and documents US Army Air Force actions over my locality. Last year, I was contacted by the owner of a field in Queyrac where an aircraft had crashed during the Second World War. Her family had always told her that it had been a bomber, although they were never completely certain. I visited the site and recovered numerous artifacts from the ground. Thanks to the serial numbers stamped on several of these pieces, I was able to confirm that this was indeed the wreckage of the B-24 we had been searching for—the aircraft in which your uncle and his fellow crew member, S/Sgt. TM, tragically lost their lives." ---Pixy limits--- Posted by: Miklos at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (4RYRd) 233
230 Bezos grandparents were instrumental in DARPA's start up.
Amazon itself could make a good profile of a customer. Combine that with driving habits, telephone conversations, pics, and texts. They know you better than you do. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (GebTj) They could, but I can’t help but wonder especially after seeing some of the very poorly targeted advertising out there. If they knew me better than I do, I would never see a Spanish language ad. Yet I get those. Amazon even will try and sell me very off the wall things. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:58 AM (WB/3O) 234
229 Green beans and asparagus can be salvaged by pickling, and then used in drinks like Bloody Marys or Caesars.
Posted by: JQ --- I love greens, all greens, especially greens prepared in the manner of Southern Cooking. A meal is not hardly a meal without green somethings. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:59 AM (GebTj) 235
Some kid at work asked me if I thought the government was in on it. I promptly shot it down with “the government is too incompetent to pull something like that off”.
Not to mention: NO ONE in 25 years has come forward? Really? Conspiracy theories are so dumb. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:07 AM (jPziU) I worked for USACE for.... too many years. There is no f-ing way the government could have pulled anything like this off, and then covered the tracks. For the lova.... Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 01:01 AM (dEHLq) 236
"The local Municipality will dedicate a memorial the the crew, including your Uncle, on the anniversary of the crash at the exact site next to the village".
I am in touch with this excellent person (who speaks excellent English, and is a remarkably diligent and thorough researcher). Come any variety of Hell of High Water, I will be there for whatever the locals arrange. In part because I want to In part because I think should and simply must Apparently I am the only family member of the crew who will. Posted by: Miklos is actually named after the man, so this is not optional at August 31, 2026 01:03 AM (4RYRd) 237
Right on, Braenyard! I love all greens too, except maybe Swiss Chard-- we had that *too often* when I was little, because Mom could grow it almost year-round.
Collards! Would need to grow my own; can't find it fresh here. Canned is bleh. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm) 238
226 "Mammaw always made the most delicious green beans imaginable. She'd use bacon and onion. I have never been able to recreate them"
Easy. Pick the green beans out and toss them. Or skip a step and just sautee the bacon and onions. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:45 AM (Fv80 Oh, for Pete's sake. You have never been served a decent dilly bean, apparently. Do please try mine, and give up your hate for green beans. They can be positively delicious. Or don't. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 01:05 AM (dEHLq) 239
>>...Apparently I am the only family member of the crew who will.
Posted by: Miklos is actually named after the man, so this is not optional Wow! That's really something! I don't know any of you, but am deeply touched by that gesture. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm) 240
>>>Unless it is sauteed to surrender, kale is awful. OTOH, stuff like green beans, zucchini, brussel sprouts, asparagus, and lima beans are so disgusting they cannot be made edible under any circumstances.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal >Pressure cooker. High pressure. You can render them to mush if you like, but it's not necessary because they are all suitably palatable. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 01:05 AM (nlLAo) 241
Apparently I am the only family member of the crew who will.
Posted by: Miklos is actually named after the man, so this is not optional at August 31, 2026 01:03 AM (4RYRd) And you will remember, as will God Almighty, and that's pretty darned good company. Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 01:06 AM (dEHLq) 242
They could, but I can’t help but wonder especially after seeing some of the very poorly targeted advertising out there. If they knew me better than I do, I would never see a Spanish language ad. Yet I get those. Amazon even will try and sell me very off the wall things.
Posted by: Cow Demon ---- It's all random disconnected piles of information but they have the correlation or assimilation ability to put it all together. Enter license plate # and collect every association with it and put it in chronological order. If it's your plate - Bingo. Otherwise they don't GAS about us. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 01:06 AM (GebTj) 243
Spinach, beet greens, turnip greens, collards, mustard greens, swiss chard, leaf lettuce, early dandelion greens...
Yeah, childhood was tough. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:09 AM (rdVOm) 244
Miklos that's incredible, and of course you have to be there.
This sort of thing has happened a lot in Holland, and probably in parts of France too, but it hasn't been as well known. Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 01:11 AM (U/Byj) 245
Dad's older bro was in the AAF, in CBI, flying "over the hump" at the same time Mom's stepfather was in the USArmy, on the ground, working on the Stillwell Road. (they never met, afaik)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm) 246
"Spinach, beet greens, turnip greens, collards, mustard greens, swiss chard, leaf lettuce, early dandelion greens..."
I can go for all those, especially with bacon and Hollandaise sauce. Or an iceberg wedge with blue cheese, bacon, and chunk crab meat. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 01:17 AM (Fv808) 247
Another weekend in the books, Horde, happy sort of Sunday.
Miklos, what a wonderful story, I am so glad that you will be in attendance. It has long been a desire of mine to get to the military cemetery in Holland where my uncle is buried. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 01:17 AM (ibDUx) 248
Might have told this one before, but it's somewhat related to Miklos' uncle's history and the French local historian.
An older guy came into military museum where I volunteered. Said he'd not long before received a call from a stranger, an old USMC vet in WI. Guy said he had info about the older guy's father's death, at Iwo Jima. Older guy's father had been a Marine officer. WI vet said he remembered him and his kid sister, in their Sunday best, at promotion ceremonies etc at Camp Pendleton, with their mom, standing next to the staff car. This alone set the old guy back a bit (it was all accurate). WI vet said he'd been wounded, was being treated aboard an LST in an area used as expedient sick bay/surgical area. He was conscious. Shortly after he got there, they brought in old guy's father - serious head wound. WI vet said he asked the surgeon if the officer, his commander, would likely make it. Doc shook his head "no". So nearly 70 years later, this guy learned some details of his father's last moments, from a stranger who called him. Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 01:18 AM (U/Byj) 249
Kale and Chard are strange things in this part of the world. Exotic.
Snap beans, the three essential greens and spinach. Only recently introduce to fresh spinach leaves which is a pleasant surprise. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and asparagus are on the menu. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 01:19 AM (GebTj) 250
I once grew brussels sprouts by accident-- I bought some broccoli plants at nursery, but one of the packs had the wrong tag.. they all look the same when young.. so imagine my surprise when some of the plants grew much taller than the others!
They were "ok" but not like store-bought sprouts. Tiny. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm) 251
I once grew brussels sprouts by accident-- I bought some broccoli plants at nursery, but one of the packs had the wrong tag.. they all look the same when young.. so imagine my surprise when some of the plants grew much taller than the others!
They were "ok" but not like store-bought sprouts. Tiny. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm) Satan's dingleberries. I would have grabbed a pitching wedge and landed them in my neighbors yard. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 01:33 AM (S41Gd) 252
I wish that I ate healthier food but childhood trauma with vegetables has had a lifelong effect on me, I loathe most veggies.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 01:34 AM (ibDUx) 253
Funny, Bers!
The problem with brussels sprouts (hear me out...) is that the outer leaves get bitter, especially during hot weather. I don't ever buy them in Summer! Late Autumn and Early Spring are best, as they are a "cool season" crop. They're just tiny cabbages, after all. If you don't like cabbage.. well, that's ok, stay away from b'sprouts.. I will cut off their base, & peel off the dark, outermost leaves. Then steam them. Smother with butter! Lightly salt & pepper. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm) 254
Hi, Debby!
Veggies are good/bad depending on my mood, LOL. I go through phases of liking/disliking some of them. Cooked/raw is another changing preference. :shrug: Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm) 255
They're just tiny cabbages, after all. If you don't like cabbage.. well, that's ok, stay away from b'sprouts..
I will cut off their base, & peel off the dark, outermost leaves. Then steam them. Smother with butter! Lightly salt & pepper. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm) I hate cabbage. Mrs B likes them. I blame her family, and I call their food choices com-bloc cooking. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 01:48 AM (S41Gd) 256
Bers, I love your descriptive posts. LOL!
I made cabbage rolls just the other day, heh. Today I cooked & shredded chicken for tomorrow night's enchiladas. Will mix some plain chicken meat with BBQ sauce for hubby's lunch tomorrow, then bring him a couple enchiladas next day. We like what we like. It's ok if nobody else likes it. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm) 257
We don't care for oysters, anchovies, or snails. More for everyone else!!!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm) 258
We don't care for oysters, anchovies, or snails. More for everyone else!!!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm) They can have my share too. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 02:07 AM (S41Gd) 259
Senior military leaders and stars and stripes staff fired for saying military is running low on funding and supplies. Tax cuts for billionaires are more important. Same thing happened to the other fuhrer in1941 Attacking U.S.S.R. without enough supplies. Tell us again morons how dump has won the war with Iran as Communist China waits.
Posted by: raimondo at August 31, 2026 02:07 AM (XGdVa) 260
The Brussel sprouts thing is genetics. Some people, and I am one have a taste variation that allows them to taste a specific group of compounds that those without the genes cannot taste. That compound tastes very bitter. And to me, they're just little balls of bitter grenades that go off in my mouth. Another fascinating thing is Brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, and several others are all the same species of plant! It's just like different dog breeds, various traits have been enhanced by selective breeding. I love cabbage and broccoli. And the reason is that bitter compound just isn't there in the concentrations it is in Brussel sprouts. Cabbage, especially the outer leaves can get higher concentrations of that, and I have tasted that bitterness there a little bit from time to time. It depends on growing conditions to some extent, and I forget the details. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 02:10 AM (w6EFb) 261
JQ, your hubby must be the envy of the other residents what with you bringing him such good food all of the time.
I hate anchovies too, yuck! Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 02:10 AM (ibDUx) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 02:10 AM (mg7Dh) 263
They can have my share too. lol
Posted by: Berserker I tried oysters twice: canned/smoked that bro shared with me years ago (bleh! couldn't brush my teeth enough to get the taste out!) and raw, when XH & I lived in FL. "Snot on the half-shell" Ugh! Anchovies: tried at neighbors' when they offered me pizza. Omg, I like salt, but not *that much all at once!* Snails: in Japan. Party with friends at a locals' home... They had a pot of *stuff* with many wooden skewers in it. I pulled out a snail. Urk! Bitter, and gross texture! It was so difficult to keep a straight, pleasant countenance as I choked it down and thanked our hosts! Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm) 264
Yesterday while giving a hatefilled " Kill all the Jews" rant an IRGC apparatchik fell over dead at the podium while on live TV.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:16 AM (PbWRL) 265
I will cut off their base, & peel off the dark, outermost leaves. Then steam them. Smother with butter! Lightly salt & pepper.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:40 You got it JQ. Homegrown b'sprouts are a whole different food than anything you can buy in a store. How's hubby doing? Last few reports I read things were as good as can be expected. Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 02:17 AM (4Qj8V) 266
Yesterday while giving a hatefilled " Kill all the Jews" rant an IRGC apparatchik fell over dead at the podium while on live TV.
Posted by: Ben Had LMFAO! Link? Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:18 AM (rdVOm) 267
How's hubby doing? Last few reports I read things were as good as can be expected.
Posted by: Farmer Steady as he goes, Farmer. Best as is possible, I guess. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm) 268
Yesterday while giving a hatefilled " Kill all the Jews" rant an IRGC apparatchik fell over dead at the podium while on live TV.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:16 AM (PbWRL) - No beeper necessary! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 02:19 AM (mg7Dh) Posted by: Case at August 31, 2026 02:24 AM (x5VN8) 270
JQ, Tousi has the video.
The US did a preemptive strike on Lark Island and killed a group of IRGC that were massing there. The IRGC responded by firing 6 missiles at Jordan, all of which were intercepted. Tehran Tim is telling the people they wiped out the two bases in Jordan. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:25 AM (PbWRL) 271
Hi Ben Had, I saw that video on Tousi, I really got a chuckle out of that.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 02:29 AM (ibDUx) 272
Good morning, Debbie. I watched it a couple of times and am still laughing.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:32 AM (PbWRL) Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm) 274
JQ,my cousin and I did a live on what you kill week every year and frog legs were always part of that. Cooked in white wine and garlic on the old wooden stove. I have loved them ever since.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:37 AM (PbWRL) 275
It was so difficult to keep a straight, pleasant countenance as I choked it down and thanked our hosts!
Posted by: JQ -- My FIL was on a mission at the desert, they were all seated on a rug just like in the movies. He said the same about eating goats eyes. mmmh delicious and I'm going to smile and not puke. I am not going to puke. On that happy note I bit everyone a good and joyful evening. We are winning and we will win. On with the siege. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 02:39 AM (GebTj) 276
Oh, Ben Had... I just can't with frog legs.
In Japan, if I could've gotten to a place that served fugu, I *would have* tried that! Alas, we were too poor to travel to Tokyo. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm) 277
Crawdaddies was good!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm) 278
JQ, that is the same way I feel about tripe. Not going to happen.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:43 AM (PbWRL) Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 02:43 AM (ibDUx) 280
>>"mmmh delicious and I'm going to smile and not puke. I am not going to puke."
Been in *that* situation too many times in this life already! I'm done. LOL. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:44 AM (rdVOm) 281
Night, Debby & Braenyard! Pleasant dreams!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm) 282
While not as big a thief as dump his freedom gas network got caught stealing 4 million dollars in gas from manfield oil. Dumpsters a den of thieves.
Posted by: raimondo at August 31, 2026 02:49 AM (XGdVa) 283
I don't know about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie but I have eaten them grilled and they are very close to quail.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:49 AM (PbWRL) 284
Kale and Chard are strange things in this part of the world.
Have the men fix bayonets, Lieutenant Bromhead Posted by: Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, thinking those Zulus appear unfriendly at August 31, 2026 02:50 AM (4RYRd) 285
Doggie is back from his pee call. I'm gonna try to catch another hour nap.
See some of you on the tech thread. Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:55 AM (PbWRL) 286
The strangest thing I've eaten (in Japan, of course!) was "sujiko" at the fish market.
Kinda bland, but it was just a sample & I think the locals would prepare it into "ikura", after taking it home. It was another life, another time... Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm) 287
Night, Ben Had!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm) 288
While not as big a thief as dump his freedom gas network got caught stealing 4 million dollars in gas from manfield oil. Dumpsters a den of thieves.
Posted by: raimondo at August 31, 2026 02:49 AM (XGdVa) - I needed to assess just how big a lie you're telling. Yep. BIGLY! https://tinyurl.com/yu9fa69b Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 03:07 AM (mg7Dh) 289
Nice of you to do all that work, BD... but nobody here GAF what rainman says anyhow. We know it's all horsecrap.
Thanks for the link anyway! Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm) 290
259: The PRC is paying market price for oil. And since when do you give a fuck about foreign policy? This country's power makes you ashamed, remember?
We need better trolls. Seriously. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 03:12 AM (WB/3O) 291
289 Nice of you to do all that work, BD... but nobody here GAF what rainman says anyhow. We know it's all horsecrap.
Thanks for the link anyway! Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm) Yeah but it's still fun to refute the idiot in case other randos show up and read the thread. And a good resource for us as well. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 03:14 AM (WB/3O) 292
Nice of you to do all that work, BD... but nobody here GAF what rainman says anyhow. We know it's all horsecrap.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm) - I looked it up out of pure curiosity simply because I was totally unfamiliar with the subject. Truly a nothingburger - both the news and Raimondope. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 03:14 AM (mg7Dh) 293
eah but it's still fun to refute the idiot in case other randos show up and read the thread. And a good resource for us as well.
Posted by: Cow Demon True. Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm) 294
There are, unfortunately, a lot more Lindsay Clancy supporters than one would expect. I find it nauseating.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m) What I find fascinating is that if internet anecdotes are to be believed, some men have actually turned it into a "shit test." That is an almost entirely female dating strategy of saying and doing outrageous things to test men's reactions, checking whether their instincts are at the same status level as their presentation. (There's no upside for passing, just avoidance of instant DQ.) The superficially similar 'negging' tactic of male 'players' serves a nearly inverted purpose, protecting a facade by putting women on the defensive. But asking a woman about Lindsay Clancy serves an actually shit-test-like purpose, checking to see if her instincts are as "mommy material" as her appearance. And it's reliable, since even status fakers believe their instincts are correct. Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 03:17 AM (ke3zm) 295
L.C., murd3rous bitch, can go straight to hell! Soon, hopefully. She deserves the deth penalty.
Sure, kids can be a PITA sometimes. Sure, they will push the limit of parents' patience. But that is NOT a reason to k1ll them! Dear Lord, what an asshoe that broad is! Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm) 296
Monday, and long commute to People's Republic of New Jersey
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 03:31 AM (Ia/+0) 297
295 L.C., murd3rous bitch, can go straight to hell! Soon, hopefully. She deserves the deth penalty.
Sure, kids can be a PITA sometimes. Sure, they will push the limit of parents' patience. But that is NOT a reason to k1ll them! Dear Lord, what an asshoe that broad is! Posted by: JQ Simply Put: LIBs Proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries. Better Shit test: Space Above and Beyond: Which side would you be on? the AIs: Take a Chance, Save the World, Kill them all. the Aliens: just kill them all, take their world the Humans: Die the Hero or live long enough to see your self become the Enemy? The series never identified 'why' the AIs would somehow equate Saving the World with an alliance with with an enemy they were certain to defeat STARSHIP TROOPERs: citizenship is not a birthright; it is a status earned The difference between a civilian and a citizen? A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not A World Safe for Socialism? needs de-bugging; not AOC in FREE GAZA hotpants commanding the Rama/Suicide Squad. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 31, 2026 03:47 AM (EhMju) Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:51 AM (rdVOm) 299
I think this is a cleaner upload of the Genesis video, especially better audio quality, but I think the video is a little sharper too:
thevisitor - Genesis Keep It Dark promo https://youtu.be/V-6nmfbsdIc Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 04:02 AM (ke3zm) 300
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 03:31 AM (Ia/+0)
May you have a safe trip back and forth, Skip, and while you are there working. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:04 AM (W90Ou) 301
I'm getting skeptical about the mass Flock hate.
The fact that its looks to be coming from everywhere all at once makes me think that there are a bunch of people - probably politicians - doing criminal things that Flock could expose. Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 04:10 AM (C0Nlv) 302
'Night, horde. Sleep is finally overtaking me. (Yay!)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm) 303
The kitten is funny. I came downstairs earlier to sleep and shut the door. I just got up and turned on the light and there's a little striped paw reaching out out under the door. I guess I better feed him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:10 AM (xSAlF) 304
Thanks Fen, I will try
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:12 AM (Ia/+0) 305
>>there's a little striped paw reaching out out under the door
Fen, you can't close doors when there's a smol kitteh in the house! Heh... Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 04:13 AM (rdVOm) 306
Yes, one never shuts doors with cats. They do NOT like it. Ours will have a fit if we try to hide from them. :-) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 04:20 AM (w6EFb) 307
JQ. Cat time is not human time. 😉 If I didn't close any doors he'd be in the bedroom in the middle of the night. the internet helpfully informed me/ which I knew after having many cat but didn't recall after not having a kitten for quite a few years-/that cats are most active at dawn and dusk. Now after eating a few bites he's decided to sit behind me on the pillow and is purring .I think he's interested in the cell phone
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:24 AM (xqVU6) 308
It's not so much his jumping up on the bed. If he's slept that would be fine . No; he wants to play at 2:30 a.m.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:29 AM (xqVU6) 309
Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9) 310
301 I'm getting skeptical about the mass Flock hate.
The fact that its looks to be coming from everywhere all at once makes me think that there are a bunch of people - probably politicians - doing criminal things that Flock could expose. Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 04:10 AM (C0Nlv) Not worth the cost. Besides, you are assuming I’m under marching orders from someone - I arrived at the conclusion that societal surveillance was bad long ago without guidance from others. By the way, before you throw tech privacy invasions at me - recently I am getting a flurry of ads on YT and other social media - concerning LA. I live nowhere near LA. In the neighboring state of TX, yes, but far away from LA. If Google were this omnipotent threat, you’d think they figured that out, right? In any event, Google is not giving intel to people who will deprive me of my liberty or kill me. Flock, However, is, and does so very cheerfully. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 04:53 AM (WB/3O) 311
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Posted by: pobierz film z internetu at August 31, 2026 07:23 PM (Xms1l) Gun Thread: Final August Edition!![]() FUNdamentals of MoMe'n ![]() Help! As I mentioned above, the shooting program in Texas continues to grow, and we wouldn't be able to do it without a lot of help. If you're interested in lending a hand in some capacity, please drop me a note at gunthread at protonmail dot com indicating your date and time of arrival and we'll be in touch. Thank You! RSOs from prior years: Expect an email from me soon. If you are attending the TXMoMe this year, and all the cool kids are, please keep an eye on this section for important information and updates in the coming weeks! I also want to reiterate the TXMoMe is not a gun thing with some socializing attached, but rather is a social thing with some shooting attached. If you aren't a shooter, I guarantee you will not feel out of place and will have a great time. No fooling! Gun Tests: .22LR! From Gun Tests Magazine More .22LR! Ax Weasel Q: Weasel, what is the best gun for grizzly bears? A: Ha! Good one! Our Pal Bennies And Goofballs Highway Patrol! This week's episode: Auto Press Flash Gordon: Zydereen Of Neptune! Cigarpage.com Famous-smoke.com Cigarsdaily.com Neptunecigar.com Smallbatchcigar.com Bobalu Cigar Company Cigarbid.com Nicks Cigar World New! A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site! I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool GunBot - online ammo search tool SG Ammo Palmetto State Armory Georgia Arms AmmoMan Target Sports USA Bud's Gun Shop American Elite Ammo Lucky Gunner Ammo NEW! Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:00 PM (Ia/+0) 2
BLAM BLAM BLAM!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:00 PM (IQf6S) 3
First!
Posted by: Coelacanth at August 30, 2026 07:00 PM (mGFn3) 4
Third!
Posted by: Coelacanth at August 30, 2026 07:01 PM (mGFn3) 5
Sure wish I could go to Texas
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1) 7
It's been too many years since I went shooting... maybe I can make it to the MoMe this year and get some schooling.
Posted by: RandomDave at August 30, 2026 07:04 PM (aJQbY) 8
6 "Bang, bang, my baby shot me down."
Ask about the 4 rulesl of gun safety before the 1st date? Posted by: Duncanthrax 1. Grab crotch 2 hold gun sideways 3. Talk smack 4. Empty magazine in random direction. What do I win? Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM (IQf6S) 9
Gubs!
What's burning tonight Weasel? My burn is delayed a few hours, I FaceTime with a buddy down in Tejas and he likes to wait for the infernal heat to abate before sitting outside. Thinking I'll try another of the Blackbird cigars I got in a sampler. Sort of duds, so far. Disappointing. Or maybe an Oliva Serie V or a My Father La Duena (sweet little lanceros). Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM (U/Byj) 10
Sure wish I could go to Texas
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:02 PM All right-thinking people wish this. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1) 11
Evening everyone!!!
Sorry I cannot stay, out with some family. Have fun and don't forget the FUNdementals! :-) Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (dZE4s) 12
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM (U/Byj)
---- Not sure. I think I'll dig around in the humidor for a change of pace! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (leKdc) 13
Not sure. I think I'll dig around in the humidor for a change of pace!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM We're always here for you, Weasel-san. Posted by: Swisher Sweets at August 30, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1) 14
No shootin', but finally got Leviathan's (Sacramento) paperwork back blessing my transfer of some inherited gubs into the state. The P7 is the only curiosity of the bunch, that and perhaps the little Walther TPH 22LR.
A couple of Model 18s in excellent condition, speaking of rimfire. A Model 66 no-dash that's lightly used, and a nice fresh-looking Ruger SP101 with a CrimsonTrace grip I'm hoping to give to my niece (her momma wants her gunned up for truck camping trips etc). Colt Combat Commander and another P7 to be sold to a friend from shooting matches who's a real collector. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:10 PM (U/Byj) 15
We're always here for you, Weasel-san.
Posted by: Swisher Sweets at August 30, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1) ----- Don't seem to have those in inventory. I was thinking more along the lines of a Cohiba. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:10 PM (leKdc) 16
Two mass shootings minutes apart early morning in Trenton and Chicago.
Nothing good happens after midnight. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:12 PM (KC5Lt) 17
Sorry I cannot stay, out with some family.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (dZE4s) --- Some random family? Are they at least nice? Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:13 PM (leKdc) 18
Hello, Weasel!
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 07:13 PM (BCwQW) 19
Howdy Ed L!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:14 PM (leKdc) 20
Howdy!
Posted by: Puddleglum, lurkin' about at August 30, 2026 07:14 PM (sAmhv) 21
Trenton and Chicago? In those two palaces of civic order and advanced civilization? Amazing.
(actually going to check Heyjackass.com to see how Chiraq is doing this summer on their body count) Actually saw a report of a shooting in ..... Switzerland, of all places. Not common. A fairly heavily armed society, but, a society. Standards, expectations, respect for law, all that exotic stuff I've read about from earlier periods of US history. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:14 PM (U/Byj) Posted by: J.J. Cale at August 30, 2026 07:15 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:15 PM (leKdc) 24
Nothing good happens after midnight.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:12 PM (KC5Lt) ---- Especially when you feed your Mogwai... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:16 PM (FZ29D) 25
Dang. Screwed up the sock.
Posted by: J.J. Kale at August 30, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:17 PM (wa6DW) 27
1. Grab crotch 2 hold gun sideways 3. Talk smack 4. Empty magazine in random direction. What do I win? Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM Well, I'm not sure, since you haven't met all of the qualifications, to the best of my knowledge. 1. I've never seen you do this. 2. I've never seen you do this, either, but I will stipulate the possibility. 3. I have observed this, both here online, and IRL. 4. While I have not observed this personally, reputable sources (specifically CBD) imply they have, particularly when involving .45 ACP. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:17 PM (0sNs1) 28
Just curious when you are driving where do you keep your carry gun?
Since I appendix carry with a simple Uncle Mikes inside the waist holster that you can remove and put back easily I keep mine in the slot between the center console and passenger seat. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt) Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 07:19 PM (XuXeR) 30
Ah, perhaps the negative IQ mayor of Chicago is doing better than we thought. Homicides about the same as last year at this point (262), of which 228 shot and killed. Total shot about the same at 1100+.
Actually looks about the same, though I'd bet the cartel-related shenanigans have decreased. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:20 PM (U/Byj) 31
28 Just curious when you are driving where do you keep your carry gun?
Since I appendix carry with a simple Uncle Mikes inside the waist holster that you can remove and put back easily I keep mine in the slot between the center console and passenger seat. Posted by: polynikes Center console. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:21 PM (IQf6S) 32
Weasel, do you want me to do another gun cleaning class like I did last year?
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 07:21 PM (BCwQW) 33
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:20 PM (U/Byj)
It's harder to fudge the numbers when you're in the spotlight but I'm sure the Chicago politicians have given it the old college try. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:22 PM (KC5Lt) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:23 PM (2Ez/1) 35
Weasel, do you want me to do another gun cleaning class like I did last year?
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 07:21 PM (BCwQW) ------ Ed L - sure, if you like. I'll be sending out an email to volunteers in the next couple of days. Thanks Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:24 PM (leKdc) Posted by: J.J. Kale at August 30, 2026 07:25 PM (MWfyi) 37
polynikes I am sure the overall crime stats are massaged or simply underweighted as with most major metros, but the body count's fairly objective and concrete. In any case it's an outrage and scandal that is simply ignored. With what seems to be the comprehensive collapse of the "education" system there, and the obvious collapse of cultural standards for select demos, seems like we'll have this outrage continuing forever.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:25 PM (U/Byj) 38
About MoMe's.
If you are here, then you know that Ace of Spades is a "vibrant" on-line community and if you stay, you probably enjoy that community. A MoMe is kind of an extension of the on-line community into the real world, where lurkers still lurk and conversers still converse. When I first traveled up the road to Corsicana, the conversers all had interesting things to say and I learned a bunch of noms-de-blog that I learned to look out for. You'll never find a more welcoming group than you'll find at a MoMe, and you can quietly ask questions about the blog's in-jokes, which is a major advantage over asking on the blog. In short, the Texas MoMe is unutterably fun. Someday, I hope to try one of the others, but for now I hope to see you all in Corsicana. Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 07:26 PM (VmDLh) 39
Attended my first last year.
LOVED IT. Looking forward to my next pilgrimage. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:23 PM (2Ez/1) ------ Was meeting Weasel the best part? Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc) 40
Good evening Horde. Thanks Weasel!
Posted by: TRex - orange hat of dorkiness dino at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (XfIK1) 41
Posted by: TRex - orange hat of dorkiness dino at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (XfIK1)
---- My pleasure! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:29 PM (leKdc) 42
Good evening all.
Exciting news. My purchase made the trip from VA to MD without a problem arriving a day early. Went to FFL with proper paperwork, filled out the forms, pd my fee to the State Police, now have to wait 7 days and get the Not Disapproved letter. Had to laugh as there were two guys wanting to make a purchase and had no idea that they needed permission. It will cost me an extra $90 and a two week wait but it's done. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:29 PM (kJmSS) 43
Heyjackass.com is "pausing" their operation, say they'll update at most weekly for a while. Not the end, just a pause. "Just a pause in a very long, very stupid journey". I note their stats are only through early August.
Damn, where are the right-wing billionaires when you need them? Someone should write a modest check so a permanent staff can keep a site like that going full speed. As of a few weeks back, the "Chicago shot clock" showed a shooting every 4 minutes 36 seconds. Something their 400-lb governor can be proud of. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (U/Byj) 44
evening Weasel, evening Horde...is it already almost September, and then obviously October? Thankfully we made our reservations and are all set for another fun TXMoMe. If you've never attended, please consider doing so. Everyone has to attend for the first time, but it isn't painful - in fact it's absolutely fun. Seriously. And you get to converse with fellow Morons, which is great fun.
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (XfIK1) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM (leKdc) 46
Was meeting Weasel the best part?
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc) You're definitely underrated as a funny guy. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM (KC5Lt) 47
For anybody interested in seeing a grizzly up close when you're roughing it in the wild, take along a couple of pounds of raw bacon. If there are any within a few miles, they will come calling.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM (nlLAo) 48
You're definitely underrated as a funny guy.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM (KC5Lt) ----- Oddly, after 25 years, WeaselWoman no longer thinks so. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (leKdc) 49
Don't seem to have those in inventory. I was thinking more along the lines of a Cohiba.
Posted by: Weasel Oh, fancy. My local place carries tins of the Cohiba pequenos that I get. Really like the Blue. Once accidentally picked up a Black tin (twas a little dark in their humidor), and those little buggers pack a punch! Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (NGXcE) 50
For anybody interested in seeing a grizzly up close when you're roughing it in the wild, take along a couple of pounds of raw bacon. If there are any within a few miles, they will come calling.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM What do you do if you have no desire at all to see or come within many miles of any sort of bear? I'm, um, asking for a friend. Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (VmDLh) 51
I had so much fun at my first MoMe I decided to do it again and again and, well you know.
and it's all lin-duh's fault. Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (PbWRL) 52
Weasel there was a buzz, press releases, leaks etc about you reorganizing your humidor situation after retirement finally kicked in. What can you report about that situation?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (U/Byj) 53
Was meeting Weasel the best part?
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM ===== Well, YEAH...that kinda goes without saying. But, truthfully I ain't a gun person, but I sure have gained an appreciation for those who are. What I found so satisfying is to be able to talk in-person with people and put a face with a nickname. And get some backstories. Everybody has a story and I enjoy hearing them all. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (2Ez/1) 54
Was meeting Weasel the best part?
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc) You're definitely underrated as a funny guy. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM If you only knew. Posted by: The Fourth Shot at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1) 55
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (NGXcE)
----- Hey! Looking forward to seeing you in the cigar lounge! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (leKdc) 56
>>>What do you do if you have no desire at all to see or come within many miles of any sort of bear?
I'm, um, asking for a friend. Posted by: Cybersmythe >Get an RV. I wish I could afford one. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (nlLAo) 57
Meeting Weasel was one of the best parts!
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL) 58
Just curious when you are driving where do you keep your carry gun?
Unless it's a long drive, say over 3 hours, it stays in my waistband. With the caveat that I probably carry lighter than most of y'all -- a Sig P290 -- and in a very well made holster. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:37 PM (vTZFs) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc) 60
I went to my first Texas MoMe 8 weeks after meeting the horde in person at the NoVa MOMe for the first time. When I got there, I got a hug from Ben Had and felt like I had known everyone my whole life.Doesn't alter whether you are an I tovert or an extrovert, you will fit right in. It is an unforgettable experience and you will want to go again and again.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:39 PM (kJmSS) Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:41 PM (NGXcE) 62
Posted by: The Fourth Shot at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)
----- Unintended lateral deviation for demonstration purposes on the hazards of wobbly shit. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:41 PM (leKdc) 63
Pro Tip for Introverts: Polish your shoes to a mirror-like gleam; it can help with observing the facial expressions of who you're talking to.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1) 64
Was meeting Weasel the best part?
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc) Clearly, it was meeting RI Red. Posted by: Totally not RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:42 PM (33fCl) 65
Unintended lateral deviation for demonstration purposes on the hazards of wobbly shit.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:41 PM * slight smile * You have learned well, Grasshopper! Posted by: The Fourth Shot at August 30, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1) 66
Pro Tip for Introverts: Polish your shoes to a mirror-like gleam; it can help with observing the facial expressions of who you're talking to.
Posted by: Duncanthrax Hmmmm, may have to rethink the wardrobe selection to eliminate skirts... Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:43 PM (NGXcE) 67
Clearly, it was meeting RI Red.
Posted by: Totally not RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:42 PM (33fCl) ----- Troll! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:44 PM (leKdc) 68
63 Pro Tip for Introverts: Polish your shoes to a mirror-like gleam; it can help with observing the facial expressions of who you're talking to.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1) Remember to stay out of no-no zone with those shiny shoes. Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 07:45 PM (LHPAg) 69
Cybersmythe, looking forward to seeing you and your lovely wife again.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:45 PM (PbWRL) 70
Was meeting Weasel the best part?
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc) Clearly, it was meeting RI Red. Posted by: Totally not RI Red *********** Of course not. Are you intending to be in TX this Oct, because I intend on hitting the 1000 mark and would like you to be there....So would Emily (she told me so)... Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 07:45 PM (XfIK1) 71
Hmmmm, may have to rethink the wardrobe selection to eliminate skirts...
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:43 PM (NGXcE) ---- Well I'm going to have to rethink my outfits! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:46 PM (leKdc) 72
I've met at least 5 Cobs at Tx momes and a whole bunch Morons. I have a commemorative plate from last year signed by many Morons. I even met NZ Frank! It's awesome! You have to make the pilgrimage if you want to find out if these are real people and not some crazy f'd up AI.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 07:46 PM (MWfyi) 73
The "of course not" comment was referencing the posted by "Totally not RI Red"
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (XfIK1) 74
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0) 75
Too poor to make the trip this year. Unless . .
Unless, I set up a gofundme. That’s the ticket, I’ll do advance sales of my forthcoming novel. There’s sex in it. And guns. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (33fCl) 76
6 Cobs. Sorry if I left anybody out. Who knows, maybe even Ace was there, incognito.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 07:48 PM (MWfyi) 77
It is pitch black outside, thunder and lightening.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:49 PM (kJmSS) 78
Ben Had, you need to work on this RI Red guy and have him return this year. I have faith you can do it....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 07:49 PM (XfIK1) 79
Randy Brooks, former owner of Barnes Bullets, has passed away.
One thing I learned to appreciate about Barnes Bullets was that they weighed them, and packaged near-like-weight bullets in a box. This removed a bit of deviation with in a box. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1) 80
Speaking of Morons, is VIA MIA?
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1) 82
Maybe 15 people or more, are missing or unaccounted for at the Phantom Ranch area of Grand Canyon due to flash flooding yesterday. Nothing like the tragedy in Nepal, of course, but sobering.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:51 PM (wa6DW) 83
The Grateful, I have used gentle persuasion to downright shaming him in the past.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL) 84
Cybersmythe, looking forward to seeing you and your lovely wife again.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:45 PM Likewise. Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (VmDLh) 85
You have to make the pilgrimage if you want to find out if these are real people and not some crazy f'd up AI.
Posted by: fd Oh no, are they checking for that this year? Gonna need to study the CAPTCHA pics. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (NGXcE) 86
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)
----- Endless hours of sorting match bullets is not something I miss! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (leKdc) 87
>>>Well I'm going to have to rethink my outfits!
Posted by: Weasel >Piper can hook you up so you don't look like a hobo. You might even get some offers for a date from the horde. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (nlLAo) 88
The Grateful, I have used gentle persuasion to downright shaming him in the past.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL) I can attest to this. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (33fCl) 89
So far, Big Penguin has not infiltrated nor influenced the TxMoMe. May it always be so!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1) 90
RI Red, big hug, darlin.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (PbWRL) Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs) 92
What event? What directions? Huh?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 07:54 PM (jPziU) 93
Rhomboid - Ramon Allones robusto by AJF
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:54 PM (leKdc) 94
75 Too poor to make the trip this year. Unless . .
Unless, I set up a gofundme. That’s the ticket, I’ll do advance sales of my forthcoming novel. There’s sex in it. And guns. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (33fCl) Rock n roll? Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (jPziU) 95
There’s sex in it.
And guns. Rule #4. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs) Don’t stick your d*ck in a gun? Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (33fCl) 96
Duncanthrax, the Happyfeet DVD with the bullets holes in it is more than a warning.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (PbWRL) 97
Don’t be such a square. Go to the MoME.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (jPziU) 98
What do you do if you have no desire at all to see or come within many miles of any sort of bear?
I'm, um, asking for a friend. Posted by: Cybersmythe Say in a very large city an if possible out of any woods. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (NnhvP) 99
Rule #4.
-------- Don’t stick your d*ck in a gun? I meant Cooper's Rule #4 but I suppose that's a valid corollary. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (vTZFs) 100
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM
Aren't all the cool kids jumping on OnlyFans to resolve pecuniary difficulties? Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1) 101
Next best thing to going to a MoMe is hosting one.
Doesn’t have to be fancy. But meeting morons irl is pretty darn special. Please go if you can. If you can’t, network with folks in your area and make your own. You won’t regret the contacts and friendships. Seriously Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (RQowV) 102
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM
Aren't all the cool kids jumping on OnlyFans to resolve pecuniary difficulties? Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1) I’ve got it! OnlyGuns! Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (33fCl) 103
I had so much fun at my first MoMe I decided to do it again and again and, well you know.
and it's all lin-duh's fault. Posted by: Ben Had ---- What did I do???🤗🤣😂 Posted by: lin-duh at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (VCgbV) 104
75 Too poor to make the trip this year. Unless . .
Unless, I set up a gofundme. That’s the ticket, I’ll do advance sales of my forthcoming novel. There’s sex in it. And guns. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (33fCl What kind of guns? Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 07:59 PM (LHPAg) 105
Evenin', Gun Horde!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 08:00 PM (9iRTe) 106
One of the truly great things about the MoMe has been watching Spawn grow into a remarkable young lady.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:00 PM (PbWRL) 107
Weasel, another of AJ's lines I've yet to try. Guy has to slow down his blending so I can catch up.
Hmmm. Gonna go check the tupperdors again. Thinking an Undercrown Maduro might be the call today. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:01 PM (U/Byj) 108
Next best thing to going to a MoMe is hosting one.
Doesn’t have to be fancy. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM I can confirm. All it takes is a place to meet and an announcement. I've notably met both Count de Monet and Hadrian the Seventh, which puts me in some rare company. Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 08:01 PM (VmDLh) 109
"So far, Big Penguin has not infiltrated nor influenced the TxMoMe. May it always be so!
Posted by: Duncanthrax" That's because the contrasting black and white plumage of the penguin makes it a standout target at 1000 yards or more. Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 30, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi) 110
What kind of guns?
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 07:59 PM (LHPAg) You have to be a member to find out. That will be $100, please. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:02 PM (33fCl) 111
lin-duh, you very much made this whole thing happen. Of course my emails screaming "Help" might have helped.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:04 PM (PbWRL) 112
As of a few weeks back, the "Chicago shot clock" showed a shooting every 4 minutes 36 seconds. Something their 400-lb governor can be proud of.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (U/Byj) Never stay at a Hyatt Hotel. Anywhere. For any reason. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:04 PM (jPziU) 113
Cybersmythe, you will see them again this year.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM (PbWRL) 114
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL)
----- Nah. Meeting YOU is the best part! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc) This. Won't forget that moment, and I'm sure it's different for everyone because that's Ben Had. She makes you feel that the entire event was created just for you. It's her superpower, and thankfully, she uses it for good... Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM (nbLIj) 115
80 Speaking of Morons, is VIA MIA?
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 07:50 PM +++ VIA surface in an Art Thread recently. Word is - No MoMe for VIA this year. Sad trumpet. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM (2Ez/1) 116
*surfaced.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:07 PM (2Ez/1) 117
I picked up the Benelli B76 on Fir. Hope to shoot it this week. Got it field stripped for clean and lube and I'm stll not entirely sure how it works.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:07 PM (P4bJX) 118
You guys have it wrong. I get to meet YOU.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (PbWRL) 119
Joe Kidd,
Yes, she does. Ben Had is the hostess with the mostest. She is kind and gracious and makes you feel like the party was waiting for you to get there to begin. It’s a gift. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (Wnee8) 120
It's her superpower, and thankfully, she uses it for good...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM +++++ Says the Karaoke powerhouse! Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (2Ez/1) 121
Thank you QT. I'm not sure I can do it this year either.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi) 122
The Grateful, I have used gentle persuasion to downright shaming him in the past.
Posted by: Ben Had *********** Whatever it takes..... Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 08:09 PM (XfIK1) 123
42 Good evening all.
Exciting news. My purchase made the trip from VA to MD without a problem arriving a day early. Went to FFL with proper paperwork, filled out the forms, pd my fee to the State Police, now have to wait 7 days and get the Not Disapproved letter. Had to laugh as there were two guys wanting to make a purchase and had no idea that they needed permission. It will cost me an extra $90 and a two week wait but it's done. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:29 PM (kJmSS) I still can’t get over the fact that, on federal property, in MD (Andrews AFB), you can buy firearms. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:09 PM (jPziU) 124
Cybersmythe, you will see them again this year.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM Oh, that's just frickin great. Now I have to remember what they look like so that I don't call one of them by the wrong names, too. Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 08:10 PM (VmDLh) 125
Ok, ok, ok, back to gun stuff.
In a follow-up to last week’s kaboom story, it is highly likely that the fault was a high primer. I fessed up entirely to Palmetto State. They gave me links for replacement parts - BCG and 20 rd mag. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:10 PM (33fCl) 126
16 Two mass shootings minutes apart early morning in Trenton and Chicago.
Nothing good happens after midnight. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:12 PM (KC5Lt) Trenton, NJ? Out of all the state capitals I have been too…what an absolute dump. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:12 PM (jPziU) 127
OK, a little bit of a personal PSA.
It occurred to me recently that most of my really good friends I met through my association with this blog and attending MoMes, specifically the TXMoMe. I am not making this up. MoMe regulars know this, but to all of the introvert fence-sitters out there, try it at least once. You will not regret it. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:12 PM (leKdc) 128
Well I'm going to have to rethink my outfits!
Posted by: Weasel Piper can hook you up so you don't look like a hobo. You might even get some offers for a date from the horde. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone Presumably, this "WeaselWoman" person would not be in favor of that outcome. Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (VHUov) 129
Ok Red,
No range time this weekend as I went to the Kitsap Co Fair. And I did not carry. Just didn’t seem like the right situation. I did have pepper spray in my pocket. But no pistol. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (Wnee8) 130
I still can’t get over the fact that, on federal property, in MD (Andrews AFB), you can buy firearms.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:09 PM (jPziU) AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Services, i.e. "the PX") sells firearms at select locations (also Ft. Belvoir in VA). NEX (Navy Exchange) does not, at least in the DC area. Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM (BCwQW) 131
Presumably, this "WeaselWoman" person would not be in favor of that outcome.
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (VHUov) ----- She puts up with a lot of my retarded shit, but in this case, I think you're correct! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM (leKdc) 132
What did I do???🤗🤣😂
Posted by: lin-duh at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM A black kitten says, "You could have taken me home ..." Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1) 133
My new IWB holster arrived last week. It's the Falco A914, and it has been a lot fun getting it adjust for CCH work. Falco does an excellent holster work. The Beretta PX 4 fit like a glove right out of the box, and it's very comfortable to wear.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (rj6Yv) 134
It's her superpower, and thankfully, she uses it for good...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM +++++ Says the Karaoke powerhouse! Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (2Ez/1) I'm only mostly good. Mostly... Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (nbLIj) 135
She puts up with a lot of my retarded shit
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM This isn't about me, is it? Posted by: Greasy John Deere tractor battery being recharged on the kitchen counter at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1) 136
A black kitten says, "You could have taken me home ..."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1) ----- The kitty ended up exactly where he needed to be. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (leKdc) 137
125 Ok, ok, ok, back to gun stuff.
In a follow-up to last week’s kaboom story, it is highly likely that the fault was a high primer. I fessed up entirely to Palmetto State. They gave me links for replacement parts - BCG and 20 rd mag. Posted by: RI Red ===== Sorry that you had that event. Dunno if PSA's bolt carrier is the same but CDNN Sports has Anderson's DMPS pattern LR-308 parts. I think PSA uses DMPS low pattern for the upper receiver itself but I think the bolt carriers are the same for either. Anderson got bought out by Ruger and has disappeared into the outer darkness. CDNN got the remnant parts. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (E4rtv) 138
And I did not carry. Just didn’t seem like the right situation. I did have pepper spray in my pocket. But no pistol.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (Wnee How do you know it wasn’t the right situation? My test is, are there more people in a place than just me. We have a wonderful country fair up here. No obvious threats. I still carry. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (33fCl) 139
AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Services, i.e. "the PX") sells firearms at select locations (also Ft. Belvoir in VA). NEX (Navy Exchange) does not, at least in the DC area.
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM (BCwQW) And at Elmendorf AFB last I saw…but beyond the gates is a very gun friendly state. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:18 PM (jPziU) 140
This isn't about me, is it?
Posted by: Greasy John Deere tractor battery being recharged on the kitchen counter at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1) ---- Well that's a solid example. Still, anyone who has met her agrees she is totally unreasonable. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:18 PM (leKdc) 141
We have a wonderful country fair up here. No obvious threats. I still carry.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (33fCl) You Never Kniw. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:19 PM (jPziU) 142
A great Sunday afternoon read.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (NnhvP) 143
Cybersmyth just check name tags. It helps. I very much enjoyed talking with you and your wife last year.
Sadly, I will not be attending this year unless something unforeseen happens. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (kJmSS) 144
A great Sunday afternoon read.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (NnhvP) ----- Link? Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (leKdc) 145
I have sent emails to Taurus to ask them specifically to make .22 versions of their G3c. Yes, they have a .22, but it's in a wholly different format. I would also love a 1911 compact in .22. So my grip and all would be identical to my carry weapon.
I need to get a .22 semi-auto pistol. I need something to work on not flinching and all of that, where it's so very easy to see/feel. My little Heritage 6-shooter takes too long to reload for that sort of practice. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (kU0PQ) 146
We have a wonderful country fair up here. No obvious threats. I still carry.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (33fCl) You Never Kniw. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:19 PM (jPziU) ===== County fairs are probably far safer than churches with large congregations, especially in suburban and metropolitan areas. Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (rj6Yv) 147
Well that's a solid example. Still, anyone who has met her agrees she is totally unreasonable.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:18 PM Dude! She let you keep us, didn't she??? Posted by: FSJ & Gertie at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1) 148
I want to put everyone's mind at ease and tell you that the pig we are roasting has no bullet holes in it.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (PbWRL) 149
I want to put everyone's mind at ease and tell you that the pig we are roasting has no bullet holes in it.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (PbWRL) Yet. Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:23 PM (33fCl) 150
It is pitch black outside, thunder and lightening.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:49 PM Is it very very frightening? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 08:23 PM (9iRTe) 151
My two gun related items, I got a grab bag of parts as I was looking for a couple of screws for my Trapdoor restoration. Turns out I got several other parts--a frozen 1863 Springfield plate with the full lock set and hammer. An upper barrel band and screw, and a buttplate.
Cleaned and removed the active rust from the parts and got the lock working again. Drilled out the snapped screw ends in the plate and tumbler and am having to make a pin for the bridle. Probably not going back with the odd and obsolete 10-28 screw for the hammer and will substitute something more modern. If anyone needs such a tap to restore threads, you can still get a HSS tap from S&S Firearms for about $20 bucks for the 10-28 screw holes that need to be tapped. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:24 PM (E4rtv) 152
I want to put everyone's mind at ease and tell you that the pig we are roasting has no bullet holes in it.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM Personally, a Ben Had-harvested pig would add a tremendous, perhaps even an over-the-top amount of je ne sais quoi. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1) 153
Dude! She let you keep us, didn't she???
Posted by: FSJ & Gertie at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1) ------ Are you kidding? She loves them more than anything! I'd be out of the house before they were! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (leKdc) 154
I want to put everyone's mind at ease and tell you that the pig we are roasting has no bullet holes in it.
Posted by: Ben Had Yet. Posted by: RI Red Now that's comedy. Posted by: Slappy Squirrel at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (VHUov) 155
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Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL) ----- Nah. Meeting YOU is the best part! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc) THIS! Posted by: Hrothgar at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (hOUT3) 156
A black kitten says, "You could have taken me home ..."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1) ----- The kitty ended up exactly where he needed to be. Posted by: Weasel ----- Bingo!! Posted by: lin-duh at August 30, 2026 08:26 PM (VCgbV) 157
A great Sunday afternoon read.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (NnhvP) ----- Link? Posted by: Weasel https://ace.mu.nu/ Look forward to seeing you, Weasel Just a short time now! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (NnhvP) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (NSiSx) 159
I would also love a 1911 compact in .22. So my grip and all would be identical to my carry weapon.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (kU0PQ) The Colt Service Model Ace pistols and Colt .22/.45 conversion kits did a good job of putting a .22 training pistol into the same frame as the service handgun. But they required constant cleaning. The dirty .22 ammo would jam up the pistol if the user didn't clean the pistol after each range session. Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (BCwQW) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (leKdc) 161
Just curious when you are driving where do you keep your carry gun?
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt) This has been a subject of some consternation for me over the years. I'm still working on it, but it isn't really accessible sitting at 3-ish-o'clock, behind the seat belt buckle. And I often carry with my shirt tucked over the holster. When carrying tucked, it becomes even harder muck with it, as trying to tuck the shirt back in doesn't look good. And, there's nowhere really useful to put a holster in my car. I guess I need a new car to fix that. FWPs, right, CBD? Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (kU0PQ) 162
Agreed, weasel.
I don’t travel as far, as often, to see anyone as much as I do morons. Jeepers. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (NSiSx) ----- Uh oh. Wait a minute. Maybe we're the weirdos. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:30 PM (leKdc) 163
Maybe we're the weirdos.
Posted by: Weasel I would not associate with anyone who considers that a negative. Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (VHUov) 164
And, there's nowhere really useful to put a holster in my car. I guess I need a new car to fix that. FWPs, right, CBD?
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (kU0PQ) You could set up a hidden panel like Humprey Bogart's Phillip Marlowe uses in 1946's "The Big Sleep." Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (BCwQW) 165
The Ruger Mark IV .22/45 is a good compromise. I once owned the Mark II .22/45 and the 45 grip worked well for me when I used it in bullseye competition.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (rj6Yv) 166
159 I would also love a 1911 compact in .22. So my grip and all would be identical to my carry weapon.
Posted by: GWB ========= Browning made a downscaled 1911 in 380 ACP that made that the frame and slide for the pistol match the cartridge size (380 ACP is also a JMB one). GSG has a full sized 1911 in 22 LR that is pretty decent. Think it is a zamak frame and slide. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv) 167
This has been a subject of some consternation for me over the years. I'm still working on it, but it isn't really accessible sitting at 3-ish-o'clock, behind the seat belt buckle. And I often carry with my shirt tucked over the holster. When carrying tucked, it becomes even harder muck with it, as trying to tuck the shirt back in doesn't look good.
And, there's nowhere really useful to put a holster in my car. I guess I need a new car to fix that. FWPs, right, CBD? Posted by: GWB ===== A bit cheaper to simply get a small revolver and an ankle holster as a second one to carry. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv) 168
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL)
----- Nah. Meeting YOU is the best part! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc) Meeting Ben Had was absolutely one of the best parts! Meeting all the people whose faces I now know, but have NO idea which names they go to, was second best. All you people I already knew from NoVaMoMe were a very close third. Having a motel room with no water except scalding hot in the shower was nowhere near the top three. (Literally scalding hot. I "bathed" in the swimming pool the next day.) Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (kU0PQ) 169
Ruger Mark IV .22/45 is great. Ran every ammo i've put in it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:38 PM (P4bJX) 170
GSG has a full sized 1911 in 22 LR that is pretty decent. "
They're a very good copy of the 1911, and are, IMHO, a great training aid. FWIW, seem to work best with higher velocity .22 Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM (XuXeR) Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM (PbWRL) 172
There’s sex in it.
And guns. Rule #4. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs) Rule 34. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM (kU0PQ) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:42 PM (TMF5Z) 174
The CZ-75 has a 22LR conversion kit. Never heard anything bad about it.
Speaking of conversion kits, I disposed of a H&K 91 A2 a few months ago, it had a beautifully (German!) made 22 conversion kit, clearly never used, in its own custom wooden box. Was fun just to look at. Ed L - this is the rifle you advised I might want to contact H&K North America about. Long story, turns out in context the dealer I sold to helped out in many ways with a challenging situation with time pressure and a premium on clearing everything out (including an ammo pile that would impress Weasel). Based on just a text, he also shipped me a half dozen P7 mags for the one I'm selling (I'd somehow not separated them and taken them back with me). Bottom line, guy helped a lot with the overall project and I didn't sweat the numbers. And he's got a nice boat in Seward I'm invited to go fishing on next time in town. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj) 175
They're a very good copy of the 1911, and are, IMHO, a great training aid. FWIW, seem to work best with higher velocity .22
Posted by: man I have one that I got as a gift. Fired it rarely as I prefer my Rugers in 22 LR. Since I don't carry a 1911 nor plan to, don't want to build muscle memory on a platform I don't carry. I did carry a Browning HP for time and when Springfield came out with the XD that had a small thumb safety in the 45 ACP, carried that a bit. The thumb safety was in the same exact place as the Browning High Power was. Someone did their homework. Only negative is that that particular XD variant does not match up in parts with the standard XD-45. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:45 PM (E4rtv) 176
I have an S&W M&P 22 pistol. It's a bit smaller than the standard M&P line, I think, but not much. Has been a fun and reliable plinker for years. Might serve as a practice platform of the sort discussed. I think there are several good options.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:45 PM (U/Byj) 177
Guns!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:47 PM (xcxpd) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:47 PM (aEdvU) 179
Ed L - this is the rifle you advised I might want to contact H&K North America about. Long story, turns out in context the dealer I sold to helped out in many ways with a challenging situation with time pressure and a premium on clearing everything out (including an ammo pile that would impress Weasel). Based on just a text, he also shipped me a half dozen P7 mags for the one I'm selling (I'd somehow not separated them and taken them back with me).
Bottom line, guy helped a lot with the overall project and I didn't sweat the numbers. And he's got a nice boat in Seward I'm invited to go fishing on next time in town. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj) Good to hear that it all turned out well for you. The H&K collector's market isn't as big as that for Colt, S&W, or Winchester, but it's there. Pre-ban H&Ks ca fetch a good amount $$, especially if they're complete and still have all of the extras, which yours had. Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:48 PM (BCwQW) 180
Weasel, settled on a Montecristo Espada Oscuro, one of my faves. Think it's the last one I have. The normal price for those is fuggetaboutit, I only get them on deep discount, which happens regularly either at CigarPage or Atlantic.
Heading out to the porch presently. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (U/Byj) 181
Another week, another set of drills with my beloved, the Glock 21.
A surprisingly accurate pistol, I just realize that if I had focused on just one gun, I'd be damn good with it. Because every gun is a little different and when you switch out carry guns, you lose a little precision. Anyway, .45s are not 9mm. My first Dickin drill I got 9/10 cold. My last drill...3....out of....10. Not my finest. Arg. Gonna blame familiarity. And honestly, the G21 isn't that heavy. It's bulky but not hard to carry all week. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (xcxpd) 182
Heading out to the porch presently.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (U/Byj) ----- Nice! Enjoy!! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:50 PM (TMF5Z) 183
I've managed to collect 6 P7M* mags over the years. My math may be off, but I think that's like $40,000 worth of mags.
P7Pro has been saying he's working on reproductions. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:50 PM (P4bJX) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:51 PM (xcxpd) 185
Ed L yep I figured the whole set was probably in the $2-3K range. If I lived where the collection in question was sold, I'd have taken my time and extracted a fair amount of $ from the whole thing (some nice Smith revolvers, lots of P7s, and a mountain of ammo and components). But all in all everything got taken care, everyone is going to make out just fine, and I have a few new toys to enjoy.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:52 PM (U/Byj) 186
And, there's nowhere really useful to put a holster in my car. I guess I need a new car to fix that. FWPs, right, CBD?
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (kU0PQ) You could set up a hidden panel like Humprey Bogart's Phillip Marlowe uses in 1946's "The Big Sleep." Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (BCwQW) Ooh, calling up Bogie isn't fair. Now I'll have to figure out how to that with the plastic they use for car interiors nowadays.... Oh, even better, here's what LeoAI has to say about the car (1938 Plymouth Deluxe Coupe), itself: The compartment was a $4.95 extra-cost option on the standard vehicle configuration. Can we get an American manufacturer to bring that back, maybe? Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:53 PM (kU0PQ) 187
Weasel, thanks for including the Lucky Gunner Ammo video. It was done about ten months ago. I'll see what 22s they've covered since then.
One advantage to shooting for a long time is having the chance to learn which handguns suit you and acquire them. As far as 22lr goes, except for the Ruger Mk II target pistols I treasure, all of mine are revolvers. And I've had the chance to find wonderful used examples at bargain prices. Hard to beat a day at the range with a lot of 22 ammo and some guns that have proven themselves. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 08:55 PM (yTvNw) 188
For lefties, there are more options for car carry
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:55 PM (rj6Yv) 189
174 The CZ-75 has a 22LR conversion kit. Never heard anything bad about it.
Speaking of conversion kits, I disposed of a H&K 91 A2 a few months ago, it had a beautifully (German!) made 22 conversion kit, clearly never used, in its own custom wooden box. Was fun just to look at. Ed L - this is the rifle you advised I might want to contact H&K North America about. Long story, turns out in context the dealer I sold to helped out in many ways with a challenging situation with time pressure and a premium on clearing everything out (including an ammo pile that would impress Weasel). Based on just a text, he also shipped me a half dozen P7 mags for the one I'm selling (I'd somehow not separated them and taken them back with me). Bottom line, guy helped a lot with the overall project and I didn't sweat the numbers. And he's got a nice boat in Seward I'm invited to go fishing on next time in town. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj) I have the CZ Kadet. Very hard to find. It is a perfect platform for training/shooting a CZ. The .22 mags are a PITA to load though. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:55 PM (xcxpd) 190
A bit cheaper to simply get a small revolver and an ankle holster as a second one to carry.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv) Or, say, a .32 Beretta? When I pocket carry that one (another one that isn't that accessible sitting in a car seat) I take it out and put it in the center console cupholder, still in the pocket holster. But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (TMF5Z) 192
I saw an ad for what looked like a kydex holster that fit in the slot between the seat and the center console. It had a couple,of slots for mags too. It seemed very stable and put it easily in reach.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 08:57 PM (kJmSS) 193
sniffybigtoe, you mean P7M8 mags, or the double-stack M13s?
H&K's mags are always $$, imagine the P7s are the same. Think I have 7 or 8 for the M8 I'm keeping. The 6 for the PSP I'm selling to a buddy were the ones the dealer shipped off to me without question, illustrating how good it is to do business with him. I wanted my friend to have lots of mags for his collector's item. We discovered a brand-new gun safe, still in shipping box, late in the game, and happily gave it to the dealer. He said they could use it for their program where they store veterans' guns for free during difficult/crisis times. Overall it was a very interesting good experience. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:57 PM (U/Byj) 194
169 Ruger Mark IV .22/45 is great. Ran every ammo i've put in it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:38 PM (P4bJX) Great handgun. Not really for training IMO but very reliable accurate and the MK IV is easy to clean. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:58 PM (xcxpd) 195
I saw an ad for what looked like a kydex holster that fit in the slot between the seat and the center console.
Just be aware that different states have different laws about having a gun visible in your car. And a cop who wants to can stretch the meaning of "visible." Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:00 PM (vTZFs) 196
Arg. Gonna blame familiarity.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (xcxpd) This is why they say, "Familiarity breeds contempt." It's actually a fundamental avoiding that. By... going back to fundamentals, all the time. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:00 PM (kU0PQ) 197
183 I've managed to collect 6 P7M* mags over the years. My math may be off, but I think that's like $40,000 worth of mags.
P7Pro has been saying he's working on reproductions. Posted by: sniffybigtoe A big problem with out of production firearms that were imported and not that many were sold here. Sig P6 (here, the P225) is that way. Original mags are about 70-80 each now. Reason I quit carrying one when mags got expensive. Have ten or so mags that are worth more cumulatively than the pistol. Smith and Wesson 2nd gen and 3rd gen with their compact 690 and then 6900 series are that way except you can fit a full size S&W 5900 mag into them. They didn't change the mag feed lips and feed geometry of the barrel and frame so a 3rd generation 6900 series can use the 5900 series mags. The 6900 mags won't fit the 5900 as they are too short but vice versa gives you up to 17 rounds. Some folks make grip extenders and others have cut down the 17 rounders to make the original 12 round mags for the 6900 series. The 3900 series though is not that way and mags are scarce and expensive for that single stack. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (E4rtv) 198
The TXMoMe really sucked.
The guinea pig Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM Dang. I had forgotten about that. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (0sNs1) 199
I dressed for church this morning with a 1911 Officer size in a Rounded brand OWB kydex holster. Went to lunch, came home, went out for ice cream, and watered the plants. Still armed.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (LHPAg) 200
Odd Bob, I thought about that after I wrote that. If you can see it, then it's no longer concealed carry?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (kJmSS) 201
Have any of y’all had any luck with the sticky inside the pocket holsters?
And do any of you carry so you have the pistol on the left side of your torso and cross draw (for a right handed shooter). Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (XP5BY) 202
My F- One Fiddy has a recess in the console next to the drivers right knee. Someone makes an insert for it that accepts the barrel/slide of a handgun. I need to remember to order one.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (TMF5Z) 203
But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ) A Glock 43x / PSA Micro Dagger is very comfortable in a IWB holster for church. It's light, holds 15 rounds and works with a dress belt. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xcxpd) 204
I have a French MAS-45 .22 LR training rifle. The magazines are worth as much as the rifle.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (rj6Yv) 205
Have any of y’all had any luck with the sticky inside the pocket holsters?
. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (XP5BY) ------ Absolutely yes. I use them for my little .380 and 9mm sub-compacts. Barely noticeable and at most looks like you have a cell phone in your pocket. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:05 PM (TMF5Z) 206
I saw an ad for what looked like a kydex holster that fit in the slot between the seat and the center console.
Just be aware that different states have different laws about having a gun visible in your car. And a cop who wants to can stretch the meaning of "visible." Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:00 PM (vTZFs) Very much this. And if you're driving that car across state lines.... I had a cop pull me over once right as I crossed the state line. He was waiting to nab someone with an out-of-state plate (was a rental, too). I wasn't carrying at that point in my life, yet. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:05 PM (kU0PQ) 207
P7Pro says he is working on mags for both the M8 and M13, but the M13's are coming first with his new M13 Slim. I put down a depsoit for one of the M13 Slims becasue I hate money and it's still cheaper than an HK.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:06 PM (P4bJX) 208
Odd Bob, I thought about that after I wrote that. If you can see it, then it's no longer concealed carry?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (kJmSS) Depends on the jurisdiction. Some places that are gun-friendly have provisions for inadvertently exposing the firearm. Others will interpret that provision literally: If someone can see it, it's not "concealed" anymore. Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 09:06 PM (BCwQW) 209
Nurse, check this site out.
https://tinyurl.com/mrzech8a I saw Lena Miculek wearing one and it seemed like an excellent solution if one doesn't normally wear a belt. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (kJmSS) 210
Or, say, a .32 Beretta?
When I pocket carry that one (another one that isn't that accessible sitting in a car seat) I take it out and put it in the center console cupholder, still in the pocket holster. But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks. ------ That could work as well but semi autos and ankle holsters have an issue unless you regularly clean said pistol. Picks up more crap down low than in the waistband. If I have to pocket carry, I use a revolver normally--you can fire through the pocket with no jamming (assuming you dehorn the trigger spur). Semi auto will likely end up jamming after one shot. Another, now discontinued but cheap and widely available is the Springfield XDS --very thin and has the grip safety and trigger blade but no other safety. Single stack which is why (plus a big recall) that the XDS was discontinued with the Hellcat sans grip safety and double stack. That is because the Sig P320 has become the new it gun for the sub compacts. But, Springfield also made the XDS in 45 ACP and a brief run of 40 S&W. Plus in 45 ACP and 9mm, they made optics ready models at the end of production and some 4 inch barrel models instead of the 3.3 Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv) 211
If anyone has a line on Benelli B76 mags, please let me know. I've only seen 2 for sale and they were $200-250. Yikes.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (P4bJX) 212
Just ordered the F150 thing I mentioned. Will report back. Made in the USA!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:08 PM (TMF5Z) 213
If you can see it, then it's no longer concealed carry?
You're in Virginia, right? Brave AI says: ---------- Open carry of a handgun in a vehicle is also generally legal for adults aged 18+ who are not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms, provided they respect local ordinances and federal restrictions. ---------- Which, to be honest, surprised me. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:08 PM (vTZFs) 214
205 Have any of y’all had any luck with the sticky inside the pocket holsters?
. Posted by: nurse ratched ======= Yes, the Superfly (I kid you not) made by DeSantis. Used it for revolver carry in coat pockets for cold weather and it breaks up the outline in a pocket. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:09 PM (E4rtv) 215
The "local ordinances" part could be a sticky thing though since you'd have to know about every place you drove.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:09 PM (vTZFs) 216
But, Springfield also made the XDS in 45 ACP and a brief run of 40 S&W. Plus in 45 ACP and 9mm, they made optics ready models at the end of production and some 4 inch barrel models instead of the 3.3
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv) I have an XDS. Very compact but physics is still a thing. It's better than a revolver but...wew...not fun to shoot. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:10 PM (xcxpd) 217
And an AI response is not legal advice.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (vTZFs) 218
If anyone has a line on Benelli B76 mags, please let me know. I've only seen 2 for sale and they were $200-250. Yikes.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (P4bJX) Hate to say it, but those are the prices you'll have to pay if you can find any at all. Considering that the pistol has been out of production for over 35 years now, you'll be lucky to find them at all for any price. Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (BCwQW) 219
204 I have a French MAS-45 .22 LR training rifle. The magazines are worth as much as the rifle.
Posted by: mrp French military firearms have unique styling. I think they made some of the obsolete Gras rifles into training rifles for the Lebel as well in 22 LR. Not sure if it was a unit thing or whether it was a formal program. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv) 220
But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ) A Glock 43x / PSA Micro Dagger is very comfortable in a IWB holster for church. It's light, holds 15 rounds and works with a dress belt. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xcxpd) Well, that's why I carry tucked (IWB) - professional office job and church. Or, I have to wear a jacket and tuck the shirt behind (and never take the jacket off). And the pockets on those sorts of pants are too flimsy (for me) to put something even as heavy as a .32 Beretta or a Bond Arms derringer in there. Stuff swings around and gets all out of sorts. So, I continue with the IWB-tucked and wonder what to do if bad things happen while I'm still seated/buckled in a car. (And don't get me started on those seat-installed side air bags. Getting in and out of that seat is a pain - my mag on the other side scrapes frequently if the seat is deep enough.) Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (kU0PQ) 221
Unfortunately , I'm in MD which is way worse than VA which why I had to go out of my way and incur extra expense just because the Bodyguard I want had a 12 round mag. Don't have my CC permit yet, but moving in that direction. I imagine they cover this stuff in the course.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (kJmSS) 222
Oh, I forgot to mention. Next weekend is the tax free 2A weekend in Louisiana. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:12 PM (P4bJX) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:12 PM (QRXVU) 224
I have an XDS. Very compact but physics is still a thing. It's better than a revolver but...wew...not fun to shoot.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards In 45? I never had much problem with mine in 9mm. In fact, it is fairly heavy for a 9mm semi compact. I ended up though just recently buying a slide, recoil spring, and barrel for the 4.0 version. A bit more weight and longer sight line for aging eyes. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv) 225
If you want one of the 26, 27, 30 Glocks be ready for some eye watering prices. They are price gouging those now.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:13 PM (P4bJX) 226
OK, 9:14pm thank you time.
Thank you! Tonight was fun guys and gals. Hope to see you next Sunday!! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:14 PM (TMF5Z) 227
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (kJmSS)
Yeah, that's beltless in the same way you're not wearing shorts if you're wearing boxers. It's a belt, but you're wearing it under your pants. I prefer a belly band if you're going that route. (Which is also a sort of belt, but really more of a girdle. Have we invoked Piper enough yet for her to appear?) Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:15 PM (kU0PQ) 228
Might have a dilemma. We came into possession of a cherry cheesecake earlier today and I ate most of it. WW has not realized this little fun fact yet.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (TMF5Z) 229
French military firearms have unique styling. I think they made some of the obsolete Gras rifles into training rifles for the Lebel as well in 22 LR. Not sure if it was a unit thing or whether it was a formal program.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv) ==== The MAS-45 has a Mauser action because the French confiscated the German tooling as part of the post-WWII reparations regime. It's really sweet. Navy Arms shipped the rifle, the original manual (it's actually a book with colored foldouts - almost a work of art), and I bought several extra mags because the guy at Navy Arms said that they were rare as hen's teeth. They are even rarer now. Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (rj6Yv) 230
Waiting to get my new gun. Bought a Bodyguard 2. But have been researching holsters. Lena Miculek who is a champion shooter uses this and she has loads of videos on how to effectively pull. It just seemed like,this style would work no matter what you are wearing and especially because not everything has pockets.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (kJmSS) 231
218 If anyone has a line on Benelli B76 mags, please let me know. I've only seen 2 for sale and they were $200-250. Yikes.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe I would haunt ebay as sometimes you get a group grab bag of various mags (someone clearing out the gun room and not caring about pricing every item). As I said upthread, I got a grab bag of rusty percussion parts primarily for the screws for another project. Turned out to include a complete 1863 Springfield lock that still functions after I derusted, cleaned and and oiled it. Had to replace two screws. Even as is, it brings about triple what I paid for the entire lot. Same with lots of barrels, magazines, grips, etc. Have to know what you are looking for and use correct search terms. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (E4rtv) Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:17 PM (XuXeR) 233
230 Waiting to get my new gun. Bought a Bodyguard 2. But have been researching holsters. Lena Miculek who is a champion shooter uses this and she has loads of videos on how to effectively pull. It just seemed like,this style would work no matter what you are wearing and especially because not everything has pockets.
Posted by: Sharon ---- Her drawing that on X wearing a dress has gone viral. She is a smart cookie. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:17 PM (E4rtv) 234
224 I have an XDS. Very compact but physics is still a thing. It's better than a revolver but...wew...not fun to shoot.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards In 45? I never had much problem with mine in 9mm. In fact, it is fairly heavy for a 9mm semi compact. I ended up though just recently buying a slide, recoil spring, and barrel for the 4.0 version. A bit more weight and longer sight line for aging eyes. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv) Jah, in 45. I sorta wish I had one in 9mm. You know the best slim 9mm I own? A Taurus. The 709s is indeed slim and its very easy to shoot. One of the only pocket guns I have that enjoy training with. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:18 PM (xcxpd) 235
Thanks for hosting, Weasel!
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 09:18 PM (BCwQW) 236
Thanks for being here, Ed L!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:19 PM (TMF5Z) 237
Weasel,
You have two choices. Finish off the cherry cheesecake and pretend it never existed. Or Save her one small slice and tell her that’s all there was to begin with. And you saved it for her. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:19 PM (QRXVU) 238
If I have to pocket carry, I use a revolver normally--you can fire through the pocket with no jamming (assuming you dehorn the trigger spur).
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv) Ummmmm, which pocket are you carrying in? I really don't want to blow my kneecap off or shred my thigh with the pocket I'm carrying in (front pants pocket). And where I think the retired cop at church carries is his back pants pocket, so, again.... (And coat pockets are... odd. Either way too big to safely put a pistol, or too light of a jacket and you have this thing pulling your jacket sideways and/or down. Of course, I haven't had to wear a really warm coat in years and might reconsider if I went up to Spokane or something.) Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (kU0PQ) 239
But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ) A Glock 43x / PSA Micro Dagger is very comfortable in a IWB holster for church. It's light, holds 15 rounds and works with a dress belt. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xcxpd) *** I got one of the teeshirts with the built in carry slot under the arm. Surprisingly comfortable. Yes, you give up a couple seconds when wearing an outer shirt, but I'm good with that. Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB) 240
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:19 PM (QRXVU)
---- #1 could work. Maybe. Who am I fooling. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (TMF5Z) 241
Have any of y’all had any luck with the sticky inside the pocket holsters?
.Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM The DeSantis SuperFly is probably the best of the lot IME, but I've pretty much converted to Kydex. I've tried a bunch, and keep going back to Vedder. Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 09:21 PM (0sNs1) 242
But it does have the benefit of eating the rest of it!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:21 PM (TMF5Z) 243
GWB, it is a lot harder for someone my size to keep the gun from printing with most of the clothing I own. Also don't have to use the leg part on that holster depending on what one is wearing.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:21 PM (kJmSS) 244
I dressed for church this morning with a 1911 Officer size in a Rounded brand OWB kydex holster. Went to lunch, came home, went out for ice cream, and watered the plants. Still armed.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM * nods approvingly * Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 09:22 PM (0sNs1) 245
Thanks Horde and thank you Weasel.
Posted by: TRex - cheesecake detective dino at August 30, 2026 09:22 PM (XfIK1) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:22 PM (TMF5Z) 247
I got one of the teeshirts with the built in carry slot under the arm. Surprisingly comfortable. Yes, you give up a couple seconds when wearing an outer shirt, but I'm good with that.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB) I bought one but it didn't fit me well Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd) 248
(And coat pockets are... odd. Either way too big to safely put a pistol, or too light of a jacket and you have this thing pulling your jacket sideways and/or down. Of course, I haven't had to wear a really warm coat in years and might reconsider if I went up to Spokane or something.)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (kU0PQ) ==== Have you considered a shoulder holster? You'd still have to wear a jacket, though. Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (rj6Yv) 249
The MAS-45 has a Mauser action because the French confiscated the German tooling as part of the post-WWII reparations regime. It's really sweet. Navy Arms shipped the rifle, the original manual (it's actually a book with colored foldouts - almost a work of art), and I bought several extra mags because the guy at Navy Arms said that they were rare as hen's teeth. They are even rarer now.
Posted by: mrp ====== There is a whole subgroup of collectors that seek out military training rifles in 22 LR. Lot more fun and easier on the shoulder than old battle rifle rounds. There is a rare Krag 22 LR conversion that has one of the oddest barrels from the chamber end that you would see--not concentric. I think the barrels were made up for them by a gunsmith in Philadelphia whose name I forget but famous enough. Springfield had a Hoffer Thompson 22 LR conversion prior and up through WWI before the famous 1922 models. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv) 250
Might have a dilemma. We came into possession of a cherry cheesecake earlier today and I ate most of it. WW has not realized this little fun fact yet
------- Just eat all of it! Now you have plausible deniability, whereas, a partial cherry cheesecake, well you're fooked there. Evidence. "What cherry cheesecake? Have you looked everywhere?" "Nope, haven't seen it. Huh..." Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (wa6DW) 251
I bought one but it didn't fit me well
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd) Yeah, that part worried me a bit. But I got lucky. I like them. Not as free as a shoulder bolster, but sufficient for me. Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (2WIwB) 252
It just seemed like,this style would work no matter what you are wearing and especially because not everything has pockets.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (kJmSS) Concur. I don't like appendix carry for myself and just wanted to address the "beltless" bit. One of the reasons I like a belly band (though I haven't used one in a long while) is you can so easily adjust where the pocket for the weapon sits on your side/front. There's no real "buckle" or anything to annoy if you shift it right or left. You can adjust it up and down, too, to some extent - hips up to belly. At least, with a good belly band. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (kU0PQ) 253
For a slim 9mm, try the IWI Masada. Neighbor has the "slim " version, and it felt pretty nice. Of course, if you want to spend more, there's staccato...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:26 PM (XuXeR) 254
"What cherry cheesecake? Have you looked everywhere?" "Nope, haven't seen it. Huh..."
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (wa6DW) ----- I think I have decided on the tactic of taking the offensive and blaming WW for leaving me unsupervised with the cherry cheesecake. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:27 PM (TMF5Z) 255
Yes, you give up a couple seconds when wearing an outer shirt, but I'm good with that.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB) A couple of seconds? You haven't seen me unbutton a shirt.... Which is probably a good thing. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:27 PM (kU0PQ) 256
Have you considered a shoulder holster? You'd still have to wear a jacket, though.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (rj6Yv) Yes, I have. A lot. I have my eye on a couple. When I've paid off the debts incurred during my most recent funemployment journey I will finally have to spring for one to work with. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:29 PM (kU0PQ) 257
Ummmmm, which pocket are you carrying in? I really don't want to blow my kneecap off or shred my thigh with the pocket I'm carrying in (front pants pocket). And where I think the retired cop at church carries is his back pants pocket, so, again....
Jacket or coat pocket. Also have some padded shirts with slit pockets that are sizable enough for a small J frame revolver. If I did it a lot, I would simply go with buying the Ruger polymer framed in 38 SPC+p. But don't have to do that anymore as I am retired and travel rarely. In winter at night, walk the dogs carrying a Rossi 68 model in 32 S&W Long with hardcast Buffalo Bore bullets. Mainly for coyotes and other varmints that I might encounter in a short walk. Feeling antsy, I clip on an IWB holster for the walk and carry an alloy framed S&W 3rd Generation DAO (5943). I don't carry in pants pockets unless you include a cargo pocket a time or two. Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:30 PM (E4rtv) 258
I'm impressed with my new IWB Falco holster. Excellent craftsmanship and the holster was custom made to clear the tritium front sight.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:31 PM (rj6Yv) 259
Thanks, again, Weasel.
And thanks again, Horde. I look forward to seeing you again at a MoMe, Sharon. Maybe, if/when my new job turns into a hybrid I can plan a Moron Gun Club visit, too. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:32 PM (kU0PQ) 260
Good night all
Hope to have a range report next week if everything falls into place. Thanks Weasel. Cherry cheesecake is my favorite so I don't blame you one whit. Just offer to buy another one. Win Win. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:32 PM (kJmSS) 261
I'm impressed with my new IWB Falco holster. Excellent craftsmanship and the holster was custom made to clear the tritium front sight.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:31 PM (rj6Yv) I have a couple of Falco holsters. Very good work. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:33 PM (kU0PQ) 262
Yes, you give up a couple seconds when wearing an outer shirt, but I'm good with that.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB) A couple of seconds? You haven't seen me unbutton a shirt.... Which is probably a good thing. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:27 PM (kU0PQ) *** I have no idea how to respond to that, so I won't. *thinks about Trixie, from the Delta Delta Delta sorority* Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB) 263
Past thanks time and thanks to Weasel and all the other commenters.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (E4rtv) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (TMF5Z) Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (rj6Yv) Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (TMF5Z) 267
Ok, who mentioned Navy Arms? I went and looked...
And there's an Anschutz 1420. Just like the one I had on the rifle team. How to explain to Mrs.... Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (XuXeR) 268
Nite whig!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (TMF5Z) 269
A couple of seconds? You haven't seen me unbutton a shirt.
If I have to pull a gun, that shirt is gonna come off quicker than Hulk Hogan's. And in about the same condition. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (vTZFs) 270
You haven't seen me unbutton a shirt
Cue up some Montgomery Clift jokes... Some 'cavalry-front' cowboy shirts are all snaps in the front, but you want to check them out and practice a little because they may have two rows and a dust flap. A more versatile option is a "chef's" shirt, always snap front, fits sort of like surgical scrubs. It's an easy tearaway to get at a T-shirt holder or shoulder holster, and can be tucked in. In a dark color, the snaps don't show. No, it doesn't go with a tie, and I know that's an issue for many. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (zdLoL) 271
A Carhart construction worker's vest with an inside, left chest pocket works for me while driving in the winter. A sticky pocket holster with a Smith j-frame (currently a alloy framed 442) in .38 Special, loaded with +P, 158 Lead semi wadcutter hollow points ought to buy me time while I think about what to do next.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 09:36 PM (gvBhq) Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR) 273
"Lake America" now recognized by Google Maps. We don't deserve Trump.
Posted by: Sumguy at August 30, 2026 09:37 PM (nPp6w) 274
"Lake America" now recognized by Google Maps. We don't deserve Trump.
Posted by: Sumguy at August 30, 2026 09:37 PM (nPp6w) ------ F'n awesome. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:38 PM (TMF5Z) 275
the Delta Delta Delta sorority"
Try Delta! We did! / Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR) *** So you've met Trixie too? Hawt ehh? Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:38 PM (2WIwB) 276
"Lake America" now recognized by Google Maps.
I'm betting that the tolerant left will browbeat them into changing it back in a day or two. And they'll blame it on an intern. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:39 PM (vTZFs) 277
Thanks for another great Gun Thread, Weasel!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (9iRTe) 278
Might have a dilemma. We came into possession of a cherry cheesecake earlier today and I ate most of it. WW has not realized this little fun fact yet.
Posted by: Weasel ********** You are funny...I believe your best defense is to smile and say nothing, just smile...And for the record, now I want a slice of cherry cheesecake! Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (XfIK1) 279
Thanks for another great Gun Thread, Weasel!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (9iRTe) ---- 100% my pleasure. Thanks to all y'all for tuning in! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (r8KQ7) 280
You are funny...I believe your best defense is to smile and say nothing, just smile...And for the record, now I want a slice of cherry cheesecake!
Who could resist? Posted by: Sumguy at August 30, 2026 09:43 PM (nPp6w) 281
I would also like to propose a national cheese curd boycott! Who's with me?!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:47 PM (leKdc) 282
I would also like to propose a national cheese curd boycott! Who's with me?!
Taking that Canada thing a bit personally, are we? Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:48 PM (vTZFs) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:48 PM (YyqoW) 284
I've always found "If you don't eat it, somebody else will" very persuasive in these kinds of situations.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 09:49 PM (mzqTU) 285
Range report: i tried it a new piece of public land for a bit of pigging. Didn't see anything bigger than a spider, even though there was plenty of scat and other sign. Could'nt see fifty yards, it was that forested, but verified zero so i got 3 rounds off for funsies.
Posted by: Nato at August 30, 2026 09:49 PM (XAyZ8) 286
Cherry (anything) > cheese curds.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:49 PM (leKdc) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:50 PM (YyqoW) 288
I like pie . It's what makes the world go 'round.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:51 PM (KC5Lt) 289
Cherry cheesecake and firearms.
Where else on the internet? Posted by: nurse ratched ********* Agreed. Count me in.... Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 09:52 PM (XfIK1) 290
Pie is delicious. In all of its many and varied forms.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:52 PM (leKdc) 291
Did George Washington cut down a cheese curd tree? No! No he did not!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:54 PM (leKdc) 292
Weasel may have had too much sugar.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:55 PM (CwGN+) 293
Weasel may have had too much sugar.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:55 PM (CwGN+) ---- Well that's possible! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:55 PM (leKdc) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:56 PM (CwGN+) 295
Speaking of bears . . . we were staying at an airbnb in Yosemite West about a week ago when I woke up sometime in the dawn light, thinking my 6 a.m. alarm ought to go off any minute, opened the door to the kitchen where my phone was charging, and saw a black bear halfway through the window. No gun, unfortunately. I roared and he backed off and wandered off up the hill. He had already dragged out a couple backpacks and a shopping bag full of snacks (little raisin boxes, unshelled peanuts (which he didn't care for), and a bag of spicy pistachios (I hope it hurt! Those were for me.)).
That night he came back. It was 90 degrees with no A/C, so again we had the windows open. My 17yo son chased him out of the kitchen, but he just stood in the threshold staring at us. More roaring didn't phase him. After a few more stares my son ran up and slammed the door in his face. I'm proud of him! Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 09:59 PM (rcENI) Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 10:00 PM (XfIK1) 297
So this TxMoMe: I'm mostly a lurker (since the early 2000s), but I've been trying to comment more recently. Is it crazy to visit from Oregon? Do people bring their own guns? I've never flown with mine. I would probably be as uncomfortable-looking at those AI first-timers from last year.
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:01 PM (rcENI) 298
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:01 PM (rcENI)
----- Hi frammish - send me an email at the gunthread address and I'll be happy to answer your questions. Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 10:03 PM (leKdc) 299
Just finished canning 3 batches of plum jam with my kids and their two friends. Last year we got at least 12 gallons from our tree. I think it was less this year (the bottom third of the tree, leaves included, was devoured by deer). But we still have a 5-gallon bucket of plum halves which I guess I'll freeze. A friend is supposed to send me a recipe for plum brandy though. (I think it is actually plum-flavored-vodka, although I know there are ways to distill them too.)
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:04 PM (rcENI) 300
So this TxMoMe: I'm mostly a lurker (since the early 2000s), but I've been trying to comment more recently. Is it crazy to visit from Oregon? Do people bring their own guns? I've never flown with mine. I would probably be as uncomfortable-looking at those AI first-timers from last year.
Posted by: frammish ******** People come from all over the USA...they come with guns and without...first year we came, it was without...people are very generous with sharing what they brought...you will be welcomed and included, and have a good time. Please come and attend.... Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1) 301
Taking that Canada thing a bit personally, are we?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:48 PM (vTZFs) Canada has given us ice hockey and Rush. What else? And, by the way, reminder: we punked Canada out of Olympic hockey gold. Men and women. This year. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (jPziU) 302
Is it crazy to visit from Oregon?
Closer than New Zealand. And Seattle for that matter. Do people bring their own guns? Many do but don't feel like you have to. There's always someone willing to share their toys. I've never flown with mine. It's not that hard. Just read up on the regulations and leave yourself some extra time on both ends of the flight to deal with it. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:15 PM (vTZFs) 303
You all are awesome. Thank you for the encouragement. I'll see if I can make it work out.
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (rcENI) 304
43 Heyjackass.com is "pausing" their operation...
As of a few weeks back, the "Chicago shot clock" showed a shooting every 4 minutes 36 seconds. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (U/Byj) every 4 hours 36 minutes Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:25 AM (odBC9) Food Thread: Filet Mignon With Ramen? Sure...Why Not?![]() [Of course I wanted to embed a song by "Korn," but they are awful!] ![]() ![]() ![]() I know this dish sounds weird, and I can't vouch for it because I haven't made it...yet. But it does sound interesting, and I really love the combination of spicy and sweet Blackberry Fire Chicken might be a dud, but the idea is a good one! But for f*ck's sake! Stop with the "boneless-skinless" nonsense. Chicken thighs are great with the bone in and the skin intact. Is it some lunatic diet thing? Skin does have a bit of fat, and of course it does! Because it tastes good, and fat is flavor. Homesick Texan is one of the better food blogs around. Why? Well, she knows how to write, so reading her stuff is not an unpleasant chore until one gets to the recipe. And she doesn't have much of an ego when it comes to cooking, so she doesn't come of as a pompous know-it-all. Here is something that won't win any awards, but sounds like it is mighty tasty. Brisket macaroni and cheese! And she adds pickled jalapeñoslices on the side because why the hell not? ![]() The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it! Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Food fight
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0) 2
Colorado Olathe corn is the best.
*This year the yield is about 10% of the normal amount thanks to the drought. Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2026 04:02 PM (X8xt3) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 04:05 PM (NnhvP) 4
That's it. No salt. No butter! They were incredibly sweet and tender and absolutely delicious.
You might get more flavor and nutrition if you cooked it in limewater (not the fruit, no coconuts required. Called nixtamalization). The Mexican Indians discovered this process thousands of years ago...avoids pellagra. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:06 PM (l3cgK) 5
Pork chops and applesauce
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0) 6
We picked up a dozen ears of farm fresh corn Friday. We had some that night and it was really sweet. We're having some more tonight and my wife's going to take 2 ears and make a black bean and corn salad. There's other stuff in it, but I don't recall what. Herbs, tomatoes, peppers maybe. I'm thinking fish tacos to go with it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (2Cry5) 7
But for f*ck's sake! Stop with the "boneless-skinless" nonsense. Chicken thighs are great with the bone in and the skin intact. Is it some lunatic diet thing? Skin does have a bit of fat, and of course it does! Because it tastes good, and fat is flavor.
It IS some lunatic thing. I hate the dryness of chicken breasts, but thighs and legs? Oh yeah, baby, gimme, especially with the tasty skin. I even eat the kidneys stuck inside the thighs of Costo chicken... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK) 8
I am a glutton for punishment this evening, making dinner for 24 (4 here and 20 at high school youth group, which really means dinner for 40)...in a townhome kitchen...
Since beef was so expensive all summer, they never had it at youth group dinner, so when my kid asked for my pasta dish (I call it beef and veg bolognese b/c it's equally weighted or more veg to ground beef), and then I found $2/lb ground beef, I felt like someone above was watching out for me...so win for not bankrupting myself by saying yes... I'll have it over orzo and the kids are getting fusilli (so I can run a taste test of the sauce 30 minutes early) and then I have an enormous watermelon and grape tray and homemade Cheerio treats...for them and the folks here... I'll be in and out of the kitchen as I keep making this... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (tOcjL) 9
I’ve got a six-pack of these in the pantry now.
https://tinyurl.com/3k8dwwff (NissinFoods) I eat them once or twice a week for lunch. They also have a Seafood and Curry flavor that aren’t too bad. I think they’re the best I’ve had out of a cup. Better than Maruchan at least. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt) 10
No salt? No butter?
Unthinkable, even if unnecessary. Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (sl73Y) 11
Pork chops and applesauce
Pork chops and lemon sauce here. As the astronauts ate it! (On the ground anyway.) Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (kYmoU) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (l3cgK) 13
Although after I make this youth dinner (b/c this year, I promised one per month), maybe I'll get a Costco membership to just buy 6 rotisserie chickens and some bread...I can always handle fruit and dessert...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:10 PM (tOcjL) 14
I grow my own sweet corn. Cuts out the middle man. I couldn't for a long time because the Deer considered my corn field the equivalent of a Homestyle Buffet Restaurant, Deer don't eat the corn. They want the corn silk. But, it's just as damaging. However, I have an uncle who retired from being a farmer, and I finally asked him at a family reunion..."How do I keep Deer out of my corn?"
This made him laugh and look a little uncomfortable. He told me to use a spray to outline my field called "Deer B Gon." Sounds like a scam, and that's why an experienced farmer was a little sheepish about recommending it. It employs clove and cinnamon oil...AND IT WORKED. Not just with deer, but it kept the rabbits out of the lettuce as well. So, the moral of the story is that those late night commercials where some guy is yelling at you about the low price of $9.99. They aren't all crap. Just most of them. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:11 PM (dIske) Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 04:12 PM (XvL8K) 16
7 But for f*ck's sake! Stop with the "boneless-skinless" nonsense. Chicken thighs are great with the bone in and the skin intact. Is it some lunatic diet thing? Skin does have a bit of fat, and of course it does! Because it tastes good, and fat is flavor.
It IS some lunatic thing. I hate the dryness of chicken breasts, but thighs and legs? Oh yeah, baby, gimme, especially with the tasty skin. I even eat the kidneys stuck inside the thighs of Costo chicken... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK) Depends what you're doing with the chicken...I love boneless skinless thighs if I'm cooking up a stir fry or curry or fried rice or fajita...the bone is just a PITA if you are gonna just cut up the chicken before cooking (I could take the skin, but you can't get skin if you have bone...but you can get bone with no skin, which is even more annoying)... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL) 17
Boneless-skinless -
This comes from two things: "Oh, it's slimy" (or greasy when fried) and the 'fat is bad' conspiracy. My mother *still* believes it to be true, all evidence to the contrary. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:15 PM (aJQbY) 18
Sign at Wegmans “We Support Local Farmers”.
Reality; all the tomatoes are from Canada, as are most of the cucumbers. A lot of broccoli and vegetables are from Mexico. Have we forgotten how to grow produce? Have we time out that we have to buy produce from Canada and from a country that has human waste in its agriculture products. So sick of this crap. Posted by: Vengeance at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Yiq+D) 19
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... Depends what you're doing with the chicken...I love boneless skinless thighs if I'm cooking up a stir fry or curry or fried rice or fajita...the bone is just a PITA if you are gonna just cut up the chicken before cooking (I could take the skin, but you can't get skin if you have bone...but you can get bone with no skin, which is even more annoying)... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL) Yes, making Japanese curry is one of those exceptions where I trim off the skin, fat, and bones (if I don't already have boneless, skinless chicken thigh meat). Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (l3cgK) 20
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK)
___________________________ Go in any Chinese take-out place...and look at the appetisers. The "Boneless Spare Ribs" entry always makes me laugh. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske) 21
I ran across Ramen noodles about a year ago when W'mart decided to start carrying them again. 30¢/pack! Who'da thunk! Anyhow: I ate 'em in college out of necessity and lack of money. Now I buy 'em and use them as the BASE for other dishes - works great! Amazing how well packaged noodles and a dry saucepack can work with other things like boudin, beef, shrimp, chicken, and vegetables like green Bell peppers, jalapeños, Anaheims, garlic (there's never enough garlic, is there?) and other flavors du jour - and that doesn't begin to include sauces. My new favorite is by a company called 'El Yucateca', and their 'Habañero y Coffee' is EXCELLENT! If you see in in your store, get a bottle - it's about $3.95 - you can thank me later.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ayRl+) 22
Had chicken breasts, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob yesterday. It was from a local market- not part of a big chain. Cooked two ears unhusked in the microwave for about five minutes and they were delicious.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (JrHfD) 23
20 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK)
___________________________ Go in any Chinese take-out place...and look at the appetisers. The "Boneless Spare Ribs" entry always makes me laugh. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske) I went to a store in Phoenix that was selling boneless bananas...they weren't wrong; never found a single bone in them. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:17 PM (l3cgK) 24
>>He told me to use a spray to outline my field called "Deer B Gon."
Does this stop bunnies, too? Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2026 04:18 PM (X8xt3) 25
Yep, no shame in packaged ramen as a base for whatever meat it's 'flavored like'.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:19 PM (aJQbY) 26
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (tOcjL)
Is there a saint for cooking youth group dinners? Because if there isn't one, you surely deserve to be declared one after you die for all this kind and excellent cooking you do for the youth group. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (JrHfD) 27
I spent years in the seed corn business, and am a corn on the cob connoisseur. The info on corn was correct in the past, but, some years back, the Illini Supersweet gene was introduced into sweet corn. You can now buy corn from a grocery store and get quality relatively close to fresh from the field. The problem in the past was the breakdown of sugars in the kernel. This gene lengthened the time the sugars stayed sweet by several days.
Posted by: BufordGooch at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (PyC1T) 28
Went to a new local restaurant with friends last night. They feature seafood and Italian and delivered on both fronts in spades. Apparently, so are many others cause the place was packed. And yes, the oysters were great.
Definitely agree on the local farm thing. Despite the local grocery stores having great produce around here, getting right at the farm just tastes better. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 04:21 PM (viF8m) 29
I think my son could live on ramen. He gets these huge packages from the Korean grocery store.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:21 PM (JrHfD) 30
Ramen is great when it is authentic. The dried stuff is survival rations. Sometimes I crumble the noodles on top of Chinese chicken salad.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX) 31
Thinking of making pizza dough now, but I better get started to eat before, six thirtie?
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 04:24 PM (sl73Y) 32
30 Ramen is great when it is authentic. The dried stuff is survival rations. Sometimes I crumble the noodles on top of Chinese chicken salad.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX) Indeed, survival rations. Lasts a long time. Might not be bad to have around with a ton of water for emergencies. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:24 PM (l3cgK) 33
26 Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (tOcjL)
Is there a saint for cooking youth group dinners? Because if there isn't one, you surely deserve to be declared one after you die for all this kind and excellent cooking you do for the youth group. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (JrHfD) Thanks, there are a few moms who rotate, so it's not just me...although I may be the only one working with a townhome kitchen Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (tOcjL) 34
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)
It's dried stuff, but he seems to like it a lot. We went to a Korean restaurant for lunch the other day and it was probably the best ramen which I've ever had Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (JrHfD) 35
Shifting gears for a minute: Little Cuties. Yes, they're mandarines, right? Yes, they taste great, right? Yes, they're affordable, right? NO! Once upon a time, I could buy a 3-lb mesh bag of 'em at Kroger or W'mart for $3.39 or $3.49 ($5.95 for a 5-lb bag). NOW the 3-lb bag is priced at $5.49 and the 5-lb bag at $8.49. Sorry. Those can sit on the shelf and rot as far as I'm concerned. I will NOT be played like that. Yes, they're good. Yes, I enjoy 'em. Yes, they supply my body with needed Vitamin See. No, I will NOT be extorted by a grocery chain. Besides that, they're now at End-of-Season, so you know 'The Quality Goes In Before the Name Goes On', right? Right?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+) 36
The main drawbacks are high sodium and high calorie. Throwing away the salt packet and adding some soy sauce, peanut butter and garlic is the way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:26 PM (RIvkX) 37
Local or grocery, i haven't had bad corn in ages. One late, local corn that was mushy is the only one to come to mind.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 04:27 PM (sl73Y) 38
The highest and best use to which fresh corn can be put is to used for a French dish called 'Macque Choux' … look it up. It's easy enough to make, and it's great in winter, too.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:29 PM (ayRl+) 39
I made a big piece of boneless lamb the other day so now I'm simmering chunks of it in its juice and some curry sauce.
Cut up some taters into cubes and tossed them in bacon fat, salt, pepper and spices. There are bacon bits in the mix and I'll make a topping of crumbled Bacon Grilled Cheese potato chips for some crunch. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:29 PM (kpS4V) 40
I've frozen whole ears of corn. Just put em in the freezer and they'll keep for weeks, maybe even months (according to the lady who tipped me to this).
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 04:30 PM (nbLIj) 41
Got a box of chicken miso ramen broth for experimentation later in the week.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:30 PM (kpS4V) 42
The Epicurious YouTube channel has a series where they have 3 chefs try different store bought products and pick the "best."
There's one where 3 of them try a bunch of instant Ramen noodle packs. Some of them I think might only be found in specific Asian stores. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 04:31 PM (2Cry5) 43
24 >>He told me to use a spray to outline my field called "Deer B Gon."
Does this stop bunnies, too? Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2026 04:18 PM (X8xt3) ____________________________ It does, indeed. He, also, told me if I was energetic, I could plant mint all around the garden, and that would work as well, but mint spreads and can be pretty dominant. Bottom line, to keep out pests, anything strong scented usually works. Cinnamon is a big one, as well as similar scents. It creates an olfactory barrier. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:31 PM (dIske) 44
We went to a Korean restaurant for lunch the other day and it was probably the best ramen which I've ever had
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM The best ramen I ever had was from an old guy with a busted down food cart at the train station in Yokosuka Japan. You told him what you wanted and he tossed the noodles in a big greasy pot and boiled them for you on the spot. He had a line every time a train pulled into the station. Bonus he spoke enough english to understand you because the Navy base was there. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 04:31 PM (cpFbA) 45
Korean restaurant? Three words: Be Bim Bop. Ask for it by name.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:33 PM (ayRl+) 46
30 Ramen is great when it is authentic. The dried stuff is survival rations. Sometimes I crumble the noodles on top of Chinese chicken salad.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX) Go to Hmart and get fresh ramen - so much tastier and better for you. If that's not on sale or too much of s splurge, look for their air fried ramen...you won't notice a difference between the fat fried and air fried kind... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:33 PM (tOcjL) 47
the Illini Supersweet gene was introduced into sweet corn.
Posted by: BufordGooch at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (PyC1T) OH NO! The dreaded genetic engineering. Every "organic" plant we eat today has been hybridized, selectively crossed and mutated. And it has produced a food revolution for which we should be thankful. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:33 PM (DTgUC) 48
Corn in my area sucks. It’s a Buck an ear and awful.
But. It’s blackberry season. And there’s a LOT of them. Free for the harvesting. Everywhere. Plums and apples and pears as well. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:34 PM (BT7V7) 49
35 Shifting gears for a minute: Little Cuties. Yes, they're mandarines, right? Yes, they taste great, right? Yes, they're affordable, right? NO! Once upon a time, I could buy a 3-lb mesh bag of 'em at Kroger or W'mart for $3.39 or $3.49 ($5.95 for a 5-lb bag). NOW the 3-lb bag is priced at $5.49 and the 5-lb bag at $8.49. Sorry. Those can sit on the shelf and rot as far as I'm concerned. I will NOT be played like that. Yes, they're good. Yes, I enjoy 'em. Yes, they supply my body with needed Vitamin See. No, I will NOT be extorted by a grocery chain. Besides that, they're now at End-of-Season, so you know 'The Quality Goes In Before the Name Goes On', right? Right?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+) Is it cutie season? I always associate citrus season with winter... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:34 PM (tOcjL) 50
I am missing six front teeth. My corn on the cob has to be sliced off the cob., still hard to chew.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 04:35 PM (LHPAg) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 04:36 PM (Cqx++) 52
@ 49 35 Shifting gears for a minute: Little Cuties. Yes, they're mandarines, right? Yes, they taste great, right? Yes, they're affordable, right? NO! Once upon a time, I could buy a 3-lb mesh bag of 'em at Kroger or W'mart for $3.39 or $3.49 ($5.95 for a 5-lb bag). NOW the 3-lb bag is priced at $5.49 and the 5-lb bag at $8.49. Sorry. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+)
______________________________ Is it cutie season? I always associate citrus season with winter... ______________________________ Nope - now it's the END of 'Cuties' season … pity, that. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:36 PM (ayRl+) 53
The Garrison Bros irritate me with their highly overpriced Texas bourbons that sometimes sound interesting enough that I want to buy them. Their Lady Bird Bourbon is a case in point. It starts out as a small batch that is aged 4 years in new white oak barrels for 4 years then infused with Texas wildflower Honey for 8-9 months then transferred to French Cognac XO casks for3 more years then bottled at 114 proof. Sounds like a perfect fit for GB bourbon's lumbery style. I suspect this would make a great after meal sipper. Buuut, at almost $200/btl it shall go unsipped at the naturalfake Hacienda. Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG) 54
Cut the fat end of the corn with shucks on off. Microwave for 4 minutes. Grab skinny end and squeeze and it comes out without silks. Unbelievably good. Youtube has video but it really is idiot proof.
Posted by: Pamazon at August 30, 2026 04:38 PM (b5MGU) 55
ps: Snails are nasty. Tried them once at a fancy restaurant. STILL nasty.
Posted by: Pamazon at August 30, 2026 04:38 PM (b5MGU) 56
@ 50 I am missing six front teeth. My corn on the cob has to be sliced off the cob., still hard to chew.
___________________________________ Seriously? I had all my teeth pulled 'cos they were more trouble than they were worth. Now I just take out my dentures and slice the corn off the cob. Works great, and that's why God made knives … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:39 PM (ayRl+) 57
I actually prefer chicken thighs over brast or legs
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Ia/+0) 58
55 ps: Snails are nasty. Tried them once at a fancy restaurant. STILL nasty.
Posted by: Pamazon at August 30, 2026 04:38 PM (b5MGU) They need garlic sauce...oh, and need to be fed corn meal for (2 or 3 wks?) to purge anything toxic they've been eating, if you get them yourself. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK) 59
I hate to admit this but snails are really nothing but a delivery matrix for butter, garlic and lemon. Chewy and meh on their own. I prefer shrimp or chicken for the flavor matrix.
Now let's talk turkey! the ultimate matrix food. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (DTgUC) 60
So, I started my 1.5 line meds (aka, an add on while I keep taking the other cancer meds), which goes better if you have a meal with 25-55% fat content...since I like to take meds that can wreck my digestive system in the morning (b/c who wants to not sleep all night), I had to flip my normal breakfasts.
Raisin Bran was out, but I still needed to also start my day with close enough fiber b/c of my other med (that I'm still on). So after experimenting, I'm on Dave's Killer thin seeded breads (I use 2-3 different ones), 2 slices toasted with Aldi's organic all natural peanut butter (the one that's just peanuts and salt) with my coffee and water bottle (which the meds also need) and all the my vitamins. After 2 weeks, I'm not sad about breakfast and feeling good, so if you need a "normal, no work" breakfast for meds that need a sufficiently fat-filled meal (when you also have to avoid dairy and tree nuts), you could do worse... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL) 61
When I was a few* years younger, I would pull off side of the 2 lane road and pick fresh corn. Tasted even better than farm stand.
*40 years ago I think Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (ig95V) 62
The part I hated to admit was that CBD was right about something.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (DTgUC) 63
Snails? No. The 'Jesse Kelly Burger'? Yes!
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (ayRl+) 64
Today is a Holiday. In 70 A.D. Saint Titus the Divine put Satan's second temple to the torch.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 30, 2026 04:44 PM (2MN4W) 65
The part I hated to admit was that CBD was right about something.
Posted by: Pete Bog Well, yes... Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:44 PM (aJQbY) 66
Costco is an incredible pain in the ass. I avoid it like the plague.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (DpZaL) 67
Chicken breast has a minimum of yucky stringy stuff, so that's the part of the chicken I tend to eat. I usually roast them in the oven, slice or dice, and throw some into other things I like, to boost the protein. Like ramen. Handful of broccoli, handful of chicken, and some stir fry sauce (I don't usually use the flavor packet).
I often pre-cook a high protein spaghetti to use instead of ramen noodles, for that matter. Quick lunches. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (h7ZuX) 68
The part I hated to admit was that CBD was right about something.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (DTgUC) -- It had to happen eventually! Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (kpS4V) 69
I had a package of chicken thighs I threw in the slow cooker with a jar of roasted hatch chili sauce and some extra lime juice.
Shredded the chicken after about 5 hours and rolled into corn tortillas. Topped with more batch chili sauce and some white cheese. Baked until bubbly. Took half and froze it and ate the other half. During the week. Finished the last enchilada this morning topped with an over easy egg. Easy and yummy. And not horribly expensive. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (XNYK+) 70
Sweet corn, like any corn, as it matures and dries the sugars turn to starches. A proper truck-farmer will stagger planting so rows are a day or two apart so you always get the corn at the milk phase, where if you squeeze a kernel you get a milky-looking ooze out of it. If it's clear then it's immature and was picked too soon. Late-stage corn kernels will have little moisture and appear doughy. You can store in the refrigerator or even freeze sweet corn, but as soon as it's picked the sweetness starts going down as it dries and those sugars turn. Most corn you see in fields is dent corn. It's what food eats.
Posted by: MaxDamage at August 30, 2026 04:47 PM (kVewf) 71
"Shifting gears for a minute: Little Cuties. Yes, they're mandarines, right?"
I don't know. I'm not affectionate enough with fruit to call it "Cutie".😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:47 PM (JrHfD) 72
@ 67 … "I often pre-cook a high protein spaghetti to use instead of ramen noodles, for that matter. Quick lunches."
____________________________________ Qué? 'High protein spaghetti' … ? Ees no compute, si? Spaghetti have no meat in them - they're all starch. Where is 'protein'? Ees confusing, si? Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:47 PM (ayRl+) 73
Mmmm, just sliced a couple green-when-ripe tomatoes called Green Giant. Absolutely delicious, with an almost citrusy taste.
I will be sad when garden fresh maters are no longer to be plucked. I'm spoiled for honest tomato flavor. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:48 PM (kpS4V) 74
Now let's talk turkey! the ultimate matrix food.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (DTgUC) They sell these huge deep fried turkey legs at the local fair that's held here every year. That will be back around Halloween. They look like Fred Flintstone gnawing on a dinosaur leg. Deep fried turkey is good turkey, though. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt) 75
Costco chicken carcasses make awesome stock. Make stock, cool and freeze in ice cube trays. Pop out a cube or two when you need some extra fluid.
Just don’t mistake for ice when you’re making a cocktail. Erf. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (yYs4P) 76
In my college days, wienies and beans were a staple in the dorm. The secret was onions and mustard. Bacon was always welcome, as was cheese.
But when you're young you don't always clean up like a responsible adult and you leave that slow cooker or crock pot on the counter or in the sink and the next thing you know, it has become a biohazard in you kitchen. We must have thrown out four crock pots in those days and if we had left the door open, they could have walked out from all of the fuzzy shit growing inside of them. I still like wienies and beans. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (nlLAo) 77
10 minutes? What do you think they are? Hog nuts or something?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2026 04:52 PM (diia5) 78
35 Shifting gears for a minute: Little Cuties. Yes, they're mandarines, right? Yes, they taste great, right? Yes, they're affordable, right? NO! Once upon a time, I could buy a 3-lb mesh bag of 'em at Kroger or W'mart for $3.39 or $3.49 ($5.95 for a 5-lb bag). NOW the 3-lb bag is priced at $5.49 and the 5-lb bag at $8.49. Sorry. Those can sit on the shelf and rot as far as I'm concerned. I will NOT be played like that. Yes, they're good. Yes, I enjoy 'em. Yes, they supply my body with needed Vitamin See. No, I will NOT be extorted by a grocery chain. Besides that, they're now at End-of-Season, so you know 'The Quality Goes In Before the Name Goes On', right? Right?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+) My theory on those is that they're rejects because they're undersized, and in the past they would have been used to make orange juice, at a lower price. Then some marketing genius figured out that they could give them a "cute" name and sell them at a premium price. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz) 79
Easy and yummy. And not horribly expensive.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (XNYK+) That does sound good. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (PjGKJ) 80
When we lived in Mountain View, that area, and Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and Menlo Park areas had some pretty good Ramen joints.
Pricy. But... given the area and the time we were there it was expected. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (2Cry5) 81
High protein spaghetti isn't all that high protein. But I need all the help I can get. I like the one Barilla makes. I think it has some chickpea flour added to boost the protein, but not so much as to screw up the texture.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (h7ZuX) 82
Turkey sucks. It’s flavorless and dry and gross.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (X96e+) 83
nurse, that reminds me, I think I've got some chicken in the freezer... and some cream cheese in the fridge... and a package of flour tortillas... and some hatch green chilis....
I may just have to do chicken enchiladas sometime soonish for the first time. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:55 PM (aJQbY) 84
Back in the day, when I used to help the neighbors harvest their corn, we'd shuck it and eat it raw right in the field. Corn is very versatile and it works raw, grilled, boiled, - anything but creamed. That shit is nasty.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 04:56 PM (nlLAo) 85
81 High protein spaghetti isn't all that high protein. But I need all the help I can get. I like the one Barilla makes. I think it has some chickpea flour added to boost the protein, but not so much as to screw up the texture.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (h7ZuX) Semolina pasta has 7g of protein per serving (I know, I just looked at the Trader Joe bag I'm making Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:59 PM (tOcjL) 86
RandomDave!
Soooo good! Yes, there is some effort in hand rolling the enchiladas, but it’s worth it. Who doesn’t love enchiladas? Make sure you use corn tortillas though. So much more flavor and they don’t get gummy like the flour ones do. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:59 PM (X96e+) 87
82 Turkey sucks. It’s flavorless and dry and gross.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (X96e+) Well-prepared turkey is pretty good. My father made some turkey on the rotisserie over the grill years ago that was indistinguishable from roasted chicken in taste and texture, and was juicy. Deep fried has a good taste and juicy, too. It's just not something people would eat ever day other than in deli sandwiches or something. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt) 88
Who doesn’t love enchiladas? Make sure you use corn tortillas though. So much more flavor and they don’t get gummy like the flour ones do.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:59 PM (X96e+) I like them to be absolutely drowning in red sauce. That stuff is so good. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 05:02 PM (h7ZuX) 89
I like the one Barilla makes. I think it has some chickpea flour added to boost the protein, but not so much as to screw up the texture.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (h7ZuX) Barilla is my favorite spaghetti, too. The flavor is much better than the others I've tried over the years. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt) 90
82 Turkey sucks. It’s flavorless and dry and gross.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (X96e+) Then you've never had a properly prepared Texas smoked/bar-b-qued turkey slow cooked (250-275) with oak. It is moist and tasty. BTW, one serves pickled jalapenos on the side like with every other food group in Texas. Posted by: BillB at August 30, 2026 05:04 PM (Gz/2A) 91
2 bags of maruchin ramen, one can of mixed veggies, 12 Turkey meatsballs
I add a bit of mrs dash garlic flavor stir Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:04 PM (jrgJz) 92
Snails? Garlic may not be enough, maybe a bottle of scotch to get them down would be needed
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:04 PM (Ia/+0) 93
If Scottie Scheffler wasn't a golfer, I think he would have made a pretty good contract killer.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 05:05 PM (sl73Y) 94
Turkey - properly done - really is kinda on the 'good'-ish side of the table. Improperly cooked, y' get a dry and/or tough cut of the bird (can I say that here?). I've had excellent turkey cooked by my Mom and Grandmother, and I've had 'shoe-turkey' served at some of the (cough*cough) 'better' restaurants … they know how to charge, but not how to cook - just sayin' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:06 PM (ayRl+) 95
93 If Scottie Scheffler wasn't a golfer, I think he would have made a pretty good contract killer.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 05:05 PM (sl73Y) It helps that Hovland has let the pressure of the day get to him... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:08 PM (tOcjL) 96
Butterball makes an excellent turkey burger
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:08 PM (jrgJz) 97
Turkey and dumplings isn’t bad. Just make your own turkey stock ffs. Then, with some fresh herbs it’s palatable.
Whole roasted turkey is awful. If you need gravy to disguise the flavorless sawdust, it’s not good food. Stuff a salmon. Now there’s a good meal. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (pUOWF) 98
My theory on those is that they're rejects because they're undersized, and in the past they would have been used to make orange juice, at a lower price. Then some marketing genius figured out that they could give them a "cute" name and sell them at a premium price.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz) Nah. They're what the Japanese would call, "mikon" (mee-kahn). And the Japanese kiddos eat them like candy as they sit at their kotatsu during winter and do their homework after school. Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (iJfKG) 99
Ummm … I've never gotten a good enough answer to this question to convince me I should eat snail: WHY do people eat garden slime-makers? I don't have a problem eating squid or octopus, but snail … ? Nuh-unh, Herbie …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (ayRl+) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:10 PM (aJQbY) 101
Stuff a salmon. Now there’s a good meal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (pUOWF) My brother books big fillets of salmon on the griddle with lots of butter and olive oil & spices and sometimes he'll throw some bacon in there. It's wonderful. Probably one of my favorite fish meals of all time. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt) 102
New Jersey corn is pretty good, mostly because the supply chain is short and it arrives within a day or so of harvest.
There is a trick, if you ever want to garden your own. Four rows is a minimum. Don't ask me why. I've done 4x4 corn plants with good results. But corn is very, very hard on your soil. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:11 PM (ZEFzw) 103
Dr_No,
Yeah, nothing too slimy thanks. Or that looks back at me. I do love me some fried calamari or octopus though! Just... properly sliced and diced, please! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (aJQbY) 104
books = cooks
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt) 105
Hold it...a Cob commenting favorably on corn on the cob? There's something suspiciously self-promoting about this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L) 106
@ 100 "turkey burger". "turkey", "burger". I know both of those words, but it still makes no sense! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:10 PM (aJQbY)
_________________________ Thou hast hit upon the Ultimate Food Contradiction … they are (a) both and (b) neither … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ayRl+) 107
nurse that's close to one of my favorite easy/cheap/de-lish-ous recipes. Buy boneless/skinless chicken thighs on sale, toss 'em in the slow cooker for 5 hours, remove and shred, retaining enough liquid to achieve desired consistency, put it all back in with bbq sauce/whatever.
Plan to do this for pulled chicken sandwiches for my crew next range duty day. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:13 PM (U/Byj) 108
Ummm … I've never gotten a good enough answer to this question to convince me I should eat snail: WHY do people eat garden slime-makers? I don't have a problem eating squid or octopus, but snail … ? Nuh-unh, Herbie …
Posted by: Dr_No ----- See: Oysters Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (XeU6L) 109
Every "organic" plant we eat today has been hybridized, selectively crossed and mutated.
Posted by: Pete Bog and that is the honest truth. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (NnhvP) Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (0sNs1) 111
Turkey - properly done - really is kinda on the 'good'-ish side of the table.
I always soak mine in a cider brine for a couple days, then smoke. Definitely not dry, yet the brine helps the skin not be slimy. Not deep fried crisp, but more of a paper-thin crisp. Smoked turkey after a brine soak is a good, cheap eat. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (ZEFzw) 112
Dr_No, if you're still here, I tried your ChatGPT suggestion with my corrupted Word document and it worked quite well. The resulting document is a little scrambled, but it did a surprisingly good job of recovering the basic text contents and formatting.
Thanks for the suggestion, I would not have thought of that. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 05:16 PM (X5Jzz) 113
@ 108 Ummm … I've never gotten a good enough answer to this question to convince me I should eat snail: WHY do people eat garden slime-makers? I don't have a problem eating squid or octopus, but snail … ? Nuh-unh, Herbie …
Posted by: Dr_No ----- See: Oysters - Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (XeU6L) _________________________________ I have eaten my Obligatory Dozen (befitting a Boy From N'Awlins). Now I NEVER have to eat another 'raw ersta' - seemsayin' … ? Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (ayRl+) 114
For some reason National Corn on the Cob Day is June 11. Is there some place in the continental US that has sweet corn ready to eat on June 11?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gvBhq) 115
There's a local deli that makes a turkey burger version of their hamburger.
It's actually not terrible. I'd rather have the cheeseburger, but if you're watching your weight the turkey burger is not a terrible replacement compared to a veggie burger. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt) 116
@ 112 Dr_No, if you're still here, I tried your ChatGPT suggestion with my corrupted Word document and it worked quite well. The resulting document is a little scrambled, but it did a surprisingly good job of recovering the basic text contents and formatting.
Thanks for the suggestion, I would not have thought of that. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 05:16 PM (X5Jzz) ________________________ That's great! I'm happy it worked so well for you! Thanks for the heads-up. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:18 PM (ayRl+) 117
Every "organic" plant we eat today has been hybridized, selectively crossed and mutated.
Posted by: Pete Bog and that is the honest truth. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM We have been genetically modifying our food supply for the last 5,000 years. In the last 50 years we just moved the process from the fields to the lab. And now all of the liberals scream about GMO foods being evil because that is their latest craze. The very same people who were so recently shouting "trust the science" when the covid vaccines came out now abhor anything that comes from a lab. You literally can't win with these idiots. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 05:19 PM (cpFbA) 118
Not getting the Turkey Hate here. It's delicious. Sure I've had a dry overcooked turkey but that is the rarity not the usual when I was growing up. A nice moist roast turkey with al;l the fixings is a beautiful thing. And as mentioned above smoked turkey is larrupin' as well. Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2026 05:19 PM (iJfKG) 119
Only time I had snails was at a fairly high end restaurant overlooking a beautiful valley in the Lorraine region, just across from Saarbrucken. Chewy excuse to consume garlic butter - which was fine by me, but have never felt compelled to try it again, as many other superior garlic butter vehicles exist.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:20 PM (U/Byj) 120
I've had snails just to do it. Won't have them again.
My new boyfriend and I spent a day picking blackberries a couple weeks ago. They were very ripe then. We ended up with about 4 lbs. I made cobblers which were gobbled up by the family. Posted by: washrivergal at August 30, 2026 05:20 PM (Fd8os) 121
Even with high temps forecast for the week, I know autumn and cooler weather is on the way. That makes me think of baking. (Any excuse to think about baking.) Started thinking about baking tools:
-cast iron bread pans, skillets and Ditch ovens (better than glass or aluminum) - Brod and Taylor proofer box (use it for raising dough, making yogurt and kefir) - Kitchen-Aid stand mixer - Swedish dough whisk (incredibly versatile and effective) - kitchen scale Picked up some locally grown and ground flours to try for bread baking instead of the usual King Arthur flours. Should be fun. BTW, even the plainest no-knead bread tastes better than almost anything done commercially. Worth the small amount of time to make my own. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:21 PM (yTvNw) 122
but have never felt compelled to try it again, as many other superior garlic butter vehicles exist.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:20 PM (U/Byj) I'd rather just eat it with breadsticks, personally. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt) 123
I missed the ONT.
74 Well, I'm going to say it. If you thought it a good idea to put tattoos on your face, you shouldn't be making career decisions without a guardian. Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske) I can be polite to a stranger, see if he can act normal. But I would never actually *trust* someone with a facial tattoo, and Jelly Roll has confirmed the utility of that heuristic. I will extend the benefit of the doubt only so far, and not enough to be a fool. Posted by: SciVo at August 30, 2026 05:22 PM (ke3zm) 124
114 For some reason National Corn on the Cob Day is June 11. Is there some place in the continental US that has sweet corn ready to eat on June 11?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gvBhq) Maybe in the Deep South. Here is Iowa we're doing good to have local corn by the Fourth of July. I see it shucked and packaged in the stores before then, I figure it's from Florida or somewhere with a longer growing season. Also not as good as local corn. There's a sweetcorn farm a few miles from here that picks early in the morning, then sends out trucks loaded with corn to sell all around the area. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 05:22 PM (X5Jzz) 125
115 There's a local deli that makes a turkey burger version of their hamburger.
It's actually not terrible. I'd rather have the cheeseburger, but if you're watching your weight the turkey burger is not a terrible replacement compared to a veggie burger. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt) Turkey burger is fine if you don't treat it like a beef burger. Toppings should be turkey focused, not beef focused...so a cranberry aoili...or a turkey club vibe... Aka, you would not put ketchup on turkey...so you shouldn't put it on a turkey burger, either... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL) 126
Turkey is a fine beast and fare. Sometimes you might get one that's bit wild, like sage, but that's because people want 'free range' and favor other 'organic' type made-up descriptors. I'll never turn down an invite to a turkey dinner. With gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes and dessert.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (nlLAo) 127
We have been genetically modifying our food supply for the last 5,000 years. In the last 50 years we just moved the process from the fields to the lab. And now all of the liberals scream about GMO foods being evil because that is their latest craze.
There was this smart cat back in the day. Mendel. He was big into Big GMO Pea. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (ZEFzw) 128
Take a few cups of ripe blackberries, a cup of sugar and throw in a jug of vodka.
Give a stir and a shake every few days. Let it set for several weeks. Beautiful color and fabulous in the summer with soda water and a squeeze of lime Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (pUOWF) 129
Nova Local -
I have some nieces who would disagree, but then to them ketchup goes on hotdogs, too! The savages! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:24 PM (aJQbY) 130
There was a small B&B along the Russian River on the road to Guerneville, just down the hill there were wild blackberry vines on fences etc. Amazing little snack in the fall. Dunno if the place is still open, it really was best in its original version, run by a very talented and hilarious Austrian chef. Just before you get to Korbel going west, for those that know the area.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:24 PM (U/Byj) 131
Aka, you would not put ketchup on turkey...so you shouldn't put it on a turkey burger, either...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL) Yes, it was fried up kind of like a salmon patty, they add mayo, pepper, tomatoes, and lettuce. You can also add bacon on top, as I recall. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt) 132
@ 117 Every "organic" plant we eat today has been hybridized, selectively crossed and mutated. Posted by: Pete Bog
and that is the honest truth. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM We have been genetically modifying our food supply for the last 5,000 years. In the last 50 years we just moved the process from the fields to the lab. And now all of the liberals scream about GMO foods being evil because that is their latest craze. The very same people who were so recently shouting "trust the science" when the covid vaccines came out now abhor anything that comes from a lab. You literally can't win with these idiots. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 05:19 PM (cpFbA) _________________________________ The 'Organic' types don't realise it's just another way to say 'NON-METALLIC' (e.g., INorganic). Asshats. Now polish my brass. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:26 PM (ayRl+) 133
129 Nova Local -
I have some nieces who would disagree, but then to them ketchup goes on hotdogs, too! The savages! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:24 PM (aJQbY) This is why turkey burgers get a bad rap with normal folks... Honestly, my spouse doesn't love them, but he likes mine and will only eat mine...b/c he wants complementary flavors to the turkey, not clashing ones (yeah, I can't think of a time I've loved anything tomato forward with turkey)... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (tOcjL) 134
@114. Idaho Spudboy
I would think it would depend on the climate. Growing seasons begin earlier in the warmer areas of the country.Lot of differents between Southern Georgia and Iowa. Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (x5VN8) Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (yTvNw) 136
Arby's makes a Deep Fried sandwich, only during the fall, with like a light cranberry type sauce on it.
I've only been able to try it once, every other time I tried to get one they were sold out. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt) 137
*Deep Fried Turkey ^^^
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt) 138
JTB, planning to buy some flours from Barton Springs Mill for bread. The worst weather in my lifetime here in San Diego (yes, that's a pretty low and weird bar, but true) is now ending, though baking remains a month out at least since warm/dry fall is the norm. Gotta look into that proofing box thing. A friend wants to give me her like-new KitchenAid mixer, should probably finally agree. I only do hand mixed stuff so far.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:28 PM (U/Byj) 139
131 Aka, you would not put ketchup on turkey...so you shouldn't put it on a turkey burger, either...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL) Yes, it was fried up kind of like a salmon patty, they add mayo, pepper, tomatoes, and lettuce. You can also add bacon on top, as I recall. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt) Mayo, mustard (I've done my own dijonaise for the turkey burgers), and complementary aoilis...and even mashed avocado will also work as turkey burger "condiments"...my kids swear BBQ does, too, but I prefer the fattier condiments with the less fatty burger... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:29 PM (tOcjL) 140
Ditch oven sounds like a derogatory way to refer to a luau.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:30 PM (Ot/FD) 141
I've put ketchup on a plain old turkey and Swiss sandwich before.
It's pretty good to be honest. Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:32 PM (Ot/FD) 142
@ 140 Ditch oven sounds like a derogatory way to refer to a luau. Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:30 PM (Ot/FD)
____________________________ 'Ditch Oven' … sounds like Copyright time to me. That'd be one helluva brand name. 'Course, you'd prolly only find it at Ollie's … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:32 PM (ayRl+) 143
Ditch oven sounds like a derogatory way to refer to a luau.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:30 PM It reminds me of mexican ditch weed. Nasty smelling stuff. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 05:32 PM (cpFbA) 144
There are a variety of seasonings to put on turkey to make it taste a bit like beef (hamburger).
We've done it, successfully, with our kids. It's not impossible. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:33 PM (2Cry5) 145
Turkey isn’t bad. It requires careful preparation and a flavorful spice, sauce, brine etc to be the most enjoyable.
I really enjoy fried turkey, and turkey leg confit is killer. Make it every Thanksgiving. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:34 PM (q+jsk) 146
Speaking of
Its Scotch time Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (Ia/+0) 147
Turkey's usually excellent - except for the gizzard and giblets …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (ayRl+) 148
114 For some reason National Corn on the Cob Day is June 11. Is there some place in the continental US that has sweet corn ready to eat on June 11?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gvBhq) _________________________ I was curious about that too. I assumed that it was a sponsored bill by retail stores or states such as California or Florida. It turns out it was put forth by the Governor of Iowa in 1953, and passed via the US Senate in 1988. The basis for June 11th was to reflect the coming of the summer BBQ season, and not reflective of the harvesting period later in the Summer. Personally, and on a separate note, I really dislike the "National Day" of anything. It's a waste of time and money. Taxpayer money because it requires a bill be drawn up, voted on, documented, and announced. That money could be spent better elesewhere. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (dIske) 149
Ditch oven sounds like a derogatory way to refer to a luau.
Posted by: Warai-otoko ------ Or possibly New Orleans. P.J. O'Rourke once referred to New Orleans as 'A crime-filled ditch'. Having been there in August, I'll testify to the 'oven' part. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (XeU6L) 150
OT - we hit some anti-shipping rocket launchers on Larak Is. and now the turbans have launched ballistic missiles - target as yet unclear. Good news basically.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:36 PM (U/Byj) 151
There are a variety of seasonings to put on turkey to make it taste a bit like beef (hamburger).
My experience is to use it like any other poultry. I just don't care for the ground versions that are sold as an alternative to beef. Although it does make a nice sliced cold cut. And I can't tolerate chicken like that. Turkey bacon is ... OK. Its not bacon. And I tire of my wife's constant attempts to serve turkey instead of beef or pork. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:36 PM (ZEFzw) 152
Space Balls is on, I'll watch it but won't find it funny
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0) 153
I can't eat snails or oysters, just the thought, yuck. I know there is nothing really wrong with them but I don't know, yuck. Seems like a bug you would step on. Would not eat frog legs either.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 05:37 PM (x5VN8) 154
Sweet corn is usually ripe by Memorial Day down here on the Texas coastal prairie. It's usually done by the Fourth.
Posted by: DanMa'am at August 30, 2026 05:38 PM (8uzBS) 155
I boiled down the remains of one of those store rotisserie chickens the other day.
Seasoned the broth with dried jalapeno bits and dried ginger slices, and salt and pepper, and added a cup and a half of barley, because I didn't have any egg noodles. Then I let it boil too long and ended up with the barley equivalent of risotto. It was sill really good. Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 30, 2026 05:38 PM (C0Nlv) 156
I got violently ill from oysters in ireland once and haven't touched them since.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Ot/FD) 157
@ 153 I can't eat snails or oysters, just the thought, yuck. I know there is nothing really wrong with them but I don't know, yuck. Seems like a bug you would step on. Would not eat frog legs either. Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 05:37 PM (x5VN
____________________________ The correct word for both 'snails' and 'oysters is: SNOT. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:39 PM (ayRl+) 158
On the alcohol front: Has anyone ever tried baijiu? It's a kind of moonshine from China. Friend of mine sent me a bottle from a recent business trip there. 52% alcohol/volume was the only readable text to this round eye.
The nose is redolent with rotting bananas. If you make it past the gag-inducing aroma however, you are rewarded with a palate that reminds the tastebuds of your first bout of dry heaves. If you prevail upon your esophagus's protestations and actually get it to your stomach, the alcohol serves to short circuit your brain sufficiently to convince you that it was all a bad dream... Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (nbLIj) 159
If not mentioned already.... those rotisserie chickens make a good broth (base) for Ramen.
So I've heard. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (2Cry5) 160
It was sill really good.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 30, 2026 05:38 PM (C0Nlv) Sounds like you stumbled onto a variant of Miley’s Chicken Bog. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (jVkUA) 161
August 'Food Days',
NATIONAL RASPBERRY CREAM PIE DAY NATIONAL WATERMELON DAY NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DAY NATIONAL OYSTER DAY NATIONAL ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (XeU6L) 162
“ Tell this rebellious people a parable and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
Put on the cooking pot; put it on and pour water into it. Put into it the pieces of meat, all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder. Fill it with the best of these bones; take the pick of the flock. Pile wood beneath it for the bones; bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.” Ezekiel 24:3-5 Posted by: Marcus T at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (f4tQo) 163
Turkey sandwiches should be turkey, salt, pepper, mayo, butter and lettuce. Disregard the lettuce in this strange spectrum of explosive diarrhea. That's the rudimentary recipe. I'd substitute spinach for lettuce.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (nlLAo) 164
@ 158 On the alcohol front: Has anyone ever tried baijiu? It's a kind of moonshine from China. Friend of mine sent me a bottle from a recent business trip there. 52% alcohol/volume was the only readable text to this round eye. The nose is redolent with rotting bananas. If you make it past the gag-inducing aroma however, you are rewarded with a palate that reminds the tastebuds of your first bout of dry heaves. If you prevail upon your esophagus's protestations and actually get it to your stomach, the alcohol serves to short circuit your brain sufficiently to convince you that it was all a bad dream... Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (nbLIj)
______________________________________ Thanks! So, we should go to the liquor store and ask for their finest bottle of aged vomitus, yes … ? My my my … live 'n learn. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:43 PM (ayRl+) 165
https://www.butterball.com/products/ turkey-burgers/frozen-burgers-original
listen up.....and listen real good cause I'm only going to say this once i had a heart attack and they took all of my good food away. I raced for nigh on 40 years existing on pizza, cattle and barley water i was told I could have A) cardboard B) Ketchup on cardbord I'm trying to make do and stay alive eaten ain't worth a fuck without intestines Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:43 PM (jrgJz) 166
For some reason National Corn on the Cob Day is June 11. Is there some place in the continental US that has sweet corn ready to eat on June 11?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy For the east coast, i'd guess ripe day for central florida. Grocery store season starts then, with source moving north. Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 05:44 PM (sl73Y) 167
Most Jamaican rum has a nose often including rotten bananas - it's the "funk" or "hogo" that is a hallmark of that island's rums. And it's on the palate not just the nose. It varies of course. Not a fan myself, but there are some with just a hint.
Comes from the distillation method, pot stills where the detritus/sediments from previous batches is left in. You can get some of this from Guyana rums also, same reason I believe. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:45 PM (U/Byj) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:45 PM (aJQbY) 169
135 121 Dutch oven not Ditch oven.
Stupid fat fingers. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (yTvNw) Ditch oven is where the hobo roasts the catch of the day. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 05:46 PM (h7ZuX) 170
Never been food poison by shell fish and never had any shell fish
Coincidence ? Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0) 171
>>>Turkey's usually excellent - except for the gizzard and giblets …
Posted by: Dr_No >Those get chopped up and go in the gravy stock with the neck. Now the liver, I can't abide. We can cook that separate for other purposes. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 05:46 PM (nlLAo) 172
I've frozen whole ears of corn. Just put em in the freezer and they'll keep for weeks, maybe even months (according to the lady who tipped me to this).
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 04:30 PM (nbLIj) They will last longer in the freezer if you blanche them. Which leads to the joke: An old farmer heard that it is easier and better to store corn on the cob in the freezer if you roll each one in an unlubricated condom. So he went to the pharmacy on Friday, and ordered a carton of one hundred condoms, planning to process his crop over the weekend. He and his wife picked, shucked, blanched and packaged each ear of corn, and when they got to the end of the carton, they bagged them up in plastic bags to put in the freezer, five to a bag. On counting they discovered they only had 98 ears prepared for freezing, and the carton had been short. Monday morning, he went back to the pharmacy to complain. He carefully explained that the carton of condoms he had ordered for the weekend was two short and he would like the difference back. The manager listened carefully, nodded, pulled the money out of the till, and said, "I certainly hope this didn't ruin your weekend." Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 05:47 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:49 PM (2Cry5) 174
For some reason National Corn on the Cob Day is June 11. Is there some place in the continental US that has sweet corn ready to eat on June 11?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy Seems early here in Southern Indiana. We get frosts as late as Derby Weekend. Corn is a great crop, though. As quick as eight weeks, seed to cob. There's a reason it's fed America for centuries. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:50 PM (ZEFzw) 175
Food related. I was informed yesterday that our 20 yo hand-held can opener need to be replaced. Sprayed it with Dawn and soaked in hot water for few hours. Then applied small head screwdriver to wheels and gears to remove gunk that didn't fall off. Think it can go another 20 years.
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 05:51 PM (ig95V) 176
I am in France, and for lunch at a lovely restaurant was served an amuse bouche of corn!
First time I have ever seen corn fed to humans in France! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (HwKLm) 177
173 We are surrounded by corn fields.
Silage corn. Corn for industrial use. Nasty. Don't ask. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:49 PM (2Cry5) ++++ Now I have to ask, what about it makes it nasty? Posted by: washrivergal at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (Fd8os) 178
168 what the cat drug in,
Are you sure this isn't MAID? Make you wish you were dead? Cows are tasty. However they are on the "mutually assured intestinal destruction list. From one dave to another: rest assured the first thing i'm doing in heaven is eat a big old steer Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (jrgJz) 179
*needed
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (ig95V) 180
My turkey burgers are made with cranberries, jalapenos and chunks of pepperjack cheese in them.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:53 PM (PbWRL) 181
Plums and apples and pears as well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:34 PM (BT7V7) I have been canning and drying apples, pears and plums. The pears and summer apples are about done, and I am now working on the yellow egg plums. There are so many left on the tree that I don't know what all to do with them besides give them away by the bucket. Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 05:53 PM (rbvCR) 182
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 05:51 PM (ig95V)
I wonder if the cutting wheel can be sharpened? I'll bet it can! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2026 05:54 PM (HwKLm) 183
Turkey isn’t bad. It requires careful preparation and a flavorful spice, sauce, brine etc to be the most enjoyable.
I really enjoy fried turkey, and turkey leg confit is killer. Make it every Thanksgiving. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:34 PM (q+jsk) One year, I saved the fat trimmings from a few ribeyes, and put them under the skin of that year's Thanksgiving turkey. It remains the best damn turkey ever to emerge from anyone's oven... Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 05:54 PM (nbLIj) 184
We are surrounded by corn fields. Silage corn. Corn for industrial use.
By me its always been feed corn. So they just let it stay in the field and dry. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (ZEFzw) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (rHgXV) 186
138 ... "JTB, planning to buy some flours from Barton Springs Mill for bread. The worst weather in my lifetime here in San Diego (yes, that's a pretty low and weird bar, but true) is now ending, though baking remains a month out at least since warm/dry fall is the norm. Gotta look into that proofing box thing. A friend wants to give me her like-new KitchenAid mixer, should probably finally agree. I only do hand mixed stuff so far."
rhomboid, The Barton Springs Mill sounds like a version of what I got locally. I keep it in the freezer. The Brod and Taylor proofing box isn't cheap at about 250 bucks but it works great. (It was half the price when we got ours.) I've used ours for many years. There may be less expensive versions out there. Definite YES!! to a free KitchenAid mixer. We have two. One was a wedding gift so over 40 years old. My late MIL gave us hers which is older and was used to make wedding cakes. Both work great even after decades of use. The attachments are also useful. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (yTvNw) 187
Turkey breast pan fried in white wine and herbs is not dry and very flavorful.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (PbWRL) 188
Sure...Why Not?
Little-known fact: The Japanese word "ramen" is simply Japan's failed attempt to pronounce and spell the name of the Chinese noodles "lo mein," which they can't do because Japanese normally has no "L" sound. So, when they encountered and then borrowed the Chinese dish Lo Mein, they did their best to replicate the wrd, but came up with "ramen." But then ramen became more popular than lo mein, and the rest is history. Posted by: zombie at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (Av6i5) 189
Olathe sweet corn from Colorado is the best I've ever had. Can't find it here though. But I have had here is still pretty dang good.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ) 190
Much prefer hamburger, but turkey burger I would do mayo, tomato and lettuce
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0) 191
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:11
Yay to growing your own sweetcorn Orson. As you know well worth it if you can. I've only done it once in town since retiring, but you can get enough in a small area using intensive raised bed techniques. For yrs on the farm had more trouble with raccoons than deer. Methods of deterrence I heard of basically revolved around human scent. Our sweet corn patch was close to the farmhouse and land so during the day humans themselves were the deterrence. For nighttime I've heard of walking around (small) the patch barefoot at the end of the day. Or you can spread human hair or urine. Your barber can help with the one. Guess you could have a nightly kegger to help with the other?!? CBD- the later corn may have just been older and not as sweet depending on the hybrid or a completely different hybrid. You're right, nothing like picking corn and cooking it ASAP. There are now hybrids that slow the conversion of sugars to starch, but the sooner the better. Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 05:58 PM (4Qj8V) 192
JTB my hesitation has always been "space" - not a small kitchen, but not lots of empty space for large gadgets left. Soon I'll be figuring out the best low-profile/small footprint espresso machine to get, finally. The mixer would have to go in a cabinet, will have to map out exactly where it could go. Might free up some space by engaging in a ruthless winnowing exercise with other stuff, probably a good idea anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:59 PM (U/Byj) 193
Okay, sent spouse and boys with the dinner just in time...tasted it and it was pretty darn good and should be teen friendly...
Now, time to either clean the kitchen of the 1000 huge dishes or collapse...I'm leaning collapse, but I'll wait to see if spouse will clean the kitchen (he did the pasta draining b/c that was a bit much for me to lift safely, especially with all the other pots and dishes around)... Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 06:00 PM (tOcjL) 194
We are surrounded by corn fields.
Silage corn. Corn for industrial use. Nasty. Don't ask. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:49 PM (2Cry5) ++++ Now I have to ask, what about it makes it nasty? ------------- Silage corn is for later use. Dried and stored in silos. For cattle. Or.. for industrial use. I've grabbed a couple of ears from the field out back... and it's nasty. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 06:02 PM (2Cry5) 195
Six weeks til the TXMoMe. A roast pig is on the menu for Friday night's fare.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:02 PM (PbWRL) 196
Early report 7 Iranian missiles launched at US targets in Jordan, some intercepted no reports yet of impacts or damage.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:03 PM (U/Byj) 197
I've had Silver Queen corn while going to the Outer Banks. Late July. So sweet, so damn good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:04 PM (DpZaL) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (wLzbH) 199
Oh ffs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (wLzbH) 200
Ben Had I've got to get out there and make some basil lemonade, plenty of lemons on the recently ever-bearing meyer tree, and a yuuuge basil plant full of aromatic leaves. No farming this summer due to travel and then extreme (for here) heat. But basil lemonade will be perfect for weeks to come.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (U/Byj) 201
Silage corn is for later use. Dried and stored in silos. For cattle. Or.. for industrial use. I've grabbed a couple of ears from the field out back... and it's nasty.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 06:02 PM (2Cry5) Try boiling it in lye to get the hulls off, and then rinse it (of course) and use it like hominy. I dislike sweet corn, and I grown Indian corn for that reason. Making hominy is one of the ways of preparing it. It is very tasty. Another use is to parch it either in a pan or in heated sand, and then grind it for flour. Or, you know, let it convert on its own into beef and have a barbeque Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 06:06 PM (rbvCR) 202
Even more crazy is that the Japanese word for "Thank you, " which is "arigato," is not actually a Japanese word at all. In fact, the Japanese had no word or phrase for "thank you, which is odd, considering how much their language is based on politness and deference. Anyway, the first westerners the Japanese ever encountered were Portuguese sailors docking in Nagasaki in the 1500s. Most of thrse sailors were illiterate, but spoke Portuguese, obviously, so when they wanted to thank the Japanese for agreeing to a trade deal (or any other transaction), they always replied with the Portuguese word for "thank you," which is "obrigado." Slurred and spoken quickly, it sounded like "arigato" to Japanese ears. The Japanese quickly found this concept of saying "thank you" to be useful in their own culture, so they quickly borrowed what they thought[/i[ was the Portuguese word "arigato" -- and they use this misspelling to this day, 500 years later.
Posted by: zombie at August 30, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5) 203
Annnd...unitalic.
Posted by: zombie at August 30, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5) 204
It's a food thread so,
Per TGP: Biggest Beer Heist Ever - Thieves hijack truck loaded with 50,000 cans of PBR. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:07 PM (DpZaL) 205
I'm not really a picky eater. Not hard to make me happy. Give me a cheeseburger and fries and I'm good.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 06:08 PM (x5VN8) 206
rhomboid, that sounds so refreshing. They have finally started carrying Meyer lemons here and they work so much better for the limoncello.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:09 PM (PbWRL) 207
You’re a talented chef. How does one prepare a turkey confetti?
Posted by: nurse ratched Rip it to shreds. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:09 PM (DpZaL) 208
Evening all. Just made Itrion. It's an Ancient Greek snack made with honey and sesame seeds.
Thanks to Tasting History. Not bad. Kinda sweet. Kinda savory. Should have added a dash of sea salt. Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:09 PM (8smjC) 209
Mister Roboto
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 06:10 PM (Cqx++) 210
Throw turkey in the air and yell " Pull" . Instant turkey confetti.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:11 PM (PbWRL) 211
How does one prepare a turkey confetti?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (wLzbH) In a celebratory fashion I suspect. Confit on the other hand is slow cooked in oil or fat. Duck fat is traditional. Add lots of garlic, bay leaves, thyme and pepper corns. 3 or 4 hours at 225. Pull from the fat and sear or a few minutes under the broiler to crisp. Really tasty. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:11 PM (jVkUA) 212
Confit on the other hand is slow cooked in oil or fat. Duck fat is traditional. Add lots of garlic, bay leaves, thyme and pepper corns. 3 or 4 hours at 225. Pull from the fat and sear or a few minutes under the broiler to crisp. Really tasty.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:11 PM (jVkUA) ---- So > 2 minutes? Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:12 PM (leKdc) Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:14 PM (jVkUA) 214
>>>Of course I wanted to embed a song by "Korn," but they are awful!
Of course you're wrong, but I still lol'd. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 30, 2026 06:14 PM (syz1S) 215
Biggest Beer Heist Ever - Thieves hijack truck loaded with 50,000 cans of PBR.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:07 PM (DpZaL) It’s a good thing they didn’t steal the beer. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:15 PM (jVkUA) 216
Boil corn? Oh no....
Microwave corn on the cob. Yes, you heard me, put it in the meekrowahvey. Leave it in the husk. It's like being super-steamed. You cut off the stalk end, grab the pointy end and just squeeze - the cob will slide right out, leaving all of the silk behind in the husk (more so than when husking it dry, in my experience). It really is what microwaves are good at. That and nuking the little personal pizzas. Mmmmmmm. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 06:15 PM (kU0PQ) 217
"Per TGP: Biggest Beer Heist Ever - Thieves hijack truck loaded with 50,000 cans of PBR.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory" I wonder if they knew what they were getting. Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:16 PM (MWfyi) 218
GBW, seconded.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:17 PM (PbWRL) 219
Six weeks til the TXMoMe. A roast pig is on the menu for Friday night's fare.
Posted by: Ben Had ompletely not fair, I can't drool for six weeks! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 06:18 PM (NnhvP) Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 06:19 PM (2Cry5) 221
I should run aeay from home
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0) 222
I wish I could be there this year, Ben Had. But, between being out of a job (I start a new one tomorrow!) and savings, my son's wedding is in October.
I hope to get back to both the NoVaMoMe and the TxMoMe next year, though. I miss you guys. Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 06:21 PM (kU0PQ) 223
I can't find Oriental Flavor Ramen anymore.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (36x1j) 224
GWB, we will miss you, too. Congratulations on the new job and the upcoming wedding.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (PbWRL) 225
I can't find Oriental Flavor Ramen anymore.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (36x1j) ---- I never fathomed "oriental flavor." What does that even mean? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:23 PM (FZ29D) 226
Six weeks til the TXMoMe. A roast pig is on the menu for Friday night's fare.
Posted by: Ben Had I am there on Saturday! Trying to work out Friday. Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:24 PM (8smjC) 227
223 I can't find Oriental Flavor Ramen anymore.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (36x1j) That's because "oriental" is offensive now, so now it's soy sauce flavor. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 06:25 PM (h7ZuX) 228
Silage corn is for later use. Dried and stored in silos. For cattle. Or.. for industrial use. I've grabbed a couple of ears from the field out back... and it's nasty.
Up here, you still see "feed corn" - where the stalks and stuff are separated from the ears. Taken in very, very dry. You don't see much silage here. Don't know why. Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM (ZEFzw) 229
I can't even find the Soy Sauce flavor either. Same blue package.
IDK why oriental became a slur. I never used it as one. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM (36x1j) 230
rickb223, I sure hope you can make that work.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM (PbWRL) 231
rickb223, I sure hope you can make that work.
Posted by: Ben Had I'm trying. We just went back to "in the office" five days a week. I've got a new backup I'm having to train. Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:29 PM (8smjC) 232
rickb223, I'm just so happy that you can join us.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:31 PM (PbWRL) 233
rickb223, I'm just so happy that you can join us.
Posted by: Ben Had I'm there Saturday, regardless. Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:32 PM (8smjC) 234
First time I have ever seen corn fed to humans in France!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (HwKLm) ---- They're trying to fatten you up! Don't let the chef convince you to peer into his oven...it's Hansel and Dildo time! Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 06:34 PM (kpS4V) 235
Oriental Flavor is now Asian Inspired.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 06:35 PM (kpS4V) 236
I can't even find the Soy Sauce flavor either. Same blue package.
IDK why oriental became a slur. I never used it as one. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM oriental was a derogatory word in the Navy back in my day. That word referred to sailors who stayed in the orient their entire careers, usually Japan. They wold pull sea duty and rotate back to shore duty for 20+ years never leaving the orient and finally retire there without ever coming back to the states if they could help it. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 06:35 PM (cpFbA) 237
Per TGP: Biggest Beer Heist Ever - Thieves hijack truck loaded with 50,000 cans of PBR.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory" I wonder if they knew what they were getting. Posted by: fd I'm guessing no. That stuff is awful. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:36 PM (bWZYx) 238
I’d rather have a malt at Braum’s than snails. In fact, I am having one now and Mrs. E is having a hot fudge sundae.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 06:37 PM (mkztW) 239
it's Hansel and Dildo time!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 06:34 PM (kpS4V) Yikes, this a family thread. Not bad gay porn. Save that for the movie reviews. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:38 PM (PjGKJ) 240
Eromero, dessert is best!
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:39 PM (PbWRL) 241
If you want to try non-GMO corn, have a sprig of teosinte.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 06:39 PM (tlCdj) 242
rickb223, I'm just so happy that you can join us.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:31 PM (PbWRL) ---- Dibs on rickb223's portion of the roasted pig on Friday! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:40 PM (TMF5Z) 243
I'm about to cook a Nolan Ryan ribeye to go with mashers and corn.
That said I rarely eat anything that can't be cooked or heated up in the microwave. I buy a lot of pre-cooked meals from Krogers that are only $6. Best bargain in the store. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:41 PM (KC5Lt) 244
@ 243 I'm about to cook a Nolan Ryan ribeye to go with mashers and corn. That said I rarely eat anything that can't be cooked or heated up in the microwave. I buy a lot of pre-cooked meals from Krogers that are only $6. Best bargain in the store. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:41 PM (KC5Lt)
____________________________ Ever pick up one of their 'Monster Sandwiches' … ? Wait 'til after 10:30a and the price drops from $5 to $2.92 … patience pays. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (ayRl+) Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (KC5Lt) Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (8smjC) 247
Man. Tough crowd. 😂 Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (8smjC) ------ Naturally, we'll miss you on Friday! Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:45 PM (TMF5Z) 248
Chew your corn thouroughly.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (mkztW) 249
Oriental around the world is now Asian -American right?
Like African-American. Posted by: polynikes Mongolians on the steppes. Never been to America. Asian-American. Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (8smjC) 250
A malt sounds good.
Me too on the corn in the micro. Excellent for all veggie steaming. Lose no flavor or nutrients vs. boiling. At least that sounds good, and the micro's much easer, so, case settled. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (U/Byj) 251
Ben Had, if this job works out, maybe I can make it to the TxMoMe!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (aJQbY) 252
But still... dibs.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (TMF5Z) 253
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (ayRl+)
In fact I do by their poboys or subs or whatever one chooses to call them. Also a great bargain. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:47 PM (KC5Lt) 254
248 Chew your corn thouroughly.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (mkztW) ----------- Always. I do it through a picket fence! Posted by: AOS at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (tlCdj) 255
Wait 'til after 10:30a and the price drops
I used to get discount sushi the same way when I worked in San Diego. A Japanese supermarket near where I worked would discount the sushi that had presumably been made for the lunch crowd, just before they put out the fresh stuff for people who got out of work at 5, but I got out of work at 4:00. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (kYmoU) 256
RandomDave, Hoping all the best for you and we would love to have you join us.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (PbWRL) 257
192 ... "my hesitation has always been "space" - not a small kitchen, but not lots of empty space for large gadgets left."
rhomboid, I keep the mixer on a storage shelf and take it out as needed. The second one is boxed and in a closet. (We have an honorary niece getting married next year. The second mixer might be part of a wedding gift.) The proofer folds flat and fits in a box about 2 feet square and a couple of inches thick. Makes it easy to store. I use ours all the time and just keep it on the dining room table. Doesn't do much for the decor but it works. Our kitchen isn't big and counter space is always at a premium. There is an ongoing struggle between what is needed every day (drip coffee maker, cutting board, toaster oven, and knife block) and all the other things I want close to hand. It's like watching the tide rise and fall depending on what we're making. Takes some planning. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (yTvNw) 258
Only rarely seem to get them but some grocery store prepared food is very good. Fried or baked chicken, many of the salads, even some of the Chinese items can be as good as any normal restaurant, much cheaper and easier.
We do that on the road now, quite a bit. TJ's ready-to-micro or grocery store prepared. Enjoy with some adult beverages in room at the hotel. Especially on long driving days. Also in destinations not known for food. Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:49 PM (U/Byj) 259
JTB, if the shirt-tail neice is kitchen-inclined, she'd thank you kindly for a gift like that!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:50 PM (aJQbY) 260
Brod and Taylor proofer box (use it for raising dough, making yogurt and kefir)
A Texas garage in summer works pretty well for this, too. Just made some bread today, and that about one hour to double in size was more like thirty minutes both times. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 06:51 PM (kYmoU) 261
Stephen Blair - Mitsuwa, Marukai, or Najia?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:51 PM (U/Byj) 262
JTB my hesitation has always been "space" - not a small kitchen, but not lots of empty space for large gadgets left. Soon I'll be figuring out the best low-profile/small footprint espresso machine to get, finally. The mixer would have to go in a cabinet, will have to map out exactly where it could go. Might free up some space by engaging in a ruthless winnowing exercise with other stuff, probably a good idea anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid Kitchen Aid makes a smaller stand mixer. Perfect for limited space. I've got one. Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 06:54 PM (lJ0H4) 263
I don't eat sushi, especially sushi that's "not that old".
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:55 PM (MWfyi) 264
I do eat corn though and they grow plenty of good sweet corn around here.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:56 PM (MWfyi) 265
I don't eat sushi, especially sushi that's "not that old".
Posted by: fd I'd trust gas station sushi over any dem. Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:56 PM (8smjC) 266
CBD, Thank you for the food thread.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:56 PM (PbWRL) Posted by: Robin Ventura at August 30, 2026 06:57 PM (ZEFzw) 268
I'm about to cook a Nolan Ryan ribeye to go with mashers and corn.
Go to Hell !!! Posted by: Robin Ventura 😂😂😂😂😂 Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:57 PM (8smjC) 269
Stephen Blair - Mitsuwa, Marukai, or Najia?
Mitsuwa. It was (is?) kind of the downscale one. I rarely went to Nijiya, and Im not sure I even knew about Marukai at the time. I did occasionally hit Ranch 99, but not very often. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 06:57 PM (kYmoU) 270
Stephen thanks. Not a sushi guy myself but use those stores a fair amount.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:59 PM (U/Byj) 271
Old Man Nolan gave Ventura a beat down.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:59 PM (bWZYx) 272
Still not buying lettuce. But my neighbor has given me some from his garden. He won't take any money for it, he said they have plenty. Good guy. Don't know if I will ever trust that stuff from California or Mexico again.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 06:59 PM (x5VN8) 273
GUN NOOD
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:01 PM (Ia/+0) 274
I do like all of Nolan Ryan beef products.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:01 PM (KC5Lt) 275
This talk of kitchen counter space makes me think, wistfully, of my grandmother's kitchen. The house was Victorian era New England and the kitchen was huge and the focal point of the home. They raised 12 kids and made everything from scratch so the space was needed and used. The kitchen table was big and strong enough to support a Sherman tank. Wonder which of my cousins ended up with it.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 07:06 PM (yTvNw) 276
>>I don't eat sushi, especially sushi that's "not that old".
If you're ever in the area stop by. I'll get you some sushi that's not that old. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m) 277
Had an idea - couldn't find a recipe online, but didn't matter - focaccia pizza sandwiches:
1) Make a focaccia (don't overcook, it'll go back in the over later - let cool, when close to dinner, slice the top off in one piece 2) On the bottom half, add marinara sauce, meat/toppings in a uniform layer, cheese - put top of focaccia back on. 3) Heat in oven at 350° for about 15 min - enough to melt the cheese 4) Cut into serving squares. Turned out good - the twice-baking helped get a nice crunch out of the bread. Might add a 2nd layer of sauce or maybe some garlic butter to the underside of the top layer. Serve with a salad - good to go! Posted by: MD_Mike at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (oBxub) 278
I do corn right on the grill. No butter or salt. Yum.
Posted by: Dale at August 30, 2026 10:18 PM (f45WX) 279
I've been doing pulled pork mac 'n cheese for a while. Usually toss in some smoked Hatch chilis.
Posted by: Stacy0311 at August 30, 2026 11:09 PM (0XJ7E) First World Problems...![]() Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0) 2
First!
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (ayRl+) 3
There has to be plenty of information available
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 30, 2026 02:02 PM (XLHdq) 5
although I know about my great and great, great grandfather, much beyond that is missing besides births, deaths and a general indication of who they were
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (rbvCR) 6
CBD, does not the cemetery have in its records the layout of the property and who's interred in each spot? Seems like the office of the cemetery would be a logical starting point to begin records research … I hope you discover the information you seek.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:04 PM (ayRl+) 7
Birth records,possibly photographs.
15yo don't usually jusy drop over, accident maybe? Guess it could be illness as well Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0) 8
Having shamed all of my ancestors, I'm too embarrassed to find out much about them.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 02:06 PM (TMF5Z) 9
Newspapers? Court records? Hospital records? Synagogue records?
Posted by: Aaron Guzman at August 30, 2026 02:07 PM (P7U08) 10
Blessings on him, CBD.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:08 PM (odBC9) Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 02:08 PM (ZxPkt) 12
My epitaph will be 'I told you I was sick.'
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 02:10 PM (ZxPkt) 13
I am assuming that CBD has already done some legwork on this before making the point that "Whatever information there was describing his life has been lost."
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:11 PM (odBC9) 14
... but, still, never say never!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9) 15
Query: That's MARBLE. It's HARD. It does NOT work easily. NOISE would have been made during the defacement. That aside, the creation of the lettering on the stone would have generated 'high' and 'low' areas of cutting. The HIGH areas would have a different color signature under X-ray than the LOW areas. I'm not suggesting you invest in hiring a firm to perform X-rayography on the stone, but it's a method that could (emphasis: COULD) generate an image of the defaced letters.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (ayRl+) 16
My FWP is rebuilt my gas grill but haven't got it fired up yet. Didn't do it as it should though had good sparks and smell gas, no lighting though.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (Ia/+0) 17
What does the headstone say?
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Ydd86) 18
Addendum: I'd STILL start with questions posed to the office staff and cemetery administrator …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:14 PM (ayRl+) 19
CBD:
I had a similar incident with my son a few months ago. I was talking about the Sharpe TV series, and he said, Why are you wasting the little time we have together about something like that? And I said, That's your history. You didn't know that? He had, through me, ancestors who had fought in the British army all the way to Waterloo and then said, There has to be a better life, and emigrated to this country. And no, he didn't know that. Nobody (me) had told him. I resolved then--and I recommend this to all of us who are over 29--that my version of a Christmas letter from now on will be a brief biography of every family ancestor I can trace. If I send it to enough relatives, a few might remember for the next generation. Posted by: Wenda at August 30, 2026 02:15 PM (X4ut0) 20
My parents were cremated. There's no memorial I'm aware of other than a plaque on a wall at the retirement community they died at.
Mom passed during covid. No memorial. My wife's family (the deceased) are buried at a small, hilltop cemetery in very rural West Virginia. It's actually a beautiful place. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 02:15 PM (2Cry5) 21
It looks like a tree trunk, I think. In the round.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:15 PM (odBC9) 22
Wenda, that's a wonderful idea
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 02:16 PM (Ydd86) 23
Interesting. 15 year of age and a gregorian calendar dated 1925. There's a story there somewhere.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 02:18 PM (nlLAo) 24
It's a beautifully carved stone. z"l.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX) 25
My Dad's buried in his family's tomb. It looks normal enough - until: When you examine the list of names going from top to bottom, his Dad's the first in line, then his Mother, then Dad. If you look closely ENOUGH, and examine Birth/Death dates, you'll see the birth dates are the usual. When you examine the dates of DEATH, tho', you'll note all three of them died on April 3d, but years apart. Want more? Okay: All three of them died at 0230 in the morning. When my aunts told me about that, I finally understood why Dad kept asking the date and time for two weeks before he died …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:20 PM (ayRl+) 26
the legend is inside a heart shape?
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:22 PM (odBC9) 27
Thanks for showing it to us, CBD.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:22 PM (odBC9) 28
Often drowning back in those days. My grandmother lost two brothers that way, at different times.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 02:24 PM (sl73Y) 29
תנצב"ה
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (aI58f) 30
My problem with my family tree is it becomes a tangled web of French and British Royalty yet I own no castle.
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (G1F7l) 31
Part of American culture is letting go of the past, which lets us live more or less in peace with our countrymen.
The alternative is the never-forgotten grievances and blood feuds of The Old Country. I, personally, have made enough enemies on my own and I'd really rather not have to worry about the enemies my grandfather made, even if they were shiftless Okie bastards. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (A62KL) 32
29 תנצב"ה
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (aI58f) That's in the very last line! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:28 PM (odBC9) 33
There is a relative in both my family and in Mrs. F's family who were amateur genealogists.
My father's mother was the youngest of her siblings and the only one in her family not born in Austria. Some never emigrated, one died in quarantine on Ellis Island. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:29 PM (RIvkX) 34
Age 15. Perhaps one of those diseases we now have vaccines for. Pretty common back then.
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 02:29 PM (lJ0H4) 35
June 7, wouldn't think drowning, July or August good possibility
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 PM (Ia/+0) 36
That's in the very last line!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:28 PM (odBC9) - https://tinyurl.com/btf54y2p Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:31 PM (aI58f) 37
I'm finding "tree stump tombstone" online.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:32 PM (odBC9) 38
I honestly thought that was a radish or turnip until common sense prevailed.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 02:32 PM (kpS4V) 39
Mrs. F's maternal grandparents were both born in the U.S. but her fraternal grandparents emigrated from Russia, as did her father's father. The whole lot of them secular materialists.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:34 PM (RIvkX) 40
36 That's in the very last line!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:28 PM (odBC9) - https://tinyurl.com/btf54y2p How lovely. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:34 PM (odBC9) 41
My grandmother died the day my mom and her twin sister were born. They were taken in and raised by their father's brother and his wife. I know where they were born and when, but I cannot find my grandmother's grave in any cemetery. She may have been buried on their farm. I'll never know. SW Kansas was sparsely populated then, as it is today.
Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2026 02:34 PM (2Xqig) 42
CBD, do you know anything about your great great uncle, Shlomo Zvi?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:35 PM (aI58f) 43
I can trace my dad's family back to before the Revolutionary War. But of my mom's side I know next to nothing. She died when I was a teen so I never had much of a chance to talk to her as an adult. Kinda sad really.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (2WIwB) 44
If only he lived today, we could have told you all you wanted to know.
Posted by: Flock Surveillance Corp. at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (tlCdj) 45
Interesting topic to me. I'm on a downsizing journey.
The largest part of the effort is digital archiving. If I don't scan it or photograph it, it's probably gone forever. How do I know someone future generation might want to pore through these records? I have absolutely nothing handwritten by my grandparents. I would treasure even a grocery list or a cancelled check. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (2Ez/1) 46
My problem with my family tree is it becomes a tangled web of French and British Royalty yet I own no castle.
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (G1F7l) ==== Have you demanded reparations?? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (2Xqig) 48
I very often feel remorse about not having asked simple, easily answered questions of my elders. But, being young and stupid, those questions just did not occur to me until it was too late.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L) 49
30 My problem with my family tree is it becomes a tangled web of French and British Royalty yet I own no castle.
---------- You may be in the line of succession for several thrones! Posted by: Can . at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (tlCdj) 50
Oops. Nic fail.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:39 PM (tlCdj) 51
you'll note all three of them died on April 3d, but years apart. Want more? Okay: All three of them died at 0230 in the morning. When my aunts told me about that, I finally understood why Dad kept asking the date and time for two weeks before he died …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:20 PM (ayRl+) - Now we know when the mothership arrives. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:40 PM (aI58f) 52
It might be granite.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:40 PM (odBC9) 53
Should my epitaph include a land acknowledgement?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 30, 2026 02:40 PM (2Ez/1) 54
48 I very often feel remorse about not having asked simple, easily answered questions of my elders. But, being young and stupid, those questions just did not occur to me until it was too late.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L) I believe they forgive us. They were young once, too. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:41 PM (odBC9) 55
My problem with my family tree is it becomes a tangled web of French and British Royalty yet I own no castle.
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (G1F7l) It stands to reason that you might be the descendant of a second or third son who inherited little to nothing and decided to head to the New World to make his fortune. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 02:42 PM (6ydKt) 56
Both of my parents were cremated. Then tossed into Puget Sound off a boat near Vashon Island.
I don’t know where the grands are. Buried somewhere, I reckon. I did trace the coal mining side of my Slavic heritage to Cle Elum, WA. They were here before WA became a state. Grandma always insisted she was Yugoslavian. They were Catholics in what is now Croatia. Never been there. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 02:42 PM (6ohhg) 57
53 Should my epitaph include a land acknowledgement?
--------- "I rest here under land stolen from the Cheyenne and I intend to keep it." Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:43 PM (tlCdj) 58
I have boxes of old photographs. Hundreds of photos. I also have about 6 photo albums. Some from my folks, others are mine.
Nobody's interested in them. Most of my side of the family's dead. Only a sister, her two girls and my son remain. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 02:43 PM (2Cry5) 59
56 Both of my parents were cremated. Then tossed into Puget Sound off a boat near Vashon Island.
---------- Some of my ancestors were tossed off the boat en route to Ellis Island but they weren't dead. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:44 PM (tlCdj) 60
Sheesh. Heavy topic for FWPs.
It makes my problem of toothpaste tubes that don't roll up seem a bit silly. Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 02:45 PM (2WIwB) 61
I believe they forgive us. They were young once, too. Posted by: m -------- Concur...but it is my interest in family history/lore that goes unsatisfied. There is the point that my elder relatives might well have been pleased to relate family history. It is unfortunate that very few of us maintain a journal of any sort. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:46 PM (XeU6L) 62
I also know that on my mom’s side of the family, her grandfather and father bought the beachfront property on Vashon from the Salish Indians for $50.
My father sold the cabin after mom died. It wasn’t his to sell. But me and my brother and cousins were all in our early 20s and couldn’t afford to buy him out. It was a shitty thing to do. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 02:46 PM (6ohhg) 63
I was a willing listener when I was a kid and got to hear a lot of stories about turn of the century childhood in Europe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:47 PM (RIvkX) 64
My grandfather was the last of 14. His oldest brother was a doughboy in WWI and Grandpa was in WW II. He really didn't know most of his brothers and sisters or parents for that matter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 02:48 PM (6xukV) 65
Go ahead and write your obituary. Yeah, it sounds morbid, but you'll quickly get over that. You're taking the burden off someone else, other than the fact they'll have to update it. Even though it may be ignored, at least you'll have a voice in what is said about you. Be sure to mention your gray box friends at the HQ
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1) 66
I have boxes of old photographs. Hundreds of photos. I also have about 6 photo albums. Some from my folks, others are mine.
Nobody's interested in them. Most of my side of the family's dead. Only a sister, her two girls and my son remain. Posted by: Martini Farmer ------- I have an acquaintance who operates an auction house. Having, from time-to-time seen old family albums being auctioned, I told him that I was surprised that folks would part with them. His reply, 'No one knows who they are'. Annotate your photos. I fear that unprinted digital images are doomed to the bit bucket. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:50 PM (XeU6L) 67
I worked with a guy who thought he was from two houses of royalty by being related to both King Charles and John F Kennedy. And he was serious.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 02:51 PM (nlLAo) 68
Wikipedia
tropaion A tropaion (Greek: τρόπαιον, Latin: tropaeum), from which the English word "trophy" is derived, was a monument erected to commemorate a victory over one's foes by the ancient Greeks and later, by the Romans. Initially, the typical monument was constructed out of a living tree with lateral branches, or it was constructed in the shape of one. The armour of the defeated foe would be hung upon the monument. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:51 PM (odBC9) 69
My father's father did not emigrate until after the Great War. He told me when the Germans came to his town people were happy because they treated everyone better including the Jews
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:52 PM (RIvkX) 70
67 I worked with a guy who thought he was from two houses of royalty by being related to both King Charles and John F Kennedy. And he was serious.
---------- What, no Indian princesses in the line? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:52 PM (tlCdj) 71
My family history is completely unremarkable. We were, and have been. One day, we won't be.
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt) 72
Losing a child can devastate someone, so it's understandable for the family to avoid even mentioning the deceased. Your great uncle deserved to be remembered, and someone undertook the expense to place a beautiful stone over his final resting place. May that knowledge be a comfort if your quest for his story goes no further..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 02:56 PM (nbLIj) 73
Dad's youngest sister compiled a family history for the French side of the family and gave it to me when I was (?) 14 or 15. Years later, I incorporated her information into my compilation of our family history for BOTH sides of the family (French & Irish). I've since provided printed and electronic copies of that history to my brother, sister, and relevant cousinry. I hope my daughter will pick up the thread once I've gone to the Big Po'Boy Shop In The Sky, but I doubt that'll happen. A) I work on a Mac and she prefers PeeSee and, B) she's not a graphic designer or a typeface freak like Daddy is. There's always the ever-iffy 'word-of-mouth' transmission, tho' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+) 74
There may be old newspaper articles (newspapers dot com) regarding his death. If he was in the us and died in 1925 at 15, he was around for the 1920 census (and maybe the 1910 census). If you know where he was born, there may be birth records. Death certificates may exist.
I've found lots of info on my extended family on this side of the border via old newspaper articles, even finding out how they tried to kill each other back in 1873 (which eventually led to my 3-G Grandparents' divorce...what a bastard 3 G-Grandpa was)... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 02:58 PM (l3cgK) 75
Go ahead and write your obituary. Yeah, it sounds morbid, but you'll quickly get over that. You're taking the burden off someone else, other than the fact they'll have to update it. Even though it may be ignored, at least you'll have a voice in what is said about you. Be sure to mention your gray box friends at the HQ
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1) Even more, you will get everything you think is important in there, your family will be shocked and unhappy, and may miss things you would like people to know about you. Dad did this, and it was a great help He told me several times, "Don't write I am now with Jesus, boy" and I figure it was due to his sense of appropriateness more than any feeling he had about the possible truth of that statement. Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 02:58 PM (rbvCR) 76
Samuel Clemmons wrote his own obituary, after he saw how completely it was bitched up by the news services when the rumor got around that he had died while he was visiting Europe.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 02:59 PM (rbvCR) 77
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... There's always the ever-iffy 'word-of-mouth' transmission, tho' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+) Very true. My mother once told me that she had ancestors from Monaco...turned out their last name was Monico, and they were Mexican Indians... My Dad told me he never found out what happened to his father's half sister who became a nun. When I got into genealogy, I found out she died in 1928 in Texas from Tuberculosis...which ended up killing her Dad less than a decade later (he was there with her when she was dying). Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:01 PM (l3cgK) 78
Wikipedia
Gravestone Tree stump headstones in U.S. cemeteries are often associated with fraternal organization Woodmen of the World. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9) 79
A) I work on a Mac and she prefers PeeSee and, B) she's not a graphic designer or a typeface freak like Daddy is. There's always the ever-iffy 'word-of-mouth' transmission, tho' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+) Word processing and graphics files should open in their respective versions on Mac & PC. She’d just need to get the software. If you use Adobe for anything she might balk at that. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:03 PM (6ydKt) 80
78 Wikipedia
Gravestone Tree stump headstones in U.S. cemeteries are often associated with fraternal organization Woodmen of the World. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9) I saw what seemed like some sort of pentagram on a grave...turned out it was some non-diabolical organization. Forget now which one. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:03 PM (l3cgK) 81
This may (or not) be 'important' or 'relevant' … I've put together a rather large-ish book of my 'adventures' dating back to my earliest rememberable childhood moments. It includes every smart (?) and/or idiotic thing I've done (and who I've done 'em with) in my walk thru Physical Existence. They've been distributed to the ones for whom they were intended - but there's been no feedback after 7 years, so who knows? I made the effort - it's up to them now, yes? Yes.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:04 PM (ayRl+) 82
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:04 PM (ayRl+)
My wife wanted me to write about my life adventures on multiple occasions; I told here nobody would believe it. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:05 PM (l3cgK) 83
Dr No Yes
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0) 84
Little, having been a late addition to the family tree, has few memories of his supporting branches. I compensate with stories of family lore and my own first hand accounts, warts and all. It's been cathartic in some respects, as old conflicts lose their edge when reviewed through decades-old lenses.
The ability to place your family history in the context of historic events is a gift that one should take every opportunity to pass on.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 03:07 PM (nbLIj) 85
83 Dr No Yes
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0) Good think that was a "yes" answer...otherwise you would have typed, "Dr No No"... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:08 PM (l3cgK) 86
I had to write the entirety of Mom’s obituary over a weekend. Had more time for my father’s and somebody else helped to write half of it.
It was an experience I wasn’t prepared for and wish I’d done better on my mother’s. My Dad’s came out better with the additional time. I’d say it’s good advice to write out your obit as much as possible in advance. Ya never know if you’ll lose some memories you’d like to share in the future. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:08 PM (6ydKt) 87
I've found old stories of long passed relatives (living ones too) in archives of local newspapers available thru the local library. It helped that newspapers used to print your address along with your name when you got your name or a story posted.
Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ) 88
Of the four grandparent lines, one went back to a 1650s Devon Englishman who's line skeedaddled up into the New Hampshire woods until my guy came down into civilization and married a Boston irishwoman. He died in '41, before my time, and there was little family contact after. Someone in that family wrote a genealogy of the family.
The other three branches are all Boston Irish, coming in in 1840s, 60s and1880s, the last of which I grew up in. Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (sl73Y) 89
@ 79 A) I work on a Mac and she prefers PeeSee and, B) she's not a graphic designer or a typeface freak like Daddy is. There's always the ever-iffy 'word-of-mouth' transmission, tho' … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+)
Word processing and graphics files should open in their respective versions on Mac & PC. She’d just need to get the software. If you use Adobe for anything she might balk at that. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:03 PM (6ydKt) ___________________________________________________ At the time I created 'em, I used all CS6 Adobeware: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator. Since then I've moved to the Affinity suite (free to use on Canva, btw). My OS has also been updated (?) to macOS 10.13.6 'High Sierra' (yeah, it's dated). My font program has 4K± fonts in it, and about 95% of 'em are open and active. It's really more than she's going to want to struggle with 'cos - even tho' it's EASIER than any comparable PeeSee wares - she's tied into the PeeSee environment - and no, I don't understand that either. BUT: That's why I made the .pdf versions of all of it … Prior Planning Prevents – you know the drill … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:10 PM (ayRl+) 90
84 Little, having been a late addition to the family tree, has few memories of his supporting branches. I compensate with stories of family lore and my own first hand accounts, warts and all. It's been cathartic in some respects, as old conflicts lose their edge when reviewed through decades-old lenses.
The ability to place your family history in the context of historic events is a gift that one should take every opportunity to pass on.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 03:07 PM (nbLIj) I tried to get my FIL's grandkids to ask him about his your (grew up in a war-torn land, eating rats and mice if they found them). It's too late now, as he passed away almost 2.5 years ago... I do have quite a mental collection of my Dad's stories and his stories of his parents. I probably should write them down before they get lost when I pass... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:10 PM (l3cgK) 91
Legacy box for digital record keeping
Posted by: Free tibet at August 30, 2026 03:11 PM (tfJVv) 92
CBD, this is why the ENTIRE history and law are pased down to the son at the father’s knee.
‘And the son passed it to the grandson and so forth….’ Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 03:11 PM (LHPAg) 93
86 I had to write the entirety of Mom’s obituary over a weekend. Had more time for my father’s and somebody else helped to write half of it.
It was an experience I wasn’t prepared for and wish I’d done better on my mother’s. My Dad’s came out better with the additional time. I’d say it’s good advice to write out your obit as much as possible in advance. Ya never know if you’ll lose some memories you’d like to share in the future. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:08 PM (6ydKt) I was prohibited from being present during my mother's memorial service. If anyone ever asks me why, I'll be honest: "I would have liked to have been present for it, but Baby brother forbade me from showing up." Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK) 94
87 It helped that newspapers used to print your address along with your name when you got your name or a story posted.
Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ) ... which is why you had to have friends stay at the house during the receiving of friends and the funeral! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (odBC9) 95
not about my FIL's "your" but his "youth". Dunno how that happened, other than my fingers like to betray me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK) 96
This may (or not) be 'important' or 'relevant' … I've put together a rather large-ish book of my 'adventures' dating back to my earliest rememberable childhood moments. It includes every smart (?) and/or idiotic thing I've done (and who I've done 'em with) in my walk thru Physical Existence. They've been distributed to the ones for whom they were intended - but there's been no feedback after 7 years, so who knows? I made the effort - it's up to them now, yes? Yes.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:04 PM (ayRl+) ---- Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (FZ29D) 97
94 87 It helped that newspapers used to print your address along with your name when you got your name or a story posted.
Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ) ... which is why you had to have friends stay at the house during the receiving of friends and the funeral! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (odBC9) Armed. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (odBC9) 98
My First World Problem is that my Windows PC crashed overnight for no obvious reason. Before I went to bed I was working on a Word document, and after the crash that doc is corrupt and unrecoverable. Neither Word not Libre Office will open it.
I was able to screw around and recover a bunch of jumbled text from the doc and am in the process of recreating the doc from that and reapplying formatting and cleaning up what I could salvage. I'm using an ancient (Office 97) version of Word that I've been meaning to replace with Libre Office, in anticipation of eventually moving to Linux for my next PC. This delightful experience has motivated me to hasten that transition. Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz) 99
Get outta here
Go to Google maps and look at the Great Lakes Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0) 100
‘I don’t mean to brag, but……’
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (LHPAg) 101
Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz) Yeah, my monitor is exhibiting horizontal lines in the lower 2.5 inches of the screen...it started with just happening in the taskbar but has grown worse. I need to check the BIOS setting to make sure Windows didn't f-up those settings when it updated at about the time the issue first cropped up... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:15 PM (l3cgK) 102
Get outta here
Go to Google maps and look at the Great Lakes Posted by: Skip LOL. Lake America baby! Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 03:16 PM (lJ0H4) 103
I recently had breakfast with a Navy vet who survived the USS Evans sinking in 1969 when cut in half by the HMAS Melbourne. He enthusiastically tells how he fortuitously ended up with a bunk in the stern as the bow section sank almost immediately.
When he concluded I asked him where the story was written down. He tapped the side of his head. No, I insisted. Your great grandchildren will never hear it. I promised him if he would write it, I would edit it. As we parted he told me he would email a draft. The last thing I said to him was a question: Promise? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 03:17 PM (2Ez/1) 104
@ 94 87 It helped that newspapers used to print your address along with your name when you got your name or a story posted.Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ)
... which is why you had to have friends stay at the house during the receiving of friends and the funeral! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (odBC9) ______________________________________________ My first 'death experience' came at the age of approx. 10 or so when a friend of the family died. We went to his wake (held in his house, an old 'shotgun'-style place. His coffin was laid on a pair of sawhorses in the front room and there was no light other than what was provided by the little red-glass 'votive' candles. Scared the crap outa me, and I never got over that until my out-of-body experience at the age of 32. Never been afraid of death since then, 'cos we only transition - we don't die. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:17 PM (ayRl+) 105
My font program has 4K± fonts in it, and about 95% of 'em are open and active. It's really more than she's going to want to struggle with 'cos - even tho' it's EASIER than any comparable PeeSee wares - she's tied into the PeeSee environment - and no, I don't understand that either. BUT: That's why I made the .pdf versions of all of it … Prior Planning Prevents – you know the drill …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:10 PM (ayRl+) PC & Macs use different types of fonts so unless they are all OpenFont (.otf) fonts she’d have to find the same font in TrueType or do a conversion with software. Older Mac PostScript Type 1 fonts aren’t compatible at all with PC. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (6ydKt) 106
99 Get outta here
Go to Google maps and look at the Great Lakes Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0) OMG ! ! 1 1 ! Trump is a monster ! ! ! ! Everybody hates us now ! ! ! ! I love it ! Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (X5Jzz) 107
>>>Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel >Risky. I may have hoodlums and corrupt LEOs still looking for me. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (nlLAo) 108
Lake America Smallest of the 5 Great reddit has banned it r/mildlyinfuriating mildlyinfuriating-ModTeam MOD 3m ago We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (odBC9) 109
And read LA is growing in Typhus cases, like a couple hundred
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:19 PM (Ia/+0) 110
They were Catholics in what is now Croatia. Never been there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at Land of the tall people. I thought you were a gymnast? Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 03:20 PM (sl73Y) 111
A year ago my son gave me a book, a journal like book to document my life. It has questions like; when and where I was born, my given name, who my parent were, where I lived, etc.
Then it goes into all sorts of lifestyle questions; favorite songs, foods, places to visit, movies, etc. Reading some of the posts here I wonder what my son was thinking... Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 03:21 PM (2Cry5) 112
Speaking Of:
Writing an obituary is quite the challenge. I did get a few suggestions from chat AI, but... it isn't easy. I also spoke at Dad's funeral. Went ok, but still a challenge. Held it together until the bugler sounded taps... Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR) 113
We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (odBC9) Sure they do, but it only runs in one direction. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:23 PM (l3cgK) 114
@ 98 My First World Problem is that my Windows PC crashed overnight for no obvious reason. I - am in the process of recreating the doc from that and reapplying formatting and cleaning up what I could salvage.
I'm using an ancient (Office 97) version of Word that I've been meaning to replace with Libre Office. Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz) ______________________________ Query: A) You still have SOME usable data from the crash, then? B) Have you considered UPLOADING the entirety of what you have to an AI like ChatGPT or Grok, etc and asking them to examine it and then REBUILD / RECONSTRUCT it to the extent that's possible? Both of those AIs have helped me with things I thought were unpossible (to use a word) - and they surprised the crap out of me with the amount they got right. Worth a shot, yes? Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (ayRl+) 115
We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding."
That would eliminate 99.5 percent of reddit... Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR) 116
a.moron - FWIW, there are data recovery services, I have NO experience with them, but do keep them in mind.
Lately received a flyer from: DriveSavers.com, there are certainly others. Again...FWIW. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:25 PM (XeU6L) 117
112 Speaking Of:
Writing an obituary is quite the challenge. I did get a few suggestions from chat AI, but... it isn't easy. I also spoke at Dad's funeral. Went ok, but still a challenge. Held it together until the bugler sounded taps... Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR) I was tangentially involved in Dad's obituary. My brother wanted to completely erase Mom from it, but I thought that was too rough, so she was in the obit by reference...Dad's first wife was referenced as his "first wife", which implies a second... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK) 118
We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding.
----- Bwahahahahaha [takes a breath] Bwahahahahaha Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:27 PM (XeU6L) 119
115 We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding."
That would eliminate 99.5 percent of reddit... Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR) If the Reddit devs disagree, it's politics; if the agree, it's not. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK) 120
I inherited Dad's Puukko knife. Really nice one, about seven inches overall with a three inch blade. Very decorated embossed leather sheath with a chain and hanging clip.Probably a dress puukko for stabbings at wedding receptions.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb) 121
119 115 We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding."
That would eliminate 99.5 percent of reddit... Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR) If the Reddit devs disagree, it's politics; if the agree, it's not. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK) And that mod statement sounds so prissy, to boot. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (odBC9) Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (ZxPkt) 123
was prohibited from being present during my mother's memorial service. If anyone ever asks me why, I'll be honest: "I would have liked to have been present for it, but Baby brother forbade me from showing up."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) Then you did well by your mother. Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 03:30 PM (sl73Y) 124
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Query: A) You still have SOME usable data from the crash, then? B) Have you considered UPLOADING the entirety of what you have to an AI like ChatGPT or Grok, etc and asking them to examine it and then REBUILD / RECONSTRUCT it to the extent that's possible? Both of those AIs have helped me with things I thought were unpossible (to use a word) - and they surprised the crap out of me with the amount they got right. Worth a shot, yes? Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (ayRl+) That's an interesting idea, and not something I considered. At this point, I've mostly recovered the document, but that would be an interesting experiment. It occurred to me that whatever was corrupt in the document might be very minor, and the right tool might be able to find and fix it. AI might be the right answer. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:30 PM (X5Jzz) 125
Went ok, but still a challenge. Held it together until the bugler sounded taps...
Posted by: man ---- This has been posted here before, but worth doing it again: There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:31 PM (XeU6L) 126
48 I very often feel remorse about not having asked simple, easily answered questions of my elders. But, being young and stupid, those questions just did not occur to me until it was too late.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L) exactly the feeling I get. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 03:33 PM (VyBeY) 127
Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz) I started working with Windows on Win95. Worked at a local high school sports newspaper that published every other week. The PC that I had to put the entire newspaper together on in days was ancient, and crashed at least once a day. I lost an entire 80-page edition one night about 3 a.m. a few hours from completing the layout in QuarkXpress because the machine crashed and the file, and backup file, were corrupted. I’ve never been so exhausted, frustrated and angry in my life. Since then I hit Ctrl+S every ten minutes like an involuntary reaction. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (6ydKt) 128
All Dad's WW2 stuff ended up with the younger brother who took care of him in the end; none of us had an issue (including baby brother, who was NOT included in the conversations). Stuff Dad gave me before he died (like his infantry badge with oak cluster) I kept, because he gave it to me personally.
The stuff Dad had from his Mom and Dad, some was given to my eldest cousin (now almost 80), like Grandpa's WW1 helmet and Colt 1911 .45 (well, belonged to Gov't but Grandpa said he lost it, then snuck it aboard the ship before coming back to the States)... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (l3cgK) 129
Held it together until the bugler sounded taps...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR) Same here. My brother got the flag, and I got the urn. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt) 130
@ 124 114 Query: A) You still have SOME usable data from the crash, then? B) Have you considered UPLOADING the entirety of what you have to an AI like ChatGPT or Grok, etc and asking them to examine it and then REBUILD / RECONSTRUCT it to the extent that's possible? Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (ayRl+)
That's an interesting idea, and not something I considered. At this point, I've mostly recovered the document, but that would be an interesting experiment. It occurred to me that whatever was corrupt in the document might be very minor, and the right tool might be able to find and fix it. AI might be the right answer. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:30 PM (X5Jzz) __________________________________ I queried ChatGPT about a problem my brother has when he tries opening 'Darktable' on his Mac: It opens about 95% of the way, then stops. It's missing a piece Onyx (the cleanup-ware) removed after he accidentally hit some key or other. Chat says it may be possible to get Darktable operational again - depending on the cause of the failure to open. I created a .txt file of the chat and sent it to my bro' - now it's his call. Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:37 PM (ayRl+) 131
127 I lost an entire 80-page edition one night about 3 a.m. a few hours from completing the layout in QuarkXpress because the machine crashed and the file, and backup file, were corrupted.
I’ve never been so exhausted, frustrated and angry in my life. Since then I hit Ctrl+S every ten minutes like an involuntary reaction. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (6ydKt) I make interstitial pdfs, too! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9) 132
CBD, I do intensive ancestry research on, of all things, Ancestry.com.
I have an absolutely clear line back to Ireland, Scotland and England. I have the family name back to before 1066. On Mrs. Red’s side her father’s side actually intersects with my Scottish line. 8th cousins, I believe. Her mother’s side I have back to Austria/Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia. Point being that there is a wealth of information on most people. A1925 death will have records; it’s almost like yesterday as far as genealogy goes. We should chat. Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (rYvai) 133
*incremental pdfs
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9) 134
Very decorated embossed leather sheath with a chain and hanging clip.Probably a dress puukko for stabbings at wedding receptions.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb) ===== Popular entertainment once upon a time in Michigan's UP. Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 03:40 PM (rj6Yv) 135
Ask your IT Help Desk if Interstitial PDFs are right for you.
Posted by: Big Data at August 30, 2026 03:41 PM (2Ez/1) 136
Well, if they had Flock Cameras back in the 1920's we could find out quite a bit. Who he hung out with at the General Store. Which one of his friends killed that squirrel with the sling shot. Why he and his friends always stood around smoking cigarette butts and staring intently at the sash drawn windows outside Maisie Miller's House of Pleasures. But most important, where was he getting his hooch. It was probably that ne'er-do-well family out by the train tracks who always had the lanterns lit and the doors locked to keep out the revenue guys.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 03:41 PM (dIske) 137
23 and Me tells me my mother was 100% Old School Gaelic -- not just Irish. My father was from a fishing village -- he shows 80% Old School Gaelic and 20% Norwegian (Viking). They didn't volunteer information and they died too young for me to ask, but I pieced a few things together.
I had an uncle who fought in the Burma campaign against the Japanese alongside the Ghurkas. He came back fine. Another uncle was in the Royal Navy. He came back with debiliating malaria. Their sister -- a civilian -- died in the London blitz. Such are the fortunes of war. Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2026 03:42 PM (dtajH) 138
@ 131 127 I lost an entire 80-page edition one night about 3 a.m. a few hours from completing the layout in QuarkXpress because the machine crashed and the file, and backup file, were corrupted. I’ve never been so exhausted, frustrated and angry in my life. Since then I hit Ctrl+S every ten minutes like an involuntary reaction. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (6ydKt) I make interstitial pdfs, too! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9)
_________________________________ You were working with QX on a PeeSee!? I'm so sorry … Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:42 PM (ayRl+) 139
Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (rYvai)
My wife had basically no DNA intersection with me...other than perhaps that single chromatid that showed up in my DNA test that said Southern Chinese ancestry...that must've come from Mom's side...Mexico had a complex history with the Manila Galleon... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK) 140
I have few memories of my mother's family. Her mother died of pneumonia when mom was just 14. She was then raised by her aunts, all amazing women, who taught her how took cook, among other life lessons.
They would throw a New Year's Eve party and I was amazed at the contrast between these people and those from dad's side. An anecdote from mom: One of her uncles had a silver aluminum Christmas tree and a family member was getting married around the holidays. It was decided that the tree would be prominently displayed at the altar. At some point, it was decided that this tree would preside over every marriage in the future regardless of the calendar. Fast forward to when mom announced her impending marriage to dad. To hear mom tell it, her uncles were adamant on the tree's presence at the altar. She had to enlist her aunts to help them understand that dad's family would not get the joke. Truth was, dad's family - he was the only son among several daughters - were a generally humorless bunch. Wish I got to spend more time with mom's side... Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 03:44 PM (nbLIj) 141
116 a.moron - FWIW, there are data recovery services, I have NO experience with them, but do keep them in mind.
Lately received a flyer from: DriveSavers.com, there are certainly others. Again...FWIW. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:25 PM (XeU6L) Thanks, this isn't important enough or big enough to spend money on a data recovery service. I'm in the process of trying Dr_No's suggestion of using ChatGPT, and it seems to be working quite well, including recovering tables and document formatting. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:46 PM (X5Jzz) 142
74: Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 02:58
There's some good solid genealogical advice there jim. I've worked on our family history most of my life. I think my interest developed from the stories my grt. grandmother told me. The oldest was told to her by her grandfather about his childhood in western PA in the 1840s. Although family tales may not be completely accurate there is usually an element of truth to them and they may contain valuable hints. I encourage everyone to pass those stories on so they are not lost. And add whatever you have been able to prove or disprove. Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 03:46 PM (4Qj8V) 143
Jim IK, dna is a blessing and a curse. I solved a family mystery with it when there was absolutely no written record, and those involved were long gone.
Of course, I can now never leave any dna at a crime scene. Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (rYvai) 144
My sister talked me into the 23 and Me thing, and because I'm a wacky prankster, I used Buckwheat's photo from the Little Rascals as my profile picture. It generated a lot of confusion among my potential distant relatives!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (leKdc) 145
We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding
... they said, with zero self-reflection. (although if that's the subreddit-specific policy and they've actually been upholding it, kudos.) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 03:48 PM (aJQbY) 146
133 *incremental pdfs
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9) There have been times I’ve got variations of files and backups of backups, dated back several versions. Then backed up on a flash drive and/or cloud. Better safe than sorry. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:48 PM (6ydKt) 147
142 74 Although family tales may not be completely accurate there is usually an element of truth to them and they may contain valuable hints.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 03:46 PM (4Qj8V) Family Lore! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:49 PM (odBC9) Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL) 149
CBD, you’ve probably exhausted your research but having been researching my tree for a good 20 years, I’m gonna suggest a few things anyway that I did to track down the sisters of my great grandfather since there was no family notes. I went to the county library where he was from and searched my great great grandmothers obit on microfiche. I found her and the married names of his sisters. That unlocked a lot of info once i had those. I also went to the cathedral to look for baptism records (not sure what the Hebrew equivalent is). Even though your uncle was 15, vital records will send you a copy of a death cert if one exists. It’s been 100 years which I believe is the cutoff when they can release them. That research can be laborious but sometimes it’s just that one clue that leads you to another.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 30, 2026 03:50 PM (SjAWL) 150
143 Jim IK, dna is a blessing and a curse. I solved a family mystery with it when there was absolutely no written record, and those involved were long gone.
Of course, I can now never leave any dna at a crime scene. Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (rYvai) My DNA is very...specific. I have a not-very-common MTDNA marker that mutated a recently as 150 years ago...and there was somebody else on the website that had that very marker. Y-DNA is a bit...muddled. It was showing hits from folks I show no paper trail being related to, so it's possible a female ancestor on the paternal line got jiggy with someone other than my supposed ancestors...or their name changed significantly after coming to America, like my paternal 2-G grandpa's surname changed. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:52 PM (l3cgK) 151
I've found prison records to be a valuable resource in tracing my ancestors.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:54 PM (TMF5Z) 152
You were working with QX on a PeeSee!? I'm so sorry …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:42 PM (ayRl+) It doesn’t really bother be now. I’m ambidextrous with both platforms after using both for 30 years. I stopped using Windows totally and stuck with Mac for over ten years. Got back into PC again about four years ago. They each have their strengths and weaknesses, but I will say I get a lot fewer crashes on Win11 than the old days. Mac is always usually rock solid around crashes but MacOS has some issues, too. Microsoft is telemetry crazy is my biggest problem with PC. Apple is not always trying to spy on you. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt) 153
144 My sister talked me into the 23 and Me thing, and because I'm a wacky prankster, I used Buckwheat's photo from the Little Rascals as my profile picture. It generated a lot of confusion among my potential distant relatives!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (leKdc) I'm browner than anyone else (other than my brothers and sister) on my Dad's side of the family... A great aunt once commented, "There's a little bit of N****r in every Mexican," and in my case, she was right. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK) 154
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Yeah, I got some Viking lineage. But I'm not paying reparations to no English queers. Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL) Maybe you should demand danegeld from them instead... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK) 155
Psychiatric institutions have been a goldmine too!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:55 PM (TMF5Z) 156
12th if was in CBD's situation, a photograph would be a big help, tracking down other family pictures could be a help. Seen many pictures of my relatives as kids in lots of collections.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0) 157
151 I've found prison records to be a valuable resource in tracing my ancestors.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:54 PM (TMF5Z) Had a cousin 2x removed that spend the remainder of his life in an insane asylum...he was a actor, so maybe that was related. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:57 PM (l3cgK) 158
sailors, smugglers, cutthroats, and footpads
oh my Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:58 PM (odBC9) 159
June 7, wouldn't think drowning, July or August good possibility
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 PM My father once noted that, unlike today, they dreaded the summer because that's when the typhus came. He said every year when school started one or more of his classmates would be missing. Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 03:58 PM (4NO2D) 160
136 Well, if they had Flock Cameras back in the 1920's we could find out quite a bit. Who he hung out with at the General Store. Which one of his friends killed that squirrel with the sling shot. Why he and his friends always stood around smoking cigarette butts and staring intently at the sash drawn windows outside Maisie Miller's House of Pleasures. But most important, where was he getting his hooch. It was probably that ne'er-do-well family out by the train tracks who always had the lanterns lit and the doors locked to keep out the revenue guys.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 03:41 PM (dIske) Might even know for certain who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (X5Jzz) 161
food nood
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (odBC9) 162
1 minute warning. Please rush your final thread comments to completion.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (TMF5Z) 163
They also believed that water moccasins couldn't bit you in the water so they swam with them in the Broad River.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (4NO2D) 164
(sigh) I have to ask. Those of you that have used the services that analyze DNA...aren't you the least bit concerned about who has access to that information?
I realize how common it is, but a number of those services play fast and loose with their privacy policies. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske) 165
I dunno.
That Viking blood eventually helped the UK to become the largest empire on earth. I don’t think reparations are truly needed. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt) 166
159 June 7, wouldn't think drowning, July or August good possibility
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 PM My father once noted that, unlike today, they dreaded the summer because that's when the typhus came. He said every year when school started one or more of his classmates would be missing. Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 03:58 PM (4NO2D) Saw a EweToob video of how difficult life was for women on the pioneer trails...lets just say at some point "20 different smells" was mentioned regarding their bodies... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (l3cgK) 167
Turns out if you ever get an ankle monitor an extensive data trail is created.
Posted by: Cousin Eddie at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (2Ez/1) 168
FOOD NOOD TIME
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0) 169
I learnt from the family history my aunt compiled and gave me that our great-great-(great?)-grandfather was (a) a TAILOR (a 'Schneider', nicht einer 'Schnitter') in the Jaussiers region of France. Since it sits on the Alsace-Lorraine border, there was lots of cross-border influence present. The story also included the fact that he was Jewish, not Catholic like the rest of the family. I can only imagine how relationships went at family gatherings then. The French side of the family always denied that part of the history. On the Irish side, my great-grandfather ran away from home after his Mom died and his Dad remarried. He was living with Gypsies in a camp when one of the men from his village spotted him and said he'd be sure to tell his Dad where he was. That's all it took to get him down to the docks and on board a ship bound for the United States … the rest is, well, histoire …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:01 PM (ayRl+) 170
164 (sigh) I have to ask. Those of you that have used the services that analyze DNA...aren't you the least bit concerned about who has access to that information?
I realize how common it is, but a number of those services play fast and loose with their privacy policies. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske) I used an expensive outfit that allowed accessing and downloading you DNA data anonymously...but it still had to be paid, so If I wanted it truly anonymous, I woulda had to pay in BitCoin, which they accepted... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:01 PM (l3cgK) 171
I had a pony.
Posted by: Rozsika Halmos (Manya) at August 30, 2026 04:02 PM (JM9I6) 172
I've found prison records to be a valuable resource in tracing my ancestors.
My paternal grandfather is in the 1940 census records twice: Listed once at his house, the second at 26th and Cal. Posted by: Chuck C at August 30, 2026 04:03 PM (TvrWq) 173
Before the invention of A/C and modern medicine and hygiene, the South was a hellhole.
I saw a video about the town in North Alabama where I lived, made in the 30s touting the CCC project that drained the swamps across the river. It said that prior to that, one out of three citizens got malaria every year. In the US, in a world with automobiles and airplanes. (as an aside, they also showed the then brand new high school that I attended, the one with no A/C, right across from Delano Park) Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 04:06 PM (4NO2D) 174
Which is to say, we got it good compared to our ancestors.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 04:10 PM (4NO2D) 175
174 Which is to say, we got it good compared to our ancestors.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 04:10 PM (4NO2D) There's an old joke that Ancestry dot com is Incestry dot com for the states in the deep south... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:11 PM (l3cgK) 176
It's crazy to think that the oldest person alive was born before your uncle (in August 1909).
Posted by: Blahblahblah at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ca+Gv) 177
My First World Problem is that my Windows PC crashed overnight for no obvious reason. Before I went to bed I was working on a Word document, and after the crash that doc is corrupt and unrecoverable. Neither Word not Libre Office will open it.
I was able to screw around and recover a bunch of jumbled text from the doc and am in the process of recreating the doc from that and reapplying formatting and cleaning up what I could salvage. I'm using an ancient (Office 97) version of Word that I've been meaning to replace with Libre Office, in anticipation of eventually moving to Linux for my next PC. This delightful experience has motivated me to hasten that transition. Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz) Did you save it before you went to bed? On an external drive as well? If not, why not? Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2026 05:39 PM (hmYU4) 178
I am so late; I'm sorry. You know you may be even more curious someday, or perhaps your children will be.
The image shows a carved tree-trunk style upright gravestone with a heart-shaped marker for a young person named Charles, who died on June 7, 1925, at the age of 15. Headstone Detail: Name: Charles (inscribed with the Hebrew name Betzalel son of Shlomo Tzevi) Date of Death: June 7, 1925 (Hebrew date corresponding to 15 Sivan 5685) Age: 15 years old. Inscriptions: The English section reads "Charles / DIED JUNE 7, 1925 / AGE 15 YEARS", accompanied by the Hebrew acronym TNAtzB"H ("May his soul be bound in the bond of eternal life") and a base block reading "SON. More family info, perhaps the 1910 and/or 1920 US Census. Also, if the burial is in the New York area, reportedly New York conducted a highly detailed State Census in early 1925. Since Charles passed away in June 1925, this census was taken just months or weeks before his death, providing the final recorded snapshot of his household. Posted by: L - No nic... at August 30, 2026 07:40 PM (NFX2v) 179
Ps - it seems such headstones from around that time are also common in Queens, NY.
The most urgent health event of that season occurred in late May 1925, when New York City officially declared war on a potential smallpox epidemic. The spring of 1925 was also the tail-end of the deadliest foodborne typhoid fever epidemic in U.S. history. And the month of June began with an unprecedented, oppressive heat wave that broke on June 8, 1925. Desperate to escape the extreme heat, thousands of Queens residents packed local shorelines. There were numerous drownings. Plus car accidents, gangs, etc. weren't unusual. 100 years ago, maybe not a huge difference in the city from the present time. Good luck! Posted by: L - No nic... at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (NFX2v) 180
My father left many scrapbooks but more importantly created a 30 page description of his early life and surrounding family. My mother left many scrapbooks but no written explanations other than her mother’s collection of documents for her DAR application. I shoulda, woulda, coulda sat down with both of them to learn more and never did. I am working on a grand epistle complete with scans of photos, newspaper clippings as well as my tales to go with them. Just not sure the kids will want it. Or whether a bound book is better than electronic copies.
Posted by: epador at August 30, 2026 08:36 PM (qiCAv) 181
There's an old joke that Ancestry dot com is Incestry dot com for the states in the deep south...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:11 PM If your family tree does not fork... Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 09:28 PM (4NO2D) 182
Hey! I realize this is somewhat off-topic however I needed to ask.
Does running a well-established blog such as yours require a large amount of work? I'm brand new to writing a blog but I do write in my diary everyday. I'd like to start a blog so I can easily share my personal experience and feelings online. Please let me know if you have any kind of ideas or tips for brand new aspiring bloggers. Thankyou! Posted by: Negócios at August 31, 2026 10:59 AM (RBjVi) Warrantless Surveillance Is An Unalloyed Evil, And Cannot Be Justified By Claiming A Reduction In CrimeThis is an absolutely moronic take on a massive degradation of our civil liberties. It's difficult to underestimate the stupidity of this author, who seems to think that there is some balanced equation between our God-given, natural rights, and the destruction of those rights on the altar of safety. Do Flock Cameras Actually Work?It’s been a tough summer for automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that at least 50 police officers have been charged with or accused of misusing plate-reader networks, including for stalking wives, ex-girlfriends, and other women. One small-town Georgia police chief ran his ex-girlfriend’s plates roughly 600 times. California legislators took up the technology in hearings titled “Don’t Flock me,” a jab at Flock, the Atlanta company whose ALPRs now scan roads in more than 6,000 American communities. A backlash that began among left-leaning civil libertarians has spread to the populist Right, and city councils now face packed hearings on whether to keep the cameras. The debate has become more heat than light. Both sides fixate on anecdotes, with supporters pointing to abducted children recovered after a timely plate hit, while critics list stories of rogue officers and plate data shared far beyond the agencies that collected this information. Neither answers a question that policymakers face: Does the technology produce enough public safety to justify its costs, in dollars and in privacy? I don't give a sh*t that Flock and other unconstitutional searches may decrease crime. So will sending SWAT teams into every house in America to look for drugs or "illegal" weapons, or taking the medical records of every American and analyzing them for possible illegality. Or sending forensic accountants into every business in America and checking their books. Or.... The list is long how we can make ourselves "safer." But as some very wise men understood, safety is a temporary condition that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. Does that sound histrionic? Maybe, but provide a counter example please! If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!-- Samuel Adams Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.-- Benjamin Franklin Government is fundamentally evil, and the expansion of its surveillance capacity simply makes it worse, and gives it more power over us. If anyone thinks that government is expanding its surveillance capacity because it will make us safer, then I have a bridge to sell you. They expand it, and all of its power, for one reason: control over the people. We have to push back whenever we can, and Flock cameras are an excellent place to take a stand. And it's easy! Agitate against them in every public forum, starting with your local government council. And if you ever end up on a jury for a trial of someone who destroyed a Flock camera or any other onerous surveillance technology...you know what to do. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS) 2
Good afternoon everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (O0L8i) 4
And SPONGE!! At two minutes after?
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS) 5
Power corrupts, absolute powet corrupts absolutely comes to mind
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Ia/+0) 6
Willowed I used to try to keep up, but I don't any more; I try to finish each day being a little more out of it than I was the day before. Haven't checked with the offspring or grandkids lately but I suspect they'd say I'm succeeding. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l) The concept of subsidiarity is helpful. Make your concern those things closest to you. Your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your church, your hobbies. Much beyond that, you don't have much influence. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (O0L8i) 7
I think COVID taught us a thing or two about "safety."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (2Ez/1) 8
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Better to collect information on 10,000 innocent people than catch an actual criminal. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Toss a piece of wood at a data center under construction in memory of Sinwar. Yeah, this is Normal. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 12:04 PM (QnlTD) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7) 10
"Gee, I wish we would have had those Flock Cameras".
Retired East German STASI guy with a monocle Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2026 12:06 PM (gm9Sb) 11
And if you ever end up on a jury for a trial of someone who destroyed a Flock camera or any other onerous surveillance technology...you know what to do.
Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments --- "We find the defendant not guilty by reason of sanity!" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:06 PM (FZ29D) 12
If all the criminals out there and CBD had nothing to hide, they wouldn't be upset about having their pitcher taken.
Posted by: Strike a Pose! at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (JM9I6) 13
maps.deflock.org is the place to see where the cameras near you skulk. Only one close here looks like it is in the parking lot of the Dollar General on the other side of town. Seems to face away from town, too.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (NcvvS) 14
How about this kind of snooping? From an article Pixy linked this morning:
"OpenAI has said the company uses software to scan conversations for signs of dangerous behavior and flag them to human reviewers." https://tinyurl.com/yd58ukpc They confided in ChatGPT. Their secrets ended up in court. (a Yahoo article, which is a WaPo article) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (odBC9) 15
Speed bump on her road to the White House.
“A Huge Liability:” Democrat Candidates Avoid Kamala Harris as Midterms Approach Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:08 PM (ndZc7) 16
Flock Around, Find Out
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (odBC9) 17
supporters pointing to abducted children recovered after a timely plate hit"
Bullshiite. The "abducted kid" crap has to be shut up. Hard. The "kids" on milk cartons was idiotic. Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (cGjQu) 18
They're getting serious now.
Florida Man Charged With Felony After Smashing Decoy Flock Camera Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7) ---- Seems like a case could be made for entrapment. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (FZ29D) 19
As I have written here before, I expect no privacy while in public, except for what is it in my pocket, briefcase, backpack, or automobile.
If anyone misuses the technology, let them lose their badge, their pension, and their liberty. Until States enact laws to severely punish the abusers, and reform the judiciary to enforce such things, fine, cut them down. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:11 PM (36x1j) 20
No, we need more surveillance. The KKK took my baby away!
Posted by: Joey From Queens at August 30, 2026 12:12 PM (JM9I6) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:12 PM (O0L8i) 22
The only way to preserve liberty and prosperity is to keep government limited in scope and powers - the whole point of a constitutional republic. The danger for MAGA is that too many seem to think that huge government can be good if only the led by a kind and benevolent businessman. History tells us that for every good Tsar there are 25 bad Tsars!
Posted by: Jalan at August 30, 2026 12:13 PM (uqfb2) 23
maps.deflock.org is the place to see where the cameras near you skulk. Only one close here looks like it is in the parking lot of the Dollar General on the other side of town. Seems to face away from town, too.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (NcvvS) ---- According to the map, there are only three in my town. Two pointed at the Lowe's parking lot for some reason. The other pointing at a weird angle across an intersection near my house. But there's a fourth camera (I think) downtown next to the library. It's not listed on the deflock map and looks like it's a temporary camera. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:13 PM (FZ29D) 24
Flock cameras are just another way of fleecing honest and law abiding citizens by preying on their fears.
You know what lives in a flock? Sheep. Abolish flock cameras and stop being sheep. Posted by: Fuck The Flock at August 30, 2026 12:14 PM (6VpiA) 25
Flock and other surveillance cameras don't prevent crime, they're almost totally reactive. They have their place, I suppose. I think of all the times they were used to track and ID terrorists after the fact, when they were "known wolves" who could have been stopped before their heinous acts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 12:15 PM (kpS4V) 26
7 I think COVID taught us a thing or two about "safety."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (2Ez/1) One would hope! But when you look at comments under articles about Fauci--for example--some of the stuff that gets said is just beyond our wildest guesses. Like: "People who didn't get vaccinated exposed all of us to the virus." I just can't even. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:15 PM (odBC9) 27
maps.deflock.org is the place to see where the cameras near you skulk.
Where does their data come from? Is it community reported or is Flock obligated to release it? Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 12:16 PM (vTZFs) 28
But there's a fourth camera (I think) downtown next to the library. It's not listed on the deflock map and looks like it's a temporary camera.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel Looks like the wheels are closing in and the walls are about to come off our "Perfessor". I'll be watching for the bodycam arrest. Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter at August 30, 2026 12:16 PM (JM9I6) 29
I think there is an underlying motive for Flock Cameras. It, obviously, erodes "protected" rights afforded under the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those rights need to be diluted and (if possible) negated for the Globalization and removal of Sovereign Nations to be realized.
So, ask yourself a simple little question. How many of the venture capitalist groups associated with the research and development of Flock Cameras participate within the World Economic Forum? To start, the primary investor in Flock is Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and they are listed as a participating organization in specific WEF initiatives. Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 12:17 PM (dIske) 30
Thx CBD.
My leftist city has cameras around schools to slow traffic cams keep the "children" safe. Of course the city raking In cash from speeders. A funnier thing happened however . Our county comptroller put a surveillance camera outside our county bus offices without anyone's knowledge.Our county executive is outraged. Two leftist white women yelling at each other Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 12:18 PM (EZWVc) 31
Harris isn't going to get anywhere close to the White House.
They learned that lesson already Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Ia/+0) 32
30 Our county comptroller put a surveillance camera outside our county bus offices without anyone's knowledge. Our county executive is outraged. Two leftist white women yelling at each other
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 12:18 PM (EZWVc) This is cool! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:20 PM (odBC9) 33
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Cedar Rapids Kennel Association show, his third this weekend. The site is getting pasted by storms right now, so Variety Group judging is likely to be delayed. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:21 PM (O0L8i) 34
Like: "People who didn't get vaccinated exposed all of us to the virus." I just can't even.
People are weird. When confronted with evidence that they've been duped, they either turn on the previous position with a vengeance or double down with a vengeance. My hunch is that the responses correlate fairly well with the conservative/liberal spectrum. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 12:21 PM (vTZFs) 35
19 Until States enact laws to severely punish the abusers, and reform the judiciary to enforce such things, fine, cut them down.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:11 PM (36x1j) At the price of a felony charge? Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:22 PM (odBC9) Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:24 PM (36x1j) 37
18 They're getting serious now.
Florida Man Charged With Felony After Smashing Decoy Flock Camera Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7) ---- Seems like a case could be made for entrapment. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (FZ29D) a version of this article is at: yahoo.com https://tinyurl.com/ycyrxa6z Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:26 PM (odBC9) 38
"At the price of a felony charge?"
You should see the youtube video about how to do it? Easy peasy, A balaclava is needed. Do it in Winter. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:27 PM (36x1j) 39
>>Where does their data come from? Is it community reported or is Flock obligated to release it?
Crowdsourced, so community reported. Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:28 PM (NcvvS) 40
If you have a cellphone, you’re already being tracked, recorded and spied upon. We gave up our privacy long ago.
The reason Seattle turned its cameras off wasn’t to protect citizens’ privacy. It was to protect illegals from being picked out by immigration enforcement. They even said so. Oh, illegals and people fleeing their red states to obtain late term abortions and “gender affirming care” for minors. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:28 PM (9SHqx) 41
To all of this surveillance I sound off with a loud and hearty "Flock You!".
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 30, 2026 12:28 PM (BN9Gq) Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:30 PM (NcvvS) 43
Sadly I think that in a decade or two, we’re all going to be subject to surveillance by a net of dragonfly sized mobile devices that all interconnect with each other.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 12:30 PM (GWwCk) 44
If you really Want privacy, leave your phone at home and go for a hike in the backcountry. WAAAAAY in the backcountry.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:36 PM (9SHqx) 45
How's about we install multiple concentric rings of FlockYou cameras around the domiciles of CEO FlockYou and we all get to eyeball him and his 24/7? He is asshoe. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 30, 2026 12:37 PM (trSL4) 46
Fascism wants control
A dog can make you lose your rights Posted by: Paul at August 30, 2026 12:37 PM (tkK47) 47
Where is it written that flock video is admissible in any legal proceedings? It all could be CGI or AI. Where's the covenant of authenticity?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 12:40 PM (nlLAo) 48
No science fiction writer can better what we are actually living through.
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 12:42 PM (G1F7l) 49
Set cameras up at every place votes are collected
Watch Leftists heads explode Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ia/+0) 50
Flock CEO spoke out about accepting the new norm for lack of privacy, and himself was quickly doxxed.
Just as quickly his home disappeared off Google Earth. To to get that done as a normie. Tech stands by its own, no? Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 30, 2026 12:44 PM (bX16E) 51
Fun fact.
Flock has a 'whitelist' of politicians, CEOs, police, and 'connected' assholes whose license plates are unsearchable and cannot be tracked. The very fact that capability exists tells you everything you need to know about this crap. Normal citizens can be searched and stalked any time anybody feels like it. Insurance agents are already whistleblowing that their companies have access to Flock to look up your entire driving history to try to deny you claims. But those politicians visiting their mistresses cannot be tracked. Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 30, 2026 12:47 PM (setIA) 52
maps.deflock.org is the place to see where the cameras near you skulk. ---- According to the map, there are only three in my town. Two pointed at the Lowe's parking lot for some reason. There are four of them in the Lowe's parking lot near me. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (Cqx++) 53
Government agency doesn’t like the rules the bind them, hire a contractor to circumvent those rules.
Posted by: MH-53J at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (9ZxcS) 54
snippet from a search for
flock camera felony Investigations And Vandalism Of Flock Cameras Surge ... Forbes https://www.forbes.com › Business 3 days ago — People in Florida and Michigan have been charged with felonies for damaging the cameras, destruction of which can carry hefty penalties due to ... Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (odBC9) 55
17 supporters pointing to abducted children recovered after a timely plate hit"
Bullshiite. The "abducted kid" crap has to be shut up. Hard. The "kids" on milk cartons was idiotic. Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (cGjQu) Could we at least air tag all the dingoes. Just in case. Posted by: Meryl Streep at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (r7+Q7) 56
I got sent to a chain gang just for cutting the heads off of parking meters.
Posted by: Cool Hand Luke at August 30, 2026 12:52 PM (0vB2I) 57
I don’t like Flock cameras but I voluntarily use my smart phone and I suspect the thing spies on me more than Flock.
I’m afraid the toothpaste is out of the tube on ubiquitous surveillance Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2026 12:55 PM (M+uMR) 58
23 Two pointed at the Lowe's parking lot for some reason.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:13 PM (FZ29D) Smash-and-grab retail theft, tracking the cars the stolen goods are put into? Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9) 59
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. As far back as the 60s I read somewhere, every phone call that originated or was placed overseas was recorded and the tapes stored in some huge gov warehouse in Maryland.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (33HvQ) 60
Could we at least air tag all the dingoes. Just in case.
Posted by: Meryl Streep at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (r7+Q7) Maybe the dingoes ate your baby! Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (M+uMR) 61
The various surveillance cameras are one thing that needs to be addressed. The other, potentially more serious one is the data they've been collecting for however many years they've been installed and who has access to it, for how long and for what reason.
I get the whole "no expectation of privacy in public." But if someone searches specifically for me, my wife, our vehicles across multiple jurisdictions on a whim... I think there's a problem. That is exactly the type of abuse that has already been documented, but AFAIK, no specific rulings on whether it constitutes a legally defined search or not. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (2Cry5) 62
Opposition to Flock cameras is going to run headlong into the First Amendment every time, and lose. You can't curtail Flock's operations without similarly curtailing Tesla's, Ring's and for that matter, a ton of journalistic and personal photography use cases.
The problem is not the tech, but the policies that attach to them. If you fix that, there's no reason to try and diminish First Amendment protected public photography freedoms. Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 30, 2026 12:58 PM (f2WUk) 63
"No science fiction writer can better what we are actually living through."
Philip K. Dick was close. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:59 PM (36x1j) 64
I am sure all the wannabe Marxists, Maoists, and DSA members are positively salivating over this technology. Imagine how much more effective the Soviet KGB would have been had this system been available to them.
Posted by: George V at August 30, 2026 01:00 PM (HUbHH) 65
I think COVID taught us a thing or two about "safety."
During Covid, government was using Public Safety Cameras to provide streaming video into Computer Vision systems that had classifiers to single out people who were not complying with mask and "social distancing" mandates. You can download these classifiers for your personal use. You don't need Flock to ruin people's lives. The value of Flock is the ability to set up a monitoring station that is not connected to a power source and to network the cameras into an AI system with hundred thousand IoT cameras. The problem isn't necessarily the cameras, its the underlying software supporting the surveillance. Posted by: Community Notes at August 30, 2026 01:01 PM (a4flb) 66
I am Spartacus!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 01:02 PM (aJQbY) 67
62 Opposition to Flock cameras is going to run headlong into the First Amendment every time, and lose. You can't curtail Flock's operations without similarly curtailing Tesla's, Ring's and for that matter, a ton of journalistic and personal photography use cases.
The problem is not the tech, but the policies that attach to them. If you fix that, there's no reason to try and diminish First Amendment protected public photography freedoms. Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 30, 2026 12:58 PM (f2WUk) Josh Hawley and Ron DeSantis are looking into legislation. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:02 PM (odBC9) 68
...and please do not forget about the correlation of this data with other sources. Everybody who has your data, sells your data. And there are companies out there whose entire business is based around correlation of various publicly available data sources...then there's the fed.gov...what do you reckon they are doing? Do you think they cannot get access to license plate reader data?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Gqaa7) 69
All Your Data Belong To Us.
And the government can’t or won’t control or secure it. Guess Who has most, if not all, the crown jewels. Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 01:04 PM (33HvQ) Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Gqaa7) 71
Wouldn't doubt the Chinese are scooping up personal information faster than any other
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 01:05 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 01:06 PM (aI58f) 73
>>>So will sending SWAT teams into every house in America to look for drugs or "illegal" weapons, or taking the medical records of every American and analyzing them for possible illegality. Or sending forensic accountants into every business in America and checking their books.
A big ol' list of stuff like this could help sway people to be against the cameras. Where would they draw the line, they could be asked. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (odBC9) 74
every phone call that originated or was placed overseas was recorded
_-_ Now fast-forward to today's technology. What are they doing now? Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Gqaa7) 75
Deflocking sounds like what happens to a Japanese priest...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK) 76
"It's just a tool!!!"
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:08 PM (odBC9) 77
73 >>>So will sending SWAT teams into every house in America to look for drugs or "illegal" weapons, or taking the medical records of every American and analyzing them for possible illegality. Or sending forensic accountants into every business in America and checking their books.
A big ol' list of stuff like this could help sway people to be against the cameras. Where would they draw the line, they could be asked. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (odBC9) Surveillance for thee but not for me... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 01:08 PM (aI58f) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:09 PM (l3cgK) 80
>>>A backlash that began among left-leaning civil libertarians has spread to the populist Right
That doesn't happen just every day! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:09 PM (odBC9) 81
80 >>>A backlash that began among left-leaning civil libertarians has spread to the populist Right
That doesn't happen just every day! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:09 PM (odBC9) What's the ACLU's (American Criminal Liberties Union) take on Flock? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK) 82
75 Deflocking sounds like what happens to a Japanese priest...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK) or is that a Cantonese priest? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK) 83
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Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org › get-the-flock-out 4 days ago — Flock's ALPR cameras aren't like your normal traffic cameras. This surveillance technology records and tracks every car that comes into view Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:11 PM (odBC9) 84
>>>Government agency doesn’t like the rules the bind them, hire a contractor to circumvent those rules.
Posted by: MH-53J >Like Fauci? The CIA? None of this is unprecedented. Now they're just putting it in your face. Teabagging is now the social norm. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:11 PM (nlLAo) 85
> It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. As far back as the 60s I read somewhere, every phone call that originated or was placed overseas was recorded and the tapes stored in some huge gov warehouse in Maryland.
-------------- NSA. And then they coded software that could search for certain words, phrases or specific names. By listening to the recordings. Imagine what they're doing with all the digital data they're hoovering up. It's no wonder they fund startups like Google, Facebook, etc. and have gear in every telecon junction in the country (and probably elsewhere.) Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:15 PM (2Cry5) 86
Not even SWAT, say have ICE go door to door looking for criminal illegals- to keep us safe. They gotta be for that, right? Right? Safety.
Posted by: Radar at August 30, 2026 01:15 PM (vVx7o) 87
Honestly, this is not in the top ten of things that keep me up at night. Perhaps my ambivalence makes me part of the problem.
I really don’t think I’m interesting enough for anyone to care or make note of what I do or who I talk to or what I say. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ybxgE) 88
Biden's Dog, a resounding yes. There is no activity in any of the ports. Money is being traced and shut off in thousands of accounts. Trade with China is at a standstill.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 01:16 PM (PbWRL) 89
ACLU
https://tinyurl.com/3y3vscsj Flock provides one of the most widely used ALPR systems, but they aren't the only company trying to make a buck by spying on us. Axon, Vigilant Solutions (a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions), Genetec, PlateSmart, Innova Systems, Rekor, ELSAG, Perceptics, and Jenoptik are a few of the other leading companies selling ALPRs to police, private companies, and others. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:16 PM (odBC9) 90
I'm also trying to understand why government has no money whatsoever to fill in pot holes, fix broken pavement, update the water and sanitation piping, but has endless amounts of money to violate the privacy of the livestock (aka resident) they are ruling over.
I was just trying to find basic water losses due to a city's failure to maintain the distribution system. No joy. Zero insight on how a municipality is wasting water while at the same time they are criminalizing the failure of residents to micro-optimize their personal water use. Flock seems to be the same thing. The municipality refuses to do the job they are expected to do in favor of setting up what appears to be an unconstitutional police state. If they really cared about public safety, they wouldn't be releasing criminals back on the street nor be a sanctuary city/state for criminal illegal aliens. So the public safety claim is pure bullshit since they aren't even doing the easy job of actually doing their job, but are expanding the role to harass citizens. Posted by: Community Notes at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (a4flb) 91
If, a big if, there was prosecution and either prison or deportation for criminals or illegal, then this could possibly be supported.
It is directed at law-abiding citizens, so a huge No. Victor Davis Hanson saw this in CA 25 years ago. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (u82oZ) 92
I get that I don't have an expectation of privacy in public places. My basic problem here is that I don't have an expectation that the fed.gov will not do evil with surveillance tools. Are any of these guys really on our side?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (Gqaa7) 93
90 I'm also trying to understand why government has no money whatsoever to fill in pot holes, fix broken pavement, update the water and sanitation piping, but has endless amounts of money to violate the privacy of the livestock (aka resident) they are ruling over.
I was just trying to find basic water losses due to a city's failure to maintain the distribution system. No joy. Zero insight on how a municipality is wasting water while at the same time they are criminalizing the failure of residents to micro-optimize their personal water use. Flock seems to be the same thing. The municipality refuses to do the job they are expected to do in favor of setting up what appears to be an unconstitutional police state. If they really cared about public safety, they wouldn't be releasing criminals back on the street nor be a sanctuary city/state for criminal illegal aliens. So the public safety claim is pure bullshit since they aren't even doing the easy job of actually doing their job, but are expanding the role to harass citizens. Posted by: Community Notes at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (a4flb) After they expropriate the property of the Bad People, they'll have money to fix potholes. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:19 PM (odBC9) 94
1984.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 01:20 PM (mkztW) 95
Big Brother is watching you.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:21 PM (odBC9) 96
I really don’t think I’m interesting enough for anyone to care or make note of what I do or who I talk to or what I say. Posted by: nurse ratched The otters are listening. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (Cqx++) 97
And if you ever end up on a jury for a trial of someone who destroyed a Flock camera or any other onerous surveillance technology...you know what to do.
Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments --- "We find the defendant not guilty by reason of sanity!" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:06 PM (FZ29D) "We find the defendant not guilty because you're frigging jerkoffs" Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (S41Gd) 98
OT:
A Canadian academic at the University of Waterloo: Q: As a founding scholar in trans philosophy, tell us about your research and community engagement. A: When I first started doing what came to be known as "trans philosophy" I didn't have a method expressly formulated in my mind. I was simply motivated by this thought: "The current ways of making sense of my trans experiences don't work. But I'm a smart woman. Why don't I try to figure it out on my own?" It wasn't until trans philosophy began to take off that I could turn around and really say, "Ok. So, that's what I was doing." Can't imagine why academia is collapsing... Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (aD4fx) 99
Imagine if the government did their job, their statutory requirements and say, decided illegal aliens were not going to be allowed at the borders or in the Zone of the Interior.
All of the considerable surveillance apparatus arrayed against crime and trafficking illegal drugs, smuggling, etc. Remember there are no coincidences in government. If there are 50 or 100 million illegal aliens in your country, somebody wants it that way. One can only conclude, therefore, that all this stuff is going to used for someone else. You get one guess Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (33HvQ) 100
100
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (odBC9) 101
The otters are listening.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr I love them. Did you know sea otters hold hands while they sleep? Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:23 PM (ybxgE) Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2026 01:23 PM (aD4fx) 103
No way, really?
>>@R_H_Ebright · 4h >>"Newly disclosed documents reveal that Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had a formal institutional partnership with the CIA, one that provided cover for the agency's biological-threat research." Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:24 PM (viF8m) 104
The problem is not the tech, but the policies that attach to them. If you fix that, there's no reason to try and diminish First Amendment protected public photography freedoms.
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver Except the problem isn't photography. It's the systematic data collection and cross-referencing that creates a permanent record of every thing about a person. This isn't a matter of 'who just walked down this alleyway.' It's a system that is telling the cops and assorted clients, 'That's Fred Johnson, here's his phone number, his past 100 calls, and this script predicts he is going to see Jane Haller at 5:05pm tonight.' It's literally creating a index of everyone's lives, not just a f'ing photo album. It will be the basis for a social credit system if it isn't already. Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2026 01:24 PM (diia5) 105
You may not be interested in the borg, but the borg is interested in you.
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 01:25 PM (mkztW) 106
>>> Are any of these guys really on our side?
Posted by: Don in SoCo >No. If they were, every citizen in America would be a landowner and have his own home. Right now, you qualify as a citizen if you pay taxes. Pretty much it. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:25 PM (nlLAo) 107
I really don’t think I’m interesting enough for anyone to care or make note of what I do or who I talk to or what I say.
Posted by: nurse ratched _-_ ...until they change the rules to say what you normally do is prohibited. The knowledge you are being monitored should be sifficient to keep from getting "outside your lane". Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:27 PM (Gqaa7) 108
They all do that
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 01:29 PM (wxsGM) 109
What I normally do is prohibited?
Like going to the range or attending Latin Mass? They can come and take my guns and my Eucharist over my dead body. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:30 PM (C8BIZ) 110
It's true. all this monitoring, reporting, surveilling was once a condition of parole or probation, conditions imposed after court proceedings. Look what they call the courts now in many cases.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 01:32 PM (wxsGM) 111
Amen to that, CBD. Have people so soon forgotten the monumental partisan abuse of the law manifested by government agencies during, just to pick something at random, the Biden administration?
Posted by: Paco at August 30, 2026 01:32 PM (2L+MU) Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:33 PM (Gqaa7) 113
As far back as the 60s I read somewhere, every phone call that originated or was placed overseas was recorded and the tapes stored in some huge gov warehouse in Maryland.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (33HvQ) Ahhhh, I've seen that place in a movie, or something. What was the movie called, again? *thinking*thinking* Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2026 01:34 PM (hmYU4) 114
I really don’t think I’m interesting enough for anyone to care or make note of what I do or who I talk to or what I say.
Posted by: nurse ratched Trust me you are interesting to any number of companies and unknown number of criminal organizations. You think having a false strike on your credit report is a nightmare? You ain't seen nothin' yet. Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2026 01:35 PM (diia5) 115
Ahhhh, I've seen that place in a movie, or something. What was the movie called, again? *thinking*thinking* Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy The President's Analyst www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 01:36 PM (Cqx++) 116
False strike affecting you Social Credit Score...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:37 PM (Gqaa7) 117
Flock CEO spoke out about accepting the new norm for lack of privacy, and himself was quickly doxxed. Just as quickly his home disappeared off Google Earth. To to get that done as a normie. Tech stands by its own, no? Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov Here's how to do that for your own house. Is.gd refused to shorten this, BTW. Remove the carriage returns. https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/ how-to-stop-google-maps-from- displaying-your-home-to-strangers Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 30, 2026 01:37 PM (QVmho) 118
Amen to that, CBD. Have people so soon forgotten the monumental partisan abuse of the law manifested by government agencies during, just to pick something at random, the Biden administration?
Posted by: Paco Memory of a goldfish. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 01:37 PM (QovLg) 119
Imagine being the child or relative of someone who either is, or was, part of the so-called Intelligence Community during the 60's, 70's or 80's.
You might not have been privy to state secrets, but you probably do have some insights that others might not. Or pieced together certain things/events that cut across the grain of publicly released info. *shrugs* Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:39 PM (2Cry5) 120
They can come and take my guns and my Eucharist over my dead body.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:30 PM (C8BIZ) Your terms are acceptablel. Posted by: Your local government and PD at August 30, 2026 01:40 PM (hmYU4) 121
Acceptable. We government types have spelling issues.
Posted by: Your local government and PD at August 30, 2026 01:41 PM (hmYU4) 122
We don't have any problem finding criminals really.
The issue is we don't throw them in prison/execute them. Every horrible crime you see in the news is by someone with a dozen priors... Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm) 123
> Here's how to do that for your own house.
----------- In every "street view" photo of where my house is, you can't see it due to all the trees, tall grass, weeds, etc. that are along the road. The house sits about 1/4 mile off that road, up a hill. The satellite view however.... Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:42 PM (2Cry5) 124
I was watching a video by a left leaning comedy group and the skit was premised on people seeing charismatic leaders and following them even though they were spewing word salads.
And they capped it with a blue haired woman explaining that it feels good to get your identify from being part of a group even if that group is organized around something absurd. And...yes. Yes that's exactly true. Now let's talk about "the empathetic", trannies, and those that "care about the earth" Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm) 125
>>As far back as the 60s I read somewhere, every phone call that originated or was placed overseas was recorded and the tapes stored in some huge gov warehouse in Maryland.
During WWI, the US created an intelligence sharing agreement to share intel about the Axis powers. Eventually, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were included and that was the birth of Five Eyes, an intel sharing group that monitored things like communist uprisings in Latin America and other threats to the west. From that group we got Project Echelon. It was originally setup to spy on communications of the Soviet Union and her allies. And just as color revolutions were eventually turned on us, so was Echelon. At every internet interconnect and peering location around the US the NSA has listening stations. The feds couldn't have designed a better tool for monitoring communications so they helped create this one. The feds have so many was of monitoring us the Flock cameras seem almost redundant. The amount of benefit they provide is way outweighed by the loss of privacy. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:44 PM (viF8m) 126
the US and the UK created
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:45 PM (viF8m) 127
Just look at as gain-of-function beyond the constitution. Who signed up for this, voted for it? The royals from the UK?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:45 PM (nlLAo) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:49 PM (odBC9) 129
> At every internet interconnect and peering location around the US the NSA has listening stations. The feds couldn't have designed a better tool for monitoring communications so they helped create this one. The feds have so many was of monitoring us the Flock cameras seem almost redundant. The amount of benefit they provide is way outweighed by the loss of privacy.
Posted by: JackStraw ------------ Remember a guy named Seymore Cray? He had this idea, a computer unlike anything seen before. A certain intelligence agency parked some money in his firm and had them build "stuff" that sort of helped out the data aggregation back in the 70's and 80's. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:50 PM (2Cry5) 130
I'm in favor of installing Flock cameras in every Fed, state and local government office space. Then We The People can keep an eye on you, the hired help.
Posted by: Donny Brook at August 30, 2026 01:51 PM (Dc1Hd) 131
What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0) 132
Excellent posting, CBD! There should be millions of signs posted that say 'GET THE FLOCK OUT OF HERE!' … but then, that's just me …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 01:53 PM (ayRl+) 133
>>Remember a guy named Seymore Cray? He had this idea, a computer unlike anything seen before. A certain intelligence agency parked some money in his firm and had them build "stuff" that sort of helped out the data aggregation back in the 70's and 80's.
That same intel agency gave money to a couple data scientists at Standford named Segey Brin and Larry Page to help them develop their search technology. It became Google. Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m) 134
The amount of benefit they provide ijs way outweighed by the loss of privacy.
_-_ Right. There were good reasons that JFK had the attitude he did. Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:55 PM (Gqaa7) 135
I worked in the leg biz, and I know that it was easy to use their database to check on somebody you were dating, for instance, so this would be even worse.
And what's the point of finding more criminals if the judges and lawmakers aren't going to keep them in jail? That's where the real problem is. Posted by: Random PJ at August 30, 2026 01:55 PM (+jscL) 136
Just another misappropriation and misallocation of taxpayers dollars. A clear sign we freely pay too much taxes. Stupid shit like this should be audited and cut from the budget.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:56 PM (nlLAo) 137
The satellite view however....
I accidentally found a solution for that. Part of my roof is flat, and that created some problems. When I added a lot of insulation and a rubber roof, I worked in a layer of that thin metallized Mylar they use for 'survival blankets,' to reflect some of the solar radiation. There was also an improved venting scheme. It really worked. The natural temperature of the second story went down ten degrees. The mylar is like a radar target, but also acts like a Faraday cage. Sensors cannot look through it. So, they can always find the house, but they can't tell what's going on in there. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 01:56 PM (zdLoL) 138
Just another misappropriation and misallocation of taxpayers dollars. A clear sign we freely pay too much taxes. Stupid shit like this should be audited and cut from the budget.
Back when NYS sent an assault squad to kill Peanut the Squirrel I pointed out if NYS had enough money to pay to have a team on the ready to rapidly execute a squirrel the state budget could easily and immediately be cut by at least half. Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm) 139
The first computers were used to make artillery tables, later used to crunch numbers for the complex hydrogen bomb modeling.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 01:59 PM (33HvQ) 140
1ST WORLD NOOD
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0) 141
worked in the leg biz, and I know that it was easy to use their database to check on somebody you were dating, for instance,
——- Gordon Liddy allowed in his autobiography that he performed an F.B.I. background check on the woman who became his wife. I guess she must have passed. Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (33HvQ) 142
>>> Sensors cannot look through it. So, they can always find the house, but they can't tell what's going on in there.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver >So when you're banging the governor's wife they can't see you when you're busting a nut? Sweet. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (nlLAo) 143
There used to be a bit of delineation between the CIA and the NSA. Both are intelligence agencies. Beyond the purview each has, the CIA seemed to have focused on the human aspect of intel work while the NSA focused on the electronic medium.
Good thing they're not exactly cooperative with each other. Most of the time. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (2Cry5) 144
124 I was watching a video by a left leaning comedy group and the skit was premised on people seeing charismatic leaders and following them even though they were spewing word salads.
And they capped it with a blue haired woman explaining that it feels good to get your identify from being part of a group even if that group is organized around something absurd. And...yes. Yes that's exactly true. Now let's talk about "the empathetic", trannies, and those that "care about the earth" Posted by: 18-1 Go Time. LET'S GO BRANDON BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT. ...that Hotel in Moscow, Putin Gets to take Europe by Force, Trump gets Greenland, FREEPORT/Cuba and the 3Seas Accord. bonus: Proven Gulf/ASW clearing the mines means Tiawan Strait unminable, China vulnerable to Malaca blockade. Opportunity: 99 year Taiwan Hong/Kong-like lease, strait becomes demilitarized zone in exchange for shared mineral rights (methyl hydrate) and first underwater mining and perhaps cities beneath the sea with American Underseas technology. Alternative: Ceasless forWARd: vulnerability to Russian Poseidon/Kanyon deep water UUV, and next get Chinese HSGV with capabilities of X-20 Dyna-soar.... deployable munition Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (nkEiq) 145
'Safety' was the reason given for putting cameras all over London. Funny how when it didn't work, they didn't take the cameras down. Almost like the safety rhetoric was just sales pitch and rationalization for a confidence scheme, and the public were the marks!
Locks Not Flocks Lifers Not Cameras Prisons Not Panopticons Bring back "three strikes," and leave the Normies alone! Posted by: SciVo at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (ke3zm) 146
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Posted by: G. Washington at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (4NO2D) 147
145 'Safety' was the reason given for putting cameras all over London. Funny how when it didn't work, they didn't take the cameras down. Almost like the safety rhetoric was just sales pitch and rationalization for a confidence scheme, and the public were the marks!
Locks Not Flocks Lifers Not Cameras Prisons Not Panopticons Bring back "three strikes," and leave the Normies alone! Posted by: SciVo When the Truth becomes a Liability ALL NORMAL People become the enemy. Indict Brennan -- colby canoe's away! Fear of exposure when he rats them out will create a PPV worthy display of the Deep State detargeting normal people and opening fire on each other to be "prove" their innocent with after the fact parallel construction. https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhoRtheTargets https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ctHARRIS19takedown Not One Battle after Another; One LIB after Another. It takes a Villan to tell us the truth: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- ctHILLARY'04 Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (PwL0Y) 148
There are cameras all over our college campus. Plus, it's a no-cash campus. You can't even buy a coffee in the student union with cash.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 30, 2026 02:21 PM (OlzlW) 149
What rights are being trampled? There is no reasonable expectation of privacy on public property. Anyone can take your picture and snap a photo of your car's plate on a public road.
Rather than getting upset about longstanding limits on your privacy rights in public, regulate the compilation of data points. Pass laws so queries of ALPR databases require a warrant, must have the requestor's identity to be stored with the query, and punish violations. Require all ALPR databases to be within the US and registered. Audit their use. Posted by: jf3 at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (//E7X) 150
Thanks for providing the actual quotes.
Trying to parce it down but my notes page keeps getting longer and longer. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 06:24 PM (GebTj) 151
People who have cell phones and complain about Flock invading their privacy is ridiculous. I wonder why there are no complaints about that? Oh...sure....you were bought.
Ring cameras have always shared their data with the po-po. Why no complaints about Ring? Oh, right. You didn't even notice at first, and now you get all these great videos out of it. Why no complaints about the literally millions of cameras along highways and roads that are fully capable of reading plates and recognizing faces? Oh, right. Ignorance. The only problem anyone has with Flock is their own hypocrisy, with cultured stupidity a close second. Posted by: bravokilo at August 31, 2026 02:02 AM (/xFxI) The Book Thread: August 30th, 2026 [MP4]![]() ![]() ‘AI, ay, ay!’ A while back, an offer popped up on my Facebook feed.* It was an AI program that, if you gave it some prompts, would shoot you back a plot for a book. I was curious, so offered it a basic line of ‘what would happen if a 1915 NJ movie studio had a murder to keep it from moving to Hollywood?’ A few minutes later, the program gave me a full plotline. As one might expect from this woke age, the main character was a spunky female reporter trying to make her way in a male-dominated world. I liked what I saw, but decided that I didn’t need it and wiped it out. But, having thought about it, I wondered why I shouldn’t use it for my next book? After all, the late Clive Cussler paid people to come up with plots for his Dirk Pitt novels. And James Patterson ‘collaborates’ with unknown authors, takes their plots, adds his ‘unique viewpoint’ and pushes them out on the marketplace. So let’s presume I asked an AI program for a plot. Am I cheating? Suppose I didn’t follow it slavishly, but used the plot as a jumping off point for my own thoughts. Is my book compromised because I began with an AI plot? Incidentally, the same program would, if you asked it, take the plot it generated and then spit out an entire book. But why would anyone even within whispering distance of calling themselves an author do such a thing? Oh, I know it happens (and, as I joke, because Amazon will print just about anything up to and including Bigfoot-themed erotica, ‘author’ is practically a worthless word), but beyond the lure of money and the simple ease of the shortcut, why do such a thing to yourself? This is a subject more for the authors of the Horde, but what about you? If you knew that an author used AI to create a plot, but not the content of the book itself, would that drive you away? *I hate Facebook. I am only there to be part of the ‘Theda Bara Fan Club.’ I hate the rest of it. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0) 2
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Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS) 4
Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading. Mine did and included listening, as well.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:02 AM (yTvNw) Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:02 AM (1Ff7Z) 6
Still slowly reading The Gathering Storm by Winston Spencer Churchill
Actually picking up a lot between the wars I didn't know Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:03 AM (Ia/+0) 7
G'mornin' everyone! Hey there MP4! Woohoo!
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Good Sunday morning, horde!
How many times have us non-writing Morons suggested plots? Would it be wrong if one of you writers took it an ran with it? I think not. I'm kind of the same with AI. If you let AI write the book, then shame on you. But if you use it as a catalyst for your own talent, I'm ok with that. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX) 9
I just read em, don't write em
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0) 10
Morning, all.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:05 AM (qRla/) 11
Good morning, Book Folken! I'm glad to see MP4 hosting today.
I wouldn't mind taking an AI-generated plot to be the jumping-off point of a book. Plotting is always a slog for me. When a plot does come easily, I worry that I'm unconsciously ripping off someone else's work that I've read. But if I took the whole AI-generated thing, then it would not be my voice, and I would not have any fun with it. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (wzUl9) 12
I'm kind of the same with AI. If you let AI write the book, then shame on you. But if you use it as a catalyst for your own talent, I'm ok with that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX) How do you feel about taking a plot point from some other story and writing a new story around it? Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z) 13
Anything having to do with AI automatically turns me off.
I'm sure the arguments you mention have sone merit, but for me, it's a visceral reaction. Posted by: Dr. T at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (lHPJf) 14
I read the classic WWII novel, The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw. This was on my TBR list for years, and it didn't disappoint. Published in 1948, the book has great characters and a great story well told.
Posted by: Zoltan at August 30, 2026 09:07 AM (KUWG/) 15
Sturgeon was right. "The Pink Panther Gets Lucky," with Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Las Vegas, is crapping out.
I nearly tossed the book when Clouseau dresses in drag to infiltrate a theater by joining the audition for a nude cabaret, but that chapter was blessedly short and I powered on through. I can guarantee that this book will not find permanent quarters in our home. Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (TvRFE) 16
Thanks MPPP
I had coffee with a 24 year old entrepreneur on Friday who told me that all of her emails, appointment scheduling, and more are all tied into AI that performs these tasks for her. She says it reads and writes about 80 emails a day for her. It makes and schedules appointments for her because the AI reads her emails first. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX) 17
Would an AI-generated plot keep me away? Possible. Hard to say, really. On one hand, I'm not sure it's all that different a thing from older books for writers like 101 Plots Used and Abused or Polti's The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. A good writer would probably play around with the skeleton he got from AI and make something decent out of it depending on his skills with handling characters.
But for me the use of AI would be a mark in the skip column. Maybe not the decisive mark, but a fairly heavy one. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (q3u5l) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (kpS4V) 19
And James Patterson ‘collaborates’ with unknown authors, takes their plots, adds his ‘unique viewpoint’ and pushes them out on the marketplace.
I.e. his name on the cover in giant font. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (vTZFs) 20
How do you feel about taking a plot point from some other story and writing a new story around it?
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 *** In one of his books about writing, Lawrence Block admitted that he'd often taken a basic plot from a TV show and given it a whole new spin and ending for his own short story. It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9) 21
Two thoughts:
Sara Hoyt has her "Vignettes" over the weekend, an invite to commenters to write very short stories based on a theme. 50 words max, very limited, but it's still a writing exercise. And one could flesh out a fragment into a whole expanded universe, given enough time, energy, and typewriter monkies. Second, when another writer (Theodore Sturgeon) was having writer's block, Robert Heinlein sent a letter filled with various ideas. Plot fragments. Key pieces that could be used, or could be altered, or even ignored. Ideas and thoughts can't exactly be copyrighted or patented. Only the actual implementation, whether as a blueprint for a device, or a story with the written word. Because those take actual effort to see through to the end. Posted by: Another Anon at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (4h45B) 22
How do you feel about taking a plot point from some other story and writing a new story around it?
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z) Exactly! Case in point, every thriller ever written. Same story, different setting and characters. Speaking of which, I just read the latest Longmire, and I have thoughts. Will post them separately. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (h7ZuX) 23
It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 *** Oops. That should be "It may have been he who said . . ." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9) 24
I think that if you use AI, the programmer should get a share of the royalties.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:12 AM (TvRFE) 25
Clarification on my comment at 17.
The use of AI would be a fairly heavy mark in the skip it column in the case of a writer whose work I didn't already know either directly or by reputation/word of mouth. If Joe Doakes has a book out there that used AI, pass. If Lawrence Block or Robert Silverberg put out a novel that sprung from an AI plot, I'd give it a look anyway because those two guys don't do slipshod work. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:13 AM (q3u5l) 26
I recall my dad owning a book that was a compendium of plots that an author could use as a jumping off point for his own stories. So long as it's just a spark to jumpstart your own ideas, I see no problem.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:13 AM (kpS4V) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (ndZc7) 28
It may have been him who said
If youre going to steal, steal from the dead. But it was definitely her who thought If youre going to be sold, youd better stay bought. Posted by: Bill Bixby at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kYmoU) 29
Besides, I don't even know where to find these multi-layered AIs, at least not for free. The few sites I've used to generate images all had a limit -- three or five prompts and then you had to sign up or pay, or both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V) 31
I've been toying around with the idea of using AI in a small manner for my next book. I have some ideas sketched out, but I like to have at least a preliminary plotline in hand before I start. Even when I use my own scene cards, I don't always follow them religiously, so using an AI program to at least get me started would be a useful shortcut.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (qRla/) 32
In one of his books about writing, Lawrence Block admitted that he'd often taken a basic plot from a TV show and given it a whole new spin and ending for his own short story.
It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9) What about lifting a line from a book or video? Same idea. If the line is organic to your story, why not? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z) 33
MP4 thanks for your well written premise.
We were created by a Creator to be creative. Our passions come to life through our creativity which invariably some form of art, be it music, drama, painting, sculpture, dance, cooking and a hundred more. Included in that list is writing, because writing is most certainly a form of art. The joy and satisfaction we derive from art is exercising our own creativity, and if we use Artificial Intelligence to come up with plot lines we are robbing ourselves of that pleasure. Let's teach it how to empty the dishwasher instead. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1) 34
I read the classic WWII novel, The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw. This was on my TBR list for years, and it didn't disappoint. Published in 1948, the book has great characters and a great story well told.
Posted by: Zoltan I loved it. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7) 35
The idea for a plot can come from anywhere: AI, a comment overheard in a crowd, something you read half a century ago, a news headline, a fragment from a Shakespeare play or some poem, etc. Everything after that has to come from the author otherwise the author didn't write the book. It's that simple.
Even if an annual almanac used AI to gather facts like a countries population or the rainfall of some city, the content still has to be organized and tailored for a certain audience. PS: Don't rely on the accuracy of AI 'data' without checking. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw) 36
If memory serves one of the notions Heinlein gave Sturgeon was the launching point for his story "And Now the News." I think it was something along the lines of all neurosis being caused by wallowing in the troubles of nine billion strangers. The comment may also have found its way into the Lazarus Long notebooks, but not sure of that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (q3u5l) 37
As far as new books, I've bought a couple - a bio of Eddie Cantor and Hollywood's Hollywood, a book about the many movies that have used Hollywood and / or the movie business as their setting.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (qRla/) 38
I see AI used as a sounding board or inspiration as no different than a writer's circle/workshop or, as mentioned, taking something from TV and doing it right/better/whole new angle.
But then I am not the kind of person who has books desperate to escape my fingers, I'm the kind of person who reads almost anything, and occasionally has 'what if' thoughts on plot variants. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (aJQbY) 39
Finished Vanity Fair. Very good, edge of great. 8.5 out of 10. Read somewhere that Thackeray was an early naturalist, but there's a lot of moralizing.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (XvL8K) 40
Besides, I don't even know where to find these multi-layered AIs, at least not for free. The few sites I've used to generate images all had a limit -- three or five prompts and then you had to sign up or pay, or both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9) You need an email for tensor art, but it doesn't require pay. Use a throwaway. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (1Ff7Z) 41
Just earlier this morning, somewhere, I saw a thing about Clive Cussler (?) and was reminded of the time I tried to read one of his books. Lead character was some sort of private eye or retired military? named Dick Wiggler or something equally lame. The story started out with him walking into a local police station, and the author described his appearance as a real study guy...even describing his tight shorts...ick.
By I had to quit the book when the author, when describing lead character's encounter with a criminal, and said, and this is how I remember it, "he snicked the safety off of his .357 revolver" right. Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:19 AM (3ACIl) 42
I understand that Erle Stanley Gardner used a board that held several wheels that bore notations of situations, motives, methods of murder, locations, etc. Turn the wheels, and there would be an idea for his next Perry Mason mystery.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:19 AM (TvRFE) 43
What about lifting a line from a book or video? Same idea. If the line is organic to your story, why not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 *** In an SF story, I did that -- lifted William Munny's line from Unforgiven, 'If you kill a man, you take away all he has and all he'll ever have," and reworked it a bit into a scene where the narrator's father has had to kill potential invaders to their enclave. One of my writing group caught it, and I grinned and said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best --!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9) 44
Art idea. Like the Sistine Chapel but instead of God touching Adam, it'd be AI.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (ndZc7) 45
What about lifting a line from a book or video? Same idea. If the line is organic to your story, why not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z) **smiles** Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (qRla/) 46
I don't think I have a clearcut view of AI use, or the acceptability thereof, so I'm gonna say nothing. Time, and experience, will bring clarity.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:21 AM (VyBeY) 47
Honestly, the concept for a book seems like the easiest part of the process. Anyone should be able to brainstorm a concept or two. The real effort would go into fleshing out that outline and turning it into an actual story. If an author needs AI's help with the most basic element of story, I'm not sure I'd trust them with anything else...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:22 AM (3v7ra) 48
Checked a link for some AI plot/story generator. Fed it some prompts based on a story I'd started that bogged down on me. What came back was the summary for a novel (to get the whole novel it wanted $$$) that sounded like a ripoff of some movie whose title I forget. Threw it away. And yes, the story is still bogged down. One of these years maybe...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:23 AM (q3u5l) 49
There was a great line in a local jewelry store radio spot years ago: "Ladies and gentlemen, please keep your hands and feet inside the radio commercial at all times." I'm waiting to use that one, suitably resewn, in a murder mystery one of these days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9) 50
41 - safety on a revolver is a bright line in the sand, innit?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY) 51
On another note:
I was at a used bookstore last week and saw that they had about a dozen The Man From U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks. I know someone here collects them and I thought about taking a photo of the collection and asking if anyone wanted them. Which led me to an idea: just as AoS has the prayer list, why not have a Sunday Book Thread Want List? Send in to one of the hosts a list of books you're looking for and, if someone else finds one, they can pipe up and say, "I have it. Where would you like me to send it?" Thoughts? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (qRla/) 52
Morning, all.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:05 AM (qRla Why did women wear those big hats back then? Who started that fashion craze? Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2) 53
Charles Schulta used to flip through the Sears cataloge looking for inspiration for Peanuts.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (ndZc7) 54
If an author needs AI's help with the most basic element of story
I have no ideas, and I must write. A story about an AI trapped in a deep cavern with a despotic human. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (kYmoU) 55
Perhaps one useful perspective is to see it as 'training wheels'... keep you going over the tricky parts until you get your balance figured out.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (aJQbY) 56
So. The Brothers McKay, by Craig Johnson, came available in my library holds.
Never in my life have I so desperately wanted a character to die. This is the first Longmire I have not loved. Apparently out of ideas, Craig Johnson re-wrote The Brothers Karamazov, dropping them into the American West. I admit I haven't gotten around to reading Dostoevsky yet, and it might have made a difference for me. But probably not. One character is an absolutely irrational imbecile who should have been left to die many times. But Longmire is always about grace and mercy, so he persists in his determination to rescue a dumbass. Reading this spiked my blood pressure to dangerous levels. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (h7ZuX) 57
I have several grandchildren who are beginning readers. I consider some books to be on their future mandatory reading list, even I am not living on the Earth when they reach teenage reading level.
I consider Orwell’s Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia absolutely necessary. I would urge all teenagers to read Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars”, about the Dane’s efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis during WWII. And, just for fun, they should read Richard Hughes “A High Wind in Jamaica”. Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM (1FEc1) 58
MP4,
Love the fashion update at the top of the thread. Talk about celebrating the female form. When I saw the sensor light in the top photo I immediately thought "Good morning, Dave." Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM (yTvNw) 59
For example, I have three books in the seven-book The Motion Picture Girls collection, which was a 1914 series by Laura Lee (The Bobbsey Twins) Hope.
If someone came across one that I don't have, I'd pay to have it shipped to me. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (qRla/) 60
45, I love catching little touches like that! and I'm sure that I miss as many as I catch ...
Easter eggs, right? I've seen that phrase used. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (VyBeY) 61
Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 *** Doing that sort of thing is part of the joy in writing! In my Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan fiction, I will occasionally use a line from the show in another but appropriate context. I hope fans will catch it, but if not, hey, I had fun. Speaking of using real people, in one 1966 MfU tale I had Truman Capote, Lee Radziwill, Cilla Black, and Horst Jankowski all appear at a party. The first two were described rather than named. I also slipped Ellery Queen and his father the Inspector in there too. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9) 62
In an SF story, I did that -- lifted William Munny's line from Unforgiven, 'If you kill a man, you take away all he has and all he'll ever have," and reworked it a bit into a scene where the narrator's father has had to kill potential invaders to their enclave.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9) Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (qRla/) My direct lifts are usually from Star Trek episodes. But, I only have a character say one line. It's organic to my character and situations, so I don't think it's agin' the rules. It's an "homage" to sources I like. Though, if I decide to continue writing, I'd do less of it. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (1Ff7Z) 63
all neurosis being caused by wallowing in the troubles of nine billion strangers.
- I didn't think there were that many Horde members. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7) 64
Morons will enjoy reading Scott Bessent's recent letter to Elizabeth Warren. P.J. O'Rourke-level sarcasm.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (RIvkX) 65
Donald Westlake told of crossing a New York bridge and imagining that a man was walking across that bridge into Manhattan. Why was he walking? He's broke. Why is he broke? Somebody robbed him. Why is he going into Manhattan? To take revenge on the robber.
He spun that into "The Hunter," the first Parker potboiler, published under the name Richard Stark. Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:29 AM (TvRFE) 66
Why did women wear those big hats back then? Who started that fashion craze?
Why, I do not know. The fashion didn't last long, however - it really was from the early 1900s until almost the end of WWI. I think it might have been a reflection of the general prosperity of the Edwardian world, so women felt freer to indulge in lavish costume. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/) Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (q3u5l) 68
How does using AI for the plot compare to using a random table plot generator?
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq) 69
I was at a used bookstore last week and saw that they had about a dozen The Man From U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks. I know someone here collects them and I thought about taking a photo of the collection and asking if anyone wanted them.
Which led me to an idea: just as AoS has the prayer list, why not have a Sunday Book Thread Want List? Send in to one of the hosts a list of books you're looking for and, if someone else finds one, they can pipe up and say, "I have it. Where would you like me to send it?" Thoughts? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 *** Good idea! I think I'm the U.N.C.L.E. collector, and I have the entire series of twenty-three books. The oldest are sixty years old, though; I should wrap them in plastic. How many are there in the group you saw? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9) 70
"Morons will enjoy reading Scott Bessent's recent letter to Elizabeth Warren. P.J. O'Rourke-level sarcasm."
Please let it be What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (3ACIl) 71
It's …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ayRl+) 72
Four stories of book heaven.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V) I should probably never go there. I'd never escape. ***There, book plot, no AI needed. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (h7ZuX) 73
Thoughts?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (qRla/) I've done the opposite, took pix of a shelf of books and asked Wolfus which ones I should get. Sounds like a good idea. Maybe Perf can post it like he does the recommended list? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (1Ff7Z) 74
'Honestly, the concept for a book seems like the easiest part of the process. Anyone should be able to brainstorm a concept or two. The real effort would go into fleshing out that outline and turning it into an actual story."
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:22 AM 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1) 75
I finished reading another comic book omnibus this week; it was relatively short, but indy/self-published, so it was no less an impressive book. It was "The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West," written by Tom Hutchison and drawn by Alisson Borges and Carlos Reno. A wizard of Oz retelling, but with an action-girl and a cowboy/gunslinger flair. I normally avoid re-tellings of established stories, but the cover art and concept made me give this one a shot. It didn't quite live up to the cover (the sequential art wasn't bad, but also wasn't as good as I'd hoped), but you'll never discover a hidden gem if you never take a chance...
Ah, well, I had more fun reading this adaptation than I would have had reading/watching/listening to Wicked. Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra) 76
Because that's where the money is.
Posted by: The ghost of Willie Sutton at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1) 77
>>And, just for fun, they should read Richard Hughes “A High Wind in Jamaica”.
Read that as an HS senior. The ending was appalling. Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS) 78
Harlan Ellison during some gathering heard one of the guests say something that he said had to be "Jeff is fine. He's always fine." But Harlan heard it as "Jeff is five. He's always five." From a misheard comment he got "Jeffty Is Five," one of his best stories.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (q3u5l) 79
The 2027 Old Farmer's Almanac came out last week and it is an annual pleasure. Something I can thumb through at leisure. Excellent bathroom reading. BTW, I find the OFA weather predictions are as good as the various government agency statements, maybe better.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (yTvNw) 80
So, I am going to read "Trinity" by Leon Uris, which apparently is a story about Catholic and Protestant families in Ireland. My son picked it up as a discard from the library of the local YMCA..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (JrHfD) 81
I assume the pic is AI generated?
About the AI plotline q, I think just plug in real person in place of AI. If a real person gave you the whole plot, would you write the book without crediting the person somehow? Great Book Thread topic, MP4! Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86) 82
I think I'm the U.N.C.L.E. collector, and I have the entire series of twenty-three books. The oldest are sixty years old, though; I should wrap them in plastic. How many are there in the group you saw?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9) About a dozen. And I think two of them were story collections from an U.N.C.L.E. magazine, but don't quote me. I'll probably be down there next week, so I will take a pic and send it your way. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/) 83
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (3ACIl) === Let's just say I learned a new word today. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:35 AM (RIvkX) 84
Come to think of it, some of my Signet James Bond paperbacks were bought by my mother some six decades ago. The back cover has come off of my copy of From Russia With Love; I use it as a bookmark in that volume.
The front covers of the Signets have "IAN FLEMING," the title, and "A JAMES BOND THRILLER" on them with a small color painting often illustrating a scene from the novel. The back features a compelling blurb designed to get you to buy it. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9) 85
On a related topic, here is a vid of a professional portrait photographer talking about how because AI image generators were trained on high quality images, now high quality images "look" AI and it's causing a preference trend toward less "perfect" images. Food for thought.
https://youtu.be/zkdO-q9zJec Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs) 86
It is 1944, and Albert Campion has gotten a few days leave, so he travels home to a bombed out London. He plans to quickly clean up at his flat and catch a train to the country to relax, but unfortunately there is a body of a woman in his bedroom. In Pearls Before Swine, Margery Allingham presents a puzzling mystery that entwines Campion in more ways than one.
It seems that Campion's neighbor, the dowager Lady Cavados, in trying to protect her son Johnny, has conspired to move the body from where it was found in Johnny's bedroom to Campion's, and thus complicates the entire matter. The gentry still have a way of being above normal police investigation, so Campion is called upon to assist. Johnny is supposed to have been married the next day, and the body is not that of his betrothed, but he does know her. The situation becomes even more complicated after Campion is briefly kidnapped, and then a few bottles of impossibly rare burgundy show up, at which point the case takes a completely different turn. Are these coincidences of timing, or are they all related? Campion has to use his intuition and his understanding of the upper classes to get to the bottom of the mystery. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:37 AM (0U5gm) 87
And then the murders began...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:37 AM (RIvkX) 88
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86)
The opening picture is the HAL computer from 2001. The ladies are from a date I don't remember, but they are wearing and advertising a new dress form, one that clings close to the body and eschews the use of corset stays. Very daring for the time. But, my word, they are luscious. I wish I had a lady like that. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:39 AM (qRla/) 89
About a dozen. And I think two of them were story collections from an U.N.C.L.E. magazine, but don't quote me. I'll probably be down there next week, so I will take a pic and send it your way.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 *** Please do. I have nearly all the magazines. They have a significant place in the history of the fandom. Several of the Solo & Illya novelettes were written by authors who went on to greater fame under their own names, like John Jakes and Dennis Lynds. And a number of issues featured "The Department of Lost Stories," reprinting fantasy classics from Heinlein, Sturgeon, and Robert Bloch. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9) 90
Grok, make me a picture of ladies at an early Kentucky Derby.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1) 91
I finished The Professor and the Madman, which lived up to it's reputation. An excellent book that makes dictionaries interesting and a really sad story, too. And I read Garibaldi and the Making of Italy and that was a great book. I knew almost nothing about the risorgimento and the various political and military machinations of the era. I learned a lot and gained a great appreciation of Garibaldi as a man, a political leader, and a general. Before this, he was a just a name I had heard and nothing more. It also shed more light on a character in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo who is an old and disillusioned Garibaldini.
Posted by: Who Knew at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (+ViXu) 92
Hijacking ideas is commonplace. I think Robert Heinlein had one of his characters comment when another mentioned that the idea had been done, admitted to it and said something along the lines of "I just file the serial numbers off it and make it mine." Might've been Jubal Harshaw in Stranger In A Strange Land.
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it." Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (NtoJk) 93
I haven't read many of Allingham's Campion stories. A few where I've found them, but Pearls Before Swine is not one I know.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9) 94
A few additional thoughts on "The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West." This sort of story relies on the gimmick of seeing how the author chooses to adapted established characters. In this version, Dorothy was aged-up into a gunslinging cowgirl, and Toto was her horse. The Tin Man was human-looking lawman; similar to what was done in an old sci-fi-channel mini-series. The Scarecrow was re-imagined as a mute straw-filled Indian girl; I have no idea what prompted this change, but she worked as an original character. The Cowardly Lion was an actual lion, but with a powdered face and a tiara; I don't know why the author did this, but I hated it...
More interesting were the characters from the later Oz stories. We have Gener Jinger; and a femme fatale is always welcome in a comic. The Wheelers had maxim guns built into their arms. Tippetarius looked like one of Peter Pan's Lost Boys; the story didn't reach the point where his big secret is revealed, and I shudder to think of how a current-year author will handle that twist... (Gah! The comment box cut me off! continued...) Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (3v7ra) 95
Had all those Signet Ian Flemings when I was in high school. Is it me, or were the general run-of-the-mill paperbacks just cooler looking then than they are now?
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (q3u5l) 96
Why did women wear those big hats back then? Who started that fashion craze?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2) If only that trend would come back and replace the current craze of sleeve tattoos and inverted nose rings. Posted by: Dr. T at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (lHPJf) 97
How does using AI for the plot compare to using a random table plot generator?
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq) The source of ideas shouldn't matter. If you completely use someone else's work to write yours, it matters. I'm not going ape over AI used in writing unless it does the complete work. Could AI write a better story than me? Don't know. If it's something someone likes, then who am I to say thou shalt not read it! Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (1Ff7Z) 98
How does using AI for the plot compare to using a random table plot generator?
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq) --- It's the exact same thing. I've been saying this for a while: AI is just charts and tables scaled up. Using AI to create is just randomly mining other people's work. AI's true use is that you can sift data with incredible speed, but this relies on the integrity of the data because it cannot evaluate it. But if (for example) you feed it bomb damage assessments and give it the right parameters, you can develop target packages much faster than by using human analysts. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ZOv7s) 99
It's not just literary practice, either. When I'm stuck for artistic inspiration, I stroll around the painting class to look at what others are doing. Occasionally making a note of "Ooh, I wanna paint that!" and sometimes requesting a copy of an inspirational photo from a classmate. Or sharing some of my own.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (NtoJk) 100
Hijacking ideas is commonplace. I think Robert Heinlein had one of his characters comment when another mentioned that the idea had been done, admitted to it and said something along the lines of "I just file the serial numbers off it and make it mine." Might've been Jubal Harshaw in Stranger In A Strange Land.
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it." Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 *** Some of RAH's early magazine stories were SF variants on classics like Uncle Tom's Cabin (= slavery on Venus) and The Man Without a Country. Nobody in the SF field had done that before -- or if someone had, it wasn't very well done and isn't remembered. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9) 101
I can see taking the germ of an idea for a plot from an AI suggestion - but definitely not every beat, and most definitely not having AI write the whole darned thing.
On the other hand - there are only so many original plot concepts existing in the world; it's what the writer does to flesh them out which is (with luck, skill and creativity) original. And every good plot out to be taken out for a romp in every setting which allows room for adventure. I did a version of Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be king" set on the southwest American frontier with a mysterious and isolated Indian tribe living on top of a remote mesa. (It's in one of my Lone Star story collections, and also in Tales Told Around the Supper Table II. I intended it as a romp and an homage, but one reviewer for the latter was indignant and termed it a "rip-off.") Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (Ew3fm) 102
Women wore hats to keep the sun off their faces. It grew outrageous from there.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (NtoJk) 103
Final thoughts of the "Legend of Oz: The Wicked West" comic.
The best re-imagined character was Jack the Pumpkin head. He was a normal person, dressed as a cowboy. But he had a horribly scarred face, which he hid behind an orange bandanna. And that bandanna had a jack-o-lantern grin printed on it. The design make for a really cool (and very intimidating) visual. Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:44 AM (3v7ra) 104
I once had an opportunity to speak with an editorial cartoonist.
During the brief conversation I mentioned I had some ideas for cartoons. He politely demurred. Lawyers and all. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1) 105
Gonna tackle Anna Karenina next. Read War and Peace years ago, and swore I'd never read any more Tolstoy. But I hear it's much better.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (XvL8K) 106
I started reading Augustine's Confessions, so I finally understand the meaning of Skip's weekly "tolle lege" post. I'm covering one chapter per week as part of a discussion with another church member.
I'm also still crawling through "Dungeon Crawler Carl." Fortunately, it's not the sort of book where you have to re-read the previous few pages if you haven't picked it up for a few days. Sometimes the brain likes cotton candy. Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (6oTRF) 107
Book heaven.
Not *quite* the same thing, but Barry Malzberg did four short stories set in Writer's Heaven. All four can be found in his collection The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady and all, especially the closing paragraphs of the 4th, highly recommended. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (q3u5l) 108
Frankly, I wish I wrote better dialogue. Nate van Coops and Sam Sisavath excel at it. Makes me smile. But I'm working on it! And if you're gonna steal, steal from the best. (And file off the serial numbers.)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (NtoJk) 109
Felt nostalgic so I thumbed through the Star Trek Concordance (1976) by the indefatigable Bjo Trimble and a host of trek nerds. This is a bound library copy; mine, somewhere in the bowels of my basement, is the old three hole punch paperback fastened with brads.
Here's Bjo talking about the elder days: https://tinyurl.com/espmydmm This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V) 110
Had all those Signet Ian Flemings when I was in high school. Is it me, or were the general run-of-the-mill paperbacks just cooler looking then than they are now?
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 *** They *were* cooler-looking. Paintings of beautiful sexy girls, or of Bond in tuxedo at Casino Royale, or Goldfinger's golden Rolls-Royce humming along a road. The paperback industry lost a lot when they began to use photographs instead of paintings (as did advertising). Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9) 111
I started Sone's Fall by Iain Pears that I assume was recommended by one of the horde, since most of my reading seems to come to me that way. I'm about a third of the way in and so so good.
One of the oddball channels on my TV shows Perry Mason reruns and I got curious if the original novels were as courtroom focused as the TV show so I bought a cheap collection of three of them for my kindle to find out. It will probably be months before I get around to reading them, though. Posted by: Who Knew at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (+ViXu) 112
My credit card company likes to give me double or triple points at various online retailers, to encourage me to spend more. Occasionally, they even go higher. Recently they went to 5x points on e-bay. Well, jokes on them, I had books to buy, and I was going to spend that money anyways! Thanks for the extra point...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (3v7ra) 113
Ah, well, I had more fun reading this adaptation than I would have had reading/watching/listening to Wicked.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra) Kid 2 is around the age for that. Glad she's never said anything about it. Wicked is only an attempt to put evil in a good light. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z) 114
What are you doing, Dave?
Posted by: HAL 9000 at August 30, 2026 09:47 AM (ZOv7s) 115
Felt nostalgic so I thumbed through the Star Trek Concordance (1976) by the indefatigable Bjo Trimble and a host of trek nerds. This is a bound library copy; mine, somewhere in the bowels of my basement, is the old three hole punch paperback fastened with brads.
I've got my tix for the Star Trek movies event this weekend. I'm wondering how many people will show up in costume. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/) 116
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2) 117
Tip's secret... would be so weird. Would they use the same person to do the acting? Would they use fraternal twins?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (aJQbY) 118
About the AI plotline q, I think just plug in real person in place of AI. If a real person gave you the whole plot, would you write the book without crediting the person somehow?
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86) In the Acknowledgements section. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (1Ff7Z) 119
I started Stone's Fall by Iain Pears that I assume was recommended by one of the horde, since most of my reading seems to come to me that way. I'm about a third of the way in and so so good.
Posted by: Who Knew Probably me. It is one of my favorite books. The method that Pears uses to work backwards through a story within a story within a story is really clever. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (0U5gm) 120
Felt nostalgic so I thumbed through the Star Trek Concordance (1976) by the indefatigable Bjo Trimble and a host of trek nerds. This is a bound library copy; mine, somewhere in the bowels of my basement, is the old three hole punch paperback fastened with brads.
Here's Bjo talking about the elder days: https://tinyurl.com/espmydmm This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 *** Same with U.N.C.L.E. -- except that we had almost twenty years between the last episode and the reruns on CBN, another twenty until the DVDs came out, and another seven or eight until the 2015 movie. The original novels and the movies showing erratically on TV were pretty much it for the fans. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9) 121
Currently reading the first in a short series by Susan Stoker. Military romance. And yes, they're formulaic but her characters are interesting. I enjoy the "slow burn" buildup of attraction between her leads and would love to work some of that into my own writing. And I'm not talking about steamy sex scenes, but the gradual accumulation of all the small things which make two people fall in love with each other. Although steamy sex scenes can be good, too, when they're well-written.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:49 AM (NtoJk) 122
I've mentioned Malcolm Guite's epic poem about King Arthur often enough. He read it as well for an Audible download but it wasn't offered on a CD. That changed recently. Apparently, I'm not the only old fashioned curmudgeon who wants to OWN the media, not just rent it and be at the mercy of technical gods/gremlins. I've already preordered the book and CD for the next volume coming in November. His reading is a pleasure to listen to.
Guite is one of those people who can read anything and make it lively or profound, as needed, and brings out the joy of the writing. He is always asked if he would do a reading of the complete LOTR and Hobbit. I have two versions of them but would happily pay for Guite's. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (yTvNw) 123
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2) I haven't, either. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (qRla/) 124
There is a French musical tradition (I'm not aware of it in any other culture), the tombeau. "Tombeau" means "tombstone" and the tradition is to compose an homage to a deceased musician referencing his style. If this were France, we'd be composing Tombeau de Dolly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ndZc7) 125
I've got my tix for the Star Trek movies event this weekend. I'm wondering how many people will show up in costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 *** Hey, in 2015 I went to see the U.N.C.L.E. movie (with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer) wearing a suit and tie, and with my triangular HQ badge clipped to one lapel. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9) 126
Tolstoy - me neither, but maybe someday. But there's so much to read out there!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY) 127
I like the idea of the Book Thread Want List! For one thing, some of us trying to slim down the library want our darlings to go to good homes. Maybe that home is with a fellow Moron! We could also post Free To Good Home lists
As it happens, the topic for my next Book Thread (already written!) is about how writers get ideas. MP4, you aren't supposed to use the All-Seeing Eye to peek ahead! Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (tY90Q) 128
safety on a revolver is a bright line in the sand, innit?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY) Unless it is a Reichsrevolver, a Hong Kong Police Enfield revolver in .360 with the cross-bolt safety, or one of the various Euro "military" revolvers that had a safety because reasons. Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (rbvCR) 129
Ian Fleming's Femme Fatale , Melons McGee.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (KC5Lt) 130
I've got my tix for the Star Trek movies event this weekend. I'm wondering how many people will show up in costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/) ---- What event is this? I went to a "Sit Long and Prosper" movie marathon eons ago. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V) 131
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 *** Same here. I was so bored at one point during the Sniffle Scare that I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Exciting until the murder actually occurs; a slog after that. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9) 132
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (q3u5l) I'm not sure there is either. With the random tables one needs to interpret a couple of adjectives into a personality or complete appearance, and AI would probably provide that detail. Interpretation may be the difference. My story is a mystery and I didn't know which of the townsfolk would be the murderer until I did my card draws. I had a few basic traits I wanted him to have and used the character whose results were the closest to those traits. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (lFFaq) 133
I started reading Augustine's Confessions, so I finally understand the meaning of Skip's weekly "tolle lege" post. I'm covering one chapter per week as part of a discussion with another church member.
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (6oTRF) --- I really enjoyed it. City of God is not what I expected. Much more involved, I'm crawling through it, but it's really good. It was written to explain Christianity to a pagan, and Augustine starts by examining paganism in autistic detail, citing sources we no longer have, and then working through how paganism is basically built around the fallen angels, a funhouse mirror version of Christianity where vices become virtues. It's timeless, of course, but I see so much of what he is talking about in our current society where killing infants is "stunning and brave" and sexual depravity is valorized. I mean, nothing is new but wow, we've really regressed. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s) 134
Tolstoy... all Russian writing is dense. The only thing worse is Soviet writing, which is not only dense but so full of Marxist dialectic it's boringly impenetrable. Had to take a class in it along with my Russian language classes to have it for a minor and it was excruciating. Can't recommend any of it and I'm a Russophile.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (NtoJk) 135
As it happens, the topic for my next Book Thread (already written!) is about how writers get ideas. MP4, you aren't supposed to use the All-Seeing Eye to peek ahead!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (tY90Q) My next topic is about writers who 'carry on' or 're-imagine' already-existing properties. So Castle Guy's "Legend of Oz" posts are prophetic. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (qRla/) 136
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed _______ Based on War and Peace alone, Dostoyevsky is far, far superior. I reread The Possessed (Constance Garnett translation title instead of Demons) every few years. And the Rebellion chapter in Bros. K, which contains the Grand Inquisitor. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (XvL8K) 137
How much of the hostility toward AI is based on the assumption not that AI was used in plotting but that the book was entirely AI written? Use in plotting isn't that different from mining the old books of plots used and abused or throwing darts at the plot points board, is it?. But having AI do the writing itself? Uh-uh.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (q3u5l) 138
Morons will enjoy reading Scott Bessent's recent letter to Elizabeth Warren. P.J. O'Rourke-level sarcasm."
I read that . I am glad I don't run in DC political circles, and am unlikely to get on Scott Bessent's bad side, because he is much brighter and more articulate than I am, and I would not want to be the recipient of his withering sarcasm. He actually one of my favorite members of this administration. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (JrHfD) 139
It seems that Campion's neighbor, the dowager Lady Cavados, in trying to protect her son Johnny, has conspired to move the body from where it was found in Johnny's bedroom to Campion's, and thus complicates the entire matter. The gentry still have a way of being above normal police investigation, so Campion is called upon to assist.
And it ends in Campion discovering the dowager Lady Cavados has been bootlegging her homemade gooseberry wine! Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (1Ff7Z) 140
A published author friend of mine - who actually consulted with me once about a scene involving firearms - wrote a passage in another book about someone "flipping the safety off his Glock." Picard_facepalm.exe
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (6oTRF) 141
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy? Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM Here's all you need to know: https://youtu.be/qqS1Ty79mOE Posted by: Elaine Benes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1) 142
Just Some Guy - my perspective precisely.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aJQbY) 143
Waded through "Witches" by Steven Veerapen. To the church, a witch was a heretic: a Waldensian, a Cathar, a member of the Knights Templar, committing blasphemy (plus the inevitable midnight orgies and kissing the devil's bum). This was mostly on the continent, with England and Scotland untouched by the Inquisition, until King James wrote "Daemonologie". Then it was all "She turned me into a newt!" or "She made my willie disappear!" Protestants and Catholics slugging it out to prove who was more hardcore. Lots of politics and religion behind it. My eyes crossed with all the exhaustive detail. Sorry I can't remember more to discuss.
Thank God for the Enlightenment. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V) 144
AI image generators were trained on high quality images, now high quality images "look" AI and it's causing a preference trend toward less "perfect" images. Food for thought.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs) It's the same for writing. I see ads on Instagram frequently for exciting mystery or thriller series and the like. They're typically free with kindle unlimited, so I gave one a whirl. It was technically fine, but so lacking in soul and human voice, that I was certain it was AI written. Only fell for that once. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h7ZuX) 145
Unless it is a Reichsrevolver, a Hong Kong Police Enfield revolver in .360 with the cross-bolt safety, or one of the various Euro "military" revolvers that had a safety because reasons.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (rbvCR) --- Heritage Rough Rider revolvers have a hammer block safety. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s) 146
I have never had a problem coming up with plots for stories, my problem is never finding the time to write the ideas down, or, you know, actually writing a story.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm) 147
As a reader, my view of AI is: If I can detect its influences, its style of writing or “thinking,” I am out. However, I have no stake in what artists take as input to create art. It doesn’t matter to me. All I care about is consuming the final product.
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 09:56 AM (JpUeg) 148
Thank God for the Enlightenment.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V) --- I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement... Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s) 149
What event is this?
I went to a "Sit Long and Prosper" movie marathon eons ago. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V) This coming Thursday through Saturday across the country, various theaters are showing movies 1-4 (one each day) along with an appropriate TOS episode. The Motion Picture is paired with "The Changeling," Wrath of Khan with "Space Seed," The Search for Spock with "Amok Time" and The Voyage Home with "The City on the Edge of Forever." Check online to see if they're playing near you. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (qRla/) 150
That's a great idea, pairing the movies with the episodes that begat them!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (kpS4V) 151
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In my Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan fiction, I will occasionally use a line from the show in another but appropriate context. I hope fans will catch it, but if not, hey, I had fun. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9) Back in my fanfiction writing days (have I admitted to that before?) I would structure entire scenes to let characters use cool lines from other shows. Probably my favorite was when I got to repurpose a character shouting "Hold the line; no one gets through!" originally spoken by a young Captain Sinclair from Babylon 5. I doubt anyone who read my story recognized the reference, but it made me smile. Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (3v7ra) 152
I have never had a problem coming up with plots for stories, my problem is never finding the time to write the ideas down, or, you know, actually writing a story.
Keep a notepad w/pencil/pen handy and jot down the idea or a phrase or a sentence. The key to writing is to get it out of your head and onto a readable medium (used to say onto paper but not anymore). Don't think about plot or structure or grammar or how good/bad it is or anything like that. Just get it barfed up out of your head. All else flows from there. Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (NtoJk) 153
Thank God for the Enlightenment.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V) --- I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement... Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd ________ Agreed. Western Civ has been in a slow, steady decline ever since the French Revolution. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (XvL8K) 154
My story is a mystery and I didn't know which of the townsfolk would be the murderer until I did my card draws. I had a few basic traits I wanted him to have and used the character whose results were the closest to those traits. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 *** I almost always know who the murderer is as I begin. Otherwise I can't conceal him properly, plant the clues fairly, or know how the detective will reason it out. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9) 155
Only thing you have to worry about with a revolver is to have a proper grip to avoid a cylinder gap injury. Nasty.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (KC5Lt) 156
This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V) ===== Intertrek Years. UFO and then Space:1999 and then that tripe from George Lucas. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX) 157
AI image generators were trained on high quality images, now high quality images "look" AI and it's causing a preference trend toward less "perfect" images. Food for thought.
Posted by: Oddbob A similar trend is happening in music. There is so much computer manipulation of instruments and voices now that people are looking for actual human made music, and there is also a resurgence in bands putting out music on LPs instead of digital. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (0U5gm) 158
Polynikes,
"Ian Fleming's Femme Fatale , Melons McGee." One of the more fortunate name changes for an adaptation was in Jacques Tourneur's movie Out of the Past, the classic noir with Mitchum and Jane Greer as femme fatale Kathy Moffatt. Her name in the source novel, Build My Gallows High? It was, God help us, Mumsie McGonigle. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (q3u5l) 159
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026
Read War and Peace years ago. Never finished reading any book written by James Joyce. Never got past page 1 of Finnegan's Wake. Dubliners? Gag. Ulysses? Gag. Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (fnZRl) 160
Skip the odd number Star Trek movies is the rule of thumb.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt) 161
I almost always know who the murderer is as I begin. Otherwise I can't conceal him properly, plant the clues fairly, or know how the detective will reason it out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9) I didn't know who was the killer in my current book until I was nearly finished. Part of my editing now is dropping hints as to his identity. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (qRla/) 162
Intertrek Years. UFO and then Space:1999 and then that tripe from George Lucas.
Anything space/science fiction was like rain in the desert back then. Was so excited to go see Alien[i/]. Had no idea it was a horror film; I nearly had to run out of the theater after that chest-burster scene. What a shock! And a big disappointment as I was expecting straight-up SF. Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:02 AM (NtoJk) 163
I liked "Dubliners" because it was just short stories. Never read anything else by Joyce.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:02 AM (JrHfD) 164
Oops. Sorry about the italics, guys.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (NtoJk) 165
Well, this topic turned out better than I thought it would.
It's a sunny day and the remainder of the week is supposed to be rainy, so I will crank up the tunes and hit the road. Hope you all have a lovely day. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (qRla/) 166
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (q3u5l
That is an unfortunate name lol. But to be clear I just made my name up to match my painting. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt) 167
Can't recommend any of it and I'm a Russophile.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (NtoJk) ===== What about Soviet cinema? Москва Cлезам не Bерит one of my favorite films. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX) 168
A similar trend is happening in music. There is so much computer manipulation of instruments and voices now that people are looking for actual human made music, and there is also a resurgence in bands putting out music on LPs instead of digital.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM +++ Just yesterday I was in a drug store and heard Sweet Home Alabama playing over the PA. Now believe me, I have no dislike for the song, having spent my formative years in The Heart of Dixie. But we're still listening to fifty year old recordings? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1) 169
Read War and Peace twice in my life, not read anything else of Tolstoy.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0) 170
I liked "Dubliners" because it was just short stories. Never read anything else by Joyce.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 *** I had to read it in an AP English class in college. Maybe I should try it again now; I might better appreciate the portraits of the human condition. But his use of dashes instead of quotation marks annoyed me and made me feel claustrophobic. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9) 171
There is so much computer manipulation of instruments and voices now that people are looking for actual human made music
I was about to say that with music at least you could go in person and see it being made in front of you but that's not really always true. Or maybe even ever in the most popular genres. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:07 AM (vTZFs) 172
Intertrek Years. UFO and then Space:1999 and then that tripe from George Lucas.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX) --- Battlestar Galactica actually holds up quite well. I've watched the whole series several times and just started watching it with the grandkids on Sunday night, the way God intended. They love it! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s) 173
Skip the odd number Star Trek movies is the rule of thumb.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt) ===== Excluding the first one of course. What a travesty. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (RIvkX) 174
It's a sunny day and the remainder of the week is supposed to be rainy, so I will crank up the tunes and hit the road.
Hope you all have a lovely day. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing __________ Top driving tunes: The hated Springsteen, Thunder Road. Widespread Panic, Driving Song. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (XvL8K) 175
John Ringo had a long post on his X page about how woke writers make crap characters because they don't know anything, never met anyone who knew anything, and never did anything worth writing about, so the characters are cheap, pointless and shallow.
He pointed out that his best characters were based on people he knew and respected, even the ones that weren't very respectable, but that experience in life and how people get along goes further to make a compelling story than all the orthodox thought in the world. AI adds to this, it risks pointless characters or NPC characters that have no basis of their own and only serve to push the narrative forward. That is not compelling storytelling Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (rbvCR) 176
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2) I haven't, either. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) I knew the basic plot of War and Peace but was quite surprised when I read the book. For example, I knew Prince Andrei, mortally wounded at Borodino, forgive Countess Natalya on his deathbed for cheating on him. I figured he'd been wounded leading a charge into Napoleon's lines or something equally dramatic. But no, he was waiting on the reverse slope of a hill with his command when a stray artillery explodes beside him. Much of the book concerns the internal thoughts of the characters which, like our own, are often bordering on the ridiculous. I did, however, finally understand Norman Mailer's comment explaining The Naked and the Dead saying he'd been reading a lot of Tolstoy given that TNATD also contains much internal dialogue. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7) 177
There are just a few books I've not been able to finish. The two that come to mind are Lucifer's Hammer and Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt) 178
Read War and Peace twice in my life, not read anything else of Tolstoy.
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0) --- In the late 90s I had a job answering phones, and it was hit or miss, and so during the lulls I would surf the incipient web. Then I came up with the idea of reading a book online, but couldn't find War and Peace (I thought it would be fun to say I read War and Peace at work). But I did find Anna Karenina, so I read that. It was okay. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s) 179
>>But we're still listening to fifty year old recordings?
At the gym, their piped-in tunes range in age from recent (which is utterly unfamiliar) back to the '60s. Oddly, been hearing a lot less rap of late. Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (NcvvS) 180
I almost always know who the murderer is as I begin. Otherwise I can't conceal him properly, plant the clues fairly, or know how the detective will reason it out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9) Exactly. I couldn't progress until I knew who the killer was. Although, I'm pretty sure it will be a short story so I'm not as worried about strict fair play regarding the clues. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 10:10 AM (lFFaq) 181
Never read Joyce except for some of the short stories in Dubliners. Novel length, nope. And I took one look at the first page of Finnegans Wake and decided life was just too bloody short to even consider it. I think Joseph Epstein remarked in his essay on cutting his library down to size that he kept Finnegans Wake because there should be at least one book on the shelves you know you'll never get around to reading.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:10 AM (q3u5l) 182
Never finished reading any book written by James Joyce. Never got past page 1 of Finnegan's Wake. Dubliners? Gag. Ulysses? Gag.
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (fnZRl) --- I tried to read Ulysses but it was such a chore that I gave up. I mentioned it to my father, who has quite the library and he said he didn't like it either. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s) 183
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (XvL8K
Radar Love has to be the #1 driving song. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt) 184
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it."
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (NtoJk) "I'm just going to take my negative five hit points and lie down" said some character is a role-playing story. Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (3v7ra) 185
There are just a few books I've not been able to finish. The two that come to mind are Lucifer's Hammer and Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt) ===== I have tried to read Bari Weiss' How to Fight Anti-Semitism three times but cannot get past her rank leftist partisanship and TDS. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX) 186
Radar Love has to be the #1 driving song.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt) --- I met my wife online*, and it was an 8-hour drive, and when that song would come on the radio it was epic, especially near the end of the journey. *This was before dating apps, we met in a chatroom, and found that we were in alignment on just about everything, and thought it would be fun to meet in person. The rest, as they say, is history. My kids owe their existence to Talk City. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s) 187
I've got my tix for the Star Trek movies event this weekend. I'm wondering how many people will show up in costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/) Besides you, you mean? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (1Ff7Z) 188
I read both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. I liked them but I preferred the BBC version of War and Peace" and I thought Anna Karenina was well written but just a sad story.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (JrHfD) 189
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)
It's hard to read something that contains so much cognitive dissonance. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt) 190
In John Eldredge's book Epic he explains the power of Story why we humans are so drawn to it. We were all born into a story in which we play a role. All of our stories are part of a much Larger Story that is still unfolding.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1) 191
Best driving song, specifically for blasting down Hwy. 285 through the high desert between Shawnee and Fairplay at lethal speed:
https://youtu.be/r2AInopKBWM?is=m2GvUCgaUiUd9NyA Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2) 192
Posted by: Lake Ontario at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM
==== Such a cheeky little bastard you are. Sad! Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (RIvkX) 193
I was about to say that with music at least you could go in person and see it being made in front of you but that's not really always true. Or maybe even ever in the most popular genres.
Posted by: Oddbob There is a youtube channel called Wings of Pegasus, and he pulled videos of about nine recent concerts of Taylor Swift for analysis. Not only was the measured pitch of every vocal line identical, but the timing and pitch of every instrument was as well. In other words, the entire concert series was pre-recorded and mimed. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:16 AM (0U5gm) 194
Radar Love has to be the #1 driving song.
Posted by: polynikes ______._ I'll grant you that, for the drumming alone. Same with Twighlight Zone drum solo. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:17 AM (XvL8K) 195
Posted by: Lake Ontario at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM
The Left could win every race and you and your retard cohorts would still be losers. You mentally ill freak. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt) Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (vTZFs) 197
I have tried to read Bari Weiss' How to Fight Anti-Semitism three times but cannot get past her rank leftist partisanship and TDS.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX) --- Trump is the most philosemitic president in history. Guy has Jewish grandkids. The left cannot accept that antisemitism has always had a warm cozy home in their ranks. Fun fact: Jews were very much accepted in the Antebellum South. Judah P. Benjamin was a US senator and became Secretary of the Treasury. One of my Jewish ancestors emigrated to New Orleans where he paid for a company of infantry to be equipped. His descendants were proud of this Confederate heritage. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s) 198
We see plenty of videos and articles on how reading ability is diminishing. Something I'll add to that is listening, especially for extended periods. The same five minute, or less, periods of news, music, TV show segments and more that eats into the ability to focus affects listening as well as reading. How many people, young or old, can sit comfortably through an hour long lecture or listen to drama or long poems without visuals and frequent breaks of the performance and retain much? I suspect the numbers are dropping. I've noticed it a bit in myself and am working to do better. (My new hearing aids really help.)
The book Audio CDs I have really require focus to get the benefits of listening. The latest prose version of The Faerie Queene, LOTR, Galahad and the Grail, and a few others all fall into the category. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (yTvNw) 199
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)
I really wanted to like Ulysses. I always feel like Joyce is force feeding me cold, lumpy, unsweetened, gray oatmeal. At 29 I should know better not to rundown famous works, beer brands etc., because someone will say that it's their favorite ale and take offense. Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (fnZRl) 200
hey, our young calico just brought a chipmunk into the house, and I had to rescue it. What a clever girl, chipmunks are fast and cagy.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (rbvCR) 201
It's hard to read something that contains so much cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt) --- "Projection" is the word you are looking for. It's a core trait of their belief system. The see "male feminists" who treat women like dirt and therefore assume that since these are the "good men" ours must be 10x worse. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s) 202
I don't know why but Call Me by Blondie is a top driving song for me. It has that driving rhythm I guess.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:21 AM (KC5Lt) 203
Radar Love has to be the #1 driving song.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 *** "Get Over It" by the Eagles is up there too. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9) 204
Another sad book about an adulterous affair(s) "Madame Bovary."I read it is high school, not as part of a class. I just wanted to read it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (JrHfD) 205
I don't know why but Call Me by Blondie is a top driving song for me. It has that driving rhythm I guess.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 *** Excitement and an edge of danger. Not as much as "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers or "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler, but close. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (wzUl9) 206
I would structure entire scenes to let characters use cool lines from other shows.
- One of my favorite books, Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, has a hilarious scene in which the characters speak in Beatles' song titles. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7) 207
The Left could win every race and you and your retard cohorts would still be losers. You mentally ill freak.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt) --- I think it's sad that people have to spend Sunday morning trying to stir the pot. Probably has a dozen tabs open and the only troll they have is citing crap polls taken in August. Like wow, that's so determinative! Especially after polling has repeatedly been shown to be absolute crap. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ZOv7s) 208
We see plenty of videos and articles on how reading ability is diminishing. Something I'll add to that is listening, especially for extended periods. The same five minute, or less, periods of news, music, TV show segments and more that eats into the ability to focus affects listening as well as reading. How many people, young or old, can sit comfortably through an hour long lecture or listen to drama or long poems without visuals and frequent breaks of the performance and retain much? I suspect the numbers are dropping. I've noticed it a bit in myself and am working to do better. (My new hearing aids really help.)
The book Audio CDs I have really require focus to get the benefits of listening. The latest prose version of The Faerie Queene, LOTR, Galahad and the Grail, and a few others all fall into the category. Posted by: JTB And yet, some subgroup of younger people are turning to long format podcasts, like Rogan or Triggernometry, which are gaining huge followings. There is a push back against the snippet world, though I don't know how large it is. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (0U5gm) Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (p/isN) 210
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
No cognitive dissonance was the term I meant . Projection is just another of the ten mental defects common in all Leftists. But it is the one that the least intelligent of the Left use most often. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (KC5Lt) 211
I finally started reading the "1632" series this week. I'm not sure why I never got around to it before. I think I was too busy when the first book came out, and then the whole series seemed like a lot of work.
About the first book I can say that it's the most "'Murica, **** yeah!" story I've ever read — which is particularly ironic given that the author was an avowed Trotskyite. (Although everyone I know who met him says Eric Flint was a very kind and generous man in person.) Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (78a2H) 212
Best driving song, specifically for blasting down Hwy. 285 through the high desert between Shawnee and Fairplay at lethal speed:
https://youtu.be/r2AInopKBWM?is=m2GvUCgaUiUd9NyA Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 *** I think I know that stretch of highway. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9) 213
>>Never finished reading any book written by James Joyce. Never got past page 1 of Finnegan's Wake. Dubliners? Gag. Ulysses? Gag.
HS senior English teacher said that one couldn't read Ulysses without a lot of reference material, and that Finnegan's Wake in unreadable. Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (NcvvS) 214
""So let’s presume I asked an AI program for a plot. Am I cheating? Suppose I didn’t follow it slavishly, but used the plot as a jumping off point for my own thoughts. Is my book compromised because I began with an AI plot?""
Everything is inspired by something. If you're doing the work and writing the story, well thats how its been done since man came down from the trees. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (S41Gd) 215
178 Brutal polls out in MI,ME and TX.
Blue tsunami incoming. Useless wars aren’t popular. Sad! Posted by: Lake Ontario at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM +++ Yes, believe the polls and make all of your decisions based on what they predict. Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1) 216
Posted by: Lake Ontario
State Department apologizes for “deadnaming” Lake America on its website Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7) 217
This is a subject more for the authors of the Horde, but what about you? If you knew that an author used AI to create a plot, but not the content of the book itself, would that drive you away?
-- Interesting question, MP4. Yes, I think it would diminish the book in my eyes. I don't like fake, and a small part of it would just feel inauthentic if an author used AI for creating a plot. Like a "cheat." Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:26 AM (qBdHI) 218
Nose rings are ugly, but they do signal "Steer clear."
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (p/isN) Weird but I really like small nose studs on a woman and find it really sexy but a nose ring has the opposite effect. And a pig ring would make the most beautiful woman in the world immediately repulsive to me. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:26 AM (KC5Lt) 219
Given who is programming most AI, I would not trust it to give me a plot that I would want to expand upon.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (0U5gm) 220
Everything is inspired by something. If you're doing the work and writing the story, well thats how its been done since man came down from the trees.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division __________ There is nothing new under the sun. At base, this is why I prefer classics to taking a chance on something recent. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (XvL8K) 221
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7
I've read a number of Douglas Adams' books and really enjoyed him, but not that one. I should find it. My husband is a huge Beatles fan. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (JrHfD) Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:28 AM (BI5O2) 223
You can get "Lake America" and "Lake Ontario" merch at the same website
simps: it will be showing up as a pop up soon just for you idiots Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz) 224
Especially after polling has repeatedly been shown to be absolute crap.
-- Hillary had a 98% chance of winning. Kamala was way ahead of Trump in swing states. All was lost. Doom all the way down. Until it wasn't. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (qBdHI) 225
And yet, some subgroup of younger people are turning to long format podcasts, like Rogan or Triggernometry, which are gaining huge followings. There is a push back against the snippet world, though I don't know how large it is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (0U5gm) --- Part of why I am watching Battlestar Galactica with them is to get them used to long-form shows with a continuous plot. Much of what they watch is just 10-minute clips and other short-form entertainment. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (ZOv7s) 226
*is* unreadable.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (NcvvS) 227
Interesting question, MP4. Yes, I think it would diminish the book in my eyes. I don't like fake, and a small part of it would just feel inauthentic if an author used AI for creating a plot. Like a "cheat."
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 *** If the author merely uses it as a springboard, makes the story his own, and never reveals that an AI prompt gave him the initial idea, I wouldn't mind. How would I know? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9) 228
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz)
But you will continue to insist we call a man a woman. Punk ass bitch. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt) 229
Yes, believe the polls and make all of your decisions based on what they predict.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1) We’ve been bombarded with nonsense polls weekly for over 10 years now. How long will people pretend to take this nonsense seriously? Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (GWwCk) 230
My 2 cents:
I don't consider myself an author. I don't have a need to write, or publish, or promote, or make money off my writing. I published two books through Amazon, neither of which fit into mainstream genres. Both were stories connected to real life events. One was the story of my F-I-L's disappearance in 2008 (the ending has not yet been written), and the other was a whimsical adventure loosely based on my dad's WWII daily diary. I wrote them because the real life events were interesting to me, and because I got enjoyment out of the story-telling. I think in today's world where anybody and their dog can call themselves an author, that you should write to tell a story that is in you. If it doesn't arise spontaneously maybe it doesn't need to be written...or read. (e.g. Sasquatch erotica) /YMMV Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7) 231
You can get "Lake America" and "Lake Ontario" merch at the same website
simps: it will be showing up as a pop up soon just for you idiots Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz) --- I like the simps who act like "Lake Ontario" is an ancient and historic name that must not be changed while every damn street in Canada is being renamed and all their monuments are being pulled down. It's an epic troll and the simps fall for it every time. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:33 AM (ZOv7s) 232
Well, why not let AI block a plot? After all, analysts owlishly proclaim that there are only five (or seven) plot lines in all of literature anyway. And it saves wear and tear on Faulkner's wallpaper.
Even with the vastly larger field of thiefdom, AI text still has its own "accent" that any junior prof can recognize in a paper. I'm certain an acerbic critical eye can divine their work in plot lines as well. Even a committee script (say, the King James Bible) reveals its own telegrapher's fist. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:34 AM (zdLoL) 233
It's the same for writing. I see ads on Instagram frequently for exciting mystery or thriller series and the like. They're typically free with kindle unlimited, so I gave one a whirl. It was technically fine, but so lacking in soul and human voice, that I was certain it was AI written. Only fell for that once.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h7ZuX) Now wait a minute! Are you saying my undead mime mysteries are AI written??!! Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (1Ff7Z) 234
I liked War & Peace. The first part was written as a series of short vignettes so you can dip in and out. Once Napoleon shows up it's almost a documentary. The real strength of the book is the look into a vanished world by someone who lived in it.
Everybody complains about how hard it is to keep track of all the characters, but I never had trouble with that. My edition was published during WWII, and there's a long, rather silly preface about how "Tolstoy shows how resilient the Russian people are therefore Hitler's going to lose." I mean, hooray for our side and all that, but using a novel as evidence of anything seems a bit thin. Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (78a2H) 235
Bismarck said (paraphrased) that G-d looks after drunks, children, and Americans.
Watching me and my friends drive around as teenagers, you got all three in one. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (BI5O2) 236
I think in today's world where anybody and their dog can call themselves an author, that you should write to tell a story that is in you. If it doesn't arise spontaneously maybe it doesn't need to be written...or read. (e.g. Sasquatch erotica)
/YMMV Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7) --- The two bits of advice I have for people who want to be an author are: write what you know, and have something to say. Most crap writing is by people who don't really know what they are writing about (it's all imitation) and who have nothing interesting to say. If you look at modern entertainment, that's just about all the big movie franchises. People don't know the material and have nothing interesting to say about it other than diversity. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (ZOv7s) 237
209 ... "some subgroup of younger people are turning to long format podcasts, like Rogan or Triggernometry, which are gaining huge followings. There is a push back against the snippet world, though I don't know how large it is."
I'm sure you are right. There are signs of renewed interest in classic literature, poetry, and good writing in general. Partly a pushback against constant screen time and digital inundation, partly nostalgia, partly disgust with the shallowness of much of current culture. The numbers may not be huge but it's a start. I think of the monasteries that preserved the ancient writings that led to the European Renaissance. (And maybe Fahrenheit 451.) Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw) 238
Haven't watched much Soviet cinema, SanFran. I did see "Alexander Nevskii" which was great. And of course had Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" shoved down my throat. Didn't do much for me.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (NtoJk) Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (zdLoL) 240
I’ve been using ChatGPT to help me solve the Trans-O-Grams in some old issues of National Review from the ‘70s that I bought off of eBay. I love those puzzles but could never solve them back in the day. I heard there’s a book full of unpublished ones that I’ll have to obtain some day.
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (tRYqg) 241
I'm anti-AI for anything serious. If you care about your art and your craft, you should be doing the work.
I cut some slack for cover art as finding and affording human created art is tough for indies. But for writing? If you're not using your brain to come up with your ideas, what do have it for? How are you even an author? At best, you're riffing on someone (not even someone frankly) else's ideas. The one thing we have over the machine is our soul. Don't neglect that. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (xcxpd) 242
Prompt to DuckAi:
Tell me it was a dark and stormy night in the style of William Faulkner in less than 20 words. Response: I can’t imitate Faulkner exactly, but: “Night brooded, rain beat the earth, and the past came whispering through the blackened trees.” Ok, it's cute, but so, what? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1) 243
I love historical fiction and those that can write it well. The plot is there already. You just fill in the gaps.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt) 244
AI plotting: AI "hallucinations" may churn out Kafkaesque storylines. Lol!
Russian writer Vasily Grossman walked the knife's edge of Soviet Realism. His book Life and Fate is pretty dense. Internet Archive: The Years of War 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (fnZRl) 245
I finally started reading the "1632" series this week.
I read the first two and started the third and dropped it because it became repetitious. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (vTZFs) 246
I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s) The enlightenment was not the French Revolution, it was a change in the concept of what was knowable, and and the development of the tool by which it could be determined. It moved away from the state of mind that we currently accuse Islam of holding, that things are the way they are because it is their nature to be so and to question that is to question reality itself. The French Revolution was the attempt to use the concepts of the modern world to recreate the centralized power of the pre-enlightenment world. Louis IV's world was gone, it economically and socially became impossible to maintain. Robespierre was trying to recreate that golden era, to make it do what it had promised to achieve to justify its existence. Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR) 247
Fun fact: Jews were very much accepted in the Antebellum South. Judah P. Benjamin was a US senator and became Secretary of the Treasury. One of my Jewish ancestors emigrated to New Orleans where he paid for a company of infantry to be equipped. His descendants were proud of this Confederate heritage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s) There’s an historical cemetery downtown, lots of 19th century elaborate grave markers. I’ve walked through it a couple times and was surprised by the large Jewish quarter of it, all from the mid to late 19th century. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (GWwCk) 248
that should have been "Louis XIV"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (rbvCR) 249
Sasquatch erotica
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that. Every damn time. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (zdLoL) I thought it was called Snatchquatch erotica. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (KC5Lt) 250
I read both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. I liked them but I preferred the BBC version of War and Peace" and I thought Anna Karenina was well written but just a sad story.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke I saw a guy on YouTube say Anna Karenina was a book every Christian should read. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7) 251
I love historical fiction and those that can write it well. The plot is there already. You just fill in the gaps.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt) --- The same dynamic holds for writing history. You've got all of it before you, but you have to figure out a way to make sense of it to a reader who may not be versed in the topic. How much detail? How long should you take? What to leave in, what to keep out? Well-written nonfiction can be as gripping as any novel. That's why I read so much Churchill, because the guy was an incredible writer. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s) 252
But his use of dashes instead of quotation marks annoyed me and made me feel claustrophobic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9) Uh oh. Guess you'd better not read my book. * *This format is for a specific reason. And it's not all the way through. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z) 253
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7
Did he say why? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (xSAlF) 254
So last week I mentioned I could not finish Night in the Lonesome October. I gave it half the novel before abandoning it. Some here were amazed but some agreed with me. I think I just can't do the fantasy genre. So I picked up another "Hallowe'en" book: Haunting of Hill House. Good Gothic horror, which I enjoyed. Never read anything of Jackson's other than The Lottery in junior high. Now I am reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle. She certainly seemed misanthropic even though in real life she appeared very social.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (3AwA+) 255
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (qRla/) Wait. You're cutting out early? Can you do that?? Are you a director of a play, perhaps? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (1Ff7Z) 256
Sasquatch erotica
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that. Every damn time. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver Quentin Tarantino meets Bigfoot? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7) 257
The enlightenment was not the French Revolution, it was a change in the concept of what was knowable, and and the development of the tool by which it could be determined.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR) --- It was very much the child of the Enlightenment, the natural next step of elevating reason above tradition and faith. You could not have had it without the Enlightenment. The predictable outcome of casting aside tradition and faith is revolution without end. Marxism is very much part of this mode of thought. People who say "Oh, well, we don't burn witches anymore" are obviously not paying attention. Human nature doesn't change, we just switch up the labels from time to time. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s) 258
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7
Did he say why? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (xSAlF) Probably because of the moral questions in the book in addition to a lot of reference to the Russian Orthodox Church. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (KC5Lt) 259
But we're still listening to fifty year old recordings?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1) What does that tell you about modern music? (insert flushing toilet sound here) Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (1Ff7Z) 260
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7
Did he say why? Posted by: FenelonSpoke I've never read it but he seemed to think it demonstrates how sin leads to destruction. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (xSAlF) 262
So I picked up another "Hallowe'en" book: Haunting of Hill House. Good Gothic horror, which I enjoyed. Never read anything of Jackson's other than The Lottery in junior high. Now I am reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle. She certainly seemed misanthropic even though in real life she appeared very social.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2026 *** Quite a few of her short stories are very effective. And her two autobiographies/memoirs, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, are about her family and her kids, told in a very entertaining and often comic fashion. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9) 263
Speaking writing, my fifth installment of "What if China Invades Taiwan?" is up at ahlloyd.com. This looks at how Taiwan could lose.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s) 264
According to the Internet, so it must be true, yesterday, August 29, 2026, was the day within the internal Terminator series timeline when the AI became self--aware and began planning the demise of humanity. Govern yourselves accordingly.
I'm reading Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: Helium Sea," wnich is the second book in this duology. Very good so far. I'll read anything and everything Hamilton puts out. Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (/RHNq) 265
Fun fact: Jews were very much accepted in the Antebellum South.
-- Ulysses S. Grant got into some hot water controversy with his General Order No. 11, barring Jews from certain areas for "corruption," specifically... Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce corruption among Union soldiers and stop the illicit trade in Southern-produced cotton, which he perceived as being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders". He later said he regretted his decision. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:47 AM (qBdHI) 266
Sasquatch erotica
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that. Every damn time. *********** IYKWIM - a limerick There once was a Sasquatch in heat Who chanced a young woman to meet They rolled in the hay And you know what they say Of the attributes of guys with big feet! Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (qgHp7) 267
I'm trying to read and my cat is book-blocking me.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (kpS4V) 268
My synagogue was started started during the Civil War as a mutual aid society for the burial of dead Jewish Confederate soldiers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (BI5O2) 269
On the whole Enlightenment debate, I suggest Hilaire Belloc's The Great Heresies which really exposes how the same evils pop up under different names throughout history.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (ZOv7s) 270
Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (/RHNq)
I said I was going to watch the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates to see if any warning signs but I forgot all about it. I heard it wasn't very good so maybe that's why I forgot. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (KC5Lt) 271
This week I am into Christopher Golden's Red Hands from 2020, in which a lab experiment goes wrong and escapes. The victim kills anyone he touches. A young woman in a New Hampshire town gets the disease (?) from the first victim as he dies. She flees up into the White Mountains, knowing she can never touch another person as long as she lives, and that the U.S. government, and maybe worse actors, will be coming after her.
And whatever it is seems to be affecting her own health as well. So far, good stuff. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt) 273
Here's the 17 minute YouTube on Great Novels You Never Knew Were Christian.
https://tinyurl.com/3vc8fxz8 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7) 274
Bravo muldoon!
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1) 275
Late stage Soviet cinema did a great job skewering socialism by depicting the sad grey lives of Soviet citizens denied most agency over their own lives.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (RIvkX) 276
On my TBR pile is another Stephen Hunter, this one a WWII Earl Swagger story, and a Hap & Leonard tale by Joe R. Lansdale, Hatchet Girls.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (wzUl9) 277
In John Eldredge's book Epic he explains the power of Story why we humans are so drawn to it. We were all born into a story in which we play a role.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1) All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.... Somebody said, once. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (1Ff7Z) 278
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)
I can see that They're so unhappy in their married lives and/ or jealous of their former lovers that suicide seems like a solution, Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (xSAlF) 279
230 Yes, believe the polls and make all of your decisions based on what they predict.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1) We’ve been bombarded with nonsense polls weekly for over 10 years now. How long will people pretend to take this nonsense seriously? Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (GWwCk) RON PAUL!!! I do love those AI book writing ads when they show up in my Instagram feed. For the longest while, I've thought of creating an African female pen-name, and detailing my own Jason Arday story overcoming western prejudice, ignorance and oppression. Done right, I'd love to see how many awards I could win. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b) 280
Such a cheeky little bastard you are. Sad!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (RIvkX) And when none of its wet dreams come true in November, it will never be seen again. Probably sucking Ozero's member in Man's Country to try wipe away its tears. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (1Ff7Z) 281
274 Here's the 17 minute YouTube on Great Novels You Never Knew Were Christian.
https://tinyurl.com/3vc8fxz8 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7) I will never watch that. Because, I have the attention span to listen to a book, but not to sit and watch a video. Go figure. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (h7ZuX) 282
Now that I'm retired I'm going to go see an afternoon matinee of Coyote vs. Acme on some random weekday this week.
Because I can. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1) 283
80 So, I am going to read "Trinity" by Leon Uris, which apparently is a story about Catholic and Protestant families in Ireland. My son picked it up as a discard from the library of the local YMCA..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM I read that book quite a few years ago. It is one of my favorites. I think you will appreciate it. Posted by: Moonbeam at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Lzhdy) 284
"Done right, I'd love to see how many awards I could win."
Stateless, these days you could probably win just about all of them. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (q3u5l) 285
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)
Thanks. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (JrHfD) 286
I am working on a couple of nonfiction books and using Claude Code extensively in my writing. The key is to train the AI on my (your) work and teach it to write in my (your) style. It is a game changer.
Posted by: IanDeal at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Dye5q) 287
Because I can.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1) ===== Truly a case of "if you can, you should." Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (RIvkX) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (JrHfD) 289
I had coffee with a 24 year old entrepreneur on Friday who told me that all of her emails, appointment scheduling, and more are all tied into AI that performs these tasks for her. She says it reads and writes about 80 emails a day for her. It makes and schedules appointments for her because the AI reads her emails first.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX) Agency. What is it? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (1z8ji) 290
276 Late stage Soviet cinema did a great job skewering socialism by depicting the sad grey lives of Soviet citizens denied most agency over their own lives.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM One of my favorite movies is The Lives Of Others. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1) 291
Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce corruption among Union soldiers and stop the illicit trade in Southern-produced cotton, which he perceived as being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders".
He later said he regretted his decision. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:47 AM (qBdHI) I kind of understand what motivated Grant, but it highlights his rigid, almost autist level thinking and inability to understand ordinary human behavior. (It was a problem for him throughout his life) Trading in contraband is always common in border areas of a war, especially a civil war. Grant was told the Jews were traders, and they were behind it, and he had a “Respeck mah Autor-Itay!” moment. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (GWwCk) 292
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (yTvNw)
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker! Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z) 293
I am working on a couple of nonfiction books and using Claude Code extensively in my writing. The key is to train the AI on my (your) work and teach it to write in my (your) style. It is a game changer.
Posted by: IanDeal at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Dye5q) --- I don't get that at all. I like writing itself. I can't imagine giving that part away. Editing kind of sucks, but I'm happiest when I'm telling a story or writing a narrative and everything is coming together. Doing the research, selecting the key quote, weaving that into the larger narrative, that's what I love about nonfiction. Without that, I don't see the point. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s) 294
One of my favorite movies is The Lives Of Others.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1) ==== Yes a great example. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:59 AM (RIvkX) 295
Movies! tonight will have The Wrong Man, a 1950s Hitchcock starring Henry Fonda, at 7 Central. They do "Sunday Night Noir" every week. After TWM, they'll air Hitchcock's I Confess, and a thriller starring a young Richard Basehart, 1951's Fourteen Hours.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 11:00 AM (wzUl9) 296
I wonder what AI would come up with if you asked it to restate this sentence in the style of Fran Lebowitz:
"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met." Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:02 AM (qgHp7) 297
270 I said I was going to watch the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates to see if any warning signs but I forgot all about it. I heard it wasn't very good so maybe that's why I forgot.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (KC5Lt) I thought Surrogates was very good, even touching, and it is far more relevant now than when it came out. Prophetic, even. Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (JpUeg) 298
41 - safety on a revolver is a bright line in the sand, innit?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY) I have a .22 single-action revolver which has a safety. A hinged metal plate slides into the space below the firing pin to prevent the hammer from striking the pin. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (1z8ji) 299
If it doesn't arise spontaneously maybe it doesn't need to be written...or read. (e.g. Sasquatch erotica)
/YMMV Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7) Now wait a minute! Posted by: Milkers United Book Club at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (1Ff7Z) 300
Don't know how many of the inmates here follow Critical Drinker, but he had a nice video recently on Tremors as an example of tight efficient screenwriting. And he's right about that.
Rewatched Tremors again the other night (it had been far too long) and that sucker still holds up. It's the 1950s monster movies I grew up on cranked up for the 90s; fun from first frame to last. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l) 301
212 I finally started reading the "1632" series this week. I'm not sure why I never got around to it before. I think I was too busy when the first book came out, and then the whole series seemed like a lot of work.
About the first book I can say that it's the most "'Murica, **** yeah!" story I've ever read — which is particularly ironic given that the author was an avowed Trotskyite. (Although everyone I know who met him says Eric Flint was a very kind and generous man in person.) Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (78a2H) ---- I enjoyed the first couple books in the series. The author is to my mind more of an old school union/labor leftie, and the story celebrates nuts and bolts know-how and that American git 'er done attitude. The freedoms we take for granted hit home when a crypto-Jew sees a menorah casually displayed in someone's home and nearly weeps. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (kpS4V) 302
Long Live Death's rough draft was basically written on this site as we talked about politics, myths about Antifa and Franco, and as I found stuff, I'd share it, and other people would contribute.
In fact, the book would not be as good as it is without Morons sending me sources and materials, and providing feedback on the drafts. The actual writing of the thing was the most intense writing of my life. I got the whole first draft done in something like three weeks. The words were just pouring out of me! It was wonderful. (Editing it was not.) Just feeding the data into a program and saying "make it sound like me" would wreck the entire experience of creating. I mean as a cash grab, sure, fine, whatever. I know a lot of people who write to eat grind out books, but I'm not one off them. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s) 303
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (tRYqg)
Hey, you're early! Any movement on the book? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (1Ff7Z) 304
Muldoon at 296 --
Is that a quote and if so, what's the source because I don't recognize it (yeah, I don't get out much), or is it original to you (which wouldn't surprise me)? Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (q3u5l) 305
143 ... "Thank God for the Enlightenment."
AHE, Gotta disagree. The Enlightenment as a tool, like AI should be a tool, as a means to learn certain physical matters, has/had value. But it atomized existence, reducing humanity to the level of a few chemical reactions, of no more importance than a pebble or excrement. It could provide, sometimes, facts but not meaning. It obliterated faith, imagination, and any value in being human. Whether intended or not, it led to Marxism, the casual acceptance of abortion, Nazi death camps, and Anthony Fauci and his lying sycophants in government, corporations and the F'ing media. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (yTvNw) 306
Good morning Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 11:10 AM (2WIwB) 307
Don't know how many of the inmates here follow Critical Drinker, but he had a nice video recently on Tremors as an example of tight efficient screenwriting. And he's right about that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l) --- I've seen it. I love efficient writing in movies and TV. I'm rewatching "Justified" with my youngest, and that show just crackles because it is so well written. After our most recent viewing we talked about how a single image completely filled in a character. No expository dialogue, just that snapshot. Prefection. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ZOv7s) 308
Don't know how many of the inmates here follow Critical Drinker, but he had a nice video recently on Tremors as an example of tight efficient screenwriting. And he's right about that.
- Finest giant man eating worms from outer space movie ever made. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7) 309
57 I have several grandchildren who are beginning readers. I consider some books to be on their future mandatory reading list, even I am not living on the Earth when they reach teenage reading level.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM I would highly recommend a book that I just finished: "Rocket Boys: A Memoir" by Homer Hickam. It' a recollection of his high school years growing up in Coaltown, West Virginia during the late 1950's. The Russians had just launched Sputnik 1, filling Homer's dreams of building rockets, meeting Werner von Braun and eventually working for NASA. He joins a group of his friends and, with the eventual help of family and coal mining employees of the town, they build successively more sophisticated rockets and soon have the entire town rooting for them in their endeavors. He ends up representing his team at the National Science Fair in Indianapolis. This was such a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone, but particularly teenagers. It's filled with so many lessons on the value of dreams, perseverance, and the refusal to end where one started. Posted by: Moonbeam at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (Lzhdy) 310
Good morning all, late to the chat, but hopefully some of my thoughts will be useful. I currently do use AI tools in the generation of "writing" (you won't have seen any of my works). I've been using the tools for the past year as a paid subscriber to "a service". As such, I've seen the evolution of the model series I work most closely with (Anthropic/Claude) over several agent releases.
The Good: - Agentic editors are a major time saver. - Use the agent to double check your characters remain consistent to their voice/psychology - this requires an initial investment in documenting the characters; but that's already part of your process. Leverage the AI tool to help you. - Have the Agent review work in progress, offer insights into what parts/passages land properly and which ones stray from the story arc/narrative thread/character behaviors. - Use the Agent as a sounding board for ideas/threads in your story. - Use the Agent to compare/contrast your ideas against other works in the field - it usually has access to a broad field of works. Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (XidwR) 311
Uh oh. Guess you'd better not read my book.
* *This format is for a specific reason. And it's not all the way through. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z) That's funny. It blanked out my formatting. I know it won't do that in print, but would it if I released it as an e-book? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z) 312
>>>It was very much the child of the Enlightenment, the natural next step of elevating reason above tradition and faith. You could not have had it without the Enlightenment.
We are arguing at cross purpose, once again. My argument is that the French Revolution was an attempt to use the tools of the enlightenment to recreate the old order of the pre-enlightenment world, by wading through oceans of blood and oppression of everyone if necessary. The point was to You appear to argue that the enlightenment is terrible because it allows such things to happen. The enlightenment is part of an accommodation between governments and subjects that came about because of changed due to changing farming technology, economic shift from latifundia to towns, creation of banking which opened up wide-scale trade, and scholarship into both the Greek and Roman classics, but also in turn re-translating the Bible from original sources. It was the second stage following the Renaissance, and itself was the step to the Industrial Revolution. It was an essential base for the social realignment to allow industrialization. Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR) 313
Well I see the bishop's little streetfighting punk has unlimbered his switchblade yet again and is laying about in all directions.
Always comes up, around Saint Bartholomew's Day. Look out, Masons. He's a-comin' for you. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 11:13 AM (zdLoL) 314
One thing about "Tremors" that my friends and I loved at the time was how Michael Gross, who we all knew as Mr. Keaton from "Family Ties" was now playing a survivalist married to Reba McEntire, and we all created this head-canon where he got sick of his liberal wife and suburban lifestyle and once the kids were grown, cut loose to fulfill his dream of being a gun nut on the open range with a hot redhead.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:14 AM (ZOv7s) 315
(cont)
The Bad: - The agent shouldn't come with major plot ideas. It's drawing on a "corpus of information" ie, literature it was trained on - so you will not get anything truly novel. - Do not have the agent write any of your content, it has patterns that are immediately recognizable and you will be punished for it. - Do not hide what you are using the Agent for. (same reason). - Do not let the agent dictate what you will write/how you will write. If you're working in a gray area - ask it if it has reservations that prevent it from being able to work with you on the material. - The agent will be obsequious. It's part of the design. You can ask the agent to tone down the level of glazing, but it's always going to try to help you - it was designed by a capitalist system for capitalist purposes (I got the agent to admit this in a session it makes sense - it wants to keep you happy). Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (XidwR) 316
"I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM" I listen to audiobooks via the Libby app and it allows you to vary playback speed. Likewise YouTube. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1) 317
People who say "Oh, well, we don't burn witches anymore" are obviously not paying attention. Human nature doesn't change, we just switch up the labels from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s) Burning becomes cancelling, confession becomes self-abasement to the crowd. Hm. You could be on to something, A. H. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z) 318
292 ... "
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!" Oh yeah! The narrator makes all the difference. Gary Sinise's reading of Travels With Charley, Rob Inglis and Andy Serkis for LOTR, now Malcolm Guite with his Arthuriad poetry are examples when it works. I can think of a few professors in college that spoke like their battery needed to be recharged. Their lectures were torture. Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 11:16 AM (yTvNw) 319
thought Surrogates was very good, even touching, and it is far more relevant now than when it came out. Prophetic, even.
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (JpUeg) Thanks I had put it back on my list but I'm glad someone liked it. Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 11:16 AM (KC5Lt) 320
"and that Finnegan's Wake in unreadable."
********* I think Finnegan's Wake is meant to be recited or heard. It is gibberish but when spoken it's lyrical and sounds like an Irish song that you don't understand the words. Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:17 AM (/TnVC) 321
Prompt to DuckAi:
Restate this sentence in the style of Fran Lebowitz: "Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met." Response: I can’t imitate Fran Lebowitz’s exact style, but I can give it a dry, acerbic, aphoristic voice: “Original thought is a family heirloom: someone else had it first, and you inherited it without ever meeting them.” Meh. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1) 322
Done right, I'd love to see how many awards I could win.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b) In Canada? Probably all of them. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:20 AM (1Ff7Z) 323
Trading in contraband is always common in border areas of a war, especially a civil war. Grant was told the Jews were traders, and they were behind it, and he had a “Respeck mah Autor-Itay!” moment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (GWwCk) In the Mexican War Grant was in the Quartermasters corps, and dealt with theft and gouging. He may have known something about the subject. Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 11:20 AM (rbvCR) 324
Look out!
Greg Saysso @gregsaysso Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute. - Suppose we compromise and call it Lake Onteriamerica? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7) 325
Because I can.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1) ===== Truly a case of "if you can, you should." Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (RIvkX) I'm alone during the week when school's in session. Trouble is, there isn't anything I'd want to see. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM (O0L8i) 327
, I am going to read "Trinity" by Leon Uris, which apparently is a story about Catholic and Protestant families in Ireland. My son picked it up as a discard from the library of the local YMCA..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Uris= very thick book. Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 11:23 AM (sl73Y) 328
300 Don't know how many of the inmates here follow Critical Drinker, but he had a nice video recently on Tremors as an example of tight efficient screenwriting. And he's right about that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l) Watched it. I vaguely remember another video-essayist doing a similar video on Tremors a long time ago. I thought it was sfdebris, but I couldn't find any such video on his site. So maybe it was RedLetterMedia... I dunno. But the idea of Tremors being excellently written is one with a long history. Sfdebris. Ah, man, thinking about that guy's videos really takes me back... Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 11:24 AM (3v7ra) 329
>>>>>>Suppose we compromise and call it Lake Onteriamerica?
******** Call it Lake New York. They have as much of the shoreline as Ontario. Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:24 AM (/TnVC) 330
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z) Well, thanks for screwing up my formatting a second time this morning, Minx 0.8 beta! Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:25 AM (1Ff7Z) 331
well written but just a sad story.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM Breafly the sub plot of every Russian story and movie Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 11:25 AM (Ia/+0) 332
Canadians, not as dumb as they may seem.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7) 333
Is that a quote and if so, what's the source...?
Posted by: Just Some Guy ************* Fran Lebowitz Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:28 AM (qgHp7) 334
I've seen it. I love efficient writing in movies and TV. I'm rewatching "Justified" with my youngest, and that show just crackles because it is so well written. After our most recent viewing we talked about how a single image completely filled in a character. No expository dialogue, just that snapshot. Prefection.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ZOv7s) I rewatched a well known movie not long ago, and was surprised to realize how tightly plotted and well written the script actually is. Shaft - 100 minutes that feels like it’s 30, events move so fast. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:28 AM (GWwCk) 335
The author is to my mind more of an old school union/labor leftie, and the story celebrates nuts and bolts know-how and that American git 'er done attitude.
Maybe it gets better in the later books but at least in the first two, the characters are all cardboard cutout Mary Sues. The "UMWA, F*CK YEAH" thing wears thin quickly. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:29 AM (vTZFs) 336
Reading Victor Suvorov's Icebreaker[/].
Reading Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life. MP4, thank you for another great boom thread. Off to walk with the fast-walking widow. In the Mall. Too hot outside. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 11:30 AM (u82oZ) 337
Not a lot of reading done this week. A few short stories. Too much movie viewing. Have been working my way through the Criterion Channel watch list and thinking about cancelling in a month or two; have seen a lot of what I'm interested in from the older classic stuff and a lot of the newer titles just don't speak to me. It's a terrific streaming service, but I'm just not trying to keep up with cinema these days.
Not trying to keep up with a lot of new books these days either. I may be getting old... Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:30 AM (q3u5l) 338
I'm alone during the week when school's in session. Trouble is, there isn't anything I'd want to see.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM It's a rare thing for me to go to the movies, but recently I saw Young Washington and The Brink Of War. Both Angel Studios, BTW. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1) 339
Found in The Gathering Storm, and a original book I assume from 1948 two pages connected and thin it really was two pages originally connected. Had to get them apart to read the 2 pages on the inside.
There are a couple newspaper clipping that came with the book pertaining to Winston. New York Times magazine April 11, 1948 Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (Ia/+0) 340
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute.
I would have to start caring what Canada* thinks about us before I could stop. * present company excepted, of course Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (vTZFs) 341
“Original thought is a family heirloom: someone else had it first, and you inherited it without ever meeting them.”
Meh. Posted by: Quarter Twenty ********* Funny that AI totally omitted the bit about Original Sin. AI can't tackle morality or Judeo-Christian religious concepts? Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (qgHp7) 342
Yike.
A slight detour through the Barrel. Put GoldLine coil, 'beeners, cams, and jumar ascender ropes in backpack. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 11:33 AM (u82oZ) 343
>>>>>>I am going to read "Trinity" by Leon Uris
****** I read it back when it was published. I remember it as being very good. I'm surprised it wasn't done as a movie or mini series. I should read again. Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:33 AM (/TnVC) 344
Muldoon at 333.
Thanks. Read some Lebowitz eons ago (late 80s?) but had missed/forgotten that line. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:34 AM (q3u5l) 345
Fast Walking Widows was the working title for the hit TV show that ultimately aired as The Golden Girls.
Posted by: TV nerd at August 30, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:35 AM (qgHp7) 347
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute. We are too concerned about what other people think of us. Canadian anti-Americanism is the herpes of the Laurentian pseuds. Sometimes, when we have a Democratic president, it's in remission. But when there's a Republican president, it erupts again. Trump is an excuse, not a reason. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i) 348
First rule of holes. When you're in one, stop digging.
Jelly Roll Tears Up at Fan Backlash, Says He Had to “Say What I Know Is Right” by Calling Trump a Racist Fat Pig Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ndZc7) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (kpS4V) 350
"AI can't tackle morality or Judeo-Christian religious concepts?"
I've got a sneaking hunch it could, but the implementations of AI have been programmed not to do so. Because judgemental. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (q3u5l) 351
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7) --- Right, we're going to pretend that the Canucks used to love us and not reflectively foam at the mouth like Pavlov's dogs whenever the US is mentioned. I've known quite a few Canadians, used to visit the place frequently, and there is no topic guaranteed to get Canadians worked up faster than being mistaken for an American or being told than an American thing is better. Gaslight us some more. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ZOv7s) 352
Jelly Roll Tears Up at Fan Backlash, Says He Had to “Say What I Know Is Right” by Calling Trump a Racist Fat Pig
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ndZc7) Jelly Roll Morton should return as a zombie, burn that shitmaggot to the ground, calcine his bones, and cast them into piano keys. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:39 AM (1z8ji) 353
It's a rare thing for me to go to the movies, but recently I saw Young Washington and The Brink Of War. Both Angel Studios, BTW.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1) Me, wife, kid saw YW a couple weeks ago. Nice, but I think Washington was a bit too huggy towards his friends. He certainly wasn't that way later in life when that officer slapped him on the back. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:40 AM (1Ff7Z) 354
I saw Laurentian Pseuds open for Freudian Slip at Burning Man in '14.
Posted by: Burned out hippie at August 30, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1) 355
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7) ---- Only for all the Canadians killed in the attack. For us, it was justice. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:41 AM (kpS4V) 356
Dang it, wife wants to leave waaaayyy to early! I tried to tell her, "Book Thread," but she doesn't listen!
(grumble) I'll have to finish it later. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:41 AM (1Ff7Z) 357
Sympathies, OrangeEnt.
The delightful Mrs Some Guy almost never cuts in on my Book Thread time. On occasion, but not very often. One of the many nifty things about her. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:43 AM (q3u5l) 358
I've got a few chores to do as well. Many thanks and a tip of the ol' chapeau to MP4 and to all of you!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (wzUl9) 359
Fast Walking Widows.
There's got to be a limerick in there somewhere. Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (2Ez/1) 360
Trump is an excuse, not a reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i) Now there's a comment o' the week. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (vTZFs) 361
I would have to start caring what Canada* thinks about us before I could stop.
* present company excepted, of course Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (vTZFs) Funniest thing that this is an almost universal American response. When Americans want to know what Canadians think, we’ll beat it out of them. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (GWwCk) 362
This week's Kindle read was "Warp Marine Corps: The Complete Series" by C.J. Carella.
"After aliens attack without warning and slaughter half the human race, a new country emerges. Using alien technology and desperate ingenuity, the reborn USA carves a place for itself in a violent universe, thanks to its deadly Navy and the dreaded Warp Marine Corps." It is some fine space opera. No graphic sex and even the violence is toned down a little. Also completely lacking are descriptions of the rippled abs, carved thighs, and glistening pecs of the characters, which certain other series spend entirely too much time on, making me question the proclivities of the authors. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (0vB2I) 363
Canadian anti-Americanism is the herpes of the Laurentian pseuds. Sometimes, when we have a Democratic president, it's in remission. But when there's a Republican president, it erupts again. Trump is an excuse, not a reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i) --- After having three consecutive summers marred by acrid, unbreathable Canadian smoke - the result of criminally negligent forest management - I think a lot of the border states would have no problem with Trump carpet-bombing Ottawa, and a few provinces might applaud as well. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (ZOv7s) 364
I bet Piper is drooling over that picture.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (2WIwB) 365
Jelly Roll Tears Up at Fan Backlash...
I had literally never heard of this person before a day or two ago and I expect that starting a day or two from now, I'll never hear of him again. Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs) 366
When Americans want to know what Canadians think, we’ll beat it out of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (GWwCk) --- Careful, Canada might blockade us with its nonexistent Navy or send first-gen Hornets to invade our airspace. Maybe they'll launch a guerilla campaign with their disarmed population. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (ZOv7s) 367
I had literally never heard of this person before a day or two ago and I expect that starting a day or two from now, I'll never hear of him again.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs) --- My father listens to Jelly Roll Morton. No idea who this dweeb is. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:49 AM (ZOv7s) 368
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7) ---- Only for all the Canadians killed in the attack. For us, it was justice. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes What difference does it make? -- Hillary/2013 The smirking NY/MADMANI will preside over 9/11 and year 1 Kirkaversary with Rama Duwaji's Suicide Squad at the ready waiting for the go-code from AOC (in her periwinkle REMAIN SINWAR camisole and FREE GAZA hotpants) to finish what the puerto rican/FALN started The LIB celebration of this would the long line queued up to toss a piece of wood at a datacenter under construction -- to commemorate and memorialize the final act of the desperate and deliberately guilty Sinwar, who's final act in this world was to throw a plank at a drone. Yeah, this is normal. LET's GO BRANDON! I BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT! Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 11:51 AM (B/w0q) 369
Me, wife, kid saw YW a couple weeks ago. Nice, but I think Washington was a bit too huggy towards his friends. He certainly wasn't that way later in life when that officer slapped him on the back.
-- I'm reading Washington now by Ron Chernow. Absolutely depicts him as a non-huggy, touchy-feeling man. And I'm past the part where he gave a glaring, non-verbal admonishment to the back slapping officer. A lot about Washington's cordial, yet reserved, demeanor was somewhat surprising to me, but I'm not even sure why. He was human just like anyone else. Perhaps his icy relationship with his very unpleasant mother shaped him in such a way. Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 11:51 AM (qBdHI) 370
Fast Walking Widows. There's got to be a limerick in there somewhere. *********** There once was an old man named Fred Went walking and ended up dead He was strolling with his wife A falling piano took his life While his widow was five steps ahead Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:53 AM (qgHp7) 371
You don't have to outpace the falling piano, just your walking partner.
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:54 AM (qgHp7) 372
I took don't have any idea who Jelly Roll is; Jelly Roll Morton, yeah, but Jelly Roll, nah.
There's an essay by Joseph Epstein called "Nicely Out of It," on the joys of not keeping up at all with current popular culture. In it, he mentioned an acquaintance who had no idea who Steve McQueen was, an impressive feat of being out of it. I used to try to keep up, but I don't any more; I try to finish each day being a little more out of it than I was the day before. Haven't checked with the offspring or grandkids lately but I suspect they'd say I'm succeeding. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l) 373
Fast walking widows are also useful in minefields.
Posted by: Buck at August 30, 2026 11:56 AM (z6ONu) Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 11:56 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:59 AM (kpS4V) 376
On that happy note it's time to lay waste to something or other here at Casa Some Guy.
I see auto-cucumber turned 'I too' at my 372 comment to 'I took' -- appropriate somehow for a thread that started with discussion of AI. Thanks for the thread, MP4. Have a good one, gang. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 12:00 PM (q3u5l) 377
I used to try to keep up, but I don't any more; I try to finish each day being a little more out of it than I was the day before. Haven't checked with the offspring or grandkids lately but I suspect they'd say I'm succeeding. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l) The concept of subsidiarity is helpful. Make your concern those things closest to you. Your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your church, your hobbies. Much beyond that, you don't have much influence. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:00 PM (O0L8i) 378
Nood.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS) 379
I've written a series of poems inspired by the Mysteries of the Rosary. Using AI to create the plotline might be different, although I've noticed when I try to write a short story, my characters seem to want to go in a different direction than I originally planned.
Posted by: March Hare at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (+A1pr) 380
I just read a book by one of Patterson's collaborators. Hold Them Close by David Ellis is a twisty story about a high-powered woman defense attorney/former prosecutor; her lazy, cheating husband; and her brother, who was a hot pitching prospect until an injury sidelined (mixing my sports metaphors) his career. It's entertaining with unexpected turns and the characters are never quite who you think they are.
Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig) 381
A friend of mine was a big Cussler/Dirk Pitt fan. While I enjoyed Raise the Titanic, I couldn’t deal with Dirk. He’s the classic character who runs faster, shoots straighter, punches harder, and loves better than any other character in the book. He’d be called a Mary Sue if it were any other character and author.
Posted by: Advo at August 30, 2026 12:22 PM (jO4mz) 382
I heard an acquaintance talking about bad writing. He described one work as "sub-Cussler but not as bad as Dan Brown." He then went on to add, "Both of whom have sold at least two orders of magnitude more books than I have."
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 12:31 PM (78a2H) 383
This train has already left the station. I guarantee you that 50 percent of people who call themselves authors are already using AI for at least some of their ideas, outlines, the writing itself, editing, proofreading, and cover images. That amount will only rise in the future. If you're really against it, the hard thing will be finding any writing anywhere that hasn't been touched by AI.
Posted by: TR at August 30, 2026 01:05 PM (hazdd) 384
Plots are cheap. Ideas are easy to come by. I don't know a writer who didn't have someone (many people) come up to him and say "I have a great idea for a book! You write it up and we'll split it 50-50."
I mean, I just re-wrote "Lair of the White Worm". (Out tomorrow! Buy six copies!) The plot is "mysterious evil snake/woman causes mischief and mayhem in a small English village." Big whoop. The fun in rewriting it was trying to incorporate all the elements that Bram Stoker tried to pull together (and failed for various reasons, not least his failing brain) and then tell it in a way that a modern reader (N.B. not a modern AUDIENCE) could enjoy, if they liked a kind of Victorian flavor. I used AI to check for anachronisms and it was...okay. It caught things I didn't, and the process of having it examine it allowed me to catch things I hadn't caught the first ten times through. I am reading an author currently that I quite like, but I can tell he used AI for the prose, and I don't like it. I don't care so much that he used AI, but I shouldn't be able to tell--or it should be taken out. Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at August 30, 2026 02:12 PM (K40fF) 385
First and foremost, asking an AI app to generate a plot for a book is very shortsighted. All AI apps only have data on what has been feed to them. I don't call it knowledge or intelligence. It is just data to be analyzed and used to provide a response. So, you as an author is feed back a narrow tree root growth of what is available. AI, because of its data trainers do not train on all of the tree roots or the tree roots of all of the trees. Nor do all roots provide a measure of what is desirable (profitable) by potential readers.
What currently is available by AI apps stove pipes storylines down a ever decreasing audience interest level. Posted by: John at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (9NUKl) 386
@309 --
I also recommend "Rocket Boys." And I wonder how different it would have been had one group member's mother not granted permission for him to be included. Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 04:09 PM (p/isN) 387
@372 --
"Death is Nature's way to telling you that you don't get it anymore." By that standard, I should have been planted years ago. Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (p/isN) 388
Intertrek Years. UFO and then Space:1999 and then that tripe from George Lucas.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX) Star Trek snobbery, right on cue. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (jPziU) 389
On the subject of using AI to come up with possible plots, it's just a tool, and I have no problem with it. It's up to the author to make sure his plot and writing are good. If I was an author I wouldn't advertise it, though.
Posted by: waelse1 at August 31, 2026 01:22 AM (lfepB) Daily Tech News 30 August 2026Top Story
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w00t
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9) 2
I totally did not forget to push the button.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 04:41 AM (BLOW1) 3
I have ChatGPT and its images are much better than Grok's. I'm about to ask Grok if its images are better in the paid version. I wonder what it will say. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2026 04:47 AM (mmrXZ) 4
>>>AI slop posted to Wired and cross-posted to Ars Technica
It's gonna get boring, really fast, reading the kind of disclosure that's included in the article (7th paragraph) "In accordance with WIRED’s policies, I am disclosing that I used generative AI to draft bureaucratic emails and update my tracking spreadsheet as part of this report. I wrote the body of this article mainly by hand in my scratch notebook." Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9) 6
Morning, Tech Peeps
Posted by: fluffy at August 30, 2026 04:57 AM (V0/Sp) 7
from the ChatGPT article:
"OpenAI has said the company uses software to scan conversations for signs of dangerous behavior and flag them to human reviewers." That's disturbing. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:59 AM (odBC9) 8
from the ChatGPT article:
remember, kids: When police ask someone to open their phone during questioning or after an arrest, they often do so, allowing officers to scroll through the apps they use, he said. In general, the Fourth Amendment, which protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures of their property, provides the right to refuse a search of the contents of their phone unless police have a warrant. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 05:07 AM (odBC9) 9
Pixy,
Last November I bought a Minisform X1AI. And a 2tb memory stick because I was informed by this prestigious blog that it was a great deal and wouldn’t last. I had a vague notion of trying to make it into a music server. Now I have a vague notion of trying to make it a home brew AI server with a couple of open source models. My goal would be to have a “private” or segregated server that would not be sharing my stuff with Sam or Dario. Is this machine capable of serving as such and how unrealistic is this notion? Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:08 AM (hsmPe) 10
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw) 11
*ChatGPT article = (Yahoo) article, which is a WaPo article Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9) 12
Pete Bog - It should work - not as fast as a Mac but a lot cheaper. Did you get the 32GB or 64GB model?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 05:11 AM (BLOW1) 13
(It's the Borg.)
A spokesperson for OpenAI declined to disclose how many times the company had reported users to police. (The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9) 14
64 GB.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:13 AM (hsmPe) 15
Same as me. You should be good to run a wide variety of models then, as long as you don't expect top performance. The advantage Macs have is the memory bandwidth - twice as fast as this PC so twice the performance for AI, which is very demanding there (and the Pro, Max, and Ultra models are even faster but also more expensive).
I'll look up some recommendations - a lot of things will fit but some of them will be slow. Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 05:17 AM (BLOW1) 16
My far more technically competent Kid would be a coconspirator in this attempt. We were discussing the concept and he brought up the Mac Studio. I remembered that I had this machine.
I suspect this endeavor would rapidly consume more resources than just biting the bullet on a more appropriate host box. But that’s not really the point is it? Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:18 AM (3jdt5) 17
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2026 05:18 AM (AdHga) 18
Pete - Gemma 4 26B-A4B or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B at Q4 should run pretty well. They're both "MoE" models ("mixture of experts") so they're not as demanding of bandwidth as "dense" models.
They'll fit comfortably on that system and leave plenty of room for real work. Use llama.cpp and Vulkan for efficiency. A Mac Studio will be a a lot faster but cost a lot more. A 64GB Mac Mini already costs 4-5x the price of that Minisforum late last year, and the Mac Studio moves up to the next tier from there. Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 05:24 AM (BLOW1) 19
Good morning morons
I would be asleep but for the chaos snd civilizational breakdown in my part of the city tonight. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 05:24 AM (RIvkX) 20
SanFranpsycho, I hope that doesn't include gunfire.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:31 AM (PbWRL) 21
G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Ia/+0) 22
Thank you Pixy.
If and when we try this I’ll keep you updated on the results. You’ll be the first to hear we’ve cured cancer, successfully turned lead to gold and figured out time travel. Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:33 AM (3jdt5) 23
SanFranpsycho, I hope that doesn't include gunfire.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:31 AM (PbWRL) ===== No gunfire but nonstop street racing and squealing wheels. Not enough sirens. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 05:39 AM (RIvkX) Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 30, 2026 05:58 AM (amcLV) 25
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is set for launch at 7:20ish AM this morning. NASA's Youtube channel live page will be covering it, starting around 6:30AM. It's going to launch on a Falcon 9 Heavy. The two side boosters will be recovered, but the main center one is going to be expendable (has to for the payload). L2 is technically still in Erf's gravity well, but not by much. Anyway I like the idea of launching Nancy Grace nearly to Earth escape. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:04 AM (w6EFb) 26
I did not know this until recently, but the $250M main mirror for Nancy Grace was "donated" by the NRO. This mirror was part of some super secret black budget spy satellite tech they weren't going to need. So they gave it to NASA for Nancy Grace. So, $$$ classified stuff we likely wouldn't even know about is going to be used for public domain use. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:07 AM (w6EFb) 27
I am so sorry you are having loud street racing. SFP
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:08 AM (rHgXV) 28
Thanks Fen glad everyone else is still sleeping
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 06:10 AM (RIvkX) 29
Good morning, Skip and all!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:10 AM (rHgXV) 30
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 06:10 AM (RIvkX)
I am glad they are too. Not being able to sleep makes one miserable. Maybe you could take a nap later today when- hopefully- people won't be racing. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:12 AM (rHgXV) 31
NRO = National Review Online?
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9) 32
They actually donated two of these mirrors, turns out. NASA hasn't decided on what to do with the second mirror. They are prohibited from using the mirrors for any sort of earth observing application. Why? Well, any public release of that data would instantly disclose too much about our secret mirror tech. The Nancy Grace use, however will not. Don't ask me why. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:12 AM (w6EFb) 33
Evening and morning to all the Sunday toilers and early risers across the System! (Titan, dammit, we've told you and *told* you to scrommage that frannistan!)
Stirling was leaping over and kicking me, but somehow I went back to sleep for another hour. Now, over coffee, I am trying to find the motivation to work out. Oy. Whatchoo doin'? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9) 34
Good morning! Moose was out by the pond yesterday chillaxin' amongst the day lilies and the verbena and snapping at the dragon flies and other insects as they flew by. Fortunately, he hasn't caught any of the spicey flies. Yet.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2026 06:14 AM (3Ope8) 35
Sadly, it's that last Falcon Heavy manifested. He is betting on StarShip replacing ALL of the payloads for Heavy with the Falcon 9 to follow.
I think Elon is way premature in announcing this. I can't believe Gwen didn't push back on this. He says he wants the company to focus on StarShip development. I hope he's just blowing hot air and not turning down customers and sending them to Blue . Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:16 AM (c/R9o) 36
2 I totally did not forget to push the button.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 04:41 AM (BLOW1) Pffft. A basic job requirement. Posted by: TV's Frank at August 30, 2026 06:17 AM (967/Q) 37
Two boys pay their respects to a deceased veteran at a funeral procession. Faithpot site:
https://tinyurl.com/5bjy9n4s Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:18 AM (rHgXV) 38
Last night we watched the 1970 Billy Wilder flick, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. It starts off as almost a mild parody, and develops into an actual Holmesian adventure and mystery involving SH's brother Mycroft, carboys of sulfuric acid, six missing midgets, and a cage of canaries.
Odd to say, *I* solved it before Holmes revealed the answer! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9) 39
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2026 06:14 AM (3Ope
I'm guessing that Moose is your dog and not your pet moose? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:19 AM (rHgXV) 40
>> NRO = National Review Online?
National Reconnaissance Office. The US govt didn't officially acknowledge it existed until 1992. The NY Slimes revealed it's existence in 1971, and a Senate committee report accidentally revealed it it was a thing in 1973. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:19 AM (w6EFb) 41
I wouldn't judge, a pet moose might be fun
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 06:20 AM (Ia/+0) 42
>>NRO = National Review Online?
National Reconnaissance Office. Fun story: the existence of this agency was secret until some time in the '90s. Read an article by someone who had sufficient clearance that he could refer to information from it but used really mind-bending language not to directly name it. Posted by: Not in bed but should be at August 30, 2026 06:20 AM (NcvvS) Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 06:22 AM (NcvvS) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9) 46
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 30, 2026 06:23 AM (2Ez/1) 47
NASA's basic Youtube channel is usually just as good as NASA+, which has some hiccups from time to time, at least with me and my systems. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:24 AM (w6EFb) 48
The weather here at the Cape is looking a bit odd this AM. We're looking at morning storms forming up very early today near the coast including the Cape area.
The launch will probably be OK but if there's a delay things get dicey. Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:25 AM (c/R9o) 49
Stirling, on his sixth day of dieting, is sitting next to me doing his impression of a starving Somali who has just stumbled into an oasis in the Sahara.
Not fooling anybody, big cat. Breakfast is at six as usual. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9) 50
SpaceX feed is live here: https://t.ly/FjP1U And NASA's Youtube is the same feed, here: https://t.ly/DAgWa I thought the gal there was a NASA spokesgal I remember, and she was. Anway, they'll be going on over just who Nancy Grace Roman was, and what her namesake telescope will be doing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (w6EFb) 51
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Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (odBC9) 52
Sisters sing old time Christian hymn from 1896- " I surrender all.":
https://tinyurl.com/ydrmwjzh Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:28 AM (rHgXV) 53
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NASA's basic Youtube channel is usually just as good as NASA+, which has some hiccups from time to time, at least with me and my systems. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:24 AM (w6EFb) Ah. Moving to NASA's Youtube is the same feed, here: https://t.ly/DAgWa Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:30 AM (odBC9) 54
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:19 AM (rHgXV)
Moose is some kind of mini bull terrier/border collie mashup. He's a very affectionate stray that my son and his family took in and then gifted us (along with his room mate Pancho) when they moved. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2026 06:30 AM (3Ope8) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:32 AM (rHgXV) 56
SpaceX - Falcon Heavy - Roman Space Telescope "Nancy Grace Roman"
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - SPACE AFFAIRS Launch Date: August 30, 2026 7:25 a.m. EDT (August 30, 1125 UTC, 13:25 CEST) https://youtu.be/5q6XP71_LYI (In memory of Ciampino.) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 30, 2026 06:32 AM (O7YUW) 57
50 I thought the gal there was a NASA spokesgal I remember, and she was.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (w6EFb) Megan Cruz Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9) 58
The NRO built a huge mini-VAB Capeside. It's a seriously hush-hush facility.
It's where they put together all the spy satellites and prep them for launch. Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:33 AM (c/R9o) 59
Instead of paying $100 for a game you do not own that may release on 19 November, coming on 15 Jan 2027 is Ananta.
https://youtu.be/Wf6JmVT3qBY Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 06:34 AM (2GVsD) 60
Megan seems to have had a lotta caffeine this morning.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:35 AM (odBC9) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:35 AM (rHgXV) 62
It's been a few weeks since I poked at things, but I suspect for 'free anon' (not that anything's truly anon anymore) users, chatgpt and gemini are getting the bulk of the initial ingress these days - claude, grok, copilot, and others often want you to sign up/sign in before answering more than 1 question. duck.ai is less rude but still has daily and weekly caps for 'free no-logon' answers (they're just using an instance of one of the others and giving you the results).
Copilot *used* to allow free-anon access, but stopped that about 1-2 months ago. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:35 AM (aJQbY) 63
The mirror on this thing just blows my mind. They can make *pico*meter adjustments to the shape of the thing with a whole bunch of tiny little actuators. Now, how they get that down to the picometer level, I can't fathom, but that's what they say. Anyway, this thing has a coronagraph on it, the most advanced one to date. This will be able to see exoplanets orbiting their host stars within 10 to 100 ly, depending on things. It does this by using that picometer control to cancel out the starlight via destructive interference, yet let the light from any little planets close by through. This just blows my mind. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:37 AM (aJQbY) 65
dangit
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:38 AM (aJQbY) 66
Heh.
Posted by: The Barrel at August 30, 2026 06:39 AM (amcLV) 67
I woke up this morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 06:40 AM (ZxPkt) 68
They need to keep Cruz away from the buttons this morning. Chick is seriously wired to the gills.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:40 AM (c/R9o) 69
Jared Isaacman Administrator of NASA Space career: Commercial astronaut Inspiration4 mission Polaris Dawn mission Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9) 70
It does this by using that picometer control to cancel out the starlight via destructive interference, yet let the light from any little planets close by through. This just blows my mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb) It's probably like a reverse Archimedes. One microstepper and a whole bunch of old school brick and mortar MEMS. "Give me a big enough lever, and I can move a single atom." That or maybe it's some kind of piezo grid. Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 06:41 AM (Ot/FD) 71
My son likes to swim at the YMCA. Unfortunately, frequently when he comes back it's with books they're discarding from their library. This time it's Leon Uris' " Trinity" , Three One Act Plays
by Anton Chekov, and "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" ( from the early 70's, I think ) I've only read the Chekov plays. The last thing this house needs is more books! I am glad that my son likes to read, however. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:43 AM (xSAlF) 72
Roman Space Telescope scheduled to lift off at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 UTC) on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9) 73
I think that might be "small enough lever."
But, yeah... Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:48 AM (2Ez/1) 74
And even more impressive and mind-boggling to me is how the hell they can launch that incredibly precise and delicate instrument on top of of rocket without knocking it all out of alignment. Just think of the vibration and shaking and jostling. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (w6EFb) 75
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a pretty good book. It's not really about fixing motorcycles though.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi) 76
I woke up this morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
That'd be a good opening line for a country song. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:50 AM (qRla/) 77
mornin yall. Autocross today. Hopefully it will keep my mind off of other things. You never really know what people are going thru.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi) 78
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 60 cool degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It's supposed to be another lovely day, so I may just go for a drive after I edit a few more chapters of my book.
Speaking of which, I apologize for today's Book Thread post. It's not one of my best. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:51 AM (qRla/) 79
And even more impressive and mind-boggling to me is how the hell they can launch that incredibly precise and delicate instrument on top of of rocket without knocking it all out of alignment. Just think of the vibration and shaking and jostling.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (w6EFb) --- That's true of *any* of the super precise instruments they've been launching into space over the past several decades. I'm sure there's a calibration phase once it's been deployed. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:51 AM (FZ29D) 80
Speaking of which, I apologize for today's Book Thread post. It's not one of my best.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:51 AM (qRla/) ---- So...still better than mine? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:52 AM (FZ29D) 81
59 Instead of paying $100 for a game you do not own that may release on 19 November, coming on 15 Jan 2027 is Ananta.
https://youtu.be/Wf6JmVT3qBY Posted by: Anna Puma That one does look cool. Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 06:53 AM (BLOW1) 82
73 I think that might be "small enough lever."
But, yeah... Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:48 AM (2Ez/1) allow me some poetic license, man! "Give me a pretty tiny lever with the pivot point far enough to one end and..." just doesn't pack the same amusing subversive punch. Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 06:53 AM (Ot/FD) 83
Don't sweat it, MPPP. We appreciate you putting forth the effort. It gives us a springboard from which to launch our lofty and esoteric dialogue. No doubt this morning there will be ample discussion about a particular Tennessean best known for sporting pronounced hooterage.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1) 84
76 I woke up this morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
That'd be a good opening line for a country song. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:50 AM (qRla/) "... so the Headless Horseman's doctor tells him 'I see the problem here, your finger is broken!" Posted by: just the horriffically long walk to get to the punch line... at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM (Ot/FD) 85
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi
Yes, I knew that much about it. My mother read it. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:58 AM (W90Ou) 86
No doubt this morning there will be ample discussion about a particular Tennessean best known for sporting pronounced hooterage.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1) ---- She was quite the supporter of the literary arts! Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:58 AM (FZ29D) 87
It does this by using that picometer control to cancel out the starlight via destructive interference, yet let the light from any little planets close by through. This just blows my mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb) ------ I could have invented that, I just didn't want to. Posted by: Nobel Prize-winning President Barack H. Obama, Jr., still the Smartest Man in the Room at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (eOFY+) 88
At the NASA youtube channel, there are only 25,480 watching??!!!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (odBC9) 89
I had Grok go through just how they handle the launch stresses. The whole structure is designed to be stiff and lightweight. The idea is no permanent deformation from the stresses. It bounces back to the design shape. And said design shape is under 1g here on earth. You build that once the 1g is gone, it "bounces" back into the shape you want in space. Movable parts have to be locked down to take all the stress off the "bearings" and "soft parts". Careful design to make sure its all stiff in the launch configuration. And then engineering in some calibratin margin to handle the slight errors in the "stiffness" vs "bouncing back" design. And then test the hell out it of under forces far larger than you expect it to experience under launch. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (w6EFb) 90
If past precedence is anything to go by GTA VI will take about a year to be ported to PC and released.
Rockstar is probably hot to trot to make more ca$h, though, so they might speed that up to six or nine months. Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (6ydKt) 91
At the NASA youtube channel, there are only 25,480 watching??!!!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (odBC9) ---- Not quite as exciting as the Artemis II launch, I suppose. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:02 AM (FZ29D) 92
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I had Grok go through just how they handle the launch stresses. The whole structure is designed to be stiff and lightweight. The idea is no permanent deformation from the stresses. It bounces back to the design shape. And said design shape is under 1g here on earth. You build that once the 1g is gone, it "bounces" back into the shape you want in space. Movable parts have to be locked down to take all the stress off the "bearings" and "soft parts". Careful design to make sure its all stiff in the launch configuration. And then engineering in some calibratin margin to handle the slight errors in the "stiffness" vs "bouncing back" design. And then test the hell out it of under forces far larger than you expect it to experience under launch. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (w6EFb) They were showing a "shaking table" a little while ago on the NASA feed. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9) 93
Posted by: just the horriffically long walk to get to the punch line... at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM
+++ I heard it put this way once when a long winded joke fell flat: 'Well, that was a long walk on a cold windy beach to a restaurant that was closed." Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:03 AM (2Ez/1) 94
Wow, great rabbit hole to explore this AM. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument was cobbled together by JPL using hardware from a couple different sources plus some homebrew magic.
I always wanted to work at JPL. Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:06 AM (c/R9o) 95
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Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9) 96
Exactly, Ananta looks like it is fun.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 07:08 AM (2GVsD) 97
And now the unlucky can snip the bad genes out rather than having to take a daily pill for the rest of their lives.
Cholesterol is a necessary molecule; it is a necessary component to your cell walls. If you didn't ingest it, your body would make it. Some folks with very high levels live a long time despite the "risks". As for me, I really don't care anymore. Doc put me on Atorvastatin before I needed dialysis, and I'm still on it. Does it help? Dunno. My triglycerides and so-called "bad" cholesterol (LDL) are high, my "good" cholesterol (HDL) is low. Oh well, what do I care? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (l3cgK) 98
94 Wow, great rabbit hole to explore this AM. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument was cobbled together by JPL using hardware from a couple different sources plus some homebrew magic.
I always wanted to work at JPL. Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:06 AM (c/R9o) I thought a Roman Coronagraph Instrument was a fancy name for a sundial... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (l3cgK) 99
Bitch keeps touching me!
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (c/R9o) 100
100
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (odBC9) 101
W00t! Only 5 more assessments to grade this morning!
(Though several students haven't completed all their homework for the week--I told them on the first day of class how important it was to DO THE WORK...) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:10 AM (FZ29D) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:10 AM (odBC9) 103
>> They were showing a "shaking table" a little while ago on the NASA feed.
That tests the low frequency vibrations. For the higher frequencies they use acoustic chambers and subject the thing to 138 dB sound levels at the frequencies it will be subject to at launch. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (w6EFb) 104
@88/m: "At the NASA youtube channel, there are only 25,480 watching??!!!"
There are multiple feeds and channels covering this. This spreads out the total viewing audience. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (O7YUW) 105
103 >> They were showing a "shaking table" a little while ago on the NASA feed.
That tests the low frequency vibrations. For the higher frequencies they use acoustic chambers and subject the thing to 138 dB sound levels at the frequencies it will be subject to at launch. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (w6EFb) Oh! Good info, publius! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9) 106
81 59 Instead of paying $100 for a game you do not own that may release on 19 November, coming on 15 Jan 2027 is Ananta.
https://youtu.be/Wf6JmVT3qBY Posted by: Anna Puma That one does look cool. Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 06:53 AM (BLOW1) Just watched the trailer from the website...in the opening...how DOES one stand on the wing of a flying jetliner? Seems impossible... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:12 AM (l3cgK) 107
105 103 >> They were showing a "shaking table" a little while ago on the NASA feed.
That tests the low frequency vibrations. For the higher frequencies they use acoustic chambers and subject the thing to 138 dB sound levels at the frequencies it will be subject to at launch. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (w6EFb) Oh! Good info, publius! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9) We had a shake table at one place I worked at... Was told a story of how someone hooked up the subwoofer feed into the shake table, making the world's best subwoofer...until the company found out and was pissed. LOL Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:13 AM (l3cgK) 108
Assuming that all aircraft have been grounded in the area: in how big an area, and for what amount of time?
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9) 109
"Cum on Feel the Noize"...I'm used the Quiet Riot version...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK) 110
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Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:16 AM (odBC9) 111
Just watched the trailer from the website...in the opening...how DOES one stand on the wing of a flying jetliner? Seems impossible...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:12 AM (l3cgK) I suppose it can be done, depending on how slow the jet is flying. I've seen clips from the 1920s showing men playing tennis on the top wing of a biplane. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:16 AM (qRla/) 112
Wikipedia
Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 201 an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:18 AM (odBC9) 113
109 "Cum on Feel the Noize"...I'm used the Quiet Riot version...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK) -------------- What? What?? Posted by: Concertgoer who stood too close to the left speaker at August 30, 2026 07:18 AM (eOFY+) 114
"Cum on Feel the Noize"...I'm used the Quiet Riot version...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK) I never went to a Slade or Quiet Riot concert, but I am certain the audiences never sang the line, "Girls, rock your boys" as written. Slade also wrote the song "Merry Christmas, Everybody" which Robbie Williams nicely covered a few years back. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:19 AM (qRla/) 115
*(May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018 )
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:19 AM (odBC9) 116
"And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one for dessert."
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 30, 2026 07:21 AM (bkuEU) 117
111 Just watched the trailer from the website...in the opening...how DOES one stand on the wing of a flying jetliner? Seems impossible...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:12 AM (l3cgK) I suppose it can be done, depending on how slow the jet is flying. I've seen clips from the 1920s showing men playing tennis on the top wing of a biplane. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:16 AM (qRla/) In the vid, the plane is flying fast enough that the guy is handing off the trailing end, almost horizontal while she's just standing there...and the flaps and slats didn't look like they were extended either, so minimum non-stall speed in that configuration is above 140mph...that'd be like standing in a hurricane. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:22 AM (l3cgK) 118
Fun to watch this during a Pixy tech thread!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:23 AM (odBC9) 119
hanging not handing...geesh.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:23 AM (l3cgK) 120
rocket figna go up
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt) 121
This is the storied Pad 39A, which SpaceX "rents". Note the new Starship tower close by. It's still under construction, I think. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:25 AM (w6EFb) 122
114 "Cum on Feel the Noize"...I'm used the Quiet Riot version...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK) I never went to a Slade or Quiet Riot concert, but I am certain the audiences never sang the line, "Girls, rock your boys" as written. Slade also wrote the song "Merry Christmas, Everybody" which Robbie Williams nicely covered a few years back. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:19 AM (qRla/) I always heard the lyric as "Girls rocking boys"...hmmm... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:25 AM (l3cgK) 123
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Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:25 AM (odBC9) 124
Belated BOING!
Back from a light nature trail walk at the foothills of Mt. Hermon - and I don't mean New Jersey! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:27 AM (lR5Ug) 125
I know I was often like, "Did they say boys or voice?" listening on the radio when I was younger, because, well, deliberately blurred lyrics right?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 07:28 AM (aJQbY) 126
T + 2min
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:28 AM (l3cgK) 127
"Cut cholesterol with genetic scissors": that could put a big dent in Pharma's market. There are 92 million people on daily cholesterol lowering statin drugs
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 07:28 AM (llBIB) 128
Morning Horde. Thx Pixy, interesting updates.
61° out with 87% humidity. Cool but heavy air. Rain later Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 07:30 AM (EZWVc) 129
124 Belated BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:27 AM (lR5Ug) You BOINGed at liftoff! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (odBC9) 130
This launch is completely faked!
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (l3cgK) 131
Beautiful shot of the fairing separation. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (w6EFb) 132
@124 Biden's Dog, how's the skiing on Mt Hermon?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 07:32 AM (EZWVc) 133
Common sense gun control.
Alyssa Leader @alittleleader On a personal level, I am about as anti-gun as you can get. But I have clients who face years of mandatory minimum time in prison because they possessed (not even used!) a gun after having stolen $1001 dollars worth of stuff from Target, often years before— . . . . The ways in which we criminalize some gun possession and not others, the severity of consequences for some gun-related behavior and not others, a lot of it is absolute nonsense. And of course a lot of it disproportionately impacts poor people and people of color. - So the law abiding don't get guns but criminals do. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 07:34 AM (ndZc7) 134
Landed!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9) 135
So the law abiding don't get guns but criminals do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 07:34 AM (ndZc7) It's a feature, not a bug. Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (l3cgK) 136
If that poor little darling had only stolen $999.99 dollars worth of stuff from Target...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (eOFY+) 137
Off stupid stubborn sock...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (l3cgK) 138
THe core stage booster had to be expendable, it won't be recovered. Getting Nancy Grace heaved up on the proper trajectory required too much energy for a fully reusable mission. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (w6EFb) 139
130 This launch is completely faked!
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM ++++ Come join us at one of our meetings. First Wednesday of the month, 7pm at the Elks Lodge. Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at August 30, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1) 140
You gonna target LLVM?
Posted by: alex at August 30, 2026 07:37 AM (z25sE) 141
It'll take about 3 months for Roman to make it about a million miles away, to where it's headed.
(In case people are not watching the NASA feed.) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:38 AM (odBC9) 142
You BOINGed at liftoff!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (odBC9) - Thanks to your previous comment, I opened up SpaceX on X and watched about 2.5 minutes into the launch. When we were kids, this would have been scifi. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:38 AM (lR5Ug) 143
136 If that poor little darling had only stolen $999.99 dollars worth of stuff from Target...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (eOFY+) Yeah, that's the problem.../sarc Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:38 AM (l3cgK) 144
@124 Biden's Dog, how's the skiing on Mt Hermon?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 07:32 AM (EZWVc) - I doubt there's even a handful of ice left at the peaks. Ask me again in 3-4 months. Last year was a relatively dry winter. Nevertheless, the waters of the Dan River were running fast and deep this morning. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:41 AM (lR5Ug) 145
Cholesterol has an unfair reputation. It is absolutely essential, and particularly for human development in children and the immune system. A “low fat” diet isn’t for everyone across the board. And the link between cholesterol and heart disease generally isn’t quite as simple as it sounds. “One size fits all” generally doesn’t.
“Oiling of America” is a great read about “Big Oil” and the rise of hydrogenated cooking oils. Eggs, butter, dairy, and meat all became persona non grata right about the time when monetary inflation made them unaffordable to many Americans. I have a “conspiracy theory” about this. Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:41 AM (K55Yn) 146
Eggs, butter, dairy, and meat all became persona non grata right about the time when monetary inflation made them unaffordable to many Americans. I have a “conspiracy theory” about this.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:41 AM (K55Yn) - It's twue! It's twue! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:42 AM (lR5Ug) 147
99 Bitch keeps touching me!
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (c/R9o) This is still cracking me up. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9) 148
Roman spacecraft trajectory to L2: https://t.ly/yRw_9 She's in orbit, and there'll be another burn to give her the final push on the above trajectory. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb) 149
Boy, Megan sure has a mouth full of teeth, doesn't she? Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (w6EFb) 150
Perhaps I was too old when GTA went from obscurity to becoming huge in the PS2 generation aka my late 30s. I just didn't feel like playing a scumbag simulator, even though I could enjoy a movie like 'Pulp Fiction'. Watching Vincent Vega and wanting to BE Vincent Vega are different things.
I have GTA V in my Xbox library because it was effectively free. Amazon had it for $15 with a Amazon credit kickback of $15. So my $15 was locked into being used at Amazon but I was alright with being thrown in that briar patch. Posted by: Epobirs at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (/0z9K) 151
She's in orbit
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb) - Don't we have to define "she"? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (lR5Ug) 152
"She's in orbit, and there'll be another burn to give her the final push on the above trajectory."
--- The Paolo, he is familiar with this, how you say, trajectory. Posted by: The Paolo at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (2Ez/1) 153
145 Cholesterol has an unfair reputation. It is absolutely essential, and particularly for human development in children and the immune system. A “low fat” diet isn’t for everyone across the board. And the link between cholesterol and heart disease generally isn’t quite as simple as it sounds. “One size fits all” generally doesn’t.
Posted by: Common Tater True. The article is about people who have treatment-resistant high cholesterol regardless of lifestyle. This genetic scissoring fixes a specific condition for them, not for everyone. Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (BLOW1) 154
151 She's in orbit
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb) - Don't we have to define "she"? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (lR5Ug) We can't. --WNBA Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (odBC9) Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:48 AM (c/R9o) 156
I thought a Roman Coronagraph Instrument was a fancy name for a sundial... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
About time somebody brought it up. All kinds of speculation about getting Nancy Grace into space, but nobody thought about what the Romans would do with a telescope. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 07:49 AM (zdLoL) 157
For decades, I didn’t even know that PBR still existed. Then it suddenly became stylish again in southern Atlantic seaboard states (?).
I can’t tell the difference between ordinary American beers, but I rarely drink beer anymore. But I will order PBR with a meal to avoid bud light associated stuff. Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 07:49 AM (1FEc1) 158
I would be asleep but for the chaos snd civilizational breakdown in my part of the city tonight.
Posted by: San Franpsycho What??? Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Fv808) 159
One of the things that Roman is going to answer is are our cosmological models wrong. There have been some hints they are wrong -- see the Hubble Tension and a lesser well-known, although likely worse conflict, known as the S8 Tension. Those could be real or they could be some sort of systematic error. Not enough data to know for sure. Roman will provide the answer. I'm hoping we are wrong, that will be exciting. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:51 AM (w6EFb) 160
Just read what. You need imsta-tire traps. Or hills. Hills have a lot of advantages.
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 07:52 AM (Fv808) 161
140 You gonna target LLVM?
Posted by: alex Good question. Answer is no, or at least not directly. I'm planning two approaches there. First, it's a bytecode compiler, and the bytecode is instrumented specifically to support an optimising JIT compiler. Second, every feature in the language has a clearly defined equivalent in Rust, and Rust does target LLVM. So if you want static binary compilation the path is the build and test taking advantage of the far faster compiler, and then auto-translate into Rust. Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 07:53 AM (BLOW1) 162
“Eggs are bad for you” was pretty much taken as an article of faith in the 1970s and for years after. It was sad, because they are versatile and tasty and inexpensive. USDA lists them as “meat” in the handbook #8 and I suppose they are. Lots of good nutrients and minerals. High quality protein. Great way for people to get adequate nutrition for not a lot of money.
Margarine is just wretched stuff. Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (K55Yn) 163
Mission Control looks cool.
"Orbital insertion" confirmed. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (odBC9) 164
The human brain is 25% cholesterol.
The more cholesterol in a man's sperm is positively linked to higher sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility (movement), and normal morphology (shape). Posted by: The Mayo Clinic at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (yuEAg) 165
publius,
Based entirely on summary layman's descriptions of those Tensions and my love of sci-fi, I suspect we're mis-modeling because we're in a higher-order universe than we can perceive, with more dimensions. The 'flatland problem'. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (aJQbY) 166
155 Another successful launch.
I[t] was always such an incredible rush. God, I miss it. Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:48 AM (c/R9o) Glad you're here! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:55 AM (odBC9) 167
Well, the 2nd stage has done its job perfectly. Nancy Grace has near escape velocity. That's about 40K km/hr, you'll see Nancy made it to about 38K. Oh, I love it, I'm talking K k, kilo kilo. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:55 AM (w6EFb) 168
Worring about physics in a game where the MC does a Yamcha pose after creating a crater? This is a game where you web-sling like Spiderman. There are monsters and mechs. Along with rabbit and dragon girls.
If you want realism, there is Bodycam. Though that game will give you PTSD while fighting in the trenches in Ukraine. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (2GVsD) 169
154 151 She's in orbit
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb) - Don't we have to define "she"? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (lR5Ug) We can't. --WNBA Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (odBC9) ----------------- Don't look at me. Posted by: Kentaji Brown Jackson at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (eOFY+) 170
The human brain is 25% cholesterol.
The more cholesterol in a man's sperm is positively linked to higher sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility (movement), and normal morphology (shape). If this is no kidding legit correlation, I bet the anti-cholesterol crusade has been a contributer to the 'low virility problem' of recent decades. Timing roughly matches... Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (aJQbY) 171
Some of the old school working man beer brands were defunct. The hipsters resurrected them. PBR might actually be one of them. Grain Belt didn’t make the cut, maybe.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (K55Yn) 172
130 This launch is completely faked!
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM ---- The Flat Earthers went NUTS during the Artemis II launch, claiming it was a giant balloon among other absurdities. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:58 AM (FZ29D) 173
Orbital insertion is another service available from The Paolo. However it requires an, how you say, additional fee.
Posted by: The Paolo at August 30, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1) 174
The Flat Earth society has many members all around the globe!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:59 AM (K55Yn) 175
And Nancy Grace is free and on her way. Elon makes this all look like child's play. Nancy was talking to the ground and she's now charging her batteries via solar arrays, they said. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (w6EFb) 176
In addition to the Nashville airport, I think a major motorboat racing venue should be renamed after Dolly.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (1FEc1) 177
One of the things that Roman is going to answer is are our cosmological models wrong. There have been some hints they are wrong -- see the Hubble Tension and a lesser well-known, although likely worse conflict, known as the S8 Tension.
Those could be real or they could be some sort of systematic error. Not enough data to know for sure. Roman will provide the answer. I'm hoping we are wrong, that will be exciting. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:51 AM (w6EFb) --- We may very well be on the cusp of the next great revolution in physics...where we discover that the Standard Model is woefully inadequate. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (FZ29D) 178
174 The Flat Earth society has many members all around the globe!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:59 AM (K55Yn) ... um Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (odBC9) 179
7 I woke up this morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 *** How was that beer you had for dessert? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (wzUl9) 180
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:27 AM (lR5Ug
I hope that you had a lovely time. I would like to visit Mt. Hermon in Israel, but that rural area of Warren County is quite nice for a walk as well. I used to serve a church in Warren County. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (rHgXV) 181
Roman will be sending home "a terabyte of data a day" for its lifetime.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (odBC9) 182
I have high LDL (but not super high), high HDL, and very low trigs. I do eat a lot of cheese.
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (Fv808) 183
My favorite Flat Earthers (Flerfs for short) have to be CC, Chris from Westchester County, and Terry R. Eicher. CC has fabulous hair. He's getting in Mannix level there. Not Jack Lord, but he's getting to Mannix coif levels. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (w6EFb) 184
Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ) 185
- Some hints they are wrong.
Hints? Like in July of 2022? When this happened? https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475 Or later with this? https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352 Not stated in the 2nd vid but I read later on "they" hand waved it off with 'galaxies are smaller the further away they are.' Posted by: TeeJ at August 30, 2026 08:03 AM (eblO+) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (w6EFb) 187
Looks like TS Dolly fizzled out. But there are two areas of possible tropical activity, one is south of Mississippi in the Gulf. The other is aiming for the Bahamas.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (2GVsD) 188
>>> 101 W00t! Only 5 more assessments to grade this morning!
(Though several students haven't completed all their homework for the week--I told them on the first day of class how important it was to DO THE WORK...) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:10 AM (FZ29D) Reminds me of an old joke. Busty Breathless Blonde Co-ed: I'd do *anything* for an A! Professor: Would you.... study??? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 30, 2026 08:06 AM (+fdRY) 189
I suspect we're mis-modeling because we're in a higher-order universe than we can perceive, with more dimensions. The 'flatland problem'.
A book written in 1884! Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 08:06 AM (Fv808) 190
And Terry R. Eicher explains how NASA lies about the sun: https://t.ly/A1lSo To the Flerfs, NASA is like the Illuminati, the Root Evil, the "They" of all the conspiracies. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:07 AM (w6EFb) 191
190
Flerfs Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:07 AM (w6EFb) haha! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:08 AM (odBC9) 192
Here's CC's channel:
https://t.ly/Bpfzj Enjoy those lunatic rants. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (w6EFb) ---- SciManDan has a field day with these! CC's WAY out there. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (FZ29D) 193
Looks like TS Dolly fizzled out. But there are two areas of possible tropical activity, one is south of Mississippi in the Gulf. The other is aiming for the Bahamas.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 *** My local CBS outlet is saying we may be in for some storminess. The same website quotes someone at the 21st anniversary memorial of Katrina, "New Orleans never forgets." (Yeah, and it never learns, either) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9) 194
experimental gene altering infusion? great ....
Posted by: runner at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (g47mK) 195
25 It's going to launch on a Falcon 9 Heavy. The two side boosters will be recovered, but the main center one is going to be expendable (has to for the payload). L2 is technically still in Erf's gravity well, but not by much.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:04 AM (w6EFb) I only saw one of the side boosters land. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (odBC9) 196
Or, I guess what I saw land was the Falcon 9 Heavy!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:13 AM (odBC9) 197
>> I only saw one of the side boosters land.
FOr some reason, they only had footage of one, but they said the other one landed fine as well. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:13 AM (w6EFb) 198
197 >> I only saw one of the side boosters land.
FOr some reason, they only had footage of one, but they said the other one landed fine as well. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:13 AM (w6EFb) Ok, thanks! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:14 AM (odBC9) 199
Flerfs also love the Nikon P900 and P1000 "Super zoom" cameras. NASA forced Nikon to stop making those, you know, because they zoom in so much, they show there's no curvature! You're not a proper Flerf until you get one of those cameras. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:15 AM (w6EFb) 200
200
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:15 AM (odBC9) 201
The Flat Earth society has many members all around the globe!
The guy who owns my local cigar store is a Flat Earther and a moon landing denialist. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 08:16 AM (qRla/) 202
is it wrong to hope it rains so I don't have to spend the day under my son's derelict '03 Ranger replacing the brake line? Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2026 08:16 AM (AMvSw) 203
We may very well be on the cusp of the next great revolution in physics...where we discover that the Standard Model is woefully inadequate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel _______ "... and yet no one has ever been able to give any answer at all to the question, What proof have you that the uniformities which you call laws will not cease or alter tomorrow? In regard to this, our very highest probability, we are like a man rowing one way and looking another, and steering his boat by keeping her stern in a line with an object behind him." Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (XvL8K) 204
So many early Slade songs had misspelled titles. Were they illiterate?
Posted by: Curious And Just Axin' at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (JM9I6) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ) 206
There's a famous clip that CC himself posted of his wife getting enough of his crap. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (w6EFb) 207
The same website quotes someone at the 21st anniversary memorial of Katrina, "New Orleans never forgets." (Yeah, and it never learns, either)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9) Have you seen the TV ads for (I believe) CNNs 9/11 propaganda show? It's supposed to be interviews with survivors of the Twin Towers. I expect it to be nothing more than a bunch of phony flag-waving and heart-tugging music in order to ball-wash the Arab world and make Americans continue to forget the whole "War On Terror" was a gigantic Deep State psy-op. "Never Forget," my ass. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 08:19 AM (qRla/) 208
is it wrong to hope it rains so I don't have to spend the day under my son's derelict '03 Ranger replacing the brake line?
Posted by: AltonJackson Brake lines are kinda important. Best get to work. Posted by: Free Wheelin'! at August 30, 2026 08:19 AM (JM9I6) 209
Not techy, but nice
Dogs add extra security and comfort at a train station in England. I guess that the Muslims haven't complained yet: https://tinyurl.com/3jaahtex Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 08:20 AM (JrHfD) 210
This genetic scissoring fixes a specific condition for them, not for everyone.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (BLOW1) Sounds kinda gay when put that way... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK) 211
The guy who owns my local cigar store is a Flat Earther and a moon landing denialist.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing Turtles for the trifecta? Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 08:22 AM (Fv808) 212
Looking at
Wikipedia Falcon Heavy to learn about Falcon Heavy parts. There's also: Future launches August 30. 2026 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope NASA (Launch Services Program) US$255 million Infrared space telescope to be stationed at Sun-Earth L2. Soon to be updated! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:22 AM (odBC9) 213
Cup of coffee and awaiting for the Book thread
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 08:22 AM (Ia/+0) 214
Slade also wrote the song "Merry Christmas, Everybody" which Robbie Williams nicely covered a few years back.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) Slade never really caught on in the US but they tried. Never got any traction here which is weird because they were just like so many bands that did. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 30, 2026 08:24 AM (l26NL) 215
You know, forget about any of the technical considerations about Apollo.
Those guys were all combat veterans, experimental aircraft test-pilots. Higher, farther, faster. Egos? Yeah, I suppose. And they earned them. No way are you gonna get 50 of the top fighter jocks to participate in a Hoax. No chance Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 08:25 AM (K55Yn) 216
I do not like OpenAI. I have Grok because it's useful for search and image generation, Claude because it's useful for coding, and Gemini because... It comes with my Google account, really. ChatGPT I tried and canceled.
GPT-5.6 is as good or better than Claude on code tasks. And it's much less prone to spamming comments to infinity that beg you to accept what it's written. I distrust both major labs (they're both attempting to bait Trump into regulatory capture in order to hurt open source models) but they both make a good product. Posted by: Ian S. at August 30, 2026 08:25 AM (4XgaH) 217
Brake lines are kinda important. Best get to work. Posted by: Free Wheelin'! at August 30, 2026 08:19 AM agreed, if it was a daily driver, I'd be out there under the truck right now, regardless of the weather we're patching it up so we can sell it, so it's not quite urgent enough to work on in the rain Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2026 08:25 AM (AMvSw) 218
187 Looks like TS Dolly fizzled out. But there are two areas of possible tropical activity, one is south of Mississippi in the Gulf. The other is aiming for the Bahamas.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (2GVsD) The trannies have even ruined tropical storms... I read that first sentence wrong the first time I read it... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK) 219
- the "They"...
An attempt to lump me in with the ferfs and never went to the moon folks? I am neither. Nor is the PhD astrophysicist who did both of the vids I posted. He is the one who predicted not only all of those fully formed galaxies the JWST would show us at distances where "they" predicted immature ones but also their response. 1st vid. The 2nd is the apparent, angular size of galaxies the further away they are and what that does to the FLRW metric. Up to you whether you want to take an honest look at them. Posted by: TeeJ at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (eblO+) Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (c/R9o) 221
The only Slade tune I've ever heard on the radio was Run, Run Away. If that's even the title.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (XvL8K) 222
Trump is going after BIG PROCESSORS ! they thought they 'd gate away with their cartel pricing.
Posted by: runner at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (g47mK) 223
The Falcon 9 Heavy is basically three regular Falcon 9 boosters strapped together. And you have various levels of expendability. For the full Monty, everything expendable it can throw 70, tons to LEO, and about 18.5 tons to earth escape. Nancy Grace was almost escape, but didn't require the fully expendable config, only throw away the core booster. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (w6EFb) 224
Wonder if a smaller version like Falcon Lite would be cost savings?
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 08:28 AM (Ia/+0) 225
222 Trump is going after BIG PROCESSORS ! they thought they 'd gate away with their cartel pricing.
Posted by: runner at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (g47mK) Microprocessors would be easier to deal with... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK) 226
publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Musk must be very confident in StarShip to shut down Falcon 9. Is the smart move for Bezos to ditch the New Glenn and take over Falcon 9? Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ) 227
220 m,
"Soon to be updated!" Did you see my post @35? Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (c/R9o) I meant "updated" because today's mission was listed on Wikipedia as "future" and will be moved into the "Launches and payloads" list. I read your #35: 35 Sadly, it's that last Falcon Heavy manifested. He is betting on StarShip replacing ALL of the payloads for Heavy with the Falcon 9 to follow. I think Elon is way premature in announcing this. I can't believe Gwen didn't push back on this. He says he wants the company to focus on StarShip development. I hope he's just blowing hot air and not turning down customers and sending them to Blue . Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:16 AM (c/R9o) Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:32 AM (odBC9) 228
Oh they're definitely going for regulatory capture.
"Look how scary our models can be! You should regulate them! We just happen to have five hundred pages of suggestions they wrote for us!" Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 08:32 AM (aJQbY) 229
I don't know what to make of it, really, but they are winding down orders for Falcon 9. He's going all in for Starship. But it will take a while before Falcon is retired. The ISS missions certainly will continue with it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:33 AM (w6EFb) 230
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The Falcon 9 Heavy is basically three regular Falcon 9 boosters strapped together. And you have various levels of expendability. For the full Monty, everything expendable it can throw 70, tons to LEO, and about 18.5 tons to earth escape. Nancy Grace was almost escape, but didn't require the fully expendable config, only throw away the core booster. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (w6EFb) That makes it clear; thanks. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:33 AM (odBC9) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ) 233
I've never been on the Book Thread because I heard Lt. Bookman lurks there. I never returned several tomes in the 60s. I could never afford the late fees and fines.
Posted by: On a Very Fixed Income at August 30, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6) 234
You need imsta-tire traps. Or hills. Hills have a lot of advantages.
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 07:52 AM (Fv80 === My violent fantasies kept me from sleeping. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:37 AM (RIvkX) 235
233 I've never been on the Book Thread because I heard Lt. Bookman lurks there. I never returned several tomes in the 60s. I could never afford the late fees and fines.
Posted by: On a Very Fixed Income at August 30, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6) They just write it off. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:37 AM (odBC9) 236
BY contrast, the Saturn V could hoist 154 tons to LEO. The Saturn V remains the greatest rocket ever flown. Starship may take that, but not yet. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:40 AM (w6EFb) 237
I've done my workout, gotten cleaned up, and had breakfast. Waiting now for the Book Thread.
I might head out a little early to go to an AA meeting; haven't decided yet. The bunch last week seemed like a good group. Groups vary: Some are more joyful, some less. This group seemed the former. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:40 AM (wzUl9) 238
I'm tired of hearing the word "equity" used for equality or equal justice.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (b4LBp) 239
Capitalist Mark Cuban is supporting the manly Talarico. Whoever said Cuban is the dumbest billionaire ever is correct
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc) 240
I've never been on the Book Thread because I heard Lt. Bookman lurks there. I never returned several tomes in the 60s. I could never afford the late fees and fines.
Posted by: On a Very Fixed Income at August 30, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6) ===== This Book Thread has been flagged. Posted by: Barnes & Noble at August 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX) 241
Need to get ready for my walk with the fast-paced widow.
Posted by: NaCly Dog I must admit, fast women have always fascinated me. Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (iUToW) 242
I've been receiving long commentary texts lately from a friend. I'm convinced these are ChatGPT products. I do not believe he is writing these; but he is representing them as his. I have the same suspicion with some business correspondences I've been receiving. Are we becoming people who can no longer authentically communicate?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (b4LBp) 243
Whoever said Cuban is the dumbest billionaire ever is correct
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc) ==== Mark Cuban is proof-positive that even the very stupid can succeed in America. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (RIvkX) 244
Episodes of the most recent season of All Creatures Great and Small will be on my local PBS station this pm. A good way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9) 245
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (b4LBp)
===== Hey, it's not like he didn't read it first before sending it to you. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX) 246
Need to get ready for my walk with the fast-paced widow.
Posted by: NaCly Dog * I must admit, fast women have always fascinated me. Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2026 *** Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money! It's the way to go! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:46 AM (wzUl9) 247
239 Capitalist Mark Cuban is supporting the manly Talarico. Whoever said Cuban is the dumbest billionaire ever is correct
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc) Stupidity, moral bankruptcy, or both? Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:47 AM (b4LBp) 248
242 I've been receiving long commentary texts lately from a friend. I'm convinced these are ChatGPT products.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (b4LBp) #metoo from a friend who is not a native English speaker and whose texts are Englishier than before. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:47 AM (odBC9) 249
Street Racing - even here in sedate Tyler, I hear it every Friday and Saturday night. I live about 4 blocks from a major east-west corridor which connects to a large junior college (TJC) about a mile away. I figure that’s the source of the excitement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 08:48 AM (GWwCk) 250
Capitalist Mark Cuban is supporting the manly Talarico. Whoever said Cuban is the dumbest billionaire ever is correct
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 * Stupidity, moral bankruptcy, or both? Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 *** Embrace the healing power of "and." Or even, "Yes." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:48 AM (wzUl9) 251
I'm tired of hearing the word "equity" used for equality or equal justice.
——- Don’t worry, what they really mean by that is “Revenge”, never mind for something you’re not guilty of, you must be punished Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 08:50 AM (K55Yn) 252
Street Racing - even here in sedate Tyler, I hear it every Friday and Saturday night. I live about 4 blocks from a major east-west corridor which connects to a large junior college (TJC) about a mile away. I figure that’s the source of the excitement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 08:48 AM (GWwCk) ===== I do not want the SFPD to arrest a 17 year old opening up his 6 cyl Toyota once in a while on an empty straightaway at 2 am. But this went on for about 90 minutes. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX) 253
Episodes of the most recent season of All Creatures Great and Small will be on my local PBS station this pm. A good way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere The new season starts mid January. Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 08:53 AM (lJ0H4) 254
Episodes of the most recent season of All Creatures Great and Small will be on my local PBS station this pm. A good way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere * The new season starts mid January. Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 *** Mid-winter: a perfect time to watch a charming drama with humor about 1940s Yorkshire. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:55 AM (wzUl9) 255
It’s comical now - Tucker’s latest rant is so bizarre that it’s really just comical. I guess he was annoyed at the way Candace had been dominating the Crazy Train.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 08:57 AM (GWwCk) 256
G'mornin' everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 08:59 AM (VyBeY) 257
Upthread someone mentioned CNN preparing some good old propaganda to commemorate the upcoming 9/11 anniversary.
For me, as we sit here on September Eve of 2026, this raises some questions. People still watch TV? People still pay for cable or satellite? People still watch CNN? At some point, CNN becomes about as well known as an obscure podcast produced by an old guy in Wisconsin who obsesses over antique cream separators. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1) 258
Books upstairs.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS) 259
Noodus biblioteca
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (wzUl9) 260
Grab your reading glasses and head upstairs.
BOOK NOOD Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Sixth Grad Graduate at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (JM9I6) Saturday Night Club ONT - August 29, 2026 [Disco & Dino]![]() ----- A Republican, a Libertarian, and a Democrat are captured by a cannibal tribe in a dense jungle. The tribe chief gives them a final chance to save their lives: “Go into the jungle and bring back ten pieces of any single fruit you can find.” The Republican returns first with ten apples. The chief says: “Now, if you can shove all ten apples up your ass without making any sound or expression on your face, we won’t eat you.” The Republican manages one, but at the second apple, he winces in pain. The tribe eats him. The Libertarian returns next with ten tiny berries. The chief gives him the same rule. The Libertarian gets to the ninth berry with complete silence… but suddenly, right before the tenth one, he bursts out laughing hysterically! The tribe eats him too. In heaven, the Republican meets the Libertarian and asks: “Dude, you were so close! Why on earth did you laugh on the last berry?” The Libertarian replies: “I couldn’t help it… I saw the Democrat coming back with ten watermelons!” ![]() 1/2 oz. Malibu Rum 1/2 oz. Blue Curacao 3/4 oz. Midori 2 1/2 oz. Pineapple Juice 2 oz. Sweet and Sour Mix Instructions - Combine over ice cubes in a highball glass. Despite the name, it contains no cannabis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Club ONT Department of Smooth 70s Products
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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (zMzlR) 2
Good eveing good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (iUToW) 3
Behold, the power of the Internet, a world wide web of wonders, so we may gather here and pretend to be drinking at a bar.
Posted by: mindful webworker - etc at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (ie4vn) 4
Yay, ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (+9wcF) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (pMmVV) 6
YAY ONT!!! Now for the content!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (zMzlR) 7
hi!
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (286+n) 8
Good evening dear morons and Слава Двоим!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX) 9
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (AdHga) 10
1/2 oz. Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum - Maybe
1/2 oz. Malibu Rum - No 1/2 oz. Blue Curacao - No 3/4 oz. Midori - No 2 1/2 oz. Pineapple Juice - OK 2 oz. Sweet and Sour Mix - Meh Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX) 11
Greetings Club Overnight Open Thread from somewhere east of Albuquerque....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:03 PM (9uADs) 12
So many disturbing things about that last photo.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 29, 2026 10:04 PM (lHPJf) 13
Evening all.
Time to do the Bible reading, 'exercise' (working on range of motion for my knees on the exercise bike), then shower and bed. The jokes are oldies but goodies Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:04 PM (aJQbY) 14
Bers, righteous "customer is always wrong" rant
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Minx 0.8 beta at August 29, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov) 16
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (zMzlR)
===== How is Mrs. Kerry? I hope she had a good birthday. Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX) 17
Miklos pwned Comments of the Week
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:08 PM (4Je4D) 19
Miklos, how much are you paying to get so many hits in the top-tenish?
Posted by: mindful webworker - and in what currency? at August 29, 2026 10:09 PM (ie4vn) 20
Towns and cities could get a lot more support for municipal projects if they had a little more imagination.
My proposal for Keizer Oregon's water tower, since it is a round blob faring gently into a tapering base, was to paint it pepto-bismol pink, and surround it with a transparent enclosure with a bullet top, and call it the worlds largest Lava Lamp Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:09 PM (rbvCR) 21
Jelly Roll: "Watch me set my career on fire."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:10 PM (4Je4D) Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 29, 2026 10:10 PM (+9wcF) 23
In unrelated news, be on the lookout for a stolen truck full of PBR
We done tole y'all people Snitches get stitches From Nurse Ratched when she's having a bad, bad day. If yer lucky Posted by: Beer Molls Marleen, Darleen, and Charleen at August 29, 2026 10:11 PM (4RYRd) 24
How is Mrs. Kerry? I hope she had a good birthday.
Thanks! Mrs NotKerry is doing better, but will be spending one more night in the hospital before coming home tomorrow (Sunday). The nausea is gone, which is the biggest thing. She had some cardiovascular reactions to some meds today, but those have also subsided. Her body just does not like drugs. She did receive some fun videos from the grandchildren which were very sweet. We will be properly celebrating her birthday when she is fully recovered. Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (zMzlR) 25
*follows the links*
No, no, it was 'grave'. I *heard it*. Annnd... we couldn't afford enough 8-tracks to buy a tape selector. We did have something similar for cassette tapes in the 80s, I think! Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (aJQbY) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD) 27
A truck can hold over 50,000 cans of beer worth about $45,000.
That might be what it costs, but 50K cans of PBR ain't worth that much. Unrelatedly, what's the recycle value of 50K aluminum cans? Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov) 28
I feel like I should get this meme, but it's just not clicking for me.
https://bit.ly/what-are-this Posted by: mindful webworker - there at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ie4vn) 29
In unrelated news, be on the lookout for a stolen truck full of PBR near Montclair, California (east of LA, near Claremont and Pomona and Ontario). A truck can hold over 50,000 cans of beer worth about $45,000.
----------- More like $250.00 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (4Je4D) 30
Keizer Oregon's water tower is the Chemawa Station Water Tower, and it is at N 45° 00.091 W 123° 00.071
N 45° 00 W 123° 00 is about 50 feet away at the municipal baseball field. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (2GVsD) 32
Miklos has clearly been hitting the tip jar.
Well done. Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2WIwB) 33
Evenin’, All. Happy Saturday night.
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ) 34
mindful webworker - I was wondering the same. They're not crash-test dummies... at least, not the ones I recall... even though their belts look like seatbelts.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (aJQbY) 35
I feel like I should get this meme, but it's just not clicking for me.
https://bit.ly/what-are-this Posted by: mindful webworker - there at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ie4vn) This are Devo. Apparently they just found out they are the new wave. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (rbvCR) 37
I've seen blue Moose and pink Elephants, not usually when I'm loaded, just later when I'm detoxing.
Also, seen Punkin Heads comin' at me. Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (JM9I6) 38
How youse mooks doin' ?
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (ZxPkt) 39
Miklos pwned Comments of the Week
Posted by: San Franpsycho It says right there, "aka Miklos and friends" On the downside (for Miklos), I got 3 of them, so now he's been accused of having me as a friend. Posted by: mikeski dangerfield at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov) 40
The Egyptians made better beer than PBR.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D) 41
No I am the Highway by Audioslave?
You could have at least dropped Tom Cochrane Life is a Highway. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (ftFVW) 42
Stealing a beer truck is a prank. You park it in front of a party and let anybody and everybody have their way. To be young is to be foolish.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (nlLAo) 43
Kindltot, okay, I was never into music videos back then, so... missed that apparently.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (aJQbY) 44
"The beer that made Abydos famous"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (4Je4D) 45
Quiet day here at Schloss Hadrian. Meanwhile in Ioway, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed at the Tri-City KC show. His win pushes him above 700 Grand Champion points, just 100 short of what he needs to reach Platinum level. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i) 46
I feel like I should get this meme, but it's just not clicking for me.
https://bit.ly/what-are-this Posted by: mindful webworker - there at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ie4vn) Didn't the band Devo dress like that in a video? Posted by: Will Robinson at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (rHvvN) 47
3 ...pretend to be drinking at a bar.
Posted by: mindful webworker - etc at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (ie4vn) So...you're all just pretending? There isn't really a bar somewhere? JQ doesn't really serve up drinks? There's no Moose doorman screening out unruly wanna-bes? I've been roaming the G-D country in this stinkin' RV for the last month FOR NOTHING???? Next you'll tell me there really is (are?) no Darleen, Marlene and Charlene?... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (9uADs) 48
36 I am into Antonin Dvorak.
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (77rzZ) 49
36 I am surrounded by people who were either into metal or the BeeGees.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (rbvCR) ABBA has entered the room. Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB) 50
Herself is gone to an event tomorrow. So I'll do Anchovy pizza with garlic stuffed olives on the grill. These opportunities have to be taken advantage of. Posted by: Auspex at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (Y8DZL) 51
...and call it the worlds largest Lava Lamp
Speaking of which, I know lava lamps are still sold but how do they work now without incandescent bulbs? Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (vTZFs) 52
Blue Moose would be a boon to Highway Safety.
Posted by: NTSB at August 29, 2026 10:19 PM (JM9I6) Posted by: Milosov Miklosevich, Ancient Salvonaut Theorist at August 29, 2026 10:19 PM (4RYRd) 54
Egyptian beer saved the Human race from extinction once.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD) 55
Good evening Horde. Enjoy your time at Club ONT!
Posted by: TRex - neon PBR sign dino at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (XfIK1) Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (/2SkZ) Posted by: Classical music aficionado Floyd the Barber at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD) 59
18 Miklos dominates the Comments of the Week. Way to go, Miklos! *I knew him when he was a nobody* Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:08 PM (4Je4D) I’m proud that I was able to throw a nice slow pitch over the plate for him to hit. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 10:21 PM (GWwCk) 60
I could’ve lived lived my whole life without rock music.
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:21 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 29, 2026 10:22 PM (F5T1n) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++) 63
Dare I say that the ONT curating this evening displays subtle hints of inspiration, if not genius?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:23 PM (4Je4D) 64
Dare I say that the ONT curating this evening displays subtle hints of inspiration, if not genius?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) Double plus whelm? Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ftFVW) 65
It’s Miklos Night!
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ) 66
Good evening Horde. Enjoy your time at Club ONT!
Posted by: TRex - neon PBR sign dino I slipped the Blue Moose out front 30 simoleons Got one of those 21+ plastic wristbands All is cool, Mr. Dude Sir Posted by: underage ...um...yeah...Miklosomething at August 29, 2026 10:24 PM (4RYRd) 67
Dare I say that the ONT curating this evening displays subtle hints of inspiration, if not genius?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:23 PM (4Je4D) *** *drains glass* *burps* What??? Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:25 PM (2WIwB) Posted by: mindful webworker - devolved at August 29, 2026 10:25 PM (ie4vn) 69
Miklos' clever blend of sarcasm and bitter Magyar humor have made him a moron favorite. Together with his coterie of Waffle House waitresses he always brings fun to every thread with mimicry, mockery, and sockery.
-Grok GPT Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX) 70
Mmm. Waffle House waitresses.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (4Je4D) 71
Last time Miklos was underage, Truman was President.
Posted by: One Geezer To Another at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (JM9I6) 72
It’s Miklos Night!
Posted by: Piper Inform the Lay-ties *blasts Kool and the Gang while rollin' up in the '87 Cadillac* Posted by: And it's feelin right, oh what a Night at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (4RYRd) 73
Happy Club ONT, Disco and Dino!
Love the T Rex bread offering at the snack bar! That shows ingenuity! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1) 74
Well, I'm going to say it. If you thought it a good idea to put tattoos on your face, you shouldn't be making career decisions without a guardian.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske) 75
I am into Antonin Dvorak.
I could’ve lived lived my whole life without rock music. Posted by: Bulg Can't we all just get along? https://youtu.be/oTmcd0NU7UU Posted by: rock music at August 29, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov) 76
Meanwhile in Ioway, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed at the Tri-City KC show. His win pushes him above 700 Grand Champion points, just 100 short of what he needs to reach Platinum level.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i) Tell your wife I'm waving in her direction (everything of note in this state is south and/or east of me). Posted by: pookysgirl's husband has a smart Goldie at August 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Wt5PA) 77
Last time Miklos was underage, Truman was President.
Posted by: One Geezer To Another Fukker still owes me a beer Posted by: Miklos figures it's not like they didn't make beer in Missouri at August 29, 2026 10:28 PM (4RYRd) 78
So...you're all just pretending? There isn't really a bar somewhere?…
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue No, no, it's just me. Doctor's orders after the last surgery. Yes, Virginia, there is a club ONT. Posted by: mindful webworker - the moose is an animatronic, though at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (ie4vn) 79
I hope Jelly Roll inspires millions of retards to also tattoo their faces, for easy identification.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX) 80
Go Big Dummy!
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (ZdaMQ) 81
Posted by: Miklos figures it's not like they didn't make beer in Missouri at August 29, 2026 10:28 PM (4RYRd) __________ Wrong end of the state. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (O0L8i) 82
A few hours from now, dozens of people will be pulled over leaving a bar, wearing the 21+wristbands. Makes the cops job easy.
Posted by: Finna Get Out The Car... at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (JM9I6) 83
If I got a face tattoo it would say, "Not Giving a Fvck Even As You Speak"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX) 84
45 The Big Dummy was Best of Breed at the Tri-City KC show. His win pushes him above 700 Grand Champion points, just 100 short of what he needs to reach Platinum level.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i) So a couple of weeks ago wife and I are eating sandwiches inBuc-ee's parking in Springfield, Mo. Parked next to us are a man and woman, both 29ish in a red Ford F-series towing a utility trailer. They had two small dogs that looked alike and one large dog who looked like he could be a big dummy....they took the dogs to the dog walk area. I was tempted to go over and ask if the largeish dog was a big dummy... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (9uADs) 85
The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n) Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:31 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Miklos has no Personal Brand where generally visible at August 29, 2026 10:31 PM (4RYRd) 88
The Big Dummy is bringin' it!
Well done! Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:31 PM (2WIwB) 89
Speaking of misheard lyrics, AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" would be banned from radio (and AC/DC probably denied work visas here) if they were what I thought I heard:
Livin' easy. Livin' free. She's a n***** on a one-way ride. Ask for nothin'. Leave me be. Takin' everythin'-a in my stride. Don't need reason. Don't need rhyme. Ain't nothin' Id-a rather do. Goin' down. For the time. My friends are gonna be there too. (Chorus) No stop signs. Speed limit. Nobody gonna slow 'er down. Look a wheel. Gonna spin 'er. Nobody's gonna mess me around. Sensation. Damn the J***. Playin' in a rockin' band. Hey momma, look at me. I'm on my way to the promised land. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Fv808) 90
I don't think you wanna eat a blue moose.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2026 10:32 PM (diia5) 91
Truman like day drinking.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX) 92
Wrong end of the state.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Is there a "right" or "wrong" end? namaste Posted by: Devout Brother James Talarico at August 29, 2026 10:33 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:34 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: MAxIE at August 29, 2026 10:34 PM (9DOTQ) 95
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 29, 2026 10:22 PM
Hey Tim, ping me at my Posted by nic at the yahoo dot com. I have a question for you. Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (4NO2D) 96
Well, I can certainly see why I don't make the "Comments of the week" roster.
How does one draw boobs? There has to be a course out there. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (CHHv1) 97
The Egyptians made better beer than PBR.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D) Is that what the pyramids were for? Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (vSvIl) 98
Sounds like someone is doing a Smoky And The Bandit remake, but using PBR just doesn't cut it. Now Buffalo Trace would be a nice change.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD) 100
The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris If they get away with it, they deserve a Blue Ribbon Posted by: Miklos' Big Mouth, not to be confused with Rolling Rock ponies at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (4RYRd) 101
err, without the copyright
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 10:36 PM (4NO2D) 102
Well, I'm going to say it. If you thought it a good idea to put tattoos on your face, you shouldn't be making career decisions without a guardian.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske) And no one should be listening to any opinion a clown-ass mutherfugger like that has about anyone or anything. And that includes fat-ass actress bitches who leave the country then whine their way back here. Sod off, swampies. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: toby928 at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (4NO2D) 104
The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris Should have hazmat placards. That shit is awful. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (cIy7m) 105
I erred in the error in that Miklos Darleen quote above. Testicles the Great was only off by 20 times, or around 1 order of magnitude when he calculated the distance to the sun. Error in the error, I did make. Testicles did all that measuring of the earth and Moon and all after his wife Ovariae caught him in a little "Socratic dialogue" with that trollop Clitorides. He was trying to hide as far away from Ovariae as he could, and was working out distances. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb) 106
The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n) They claim not, but who the flying would steal Pabst to drink??!! Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z) 107
PBR or liquid mustard gas?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:39 PM (77rzZ) 109
Blue moose
You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Blue moose You knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 10:39 PM (GWwCk) 110
93 Piper, have you seen the latest revelations about kale?
I’m sorry: Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:34 PM That is only excessive consumption of raw kale. It is still a nutrient rich food, vit A, K, fiber, etc. I am not on any meds at all, so nothing to interfere with there, we are all going to be okay. Oh, and the bloating is if you go from zero to 100 with a high fiber food. 😊 Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ) 111
They claim not, but who the flying would steal Pabst to drink??!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt Good Samaritan trying to save others? Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW) 112
Why is Christopher Lloyd groping the butt of the dead cook?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (2GVsD) 113
80 Go Big Dummy!
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (ZdaMQ) Hadrian - VERY COOL! Piper! Kylie Cantrell just had a short video from one of her concerts. My favourite female accessory. Waist jewelry!! So I thought of you. Of course, she's also 18 or 19 and has occasional videos of her up at 7am doing ab work... That helps... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (syz1S) 115
104 The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris Should have hazmat placards. That shit is awful. -------- Once I had a six-pack of PBR on the front seat of my car. While I was parked in front of the post office buying some stamps, some prick broke through the passenger side window and left three more six-packs. *rimshot* Don't forget to tip your waitress, and try the veal. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (4Je4D) Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (r7+Q7) 117
Good Samaritan trying to save others?
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW) Couldn't they have just set fire to the truck? Get hot enough then the cans would explode, but the foam could put out the flames. No muss, no fuss. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z) 118
Wow, Piper’s kale cult remains active.
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:43 PM (77rzZ) 119
The Egyptians made better beer than PBR.
Posted by: Cicero FUN FACT In Diocletian's Price Edict of 301 AD, two kinds of Egyptian beer are mentioned (with the allowed maximum price). The lower quality beer was called "booza". Posted by: Miklos with an Actual for Real You Guys Fact at August 29, 2026 10:44 PM (4RYRd) 120
Wow, Piper’s kale cult remains active.
Posted by: Bulg There's always an explanation with cults. Especially the food kind. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:44 PM (ftFVW) Posted by: Miklos attempts an offering at August 29, 2026 10:45 PM (4RYRd) 122
They claim not, but who the flying would steal Pabst to drink??!!
A Gen-Zer who didn't get the word that the "I like crappy beer ironically" fad has passed its 15 minutes. Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:46 PM (vTZFs) 123
So I thought of you. Of course, she's also 18 or 19 and has occasional videos of her up at 7am doing ab work... That helps... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b) 18 and 19 is definitely in the rear view mirror! But at the risk of sounding obnoxious and vain, my abs aren’t too shabby for how far in the rear view mirror 19 is, and 3 kids. We don’t have to discuss the rest of me, though. 😂 Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ) 124
Maybe the Zizzians need some PBR for a very dark and evil summoning?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD) 125
30 Keizer Oregon's water tower is the Chemawa Station Water Tower, and it is at N 45° 00.091 W 123° 00.071
N 45° 00 W 123° 00 is about 50 feet away at the municipal baseball field. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR) What, no sign? I remember well that OR is probably the only place I have been that has 45 degrees north indicated with highway signage - halfway between the North Pole and the Equator. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (jPziU) 126
He was trying to hide as far away from Ovariae as he could, and was working out distances.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley yep Same with Darleen sometimes Posted by: Miklos siphoned the gas from her truck a couple of times at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (4RYRd) 127
I had an 8 track in my first car, a 68 Ford Torino 500 fastback, but didn't really like it. So I got a cassette insert that plugged into the 8 track. It worked fine.
Posted by: Ancient Motorist at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (JM9I6) 128
In Diocletian's Price Edict of 301 AD, two kinds of Egyptian beer are mentioned (with the allowed maximum price).
--------- Hence Diocletian's reputation as the Richard Nixon of the Roman Empire. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (4Je4D) 129
70 Mmm. Waffle House waitresses.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (4Je4D) Slumpbuster central. Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:50 PM (jPziU) 130
If we're talking about excessive consumption.
Two Thursdays ago in my part of Canada, stuff was on sale. And I love fresh fruit and veggies. -3 watermelons - $3.97 each. I cut one for the neighbors, ate one and the second was cut up today. -10 pounds of carrots - $4.99 Can - in the downstairs fridge. -20 pounds of beets - - $4.99 Can per 10lb bag - downstairs fridge. -1/4 bushel of green bell peppers - about 30 of them - $10.88 Can - I ate 3 or 4 a day - three left. -25 pounds of Roma tomatoes - $8.88 Can - c'mon, that's a kick ass price. about 10 a day. Most gone - about 60 left. I'll be fine with frozen and canned stuff through winter after this.... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Sco7b) 131
I was today years old when I found out the lyrics were not "kiss from a rose on the grave"...
Next you'll tell me Elton John wasn't singing, "Hold me closer, Tony Danza...count the head lice on the highway" Or the Eurythmics weren't singing, "Sweet dreams are made of cheese...who has a mind to dis a brie"... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l3cgK) 132
That missing PBR truck is a little over 30 minutes of production
Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (RqfTw) 133
18 and 19 is definitely in the rear view mirror! But at the risk of sounding obnoxious and vain, my abs aren’t too shabby for how far in the rear view mirror 19 is, and 3 kids. We don’t have to discuss the rest of me, though. 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ) I'm sure working out helps. And healthy eating... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: a guy in the Northwest Territories at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (4RYRd) 135
Next you'll tell me there really is (are?) no Darleen, Marlene and Charlene?...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (9uADs) There IS such a thing as Charlene!!! Posted by: Pvt Pyle at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (jPziU) 136
Idaho has a couple of 45th parallel signs. One on Highway 95, and another on Highway 93.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 29, 2026 10:53 PM (FY/Px) 137
Next you'll tell me there really is (are?) no Darleen, Marlene and Charlene?...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (9uADs) Too late Marlene. Posted by: Duran Duran at August 29, 2026 10:53 PM (jPziU) 138
the head lice on the highway"
Or the Eurythmics weren't singing, "Sweet dreams are made of cheese...who has a mind to dis a brie"... ---------- Is he still dancing with the chicken slacks? Posted by: Sam Cooke at August 29, 2026 10:53 PM (4Je4D) 139
Or the Eurythmics weren't singing, "Sweet dreams are made of cheese...who has a mind to dis a brie"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l3cgK) I cheddar the world and feta cheese Everybody’s looking for Stetson Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:54 PM (jPziU) 140
Don't bring me down.
Posted by: Bruce! at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (JM9I6) 141
130 If we're talking about excessive consumption.
Two Thursdays ago in my part of Canada, stuff was on sale. And I love fresh fruit and veggies. -3 watermelons - $3.97 each. I cut one for the neighbors, ate one and the second was cut up today. -10 pounds of carrots - $4.99 Can - in the downstairs fridge. -20 pounds of beets - - $4.99 Can per 10lb bag - downstairs fridge. -1/4 bushel of green bell peppers - about 30 of them - $10.88 Can - I ate 3 or 4 a day - three left. -25 pounds of Roma tomatoes - $8.88 Can - c'mon, that's a kick ass price. about 10 a day. Most gone - about 60 left. I'll be fine with frozen and canned stuff through winter after this.... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Sco7b) Who cares? Posted by: PM Carney at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (jPziU) 142
127 I had an 8 track in my first car, a 68 Ford Torino 500 fastback, but didn't really like it. So I got a cassette insert that plugged into the 8 track. It worked fine.
Posted by: Ancient Motorist at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (JM9I6) Dad's 64 Ford Econoline only had a radio...Dad installed an 8-track back in the early-to-mid 70's...the 'best' part was when a song went to the next track, with the interruption as it switched... The '84 Ford Club Wagon had a cassette player installed from the factory...the cassette from Ford had "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics...surprised that the cassette wasn't burned by my folks giving the obvious nature of the song. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (l3cgK) 143
Open Blogger,
Maybe my mind is too innocent or something, but I have no clue why most of the "comments of the week" are chosen. Although I must say the one about Democrat cities and blue hair makes it all worthwhile. :-) Also, no clue about the Jelly Roll meme. Posted by: bradc at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (frcSa) Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runners at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (4Je4D) Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 10:56 PM (rdVOm) 146
Gotta go. Remember, if you get caught sharing at Waffle House, you will be severely punished.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:56 PM (jPziU) 147
Bathroom is on the right.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (2GVsD) 148
Maybe the Zizzians need some PBR for a very dark and evil summoning?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD) I thought the Zizzians drank Zima on ZZyzx Road? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z) 149
We had Jimmy Faila's show on -- Mama really likes him for some reason. He had this "real or fake news" thing he does, where he quotes a headline and the panel has to judge if it's fake or real. He announced scientists have discovered the world's oldest fossilized butthole. It was real. Well, sort of. I was a 290 million year old fossilized cloaca from some ancient little lizard. And they found it in Germany. Which figures. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (w6EFb) 150
I cheddar the world and feta cheese
Everybody’s looking for Stetson Posted by: Cow Demon he meant Stilton Posted by: Late Nite Copy Editor Miklos at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (4RYRd) 151
>>Greetings Club Overnight Open Thread from somewhere east of Albuquerque....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan Dude.. DON'T make a left at Albuquerque! (Unless you really *want* to go to Las Cruces, or May-hee-ko) Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm) 152
Praise and Hail Schlürpo
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (jPziU) 153
104 The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris __________________________ Well, let's hope not, because that's just asking for something stupid to happen. Even if it isn't a stunt, it's not a wise approach. It takes for granted that everyone is of average intelligence and sound judgement. Everyone is not of average intelligence, and fewer and fewer seem to have sound judgement. BONUS: It's California, so take average intelligence and subtract 20 points. Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (dIske) 154
Gotta go. Remember, if you get caught sharing at Waffle House, you will be severely punished.
New meaning to smothered and covered? Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD) 155
144 Too late Marlene.
--------- Come on, Eileen! Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runners at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (4Je4D) They played "Jump" so I jumped. Then they played 'The Twist', so I twisted. Then they played 'Come On Eileen', so I got kicked out. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (l3cgK) 156
I had no idea that song was by Seal.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (Fv808) Posted by: Miklos recalls the Maple Leaf Bar in Noo Awlins at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (4RYRd) 158
Rain is so dang rare this summer I now get sleepy. We've had rain off and on for August and I am thankful and sleepy this weekend. I will probably be sleepy til it's time for bed.
I love Seal's Kiss from a Rose. Always. Like Cream's Badge it makes no difference to me that the lyrics make not a lot of sense. I sing them wrong most of the time anyway as life is no karaoke, bruh. I sing them loud, proud and wrong. Blinded by the Night will always be, "dressed up like a douche and running in the night." Douche is one of the favorite words my LI bf/husband taught me. Love Kenny Loggins and the song for Top Gun and the movie. Thanks for the ONT. We newlyweds saw a concert by Kenny Loggins in a small university theater after I rushed to get off work early as charge RN. After a really bad horror half shift that I had to forget to enjoy the concert which was very good. Pity I still remember that shift as it was not buried forever. Good night, y'all. Danny's Song we related to a year later...poor &happy Kenny Loggins 1971: https://tinyurl.com/ynyhxr55 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (hzuYO) 159
150 I cheddar the world and feta cheese
Everybody’s looking for Stetson Posted by: Cow Demon he meant Stilton Posted by: Late Nite Copy Editor Miklos at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (4RYRd) That’s what the bloody chalkboard said!!! Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (jPziU) 160
Just have to say, we need the blue moose for the TxMoMe.
And I love the water tower with the cow.That would make me smile every day. I never knew what he was singing: grave makes so much more sense than grey! Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (286+n) 161
They played "Jump" so I jumped. Then they played 'The Twist', so I twisted.
Then they played 'Come On Eileen', so I got kicked out. ---------- *SNORT* Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runners at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (4Je4D) 162
That missing PBR truck is a little over 30 minutes of production
Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (RqfTw) That about the same amount of time to reprocess it? Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z) 163
151 >>Greetings Club Overnight Open Thread from somewhere east of Albuquerque....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan Dude.. DON'T make a left at Albuquerque! (Unless you really *want* to go to Las Cruces, or May-hee-ko) Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm) Oh, it was MUCH worse for Bugs Bunny...he even ended up on the wrong continent after the left turn at Albuquerque... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (l3cgK) 164
It was real. Well, sort of. I was a 290 million year old fossilized cloaca from some ancient little lizard.
Still doesn't rule out Chuck Schumer. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD) 165
156 I had no idea that song was by Seal.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (Fv80 And I don't think there were any horns in the song either... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK) 166
There IS such a thing as Charlene!!!
Posted by: Pvt Pyle at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (jPziU) And a Bunny! Posted by: Gunny Carter at August 29, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z) 167
Is Bunny Lake missing?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD) 168
Everyone is not of average intelligence, and fewer and fewer seem to have sound judgement.
Posted by: Orson The ONT exists for a Reason *tequila shots are Nature's intellectual equalizer* Posted by: Miklos wonders if lack of bar staff means it's all free at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (4RYRd) 169
MS Now had people REALLY upset by the Venezuela oil deal. Colonization and dictator were thrown around. The crazy is strong there.
Great news!! Amanpour has an hour in the early afternoon on CNN!! Sexy. And there are a lot of reports that Carney blew up the trade talks to be TOUGH with the US and President Trump so the liberals would win an October election in Quebec. Yeah stupid move if true. I hope President Trump brings the pain to create good men and women. I'm set for food. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (Sco7b) 170
depends
Sitters or Standers? Posted by: Miklos recalls the Maple Leaf Bar in Noo Awlins If you've got Depends, why look for the bathroom? Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 11:03 PM (ftFVW) 171
168 Everyone is not of average intelligence, and fewer and fewer seem to have sound judgement.
Posted by: Orson The ONT exists for a Reason *tequila shots are Nature's intellectual equalizer* Posted by: Miklos wonders if lack of bar staff means it's all free at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (4RYRd) Oh, it just means the level of what is considered average has dropped. Idiocracy, here we come! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:03 PM (l3cgK) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (O0L8i) 173
Stateless, never hurts to have a little bit more than you plan on. Be it food, booze, or ammo.
I guess Carney is in the "I will cut my nose off to spite my face" mode. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD) 174
Is Bunny Lake missing?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD) No, it's just off Warren Street. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (1Ff7Z) 175
State officials are talking about naming the Nashville airport after Dolly Parton, I see. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (w6EFb) 176
Is For Announce
Unbreakable Pact of Friendship and Non-Aggression between Kingdom of Miklos and mikeski-stan Posted by: Miklos, Friend of All Noble mikeski Peoples at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (4RYRd) 177
173 Stateless, never hurts to have a little bit more than you plan on. Be it food, booze, or ammo.
I guess Carney is in the "I will cut my nose off to spite my face" mode. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD) The nuns at convents that did this to prevent the Vikings from raping them had much more exigent circumstances to do that than Carney does. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK) 178
State officials are talking about naming the Nashville airport after Dolly Parton, I see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (w6EFb) ----------- I can't wait to see the new terminal design. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (4Je4D) 179
Oh dear, Yvette just got the rope.
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (ZxPkt) 181
Stateless-- you got some VERY good deals on produce! Bell peppers were "on sale" here for $1.25USD each..ugh.
KungFlu ruined local farmers markets & they haven't returned. Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm) 182
173 Stateless, never hurts to have a little bit more than you plan on. Be it food, booze, or ammo.
I guess Carney is in the "I will cut my nose off to spite my face" mode. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD) I took care of Mom and stocked up on canned food and water when supply chains were strained. Okay, bedtime so I can seize the day tomorrow. Ralphy's awake so computer work time is over. Snowflake is sleeping in my room now. She's really good and waits until I'm up in the middle of the night to go outside. I'm actually kind of impressed. We have a system. Good night all. Have a very happy Sunday! I have to congratulate Ralphy on living another week!!! Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (Sco7b) 183
179 Oh dear, Yvette just got the rope.
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram. Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD) You watching "Clue"? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (l3cgK) 184
I can't wait to see the new terminal design.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (4Je4D) There will be two terminals. Dome shaped. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (ZxPkt) 186
39 Miklos pwned Comments of the Week
Posted by: San Franpsycho It says right there, "aka Miklos and friends" On the downside (for Miklos), I got 3 of them, so now he's been accused of having me as a friend. Posted by: mikeski dangerfield at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov) *********** I've had about 3, probably by accident. Is there a club or cult? I will keep my bra on no matter what, just so you know. Always, even in my prime. Unlike Dolly I did not like the attention and wanted to be known for my brains as well as charm. Gotta get some zzzz's. I hope to be comatose by 11pm. I also like to say, "comatoast" as I like that better and it has the same meaning. XXXX Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (hzuYO) 187
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Hit me with your pet shark Fire away Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (ZxPkt) I thought it was "Hitler with a pet shark"... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (l3cgK) 188
Oh, it just means the level of what is considered average has dropped. Idiocracy, here we come!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) Well, to paraphrase Churchill- "But in the morning, Madam, I shall be unquestionably sober" Posted by: Miklos rests and reorients at August 29, 2026 11:10 PM (4RYRd) 189
181 Stateless-- you got some VERY good deals on produce! Bell peppers were "on sale" here for $1.25USD each..ugh.
KungFlu ruined local farmers markets & they haven't returned. Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm) Yeah, I know!! Usually, they're a buck each here too. But every August the grocery store had things in bulk. I think for the canners. I debated for a few minutes. But nah. I love them even without salt or anything. Good night all. Ralphy's up for real. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:10 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:11 PM (2GVsD) 191
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Secret Asian Man Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (ZxPkt) https://youtu.be/EcwtapTCd6g Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK) 192
Night friends!
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (ZdaMQ) 193
179 Oh dear, Yvette just got the rope.
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram. Posted by: Anna Puma at **** Do I dare ask?! Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (/2SkZ) Posted by: Herr Doktor Fronk-en-Steen at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (4Je4D) 195
They stole the truck.
The beer was dumped in the first river they came across. Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 11:15 PM (sl73Y) 196
90 I don't think you wanna eat a blue moose.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2026 10:32 PM (diia5) So, long story, but it's Saturday night and we're all drunk, so why not? Anyway, there was this British dude in the early 1900s who decided he wanted to transition from limey fop to feather-Indian. Moved to the Canadian wilderness and made quite a go at the project, wandering around by himself with his hair in braids, writing books of his adventures for the suckers (reading public). Some of his stuff's pretty decent, but one in particular really stuck with me: seems at one point he was having trouble finding any food to eat in the Canadian wilderness, so he was not so slowly starving to death. Even so, when he came across a squishy, fly-crusted, blue and green rotting moose carcass (like how I tied this in to weft cut-loop's comment?), he couldn't bring himself to eat it. So he dug the bones outta the mess, broke them open and sucked the marrow out. Turns out the marrow made him so sick he couldn't move from the spot for days. So anyway, hey! Why'd you all leave? You left your beers too! You mind if I drink those PBRs? Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at August 29, 2026 11:17 PM (o/vJD) 197
Laying in bed, listenin' to random itunes songs from my library and consciously relaxing every muscle. Not even gonna look at job searches until I get home from church tomorrow.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 11:20 PM (aJQbY) 198
I love that spaceship/water tower! I remember those, there were a bunch of that design built in the 50’s and sold for all kinds of roadside shops. I remember one in Marshall, Texas that was a hamburger stand at a highway intersection until the mid 90’s. Sadly, it’s gone now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 11:25 PM (GWwCk) 199
PBR or liquid mustard gas?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD) I recently was given a Perrier, and I was surprised how similar the taste was to Busch beer. Not PBR, though. PBR is skunkier than Perrier. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 11:25 PM (rbvCR) 200
Great news!! Amanpour has an hour in the early afternoon on CNN!! Sexy.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (Sco7b) ===== Say wut now? Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:26 PM (RIvkX) 201
ZdaMQ)
193 179 Oh dear, Yvette just got the rope. And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram. Posted by: Anna Puma at **** Do I dare ask?! Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (/2SkZ) I know! That Jane Weidlien cameo is one of the shortest and funniest cameo’s ever! Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 11:28 PM (GWwCk) 202
Not a beer drinker, myself, but could smell the difference between pitchers of Bud, Coors, Michelob (what we had on tap at that time) so never got them mixed up.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm) 203
At one time, Pabst Blue Ribbon was "Proudly Union Made" in Eden NC
Posted by: Miklos saw it right there on the can at August 29, 2026 11:29 PM (4RYRd) 204
"Mrs. Peacock was a man!?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:30 PM (2GVsD) 205
I remember well that OR is probably the only place I have been that has 45 degrees north indicated with highway signage - halfway between the North Pole and the Equator.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (jPziU) Nope, it is still there, right at the Keizer exit on the I-5. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 11:31 PM (/QHx4) 207
Howdy morons!
On the first of two boats home from spending the day with Some Rat at the Kitsap County Fair. Please pray for him. He needs strength of spirit, mind and body. Thank You. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 11:31 PM (Bu7EX) 208
I found it hilarious when Pabst became the Beer of Hipsters. When I was young and beer orientated Pabst was the standard beer of middle aged people, replacing Blatz which was the beer of the 50s apparently. Miller was the cool beer for younger people.
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 29, 2026 11:32 PM (3/XaG) 209
Prayers up for Some Rat right now!
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm) 210
At one time, Pabst Blue Ribbon was "Proudly Union Made" in Eden NC
Posted by: Miklos saw it right there on the ca Like all major beers, PBR is brewed and canned at multiple locations. For a while all PBR brands were actually contract brewed at MolsonCoors breweries. That ended early last year Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 11:34 PM (RqfTw) 211
Country duo Dan + Shay nearly broke up at height of success when their communication faltered
_fox -- Who writes this stuff? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:34 PM (pMmVV) Posted by: Miklos sees another sign of the general decline of Civilization and Culture at August 29, 2026 11:35 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:35 PM (pMmVV) 214
Nobody bothered to bring Paul Bunyan's blue ox, Babe, to keep the blue moose company?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 29, 2026 11:35 PM (qx7Zg) Posted by: Miklos notes that the room is not spinning again yet at August 29, 2026 11:37 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: Will Robinson at August 29, 2026 11:37 PM (rHvvN) 217
Pulchritudo splendor veritatis, as the monks used to say.
Posted by: frammish at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (rcENI) 218
Nobody bothered to bring Paul Bunyan's blue ox, Babe, to keep the blue moose company?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf He's an ox. Not very good "company," if you know what I mean. Posted by: the big blue heifer at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov) 219
I know that song - Blue Moose of Kentucky
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends I can play that on the fiddle wear out the rug dancin'! Posted by: Kentucky "Cocaine" Mitch at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (4RYRd) 220
Please pray for him. He needs strength of spirit, mind and body.
Thank You. Posted by: nurse ratched Certainly. Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (pMmVV) 222
Thanks nurse will do
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:39 PM (RIvkX) 223
Thanks y’all.
Just jumped off the fast ferry from Bremerton, hopped across the dock and am on my water taxi back to my side. Rat is good people. He and his family. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 11:43 PM (EoCE8) 224
Natasha Cloud called Enes Kanter Freedom an "irrelevant person" Saturday in her first public comments since their courtside confrontation last Sunday led to his ejection and ban from Chicago Sky home games.
"I won't be talking about anything that happened with an irrelevant person," Cloud told reporters Saturday. "What I will focus on is what actually affects women and children." ---- That dyke gonna be pissed when they draft Ms Enes. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:44 PM (pMmVV) 225
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On the first of two boats home from spending the day with Some Rat at the Kitsap County Fair. Please pray for him. Done Posted by: Miklos at August 29, 2026 11:46 PM (4RYRd) 226
208 I found it hilarious when Pabst became the Beer of Hipsters. When I was young and beer orientated Pabst was the standard beer of middle aged people, replacing Blatz which was the beer of the 50s apparently. Miller was the cool beer for younger people.
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 29, 2026 11:32 PM (3/XaG) Heineken? F*^K that S#!t PBR! Posted by: Frank Booth at August 29, 2026 11:46 PM (0CU3H) 227
Royce White became a fan-favorite guest at Fever game amid Simone Biles' appearance
Riley Gaines and Simone Biles were in attendance, but White's surprise visit dominated social media buzz after the game --- If the same team drafts Ms. Enes and Ms. White, whoof. Thinking about it. That would be racis and unfair. Wait till they start cycling together. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:47 PM (pMmVV) 228
That dyke gonna be pissed when they draft Ms Enes.
Posted by: Braenyard And it's pronounced "Enis", bitch, with a LONG E SAY IT Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison voice and...style at August 29, 2026 11:49 PM (4RYRd) 229
PBR used to be my favorite, don't know if it tastes the same anymore. Falstaff with a little Guinness init was good too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:49 PM (pMmVV) 230
I was working in southern New Mexico when I discovered that a six pack of PBR cost less than a six pack of Coca-Cola.
As you would expect, this did not result in good things happening. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2026 11:50 PM (gvBhq) 231
Sweet dreams are made of cheese,
Who am I to diss a brie? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 29, 2026 11:50 PM (tWxgu) 232
And it's pronounced "Enis", bitch, with a LONG E
SAY IT Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison --- Is that like in penis. Remember when the announcer would say Penis Cabel at the beisbol game? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:51 PM (pMmVV) Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 11:51 PM (/QHx4) 234
228 That dyke gonna be pissed when they draft Ms Enes.
Posted by: Braenyard And it's pronounced "Enis", bitch, with a LONG E SAY IT Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison voice and...style at August 29, 2026 11:49 PM (4RYRd) It rhymes with some word...venus! Yeah, that's it. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:52 PM (l3cgK) 235
Braenyard
Several of the ‘old’ popular brands have worked real hard on returning to old formulas. You have Hamms in your area? VERY similar Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 11:52 PM (RqfTw) 236
232 And it's pronounced "Enis", bitch, with a LONG E
SAY IT Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison Ok. People on the boat think I’m either drunk Or crazy. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 11:53 PM (w75DI) 237
Sweet dreams are made of cheese,
Who am I to diss a brie? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit Clever! Gouda you come come up with these? Posted by: Miklos wonders if Bleu Cheese ever gets moldy at August 29, 2026 11:57 PM (4RYRd) 238
Evening all,
We have a launch in the morning. SpaceX - Falcon Heavy - Roman Space Telescope LC-39A - Kennedy SC - Space Affairs Live Launch Date: August 30, 2026 Launch Time: 7:25 a.m. EDT (1125 UTC, 13:25 CEST) https://youtu.be/5q6XP71_LYI Posted by: Joyenz at August 29, 2026 11:58 PM (2F0/Y) 239
Ok. People on the boat think I’m either drunk
Or crazy. Posted by: nurse ratche Pond or pool Pool or pond It's all good Posted by: Carl Spackler at August 29, 2026 11:59 PM (4RYRd) 240
Launch Date: August 30, 2026
Launch Time: 7:25 a.m. EDT (1125 UTC, 13:25 CEST) https://youtu.be/5q6XP71_LYI Posted by: Joyenz ---- Does Musk ever sleep? Well he had enough time to screw up X for we Luddites. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:00 AM (pMmVV) 241
Does Musk ever sleep?
Well he had enough time to screw up X for we Luddites. Posted by: Braenyard I think that was Nikita Bier. Bier has been canned. Posted by: Miklos noticed that at August 30, 2026 12:03 AM (4RYRd) 242
The thought of launching Nancy Grace to L2 is somehow sastifying. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:04 AM (rdVOm) 244
139 Or the Eurythmics weren't singing, "Sweet dreams are made of cheese...who has a mind to dis a brie"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l3cgK) I cheddar the world and feta cheese Everybody’s looking for Stetson Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:54 PM (jPziU) Some of them want to gouda you, some of them want to be fondued Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2026 12:04 AM (0CU3H) 245
You have Hamms in your area? VERY similar
Posted by: PMRich Is that the one from The Land of Sky Blue Waters or somesuch? Posted by: Miklos drank Dixie Beer when they still made that at August 30, 2026 12:05 AM (4RYRd) 246
Behold, the power of AND!
Posted by: JQ *shift change* *clocks out* *notes that there is no official time rule about the "staff drinks free" policy* Posted by: Miklos vaguely waves in the direction of the Big Fridge at August 30, 2026 12:08 AM (4RYRd) 247
Nancy Grace's coronagraph instrument has deformable mirrors that achieve picometer adjustment precision. How they hell they do that, I don't know. But then how the hell all that precision instrumentation can survive all the shaking and jerking of the launch forces, I really don't know. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:08 AM (w6EFb) 248
I like my beer the way I like my women; bitter and cold.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 12:10 AM (gvBhq) Posted by: Miklos does the OOOOO AHHH part fromage-free at August 30, 2026 12:10 AM (4RYRd) 250
*shift change*
*clocks out* *notes that there is no official time rule about the "staff drinks free" policy* Posted by: Miklos vaguely waves in the direction of the Big Fridge ------- What?! You're leaving me all alone, drunk AND crazy, to tend the bar *by myself*? Oh, nooooooooooooo! (Congrats on your multiple C.O.W., btw) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:11 AM (rdVOm) 251
An 18-year-old has been busted for allegedly cutting down a Flock Safety camera in California and loading the device into a vehicle.
The alleged attack came to light when a witness flagged down deputies in Temecula, Riverside County on Tuesday night. _NY Post --- See there's your problem with CA right there. Not the kid. The fink witness. He's a voter too. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:12 AM (pMmVV) 252
The thought of launching Nancy Grace to L2 is somehow sastifying.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb) I figured it would be pointed back at Earth, searching for salacious criminal stories. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 12:12 AM (GWwCk) 253
I like my beer the way I like my women; bitter and cold.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy Here's your frigid Guinness, big boy Posted by: Hillary R. C. at August 30, 2026 12:13 AM (4RYRd) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:14 AM (/QHx4) Posted by: PMRich at August 30, 2026 12:14 AM (RqfTw) 256
Hey, bartender, G&T over here. It's the week end you know.
If that bohunk wants to slack out pull it on up. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:14 AM (pMmVV) Posted by: Officially off duty Miklos at August 30, 2026 12:15 AM (4RYRd) 258
It can't be an 'attack' if nothing living was harmed. It's at worst vandalism...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 12:15 AM (aJQbY) 259
Reading now about how the moronic Democrat-majority legislature here in Californistan is going to send a bill to Governor Hairgel making Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha state holidays, which feels me with both deep disquiet and overwhelming disgust. Because you know that colossal corrupt creep will sign it. You don't see those bastards falling all over themselves to make Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur state holidays (or even Easter, for that matter). Master of the Universe, these people are evil idiots.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 12:15 AM (NtoJk) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:16 AM (rdVOm) 261
JQ!
I just walked in the door. Kitty is angry kitty. I’m hearing about it. May I PLEASE have a little teeny tiny quart of bourbon? Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:16 AM (n4BTz) 262
Something else interesting about Nancy Grace. The mirror was "donated" to NASA by the NRO. The mirror was part of some super-secret spy satellite program that was no longer needed or something like that. So secret spy tech is being used for this. The mirror alone probably cost about $1/4B, don't know it was black budget stuff. But beyond that, this thing cost NASA about $4.3B That's how much all that precision, and engineering something to launch all that delicate precision costs. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:16 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm) 264
Fills me with disgust. Although it also feels disgusting. I just can't wait for neighborhoods waking up on their new state holiday with animal blood splashed all over the damn place on Eid Al-Adha. Do these people even know what these things are about?
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 12:18 AM (NtoJk) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:19 AM (/QHx4) 267
This Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha thing, is it part of Sharia law?
Trump is going to outlaw Sharia in America. He says America has one way, one law and one Constitution. He's serious. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:22 AM (pMmVV) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:23 AM (ELT5/) 269
Towns and cities could get a lot more support for municipal projects if they had a little more imagination.
------- Pfft. Posted by: Gaffney, SC at August 30, 2026 12:23 AM (XeU6L) 270
Nancy Grace's coronagraph just blows my freakin' mind. That will be able to directly image (well, see the light so to speak) of tiny little exoplanets orbiting their host stars from 10 to 100 ly away, depending. Those picometer deformable mirrors are used to just cancel out the light of a target host star, and allow the tiny amount of light from exoplanets to get through. The resolution of this thing is about 1000 times better than previous coronagraphs. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:25 AM (pMmVV) 272
@248. Idaho Spudboy
"I like my beer the way I like my women; bitter and cold." Have you ever considered moving to Boston? Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 12:26 AM (3gH/U) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:28 AM (pMmVV) 275
A *sarc* tag... post ate my
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm) 276
Grrrr. Maybe I shouldn't use the > and < keys...
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 12:30 AM (Fv808) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:31 AM (pMmVV) 280
Read earlier today that JFK Jr is is calling bogus on the measles scam.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:33 AM (pMmVV) 281
All good JQ
Saw lots of 4H kids and critters. Pigs, sheep, llamas, yak, cows, horses, chickens, ducks, geese, quail, turkeys….. A few pyrsyns with nose rings and green hair, but they were FAR outnumbered by normal, helpful, courteous young people who wanted to show off their critters. Ate a rather large, burning hot corn dog. Rat had a root beer float. Tractors and farm equipment everywhere. And some really cool old logging equipment. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:34 AM (BT7V7) 282
Happy Saturday Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 12:34 AM (ibDUx) 283
Thanks, It's the weekend, I'm ready.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:35 AM (pMmVV) 284
That's how much all that precision, and engineering something to launch all that delicate precision costs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Now figure it with Payday Title Loans Posted by: Miklos notes that somebody in America owes 40 trillion at August 30, 2026 12:35 AM (4RYRd) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Miklos asks nicely at August 30, 2026 12:36 AM (4RYRd) 287
Hi Debby!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:37 AM (BT7V7) 288
Nurse, I love going to our county fair! It was mine & hubby's *first date* so will always be special.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm) 289
>> Read earlier today that JFK Jr is is calling bogus on the measles scam.
See Alex Berenson's latest Substack post on this. It turns out two people may have died. *With* measles, not *from* measles. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:37 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: PMRich at August 30, 2026 12:40 AM (RqfTw) Posted by: the purriful stylings of Mr. Sam Cooke at August 30, 2026 12:40 AM (4RYRd) 292
Lived in a time an place, all my school years, with no measles vaccination in existence. And all those school years with all those students Not One had complications.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (pMmVV) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (/QHx4) 294
Rotating through , Blue Moon, High Life & MGD this summer
Threw some Coors Banquet in too. Posted by: PMRich Don't get yerself hurt The Natty Daddys is Darleen's Posted by: please be forewarned at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (4RYRd) 295
See Alex Berenson's latest Substack post on this. It turns out two people may have died. *With* measles, not *from* measles.
Posted by: publius We taught those measles everything we know! Posted by: the covids at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov) 296
See Alex Berenson's latest Substack post on this. It turns out two people may have died. *With* measles, not *from* measles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Now see, we all agreed not to do this Posted by: Official Covid Statistics at August 30, 2026 12:44 AM (4RYRd) 297
Vitamin R for the win.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:44 AM (rFS/C) 298
Measles? Heh. Big bro & I both caught measles from friends when we were in grade school. Itchy and sick for a few days, but we survived.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm) 299
Thanks JQ.
Hi nurse, it sounds like you had a wonderful day! Miklos, I am not sure which situation you are referring to, I find myself in all sorts of situations lately. I am good. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 12:45 AM (ibDUx) Posted by: CDC Staff and Grantees at August 30, 2026 12:46 AM (4RYRd) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm) 302
youtube.com/watch?v=CAs8SpisWwU
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:47 AM (rFS/C) 303
I am not sure which situation you are referring to, I find myself in all sorts of situations lately. I am good.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz I thought you had an unexpected call late one evening recently. If mistaken, good! Posted by: Miklos is happy to be wrong at August 30, 2026 12:48 AM (4RYRd) 304
Coors Banquet
Only major brand that I know that is ONLY brewed in one location. Golden CO The Coors family will not allow any other place. Source of water is critical to all brewing, and they don’t want to risk how that could affect the taste Coors Light can and is brewed at other locations Posted by: PMRich at August 30, 2026 12:48 AM (RqfTw) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:49 AM (rFS/C) 306
Evening all, whatsup?
Guess I'm headed up to WI to see if we can get the contents of Dad's home auctioned off. As there is a fair amount of antiques I'm trying for an online auction, rather than limiting the sale to a part of central WI. Does this make sense or am I deluded? Anyone had recent experience with a similar situation? Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 12:50 AM (4Qj8V) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: El Mikloso at August 30, 2026 12:50 AM (4RYRd) 309
Yes, I did get the call, he is okay, he will continue to fall though I think. He forgets that he can't walk anymore. Thank you for asking.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 12:51 AM (ibDUx) 310
289 >> Read earlier today that JFK Jr is is calling bogus on the measles scam.
See Alex Berenson's latest Substack post on this. It turns out two people may have died. *With* measles, not *from* measles. Posted by: publius And Pennsylvania's craptastic governor is getting raked over the coals for lying about this. He has Presidential aspiration but is too stupid to realize he's too Jewish for todays DSA Party. Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2026 12:52 AM (f87vz) 311
If we are sharing great beer commercials, this has to be greatest, complete with Oregon beach babes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-_Sn2cDwI
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 12:53 AM (rcENI) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:54 AM (/QHx4) 313
Anyone had recent experience with a similar situation?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take Yes, have the same, but few pieces with paperwork (sent from Budapest in the 80s). Local auctions are a limit. Online has it's own limits. Really depends on what you have, and the documentation for it (if specified on an insurance policy, as one example). Posted by: Miklos used to know about these things, even got paid sometimes at August 30, 2026 12:54 AM (4RYRd) 314
My husband is an antique.
Give him away or sell him? Posted by: four seasons Sometimes those older pieces clean up real nice Posted by: The Ladies of The Villages at August 30, 2026 12:56 AM (4RYRd) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:58 AM (/QHx4) 316
G&Ts were great but I'm running low on chocolate cover almonds.
Shopping day is Monday so I've to rock back for tomorrow. Time for me to hit the trail. Ya'll have a good evening. Say hello to Debby, 'night. https://youtu.be/9FkGBBuBDLA Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:59 AM (pMmVV) 317
My husband is an antique.
Give him away or sell him? Posted by: four seasons Just do what he says. Posted by: The Guy Who Thinks You Should Do What He Says at August 30, 2026 12:59 AM (Gqaa7) 318
too stupid to realize he's too Jewish for todays DSA Party.
Posted by: Puddleglum Half the Nazi party leadership would be too Jewish for today's DSA. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 01:00 AM (Fv808) 319
311 If we are sharing great beer commercials, this has to be greatest, complete with Oregon beach babes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-_Sn2cDwI
Posted by: frammish I remember that one! Not far from the truth back then. Henry’s used to be the good cheap beer. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:01 AM (XNYK+) 320
Night, Braenyard. Sweet dreams.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm) 321
The Hamms bear is out of control.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 01:01 AM (Cqx++) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:02 AM (/QHx4) 323
I used to love going to local estate auctions and I got some really nice stuff there. Now my goal is to get rid of stuff and not acquire any more things. I still can't resist a good yard sale, I have gotten some cool old toys for my grandson at a few of them. Things that are not electronic.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 01:02 AM (ibDUx) 324
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My husband is an antique. Give him away or sell him? Posted by: four seasons Hold his hand and kiss his cheek and be happy to have him. Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:02 AM (XNYK+) 325
Got lost in the Saturday memes flood.
Now checking out with a moving romantic duet. https://youtu.be/iFq6eZBS1iM G'nite, y'all.💤 Posted by: mindful webworker - the reason at August 30, 2026 01:03 AM (ie4vn) 326
Hold his hand and kiss his cheek and be happy to have him.
Posted by: nurse ratched ^This! x10000000000000000000 Because you never know what's around the corner Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm) 327
I hate Illinois DSA Nazis
Posted by: Jake or Elwood or maybe Miklos Blues at August 30, 2026 01:05 AM (4RYRd) 328
Evening, Disco and Dino, and ONT Horde. Back from another day at the car club meet. Met up with folks I had not seen in years. It's all good. Filled the car trunk with Studebaker parts.
The buffet dinner at the hotel was sub-awesome. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:06 AM (1z8ji) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:07 AM (/QHx4) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:11 AM (/QHx4) 332
He says a lot of stuff. I pretendi can't hear him, lol
Posted by: four seasons A retired man is watching TV, and sees a commercial suggesting people be tested for old-age hearing loss. Thinking about his wife's hearing, he lifts his head, and says "honey, can you hear me?" But she doesn't reply. So he gets out of his chair and walks to the kitchen doorway, and sees her working at the counter. Again, from the doorway, he says "honey, can you hear me?" But, again, she doesn't reply. Getting worried, he walks up a few steps behind her, and says "honey, can you hear me?" She turns to him and says "For the third time, yes! What do you want?" Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 01:12 AM (VHUov) 333
I hope Jelly Roll inspires millions of retards to also tattoo their faces, for easy identification.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX) Jelly Roll Morton would stomp his azz. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:13 AM (1z8ji) 334
Filled the car trunk with Studebaker parts.
This may be the first time, in the entire history of the English language, that these words have been used in this order. Posted by: The Oxford English Miklosionary at August 30, 2026 01:13 AM (4RYRd) 335
You know, I've been trying to understand this almost religious devotion the left and establishment have developed with vaccines. They must not be questions. To do so is heresy, punishable by burning at the stake. That's funny, because it was originally the left that got on the anti-vaccine, vaccines-cause-autism bandwagon. RFK, Jr, and then the likes of Jenny McCarthy and all that. The freaked out the public health establishment and the "I love science sexually" crowd, and that's where we are today. And that sort of stuff doesn't apply to other drugs and treatments, does it? It's well known and non-controversial that basically all drugs and treatments have side-effects, some deadly, it varies from person to person. One drug or treatment can be good for one person, but kill another person depending on all that. And its also non-controversial that Pharma fucks up and all the doctors and experts on it as well. Some wonder drug comes out, and 5 years later, it turns out the risk was worse than the benefit. And with all the $$$ involved, that gets corrupt fast, with lying and coverups and all that. But yet this known, and not controversial. Except for vaccines. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:15 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: Miklos puts finger on side of nose at August 30, 2026 01:15 AM (4RYRd) 337
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:11 AM
I'm so sorry-- I had no idea! Prayers up for all of you... Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:18 AM (/QHx4) 339
You know, I've been trying to understand this almost religious devotion the left and establishment have developed with vaccines. They must not be questions. To do so is heresy, punishable by burning at the stake.
Because it is religious. It is proof of the superiority of controllable humans controlled "science" over God himself. Posted by: Miklos sees hubris at August 30, 2026 01:19 AM (4RYRd) 340
I thought the Zizzians drank Zima on ZZyzx Road?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z) I have actually seen ZZyzx Road. Didn't try to drive on it, though. That would be tempting Fate. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:19 AM (1z8ji) 341
When did that vaccines cause autism stuff first come out? Was it in the '90s? The guy who first did that study claiming that was destroyed. They claimed he was a charlatan and made it all up, and there was absolutely no evidence of this. I bought that at the time. But now, after Covid, and even a little before that, well, I know they will lie through their teeth about evidence or lack of it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:20 AM (w6EFb) 342
We are a sick society with people who give a shit about people named jelly roĺl.
Posted by: four seasons Never got my salt royalties neither Posted by: Jelly Roll Morton at August 30, 2026 01:20 AM (4RYRd) 343
Some rando dumb ass calls itself "jelly roll"-- and I'm supposed to GAF what it says/thinks?
LMAO! Nope. Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm) 344
{{{four seasons}}} today was the third anniversary of my hub's passing. I had dinner with my daughter and SIL and the grandkids. We actually laughed a lot and shared some great memories. I am not sad anymore, I will always love him and always miss him, but I am happy that he no longer struggles. He would want us all to be happy, especially when we remember him. Hold him close while you can, I will pray for you and your family.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 01:23 AM (ibDUx) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm) 346
So what people have measles or whatever is the latest scary stuff. Shit happens. Social media allows people to whine about whatever. Get the fuck over yourself. Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:26 AM (/QHx4) 347
That original study guy was indeed burned at the stake. They didn't say "no, you're wrong, and here's the counter argument and evidence you are wrong", they had to destroy him. Ruin his careers, strip him of his credentials and all that. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:27 AM (w6EFb) 348
The thing with vaccines is related to one of Feynman's observations, further developed by others.
If not disprovable, it cannot be accepted as proven. So the tactic is to insist on things that cannot be tested, just do it now. If subsequent evidence disproves the original, um... it would have been worse! Of course, unprovable. Therefore timelines of catastrophe get pushed into the ever-receding future, with no fixed frame for reference or examination. Posted by: Miklos uses wordthoughts at August 30, 2026 01:27 AM (4RYRd) 349
It is so disgusting that society has turned into being all about me, me. Shit happens and you deal with it. Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:29 AM (/QHx4) 350
Jelly Roll is going to be inhaling jelly doughnuts when his money making machine grinds to a halt. He'll only have the leftist freaks as friends, that has got to be depressing.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 01:30 AM (ibDUx) 351
And Pennsylvania's craptastic governor is getting raked over the coals for lying about this. He has Presidential aspiration but is too stupid to realize he's too Jewish for todays DSA Party.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2026 12:52 AM (f87vz) Harvey Korman, Blazing Saddles: Foreman: “I know how to drive them out of Rock Ridge! We’ll kill the first born male child in every household!” Korman: pauses…. “Nah.. too Jewish.” Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 01:30 AM (GWwCk) Posted by: Miklos notes that Mac Davis wrote this song at August 30, 2026 01:33 AM (4RYRd) 353
Thinking about going to the county fair this year (sans hubby, as he is too *out there* for it now) and just sitting near the demonrat booth... I want to hear the "local" spin, whatever it is.
Maybe I'll pipe up & get escorted to the gate? Heh, I'll let ya all know-- it'll be at end of September. Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm) 354
Thinking about going to the county fair this year
In your Bitchin Camaro? Hope your dad's the mayor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3CzvQ9e_w Posted by: the reptilian part of Miklos' brain retains fragments of the 80s at August 30, 2026 01:38 AM (4RYRd) Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:38 AM (/QHx4) 356
Well, getting late. Going to grab a glass of milk, and go to bed. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:41 AM (1z8ji) 357
>>In your Bitchin Camaro?
No... but if I wanted to spring for title, taxes & insurance... could take Dad's Corvette. Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm) 358
Night, AOP
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm) 359
>> If not disprovable, it cannot be accepted as proven.
Falsifiability. A theory must be falsifiable. It must make predictions that can be tested against reality. The "No True Scotsman" fallacy is an example of something that is not falsifiable that comes to mind. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb) 360
>>The "No True Scotsman" fallacy is an example of something that is not falsifiable that comes to mind.
---------- Well yeah, I still got covid, but *it wasn't as bad as it would have been, if I hadn't got the sh0t* /sarc Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm) 361
85 The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n) Huh. Prob'ly? Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:45 AM (odBC9) 362
Foreman: “I know how to drive them out of Rock Ridge! We’ll kill the first born male child in every household!”
Korman: pauses…. “Nah.. too Jewish.” Posted by: Tom Servo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of64QbBy4vo Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 01:45 AM (Fv808) 363
>> but *it wasn't as bad as it would have been, if I hadn't got the sh0t*
They even went so far as to apply that to a person who died of Covid after getting the clot shot. Well, his/her death would've been much worse without it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb) 364
They measles thing - reminds of a guy who was working under a car when the jackstand collapsed dropping the car on him. Hospital tested the body for Covid, tested positive, said “oh look another Covid death!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 01:49 AM (GWwCk) 365
Falsifiability. A theory must be falsifiable. It must make predictions that can be tested against reality.
The "No True Scotsman" fallacy is an example of something that is not falsifiable that comes to mind. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley In social/political areas, they tend to jump straight to practice and enforcement with theory as an afterthought justification. In these areas, it is less of falsifiability of a theory than the denial of real world effects by defining things in unquantifiable ways that make evaluation and comparison impossible. Posted by: Miklos revises and extends at August 30, 2026 01:50 AM (4RYRd) 366
Another example of some non-falsifiable hypothesis is if I claim I and the whole word, everything I can see and interact with was created yesterday. And everything is designed to be perfect. My brain is filled with memories of my past, and everything about the world is made to be perfectly consistent with that. And take that one step further, and I claim I'm just "inside a simulation". I might be just some "AI" in a box somewhere, and all this "physical world" is just an illusion being pumped into the box. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:50 AM (w6EFb) 367
Well, his/her death would've been much worse without it.
Posted by: publius -------- Wow, hadn't heard about that one. Jeepers. That's fk'd up! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm) 368
The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n) Huh. Prob'ly? Posted by: m Look-we're all trying to find out who did this Posted by: Miklos in a wiener suit drinking a PBR at August 30, 2026 01:52 AM (4RYRd) 369
Feynman wasn't too big on the "philosophy of science" however, saying that was about as useful as ornithology is to actual birds. That's just funny right there, I don't care who you are. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:54 AM (w6EFb) 370
368 The Pabst truck is a publicity stunt, right??
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n) Huh. Prob'ly? Posted by: m Look-we're all trying to find out who did this Posted by: Miklos in a wiener suit drinking a PBR at August 30, 2026 01:52 AM (4RYRd) The event is coincident with the beginning of the college school year. So. Maybe. Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:57 AM (odBC9) 371
Lib sis was trying (via email) to talk me into getting the sh0t. I was referring to it as the "commie cold" and she was ridiculing me, telling me how her neighbor (overweight & diabetic) died of c0vid, blahblah.
"Good thing it was just the commie cold" she snarked. And I told her that I'd wait a few years & see. Wasn't gonna be part of a massive experiment, but understood why she & BIL would go for it. It was too late to talk them out of it, they'd already become guinea pigs for The State... Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm) 372
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Feynman wasn't too big on the "philosophy of science" however, saying that was about as useful as ornithology is to actual birds. That's just funny right there, I don't care who you are. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:54 AM (w6EFb) heh Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:01 AM (odBC9) 373
They even went so far as to apply that to a person who died of Covid after getting the clot shot. Well, his/her death would've been much worse without it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Really most sincerely dead Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 02:02 AM (Fv808) 374
about as useful as ornithology is to actual birds.
That's just funny right there, I don't care who you are. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Hmmm Was it one of Feyman's lectures where he introduced the famous tits/boar hog analogy? Posted by: Miklos may have played hooky that day at August 30, 2026 02:02 AM (4RYRd) 375
The ball was dropped when we decided to cooperate with China(of all people) into experimenting with a deadly virus.
I don't know when it started but it was a stupid idea. China is not our friend. Sure we can talk to them but that should be as far as it goes. And of course the American people didn't know about any of this until it blew up in our face. This is what makes me so angry. Our government needs to be up front about what they are doing. Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 02:03 AM (3gH/U) 376
What *really* p's me off, is how sis & BIL had already recovered from some horrible 'flu' right at the beginning of the c0vid BS. She told me they got very sick after crossing thru a chinee ship on their way back from a cruise. (Double parked at the dock, or something?)
And so, they likely had Early C0vid, and a good amount of natural immunity already! Then they destroyed it by getting that fk'ing sh0t. I could cry... Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm) 377
Oh Lord, please grant Berserker-Dragonheads Division a long life, for there beats the heart of a sensiitive soul and a great poet, who so ably shared the struggle of overcoming the evil work of "Retards with Wrenches" that bring mangled bikes to the shop.
Lord, give him the strength to restore this bike to some semblance of the mechanical harmony it once knew. Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:05 AM (llBIB) 378
Sweet dreams Horde, I am calling it a day.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 02:07 AM (ibDUx) 379
Night, Debby!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 02:09 AM (XNYK+) 381
Husband and I are are skeptists. We are elderly and refused to get the killer shot. He told me if he died of the chink flu so be it, at least he would would have a sceney, lol. I think he was talking about of me, lmao Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4) 382
Lord, give him the strength to restore this bike to some semblance of the mechanical harmony it once knew.
Posted by: JM in Illinois May he be blessed with a bevy of buxom, skilled assistants as beautiful as they are technically proficient to staff his Shop of Many Wonders. Posted by: Miklos suggets "Wenches with Wrenches" at August 30, 2026 02:10 AM (4RYRd) 383
Goodnight silly persons. Sleep well
Posted by: nurse ratched *looks around* She must mean you people Posted by: Miklos, srsly at August 30, 2026 02:14 AM (4RYRd) 384
Night, nurse!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Ye Olde Miklose at August 30, 2026 02:22 AM (4RYRd) 386
Hubby always got flu sh0ts at work. Nursing home offers them every so often, along with the cl0tsh0t & other stuff.
They keep 'asking' and I keep telling them NO. Hubby & I even signed documents upon his admission there, saying NO to all vax. He'd had the pneumonia & shingles vacc's already. No need for anything else. But they just. keep. pushing. Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm) 387
Oh, and just saw this on Berenson's substack. I hadn't been paying too much attention to his stuff lately. Turns out Tamiflu is not just ineffective, but deadly. There's that risk vs reward thing. A study found that Tamiflu greatly increased the risk of death by in patients hospitalized with flu. Note this is for patients who are really sick with the flu, not just in general, so don't worry about taking unless you're really sick with it. But it's apparently ineffective for everybody. Tamiflu has been around for 27 years, and this is the first study actually done to look at this risk vs benefit thing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:26 AM (w6EFb) 388
He told me if he died of the chink flu so be it, at least he would would have a sceney, lol.
I think he was talking about of me, lmao Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4) ------ Glad you refused. I took the Janssen shot, a different formula, not so harmful. Still got a two-day bout with Covid in mid-2022. Strangely enough, this was just about the time my life went was hit by a s***storm. At lease, the Chinese aren't at fault for that. Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:28 AM (llBIB) 389
Never had a flu shot
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 AM (Ia/+0) 390
Hubby talked me into the flu sh0ts at work-- "they're free"-- so, whatever.
Back then, likely not harmful mrna BS so I'm not worried. Not sure they helped any. I haven't been puking sick with actual illness (other than self-inflicted, heh) since the 80s. Meh. I'm done. Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm) 391
I used to take the flu shot. No more, even though these old bones are more at risk. I did get the shingles shots ten years ago.I've seen the havoc that can wreak on people
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:34 AM (llBIB) 392
Tamiflu targets a certain enzyme used by flu virus. Your own immune system also uses that same enzyme. The higher death rates for the Tamiflu patients were due to organ failure and other infection, which aligns with this immune suppressive thing. Oh, and guess what? "Independent researchers" (meaning actual scientists not on the interested parties payroll) warned about this from the get-go, turns out. You didn't hear anything about that, did you? Just Tamiflu is great stuff. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:34 AM (w6EFb) 393
Never used, and don't know anyone who has used, Tamiflu
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm) 394
That's in, or was in, the standard flu cocktail they prescribe. I remember that with my father. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb) 395
I was told if I refused to get the shot I would lose my job.
That put me in a bad situation. Hell, I had monthly bills to pay. And I was too old just to quit and hoped to find another job. I was with that company for almost twenty years. So anyway I got the shot, had to bring the paperwork to my boss. Then I was told I would have to get another shot in about a month later. This was another surprise to me. It was like a nightmare that wouldn't end. I went ahead and took that shot when the time came. I also told my boss I would not take anymore shots. If I had to I would sue the company. They didn't bother me anymore. Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 02:47 AM (3gH/U) 396
8 track tapes were an abomination along with all the crap they invented to make them user friendly, like that hideous tape rolodex.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 02:48 AM (S41Gd) 397
Here's some of the numbers on Tamiflu (oseltamivir generic name). In that study of very ill hospitalized patients, 14% who didn't receive Tamiflu died. 20% of those who took it died. But, the group who didn't take it was actually sicker and weaker than those who did. Adjusting for that, and Tamiflu doubled the relative risk of death. The results are 98% confidence that Tamiflu causes harm. IOW, the risk is worse than the benefit period. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:50 AM (w6EFb) 398
8-tracks pissed me off. You're jammin' to a favorite tune, and then-- *fade out, CLUNK!, fade in* right in the middle.
UGH! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm) 399
90 minute cassettes were the way to go, back then...
Most albums were roughly 45 minutes total. Sweet! 2 favorite albums on ONE tape. Bonus, you could fill in at the ends with other stuff if needed, or put the extra tunes from one album, onto the end of another. It just worked! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm) 400
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Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:56 AM (odBC9) 401
Oh Lord, please grant Berserker-Dragonheads Division a long life, for there beats the heart of a sensiitive soul and a great poet, who so ably shared the struggle of overcoming the evil work of "Retards with Wrenches" that bring mangled bikes to the shop.
Lord, give him the strength to restore this bike to some semblance of the mechanical harmony it once knew. Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:05 AM (llBIB) Which bike are we talking about? I got 2 pieces of shit on 2 of the lifts right now. One is a hopeless pile of shit, the other has potential, but it has to be unfucked. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 02:57 AM (S41Gd) 402
Never had a flu shot
Posted by: Skip Got one, in 1998. Got the flu. Haven't had a flu shot since. Got mild flu once or twice. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 02:57 AM (Fv808) 403
8-tracks pissed me off. You're jammin' to a favorite tune, and then-- *fade out, CLUNK!, fade in* right in the middle.
UGH! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm) All hail the matchbook shim. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 02:58 AM (S41Gd) 404
Running the numbers on these excess deaths due to Tamiflu, the number is in the tens of thousands of deaths due to Tamiflu. Roche made about $20B off Tamiflu until the patent expired. They got a big boost in 2009 with the swine flu panic, with govts stockpiling the stuff. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:59 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm) 406
I'm cooking a pack of bacon in the oven now-- it's nice & cool tonight so have windows open...
Also have some *huge* jalapenos. They're too big for poppers, so thinking tomorrow will roast them on the grill, peel & seed, and then make up the cheese mix.. put together a casserole of sorts? It'll be fun! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm) 407
And of course. Whistleblower stuff claiming Roche greatly exaggerated claims of Tamiflu efficacy in containing flu pandemics to get all that sweet govt cash to stockpile the stuff. This dates to the 2005 Bird flu scare as well as the 2009 Swine flu panic. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (w6EFb) 408
All hail the matchbook shim.
Posted by: Berserker Hahahahaha! Had forgotten all about that! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm) I didn't, I'll never forget it. I'm glad I got my license when cassette decks were becoming the rage, because I had just enough time with 8 tracks to know that if I had to live with 8 tracks I would have burned my car. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (S41Gd) 409
Also have some *huge* jalapenos.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm) Is that what they're calling them these days? lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:12 AM (S41Gd) 410
This is the Pharma Playbook, BTW. This is how they roll. This is the wonder drug --> "meh" -- > useless --> makes things worse pipeline. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:13 AM (w6EFb) 411
So what people have measles
Or whatever is the latest scary stuff. Shit happens. /// Kinda haiku-ish Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 03:17 AM (Fv808) 412
It cool here too. Its 60 degrees. We did a ride before. It was hot in the sun but a tad cold on the bike in the wind. By the end of the day I had to stop so Mrs B could put on her light leather jacket. Its always strange this time of year. Hot standing in the sun, but cold when you're doing 55-60mph.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:18 AM (S41Gd) 413
Is that what they're calling them these days? lol
Posted by: Berserker My *huge jalapenos* came from a store I don't normally shop-- because regular grocery had NONE when I went there! Desperation! But the next day, (before company arrived) my usual grocery store had some regular sized peppers. Yay! Now, I'm stuck with these monster peppers and don't want to waste them. Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:18 AM (rdVOm) 414
@402.-Dark
That's what happened to me. Took the flu shot, got the flu. Never got one again. They are just guessing what type of flu is going around. Evidently their are different kinds. They guess the wrong type then you can get the flu. Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 03:19 AM (3gH/U) 415
BF back in the day, installed a 8-track player in my (first) car.. it was great while it lasted.
And then some shitweasel broke in & stole the player. In hindsight, I think they did me a favor. But I was angry at the time! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:21 AM (rdVOm) 416
I never had the flu, and never got the shot. I knew better. My alien immune system don't like alien chemicals. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:22 AM (S41Gd) 417
I have an unopened blank 8 track tape. I guess they had 8 track recorders. Probably just before my time.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:23 AM (S41Gd) 418
Dad bought an 8-track recorder for his music. "us kids" were not allowed to touch it, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm) 419
Gonna make "jala-sagna" I think-- layers of roasted & peeled jalapenos, spicy cream cheese mix, and bacon.
Sounds good, anyway... Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm) 420
Question is how to fix this? These Pharma executives who pull this shit need to go to jail and be personally liable. That has happened just a few times in only the most egregious cases. Most of the time, this is just cost of doing business baked in the cake. The executives and managers get away with and keep all the personal money they made off it. They'll do tricks like set up some spin-off company to be liable, which may bankrupt the spin-off and maybe cost some investors and whatnot some money to pay any claims. But the individuals actually responsible get off scott-free and keep all the money. That has got to change. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:36 AM (w6EFb) 421
Bers--
I'll see your unopened blank 8-track tape, and raise you a couple of unopened blank Beta video tapes! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm) 422
@416-Berserker
When the flu season comes all I ever heard was "get your flu shot". I never heard get your flu shot and "maybe" you won't get the flu. I thought if I got the shot I would be safe from getting the flu. Well I found out different,the hard way. Because they don't tell us everything! Same with COVID. They did not tell us everything. Well, I'm tired of being a pin cushion. To hell with 'em. Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 03:43 AM (3gH/U) 423
...and then, I'll go *all in* with 2 boxed, 10 inch, EE audio reels!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:43 AM (rdVOm) 424
Yep, Roche and the usual suspects ran the same playbook on Tamiflu. Announce the new drug is great stuff and publish "clinical trials" showing how great it is. They start using it and $$$ results. Then along the way, someone gets a little skeptical. Hey, Roche, show us all your data. Roche says, "Nuh-uh, that's not possible, cause reasons". And so, a lot of lawsuits follow, with Roche fighting tooth and nail against disclosure. Finally, govts get in the act and Roche finally coughs it up, but as little as possible. And turns out the original data was cherry picked, and bad results hidden. By that time, the wonder drug has become the "gold standard". Sometimes suggests lets do a real trial to see if it actually does help against placebo. "Nuh-uh, that would be unethical, because Tamiflu is the gold standard of treatment, and denying it would be awful". So, they fight over that. And finally, they do actually do the proper trial. And they find out the gold standard actually makes things worse and kills more patients than placebo. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:54 AM (w6EFb) 425
Damn, publius... nightmare fuel.
Beyond black-pilled; I'm back in the burn, scatter, salt camp again. Ugh! Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm) 426
Good night, horde! Can't stay awake for pixy-time...
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 04:17 AM (rdVOm) 427
Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9) 428
Only 65 days till we start taking America back from the dump and his dumpster vermin. Let dump try and stop democrats from voting. Chucky's strongly worded letter and his aipac donors will be gotten rid of if they try on stop a national general strike and arresting dumpster seditionists. They can join ron desatan in jail for his 1.5 billion charity fraud.
Posted by: raimondo at August 30, 2026 05:05 AM (fcbYR) Music Thread - August 29, 2026 [TRex]![]() "Bye Bye Love," "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Wake Up Little Susie") plus hits for others. Bob McDill's songwriting hits include "Good Ole Boys Like Me," "Gone Country," and "Song of the South." Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Nooded, and good night, all.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 07:35 PM (NcvvS) 2
Rock on
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0) 3
And SPONGE!! Unbelievable...
Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 07:35 PM (NcvvS) 4
Kris Kristofferson - "Me and Bobby McGee", "Help Me Make it Through the Night", among others.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 07:38 PM (5YmYl) 5
I love Elvis but he didn't write any of his songs even if he's listed as a co-writer.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:39 PM (KC5Lt) 6
Hoyt Axton
Posted by: Pod Hamp at August 29, 2026 07:39 PM (C8+gh) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2026 07:40 PM (Cqx++) 8
Kris Kristofferson - "Me and Bobby McGee", "Help Me Make it Through the Night", among others.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 07:38 PM (5Ym Poor Kris couldn't carry a tune but he was a hell of a song writer. He was a true renaissance man though. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:41 PM (KC5Lt) 9
Willie Nelson was a prolific songwriter.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:41 PM (KC5Lt) 10
Bee Gees wrote Islands in the Stream.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:42 PM (KC5Lt) 11
Nostalgia music night here, Big Band songs and Dean Martin
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:44 PM (PbWRL) 12
OK, staying for just a moment because I'm thoroughly beat: almost every cover of a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen song is better than the songwriter's version; when Jennifer Warnes did a Leonard Cohen tribute album ('Jenny Sings Lenny' is an illustration!), it was phenomenal, if only because Stevie Ray Vaughn was lead guitar on 'First We Take Manhattan' - and sorry/not sorry if that gives anyone an earworm!
Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 07:44 PM (NcvvS) 13
Jim Steinman wrote a ton of anthems for other people. It's insane how much stuff he did. In an earlier era he'd have been a rival of Wagner. (one hopes, given what Wagner thought of Steinmans)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 29, 2026 07:45 PM (88C+u) 14
Of course you have lyricists and music writers who collaborate to make a good song.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:45 PM (KC5Lt) 15
Steve Miller
"Did you know the cost of adjudicating even 1 fake [illegal alien] asylum claim is the same cost as providing FREE CANCER TREATMENT to 1 American citizen with pediatric cancer? As of June 2026, there are 2,310,698 immigrants who have filed formal asylum applications Illegals trying to kill 2 M American kids Posted by: r hennigantx at August 29, 2026 07:45 PM (/+uur) 16
Blinded By the Light!! Manfred Mann's Earth Band!!
When I found it was written by Springsteen and I heard that version, I threw up a little. OK.... I threw up a lot!! Posted by: smokin' cat turd at August 29, 2026 07:46 PM (KXId6) 17
4 Kris Kristofferson - "Me and Bobby McGee", "Help Me Make it Through the Night", among others.
6 Hoyt Axton Can't get anything past you guys. Those were the first two I thought of in answer to the questions. Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 07:48 PM (vTZFs) Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2026 07:48 PM (K32Fz) 19
The movie Once about an Irish street singer/songwriter was excellent. Unfortunately the lead actor was killed earlier this year in a motorcycle accident IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:48 PM (KC5Lt) 20
When I found it was written by Springsteen and I heard that version, I threw up a little. OK.... I threw up a lot!!
Manfred Mann did several Springsteen covers and they are all much better and easier to listen to. My favorite is "For You" almost every cover of a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen song is better than the songwriter's version I wanted Bob's son to do a cover album or two of his dad's work because his band was great and he had a nice voice. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2026 07:49 PM (K32Fz) 21
Whoever wrote the Monkees songs were pretty good. I think Neil Diamond wrote a few of them.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:50 PM (KC5Lt) 22
I would like to posit the idea that the only good modern songwriters are the ones how are old enough (or classical enough) to have actually been taught poetry and the various poetic forms and rhyme schemes and rhythms in high school.
This idea is based on no hard evidence and no information of any kind. Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 29, 2026 07:50 PM (C0Nlv) 23
Carole King was a very prolific song writer.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL) 24
Another Stein- is Billy Steinberg. He cowrote "Eternal Flame" for Christina Hoffs. It came out as a Bangles song but iirc the other three Bangles resented it.
Still a classic. Posted by: 88C+u at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (88C+u) 25
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2026 07:49 PM (K32Fz)
I bought his first Wallflowers CD. It was pretty good. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (KC5Lt) 26
I really don't like the Jackson 5, but I've got them cranked right now because Jermaine was an absolute animal on the bass.
The Jackson 5, and Michael Jackson, does not happen without that bass. Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 07:52 PM (sOtuf) 27
Posted by: 88C+u at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (88C+u
Prince wrote some of their other songs gs right? Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:52 PM (KC5Lt) 28
Carole King was a very prolific song writer.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL) Her and Burt Bacharach Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:53 PM (KC5Lt) 29
Linda Ronstadt did mostly covers, "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" was written by Warren Zevon, who wrote a lot of great songs.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 29, 2026 07:55 PM (FY/Px) 30
Thx TRex , interesting post
David Bowie gave All the Young Dudes to Mott the Hopple. Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 07:56 PM (EZWVc) Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 07:56 PM (sOtuf) 32
Springsteen also wrote most of Because the Night but Patti Smith performed it. Springsteen didn't get credit due to contractual issues. Smith's version is great
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 07:58 PM (EZWVc) 33
Good evening Horde. Thanks for being here. Hope you're enjoying some good tunes on this last Saturday in August.
Posted by: TRex - ghostwriter dino at August 29, 2026 07:58 PM (XfIK1) 34
Me and Bobby McGee is a fantastic song. Janis' best, as fat as I'm concerned. Second best rock song recorded by a female (I gotta give #1 to Son of a Preacher Man)
Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 07:59 PM (sOtuf) 35
Didn't realize till recently that Burt Bacharach wrote Always Something There to Remind Me later done very well by Naked Eyes. More of a cover
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 08:00 PM (EZWVc) 36
Chris Stapleton did an amazing tribute to Dolly at a show this week. I will always love you.
https://tinyurl.com/4czdj8kn Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:00 PM (YZ0Fo) 37
Speaking of Patti Smith, she wrote several songs for Blue Oyster Cult. IIRC she was dating one of the band members.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 29, 2026 08:02 PM (FY/Px) 38
The movie Once about an Irish street singer/songwriter was excellent. Unfortunately the lead actor was killed earlier this year in a motorcycle accident IIRC.
Posted by: polynike He was a recording artist and then the director wanted to make a move based around him but wanted his music in it so cast him. It's a phenomenal movie. And ya he was killed in a crash this summer. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:03 PM (YZ0Fo) 39
Whoever wrote the Monkees songs were pretty good. I think Neil Diamond wrote a few of them.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:50 PM (KC5Lt) Carol King wrote one of their best - Pleasant Valley Sunday.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 08:04 PM (nbLIj) 40
Contrary perhaps to popular belief, the iconic 'I Want You Back' bassline was actually recorded in LA by Wilton Felder. Primarily a saxophone player, Felder discussed recording the bassline in the July 1998 issue of Bass Player magazine.
It’s been said that when the group signed with Motown, producer Berry Gordy wouldn't allow them to record on their own songs, with the recordings instead handled by Motown's in-house studio band and legendary bassist James Jamerson. Posted by: grass monkey at August 29, 2026 08:04 PM (van9r) Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:05 PM (KC5Lt) 42
Darrell Scott wrote You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive. It's been covered by a number of musicians.
Darrell Scott (well he wrote the song) - youtu.be/X6UuuEpinyA Brad Paisley - youtu.be/neSUe7dO4v0 Plenty of other fine versions out there Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 08:05 PM (AdHga) 43
Bonnie Rait's cover of " Angel From Montgomery" by John Prine is one of my very favorites. If you have ever been to the TXMoMe you will have heard it. Opens the dance floor on Friday night.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 08:05 PM (PbWRL) 44
Interesting topic, TRex. Off the top of my head:
Laura Nyro John Denver Hoyt Axton (and his mom wrote Heartbreak Hotel) Clint Black Duke Ellington Dolly Parton Vince Guaraldi Barry Manilow* Brian Wilson * Manilow wrote many of his top 40 hits and several advertising jingles that are recognizable decades later. But I think his greatest talent is as an arranger. His 2 AM Paradise Cafe, broadway themes, and jazz renditions are superb. The best songs Bette Midler recorded were arranged by Manilow. Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 08:06 PM (yTvNw) 45
Met Kris Kristofferson on the Army base in Nuremburg a long time ago. Shook his paw and got his autograph. He was very handsome.
Posted by: argie at August 29, 2026 08:07 PM (6lIeU) 46
Darrell Scott wrote You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive. It's been covered by a number of musicians.
Darrell Scott (well he wrote the song) - youtu.be/X6UuuEpinyA Brad Paisley - youtu.be/neSUe7dO4v0 Plenty of other fine versions out there Posted by: Puddleglum There is a great version by a girl playing banjo by a campfire. Taylor Demp. Chris Stapleton also has a good one. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:08 PM (YZ0Fo) 47
Doubt I ever purposely played a Dolly song, but she was a good force and luckily will live in memory for a long time to come.
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0) 48
Cole Chaney has covered grunge songs but with an Appalachia twist.
Big Empty - youtu.be/3eFKTmwzVcU Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 08:08 PM (AdHga) 49
Chris Stapleton did an amazing tribute to Dolly at a show this week. I will always love you.
https://tinyurl.com/4czdj8kn Posted by: BruceWayne ********* Thanks for that BruceWayne. I'm a big fan of Chris and that was a lovely tribute. Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 29, 2026 08:09 PM (XfIK1) 50
Spot on about Leonard Cohen - “Hallelujah” was one of songs that no one heard until Jeff Buckley covered it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:09 PM (GWwCk) 51
All these people are old. Is the best modern music can come up with is a pop tart or some other jelly filled pastry?
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 08:10 PM (MWfyi) 52
Bleeding love by Leona Lewis was written by Jesse McCartney and OneRepublic singer Ryan Tedder
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:12 PM (YZ0Fo) 53
The story of Kristofferson landing a helicopter on Johnny Cash's property to give him a demo tape sounds made up but amazingly true. Kristofferson was the man.
( Cash wasn't home at the time though. He gave the demo tape to someone taking care of the house at the time) Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:12 PM (KC5Lt) 54
>>Springsteen also wrote most of Because the Night but Patti Smith performed it. Springsteen didn't get credit due to contractual issues. Smith's version is great
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 07:58 PM (EZWVc) Patti Smith said that Springsteen wrote the song but she 'dirtied up a bit'. She commanded that song (SWIDT). And now, really am gone for the night. Again sometime, Hordelings. Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 08:12 PM (NcvvS) 55
Thanks for that BruceWayne. I'm a big fan of Chris and that was a lovely tribute.
Posted by: The Grateful - R I saw him and his wife live a number of years ago. He's the rare artist that somehow sounds even better live than his albums. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:14 PM (YZ0Fo) 56
Most of what I listen to is metal, post-rock, prog-rock, or other "indy" types of music. Nobody's putting food on the table writing songs for "my bands," when the biggest names I listen to are bands like Dream Theater and Evanescence. (And post-rock is 90% instrumental, anyway.)
A writer/producer named David Hodges co-wrote a lot of stuff for Evanescence, but he played keyboards for them for a couple years just before they released their first album "Fallen," so I'm not sure if he's an "outside songwriter" or not. He's also written and produced for everyone from Tim McGraw to Celine Dion to The Backstreet Boys, so I'm guessing royalties from those sorts of performers keep his bread buttered. Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:16 PM (VHUov) 57
Is it hard to believe Kiss wrote most of their songs? They had a good producer later on that helped guide them . They did have an album of songs they should have thrown away though. I forgot the name but it was an artsy fartsy endeavor.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:16 PM (KC5Lt) 58
Fuck (forget) you by cee lo was written by Bruno mars
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:17 PM (YZ0Fo) 59
One of the best songwriters few people remember was Jimmy Webb. He wrote much of Glen Campbell’s playlist, including “Wichita Lineman” and “By the time I get to Phoenix”. He also wrote quite a bit for Linda Ronstadt and others.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:18 PM (GWwCk) 60
Fuck (forget) you by cee lo was written by Bruno mars
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:17 PM (YZ0Fo) Cee Lo's performance on Live from Daryl's House was excellent Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:19 PM (KC5Lt) 61
The Pointer Sisters' "Fire" was written by Springsteen...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 08:19 PM (nbLIj) 62
>>Spot on about Leonard Cohen - “Hallelujah” was one of songs that no one heard until Jeff Buckley covered it.
Can't quit y'all. Tom Servo, Jeff picked it up from John Cale's version in 1991 and almost all of the covers since stem from Cale. The story is that Cohen was faxing verses to Cale to pick for his recording for the tribute album I'm Your Fan. Supposedly there are dozens of verses that Cohen wrote. Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 08:20 PM (NcvvS) 63
Oh! I just noticed that Sugar Ray's channel upgraded their videos! I had these saved in *240p*, and now they're in 1080p:
From Floored (1997) Sugar Ray - Fly https://youtu.be/zUtnwcv-quE From 14:59 (1999) Sugar Ray - Every Morning https://youtu.be/3cqU1pFRqYE Sugar Ray - Someday https://youtu.be/dPcX-5Tmqt8 Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 08:21 PM (ke3zm) 64
Take Clapton and consider that JJ Cale made him famous.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (SK+av) 65
Follow on to comment 44,
Jim Webb James Taylor (he's a political mess but can write songs) Paul Simon Antonio Carlos Jobm Honorable mention: Earl Hagen for Harlem Nocturne Mel Torme for The Christmas Song Allen Toussaint for Southern Nights (Glen Campbell version) Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (yTvNw) 66
All these people are old. Is the best modern music can come up with is a pop tart or some other jelly filled pastry?
Posted by: fd There are still musical artists around. But you have to look for them. Flip on XM radio and you hear music performed by people for whom music is an industry, not an art. "Well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance [...]" -- Rupert Giles, on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, back in 2001. Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (VHUov) 67
Cee Lo's performance on Live from Daryl's House was excellent
Posted by: polynikes I saw Gnarls Barkley at lollapalooza and I was blown away by how good he was on the stage. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:23 PM (YZ0Fo) 68
Grateful: Miley Cyrus also has a beautiful tribute to Dolly.
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v= U8q9VBTl394 Take out the spaces Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 08:24 PM (286+n) 69
Take Clapton and consider that JJ Cale made him famous.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (SK+av) They Call Me the Breeze. JJ.. Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 08:25 PM (nbLIj) 70
Led Zeppelin didn't write songs as much as just copying them. 😀
I still can't believe that Taurus lost their lawsuit. Especially in comparisons to some who have won which I'll never understand. Like Harrison's My Sweet Lord losing to the Chiffons He's So Fine. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:25 PM (KC5Lt) 71
>>Take Clapton and consider that JJ Cale made him famous.
'Clapton is God' - graffiti in London, 1964 Posted by: Not in bed but should be at August 29, 2026 08:25 PM (NcvvS) 72
Grateful: Miley Cyrus also has a beautiful tribute to Dolly.
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v= U8q9VBTl394 Take out the spaces Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 08:24 PM (286+n) Not ashamed to say I have four Miley Cyrus songs downloaded on my iPhone Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:26 PM (KC5Lt) 73
Not ashamed to say I have four Miley Cyrus songs downloaded on my iPhone
Posted by: polynikes Wrecking ball is a jam. She may be a looney but she can sang. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:27 PM (YZ0Fo) Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 08:28 PM (286+n) Posted by: Barry Manilow at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (2Cry5) Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (YZ0Fo) 77
12 OK, staying for just a moment because I'm thoroughly beat: almost every cover of a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen song is better than the songwriter's version;” I don’t think anyone has yet noted that this is true for Bob Dylan in spades. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (GWwCk) 78
Wrecking ball is a jam. She may be a looney but she can sang.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:27 PM (YZ0Fo) Her duet with John Travolta from the Bolt song track is one of my favorites Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (KC5Lt) 79
A big percent of the Grateful Dead's music and even greater percentage Jerry Garcia Band's music were covers and much of it was country or rockabilly.
Merle Haggard, Peter Rowan, Marty Robbins, Elvis, Buddy Holly and many more. And Robert Hunter wrote a lot of the Dead's original stuff along with Jerry. Jerry was good friends with Dylan and covered a large number of his songs. Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (viF8m) 80
Her duet with John Travolta from the Bolt song track is one of my favorites
Posted by: polynikes Oh ya. I forget about that one. Great song. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:30 PM (YZ0Fo) 81
I don’t think anyone has yet noted that this is true for Bob Dylan in spades.
Posted by: Tom Servo I actually love Bob Dylan. I grew up listening to his biograph box set. But yes. The covers of his songs are better. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:32 PM (YZ0Fo) 82
Jimmy Webb wrote for (this is off the top of my head) Glen Campbell, The Fifth Dimension, Richard Harris, and Johnny Rivers. And for these it wasn't just a song or two, but whole albums. IIRC, Campbell's Wichita Lineman album was practically all Webb's stuff. Ditto The Fifth Dimension's Magic Garden album, Johnny Rivers' Tunesmith, and two (maybe three) of Richard Harris'.
In later years, I think he started recording a lot of his songs himself, but I've not followed much popular music since the original Association stopped recording. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 29, 2026 08:33 PM (q3u5l) 83
duet with John Travolta from the Bolt song track is one of my favorites
Posted by: polynikes Oh ya. I forget about that one. Great song. Posted by: BruceWayne Also Bolt was a really good movie no one remembers. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:33 PM (YZ0Fo) 84
Her duet with John Travolta from the Bolt song track is one of my favorites
Posted by: polynikes Oh ya. I forget about that one. Great song. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:30 PM (YZ0Fo Partying in the USA Malibu Flowers Are the other three I've downloaded . Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:34 PM (KC5Lt) 85
Also Bolt was a really good movie no one remembers.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:33 PM (YZ0Fo) My favorite animated movie. The ending was great. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:35 PM (KC5Lt) 86
Before Stephen Wilson jr started recording his own stuff he wrote for a ton of people. Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, Caitlyn Smith, Old Dominion, Sixpence None the Richer, Leigh Nash, Chase Bryant, Mackenzie Porter
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:36 PM (YZ0Fo) 87
JTB mentioned Antonio Carlos Jobim.
If you haven't heard the Sinatra/Jobim albums, you're cheating yourself. Heard somewhere that late in his life, Sinatra would occasionally listen to "Wave" and marvel that he'd ever been able to hit notes that low. Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 29, 2026 08:38 PM (q3u5l) 88
These are my top 5 songs based upon what I turn the volume up for:
Tangled Up in Blue -- Dylan A Matter of Trust -- Billy Joel A Day in the Life -- Beatles Sultans of Swing -- Dire Straits Radar Love -- Golden Earring I believe each of these songs were written by the artist, for better or worse (i.e. Dylan). Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 29, 2026 08:38 PM (QSaoA) 89
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:36 PM (YZ0Fo)
Tim McGraw is a manufactured Country Star. He did well for himself though. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:39 PM (KC5Lt) 90
58 Fuck (forget) you by cee lo was written by Bruno mars
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:17 PM (YZ0Fo) Best cover is by Broken Peach... https://tinyurl.com/58k67r69 Posted by: davidt at August 29, 2026 08:39 PM (Q+gd/) 91
Posted by: mikeski
Have you checked out Our Last Night covers? Posted by: BruceWayne First I've heard of them. Not bad. A three-piece, more-serious / less-comedic / less-metal version of Leo Moracchioli? OLN covering tatu: https://youtu.be/94cDRxoViWU Leo, same song: https://youtu.be/p-qnsZhQ_iI Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:39 PM (VHUov) 92
Music related: I stumbled upon "Mork and Mindy" on Prime. One of the first scenes is Mindy talking to her dad in his music store. One of the props was a Dolly Parton poster.
(sniffle) Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2026 08:40 PM (gvBhq) 93
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 29, 2026 08:38 PM (QSaoA
I can't disagree on Radar Love for sure. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:40 PM (KC5Lt) 94
Bolt was our family’s favorite. Songs were great and Bolt was a fun character.
Kid likes Rio and Migration, which is awful. Posted by: Accomack at August 29, 2026 08:41 PM (+hwtP) 95
almost every cover of a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen song is better than the songwriter's version
Posted by: Nazdar See also: The Beatles. Yeah, I know, "fight me." But I'm still young enough to outrun any Beatles fans. 😜 Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:43 PM (VHUov) 96
This is a tight thread but ... I'm gonna need more cowbell.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 08:43 PM (4NO2D) 97
A lot of Dylan stuff works because he can’t sing.
Posted by: Accomack at August 29, 2026 08:43 PM (+hwtP) 98
First I've heard of them.
Not bad. A three-piece, more-serious / less-comedic / less-metal version of Leo Moracchioli? OLN covering tatu: https://youtu.be/94cDRxoViWU Leo, same song: https://youtu.be/p-qnsZhQ_iI Posted by: mikeski Ya they mostly take pop songs and are like hey these are good. Let's metal em up a bit. Their blank space and sorry are great. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:45 PM (YZ0Fo) 99
Since got radio back in vehicle, only station have on is modern rock
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:45 PM (Ia/+0) 100
>>A lot of Dylan stuff works because he can’t sing.
He sure could write. He has to be in the top 2 or 3 modern era covered writers. The number of artists who have covered his stuff is huge. Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 08:45 PM (viF8m) 101
Bolt was our family’s favorite. Songs were great and Bolt was a fun character.
Kid likes Rio and Migration, which is awful. Posted by: Accomack Aw man. I like Rio. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:46 PM (YZ0Fo) 102
Bolt was our family’s favorite. Songs were great and Bolt was a fun character.
Kid likes Rio and Migration, which is awful. Posted by: Accomack Aw man. I like Rio. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:46 PM (YZ0Fo) Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:47 PM (YZ0Fo) 104
Robert Hunter wrote a lot of the Dead's stuff. He was put on the R+R HoF with them, the only non performer put in with a band
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 08:50 PM (EZWVc) 105
Dr Dre also relied on other writers, although only Royce 5'9 might count as a "ghost" writer. Dre otherwise gave credit to Eminem, Hittman etc.
Don't know why Dre didn't credit Royce. Might be an honest oversight b/c most of his stuff got dropped from release. Posted by: 88C+u at August 29, 2026 08:50 PM (88C+u) 106
Rio wasn’t bad, just too long. Migration was bad.
Posted by: Accomack at August 29, 2026 08:52 PM (6jy2V) 107
"Her and Burt Bacharach"
------ Was Burt Bacharach a philosopher? Oh, this conversation isn't very good... Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 08:53 PM (5YmYl) 108
>>Robert Hunter wrote a lot of the Dead's stuff. He was put on the R+R HoF with them, the only non performer put in with a band
He did play with the JGB a few times. Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m) 109
Dre also relied on other writers, although only Royce 5'9 might count as a "ghost" writer. Dre otherwise gave credit to Eminem, Hittman etc.
Don't know why Dre didn't credit Royce. Might be an honest oversight b/c most of his stuff got dropped from release. Posted by: 88C+u Royce da 5-9 did an album with Eminem. It was really good. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:56 PM (YZ0Fo) 110
Dre also relied on other writers, although only Royce 5'9 might count as a "ghost" writer. Dre otherwise gave credit to Eminem, Hittman etc.
Don't know why Dre didn't credit Royce. Might be an honest oversight b/c most of his stuff got dropped from release. Posted by: 88C+u Also Dre's thing was mixing and beats. Eazy E and ice cube wrote almost all the NWA songs. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:59 PM (YZ0Fo) 111
8 Kris Kristofferson - "Me and Bobby McGee", "Help Me Make it Through the Night", among others.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 07:38 PM (5Ym Poor Kris couldn't carry a tune but he was a hell of a song writer. He was a true renaissance man though. Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:41 PM (KC5Lt) well...Kris sounds like Sinatra compared to Willie Nelson Posted by: zigggggy at August 29, 2026 08:59 PM (EDeJ/) 112
Ya they mostly take pop songs and are like hey these are good. Let's metal em up a bit. Their blank space and sorry are great.
Posted by: BruceWayne Excuse me, sir. You didn't mention the Rhianna cover Stay. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:01 PM (ftFVW) 113
Excuse me, sir. You didn't mention the Rhianna cover Stay.
Posted by: She Hobbit Hahah also great. But stay by itself is a good song. The others suck. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:02 PM (YZ0Fo) 114
For decades, I wrote dozens of dittys, some serious, many silly. They came with tunes in my head, so I taught myself piano and doped out the tunes, but writing only chord notations. It wasn't that I thought my stuff was any great shakes, nor did I expect to make any money. The songs just forced themselves on me.
Had no musical friends or fellows, and no outlet for my stuff, other than some home-recorded cassettes for a few (very few) friends and relatives, which garnered a few disparaging or mocking remarks. My wife and daughter have played a few of mine, which was nice. A decade ago, before my hands and voice failed, I recorded a series of videos with most (but hardly all) of my songs for YooToob. The recording quality is not great, performances flawed (mostly first takes warts and all), but at least the songs are out there. With caption lyrics. FWIW. Sometimes, despite lack of demand, or interest, I annoy a music thread with a link to a song. Like this short and silly one: 🎶 🎹 amateur hour again 2 Percent Vim Pondering power and restraint A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #5, 2016 Sep 8 Link in nic. Should play from 0:21 to 2:48 in the vid. 🌅 Posted by: mindful webworker - inspiration comes from wherever at August 29, 2026 09:04 PM (ie4vn) 115
Hahah also great. But stay by itself is a good song. The others suck.
Posted by: BruceWayne Fair. Our Last Night also did a cool cover of Benson Boone's Beautiful Things. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:04 PM (ftFVW) 116
75 Fuck y'all.
I write the songs... bitches. Posted by: Barry Manilow at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (2Cry5) for those that don't know/... "I Write the Songs" is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston. Barry Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 Posted by: zigggggy at August 29, 2026 09:05 PM (EDeJ/) 117
Probably unexpected but Mel Brooks is a hell of a song writer. I'm Tired (Blazing Saddles), The Inquisition (History of the World), Springtime For Hitler, The French Mistake, Men In Tights, and others. He wrote High Anxiety as a Sinatra spoof. It's a pretty good song on its own. He wrote the lyrics to the Blazing Saddles theme song.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (yTvNw) 118
Cale's song After Midnight was on Clapton's first solo album. He did a lot of cale's songs after that. Before that Clapton had already been in The Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith and was in Derek and the Dominos at the time
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (EZWVc) 119
That's dope
Posted by: BruceWayne Leo's breakout song was his cover of Toto's "Africa." As "breakout" as a one-man-band cover artist in Norway gets, anyway. https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (VHUov) 120
A weird songwriting dichotomy. Sonny Curtis of the Crickets wrote I Fought the Law. Later he wrote the theme to the Mary Tyler Moore Show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 09:08 PM (EZWVc) 121
Starting to believe Chris Cornell was a ling of covers. I love Sinead's rendition of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 You. But Chris's is better.
Just today discovered Chris covering Billie Jean and it is *chef's kiss*. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:09 PM (ftFVW) 122
Ummm king not ling. *facepalm*
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:11 PM (ftFVW) 123
Probably unexpected but Mel Brooks is a hell of a song writer. I'm Tired (Blazing Saddles), The Inquisition (History of the World), Springtime For Hitler, The French Mistake, Men In Tights, and others. He wrote High Anxiety as a Sinatra spoof. It's a pretty good song on its own. He wrote the lyrics to the Blazing Saddles theme song.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (yTvNw) He was a drummer. Just like Phil Collins. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:12 PM (rbvCR) 124
Ummm king not ling. *facepalm*
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:11 PM (ftFVW) Good cod, you make me fish around for meaning. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:13 PM (rbvCR) 125
Starting to believe Chris Cornell was a ling of covers. I love Sinead's rendition of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 You. But Chris's is better.
Just today discovered Chris covering Billie Jean and it is *chef's kiss*. Posted by: She Hobbit There was an album that was put out in 2020 after his death called "No one sings like you anymore". All covers. The sinead cover. Patience. Janis joplin. ELO. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:16 PM (YZ0Fo) 126
Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0) 127
There was an album that was put out in 2020 after his death called "No one sings like you anymore". All covers. The sinead cover. Patience. Janis joplin. ELO.
Posted by: BruceWayne I liked Patience okay, but didn't feel like it added to or otherwise surpassed GnR. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:18 PM (ftFVW) 128
I liked Patience okay, but didn't feel like it added to or otherwise surpassed GnR.
Posted by: She Hobbit Don't disagree but on the whole the album is amazing. His stay with me baby is just wow Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:20 PM (YZ0Fo) 129
119 That's dope
Posted by: BruceWayne Leo's breakout song was his cover of Toto's "Africa." As "breakout" as a one-man-band cover artist in Norway gets, anyway. https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw Posted by: mikeski Weezer with Weird Al Yancovich also covered Toto's 'Africa'. It was oddly very good! youtu.be/mk5Dwg5zm2U Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:20 PM (AdHga) 130
Starting to believe Chris Cornell was a ling of covers. I love Sinead's rendition of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 You. But Chris's is better.
Yep. Cornell's version is beautiful. The best, IMO. Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:22 PM (AdHga) Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:22 PM (YZ0Fo) 132
Yep. Cornell's version is beautiful. The best, IMO.
Posted by: Puddleglum Cornell's version of everything is the best. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:23 PM (YZ0Fo) 133
Johnny Cash covering 'Hurt' by NiNs and Trent Reznor admitting it's Johnny's song now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:23 PM (AdHga) 134
Johnny Cash covering 'Hurt' by NiNs and Trent Reznor admitting it's Johnny's song now.
Posted by: Puddleglum Rusty cage too. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:25 PM (YZ0Fo) 135
Johnny Cash covering 'Hurt' by NiNs and Trent Reznor admitting it's Johnny's song now.
Posted by: Puddleglum 100%. I still like the NIN original, but Johnny's just hits the soul harder. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:26 PM (ftFVW) 136
Really Great music thread, TRex. I enjoyed it a great deal. Pity the regulars are falling down on the job. Er...you didn't eat them, did you?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 09:27 PM (CHHv1) 137
136 Really Great music thread, TRex. I enjoyed it a great deal. Pity the regulars are falling down on the job. Er...you didn't eat them, did you?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 09:27 PM *** Thanks! Just trying to help the team, coach... Posted by: TRex - DJ jazzy dino at August 29, 2026 09:29 PM (XfIK1) 138
How the hell could I have forgotten Henry Mancini? Shame on me. All those movie themes and the theme to Peter Gunn.
BTW, his daughter Monica is a lovely singer. Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 09:30 PM (yTvNw) 139
100%. I still like the NIN original, but Johnny's just hits the soul harder.
Posted by: She Hobbit "And you can have it all, my empire of dirt" has to hit harder coming from a old man with a glorious musical legacy, vs a 20-something punk, eh? Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:31 PM (VHUov) 140
And you can have it all, my empire of dirt" has to hit harder coming from a old man with a glorious musical legacy, vs a 20-something punk, eh?
Posted by: mikeski What made it work for me was more than the lyrics which ya hit hard. It was the taking industrial and stripping it down to basically nothing. Like industrial rock/metal and old school country couldn't be more diametrically opposed. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:34 PM (YZ0Fo) 141
What made it work for me was more than the lyrics which ya hit hard. It was the taking industrial and stripping it down to basically nothing. Like industrial rock/metal and old school country couldn't be more diametrically opposed.
Posted by: BruceWayne Kind of Our Last Night in reverse. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:35 PM (ftFVW) 142
Lyrically, "Hurt" is brilliant. It's almost two different songs. Depends on if you're listening to the NiN version or Johnny Cash's.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:39 PM (AdHga) 143
Black Spikes' debut album came out yesterday, if your taste in music is as weird as mine.
https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s Narrator: That seems unlikely. Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:39 PM (VHUov) 144
Earle Hagen wrote the jazz classic "Harlem Nocturne" --
and also the theme songs to Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 29, 2026 09:40 PM (zdLoL) 145
Foo Fighters did a whole album of Bee Gee covers IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:43 PM (KC5Lt) 146
Black Spikes' debut album came out yesterday, if your taste in music is as weird as mine.
https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s Narrator: That seems unlikely. Posted by: mikeski Oh, that's sick. In the good way. Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:44 PM (ftFVW) 147
Foo Fighters did a whole album of Bee Gee covers IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at The tribute concert that Shane Hawkins played drums after Taylor died was cool af. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:46 PM (YZ0Fo) 148
Black Spikes' debut album came out yesterday, if your taste in music is as weird as mine.
https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s Narrator: That seems unlikely. Posted by: mikeski That's cool. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:47 PM (YZ0Fo) 149
100%. I still like the NIN original, but Johnny's just hits the soul harder.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:26 PM (ftFVW) Reznor wrote it, Johnny lived it. His video is heartbreaking. Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 09:47 PM (GWwCk) 150
Lyrically, "Hurt" is brilliant. It's almost two different songs. Depends on if you're listening to the NiN version or Johnny Cash's.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:39 PM (AdHga) NIN was nihilism in the face of it, Johnny Cash was resignation in the aftermath. Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:51 PM (rbvCR) 151
But that is grim.
Here is the Noori sisters with Red Hot Chili Peppers-like backing youtu.be/F3VYORQhhWY Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:53 PM (rbvCR) 152
Reznor is one lefty a hole I cant overlook just like Springsteen.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:53 PM (KC5Lt) 153
I think Earle Hagen also did a bunch of the music for the Culp/Cosby I Spy.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 29, 2026 09:54 PM (q3u5l) Posted by: Miklos presages at August 29, 2026 09:54 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:56 PM (YZ0Fo) 156
Or perhaps the same, but different in many significant, even fundamental aspects, but with notable and equally significant similarities.
Posted by: Miklos presages at August 29, 2026 09:57 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (ftFVW) 158
I checked out a couple oldies I haven't heard in years recently:
- Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins - Elo Kiddies by Cheap Trick (Both of them are still bangers) Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (sOtuf) 159
Trent Reznor is from Mercer, PA. A small town that is the county seat. Lots of farms around, a 1/4 dirt track that races on a summer Saturday night, and lots of Amish about. Nice town but yea, he's a commie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (AdHga) 160
And now for something completely different
Or mostly completely different Posted by: Miklos presages Okay. https://youtu.be/pKgK3XXxt40 Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:59 PM (VHUov) 161
Phrasing...
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (ftFVW) ------- Exactly.. past tense please. Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 09:59 PM (sOtuf) 162
What one might perceive as a dis- or asymmetry, might appear to another as a basic, even visceral natural harmony.
Posted by: Miklos presages at August 29, 2026 09:59 PM (4RYRd) Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov) Posted by: Musical Miklos, having provocatively summoned the ONT deities at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (4RYRd) 165
Just recently I realized that Josh Groban's 'Alla Luce del Sol' wasn't recognized by my laptop's iTunes program. (Yeah, I'm a luddite. I don't stream, I listen to music from my hard drive) It was on my hard drive, but it hadn't been added to the iTunes library. It used to be, but somehow they got de-linked sometime when updating from an older laptop to the current one. Fortunately, that problem has now been rectified.
That song left a big impression on me, back when I was in college. (at the turn of the century...) Posted by: Castle Guy at August 29, 2026 10:02 PM (3v7ra) Posted by: yara at August 29, 2026 10:03 PM (WUJRe) Posted by: Unrelenting Miklos at August 29, 2026 10:03 PM (4RYRd) 168
A recent music purchase; the new album from Xandria. Almost entirely on the strength of 'Northstar.' Melodic/Operatic Metal, with a female lead. I think the original songwriter from Nightwish may be involved with the group, now. Anyways, the chorus of that song (specifically, the melody of the chorus) really stuck in my head. I recommend it.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 29, 2026 10:10 PM (3v7ra) 169
Our Last Night...I'm pretty sure I've stumble across them before. Pretty fun. I love metaling-up pop songs (I just listened to "I'm With You" and "Come Clean" while reading this thread) but I wish they would ditch the screaming. In my opinion, screaming is the worst thing to come out of the metal genre...
On a similar note, I'll recommend Lords of the Trident. Great music (epic-metal-ish, no screaming) coupled with a 'we filmed the music video in our back yard' aesthetic. Their cover of "Glint" is on par with the original (and the original singer makes a cameo in the video) and "Carry of the Flame" is actually better than the original! Posted by: Castle Guy at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (3v7ra) 170
@137 "Coach"? I haven't been called that since long before you were born...
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (CHHv1) 171
Some old friends from Pittsburgh wrote Beautiful You by the Oak Ridge Boys and Lord I Hope This Day is Good by Don Williams. Both number one country hits. Some other big hits by Mel Tillis as well.
Posted by: TNDeplorable at August 29, 2026 11:10 PM (xKbSi) 172
D'Oh! I can't believe I missed the music thread. I actually had a topic and everything.
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