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Wesley Yang
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It really is true that 9/11 is coming to be memorialized chiefly, if not solely, as an attack on Muslims

Transracial pioneer Rachel Dolezar is now a Certified Sex and Relationship Coach, surprising nobody.

Degenerate Kennedy layabout and clout-farmer Jack Schlossburg's "girlfriend" says he's cheating on her with 200+ women, which must mean he's running again for higher office. Gay Democrats always leak it that they're knee-deep in mish before a run.


Karol Markowicz
@karol

States are suing the Trump administration to allow people who can't sustain themselves to be able to get green cards and one of the (very bad) arguments is that reducing participation in food stamps is bad for local businesses. Make any of this make sense.

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Communist-jihadist theater kid Zohran Mamdani gave a press conference with "Big Tish" James in which he announced that if you come after all of his millions of cousins illegally sucking up public assistance, you'll have to go through him first. That sounds easy. The gigantic sasquatch Tish James, less so.

By the way, he had a little giggle-party with Alexandria Donkey-Chompers while they were reading the names of the dead during the 9/11 memorial he desecrated.

Chuck Ross reports that Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has promoted numerous race hoaxes to gin up hated against the white Christian majority.

I know this stuns you to hear.

Abdul El-Sayed Promoted Infamous Hijab Hate Crime Hoax, Despite Warnings from Police

The Democrat has a long history of making unverified and false claims alleging anti-Muslim discrimination

Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed falsely claimed in a 2012 essay that an Iraqi refugee in California was brutally murdered in an anti-Muslim attack because she had the "courage to wear a Hijab." In truth, Shaima Alawadi's husband killed her in an act of domestic violence that he staged to look like a hate crime.

El-Sayed, in an article on March 28, 2012, equated Alawadi's killing with the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, as examples of the "racism, xenophobia, and hate" in American society against minorities.

"Trayvon and Shaima were both murdered in cold blood," asserted El-Sayed, because they fit "archetypes indicted by American society as foreign, dangerous, and evil."

Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, died on March 21, 2012, after she was bludgeoned with a tire iron at her home in El Cajon, Calif. Police found a note at the scene of the crime that stated: "Go back to your country, you terrorist."

Though police cautioned early on against jumping to conclusions about the motive--specifically saying they were not at the point of calling the death a hate crime--El-Sayed and other left-wing pundits latched onto the theory that Alawadi was the victim of a hate crime.

According to El-Sayed's article in Mic, a liberal digital publication targeted at younger readers, Alawadi's killer targeted her because she had "the courage to wear a Hijab in a society where Muslims are openly vilified for the crimes of others."

But it's El-Sayed who vilified the wrong party for the crimes of another.

Alawadi's husband, Kassim Alhimidi, was arrested for his wife's murder after police uncovered incriminating text messages and evidence that Alawadi planned to divorce her husband and flee to Texas. Alhimidi, an Iraqi refugee who trained U.S. soldiers to fight in the Middle East, was convicted of murdering his wife in April 2014 and sentenced to 26 years in prison.

There is no record that El-Sayed has ever corrected his false claims about the murder.

The former CNN analyst has a history of making unverified or false claims about anti-Muslim discrimination.

El-Sayed published a CNN essay on Sept. 11, 2012, that claimed the health of Muslims and Arabs was "another victim of 9/11." In the piece, El-Sayed cited a California study that purportedly found a 34 percent spike in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11, which El-Sayed attributed to the "discrimination and marginalization" Muslim women faced after the terrorist attacks. But El-Sayed curiously omitted his own study that found no such increase, the Washington Free Beacon reported. El-Sayed wrote in his study that his "findings contrast with the only other published study that has assessed the relationship between mass trauma and birth outcomes of a specific group." El-Sayed further found that Muslim and Arab women had lower rates of premature births than black or white women.

His shaky claims in the 2012 essay were notable in that the previous year he had completed a doctorate in public health and would go on to work as an epidemiologist.

El-Sayed has continued to use the Islamophobia trope on the campaign trail.

Carnegie Mellon "professor" -- I'm sure she's a real academic standout -- has been suspended.

Not fired, just suspended.

For this absolute racist filth:

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She then posted a video saying that the "white racist pedophiles" who objected to being told to die so she could dance on their graves would not win.

And so far, she's right. Of course.

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Carnegie Mellon University
@CarnegieMellon

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely.

John Cornyn has said nothing about this, of course. However, he did attempt to blow up a Republican candidate for Railroad Comissioner for noticing that a very high percentage of UT students seem to be Indian and not Texan or American.

Talarico, of course, jumped on this.

Talarico also opined that we're all basically kindergartners and so we should have kindergartner-level policies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM




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NBC Boston Doxxed the Juror by Providing Specific Details of His Arrest Allowing Anyone to Find His Name Through Court Records; Defense Lawyer's AWFUL Wife Goaded the Media Into "Getting" the Juror

This article originally had the full details of the arrest of the Black Man Who Didn't Take Orders from Old White Women.

Andrew @ Don't Walk, RUN!
@DontWalkRUN

15h

UPDATE: Sadly, I was right. The holdout juror was doxxed yesterday by several users on X. All because @NBC10Bosto showed a graphic with the following info:

* The juror's DOB
* The original charge (265/13M/B-0 A&B ON FAMILY / HOUSEHOLD MEMBER c265 s.13M(a))
* The date of the arrest
* The date of the arraignment
* The location of the court

In fact, I was easily able to do a search on http://masscourts.org
, enter the details, and put two and two together to figure out what his name is (which I will not be providing here.)

But the fact remains: there is no way that I -- or anyone else -- would have been able to track down his info without the details that NBC Boston provided.

I hope he gets a lawyer and sues the hell out of them.

Massachusetts like most other states makes it a felony to harass and injure -- including emotionally -- a juror:

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But I'm sure that's one of the many, many laws "journalists" say they're allowed to break when they deem it lucrative and I'm sure left-leaning judges have agreed with them.

NBC Boston's main "journalist" on this story is about as clownishly partisan an AWFUL as can be. She didn't write that story -- some "guy" named Ryan did -- but she's been cheerleading Lindsay Clancy.

And she's had some real #HotTakes previously:

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

25m

I thought this was an SNL skit at first but it turned out to just be more Sue O'Connell hackery.

Jan 2024. O'Connell makes the "objective" case that Biden is the superior choice when it comes to health and mental sharpness over Trump.

"Everybody needs to take an objective sort of look at this."

"When it comes to physical fitness, I think Joe Biden is a very healthy old man. There's no doubt about that."

"Some of the mistakes that Joe Biden makes, he's been making for 80 years. Right. We've been listening to Joe Biden misspeak and confuse things for 80 years."

"[Biden] has a very successful presidency."

"Now, Donald Trump is not the picture of health. He does not look great. The things that he's confusing, it's not like he's misspeaking."

She then compares Trump to Kamala and her word salads.

Maddow-tier hackery here from the "journalist" chosen to be the face of Clancy coverage by NBC Boston.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

"Journalist" Sue O'Connell has been at the forefront of the local Clancy coverage. Glowing puff pieces on the female jurors and promoting 'investigations' into the lone holdout.

This was her take on celebrations of Luigi Mangione:

"I checked the feeds of a number of those people who were celebrating this murder, and they weren't trolls or haters."

"That anger could be harnessed, and it could actually fuel efforts again for maybe something like Medicare For All, like Senator Bernie Sanders has advocated for."

This is the "journalist" NBC Boston decided was the right person to shape their Clancy coverage.

Honestly surprised MSNOW doesn't have O'Connell in a primetime lineup slot.


Now, I suspected the leak might have come from the defense attorney the AWFULs found so charming and heroic, Kevin Reddington.

The fact that his AWFUL wife was cheering on the media to locate the "rogue" juror makes me suspect him further.

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Remember, the baby-murder-promoting lawyer has a motion in for the judge to disregard the mistrial and call Lindsay Clancy innocent by his own power. This very coordinated hit-piece on the Black Who Said "No" to White Woman seems to be part of a PR campaign to convince the judge to just pretend the Black Man Has No Voice At All.

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Gee, I hope no angry people "visit the homes" of the Reddingtons or the Alpha Karens like they encouraged people to "visit the home" of the "rogue" juror. Because that would be bad!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM




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1 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 04:50 PM (CWTWj)

2 This is the most broken HTML Ace has achieved yet!

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

3 Wow.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (l3cgK)

4 What happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (+gK6I)

5 Why is the media doxxing a black man? Or is he a white/black man like the white hispanic stuff?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (I43vL)

6 Well ain't that somethin'

Posted by: 496 at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (FqCIy)

7 Nice Formatting, Ace.

Bang up job.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (zRd05)

8 Wide site is wide

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (3cUTc)

9 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (hG5L0)

10 Im giving this a wide berth

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (fapp/)

11 Wide Load...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (l3cgK)

12 This story is amazing. In a case were 11 jurors refused to convict AN ADMITTED CHILD MURDERER the one juror that did vote to convict is in danger for his vote.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)

13 Now that we have widescreen, can someone post some boobs?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (2ocoG)

14 marginally difficult

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (CWTWj)

15 That fixed it.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (zRd05)

16 Alright everyone's getting a probing this evening. Gird your loins. Or I guess, don't.

Posted by: The Greys at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

17 This is the most broken HTML Ace has achieved yet!
---
nope.

Busty lesbian pron instead of Flight 93 reigns supreme.

All other LaMont the Big Dummy attempts are for second place.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (3cUTc)

18 Sue O'Connell....Let's see:

Androgenous hair
multiple chins
overweight
spouting nonsense opinion
displaying narcicism opinon as fact


Yup. She's a "BLOB"

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (dIske)

19 CBD's gonna blow a fuse...again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (FZ29D)

20 This feels fancy, not like a mistake. 😊

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

21 Try unplugging it and then plugging it back in.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (zRd05)

22 Straight to jail, all of them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (zjgNU)

23 Awesome breadth and depth! woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (VyBeY)

24 Who blew the margins? CBD gonna be mad.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (lJ0H4)

25 Also:


W I D E

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (zjgNU)

26 Driving behind the semi hauling the crane in that pickup truck with the flashing lights

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (MDua2)

27 >>"When it comes to physical fitness, I think Joe Biden is a very healthy old man. There's no doubt about that."

That's some tip top, totally objective analysis.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

28 19 CBD's gonna blow a fuse...again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (FZ29D)

I knew Dildos used batteries, but I didn't know they were fused...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (l3cgK)

29 can we get a whoa bundy?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (CWTWj)

30 Holy wide margins, Batman!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (O7YUW)

31 Deb Reddington, in a former life, would've been suggesting that Emmett Till was making advances at her.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (nY0m2)

32 Now that we have widescreen, can someone post some boobs?

Ok, here is a nice pair of boobies. Aren't they best out in nature just hanging out there? https://tinyurl.com/mswrfx6u

Posted by: The Greys at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

33 Piper might be right, this is positively luxurious!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (VyBeY)

34 The Clancy jury broads sure do have a lot of time on their hand.

Posted by: Bake Me A Pie Woman at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (P4iUb)

35 Do not redeem the box~~!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (HeG1i)

36 27 >>"When it comes to physical fitness, I think Joe Biden is a very healthy old man. There's no doubt about that."

That's some tip top, totally objective analysis.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

He's also a genius amongst the Alzheimer set. An unoffical spokesman for adult diapers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (l3cgK)

37 biden was fit to listen to his handlers, dat' what counted

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (CWTWj)

38 Those witches on the jury were always gonna find the child murderer innocent..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (+gK6I)

39 Fucking garbage, evil humanoid.

Also, THIS is ace's colon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (zZu0s)

40 Sigh...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (k5CNB)

41 Centered
grey boxed in
blown margins

All that's missing is the bolded italicans and a wall of link.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (3cUTc)

42 Reddington had several bar complaints filed against him in June for extorting fees and misusing client funds.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (XvL8K)

43 32 Now that we have widescreen, can someone post some boobs?

Ok, here is a nice pair of boobies. Aren't they best out in nature just hanging out there? https://tinyurl.com/mswrfx6u

Posted by: The Greys at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

I woulda gone for some Great Tits...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (l3cgK)

44 it would be a shame if someone doxxed the employees of NBC10 in Boston.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (mseD3)

45 fortunately i have wide vision

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (CWTWj)

46 NBC Boston: We maintained our journalistic integrity.

Count de Monet: You're not journalists and you have no integrity!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (wVcYX)

47 @28/jim (in Kalifornia): "I knew Dildos used batteries, but I didn't know they were fused..."

If your dildo ends up fused, you didn't use enough lube and may need a trip to the ER.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (O7YUW)

48 Too early in the week for me to want this many people dead.

Love the margins!
Jason Arday!
Even from the dead!
You magnificent bastard!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (Sco7b)

49 Who could have guessed that a random non-political murder trial would be the last Tenga-block-removal that could the United States to disintegrate?

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 04:58 PM (Av6i5)

50 Lamont never would have made this egregious HTML syntax error

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 04:58 PM (fapp/)

51 Guillotine!

Posted by: Madame Defarge knits at September 14, 2026 04:58 PM (4NO2D)

52 47 @28/jim (in Kalifornia): "I knew Dildos used batteries, but I didn't know they were fused..."

If your dildo ends up fused, you didn't use enough lube and may need a trip to the ER.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (O7YUW)

I bet there's a code for that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:58 PM (l3cgK)

53 Those witches on the jury were always gonna find the child murderer innocent..

Me before: Witches, yeah right

Me now looking at MA: Well, ok, maybe there is something to this idea...

Posted by: The Greys at September 14, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

54 IF we want to continue to live by laws and not by the mob, a LOT of people need to go to jail for intimidating this juror.

I'm guessing that Massachusetts prefers rule by mob, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (zjgNU)

55 quote gone, wide remains.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (nY0m2)

56 Remember the green dildos are only for WNBA approved usage

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm)

57 Oh hey, the grey got fixed. I wonder when the centering and the WIIIIIIIIIIDE gets fixed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (zjgNU)

58 Centered
grey boxed in
blown margins

All that's missing is the bolded italicans and a wall of link.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (3cUTc)

Web 1.0 was whack.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (dK+Kv)

59 The greys are gone

But the centerists and the wide-ians remain...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

60 Wider ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (+gK6I)

61 13 Now that we have widescreen, can someone post some boobs?
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (2ocoG)

Demora Avarice has her some very wide boobs and even she wouldn't blow these margins!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (wVcYX)

62 Still centered, but better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (l3cgK)

63 Now wide gone...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

64 [insert old man in hip waders dangling a dollar bill at the end of a fishing pole]

Oh! you almost got it, Ace!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (3cUTc)

65 E V E N W I D E R !

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (nY0m2)

66 The Fat Margin Acceptance people are going to be pissed.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)

67 I'm not ashamed to say the wide boys were my friends!

( -- Billy Joel)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (wzUl9)

68 The greys are gone

But the centerists and the wide-ians remain...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

The center cannot hold

Posted by: Rough beast slouching at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (TbWk/)

69 Do. Not. Like.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (No2m8)

70 I would not buy a house from Deb Reddington.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (4NO2D)

71 Told ya'.

That Plug Trick always works.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (zRd05)

72 I feel so centered.

Posted by: The Dog at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (XodLO)

73 sigh. back to being a normal post.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (nY0m2)

74 The Clancy jurors are too homely for the coverage of this case to continue. America's eyeballs can only take so much.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (ca8Qt)

75 Thank you, CBD.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

76 Oh, all fixed.

What was this post about again?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (3cUTc)

77 65 [insert old man in hip waders dangling a dollar bill at the end of a fishing pole]

Oh! you almost got it, Ace!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:01 PM (3cUTc)

https://youtu.be/KaFkAFP_JRI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (l3cgK)

78 I think the OJ comparison falls flat -- didn't the LAPD really try to falsify evidence for that case (in spite of the fact that he was guilty)?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (tK8kH)

79 Wider ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 05:00 PM (+gK6I)

Oh god YEEEESSSSSSS

Posted by: Catherine the Great at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (TbWk/)

80 Nice. Only took two refresh clicks.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 14, 2026 05:02 PM (QFchU)

81 IF we want to continue to live by laws and not by the mob,

Imagine wanting to not live by the mob *cough*repealthe19thadvocates*cough*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (vJrRc)

82 I thought MA had a law about juror intimidation, EVEN after the trial. Further, I believe it had very long sentences.

How about the DA in some slightly Red jurisdiction in MA charging this crime on any parties to which it could be reasonably applied.

Ten years in jail for a doxing and media feeding frenzy should take some of the fun out of that party.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (HlyYF)

83 We are double wides now or the sandwich I just ate went bad. Fun times til diarrhea, I guess?

Sue O'Connell just glows lesbo with a twist of pan, doesn't she/it/they/dogfaceponysoldier? Her face looks like it got smushed in a tailgate. Where was I?

I noted that two of my classmates at the reunion wore the liberal plastic black glasses but we had fun anyway on Friday. I did, anyway.

Oh, were they surprised to be doxxing a BLACK man? Not that they should have done this to begin with...but A BLACK MAN? Where is Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton when you need them?

I hope the man sues them all the way to the point their puthy hats are the only thing left in their thong drawer.

I don't care that he has a DV claim. That wife was probably a nagging nutcase like these jurors. Which made him immune to the screeching harpies.

He could look like Richard Pryor after he caught his face on fire free-basing cocaine I'd still be on his side.

I'm not sleeping well, by the way, and have a touch of psycho going on. [In the event I offended anyone]

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (hzuYO)

84 Oh, the site took Ozempic! Works fast, that drug

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (vJrRc)

85 The Clancy jurors are too homely for the coverage of this case to continue. America's eyeballs can only take so much.

There is a reason the beach boys didn't have a line for Boston girls in their California girls song...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

86 Its actually crazy how many laws these fucking assmonkeypiss jurors and even the dildo lawyer's wife are likely breaking harassing the holdout juror while at the same time complaining that he's the one that broke the law

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (fapp/)

87 Web 1.0 was whack.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (dK+Kv)
---
We're still on 0.8 beta.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (FZ29D)

88 The dude still getting the ads
Is probably still centered.

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske)

89 Not a lawyer, but are there not some violations of the law here that could be pursued and prosecuted? Wait, what’s that??? Massachusetts? Ah, nevermind then.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:04 PM (Gqar8)

90 Oh god YEEEESSSSSSS
Posted by: Catherine the Great

*snort*

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 05:04 PM (lJ0H4)

91 Better than a double wide.

Posted by: carl in space #10 at September 14, 2026 05:04 PM (ehY6c)

92 We're still on 0.8 beta.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM

I remember 0.71 fondly.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:04 PM (4NO2D)

93 This is a modern-day lynching.

For real, this time. Angry white mob hunting down a lone black man.

Most people don't realize that every lynch mob in history felt morally justified. They always think they're "the good guys" in the situation. The lynching victim is always depicted as a villain who needs punishment. No one thought they were being "racist" (besides which, the vast majority of lynching victims weren't even black, but that's a different story). They just thought hey were meting out morally correct punishment.

What's happening to day is no different from a white mob lynching a black man they're chasing through the bayou with torches. Except this, time, the mob has purple hair.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (Av6i5)

94 Still shocked no post on the death of Bob Mackie. He caused world wide rhinestone shortages twice!

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

95 If this had happened to me, you'd better believe I'd be looking for a lawyer to sue.

Then again, Massachusetts . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)

96 Jury trials aren't long for this nation. Obviously.

And the alternative will be worse.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (No2m8)

97 Did she Kill the children?
Yes.
Guilty.
So he is no shining example of humanity. Neither are the screaming scheming harpies on that jury. ALL did illegal acts. Just goes to show there is no reason to be on a jury. You probably will not survive it.

Posted by: Kafiroon at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (VyFya)

98 The Clancy jurors are too homely for the coverage of this case to continue. America's eyeballs can only take so much.

There is a reason the beach boys didn't have a line for Boston girls in their California girls song...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

Heh.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:06 PM (wVcYX)

99 Its actually crazy how many laws these fucking assmonkeypiss jurors and even the dildo lawyer's wife are likely breaking harassing the holdout juror while at the same time complaining that he's the one that broke the law
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

They're trying for the "laws for thee but not for me" option, not realizing that it's reserved for Congress and the 3-letter agencies.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:06 PM (vJrRc)

100
No clue who the Mackie was.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (/QHx4)

101 What's happening to day is no different from a white mob lynching a black man they're chasing through the bayou with torches. Except this, time, the mob has purple hair.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026

***
And they have to stop and rest every fifty yards, and consume some Twinkies for energy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (wzUl9)

102 96 Jury trials aren't long for this nation. Obviously.

And the alternative will be worse.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (No2m

And after that- well we know what comes after that.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (Gqar8)

103 Uh oh

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (4NO2D)

104 What tubal and Unvaxxed Ranger just said - there must be multiple serious violations of law here involving jurors.

Federal angle on that, even though underlying case is state?

Tempting to write off the country with crap like this (which is just a near-daily event now) - but we recovered from racist jury nullification in the civil rights' era south, so theoretically we can overcome outrageous injustices like this?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (U/Byj)

105 Jurors should be sequestered. From each other!

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (AKptf)

106 100
No clue who the Mackie was.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (/QHx4)

He was FABULOUS!!!!

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:07 PM (Gqar8)

107 No clue who the Mackie was.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026

***
Famous in the '70s for doing Cher's dresses, and some for Carol Burnett, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

108 whoa! who did this ??!!

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (AKptf)

109 82 I thought MA had a law about juror intimidation, EVEN after the trial. Further, I believe it had very long sentences.
...

Ten years in jail for a doxing and media feeding frenzy should take some of the fun out of that party.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (HlyYF)

--
Based on Andrew Branca's reading of the statute last night on his YT, if the trial is for a life offense then the penalty is up to 20 years.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (nY0m2)

110 where's the FCC?

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (88C+u)

111 What just happened???

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (Gqar8)

112 Can you disbarred for this sort of thing?

I know of course this person wont, but any other sort of lawyer involved in a case that used his wife to doxx and intimidate a jury member should have their law license taken away.

You really are talking about getting this person killed to say nothing of due process.

Posted by: Leupold at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (jq3HI)

113 Sue O'Connell just glows lesbo with a twist of pan, doesn't she/it/they/dogfaceponysoldier? Her face looks like it got smushed in a tailgate. Where was I?
....

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:03 PM (hzuYO)

She has not known the loving touches of any man.
Butter would not melt in her mouth.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (wVcYX)

114 Keep the gray, undo the centering.

Leave the gun, take the .....

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (U/Byj)

115 Still not ashamed of the wide boys! Keep the faith, baby!

( -- Billy Joel)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

116 wow. This is a new one

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)

117 Jury trials aren't long for this nation. Obviously."

Singapore. Centered.

Posted by: man at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (pfXMo)

118 Related: if you didn't see the movie "Barbie", check out the opening scene.

Little girls are shown in a bleak landscape, wearing dull clothes, and playing with lifelike baby dolls, while the voiceover intones that life for girls used to be like this ("ask your mom," it snarkily adds). Until....

BARBIE! the hypersexual doll with sky-high heels, impossible figure, and cat-eyed shades appears, with a sliver of the moon over its head, like the Monolith in "2001." Then the girls stare up, amazed.

And then they start to violently, gleefully smash the heads of the baby dolls, like the Ape started to bash bones with a club in "2001." Doll heads break and fragments fly.

Predictive programming, anyone?

Posted by: Beverly at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (reMys)

119 Posits:
- The defense attorney went all-in on this, pushing past ethical and legal boundaries because he knew he was going to get disbarred for the other stuff.

- But winning this case sets up a multi-million dollar book deal.

-When he resigns in lieu of sanctions and it all gets swept under the rug.

It fits the oddly pesonal anger at the loss.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (3cUTc)

120 94 Still shocked no post on the death of Bob Mackie. He caused world wide rhinestone shortages twice!
Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (ZdaMQ)
__________________________

The Sultan of Sequins.

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (dIske)

121 I refreshed and the comment box took our the side wall of the house. Again.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (tK8kH)

122 Can you disbarred for this sort of thing?

Harsh. Usually Ace just corrects the html.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (4NO2D)

123 Whoa!

Posted by: Neo at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (wVcYX)

124 Ah, rebound wideness. Happens a lot with crash diets.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (vJrRc)

125 53 Those witches on the jury were always gonna find the child murderer innocent..

Me before: Witches, yeah right

Me now looking at MA: Well, ok, maybe there is something to this idea...
Posted by: The Greys


In more civilized times, we used to burn witches.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (sAmhv)

126 (besides which, the vast majority of lynching victims weren't even black, but that's a different story)

One of the most notorious cases of a lynching was Leo Frank - he was a Jewish guy who was accused of murdering a young girl in his factory.

Most investigators believe the culprit was actually a black man named Jim Conley who worked at the faciility who successfully misled both the cops and the mob that came for Frank.

So to your point, the mob thought they were meting out justice but they got the wrong guy...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

127 that judge said and did several things that are absolutely forbidden and even some illegal, he needs to be disbarred and standing before the court himself. Either he's trash or he was so cucked by his wife he started going nuts at the end of the trial.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (K32Fz)

128 Sue O'Connell looks like a Sally Jessy Raphael-Rachel Maddow lovechild.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)

129 Sue O'Connell says she has a child. Can somebody do a welfare check on the kid, please?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (33AwL)

130 LEON IS GETTING LARGER!

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (ca8Qt)

131
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (/QHx4)

132 Me before: Witches, yeah right

Me now looking at MA: Well, ok, maybe there is something to this idea

Yeah.... second look at witch trials?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (K32Fz)

133 Whoa. Blog expansion underway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (33AwL)

134 The new, all inclusive format. And I mean ALL INCLUSIVE. The post button is somewhere off the page, though.

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (AKptf)

135 LoL!!

Almost there, Ace!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (sAmhv)

136 Predictive programming, anyone?
Posted by: Beverly

Only if you watched the movie.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (vJrRc)

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (4NO2D)

138 "Wide boys," in British criminal and cop slang, means, well, those who are criminal -- who don't "walk the straight and narrow."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

139 [/]

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (AKptf)

140 No clue who the Mackie was.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026

***
Famous in the '70s for doing Cher's dresses, and some for Carol Burnett, I think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

Just a dress Carol B. saw hanging in the window.

Posted by: Gone With The Wind at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (wVcYX)

141 Screw the content, I'm just here for the format changes!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (ZOv7s)

142 The children were murdered and then lynched by Massachusetts court room mob.

Posted by: carl in space #10 at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (ehY6c)

143 Good, margins restored. Now, the centering.

KEEP THE GRAY

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (U/Byj)

144 Only gray and centered now. Wide body gone.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (Gqar8)

145 Whoa, this suckers big.

Posted by: Tiny E at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (4NO2D)

146 Did Ace turn his AI loose on the formatting?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (33AwL)

147 The holdout juror could have been Christopher Lloyd harkening back to his role as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III.

AWFuLs: You must vote for Temporary Insanity!

Lloyd: No!

AWFuLs (shrieking): Why?

Lloyd: Because you wish it!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (O7YUW)

148 He really wants us to read the content, putting that black box back in.

Y'all be good now, it's not like any old crow could do this.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (3cUTc)

149 I thought MA had a law about juror intimidation, EVEN after the trial. Further, I believe it had very long sentences.

Relax, its MA, those racist DAs wouldn't even think of going after a lynch mob.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (BvPIe)

150 Hmm. Bitch faced white women vs black man.

I’d take that bet. That black men go further conservative.

Thanks so called girls but unsure!

Posted by: Hamitchell62 at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (SkT0j)

151 Ace is just trolling us now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (FZ29D)

152 Wow, thank god that's all fixed. Now back to just pop up ads.

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (enNUy)

153 Ace acid

Posted by: carl in space #10 at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (ehY6c)

154 I don't know if I can keep up with Ace's "improvements."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (k5CNB)

155 Fkin Cultural Marxists

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)

156 Yeah.... second look at witch trials?

Of course the irony there is Salem took its teen girls's concerns too seriously and that got a bunch of people killed...

We still don't know if the girls fell into mass hysteria or were getting people killed intentionally but either way the elders should not have listened to them...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

157 Ah, rebound wideness. Happens a lot with crash diets.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:09 PM (vJrRc)

And slump busters.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (wVcYX)

158 Huzzah! Sound the tumbrils and loose the flugelhorns!

Proper formatting is retored!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (vJrRc)

159 Somebody roofied the blog.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (33AwL)

160 It was big, that's all I'm saying. I don't mean nothin' by it.

Posted by: Tiny E at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (4NO2D)

161 Out: Wide-Mouth Frog.
In: Wide-Mouth Blog.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (Av6i5)

162 It's hard to believe these people are my neighbors and fellow countrymen. There is no excuse for murder.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (5C90x)

163 Down in El Salvador right now. Not a bitch faced white woman for miles and miles. Gracias, Bukele.

Posted by: Hamitchell62 at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (SkT0j)

164 Well, dang.

I liked the two shades of grey as they were easy on my eyes. Like Paul Walker.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:14 PM (hzuYO)

165 The holdout juror could have been Christopher Lloyd harkening back to his role as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III.

AWFuLs: You must vote for Temporary Insanity!

Lloyd: No!

AWFuLs (shrieking): Why?

Lloyd: Because you wish it!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026

***
Kruge was insane even for a Klingon. His own men were scared of him.

That said, I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer a Kruge in some cases to these shrieking harpies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:14 PM (wzUl9)

166 But, that black holdout juror was an aspiring rapper just turning his life around.

Or doesn't that work in this case?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

167 No clue who the Mackie was.

Some old sodomite from the 70's...good riddance.

Posted by: Zombie Liberace at September 14, 2026 05:14 PM (P4iUb)

168 Liked visiting the Cape of Cod, Fenway and I'm not far from the Berkshires. I would not go to Massachusetts if you paid me

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 05:14 PM (N2HNb)

169 138 "Wide boys," in British criminal and cop slang, means, well, those who are criminal -- who don't "walk the straight and narrow."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

Wide boys, wide boys
Whatacha gonna do?
Whatacha gonna do when they watching you?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

170 I like big blogs!

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot, Laird of the Horde Hip Hop Contingent at September 14, 2026 05:15 PM (33AwL)

171 Out: Wide-Mouth Frog.
In: Wide-Mouth Blog.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026

***
Hey! I resent that!
( -- Clarence "Frogman" Henry)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:15 PM (wzUl9)

172 Marginal content here today.

Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter at September 14, 2026 05:15 PM (Fn+3X)

173 Remind me. What's the distinction between a "cultural" Marxist and a Marxist?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 05:15 PM (No2m8)

174 We still don't know if the girls fell into mass hysteria or were getting people killed intentionally but either way the elders should not have listened to them...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)
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If there's one thing that history should teach us it's that if young women are suddenly all about something, that Something is probably a really bad fucking idea.

- Salem witch trials
- Prohibition
- Beatlemania
- Supporting a triple murderer

And that's just the high spots from the last few centuries. I'm sure there are more.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)

175 Alarums and excursions amid the AI

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:16 PM (wzUl9)

176 Did Ms. Reddington accuse the juror of breaking up her chifforobe?

Posted by: To Shill a Mocking Bird at September 14, 2026 05:16 PM (Zun+i)

177 173 Remind me. What's the distinction between a "cultural" Marxist and a Marxist?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 05:15 PM (No2m

Functionally, none.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (Gqar8)

178 A GiveSendGo campaign for the "unnamed holdout juror" was organized & over $110,000 has been raised. The funds are intended to cover security, potential legal fees, and lost wages following a public backlash, allegations that his identify was compromised through unredacted court documents, and heavy medical scrutiny into his past.

The situation has drawn national attention, allegedly with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis publicly criticizing the media's handling of the juror's privacy & offering 'asylum' in the state if the harassment in Massachusetts persists.

Of course the Court is also currently focused on evaluating how the juror's background info. was obtained in the 1st place, and also whether he falsely filled out the initial vetting questionnaire pre-trial.

Today, the MA Governor, Maura Healey, announced the state's Executive Office of Public Safety and Security has stepped in to ensure the juror's immediate physical safety. Further, judge handling the case requested that the U.S. Marshall Service evaluate the ongoing threats to the juror.

NBC

Watch the steps taken now to protect the jurors - past and future.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (NFX2v)

179 Speaking of MA the governor was asked why MA has about the most expensive energy in the nation. Her answer? Because of Trump.

Which makes no logical sense.

It would be like the governor of NJ blaming Trump for why his state smells or the governor of NY blaming Trump for why an assault team is killing pet squirrels in her state...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (sKqQm)

180 Remind me. What's the distinction between a "cultural" Marxist and a Marxist?

Access to guns?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)

181 It was big, that's all I'm saying. I don't mean nothin' by it.
Posted by: Tiny E at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (4NO2D)

I wish mine were bigger. Then I wouldn't have died in Thailand getting an enlargement done.

Posted by: Igho "Tiny" Ubiribo at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (wVcYX)

182 Raymond Reddington >>>>>> Attorney Reddington

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (Gqar8)

183 147 The holdout juror could have been Christopher Lloyd harkening back to his role as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III.

AWFuLs: You must vote for Temporary Insanity!

Lloyd: No!

AWFuLs (shrieking): Why?

Lloyd: Because you wish it!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (O7YUW)

Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer!

Posted by: Rick Sanchez, holdout juror at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (TbWk/)

184 175 Alarums and excursions amid the AI
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

AoS -- come for the formatting hijinks, stay for the obscure 1970s D&D references.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (Av6i5)

185 If there's one thing that history should teach us it's that if young women are suddenly all about something, that Something is probably a really bad fucking idea.

- Salem witch trials
- Prohibition
- Beatlemania
- Supporting a triple murderer

And that's just the high spots from the last few centuries. I'm sure there are more.
Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026

***
Beatlemania . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)

186
With all the coverage of the Clancey trial I don't know how a retrial can happen.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (/QHx4)

187 Q: this just proves the whole system of patriarchy and restrictions on women's rights was justified as women are, in fact, too emotional and helpless slaves to their hormonal swings.

A: It would be mean to take away all our hard-fought rights!

Q: But you've not denied the factual and historical basis is sound.

A: Us woman are going to kill you, your family and burn your houses down!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (3cUTc)

188 I miss the ED ad with the Melons granny.

Posted by: Don't Get Out Much at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (Fn+3X)

189 166 But, that black holdout juror was an aspiring rapper just turning his life around.

Or doesn't that work in this case?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

He dindu nuthin' as far as I can tell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

190 Has anyone asked Mitch McConnell what he thinks of this trial?

Posted by: Mildly Curious at September 14, 2026 05:19 PM (2Ez/1)

191 You know this will help the Marxists on the next trial as well, no one in Massachusetts will go against the group

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 05:19 PM (Ia/+0)

192 Wasn't "Wide Boys" a Duran Duran song? "Wild Boys" was on the title but I always heard it was wide.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 05:19 PM (88C+u)

193 Alarums and excursions amid the AI
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
AoS -- come for the formatting hijinks, stay for the obscure 1970s D&D references.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026

***
Shakespeare used to play D & D?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

194 Rolling Stones gather no girls!

Posted by: Beatlemaniac at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (Fn+3X)

195 If there's one thing that history should teach us it's that if young women are suddenly all about something, that Something is probably a really bad fucking idea.

- Salem witch trials
- Prohibition
- Beatlemania
- Supporting a triple murderer

And that's just the high spots from the last few centuries. I'm sure there are more.
Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)

You just want to date Lindsey.

Posted by: AOC reasoning at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (TbWk/)

196 191 Has anyone asked Mitch McConnell what he thinks of this trial?
Posted by: Mildly Curious

It happened over ten miles away from where he lives

Posted by: which is the fields of elysium at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (88C+u)

197 I thought the charges against the hold out juror were dismissed? Is that not the case?

Anyway right thinking people have to get behind this juror now that he's been outed. . I don't care if he has voted 100% Democrat his entire life. . He did the right thing against immense pressure when he could have done the easy thing.

He needs to know he has support.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (KC5Lt)

198 If there's one thing that history should teach us it's that if young women are suddenly all about something, that Something is probably a really bad fucking idea.

- Salem witch trials
- Prohibition
- Beatlemania
- Supporting a triple murderer

And that's just the high spots from the last few centuries. I'm sure there are more.
Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)

I hope you're not including me on that list, 'cause I'd be All Shook Up.

Posted by: Elvis, in a Texas nursing home hunting Bubba Ho-Tep at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (wVcYX)

199
Officially, the juror's identify is still officially protected because the Judge legally impounded and sealed the jury list for 14 days following mistrial, and the juror has not publicly identified himself.

Ha /sarcasm

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (NFX2v)

200 Beatlemania . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)
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Yes. Beatlemania was a mass formation psychosis of young women who thought the Beatles were cute. That's all.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (oqH4h)

201 Wasn't "Wide Boys" a Duran Duran song? "Wild Boys" was on the title but I always heard it was wide.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026

***
I knew a cute girl back then who took her nickname from the "Rio" song.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (wzUl9)

202 "...and also whether he falsely filled out the initial vetting questionnaire pre-trial."
_________

Just him? One of the female jurors has an assault and battery charge from 2002.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (XvL8K)

203 Identity

Sorry

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (NFX2v)

204 I hope you're not including me on that list, 'cause I'd be All Shook Up.
Posted by: Elvis, in a Texas nursing home hunting Bubba Ho-Tep at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (wVcYX)
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Elvis pretty much singlehandedly blended the Southern gospel tradition with country and rock to create what we know as rock 'n' roll. He is not on the list.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:22 PM (oqH4h)

205 Its abusive to question the women on that jury.

Funny innit? And supporting repeal of the 19th is the same as seeking mob rule.

Posted by: Such strange things I learn at September 14, 2026 05:22 PM (TbWk/)

206 203 Identity

Sorry
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (NFX2v)

I am married. I can relate.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

207 Salem witch trials
- Prohibition
- Beatlemania
- Supporting a triple murderer

And that's just the high spots from the last few centuries. I'm sure there are more.
Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)


That's not just women. Mob mentality makes people stupid or at least unwilling to look at all sides . Flock cameras and AI data centers are at this point.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:23 PM (KC5Lt)

208 5 Why is the media doxxing a black man? Or is he a white/black man like the white hispanic stuff?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (I43vL)


He is a runaway plantation slave

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 05:23 PM (5rh/l)

209 Huh, I was wrong. Wiki - The idea for the song came from longtime Duran Duran video director Russell Mulcahy, who wanted to make a full-length feature film based on the surreal and sexual 1971 novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs.

Mulcahy probably would have been terrible, but imagine Kubrick on that project!

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 05:23 PM (88C+u)

210 When it comes to mass psychoses, the Sniffle Scare should be on the list.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:24 PM (wzUl9)

211 >>>Has anyone asked Mitch McConnell what he thinks of this trial?

Posted by: Mildly Curious

>Mitch's staff said he'd like another 3 weeks to rehab and study the case.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 05:24 PM (5C90x)

212 If we kill a few jurors for standing up for law and order, we will win so many more cases, and achieve "justice".


- The left

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (0U5gm)

213 202 "...and also whether he falsely filled out the initial vetting questionnaire pre-trial."
_________

Just him? One of the female jurors has an assault and battery charge from 2002.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 05:21 PM (XvL8K)

Female, therefore superior. Also, it's a man's fault, or men's fault at large because patriarchy. She thus bears no fault, accountability or responsibility for her alleged actions which, if they even hapoened, were a completely logical and necessary act of self-defense against a violent oppressive system designed by and for the advantage of men.

Posted by: If you can define a man that is at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (TbWk/)

214 ***
Famous in the '70s for doing Cher's dresses, and some for Carol Burnett, I think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

And…
Dolly Parton
Marilyn Monroe,
Diana Ross,
Elton John,
Tina Turner,
Madonna,
Barbra Streisand,
Bette Midler,
Whitney Houston,
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Sabrina Carpenter
Miley Cyrus
Barbie

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

215 Yeah.... second look at witch trials?

Of course the irony there is Salem took its teen girls's concerns too seriously and that got a bunch of people killed...

We still don't know if the girls fell into mass hysteria or were getting people killed intentionally but either way the elders should not have listened to them...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM


No different than the mass hysteria over the day care child sexual assault craze back in the 80s that swept the country. Innocent people went to jail for decades based on "repressed memory" testimony from kids that were coached on what to say by prosecutors including the infamous martha cloakley.


The entire country lost it's collective mind back then. People went so far as to dig up the fells acre day care center parking lost looking for secret tunnels leading to launching sites for hot air balloons piloted by clowns that would take the kids to a remote place so they could be sexually abused.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (I43vL)

216 @118...Barbie.

I was reading the other day, while wasting time (I do this well) about women now having plastic surgery for "The Barbie Waist."

Going a bit further than the removal of a rib bone (like some past starlets who are insane), the plastic surgeon goes in & bends the rib. I honestly don't read much if not super into it, other than here, and could have this wrong.

Pain to look like this is not my idea of spending tens of thousands of dollars. The pounds I need to lose are apparently holding my face up vs some of the people I saw at the reunion (I didn't know them). All had the Karen haircut and glasses. Thank goodness no politics or pro-Clancy people. I only knew 3 women and we 4 were the most normal.

I had a photo taken of me and my two friends who lived above me in a historic old house. One has a chubby face as well and looks pretty good. The California girl was tanned, rested, skinny, and my dude said she's a bit leathered. I thought she looked good.

If I lost a lot of weight will my face fall like a bloodhound? Dragging my bottom eyelid down? This worries me. We are talking about 20lbs, not 200lbs as I am not as fat as Lizzo. My covid pounds have fossilized. Sad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (hzuYO)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell explains at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (4NO2D)

218 Nearly 200 years of abuse by the Democrats, and black folk still vote for them since the 1960’s. I no understand.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (Gqar8)

219 I had read people arguing that, had he voted with the rest, she wasn't going to go free, that she would have been committed to an asylum. (not discussed is "how long")

And I think that's wrong.

I think the defense was, "I can't be guilty for this crime because at only that moment, I wasn't in my right mind. (But, I'm all better now.)"

So I think she would have walked free if he hadn't been the last vote for sanity.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (3cUTc)

220 Elvis pretty much singlehandedly blended the Southern gospel tradition with country and rock to create what we know as rock 'n' roll. He is not on the list.
Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:22 PM (oqH4h)

Dat hip-swaying white cracker man stole my Hound Dog song!

Posted by: Big Mama Thornton at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (wVcYX)

221 Has anyone asked Mitch McConnell what he thinks of this trial?

Posted by: Mildly Curious
*
>Mitch's staff said he'd like another 3 weeks to rehab and study the case.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026

***
Might as well ask Tutankhamen or Thutmose III his opinion.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM (wzUl9)

222 Elvis pretty much singlehandedly blended the Southern gospel tradition with country and rock to create what we know as rock 'n' roll. He is not on the list.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:22 PM (oqH4h)

I don't know the exact numbers but I bet he broke 50 million hearts when he first said the word "Priscilla".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM (6ydKt)

223 So the looney women are siding with the baby murderer/serial killer because the murderer is the victim in this case.

The oppressors are the medical establishment and anyone arguing that it isn't acceptable to murder anyone for hormonal reasons?

And as was said earlier this is a warning to the next jury.

You've come a long way baby.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM (WhtqQ)

224 I've always been more an Akhenaten man myself.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

225 You've come a long way baby.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM


*cough*cough*

Posted by: Virginia Slims at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (rsrpl)

226 No different than the mass hysteria over the day care child sexual assault craze back in the 80s that swept the country. Innocent people went to jail for decades based on "repressed memory" testimony from kids that were coached on what to say by prosecutors including the infamous martha cloakley.


The entire country lost it's collective mind back then. People went so far as to dig up the fells acre day care center parking lost looking for secret tunnels leading to launching sites for hot air balloons piloted by clowns that would take the kids to a remote place so they could be sexually abused.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (I43vL)

Some of the wilder claims included being transported by rocket ship to the moon (or Mars I forget which) to be sexually abused then returned to Earth for pickup. Also being sodomized with kitchen knives which, as one imagine, might leave juuuuuust a tad bit of physical evidence.

Posted by: Truly a season of madness at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (TbWk/)

227 There is no way the 19th amendment is going to be repealed unless perhaps we become a Muslim theocracy , and, IMO talk of it is intended to divide people and get leftist women to get out the vote in November.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (JrHfD)

228 "We're still on 0.8 beta."

and I for one am grateful every day!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (VyBeY)

229 223

You've come a long way baby.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM (WhtqQ)

Would make a good advertising slogan, that.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (Gqar8)

230 No different than the mass hysteria over the day care child sexual assault craze back in the 80s that swept the country.

Recently found out that, besides Janet Reno and 60 Minutes (gee thanks for nearly getting my D&D books confiscated, CBS), Gloria Steinem was also in on the McMartin pre-school case.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM (88C+u)

231 Heh, you think this juror's hated, have you ever had acid thrown in your face after a match, vegetables thrown, death threats-they even burned my Cadillac-because they're jealous! I'm still the most hated man on the Island of Japan! Worse than Truman!

Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM (Fn+3X)

232 The entire country lost it's collective mind back then. People went so far as to dig up the fells acre day care center parking lost looking for secret tunnels leading to launching sites for hot air balloons piloted by clowns that would take the kids to a remote place so they could be sexually abused.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM (I43vL)

Some of the wilder claims included being transported by rocket ship to the moon (or Mars I forget which) to be sexually abused then returned to Earth for pickup. Also being sodomized with kitchen knives which, as one imagine, might leave juuuuuust a tad bit of physical evidence.

Posted by: Truly a season of madness at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (TbWk/)

Kids say the darnedest things.

Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstein at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM (QI2E+)

233 Juries actually sent people to prison after hearing the ridiculous testimony in those Satanic preschool cases.

That is disturbing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM (4NO2D)

234 So I think she would have walked free if he hadn't been the last vote for sanity.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026

No, she would have stayed in the facility she is in until her doctors said she was okay. The doctors have said she is not okay, but has made “vast improvements”. So it would not be a 35 year to life sentence for sure.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

235 Never. You work about you new and objectivity the angry. You ok lives what fantasy, believing trump's constant lies the denying climate truth

Posted by: Sid... who puts the anal in anal sex at September 14, 2026 05:30 PM (Ij9jN)

236 There is no way the 19th amendment is going to be repealed unless perhaps we become a Muslim theocracy , and, IMO talk of it is intended to divide people and get leftist women to get out the vote in November.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026

***
It begins to look as if the men, and the women too, who warned us about that amendment prior to 1920 were rather prescient. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)

237 No different than the mass hysteria over the day care child sexual assault craze back in the 80s that swept the country.

Recently found out that, besides Janet Reno and 60 Minutes (gee thanks for nearly getting my D&D books confiscated, CBS), Gloria Steinem was also in on the McMartin pre-school case.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM (88C+u)

De debbil was in de Smurfs. And the Care Bears. And Pokémon. And TMNT. And...hell, pretty much everything kids might like.

Posted by: A very different time indeed at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM (TbWk/)

238 The gaslight has come on.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM (Gqar8)

239 Pixy has been cooking up all kinds of stuff with the help of AI coding.

We might get lucky and go from 0.8 beta to Minx 2.1.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)

240 😂😂😂

Oh Sid. You adorable scamp!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (sAmhv)

241 We might get lucky and go from 0.8 beta to Minx 2.1.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM

[ YOU ] think so?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (4NO2D)

242 So Gavin and Jake went fly fishing together......

https://tinyurl.com/j82854sk

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (kX27y)

243 I do think there is a desperate but by-no-way-allowable feeling that there is something terribly wrong in the world for most of these highly socialized liberal women. The education they received accomplishes little, the promised status that turning their lives over to the liberal way of thinking had turned out to be worth little, and their depression and anxiety is being treated with meds that do little but make them feel even more empty and anxious.

The ones I brush against are terribly empty and are searching for something to fill their lives. Championing those like them that have done the horrible things they have considered might be the reason for this behavior.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (rbvCR)

244 Sounds like Ace took the "girthy" concept a bit too far.

Posted by: tsj017 at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (xakWh)

245 223

You've come a long way baby.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM (WhtqQ)

Would make a good advertising slogan, that.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:28 PM (Gqar

Just a silly millimeter longer!

Posted by: Benson & Hedges (Size Matters!) at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (wVcYX)

246 I've always been more an Akhenaten man myself.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026

***
Man was ahead of his time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:33 PM (wzUl9)

247 Posted by: Sid at September 14, 2026 05:30 PM (Ij9jN)

I find you not guilty by reason of insanity . The left all have this get out of jail free card.

Don't forget to take your medication.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:33 PM (KC5Lt)

248 There is no 'side' to objectivity and truth, Sid.

That entire post-modern view of things is why you lefties suck.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:33 PM (6ydKt)

249 Sounds like Ace took the "girthy" concept a bit too far.

Posted by: tsj017 at September 14, 2026 05:32 PM (xakWh)

Girls like big blogs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (QI2E+)

250 De debbil was in de Smurfs. And the Care Bears. And Pokémon. And TMNT. And...hell, pretty much everything kids might like.
Posted by: A very different time indeed

And that, kids, is why you don't have Saturday morning cartoons any more.

Also the CareBears and their mind-control rays were sus.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (vJrRc)

251 I had read people arguing that, had he voted with the rest, she wasn't going to go free, that she would have been committed to an asylum. (not discussed is "how long")

And I think that's wrong.

I think the defense was, "I can't be guilty for this crime because at only that moment, I wasn't in my right mind. (But, I'm all better now.)"

So I think she would have walked free if he hadn't been the last vote for sanity.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 05:25 PM


She never plead not guilty by reason of insanity, she plead not guilty. I suspect like you do that if she were acquitted she would walk free. I guess the judge could order her into a mental hospital for a short period for evaluation but that's about it. I am not a lawyer and have no idea how the system works in mass, but her plea in the case was a simple not guilty.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (I43vL)

252 Debbie Reddington looks like a Brookline schifoza who, after hitting the wall hard, sucked sugar daddy dick until she found the most unprincipled old fool to sink her harpy talons into.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (bX16E)

253 If I lost a lot of weight will my face fall like a bloodhound? Dragging my bottom eyelid down? This worries me. We are talking about 20lbs, not 200lbs as I am not as fat as Lizzo. My covid pounds have fossilized. Sad.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

You will lose some elasticity, because of stupid aging in general, how much depends on your age and your skin resiliency. It would not be bloodhound droopy at all, though.

Keep in mind I do not have a problem with a few tweaks, though. Botox is fine in my book and I promise you I will get a facelift. What I won’t do is look like a clown face full of filler.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

254 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar8)

255 Good thing about this trial. These people can never claim to have the intellectual or moral high ground again. They've been exposed.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 14, 2026 05:35 PM (wGerL)

256


"seems to be part of a PR campaign "

Remember, this is Blue Dem Commie Prog country, they all behave the same, and know the stakes.

This BLACK MAN is probably a MAGAT too!

They must destroy him, they must destroy him.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 14, 2026 05:35 PM (och2J)

257 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)

I don't think they were prescient . I think that the angry voices are magnified on Tik Tok because I don't think even all liberal women ( as opposed to leftist) support Clancy. Tik Tok is an op and social media is a scourge which is why I'm glad I don't use those platforms. This is the only place I comment

BTW. We have some nutty male voters out there too., but I don't think we should disenfranchise them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (JrHfD)

258 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

The Designated Hitter rule.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (k5CNB)

259 You've come a long way baby.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM (WhtqQ)

Would make a good advertising slogan, that.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 0
*
Just a silly millimeter longer!
Posted by: Benson & Hedges (Size Matters!) at September 14, 2026

***
In some ways I miss cigarette advertising. The ad agencies produced a lot of fun jingles and catch phrases.

Anybody remember when Dick Van Dyke, on the set of the Petrie living room, would do ads at the end of the shows for Kent cigarettes?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

260 Dat hip-swaying white cracker man stole my Hound Dog song!
Posted by: Big Mama Thornton

...that was written by two Jewish guys.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (Av6i5)

261 From above, Is the defense in cahoots with NBC and their commentator Sue O’Connell?

Mainstream media, as Rush used to say. 🤥

The defense has a bigger problem with the Clancy case then it's letting on. Also, notice was taken how it rudely dismissed and/or shutdown so many experts in the courtroom and repeatedly wanted documents/statements placed into the record "without objection."

No need to rehash the preplanning and the gore before dear mother, like a daughter to her main defense attorney.

And now things are becoming fu*ked up all around in trial courts.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (NFX2v)

262 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal

... about 6000 years ago when sin entered the world?

Or whenever you believe that happened.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (vJrRc)

263 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

1917

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (KC5Lt)

264 No, she would have stayed in the facility she is in until her doctors said she was okay. The doctors have said she is not okay, but has made “vast improvements”. So it would not be a 35 year to life sentence for sure.
Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
====================
So, maybe a month or so in the nut house for killing three innocent children. Then what, back to her job in the maternity ward?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (v1KtB)

265 Recently found out that, besides Janet Reno and 60 Minutes (gee thanks for nearly getting my D&D books confiscated, CBS), Gloria Steinem was also in on the McMartin pre-school case.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM (88C+u)
---
Given the way things have progressed, I'm wondering if that whole episode wasn't a psyop to make people believe pedophile conspiracies are ludicrous on the face of it. Basically laying the groundwork for reflexive skepticism regarding child trafficking.

"Oh, that's absurd, we already did that nonsense! Stop pushing discredited conspiracy theories!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (ZOv7s)

266 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

Obama.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (QI2E+)

267 The left always needs a group to demonize so they can implement the "solution".

The US Reich Progressive Party is identifying the group to be demonized as anyone who disagrees with them.

That's pretty much how the cultural revolution wound up with village barbeques of fellow villagers who were cultural enemies.

See Scarlet Memorial by Yi.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (jvkDG)

268 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

July 28, 1914?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (wVcYX)

269 Under MA law, Clancy could wheel free at some point unless the prosecution objects, and a judge rules she's no longer a danger. Right. No word from her dead children on their thoughts about her being free.

She manipulated her husband, family, friends and shrinks. She planned this like Ted Bundy and other serial killers. She could easily manipulate anyone.

I repeat: I have seen psychosis in the hospital and she was NOT psychotic to be able to plan these murders and time frame. Evil, yes.

However, she will need someone to help her with her basic needs for the rest of her life. Let's hope this someone does not let her have exercise bands.

I want her locked up forever til her last breath.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (hzuYO)

270 >>So Gavin and Jake went fly fishing together......


That was the gayest imitation of fly fishing I have ever seen.
If either of them had an actual fly on their rigs, one of them would have been hooked.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (zRd05)

271 62 It's hard to believe these people are my neighbors and fellow countrymen. There is no excuse for murder.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (5C90x)
They're not my neighbors. But I am required to love them and pray GOD through the Holy Spirit guides them to Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (LHPAg)

272
She should be killed by an exercise band.

Fair is fair.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (/QHx4)

273 My kingdom for an edit/delete button.

Posted by: Flies Off The Handle at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (Fn+3X)

274 The world hasn't been right since they fired up the Large Hadron Collider.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (4NO2D)

275 Nice State that Massachusetts. No wonder I avoid it like a plague. No humanity, just hate for anyone not towing the line for there way of thinking.

Posted by: Case at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (xJpuh)

276 >>Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?


The Suffrage Movement.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (zRd05)

277 271 62 It's hard to believe these people are my neighbors and fellow countrymen. There is no excuse for murder.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 05:13 PM (5C90x)
They're not my neighbors. But I am required to love them and pray GOD through the Holy Spirit guides them to Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM (LHPAg)

And some people think Christianity is easy.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (Gqar8)

278 Fu*k You NBC.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (2WIwB)

279 225 You've come a long way baby.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:26 PM


*cough*cough*
Posted by: Virginia Slims

They've just released the updated packets, but to go with modern trends, they're now called "Virginia Fats."

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (Av6i5)

280 But I am required to love them and pray GOD through the Holy Spirit guides them to Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 05:37 PM

while doing hard time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:39 PM (4NO2D)

281 BTW. We have some nutty male voters out there too., but I don't think we should disenfranchise them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026

***
Maybe we should. The old property qualification, a minimum age of 25, and a literacy test for voting would go a long way to restoring sanity to America.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:39 PM (wzUl9)

282 So, maybe a month or so in the nut house for killing three innocent children. Then what, back to her job in the maternity ward?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (v1KtB)

She can't walk so she'll be in some kind of assisted living setting no matter what.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

283 Shakespeare used to play D & D?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

Of course. The Tempest was clearly a campaign

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (rbvCR)

284 Juries actually sent people to prison after hearing the ridiculous testimony in those Satanic preschool cases.

That is disturbing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:29 PM


And martha cloakley the AG in Mass argued against letting an innocent man Gerard Amirault out of prison after he served almost 10 years based on bull$hit testimony from kids that they all recanted some years after the trial.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (I43vL)

285 Having botox shots in the top of the head for the cat face look in many women was already a bridge too far.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (NFX2v)

286 Democracy sounds great, until people get involved.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar8)

287 I imagine if she ever gets out Clancy will 'write' a book, which will be a NY Times bestseller, and set her up for life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

288 Western death spiral Garden of Eden B.C.

Posted by: carl in space #10 at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (ehY6c)

289 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar
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September 1, 2006 is a candidate. The day Roger Goodell took over the NFL.

But Woodrow Wilson's inauguration day March 4, 1913 is also a strong choice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM (v1KtB)

290 >> since they fired up the Large Hadron Collider.

It's now offline and will be for the next 4 years or so. This is the Long Shutdown 3 period. Major upgrades to increase "luminosity".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM (w6EFb)

291 274 The world hasn't been right since they fired up the Large Hadron Collider.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I suspect they accidentally created a black hole, the earth got sucked into it within the first millisecond, and ever since then we've been living in an evil alternate universe where not only does Spock have a beard, but juries vote to acquit murderers, Joe Biden was actually president, and New York elected a Muslim terrorist as mayor.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM (Av6i5)

292 >>Maybe we should. The old property qualification, a minimum age of 25, and a literacy test for voting would go a long way to restoring sanity to America.


This. Though I would slave participation to Locality, first.

Any system that starts at the County Level and works up to Federal Elections would be fine by me.

Government should local. Primarily.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM (zRd05)

293 O'Connell needs to be removed from her position as she is clearly hormonal and unable to present information and news in a fair and balanced way.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM (2WIwB)

294 The world hasn't been right since they fired up the Large Hadron Collider.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:38 PM (4NO2D)

10 September 2008.

A date that will live in quantum infamy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM (wVcYX)

295 285 Having botox shots in the top of the head for the cat face look in many women was already a bridge too far.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (NFX2v)


That is filler. Botox doesn’t do that.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

296 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

1865. Major acceleration points around the 1920s, 1940s, 1965-69, 1973, 2008, and reaching fever pitch no later than Trump I. Algorithm-driven social media has been a major catalyst for social destruction in recent times.

Posted by: The actual republic made it less than a century at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM (TbWk/)

297 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:39 PM (wzUl9

Well, yes, but moving the voting age forward would never happen either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM (JrHfD)

298 Crack of thunder here at 4:45 p.m. I wonder if it will actually rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

299 Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:41

I don't like this timeline and I want to go back to the before times.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 05:44 PM (WhtqQ)

300 298 Crack of thunder here at 4:45 p.m. I wonder if it will actually rain.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

Would you describe it as a 'delicate sound of thunder'?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 05:44 PM (xcxpd)

301 Keep in mind I do not have a problem with a few tweaks, though. Botox is fine in my book and I promise you I will get a facelift. What I won’t do is look like a clown face full of filler.
Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

**********
My dude still thinks I look good after meeting 50yrs ago. I will lose the extra flab but not fast, as I think (hope) that's the key. Eating well and exercise, which I have neglected this hot and hideous summer.

I will never have fillers because heaven knows where they'd migrate to. I had big lips and they have not gone away. No face lift, either. All me forever and I look much the same since college...no one needed to read my name tag. All there but the four of us looked like my MIL sort of (hair, eyeglasses, etc). It's attitude as well as sunscreen since my early 30's and first skin cancer, I guess.

If I wanted anything changed my husband would have said no, even decades ago. I yam wut I yam.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:44 PM (hzuYO)

302 298 Crack of thunder here at 4:45 p.m. I wonder if it will actually rain.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

Can you hear
Cany ou hear the thunder?
You better run
You better run for cover

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:44 PM (Gqar8)

303 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal

218 A.D., when Elagabalus became Emperor of Rome. That was when the shit really hit the fan, and it's been downhill ever since.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (Av6i5)

304 People talking about Lindsay Clancy “walking away” were she found not guilty are not paying attention. She is in a wheelchair due to her supposed attempt to take her own life after viciously murdering her three young children. Now unless you think she is faking her paralysis, she won’t be walking anywhere. Why am I making a fuss about a turn of phrase? Because you aren’t even looking at the coverage, yet still willing to opine about the situation. I know that’s an age-old tradition here at AOSHQ, but try to notice details. Otherwise you come off as shallow and oblivious.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (gqKkr)

305 Crack of thunder here at 4:45 p.m. I wonder if it will actually rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:42 PM


We are on day 66 of no rain here in NE Texas. Also I think we passed some sort of record for the most 100+ degree days this summer. It's has been the hottest summer since we moved here 10 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (I43vL)

306 I don't know if it's a man /woman difference but I'm watching the end of Gone Baby Gone. I wonder which side the viewing audience came down on the ending. I know the producers tried to lean toward making the decision made to be the wrong one and the one I agreed with.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:46 PM (KC5Lt)

307 ...that was written by two Jewish guys.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:36 PM (Av6i5)

I just sings them. That song was written for me and was my biggest hit. Then he sang it and I got left behind.

Posted by: Big Mama Thornton at September 14, 2026 05:46 PM (wVcYX)

308 236 There is no way the 19th amendment is going to be repealed unless perhaps we become a Muslim theocracy , and, IMO talk of it is intended to divide people and get leftist women to get out the vote in November.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026

***
It begins to look as if the men, and the women too, who warned us about that amendment prior to 1920 were rather prescient. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)


...Based on over 100,000 years of homo sapiens men witnessing the behaviors of the women. Then, in the West, over the course of only a few centuries, that accumulated lizard brain male knowledge and resultant instinct were deemed bad think.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 05:46 PM (5rh/l)

309 10 September 2008.

A date that will live in quantum infamy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:41 PM

That's when the rift demons got in.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)

310 This is when you find out (again) what the Left really thinks about black people.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 05:47 PM (vE0+H)

311 I've decided to break into my liquor cabinet and have a cocktail. I'm putting all this nutty stuff behind me tonight!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 05:47 PM (v1KtB)

312 Otherwise you come off as shallow and oblivious.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:48 PM (4NO2D)

313 254 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

August 1914 is a good start.

Arguments can be made for 2008 though. Or 9/11/01

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 05:48 PM (xcxpd)

314 People talking about Lindsay Clancy “walking away” were she found not guilty are not paying attention. She is in a wheelchair

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (gqKkr)

Please don't be obtuse.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 05:48 PM (vE0+H)

315 304 People talking about Lindsay Clancy “walking away” were she found not guilty are not paying attention. She is in a wheelchair due to her supposed attempt to take her own life after viciously murdering her three young children. Now unless you think she is faking her paralysis, she won’t be walking anywhere. Why am I making a fuss about a turn of phrase? Because you aren’t even looking at the coverage, yet still willing to opine about the situation. I know that’s an age-old tradition here at AOSHQ, but try to notice details. Otherwise you come off as shallow and oblivious.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (gqKkr)
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If you're trying to be a pedantic nitwit, maybe familiarize yourself with such terms as "turn of phrase" and "metaphor" and also perhaps "figure of speech."

Asshat.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:49 PM (oqH4h)

316 Otherwise you come off as shallow and oblivious.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (gqKkr)

You say that as if that's a bad thing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 05:49 PM (QI2E+)

317 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM


You do know that people here are using the term "walk" as a legal descriptive term right?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 05:49 PM (I43vL)

318 Jinx

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:49 PM (4NO2D)

319 Democracy sounds great, until people get involved.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar

Democracy was the alternate to warfare that was developed when the lords and nobility discovered that the masses had adopted pikes and arquebuses, and could organize in a way that took advantage of the fact that they outnumbered the "warrior" caste running things.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 05:49 PM (rbvCR)

320 Lindsay can't walk away from that wall she hit.

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 05:50 PM (enNUy)

321 Oh no
MacClemore has been tossed off Ed Sheeran's tour. I know a lot of music but I don't know either of these people.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 05:50 PM (N2HNb)

322 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM

June 12 1994
OJ

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 05:50 PM (vE0+H)

323 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (gqKkr)

Are you that dense and obtuse to scold people here?

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:50 PM (KC5Lt)

324 321 Oh no
MacClemore has been tossed off Ed Sheeran's tour. I know a lot of music but I don't know either of these people.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

One is a talentless hack, and the other is a talentless hack.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 05:50 PM (Av6i5)

325 Otherwise you come off as shallow and oblivious.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:45 PM (gqKkr)

You say that as if that is a bad thing.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at September 14, 2026 05:51 PM (wVcYX)

326 "Wide boys," in British criminal and cop slang, means, well, those who are criminal -- who don't "walk the straight and narrow."

https://youtu.be/ipmCyuIHLj0

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:51 PM (K32Fz)

327 Jinx

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (vE0+H)

328 @302

Silent Running
Mike and the Mechanics
1985

Love this song!

https://tinyurl.com/h6t5pzje

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (hzuYO)

329 T-storm just blew through here, dropping some much needed rain. No cooling, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (wVcYX)

330 Ctl-F Ctl-R walks/gets off/*g

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (4NO2D)

331 Oh, is 5:50 p.m EST the beginning of insult time at ASHQ? I'm out. I'd rather have a nice dinner and see more of Russell Crowe in "Cinderella Man" Goodnight all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (JrHfD)

332 If I'm called for jury duty, can I cite this case and all that followed as my reason for not sitting on a jury? For my privacy and safety.

Posted by: Cheri at September 14, 2026 05:53 PM (U0cOj)

333 You could say that as if it is a bad thing, but that is edging towards redundancy, which is never done here at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:53 PM (Gqar8)

334 331 Oh, is 5:50 p.m EST the beginning of insult time at ASHQ? I'm out. I'd rather have a nice dinner and see more of Russell Crowe in "Cinderella Man" Goodnight all.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (JrHfD)
----

Then just go. This isn't an airport, you don't need to announce your departure.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:53 PM (oqH4h)

335 *Flounces*

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 05:54 PM (oqH4h)

336 MacClemore has been tossed off Ed Sheeran's tour. I know a lot of music but I don't know either of these people.

Typically I don't know people like this either but Macklemore had one hit like 15 years ago, and Ed Sheeran sucks the least out of the modern musical scene.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:54 PM (K32Fz)

337 331 Oh, is 5:50 p.m EST the beginning of insult time at ASHQ? I'm out. I'd rather have a nice dinner and see more of Russell Crowe in "Cinderella Man" Goodnight all.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:52 PM (JrHfD)

Toodle-Ooo. Clock in tomorrow, Fen.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:54 PM (Gqar8)

338 MacClemore has been tossed off Ed Sheeran's tour. I know a lot of music but I don't know either of these people.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 05:50 PM (N2HNb)

Mackamore I can see but Ed Sheeran was the male Taylor Swift for a second. She out lasted him though .

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 05:54 PM (KC5Lt)

339 Still shocked no post on the death of Bob Mackie. He caused world wide rhinestone shortages twice!
Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

Looks up who dat? Oh, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 05:54 PM (1z8ji)

340 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Adam and Eve disobeyed God and hid in the garden.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:55 PM (K32Fz)

341 Being reported that Capitol police surrounded Mitch McConnell's house a little while ago. No sign of the man himself yet.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 14, 2026 05:55 PM (V362x)

342 Gee, I hope no angry people "visit the homes" of the Reddingtons or the Alpha Karens like they encouraged people to "visit the home" of the "rogue" juror. Because that would be bad!

----------

“I want to tell you, scumbags. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!

Let me tell you: You take on the MAGA Intel Community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you ..."

/Under which frock is Chuck U. Schumer presently hiding?

Posted by: ShainS at September 14, 2026 05:56 PM (JqXxE)

343 Being reported that Capitol police surrounded Mitch McConnell's house a little while ago. No sign of the man himself yet.

Its odd that Maxine Waters has been gone for just as long as Mitch but nobody seems to ever talk about it. It was announced last week that she has Alzheimer's but there's zero movement to remove her from committees or congress.

I guess they figure she can't get any dumber.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:57 PM (K32Fz)

344 340 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Adam and Eve disobeyed God and hid in the garden.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:55 PM (K32Fz)

Be a nice place if it wasn’t for all the people. Something something evil inclinations of the heart since their youth. People are basically no good. Takes an act of God to even modify that.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:57 PM (Gqar8)

345 Point taken. Shallow and oblivious is the norm. Roger.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:57 PM (gqKkr)

346 I'm sure the proximate goal is to taint the next jury for the demon whore.

But NBC Boston has no stake in that - they serve the Party, and the Party's goal here is to tell *EVERYONE* in our society "you will free the criminals we tell you to free, or we will kill *YOU.*"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 05:57 PM (BI5O2)

347 Being reported that Capitol police surrounded Mitch McConnell's house a little while ago.

They'll never take him alive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (4NO2D)

348 Adam and Eve disobeyed God and hid in the garden.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:55 PM (K32Fz)

Worst hide and seekers ever.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (QI2E+)

349 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

January 14, 1977?
That's the day Claudine Longet was acquitted of the felony charge of reckless manslaughter in the shooting death of Spider Sabich.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (wVcYX)

350 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Posted by: tubal

----------

The French Revolution.

Posted by: ShainS at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (JqXxE)

351 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?

Adam and Eve disobeyed God and hid in the garden.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 05:55 PM (K32Fz)

That’s not just the West.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:59 PM (gqKkr)

352 Worst hide and seekers ever.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (QI2E+)

Reminded me of one of my favorite tee shirts.

Picture of Big Foot and underneath' Hide and Seek World Champion'

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 06:00 PM (KC5Lt)

353 It's like we have our own version of community notes

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 06:00 PM (enNUy)

354 Being reported that Capitol police surrounded Mitch McConnell's house a little while ago.

They'll never take him alive.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (4NO2D)

There were seven Spanish angels
in the Valley of the Sun . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 06:00 PM (wVcYX)

355 345 Point taken. Shallow and oblivious is the norm. Roger.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:57 PM (gqKkr)
-----
Everyone here knows she's in a wheelchair, Einstein. You yourself acknowledged that "walk away" is a turn of phrase. Maybe try harder to be pedantic about something that actually makes sense.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 06:01 PM (oqH4h)

356 254 Anybody here able to pinpoint where the West started its’ death spiral?
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

Easy.

Marx & Engels - they introduced the bacillus, and it can't be stopped by any societal antibiotic.

What they did was expose a healthy organism with a millennium of more-or-less sensible development to a brain-eating amoeba to which it had no resistance, because it long forgotten many ancient evils.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 06:01 PM (BI5O2)

Republican Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Tiffany Survives After Plane Loses Engine Power and Crash-Lands in River; Media Minimizes Event

He's a sitting congressman, too.

planeinwater.jpg


Tom Tiffany
@TomTiffanyWI

Sep 13

While returning home from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner tonight, the plane I was traveling in lost power as we approached the Wausau Downtown Airport. The pilot made an emergency water landing in Lake Wausau.

After landing, we called 911. As the plane began to submerge, we exited the aircraft and swam to a shallow area, where we waited until emergency responders reached us by boat.

I want to express my deepest gratitude to the pilot, the Wausau Fire Department, and all of the first responders who came to our aid so quickly. They got us safely off the water and transported us to Aspirus Wausau Hospital, where we received excellent care. Thankfully, both the pilot and I sustained only minor injuries.

God was watching over us tonight, and I am incredibly grateful to be here in the hospital with my wife, Chris, by my side. An experience like this reminds you just how precious life is.



After the Butler assassination attempt, the left, including the vicious chaos-farmer media, downplayed Trump being shot by an assassin by pretending it was NBD to be hit in the ear with a bullet. They also invented conspiracy theories, never rebuked by Master of Conspiracies Jake Tapper, that he hadn't been hit at all and that it was either all fake or just a "harmless" ricochet.

And, of course, their fellow leftwing cultists urged and prayed for more skilled assassins to "finish the job."

The jihad left is following the same script today.

Arkadalo
@Arkadalo


A Wisconsin congressman just swam out of a sinking plane in the dark and the usual crowd will treat it like weather.

Tom Tiffany was heading home Saturday night from a Lincoln Day dinner when the Beechcraft lost power on approach to Wausau. Pilot Len Boltz, retired Air Force, had seconds. The plane hit Lake Wausau. They rode the fuselage until it started going under, then they swam 100 to 150 feet to water they could stand in. An airboat pulled them out about 15 minutes after the 911 call.

Tiffany needed 12 stitches over his right eye. Boltz needed four. Both walked away. Tiffany is 68, he is the GOP nominee for governor, and he said God was watching over them. He also said the campaign does not stop.

That is not a stunt. That is a man who spent the day shaking hands, got told to buckle up because they were going down, and still showed up the next morning with a bandage and a pulse. Precious life is not a slogan when you are treading water next to a sinking Bonanza.

Pray for both of them. Then remember how fast a normal night can flip. 🇺🇸

A "reporter" with the egregious communist rag the Journal-Sentinel helpfully pointed out that the plane crashed into water that was "only" 30 feet deep and as you know, all men are 30 feet tall so 30 feet of water presents no threat to them at all.

gravitydoesntseemlikemuch.jpg



Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY

Everyone knows you can't drown in 30 feet of water if you are a Republican.

And this guy wants Democrats to do what the plane crash failed to do:


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (yQ8Gj)

2 I hope the media typedelete typedeletes in a typey type of typedeletes.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (AANQ+)

3 I immediately started think sabotage and that the perpetrator is a non-binary karenc*nt tiktok psychopath

Is that wrong.... should I not be thinking that...

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (fapp/)

4 Great pilot!

People saying otherwise are disgusting.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (hzuYO)

5 this was an assassination attempt

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (j+aD2)

6 In fact, he thinks the voters should “do some of what the lake couldn’t”.
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We are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism and into the "we will murder you now" phase.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (AANQ+)

7 There is no living with these lefties. They are beyond vile.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

8 That is a man who spent the day shaking hands, got told to buckle up because they were going down, and still showed up the next morning with a bandage and a pulse.
_____

Pulse? Showoff.
‐ Mitch McConnell

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (+iuw/)

9 A "reporter" with the egregious communist rag the Journal-Sentinel helpfully pointed out that the plane crashed into water that was "only" 30 feet deep and as you know, all men are 30 feet tall so 30 feet of water presents no threat to them at all.

========

I mean, you can drown in an inch of water.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (AlVf0)

10 4 Great pilot!

People saying otherwise are disgusting.


absolutely! and Tiffany - good for him, that is NOT easy whatsoever

I love that *he* is downplaying it. Good man.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (j+aD2)

11 I immediately started think sabotage and that the perpetrator is a non-binary karenc*nt tiktok psychopath

Is that wrong.... should I not be thinking that...
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (fapp/)

They're fucked pigs. Sure you should.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (yQ8Gj)

12 From above looks like a Bonanza, the notorious doctor killer.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (LHPAg)

13 "Water is only 30 feet deep? No way you can drown in that."

-- Mary Jo Kopechne

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

14 Plane mechanic is a Democrat
Pilot is a Republican


betcha'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (BzKNL)

15 This is a great example of how the media works when you compare to the "ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT!!!111!" on the Ohio Democrat Gubernatorial candidate.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (zjgNU)

16 Was he trying to audit the Fed?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (l3cgK)

17
30 feet isn't that deep? Sure, that's why I always swim in the 30-foot section of the pool. Then, for diving practice, I go to the deep end.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (mmrXZ)

18 My favorite was the theory that Trump set up the butler shooting - "go out about 250 yards and nick me in the ear"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (2ap+5)

19 Glad he is ok!

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (Eng1Z)

20 Every year toddlers die by drowning in the 5 gallons bucket sold at Home Depot. It happens enough they actually keep statistics.

But no big deal here.

Posted by: White Liberal Woman Free Lindsey! at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (6VEkT)

21 You can drown in inches of water, let alone seven to thirty feet of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (wzUl9)

22 Is that wrong.... should I not be thinking that...
______

At least not unless you've also considered a tranny hopped up on opposite sex hormones.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (+iuw/)

23 A downed plane with a GOP candidate inside? Damn, those Ukraine drones really are good!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

24 Remember when Fetterman had his stroke? Remember that the Horde offered many prayers for his recovery? Remember when no one here wished him dead? I do. There is a qualitative quantifiable difference between us, and them.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (Gqar8)

25 9 A "reporter" with the egregious communist rag the Journal-Sentinel helpfully pointed out that the plane crashed into water that was "only" 30 feet deep and as you know, all men are 30 feet tall so 30 feet of water presents no threat to them at all.

========

I mean, you can drown in an inch of water.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (AlVf0)

An inch isn't anywhere near to even gag me.

Posted by: Kumala Whorris at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (l3cgK)

26 Don't see many Beachcraft Bonanzas around anymore. If that's what kind of plane it is.... sure looks like one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (2Cry5)

27 Not assassin*tion.

Altruistic aviocide.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (AANQ+)

28 18 My favorite was the theory that Trump set up the butler shooting - "go out about 250 yards and nick me in the ear"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (2ap+5)

========

One of the most elite snipers ever in the history of the world was a weird 17 year old kid who immediately got smoked the second he did it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (AlVf0)

29 Every year toddlers die by drowning in the 5 gallons bucket sold at Home Depot. It happens enough they actually keep statistics.

We need common sense Home Depot bucket control.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (2ocoG)

30 Wait. You can die in an inch of water?

*scribbles notes and scrolls Tik Tok*

Posted by: White Liberal Woman Free Lindsey! at September 14, 2026 03:49 PM (6VEkT)

31 Huh. Bonanzas usually prang it in.

They used to be called "Doctor killers" for a reason

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 03:49 PM (rbvCR)

32 29 Every year toddlers die by drowning in the 5 gallons bucket sold at Home Depot. It happens enough they actually keep statistics.

We need common sense Home Depot bucket control.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (2ocoG)

Common Sense Bucket laws...
Laws Against Assault Buckets...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:49 PM (l3cgK)

33 There is a qualitative quantifiable difference between us, and them.

*******************

I dont think its a coincidence either that with all the well wishing his stroke actually made him smarter

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 03:50 PM (fapp/)

34 The only real Beech Bonanza is the V-tail model.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 14, 2026 03:50 PM (GMWTj)

35 >>This is a great example of how the media works when you compare to the "ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT!!!111!" on the Ohio Democrat Gubernatorial candidate.

I'm curious to see how the media will try not cover the news about John Brennan. Only the former Director of the CIA running a coup attempt on an elected president. No biggie.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 03:50 PM (viF8m)

36 I personally have never celebrated or laughed at or even made off color jokes about the suffering of worse of any leftist, and I am frankly a little surprised at any of you who have. Let's not stoop to their level.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:50 PM (AANQ+)

37 This is like a jeopardy question right? How many feet of water does it take to drown?

More than 30?

Posted by: White Liberal Woman Free Lindsey! at September 14, 2026 03:50 PM (6VEkT)

38 Is it too soon to ask where Boelter was?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (rbvCR)

39 Let's not stoop to their level.
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I agree!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (AANQ+)

40 To explain the gravity of the situation. 30 feet doesn’t seem like much to me.

The gravity of the situation was pulling a plane down from the sky that landed in water.

It was only luck and a good pilot, and God’s good grace that they landed there.

Definitely a journalism major.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (6ydKt)

41 >>Every year toddlers die by drowning in the 5 gallons bucket sold at Home Depot. It happens enough they actually keep statistics.

But no big deal here.

Posted by: White Liberal Woman Free Lindsey! at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM

One of my cousins drowned in a mud puddle when he was about 2 years old. He fell and could not get up and out of the water because it was slippery. Probably no more than 6 inches deep.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (2Xqig)

42 30 feet is very deep and 99.99% of people on this planet will never go that deep.

The deep end of pools with diving boards is usually only 10-12 feet, maybe 15-20 if it's a high dive setup.

You can get the bends at 30 feet.

This "reporter" is an ignorant retard.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

43 Common Sense Bucket laws...
Laws Against Assault Buckets...

And chainsaws that can attach to buckets.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (2ocoG)

44 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (ccf/V)

45 Boy, it's a good thing these leftists explain how very tolerant and kind they are, because from these comments they make one could get a very different impression.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (Ntshk)

46 Remember that time Obama's personal chef, an experienced swimmer, "drowned" in barely 6 feet of water within yards of the shoreline?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (3cUTc)

47 I think it’s a Bonanza, they’re still around.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (LHPAg)

48 Everyone meet Fred Vaughn of Mineral Point, Wisconsin.



Do the world a favor, Fred.

#BarrelMouthTrigger

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (ccf/V)

49
I put sugar in the plane's gas tank. That makes it sweeter and better, can't you see that?

Posted by: Ruined Leftist Fanatic Who Acts Normal at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (iTNuP)

50 44 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (ccf/V)

*pats Sponge lovingly on his head*

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (Ntshk)

51 My favorite was the theory that Trump set up the butler shooting - "go out about 250 yards and nick me in the ear"

***********************

If you've heard of that ass-shit that is the Lanterns show, the dad fires a gun at an apple his son has on top of his head in order to train him not to be afraid, and never misses because no one can miss from 50 yards away according to leftarded writers of the show

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (fapp/)

52 From above looks like a Bonanza, the notorious doctor killer.

My dad said probably 50 years ago that the v-tail Bonanza was a deathtrap.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (vTZFs)

53 Hope Karnopp posted a follow up tweet with a mitigating explanation that sounds reasonable to me.

"I posted tweets earlier that were misunderstood. I was attempting to point out that the depth of the lake could have caused the plane to hit rocks, creating an even more dangerous situation.

I did not mean to imply the depth made the landing less serious. It was the opposite."

http://tiny.cc/zgha101

Posted by: bonhomme at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (mkw2N)

54 One of the most elite snipers ever in the history of the world was a weird 17 year old kid who immediately got smoked the second he did it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (AlVf0)

The left thinks Hollywood is an accurate representation of how guns work.

ALL of it: Shooting guns out of hands, shooting into a barrel, "just winging him", people being blown back by a handgun, etc...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (zjgNU)

55 Was he trying to audit the Fed?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (l3cgK)

Worse, he was going to audit the state correctional system in the state of Oregon.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (rbvCR)

56 If he'd have been of coler, he'd have sunk like a stone.

Posted by: Sinkers All at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (Fn+3X)

57
The deep end of pools with diving boards is usually only 10-12 feet, maybe 15-20 if it's a high dive setup.

You can get the bends at 30 feet.

This "reporter" is an ignorant retard.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)


You can damn sure blow your ear drums out at 30ft.

Like guns, the media have no f*cking clue what it's like out here in the real world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (ccf/V)

58 Stupid plane, your not a boat

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)

59 Is that wrong.... should I not be thinking that...
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

It's kind of understandable, but it's not particularly rational in the absence of more information.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (vJrRc)

60 A submerged plane still intact? Nice job by the pilots.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (5C90x)

61

30 feet doesn't seem like much to me.

Posted by: Long Tall Sally at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Cqx++)

62 >>> 288 Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'? Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (+gK6I)

A white AWFL who altruistically is revoking her "white privileges" and living in the privilege slums with the rest of the non-whites. It is the weirdest virtue signal.

I grew up as Mormon outside of Utah, you were either practicing or non-practicing. You went to church and did the whole thing, or you didn't and drank alcohol and stuff. So I know it as a religious term. (The term Jack Mormon, like a Jack rabbit, is also acceptable.) Atheist woke scolds really cannot leave religion alone, can they? They twist religious terms for social justice causes all the time.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Eng1Z)

63 You can drown in almost anything. A girl I dated back in the day had a cousin that drowned in a lake surrounded by his family and friends.

They thought he was faking it, just messing around. They could have easily rescued him. They literally just watched him die. They didn't take it seriously until it was too late.

She herself was on the dock about 10 feet from him.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

64 Willowed, but Hadrian we had a whole house vacuum system installed when we moved to our latest house. It is indeed very convenient and encourage y'all to look into it!

Posted by: DanMa'am at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (8uzBS)

65 If you've heard of that ass-shit that is the Lanterns show, the dad fires a gun at an apple his son has on top of his head in order to train him not to be afraid, and never misses because no one can miss from 50 yards away according to leftarded writers of the show

People doing that are a regular feature of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Awards videos. Some of them, especially drunken Mexicans for some reason, come out unscathed. Many others, especially those of the rap-listening persuasion, aren't so lucky.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

66
*pats Sponge lovingly on his head*
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (Ntshk)


It's good you know to treat the Special Ed class members special.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (ccf/V)

67 "shhyeah, it was only like, what, 30 feet of water? Local news"
--media

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (K32Fz)

68 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

69 "Don't see many Beachcraft Bonanzas around anymore."

Beechcraft as a company doesn't exist anymore - nor does Cessna. Both are just nameplates for the occasional plane built by Textron.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (GMWTj)

70
If the Communists win the House and Senate majorities in November The Left will move quickly to build an impenetrable election fraud system to assure permanent Commie rule.
Twits and twats like the Grand Old Pussy Thune will ……clutch their Republic-ending loyalty to the Senate filibuster till the bittter end….

Posted by: Voter theater. at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (FCPbW)

71 I got winged 18 times and lived to be over 90.

Posted by: Mannix at September 14, 2026 03:55 PM (Fn+3X)

72 If you've heard of that ass-shit that is the Lanterns show, the dad fires a gun at an apple his son has on top of his head in order to train him not to be afraid, and never misses because no one can miss from 50 yards away according to leftarded writers of the show

And nobody called the police, in a suburban home.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:55 PM (K32Fz)

73 70
If the Communists win the House and Senate majorities in November The Left will move quickly to build an impenetrable election fraud system to assure permanent Commie rule.
Twits and twats like the Grand Old Pussy Thune will ……clutch their Republic-ending loyalty to the Senate filibuster till the bittter end….

Posted by: Voter theater. at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (FCPbW)

========

How will they do that with Trump holding the veto pen and still in charge of the DOJ?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:55 PM (AlVf0)

74 30 feet? Jackie Jr (Aprile) almost drowned in 3 inches of water at the penguin exhibit...then again, he was a special needs kid.

In all seriousness, good for Tiffany swimming to safety. There's obviously retards online who are probably saying he did it on purpose for publicity, if they're not saying he should have drowned after the crash.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2026 03:55 PM (oPFtC)

75 I only got winged 3 times.

Posted by: Barnaby Jones at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (Fn+3X)

76 For the MSM, Republican candidates should neither be seen nor heard.

Unless it's bad news for the candidate, of course.

Posted by: mrp at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (rj6Yv)

77 68 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

It's an E-Plane and the sun is blocked by clouds?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (l3cgK)

78 The media is the enemy. They are a Fifth Column and frankly I'm surprised we've lasted as long as we have.
No self-governing people can last when it's information stream is this poisoned.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (INplz)

79 I'm curious to see how the media will try not cover the news about John Brennan. Only the former Director of the CIA running a coup attempt on an elected president. No biggie.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Cult of Death member, John Brennan?
The same John Brennan that set up Trump?
John Brennan DeepState devote'?

What happened to Joe DiGenova and his wife?
Who is going to replace them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (BzKNL)

80 Is being pissed off that the dems are a bunch of pussy evil little bitches really healthy? Clarifying, sure. But at least they are not offering sympathies we would know are fake.

Fuck off, Evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s)

81 If you've heard of that ass-shit that is the Lanterns show, the dad fires a gun at an apple his son has on top of his head in order to train him not to be afraid, and never misses because no one can miss from 50 yards away according to leftarded writers of the show


I particularly hated that scene

rrrr

that show is demonic

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:57 PM (j+aD2)

82 I got winged 18 times and lived to be over 90.
Posted by: Mannix at September 14, 2026 03:55 PM (Fn+3X)

Rockford got shot at few times. His car got blown up a few times as well.

Posted by: dantesed at September 14, 2026 03:57 PM (Oy/m2)

83 We can drop the fat leftist reporterette in 30 feet of water.... from a helicopter 250 feet up to see if she hits the bottom.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 14, 2026 03:57 PM (xvV+O)

84 Anyone who shoots a reporter is obviously suffering from psychoses and prescribed drug cocktails.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 03:57 PM (2ap+5)

85 >>So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Slowly, then all at once.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 03:57 PM (viF8m)

86 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)


Beechcraft. Likely a V6 aircraft engine. Fuel delivery issue. Spark issue. However, spark is per cylinder as there's a coil per cylinder. Most likely a fuel issue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (ccf/V)

87 Fuel pumps can go out. Vapor locks. No restart afterwards.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (Gqar8)

88 Any landing that you swim away from is a good landing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

89 73 70
If the Communists win the House and Senate majorities in November The Left will move quickly to build an impenetrable election fraud system to assure permanent Commie rule.
Twits and twats like the Grand Old Pussy Thune will ……clutch their Republic-ending loyalty to the Senate filibuster till the bittter end….

Posted by: Voter theater.
---

Is that when the fighting began?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (BzKNL)

90 A Man, a Plane, A candle....

Posted by: Wellstone Memorial at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (iHpv6)

91 "30 feet doesn't seem like much to me."
......

Bet you can't swim your fat ass to the bottom, touch, and swim back up.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)

92 From:
“30 feet doesn’t seem like much to me.”

To:
I did not mean to imply the depth made the landing less serious. It was the opposite."

http://tiny.cc/zgha101
Posted by: bonhomme at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (mkw2N)

She could have mentioned the rocks and danger at any time in that X post and instead went with dismissive and snarky.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (6ydKt)

93 68 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)
Fuel starvation.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (LHPAg)

94 They want Republicans to die.

Its not that they don't understand the severity of the incident, they just wanted a different outcome

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

95 How will they do that with Trump holding the veto pen and still in charge of the DOJ?


By...let me think a minute...Impeaching him? Every other week?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (INplz)

96 Had a whole house vac system, but ripped it out.

Posted by: It Sucked Big Time at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (Fn+3X)

97 Seeing how you can drown in 3 inches of water, 30 feet seems like a big deal.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (mseD3)

98 >>> Remember when Fetterman had his stroke? Remember that the Horde offered many prayers for his recovery? Remember when no one here wished him dead? I do. There is a qualitative quantifiable difference between us, and them.

Yep. I also remember being called "ableist," to my face, for believing a stroke victim should step down from politics to recover and be with his family. Joke's on them! He says stuff all the time now that makes liberal antisemites have a stroke, and made a video for the GOP midterm convention. We live in the craziest timeline.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (Eng1Z)

99 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)
_______

Pretty much the same way a car can. Mechanical problem, electrical fault, etc.

I suspect by saying the plane "lost power" they were talking about the engine taking a shit, not a loss of electrical power.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

100 Rockford got shot at few times. His car got blown up a few times as well.

Marlowe would get knocked out by a gun to the back of the head like every radio episode. Somehow he wasn't talking real slow and in single syllables by the second season.

me am... have... case....

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (K32Fz)

101 95 How will they do that with Trump holding the veto pen and still in charge of the DOJ?


By...let me think a minute...Impeaching him? Every other week?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (INplz)

======

And make him politically more popular every other week? You know, that thing that happens after every unsuccessful impeachment attempt of a president in American history?

Well, good luck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (AlVf0)

102 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Mechanically, prop planes are essentially gas cars with much stricter licensing and can lose power for the same reasons. Junk in the carburetor/clogging the fuel filter, for instance.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (2ocoG)

103 They don't believe a thing they say. It turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (AANQ+)

104
People doing that are a regular feature of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Awards videos. Some of them, especially drunken Mexicans for some reason, come out unscathed. Many others, especially those of the rap-listening persuasion, aren't so lucky.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

That was one of the pivotal moments in William S. Burroughs' life

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

105 I've heard there is no more dangerous flight than the first one after a plane's annual inspection.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 04:00 PM (2ap+5)

106 I heard that Jaques Cousteau drowned in a coffee cup.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 04:00 PM (0U5gm)

107 "I posted tweets earlier that were misunderstood. I was attempting to point out that the depth of the lake could have caused the plane to hit rocks, creating an even more dangerous situation.

I did not mean to imply the depth made the landing less serious. It was the opposite."
---
Yes, yes.

Professional writers are always conveying the exact opposite of what they mean in their published writings.

So it's really you're fault for thinking "only 30 feet deep" meant "no big deal" and not "OMG, they could have hit the rocks and died!!"

Say, when Captian Sully hit the Hudson, did you tweet, "for reference, the Hudson is only 20 feet deep."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:00 PM (3cUTc)

108 >>What happened to Joe DiGenova and his wife?
Who is going to replace them?

I've heard mixed statements. Latest one I saw was that the DOJ and White House were not pleased with the pace the case is moving.

I'm sure Trump wants action before the midterms and according to piece I just read the subpoena for Brennan was issued the same day DiGenova resigned.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (viF8m)

109 "30 feet doesn't seem like much to me."
......

Bet you can't swim your fat ass to the bottom, touch, and swim back up.
Posted by: wth at September 14, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)
_________

Not many people can do that. Not joking. Competitive and otherwise strong swimmers, sure. But normal average people? Not many. 30 feet is deep. That's 3x as deep as the average "deep end" of a pool.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

110 that show is demonic
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:57 PM

Sorry to hear that. I've been wanting to check it out because I like Kyle Chandler in pretty much everything he's done.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (2ocoG)

111 FiL put in a house vac system, thought it worked well

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

112 "Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'?"

Unemployed

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (Fv808)

113 Mechanically, prop planes are essentially gas cars with much stricter licensing and can lose power for the same reasons. Junk in the carburetor/clogging the fuel filter, for instance.

Posted by: Ian S


And humid summer air can cause ice to form in the carburetor due to the venturi effect. It is more common than people think.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (0U5gm)

114 >>>So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Posted by: Bulg

>Most likely fuel issues. Filter issues, but most likely contaminated fuel. Just spitballing here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (5C90x)

115 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Fuel exhaustion, carb-icing and improper fuel/air mix are common problems.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 14, 2026 04:01 PM (nSaqA)

116 So, my aviation-savvy peeps: How does a plane lose power?

Bad dates.

Posted by: Sallah at September 14, 2026 04:02 PM (guGkK)

117 69 "Don't see many Beachcraft Bonanzas around anymore."

Beechcraft as a company doesn't exist anymore - nor does Cessna. Both are just nameplates for the occasional plane built by Textron.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (GMWTj)

Most planes up here are old. New planes are expensive. My brother rebuilds all sorts of aircraft, and makes body parts for many of them himself. He also makes replacement widgets that are better than the original, for which he has patents, and he gets calls from all over the world for them.

He lives in Fairbanks, of all places.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:02 PM (Ntshk)

118 I ran out of gas in my car once and didn't have to swim to safety. I think he staged it.

Posted by: Flat Earth Freddie at September 14, 2026 04:02 PM (Fn+3X)

119 I've heard there is no more dangerous flight than the first one after a plane's annual inspection.
Posted by: Oglebay

Aka, the shake-out cruise.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 14, 2026 04:03 PM (Fv808)

120 ......

Bet you can't swim your fat ass to the bottom, touch, and swim back up.

Posted by: wth
---

Dad did several times, wearing a saturated, wool, military long coat.
He finally got the coat off. That young man was very much glad to be alive that day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 04:03 PM (BzKNL)

121 >>Not many people can do that. Not joking. Competitive and otherwise strong swimmers, sure. But normal average people? Not many. 30 feet is deep. That's 3x as deep as the average "deep end" of a pool.

In my yute, I could do it. Might be a bit challenging now.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:03 PM (viF8m)

122 Friend of mine took a small puddle jumper plane for scenery in alaska.

When the plane went over one mountain the engine turned off.

Turned to the pilot and asked, "is that normal?"

Pilot responded with uh, um, yeah. It will come back on in a minute.

And sure enough it did...

Makes me not want to take an Alaskan puddle jumper though

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

123 There is a carburetor heater switch in Cessnas and other small planes. Don't forget to use it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 04:04 PM (0U5gm)

124 "Media Minimizes Event"


Hey it isn't like the media said Trump had tripped and fallen on stage in pennsylvania or anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 04:04 PM (I43vL)

125 Her math isn’t mathing anyhow.

30 feet isn’t shallow in human terms.
And she must think the plane is 50 feet tall if it’s going to be hitting rocks 30 feet below the surface.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

126 A plane crash into water might be the first bath liberals have had in a long time.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (OkYzo)

127 Women are a like a very delicate flower. Sniff 'em early. Then don't bother. The end.
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Easy killer

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (AANQ+)

128 That's a V-tail Beech Bonanza in the pic. They have a reputation for problematic handling in bad conditions. Sometimes known as the "Doctor Killer."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (guGkK)

129 130 That's a V-tail Beech Bonanza in the pic. They have a reputation for problematic handling in bad conditions. Sometimes known as the "Doctor Killer."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (guGkK)

========

Sometimes known as the Doctor Richard Kimble of the skies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (AlVf0)

130 I'm so glad Mom made me take swimming lessons. That's such a vital life skill.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

131 Women are a like a very delicate flower. Sniff 'em early

When they are no more then 12 is my recommendation

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

132 I could get to the bottom of a 30 foot pool. Eventually I would float to the top.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (K32Fz)

133 Sorry to hear that. I've been wanting to check it out because I like Kyle Chandler in pretty much everything he's done.

**************

I like him too, and he still comes across as affable despite the racist as fuck writers DESPERATELY trying to make him come across as a bigot and stupid so they can play up how John Stewart is Black Jesus and the sheriff is the most girl boss of girl bosses

Gunn and his perverted as fuck harem cant be buried fast enough

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (fapp/)

134
People have drowned in less than 30 feet of water.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Oldsmobile Submarine captain at September 14, 2026 04:06 PM (OkYzo)

135 3 "Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'?"

A white lawyer who is retired?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 04:06 PM (JrHfD)

136 There's also a conventional tail Bonanza but the V-tail has all the cachet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:06 PM (guGkK)

137 106 I heard that Jaques Cousteau drowned in a coffee cup.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 04:00 PM (0U5gm)
His son Phillipe was killed in a helicopter accident, don’t recall if he was the pilot. The Hughes helicopter was rebuilt, same as this Bonanza will fly again.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 04:06 PM (LHPAg)

138 I'm going to preemptively call you a name so when you disagree with me it will prove I'm right. I learned it in Internetting For Dumbasses

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 04:06 PM (AANQ+)

139 Most planes up here are old. New planes are expensive. My brother rebuilds all sorts of aircraft, and makes body parts for many of them himself. He also makes replacement widgets that are better than the original, for which he has patents, and he gets calls from all over the world for them.

He lives in Fairbanks, of all places.

Posted by: tcn in AK


I seem to recall that there are just as many pilot licenses in Alaska than drivers licenses.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 04:06 PM (0U5gm)

140 As others have remarked, DiGenova is 81 and is similar to pretty much everyone that gets put into the types of positions, ie slow to act and largely captured by the institutional bullsh*t of we need to do things this way, not that way, and don't go too far out on a limb we got to be slow and methodical, yada yada bullsh*t.

The only way sh*t actually gets done is by extreme brute force struggle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (XV/Pl)

141 People have drowned in less than 30 feet of water.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Oldsmobile Submarine captain

In their defense, the left didn’t think leaving a woman to die slowly in Kennedy’s vehicle was a big deal either.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (olroh)

142 Sorta related...the young woman who dead-sticked her light aircraft onto I-10 after a power loss in Pensacola was invited to ride in the back seat of Blue Angel 7 a few days ago.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (J4Dwc)

143 We were flying out of Burke Lakefront in Cleveland a bit late at night in a Cessna twin Sky King type plane. One of the engines stalled on run-up so we taxied back to the terminal. There was literally no one around. After a bit, the decision was apparently made to just try her again, and this time no engine issues so we started down the run way with me in the back seat. The pilot said to the passenger in front, "there's still time to about, but it seems to be running fine."

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (2ap+5)

144 A "reporter" with the egregious communist rag the Journal-Sentinel helpfully pointed out that the plane crashed into water that was "only" 30 feet deep and as you know, all men are 30 feet tall so 30 feet of water presents no threat to them at all.


Mary Jo Kopechne was just a fricking drama queen, she was.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:08 PM (guGkK)

145 People have drowned in less than 30 feet of water.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy
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Tell me about it.

Posted by: Obama Chef at September 14, 2026 04:08 PM (XeU6L)

146 Contaminated fuel, or the wrong fuel will cause trouble. One of my tasks before every flight in the .mil was to take a fuel sample from the sump and keep it in a clear glass bottle. We'd show the pilot during pre-flight, and then keep it in a rack on the flight line in case something goes sideways, they could test the fuel closely as part of any investigation.

One time we had to get fuel in rural Cambodia, someone had set it all up beforehand. At the prescribed place and time, some locals showed up in a fuel truck and pumped us up with approx. 360 gallons of their finest. Nobody (not even me) thought to test the fuel beforehand. Doh!! They sent some good stuff, and we didn't die.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM (No2m8)

147 Beau Biden died in the bathtub.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM (2Ez/1)

148 LOL, the muzzie Dem running in MI is panicking.

Asked about Hamas Piker, "no one cares about a Twitch streamer in CA. He's not raising the price of gas or groceries."

Oh?

Oh, let me try that out, "no one cares about racism. White supremacists aren't raising the price of gas or groceries."

Same, same--yeah?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:10 PM (3cUTc)

149 > She could have mentioned the rocks and danger at any time in that X post and instead went with dismissive and snarky.

Assuming for argument's sake that she's not lying with her follow up tweet, read her first tweet again. "To explain the gravity of the situation. 30 feet doesn't seem like much (of a safety buffer) to me."

It seems perfectly plausible to me that "doesn't seem like much" wasn't meant to be dismissive and snarky, but instead was concern.



Posted by: bonhomme at September 14, 2026 04:10 PM (mkw2N)

150 There's also a conventional tail Bonanza but the V-tail has all the cachet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

The Fork-Tail, aka: Fork-=Tail Doctor Killer in the trade because of the propensity to do so.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 14, 2026 04:10 PM (TezPK)

151 3 "Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'?"

You reach journeyman status like me and you don't need to practice anymore.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:10 PM (guGkK)

152 Not many people can do that. Not joking. Competitive and otherwise strong swimmers, sure. But normal average people? Not many. 30 feet is deep. That's 3x as deep as the average "deep end" of a pool.

In my yute, I could do it. Might be a bit challenging now.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:03 PM (viF8m)
______

I was a competitive swimmer back in the day and could easily do that. Probably could go down and back multiple times without coming up for air.

But that was then, when I was in incredible shape (training 12 months a year, etc).

Now? Well, when I swam with the sharks in Hawaii in May, I went down about 20 feet, hung out with the sharks, then surfaced. I had small snorkel fins on, which helps, but also a dive mask and snorkel tube, which doesn't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:11 PM (iFTx/)

153 In their defense, the left didn’t think leaving a woman to die slowly in Kennedy’s vehicle was a big deal either.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (olroh)

Ted's "punishment" for his crime was not getting the chance to become POTUS. As a consolation price though, he got to be the "Liberal Lion of the Senate" for 40+ years....and "sandwich" Lord only knows how many DC waitresses.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2026 04:11 PM (oPFtC)

154
From:
“30 feet doesn’t seem like much to me.”

To:
I did not mean to imply the depth made the landing less serious. It was the opposite."

http://tiny.cc/zgha101
Posted by: bonhomme at September 14, 2026 03:52 PM (mkw2N)

She could have mentioned the rocks and danger at any time in that X post and instead went with dismissive and snarky.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

================

Isn't this backwards? If you're concerned about rocks in the water, then deep is better, shallow is worse.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:11 PM (mmrXZ)

155
The stupid bint who wrote that would likely drown in 3" of water.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (w6EFb)

156 "Forked Tail Doctor Killer"

So-called because it is a very nice, expensive plane, but it is demanding to fly. Doctors may be very good at medicine, but they don't quite always have the skills to handle such a plane.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (No2m8)

157 More and more, we are becoming deCessnatized to small plane crashes.

Posted by: This Is CNN at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (iHpv6)

158 What if he had died?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (2Ez/1)

159 John Brennan was hit with a subpoena to testify to a grand jury.

Could be DiGenova didn’t want to do that yet because he thought they needed more evidence.

With some of his statements that seems to be what his problems were.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (6ydKt)

160 Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
Everyone knows you can't drown in 30 feet of water if you are a Republican.


That's because Republicans walk on water.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:13 PM (AXBJa)

161 162 What if he had died?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (2Ez/1)

=======

Then the left would have both celebrated it because he's a terrible person and also lamented that all Republicans couldn't have been moderate and reasonable like Tiffany had been.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:13 PM (AlVf0)

162 When they are no more then 12 is my recommendation
Posted by: Joe Biden

"but no yellow!!"
--Hunter Biden

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:13 PM (K32Fz)

163 Btw, I think Tiffany can beat Crowley

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

164 I swear there are no bigger simps than these all women are cunts amirite dudes. Their wives treat or treated them like shit and they take it out on some forum.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (AANQ+)

165 >>We were flying out of Burke Lakefront in Cleveland a bit late at night in a Cessna twin Sky King type plane. One of the engines stalled on run-up so we taxied back to the terminal. There was literally no one around. After a bit, the decision was apparently made to just try her again, and this time no engine issues so we started down the run way with me in the back seat. The pilot said to the passenger in front, "there's still time to about, but it seems to be running fine."

When I was living in the islands there was a small commuter airline that serviced the islands. The entire fleet of planes were WWII float planes. It was named Antilles Air Boats.

We called it Antilles Scare Boats. They had some pretty spectacular crashes including the one that killed the president of the company.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (viF8m)

166 That plane polluted the water and killed all the fish.

Posted by: Crazed Leftists at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (rm16k)

167 "Forked Tail Doctor Killer."
Was that Peter Lorre or Lon Chaney?

Posted by: I'll go ask IMDB at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (2Ez/1)

168 150 Beau Biden died in the bathtub.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM (2Ez/1)

Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)

169 153 There's also a conventional tail Bonanza but the V-tail has all the cachet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

The Fork-Tail, aka: Fork-=Tail Doctor Killer in the trade because of the propensity to do so.
Posted by: Joe Mama at September 14, 2026 04:10 PM (TezPK)
Split-Tail Bonanza is the correct name.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (LHPAg)

170 172 150 Beau Biden died in the bathtub.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM (2Ez/1)

Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)

=======

So did Commodus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (AlVf0)

171 https://www.airframeinnovations.com/

The need for parts, repairs and maintenance on light planes in AK is higher than most places. He found his niche.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (Ntshk)

172 So-called because it is a very nice, expensive plane, but it is demanding to fly. Doctors may be very good at medicine, but they don't quite always have the skills to handle such a plane.

"flying is hard"
--Harrison Ford

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (K32Fz)

173 Periodic reminder that the left is literally a death cult. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (oqH4h)

174 One time we had to get fuel in rural Cambodia, someone had set it all up beforehand. At the prescribed place and time, some locals showed up in a fuel truck and pumped us up with approx. 360 gallons of their finest. Nobody (not even me) thought to test the fuel beforehand. Doh!! They sent some good stuff, and we didn't die.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM


In the Navy we would only get JP5 from one of our own fuel depots or a USNS tanker. Commercial stuff can be a bit risky.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (I43vL)

175 Isn't this backwards? If you're concerned about rocks in the water, then deep is better, shallow is worse.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:11 PM (mmrXZ)

She is just scrambling for cover.
The clarification/excuse doesn’t have to make sense, it just needs to appease her bosses.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

176 That's because Republicans walk on water.
Posted by: rickb223

University of Michigan head football coach Bo Schembechler once quipped on his relationship with the local press that "If I walked on water, the headline the next day would be 'Bo can't swim.'"

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

177 George Washington wouldn't drown in 30 feet of water.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (4NO2D)

178 Kate from smalldeadanimals had this post. I'm looking into it. $39 billion in fraud. Hey, even libs might miss that amount of cash. I'm guessing the SBA is Small Busineess Association?


@RapidResponse47
.@SBA_Kelly: "As part of Operation Heartland Surge, @SBAgov is announcing our largest fraud enforcement to date. As of today, we have suspended 870,000 SBA borrowers... tied to an estimated $39 billion of taxpayer money across 45 states and territories.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 04:16 PM (Sco7b)

179 72 150 Beau Biden died in the bathtub.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM (2Ez/1)

Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)

=======

So did Commodus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (AlVf0)

Yoo-hooo! I'm over here boys.

But am I really?

Posted by: Socrates at September 14, 2026 04:16 PM (guGkK)

180 Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Easy cleanup. Very considerate of the murderer.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2026 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

181
Common Sense Bucket laws...
Laws Against Assault Buckets...

And chainsaws that can attach to buckets.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (2ocoG)




Don't even THINK about putting background checks on pencils...

Posted by: John Wick at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (bPD3w)

182 156 In their defense, the left didn’t think leaving a woman to die slowly in Kennedy’s vehicle was a big deal either.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (olroh)

Ted's "punishment" for his crime was not getting the chance to become POTUS. As a consolation price though, he got to be the "Liberal Lion of the Senate" for 40+ years....and "sandwich" Lord only knows how many DC waitresses.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2026 04:11 PM (oPFtC)

The press is/was remiss to call him out for colluding with the Soviets to try to prevent Reagan from winning re-election in '84...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (l3cgK)

183 Back in the mid-70's my family took a trip to the Virgin Islands. The commercial flight from D.C. to Puerto Rico was a jet. The flight from there to St. Thomas was an old DC-3. With no doors. Just a chain across the opening. Bench seating along the sides... like WWII.

Probably no higher than 500 feet for the flight over.

My mom's knuckles were white.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (2Cry5)

184 63 You can drown in almost anything. A girl I dated back in the day had a cousin that drowned in a lake surrounded by his family and friends.

They thought he was faking it, just messing around. They could have easily rescued him. They literally just watched him die. They didn't take it seriously until it was too late.

She herself was on the dock about 10 feet from him.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

That's horrible.

Never assume a drowning looks like the cliche...most folks who are drowning don't meet the cliche look.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (tOcjL)

185 > So did Commodus.

Yep. Poisoned then choked to death in the bath by Narcissus.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (mkw2N)

186 Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Easy cleanup. Very considerate of the murderer.
Posted by: wth

Depends on if the tub was plumbed with a drain or if the housemaids had to scoop everything out...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (vJrRc)

187 >> Posted by: Socrates

You're way overrated.

Posted by: Testicles the Great at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (w6EFb)

188 Libs of TikTok found this comment on IG:

"I'm 14 and my mom supports Lindsay and in the car she screamed at me because I didn't know if she wanted the case to be a mistrial or not (I don't follow the case that much). I genuinely fear for my life and chances of getting kicked out of the house for my beliefs atp. She also said she'd disown me if she ever found out I converted to Christianity (I did)"

Killing a 168-month old child due to insanity/psychosis is legal now, yes? According to the tiktok moms? (I think I got the math right, even tho I was promised no math!)

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (Toos7)

189 Yoo-hooo! I'm over here boys.

But am I really?
Posted by: Socrates at September 14, 2026 04:16 PM

I never got my cock, loser.

Posted by: Asclepius at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (4NO2D)

190 Surprised the Green Party isn't screaming about pollution in the lake

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (N2HNb)

191 In the Navy we would only get JP5 from one of our own fuel depots or a USNS tanker. Commercial stuff can be a bit risky.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (I43vL)

We liked to fill our carriers directly from the well.

Posted by: The Imperial Japanese Navy at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (guGkK)

192 Isn't this backwards? If you're concerned about rocks in the water, then deep is better, shallow is worse.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:11 PM (mmrXZ)

She is just scrambling for cover.
The clarification/excuse doesn’t have to make sense, it just needs to appease her bosses.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:15 PM (6ydKt)
________

I think she is trying to explain her use of "only" 30 feet -- that the "only" meant that "only" 30 feet of water would be dangerous if there were rocks. It's totally bullshit, but I think this is what she is trying to say.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

193 George Washington wouldn't drown in 30 feet of water.
Posted by: toby928(c)
........

His teeth would float him to the surface.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (UjdFS)

194 I worked with a guy who grew up in western Washington state. He said crop dusting planes are not aways meticulously maintained and the very low altitude at which they fly means their frequent "crash" landings are all in a day's work.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (2ap+5)

195 Glad the people were ok. Nice to have a story with a happy ending.

Posted by: Case at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (xJpuh)

196 >an estimated $39 billion of taxpayer money
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Is that a lot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (2Ez/1)

197 STOP COMPLAINING YOU PUSSIES!!!!

Posted by: King Agamemnon at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (guGkK)

198 159 "Forked Tail Doctor Killer"

So-called because it is a very nice, expensive plane, but it is demanding to fly. Doctors may be very good at medicine, but they don't quite always have the skills to handle such a plane.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (No2m
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Yeah, it's a common "upgrade" from a Cessna 172 or similar high-winged plane that tend to be pretty forgiving and easy to fly. Then you find yourself in control of a low-winged retractable-gear plane and a lot of people find themselves out of their depth.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (oqH4h)

199 So did Commodus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (AlVf0)

I thought he died on the toilet.

Posted by: Plumbing the depths of Roman, uh, plumbing at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (TbWk/)

200 Falling asleep

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (Ia/+0)

201 I burned in less than 5 feet of lava.

Posted by: Darth Vader, who did NOT have the high ground at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (Toos7)

202 174 172 150 Beau Biden died in the bathtub.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 04:09 PM (2Ez/1)

Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)

=======

So did Commodus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (AlVf0)

He's been flushed down the toilet of history...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (l3cgK)

203
Hence ... the White Knight.
----

No no you're right. All women are cunts and it's not you at all. That must be it.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (AANQ+)

204 >>That's 3x as deep as the average "deep end" of a pool.

Yep. Was a pool lifeguard, back in the day. Never faced a drowning, but two of my associates did. One was a kid, about 10 years old, who went out a little too far, went down, and our guy got to him very quickly. Kid was joking with the EMTs before they took him to the ER.

Other went down in the deep end, our guy saw and had him up in less than a minute. Heart attack, dead pretty much before he reached the bottom of the pool.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (NcvvS)

205 I've known some people who drown in their beds!

Posted by: Rocco the Handler Gallo at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (AKptf)

206 I thought he died on the toilet.
Posted by: Plumbing the depths of Roman, uh, plumbing at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM

Thank ya. Thank ya very much.

Posted by: The King of Rock and Roll at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (2Ez/1)

207 Never assume a drowning looks like the cliche...most folks who are drowning don't meet the cliche look.
Posted by: Nova Local

True. It's usually very quiet, as the victim does not have the air supply to cry out or thrash about.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

208 The flight from there to St. Thomas was an old DC-3. With no doors. Just a chain across the opening. Bench seating along the sides... like WWII.

Probably no higher than 500 feet for the flight over.

My mom's knuckles were white.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (2Cry5)
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My wife would have taken one look at that plane, given me the finger, and told me to go find a dude with a boat. LOL.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (oqH4h)

209 Marion Crane died in a bathtub, too.
On camera.
Covered in chocolate syrup.

It was horrible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (6ydKt)

210 One time we had to get fuel in rural Cambodia, someone had set it all up beforehand. At the prescribed place and time, some locals showed up in a fuel truck and pumped us up with approx. 360 gallons of their finest. Nobody (not even me) thought to test the fuel beforehand. Doh!!

They sent some good stuff, and we didn't die.

Posted by: Common Tater


Obviously. 😁
Unless you are commenting via Ouija Board.
If you are, say hit to Mitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (AXBJa)

211 then they swam 100 to 150 feet to water they could stand in. An airboat pulled them out about 15 minutes after the 911 call.

It was reported on FOX the water was 5' deep where they stood in darkness for 15 mins waiting to be rescued after hitting the water at app 70mph.
It's a miracle for a 68 and 73 year old to survive all of that.

Posted by: old chick at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (F3Dlr)

212 So did Commodus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:14 PM (AlVf0)

I thought he died on the toilet.
Posted by: Plumbing the depths of Roman, uh, plumbing at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (TbWk/)

That was Elvis. They're often confused.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (guGkK)

213 >>Back in the mid-70's my family took a trip to the Virgin Islands. The commercial flight from D.C. to Puerto Rico was a jet. The flight from there to St. Thomas was an old DC-3. With no doors. Just a chain across the opening. Bench seating along the sides... like WWII.

Haven't been back in a number of years but the airport on Virgin Gorda was a trip. Dirt strip cut into the side of a hill on the ocean side. It could only handle small planes and on windy days you could feel the pilot working the winds to line the plane up right.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (viF8m)

214 What's that, Mzz. Reporter? You were pushed down the stairs? WELL, it's only one flight of stairs. Why are you whining?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (HeG1i)

215 Sounds fake like Trump’s assassination attempts. But, if real, it really highlights how not like his voters he is by flying in a private plane.

He's in the hospital? Tip: his healthcare is paid for by taxpapers. Goddamn socialism!

I don’t care one bit about someone who cares little for people who aren’t “on his side.” I hope you recovery fully so you can watch your loss with all faculties about you in the upcoming election.

Perhaps a brush with death will make him realize that being evil is wrong? Nah.

Since other people were on the plane ig im glad it wasn't a disaster. Otherwise I'm not complaining about literal traitors to the country I love getting Titan submersible'd

a political candidate flying from lacrosse to wausau on a saturday night is fucking hilarious. what an asshole.

Tiffany was a knowing participant in a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. He belongs in a prison cell with the other criminals who attempted to overthrow American democracy.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (lebqq)

216 I seem to recall that there are just as many pilot licenses in Alaska than drivers licenses.

*********************

its a bucket list wish of mine to one day say "Honey, gonna step out for a minute to pick up some milk"

***takes off runway***

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (fapp/)

217 Yoo-hooo! I'm over here boys.

But am I really?
Posted by: Socrates
--
Yes, dancing on the wall of a cave.
/s/ Plato

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (3cUTc)

218 Posted by: Socrates

You're way overrated.
Posted by: Testicles the Great at September 14, 2026 04:17 PM (w6EFb)

I like to stay in the middle.

Posted by: Mediocrates at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (TbWk/)

219
Atheist woke scolds really cannot leave religion alone, can they? They twist religious terms for social justice causes all the time.
Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Eng1Z)



The whole point of atheism isn't just "I don't believe in a supreme being, even if it's Lee-Loo Multipass. But you do you". It's more like "All believers must die screaming horribly in lakes of burning gasoline followed by paper cuts and lemon juice. Because they are superstitious retards."

Posted by: John Wick at September 14, 2026 04:22 PM (bPD3w)

220 I've known some people who drown in their beds!
Posted by: Rocco the Handler Gallo at September 14, 2026 04:20 PM (AKptf)

Regular occurrence in the 80s and early 90s.
Fire departments and EMTs got specialized training.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

221 The flight from there to St. Thomas was an old DC-3. With no doors. Just a chain across the opening. Bench seating along the sides... like WWII.

Probably no higher than 500 feet for the flight over.

My mom's knuckles were white.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


There is a one of a kind DC3 Float Plane still operating. Save a video of it Saturday.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:22 PM (AXBJa)

222 221 Sounds fake like Trump’s assassination attempts. But, if real, it really highlights how not like his voters he is by flying in a private plane.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 14, 2026 04:21 PM (lebqq)

========

"Trump isn't poor like me?! I can't vote for him!"
-apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:22 PM (AlVf0)

223
Oops. Belaruskie sock fail.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (bPD3w)

224 So-called because it is a very nice, expensive plane, but it is demanding to fly. Doctors may be very good at medicine, but they don't quite always have the skills to handle such a plane.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:12 PM (No2m

One of the original configurations for the Bonanza was for medivac for the Army. Didn't go over well, but it is a nice plane.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (rbvCR)

225 Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...
Posted by: jim
_________

Interwebs say that up to 500 people drown in the bathtub every year in the US.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (XvL8K)

226 I think she is trying to explain her use of "only" 30 feet -- that the "only" meant that "only" 30 feet of water would be dangerous if there were rocks. It's totally bullshit, but I think this is what she is trying to say.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

Wisconsin was scoured by the Ice Sheets during the Ice Age. Just how big does she think the rocks are?

Idiot.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (Ntshk)

227 The flight from there to St. Thomas was an old DC-3. With no doors. Just a chain across the opening. Bench seating along the sides... like WWII.

You could fly from Long Beach to Catalina in a WWII-era Grumman Goose until the FAA finally made them stop. The whooosh of cold seawater enveloping your shoes on landing was a particular highlight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (guGkK)

228 I think she is trying to explain her use of "only" 30 feet -- that the "only" meant that "only" 30 feet of water would be dangerous if there were rocks. It's totally bullshit, but I think this is what she is trying to say.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe she would like to test her theory and get dropped into 30 feet of water. You know, for journalism.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

229 I'm the atheist's favorite subject.

Posted by: God at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (2Ez/1)

230 it really highlights how not like his voters he is by flying in a private plane.

Like he was taking a G5 or something.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:24 PM (4NO2D)

231
Skunkworks has just unveiled their latest drone, dubbed the Vectis. It will fly with manned aircraft. Sort of an AI wingman, I think.

Posted by: Testicles the Great at September 14, 2026 04:24 PM (w6EFb)

232 I thought he died on the toilet.
Posted by: Plumbing the depths of Roman

One of the coolest Bible stories. Ehud, judge of Israel, kills King Eglon of Moab when the latter was on his commode taking a shit, and then escapes through the sewer system. (Judges 3)

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

233 Out: Fields of the Nephilim
In: Lake of the Giants

Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2026 04:24 PM (88C+u)

234 Interwebs say that up to 500 people drown in the bathtub every year in the US.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM

And I don't lie.

Posted by: Interwebs at September 14, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1)

235
I think she is trying to explain her use of "only" 30 feet -- that the "only" meant that "only" 30 feet of water would be dangerous if there were rocks. It's totally bullshit, but I think this is what she is trying to say.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

================

Got it. Nice save. If she'd said a word about the danger of hitting rocks prior to that, I'd consider it. In fact, I don't think I've ever read a story about water crashes that mentioned the danger of rocks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:25 PM (mmrXZ)

236 Atheist woke scolds really cannot leave religion alone, can they? They twist religious terms for social justice causes all the time.
Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Eng1Z)
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I think it's less the atheism than it is that most atheists are leftists too, and a leftist can't leave any-damned-thing alone. They always know better!

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:25 PM (oqH4h)

237 >>>I'm waiting on the word that describes also noticing that blacks commit more crime. Cracker seems to be used up. We'll need something new.
Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:19 PM (KvBGr)

Red-pilled non-wokes are not good at creating newspeak and political euphemisms. (The new ones out there about altruistic murder and non-practicing white are really next level.) But they are superior at meme-smithing! The left keeps failing at memes, probably because a good meme has a kernel of truth in it.

Posted by: Darth Vader, who did NOT have the high ground at September 14, 2026 04:25 PM (Toos7)

238 CIA is slipping...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (xcxpd)

239 But, if real, it really highlights how not like his voters he is by flying in a private plane -- some Redditor

Whu...?

Posted by: Paul Wellstone at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (88C+u)

240 It's more like "All believers must die screaming horribly in lakes of burning gasoline followed by paper cuts and lemon juice. Because they are superstitious retards."
Posted by: John Wick at September 14, 2026 04:22 PM (bPD3w)

In this country, and most, religion has never forced anyone to believe or to do much of anything. I love how atheists claim some kind of harm from those who believe, all while speaking their minds, acting however they like, and doing as they please.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (Ntshk)

241 Wisconsin was scoured by the Ice Sheets during the Ice Age. Just how big does she think the rocks are?
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What is a rock?
I don't know, I'm not a geologist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (3cUTc)

242 Whitney Houston did.
And then her daughter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)

243 Got it. Nice save. If she'd said a word about the danger of hitting rocks prior to that, I'd consider it. In fact, I don't think I've ever read a story about water crashes that mentioned the danger of rocks.

Usually the tricky part of a water landing is not dying in the 100 mph+ impact with the surface. Not rocks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (guGkK)

244 246 But, if real, it really highlights how not like his voters he is by flying in a private plane -- some Redditor

Whu...?

Posted by: Paul Wellstone at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (88C+u)

========

"I only vote for poor people like me! Also, I can't wait to vote for Gavin Newsom for president."
-Reddit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:27 PM (AlVf0)

245 5 this was an assassination attempt
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (j+aD2)

Yup. Been done many times before. Plane fuckery is a classic attack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

246 232 Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...
Posted by: jim
_________

Interwebs say that up to 500 people drown in the bathtub every year in the US.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (XvL8K)

Assault bathtubs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)

247 I thought he died on the toilet.
Posted by: Plumbing the depths of Roman

*Thumbs up*

Posted by: Fat Elvis at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (nESHF)

248 In fact, I don't think I've ever read a story about water crashes that mentioned the danger of rocks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:25 PM (mmrXZ)

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Very small rocks float, you know.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (2UnvF)

249 Catching up as Ralphy is eating microwaved eggs I put in his bowl and making his usual huge mess.

GatewayPundit has these two articles on Dems. The shining beacons of humanity.

1. North Carolina Dem Candidate Supposedly “Running to Restore Human Decency” Endorses MASS GENOCIDE of Trump Voters, Says They Belong in Nazi Ovens

She seems fun. And for the 'Ettes.

2 NSFW Photos of Democrat Congressional Candidate Emerge – Modeled for Fetish Sex Shop While Serving in National Guard

Our societal betters.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (Sco7b)

250 I burned in less than 5 feet of lava.

It was pretty amazing, usually people just up and die when they fall into lava, even if they have not already suffocated from the poisonous gasses and burnt from just being near 5000 degree rock.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:29 PM (K32Fz)

251 We just need commonsense bathtub control.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

252
In this country, and most, religion has never forced anyone to believe or to do much of anything. I love how atheists claim some kind of harm from those who believe, all while speaking their minds, acting however they like, and doing as they please.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:26 PM (Ntshk)



zactly

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 04:29 PM (bPD3w)

253 George Floyd had a knee on his neck for only 10 minutes.

No, no, no!!! I meant that to emphasize how dangerous it was.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:29 PM (3cUTc)

254 You could fly from Long Beach to Catalina in a WWII-era Grumman Goose until the FAA finally made them stop. The whooosh of cold seawater enveloping your shoes on landing was a particular highlight.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 04:23 PM (guGkK)

I think there are still a couple of belly-landers operating in Southeast AK. Handy for all the little burgs down there that don't have the most reliable airstrips. But most folks just use Cessnas with floats.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:29 PM (Ntshk)

255 One of the coolest Bible stories. Ehud, judge of Israel, kills King Eglon of Moab when the latter was on his commode taking a shit, and then escapes through the sewer system. (Judges 3)
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

Wasn't that also the guy who was so fat that when Ehud stabbed him the whole short sword disappeared up in his guts?

Posted by: A man of proportion at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

256 Very small rocks float, you know.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (2UnvF)

Don't forget about the dirtbergs. Some are the size of Guam!

Posted by: Rep. Hank 'Hank' Johnson (D)umbass at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (guGkK)

257 He can't drown in 30 feet of water?

So... HE"S A WITCH!!!! Burn him! Burn him!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (mP0Kj)

258 Constans II, last Roman Emperor to actually have his palace in (more or less) Italy, got clubbed on the head in the bath. There's no medical report on whether he died from the braining or from drowning when unconscious.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (88C+u)

259 The Romans had a good way of dealing with trannies. Tranny Emperor Elogabolus and his mother had their heads cut off , their bodies dragged through the streets of Rome and dumped in the Tiber. There's a lesson there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (N2HNb)

260 30 feet seemed insufficient to her. She wanted more.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (BvTxf)

261 >>Interwebs say that up to 500 people drown in the bathtub every year in the US.

And every one above the age of 9 was alcohol- or drug-impaired and carped out.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (NcvvS)

262 Usually the tricky part of a water landing is not dying in the 100 mph+ impact with the surface. Not rocks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Whoa, you mean that belly flops hurt?

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 04:31 PM (88C+u)

263 Maybe she thought there were huge rocks jutting out of the lake which would turn the plane landing into a slalom course.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

264 Very small rocks float, you know.

"Do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot? Because the stone sees only downward... But the ship has a secret... For, unlike the stone, her gaze is not downward but up."
--Rangs of Poo

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:31 PM (K32Fz)

265 Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...
Posted by: jim

Lindsay Clancy should be in jail. She didn't follow the exercise band manufacturer's warning to keep them away from small children. Or maybe, the warning wasn't posted clearly enough on the exercise bands, and it's really their fault, and she should sue for damages. Poor mom lost her kids due to their insufficient warning!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (lebqq)

266 Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Democrat Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president.

-
I wonder if he has anyone in particular in mind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (ndZc7)

267 257 Catching up as Ralphy is eating microwaved eggs I put in his bowl and making his usual huge mess.
.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (Sco7b)

Piper (the dog, not the commenter) seems to think food tastes better with a little added grit and/or doghair from the floor.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (Ntshk)

268 Wasn't that also the guy who was so fat that when Ehud stabbed him the whole short sword disappeared up in his guts?
Posted by: A man of proportion

Yes, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

269 The Romans had a good way of dealing with trannies. Tranny Emperor Elogabolus and his mother had their heads cut off , their bodies dragged through the streets of Rome and dumped in the Tiber.

There's a lesson there
Posted by: Smell the Glove


Don't drink the water?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:33 PM (AXBJa)

270 Play the percentages. Or just notice what's right in front of your eyes. Or don't.
Posted by: Howdy

You sound like the feminists with their "poison M&M in a bowl of normal ones" argument against associating with men at all.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 04:33 PM (vJrRc)

271
Marat died in his bathtub...I mean, he was stabbed to death, but it happened in his bathtub...
Posted by: jim

==============

So he did WITH bathtub, not OF bathtub?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:33 PM (mmrXZ)

272 @CollinRugg
NEW: Democrat Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president.
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Obama was already President

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:33 PM (3cUTc)

273 Very small rocks float, you know.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (2UnvF)

Churches! Lead!

Posted by: A duck at September 14, 2026 04:33 PM (TbWk/)

274 Piper (the dog, not the commenter) seems to think food tastes better with a little added grit and/or doghair from the floor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (Ntshk)

I am so glad you clarified this in advance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (6ydKt)

275 Really ? Are you that blind ?
Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (KvBGr)

I'm not blind at all. I can see you for the horse's ass you really are.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (Ntshk)

276 281 @CollinRugg
NEW: Democrat Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president.
---
Obama was already President

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:33 PM (3cUTc)

=======

"I get no respect! No respect!"
-James Buchanan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (AlVf0)

277 Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Democrat Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president.

-
I wonder if he has anyone in particular in mind.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Dear Buttjiggy,
Already had one. 0/10 Don't recommend.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (AXBJa)

278 Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (KvBGr)

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Way to miss the point, Scogg.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (2UnvF)

279 Very small rocks float, you know.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Gravy! And churches! Lead!

Posted by: Angry peasant mob at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (lebqq)

280 I linked this this morning but it seems appropriate here. Jon Stewart says it's all good.

https://tinyurl.com/5fn39vrc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (ndZc7)

281 Didn't everyone around James Buchanan already pretty much know he was queer as a three dollar bill? Nobody cared. They cared that he was a dogshit executive

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (88C+u)

282 > Haven't been back in a number of years but the airport on Virgin Gorda was a trip. Dirt strip cut into the side of a hill on the ocean side. It could only handle small planes and on windy days you could feel the pilot working the winds to line the plane up right.
Posted by: JackStraw
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We rode bicycles into Spanish Town one day. What a step back into the 19th century that was. Chickens running around, no running water, etc.

On the flight out the little plane needed weight distributed, so my dad sat in the co-pilot's seat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (2Cry5)

283 I wonder if he has anyone in particular in mind.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (ndZc7

Maybe the gay guy profiled in Gateway Pundit who did a sex bondage video as an 18 year old and is now engaged to another man?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (JrHfD)

284 Piper (the dog, not the commenter) seems to think food tastes better with a little added grit and/or doghair from the floor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (Ntshk)

I am so glad you clarified this in advance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

added grit and/or doghair from the floor >> kale

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

285 Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (KvBGr)

And those laws are actively enforced today...but not in the US...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (l3cgK)

286
Looking it up, Lake Wausau has very few rocks. This is not a concern, and that bint likely knew that. This is a pure BS way out of "only 30' ".

Posted by: Testicles the Great at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

287 Wars in the name of religion has a pretty high death toll.

But "Scientific" socialists, atheist & collectivist totalitarians are necessary if you really want to get the slaughter fest spooled up. It isn't even close.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (No2m8)

288 I see it's already happy hour.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:36 PM (4NO2D)

289 Piper (the dog, not the commenter) seems to think food tastes better with a little added grit and/or doghair from the floor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14

Pretty sure with 2 big cats and a Shiba Inu that sheds his body weight in fur a day, I eat more animal hair than I want to think about.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 04:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

290 290 Didn't everyone around James Buchanan already pretty much know he was queer as a three dollar bill? Nobody cared. They cared that he was a dogshit executive

Posted by: 88C+u at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (88C+u)

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The drama queen act where he was going to save the world from war and then blamed someone else for his plans falling apart doesn't sound like the sort of thing a queer as a $3 bill kind of guy would do...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 04:36 PM (AlVf0)

291 Piper (the dog, not the commenter) seems to think food tastes better with a little added grit and/or doghair from the floor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (Ntshk)

I am so glad you clarified this in advance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (6ydKt)

Pretty short distance between that and kale, so clarification was definitely in order.

Posted by: Grits > grit at September 14, 2026 04:36 PM (TbWk/)

292 Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:36 PM (4NO2D)

Well, I wouldn't call "Howdy" happy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 04:36 PM (JrHfD)

293 Wasn't Obama our first gay President or was he our first cock curious president?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 04:37 PM (N2HNb)

294 Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Democrat Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president.

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I wonder if he has anyone in particular in mind.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Dear Buttjiggy,
Already had one. 0/10 Don't recommend.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:34 PM (AXBJa)

golf clap.

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2026 04:37 PM (lCppi)

295 Lindsay Clancy should be in jail. She didn't follow the exercise band manufacturer's warning to keep them away from small children. Or maybe, the warning wasn't posted clearly enough on the exercise bands, and it's really their fault, and she should sue for damages. Poor mom lost her kids due to their insufficient warning!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (lebqq)

"Warning: Keep Knife out of Children."

Posted by: Engrish Warning at September 14, 2026 04:37 PM (l3cgK)

296 Really ? Are you that blind ?
Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:30 PM (KvBGr)

You are being rude.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 04:37 PM (rbvCR)

297 Democrat Pete Buttigieg claims America is ready for a homosexual president.
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GFY

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:37 PM (No2m8)

298 Democrat Pete Buttigieg claims America is ready for a second homosexual president.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:38 PM (4NO2D)

299 Point of order- I am okay with Howdy thinks all women are icky and dumb. It is safer for all of us this way.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 04:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

300 "Howdy" is not here to discuss anything, he is here to stir up trouble and get people angry and fighting. He is the one I busted a few days back pretending to be a regular.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:40 PM (K32Fz)

301 1st fag was enough. No more.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 04:41 PM (nESHF)

302 "I hope you had a nice Fright!"--fax from Japanese exec on my boss' return from Japan

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)

303 So, is there a Lake Cracow in Wisconsin, too

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

304 Tranny Emperor Elogabolus and his mother

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When I first read about Emperor Gabby in Decline and Fall, I thought that can't be true! Nobody is that crazy!

It was a simpler time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 04:42 PM (ndZc7)

305 297 Wars in the name of religion has a pretty high death toll.

But "Scientific" socialists, atheist & collectivist totalitarians are necessary if you really want to get the slaughter fest spooled up. It isn't even close.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 04:35 PM (No2m

Generally, in any war that could be assigned religious motivation, religion has just been the excuse for political war. The Crusades, for example, started as a way to reclaim territory in the Levant that had been part of Christianity but had been overrun by Muslims, who then mistreated the Christians. In practice, it was a way for second sons to go find glory and spoils, and eventually to become kings in the Holy Land.

Yes, religion can be divisive. But in current practice, the only problems are with a "religion" that isn't really religious, but political, i.e. Islam. Once again, religion is just the excuse, not the cause.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:42 PM (Ntshk)

306 314 So, is there a Lake Cracow in Wisconsin, too
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

So, if there is a Sea Monster there... it's...

The Cracow Kraken?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 04:42 PM (mP0Kj)

307 2 NSFW Photos of Democrat Congressional Candidate Emerge – Modeled for Fetish Sex Shop While Serving in National Guard

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 04:28 PM (Sco7b)

Homo.

Campaign slogan: At least I'm not a Nazi.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:42 PM (dK+Kv)

308 Democrat Pete Buttigieg claims America is ready for a homosexual president.

Obama has entered the chat.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:43 PM (2ocoG)

309 Hope Karnopp
@hopekarnopp
X.com To explain the gravity of the situation. 30 feet doesn't seem like much to me.
***

I don't think she understands how breathing works.

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2026 04:43 PM (lCppi)

310 Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:40 PM (KvBGr)

I think for more reasons than that. We have no State religion; it was prohibited Constitutionally. Religious freedom includes NOT engaging in religious activity.

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the US (except maybe the Muzzies) that would object to not being allowed to force others to obey their religious beliefs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)

311
This got me interested if there were any Heap Big glacial floods in Wisconsin during You-Know-When.

Yep, big glacial Lake Wisconsin existed from 18 to 14 kya ago. Then the Bølling-Allerød warming started, and there were heap big mega floods.

The Older Dryas interrupted that, then Allerød again, and then the dreaded Younger Dryas.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)

312 Piper (the dog, not the commenter) seems to think food tastes better with a little added grit and/or doghair from the floor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:32 PM (Ntshk)

Kibble everywhere. Always.
It gets eaten.
Eventually.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 04:44 PM (Sco7b)

313
I don't think she understands how breathing works.
Posted by: LASue

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Comment of hte week nominee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 04:44 PM (mmrXZ)

314 Sometimes a good "Fuck This" is exactly the proper move. We, in the Macro, are in one of those times.
Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:42 PM (KvBGr)

You are being abusive

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 04:44 PM (rbvCR)

315 I think that if Scott Bessent ran for President I might vote for him, but I don't think he has any interest in that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 04:46 PM (JrHfD)

316 I, unlike a lot of you, have had largely positive interactions with women in my life. Yes, there are some who were a pain in the ass from the get-go, and some of the formerly sensible long ladies I knew have probably turned into AWFLs, but were at least sensible when I knew them.

And my wife has always been a sensible, rock-ribbed conservative who thinks, no feels. (Though, as a redhead, she does have her moments. But those pass quickly and do not influence her life decisions.)

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

317 I don't think she understands how breathing works.

As the joke goes, lefties are so dumb they might forget to breathe.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:46 PM (2ocoG)

318 About the only blue laws that are still enforced are those involving liquor sales. There are also certain activities that are considered rude, crude, and corrupting for young folks to view in public, so you COULD consider those as possibly religious in origin, related to public morals...Unless you have issues with that too, and think that the Castro Street Fair is what the norm should be for children to see.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:46 PM (l3cgK)

319 30' of water? Pffft... I live 100' under water. What's the big deal? Ever heard of gills? I mean...come on, man!

Posted by: Creature From the Black Lagoon at September 14, 2026 04:47 PM (XMwZJ)

320 Everyone knows witches and warlocks float.

Sir Bedevere offers a scientific way to test the accusation:

Witches burn because they are made of wood.
Wood floats in water.
Ducks float in water.Therefore,
if the woman weighs the same as a duck, she is made of wood and must be a witch.

"SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!!! I got better."

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 04:47 PM (dIske)

321 I'm not voting for a mentally ill person for president.

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 04:47 PM (MWfyi)

322 Everyone meet Fred Vaughn of Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

He thinks that Tom Tiffany’s plane crash into a lake last night and near death experience didn’t go far enough.

In fact, he thinks the voters should “do some of what the lake couldn’t”.

What a disgusting person.

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"Some people should do something, IYKWWMAWTYD."

Posted by: ShainS at September 14, 2026 04:47 PM (JqXxE)

323 One could have a political preference formed by your religious belief. Just because it is religion based does not mean it is excluded from the preferences one is allowed to pursue in the political marketplace of ideas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:48 PM (4NO2D)

324 I also think it's okay to vote about something based on its 'ick factor'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:48 PM (4NO2D)

325 Witches burn because they are made of wood.
Wood floats in water.
Ducks float in water.Therefore,
if the woman weighs the same as a duck, she is made of wood and must be a witch.
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It's a fair cop.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 14, 2026 04:49 PM (amcLV)

326 338 Witches burn because they are made of wood.
Wood floats in water.
Ducks float in water.Therefore,
if the woman weighs the same as a duck, she is made of wood and must be a witch.
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It's a fair cop.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 14, 2026 04:49 PM (amcLV)

Even if they use Flock Cameras to follow it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:49 PM (l3cgK)

327 I don't know who's gassing up Mayor Pete, but he will never outrun that photo of the fake plastic boobs.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 04:50 PM (2ocoG)

328 "Some people should do something, IYKWWMAWTYD."
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I just found these seashells on the beach like that:
86 47
Isn't that interesting?
/s/ James Comey

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 04:50 PM (3cUTc)

329
Glaciers and those mega-floods can transport huge rocks and drop them off in odd places. They call those erratics.

When you look at some of those big rocks, and realize that it was huge water flows that carried them like that, the mind begins to boggle.

That Nepal disaster just gives you a little taste of what those late Pleistocene floods were like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 04:50 PM (w6EFb)

330 Tuco didn't die in a bathtub
Kf your going to shoot, shoot, don't talk

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 04:51 PM (Ia/+0)

331 Our next homo President will have to be considerably more manly than Pete, and probably a Republican.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:51 PM (4NO2D)

332

Its much more likely to happen at the hands of those you wouldn't dare criticize in person. So you do this. Just like the abused woman who screams at the kids.
Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 04:47 PM (KvBGr)

Domestic abusers prey on the people in their own house and circle to gain a sense of power and dominance in an otherwise powerless life. They often dress it up as "for the best" or "to correct" but it is just violence against people that have no real defense or recourse. They preferentially look for easy fish, people with a history of abuse, abandonment or being exploited and isolated. People who won't fight back because abusers at the very base are cowards who fear having the shit kicked out of them by an angry mob of family or neigbbors.

We need to find a new term for people like you. This abuse is not "domestic"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

333 Everyone meet Fred Vaughn of Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

He thinks that Tom Tiffany’s plane crash into a lake last night and near death experience didn’t go far enough.

In fact, he thinks the voters should “do some of what the lake couldn’t”.

What a disgusting person.

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"Some people should do something, IYKWWMAWTYD."
Posted by: ShainS


Yeah. Like turn his ass in.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (AXBJa)

334 "I did not mean to imply the depth made the landing less serious. It was the opposite."

Now the retarded bint is just straight-up lying. She clearly said 30 feet didn't seem like much to her walnut-sized brain.

Posted by: Delurker at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (2Drhq)

335 Just curious: Is Wausau pronounced "wazoo"?

If not, it ought to be.

Posted by: mindful webworker - asking the important questions at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (4lnVb)

336 "I did not mean to imply the depth made the landing less serious. It was the opposite."

Now the retarded bint is just straight-up lying. She clearly said 30 feet didn't seem like much to her walnut-sized brain.

Posted by: Delurker at September 14, 2026 04:52 PM (2Drhq)

Maybe two giraffes would have made more sense.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (dK+Kv)

337 310 "Howdy" is not here to discuss anything, he is here to stir up trouble and get people angry and fighting. He is the one I busted a few days back pretending to be a regular.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 04:40 PM (K32Fz)
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He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (oqH4h)

338 "Some people should do something, IYKWWMAWTYD."
Posted by: ShainS

Is this about my idea for socialized brothels?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (ndZc7)

339 Is that ... ozone?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (4NO2D)

340 I don't know who's gassing up Mayor Pete, but he will never outrun that photo of the fake plastic boobs.
Posted by: Ian S


That's his Dukakis Tank photo or the Kerry bunny suit.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (AXBJa)

341 Maybe two giraffes would have made more sense.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM

Many people have died in two giraffes of water.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (4NO2D)

342 He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (oqH4h)

It's seems like stream of consciousness, where the consciousness is misdirected athest rage.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (dK+Kv)

343 "We need to find a new term for people like you. This abuse is not "domestic"
Posted by: Kindltot"

Boogerflicker

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 04:56 PM (MWfyi)

344 It's seems like stream of consciousness, where the consciousness is misdirected athest rage.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:55 PM (dK+Kv)
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Same shit he does in every thread. Picks an angle he thinks is edgy and autistically locks in on it like fucking Rain Man and spams dumb shit until he gets a reaction.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 04:57 PM (oqH4h)

345 Is this about my idea for socialized brothels?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 04:54 PM (ndZc7)

"I am aware of you objection, Comrade, but to be honest, we do not have any opening for Ironworkers or Concrete finishers at this time and this placement fulfills your obligation for work for the state"

Posted by: Kommisar for Brothel Assignment at September 14, 2026 04:59 PM (rbvCR)

346 It's not the depth of the water. It's hitting the surface traveling at 75 - 100 mph in a thin skinned aluminum death trap. Descend too fast and you may as well be landing on solid ground.

Posted by: Paladin at September 14, 2026 05:04 PM (7hiUH)

347 I'm not a duck - Christine O'Donnell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 05:05 PM (N2HNb)

348 233 I think she is trying to explain her use of "only" 30 feet -- that the "only" meant that "only" 30 feet of water would be dangerous if there were rocks. It's totally bullshit, but I think this is what she is trying to say.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

You know, I don't feel the need to give her the benefit of the doubt. Hold her to her typed words, and give her heck. Or better, ask her to find out how much water Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in.

Posted by: moki at September 14, 2026 05:10 PM (wLjpr)

349
Maybe two giraffes would have made more sense.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 04:53 PM (dK+Kv)

Anything to avoid the metric system. My personal favorite standard of measurement is the labrador retriever.

Posted by: moki at September 14, 2026 05:12 PM (wLjpr)

350 Every year toddlers die by drowning in the 5 gallons bucket sold at Home Depot. It happens enough they actually keep statistics.

There is a simple solution to this menacing problem: we must insist that every bucket sold has a hole at the bottom so that water cannot build up to dangerous levels. It’s for the children!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 05:17 PM (gqKkr)

351 >>> I think that if Scott Bessent ran for President I might vote for him, but I don't think he has any interest in that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 04:46 PM (JrHfD)

Love him. He does classy yet catty quips VERY well!

Before Data Lounge bit the dust and sashayed away, the bitter old queens there (bless their hearts!) were convinced that Republicans had all the closeted political gays, and it was ok to rip them out of the closet and doxx them because they were evil Republicans. They were really nasty to Lindsay Graham after he passed.

Out and proud GOP gays like Bessent were of course never discussed. That would ruin the illusion they built up in their minds.

Many were also blatantly transphobic and racist. It was a funny mix of woke and nonwoke liberals.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (Eng1Z)

352 Aka, the shake-out cruise.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 14, 2026 04:03 PM (Fv80

First flight after an engine change. Good thing the 185 was on floats...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 05:27 PM (1z8ji)

353 Out and proud GOP gays like Bessent were of course never discussed. That would ruin the illusion they built up in their minds.

Many were also blatantly transphobic and racist. It was a funny mix of woke and nonwoke liberals.
Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 05:18 PM (Eng1Z

My favorite thing about Trump appointees is that even though I know at least one is gay, I keep forgetting which one because they are just doing their jobs and not rubbing my nose in their personal lives.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 14, 2026 05:58 PM (3WpNj)

Shock: Danish Crime Statistics Show that Immigrants, Particularly Muslim Immigrants, Commit Crime at Double the Rates of the Native-Born and the Children of Immigrants Are Even Worse

Denmark is one of the only western countries to track immigrant crime because the rest have been pressured to keep the public deliberately blind to the actual numbers by activists.

Because Racism.

David Strom:


For years now, Danish crime statistics tell us what we already can intuit from the data we do have: migrants from Muslim countries commit crimes at a vastly higher rate than native-born Europeans, and the statistics indicate that the rates aren't even close. They are especially represented in the sexual crime statistics, but in just about every category, the differences are remarkable.

But what most people who support mass migration might be surprised to learn is this: their male descendants are even more likely to commit crimes and are often more likely to be Islamist extremists than their parents. Again, the statistics show the differences aren't even close.

From the actual report:

Statistics Denmark extract for the Ministry of Immigration and Integration, age-adjusted Criminal Code index, native Danish men = 100.

MENAPT immigrant men (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey): 238 in 2016 → 214 in 2025. Still more than double the native baseline, but down.

Their Danish-born sons (descendants): 306 in 2024 → 326 in 2025. Record for that group; more than 3x native Danish men.

Ministry barometer summary of the same 2025 data: MENAPT immigrant men ~2x
2025 convictions: ~159,000 people (~120,000 men). ~28,000 immigrants and 12,000+ descendants among those convicted.

Social Democrat Immigration Minister Morten Bødskov told Berlingske this is one of the largest immigration-policy problems: values, social inheritance, and a "rejection of Denmark" -- not social conditions alone, including fathers who look the other way.

More at the link, including a graph showing the absolutely intolerable levels of "MENAPT" crime (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey). Although the chart Strom shows has the legend at the bottom cut-off, the sky-high crime rates are in fact for the "Migrant, MENAPT" demographic. You can see that from the tops of the letters.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:34 PM




Comments

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1 Weird.

Though having data to demonstrate what we've all known for years is nice.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (gLYp7)

2 THE BLADE IS ... well, you know ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

3 FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, MAGATS!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (gLYp7)

4 "Yeah, but native Danes are racist, so it's better for Denmark to import the world."
-CATO

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (AlVf0)

5 Ya don't say...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (l3cgK)

6 Shocked, shocked etc.

Posted by: Your Winnings, Sir at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (4NO2D)

7 2 THE BLADE IS ... well, you know ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

Not First?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (l3cgK)

8 Wow. This is shocking. Unbelievable. No one could have possibly predicted this.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

9 Meturpaknaf > MENAPT

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (Jr5Lq)

10 Shock: Danish Crime Statistics Show that Immigrants, Particularly Muslim Immigrants, Commit Crime and Double the Rates of the Native-Born and the Children of Immigrants Are Even Worse

One thing the Euro governments have done to try and poison the data is just pretend the children of immigrants are the same as heritage Danes/Germans/whatever.

So they goose "native" crime numbers and say see the immigrants aren't so bad!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (sKqQm)

11 because the rest have been pressured to keep the public deliberately blind to the actual numbers by activists
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Please don't throw us in that briar patch, activists!!!


Posted by: All the countries that hate you at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (AANQ+)

12 I wonder how many crimes are under reported.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (JZWhT)

13 Dog bites man. Film at 11.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

14 Small price to pay for pathological empathy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (ndZc7)

15 Islam tells them that if a woman isn't covered up Allah wants them to grope, assault, or if they can rape those women.

So it is not a surprise that they do it.

And when the authorities turn a blind eye to it they assume Allah will protect them as well so game on...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

16 unlike here where non whites are sometimes listed as white

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (CWTWj)

17 For teh chirrens!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (uDtSY)

18
12 I wonder how many crimes are under reported.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (JZWhT)

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If one thing is true across all of history, it's that ethnic enclaves within another country's borders always reach out to the native police to deal with their ethnic law breaking.

Just as the Italians in New York.

They never developed any kind of parallel justice system of any kind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (AlVf0)

19 WHAT A SHOCK

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (zjgNU)

20 13 Dog bites man. Film at 11.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

If it was "Man bites dog", I'd ask if we were talking about Obama...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (l3cgK)

21 They paid the Danegeld. They should have known better. They know the end of this game! I meant they're fucking DANES, they invented this shit!

Posted by: Stuff Rudyard Kipling might say at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (TbWk/)

22 "their male descendants are even more likely to commit crimes and are often more likely to be Islamist extremists than their parents"

Why? Poor whittle Mohammad isn't invited to the Cool Kids table with the blonde cheerleaders and grows bitter and angry and of course the only way to deal with that is by raping the blondes and murdering the sportsball jocks?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

23 I wonder how many recently minted Danes are listed as white like they like to do here.

Garbage in...

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (iCBqm)

24 >>I wonder how many crimes are under reported.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM

One of the democrats' reasons for not arresting illegal alien criminals is that crime won't be reported by illegal alien victims if you arrest the illegal alien criminals.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (2Xqig)

25 BUT IMMIGRANTS ARE MORE LAW ABIDING THAN THE CITIZENS!!!111!!!


/every pot smoking libertarian retard

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (zjgNU)

26 16 unlike here where non whites are sometimes listed as white

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (CWTWj)

My parents did that on purpose on my birth certificate; he didn't want me to experience the racism because my Mom was Mexican.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (l3cgK)

27 And when the authorities turn a blind eye to it they assume Allah will protect them as well so game on...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02

Well that and women rank right underneath goats, they are not human. They are property at best.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

28
Danish Crime Statistics Show that Immigrants, Particularly Muslim Immigrants, Commit Crime and Double the Rates of the Native-Born and the Children of Immigrants Are Even Worse

__________

*shocked gasps*
*women faint*
*dogs howl*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (eRlcH)

29 It's interesting that the 2nd generation is actually worse.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (lFFaq)

30 Denmark tracks crime statistics? I'm confused; isn't that racist?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (ERpYK)

31 Will no one decry the threat of backlash against Muslims, and the fueling of Islamophobia?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

32 My parents did that on purpose on my birth certificate; he didn't want me to experience the racism because my Mom was Mexican.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (l3cgK)

*reflecting on 45+ years of AA*

How'd that turn out?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)

33 I have a sneaky suspicion that the "No-no Square" dance ain't working ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

34 That's Not True!!!!

And, it's Good That It Is!!!

You Deserve It!!!!

(Dalrymple's Law of Merited Implausibility)

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (No2m8)

35 moslems are savages and always have been savages. Why they are allowed to live among civilized people is beyond me.

Posted by: Why Are They Allowed In at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (P4iUb)

36 They never developed any kind of parallel justice system of any kind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (AlVf0)

But I dare anyone to hurt a child or a woman in a mafia law situation.

Las Vegas was pretty dang safe under mafia rule. Unless you crossed the mafia, of course.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

37
*shocked gasps*
*women faint*
*dogs howl*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (eRlcH)

*suddenly a pirate ship appeared on the horizon*

Posted by: A lot can happen on a dark and stormy night at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (TbWk/)

38 Danish Crime Statistics Show that Immigrants, Particularly Muslim Immigrants, Commit Crime and Double the Rates of the Native-Born and the Children of Immigrants Are Even Worse

__________

*shocked gasps*
*women faint*
*dogs howl*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM

* cackles of glee *
* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 14, 2026 02:42 PM (0sNs1)

39 Doing what the natives would not do. Very helpful those muzzies

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 14, 2026 02:42 PM (vYGYU)

40 407 152 So what's this guy doing to protect himself and his family?

Posted by: I gotta ask
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He needs a fat GoFundM

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:42 PM (iLKq8)

41 >>It's interesting that the 2nd generation is actually worse.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (lFFaq)

It's making the case for multi-generational expulsion of criminal migrants.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 14, 2026 02:43 PM (NcvvS)

42 Amazing isn’t it, that our government is blind deaf and dumb about certain matters, such as the malfeasance of certain demographics? No stats, no data - and yet, yet certain aspects of our lives have Meticulous records kep on them. Baffling, simply baffling.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:43 PM (Gqar8)

43 36 They never developed any kind of parallel justice system of any kind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (AlVf0)

But I dare anyone to hurt a child or a woman in a mafia law situation.

Las Vegas was pretty dang safe under mafia rule. Unless you crossed the mafia, of course.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

=======

Save Sacco and Vanzetti.

Mostly because they're Italian. Nevermind the anarchistic terrorism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:43 PM (AlVf0)

44 The wife's vacuum cleaner isn't working. I should get off my ass

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (JZWhT)

45 35 moslems are savages and always have been savages. Why they are allowed to live among civilized people is beyond me.
Posted by: Why Are They Allowed In at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (P4iUb)

I was informed that the years of war were so we didn't have to fight them here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (iCBqm)

46 True Story: Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land, was written for our musilm brethren because we didn't have enough goat herders.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (5C90x)

47 Islam commands, literally their scriptures require them to rape and subjugate non Muslim women until they submit to Islam.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 02:45 PM (K32Fz)

48 Nevermind the anarchistic terrorism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:43 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Totes Imaginary Organization Antifa at September 14, 2026 02:45 PM (0sNs1)

49 45 35 moslems are savages and always have been savages. Why they are allowed to live among civilized people is beyond me.
Posted by: Why Are They Allowed In at September 14, 2026 02:41 PM (P4iUb)

I was informed that the years of war were so we didn't have to fight them here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (iCBqm)

They said a lot of things back then. I bought some of their lies, sadly.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:45 PM (Gqar8)

50 I was informed that the years of war were so we didn't have to fight them here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (iCBqm)

Yeah...

But we are ruled by people who hate us, so now we have to fight them here, too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:45 PM (zjgNU)

51
I was informed that the years of war were so we didn't have to fight them here.

Shrub will burn in hell for this

Could you imagine FDR bringing in millions of Japanese "undocumented workers" after Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

52 >>But I dare anyone to hurt a child or a woman in a mafia law situation.

The North End in Boston was ground zero for the mafia. Also probably the safest neighborhood back then.

As long as you weren't causing trouble. They took a very dim view on people causing trouble in their neighborhood.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:46 PM (viF8m)

53
But I dare anyone to hurt a child or a woman in a mafia law situation.

__________

There was a certain self-interest. Violence and crime by free-lancers would attract the police. So the tacet deal was reached. The Mob would keep their neighborhoods in order and law enforcement would, for a consideration, turn a blind eye to other activities.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:46 PM (eRlcH)

54 44 The wife's vacuum cleaner isn't working. I should get off my ass
Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (JZWhT)

Check to see if it is plugged in. I am married too.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:47 PM (Gqar8)

55 The left tells me Europeans coming to America and supplanting the Indians is the worst crime in history

Then they tell me bringing in millions of Muslims and third worlders to replace the heritage American population is good because it brings diversity.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

56 I give a shit about the Danes
I give a shit about Europe
As Musk said of another
they've got their heads so far up their asses they are blind.

Maybe Putin will wake them up. (Islam contains itself in Russia because they know stepping out of line is an immediate unpleasant trip to the land of virgins)
Maybe Meloni will succeed.
Maybe I'll win the lottery.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:47 PM (iLKq8)

57 It's interesting that the 2nd generation is actually worse.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (lFFaq)
_________

I suspect the younger generation has a much higher sense of entitlement and resentment. Very dangerous, toxic combination.

The 1st gen at least did have some struggle immigrating, most likely didn't speak the language, and some sense of relief.

His son will be an angry jealous little fuck.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

58
They said a lot of things back then. I bought some of their lies, sadly.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:45 PM (Gqar

Same and I was wrong.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:48 PM (iCBqm)

59 >>> The wife's vacuum cleaner isn't working.

The wife has a wife?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (dK+Kv)

60
Same and I was wrong.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:48 PM (iCBqm)

_________

*shrugs indifferently*

I'm a husband. I'm always wrong.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (eRlcH)

61 Years ago even The Economist has the balls to point this out - sort of.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (DwhNO)

62 I suspect the younger generation has a much higher sense of entitlement and resentment. Very dangerous, toxic combination.

The 1st gen at least did have some struggle immigrating, most likely didn't speak the language, and some sense of relief.

His son will be an angry jealous little fuck.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

The younger generation is being indoctrinated by the host country to believe such things. Not the only influence but the most ironic.

Posted by: Welcome to America please kill and rape! at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (TbWk/)

63
"their male descendants are even more likely to commit crimes and are often more likely to be Islamist extremists than their parents"

Why? Poor whittle Mohammad isn't invited to the Cool Kids table with the blonde cheerleaders and grows bitter and angry and of course the only way to deal with that is by raping the blondes and murdering the sportsball jocks?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

===============

Look at the cultural institutions in the west. Education, news, entertainment. You want your kid to be radicalized beyond all recognition? Leave your Muslim country and go to the most liberal society in the world.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (mmrXZ)

64 As long as you weren't causing trouble. They took a very dim view on people causing trouble in their neighborhood.
Posted by: JackStraw at September

J’s dad represented quite a few mafia types, he did more Greek than Italian, but definitely did his share of Italian. The stories were pretty interesting. He landed in Real Estate law, and still did work for the mafia. You can imagine the fun with that crowd and real estate trusts.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

65 Shrub will burn in hell for this

Could you imagine FDR bringing in millions of Japanese "undocumented workers" after Pearl Harbor?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

FDR (piss be upon him) was awful on a lot of things, but he understood the threat of a populace with ties to the enemy.

I don't think he did the right thing with the Japanese Internment, but it was understandable.

First AND Second Generation Japanese Americans represented a significant threat. Within days of Pearl Harbor, one married, second-generation Japanese couple had already murdered Americans while giving aid to our enemy. Others were working as spies and were being recruited as spies.

He wasn't stupid enough to ignore that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (zjgNU)

66 60
Same and I was wrong.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:48 PM (iCBqm)

_________

*shrugs indifferently*

I'm a husband. I'm always wrong.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (eRlcH)

And never ever know WHAT YOU DID!!!!

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (Gqar8)

67 >>> THE BLADE IS ... well, you know ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

Not First?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

=====

Out of quotes? Having problems with his cut and paste?

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (QFchU)

68 Could you imagine FDR bringing in millions of Japanese "undocumented workers" after Pearl Harbor?
Posted by: 18-1

Well, somebody's got to make those little paper umbrellas they put in drinks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)

69 At least Denmark acknowledges it.. Here we ignore it because " Islamophobia" or something

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (+gK6I)

70
*shrugs indifferently*

I'm a husband. I'm always wrong.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (eRlcH)

And never ever know WHAT YOU DID!!!!
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM

You know what you did.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (iCBqm)

71 Shrub will burn in hell for this
...
Posted by: 18-1 a
---------

He who invokes the Spirit of Molly Ivans shall sleep with her for eternity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (iLKq8)

72 BUT WHO WILL PICK MY DAMN KALE!!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (Sco7b)

73 55 The left tells me Europeans coming to America and supplanting the Indians is the worst crime in history

Then they tell me bringing in millions of Muslims and third worlders to replace the heritage American population is good because it brings diversity.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

The Left tells you Islam is SUPER-NEATO!!! Especially compared to Christianity.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (DwhNO)

74 THE BLADE IS ... well, you know ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

Not First?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

=====

Out of quotes? Having problems with his cut and paste?
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (QFchU)
______

Slow on the draw. Actually have work to do today. Imagine that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

75 72 BUT WHO WILL PICK MY DAMN KALE!!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (Sco7b)

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There's probably a machine for that that the farmer is too cheap to lease for the season.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (AlVf0)

76 You know what you did.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (iCBqm)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (dK+Kv)

77 69 At least Denmark acknowledges it.. Here we ignore it because " Islamophobia" or something

Posted by: It's me donna
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Only the commie media and they are slowly starving to death.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (iLKq8)

78 Immigrants commit vastly more violent crimes than native Europeans?

This s my shocked curb-stomped face.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (Av6i5)

79 The Swedes just elected a government which a lot of people think is "far right". They're considered that because they are for throwing out as many immigrants, aka muzzies, as possible

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (N2HNb)

80 Praise Allah for Demarkistan ..........

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (5U1m0)

81 Can I get an unexpectedly?!?!?

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (3ZUWJ)

82 If they were capable of integrating into Western society, they would have created one in their home countries. They are fleeing 3rd world shitholes because they created 3rd world shitholes.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (A5IXv)

83 75 72 BUT WHO WILL PICK MY DAMN KALE!!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (Sco7b)

=======

There's probably a machine for that that the farmer is too cheap to lease for the season.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (AlVf0)

Kale - once considered as the lining for bullet proof vests, pre Kevlar.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (Gqar8)

84 387 >>>I'm pretty sure the mid-30s woman who comes every other Monday to clean my house is a dick tease.

Is she a toucher? Some women are very happy and smile a lot, very friendly, and it might give a guy the thought that they were interested.

It is the touchers I have a real problem with.

I don't mind hugging female friends, goof around physically, etc. But someone not in that set who's a toucher when talking about everyday mundane things, that puts me in a quandry.Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

She's not a toucher, but very friendly and outgoing. Mostly, it's her attire. I think she's one of those that enjoys being ogled. Can't say I don't sneak a peak every now and again. I mean, I'm old, not dead.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (J4Dwc)

85 US: "BIPOC"
EU: "MENAPT"
H.G. Wells:"Morlocks"

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (Av6i5)

86 You know what you did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (iCBqm)

No, seriously. We don't know.

Most of the time what a husband did was not the least bit significant to him so it went out of his head, because HE would have forgotten about his spouse doing that to him and wouldn't hold a grudge over it, so he doesn't imagine the female propensity to hold on the grievances.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (zjgNU)

87 There was another study reported this week out of Sweden. It concluded that 70% of the invadefs vote for the left wingers.

Now you know what the op is.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (rkCBr)

88 She's not a toucher, but very friendly and outgoing. Mostly, it's her attire. I think she's one of those that enjoys being ogled. Can't say I don't sneak a peak every now and again. I mean, I'm old, not dead.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (J4Dwc)

Looks are free, and you are giving her want she wants. You are a giver.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

89 If Denmark can't handle their own immigrant problems, how in the world can they properly defend Greenland?

Posted by: mrp at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (rj6Yv)

90
And never ever know WHAT YOU DID!!!!
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM

You know what you did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:51 PM (iCBqm)

*look of pure hate-filled rage*
*scream on*
IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW THERE'S NO POINT TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!!!!!!
*add stomping and seething*

Posted by: Fucking flashbacks. Ugh. at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (TbWk/)

91 =======

There's probably a machine for that that the farmer is too cheap to lease for the season.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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John Deere wants 40% of the take.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (iLKq8)

92 It's interesting that the 2nd generation is actually worse.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

I read a post by some possibly ex-muslim who explained that when they're in muslim countries, all the scriptures and duties are just words.

But in non-muslim countries, suddenly all the charges to do to infidels have meaning and that inflames the young one with enthusiasm to go and do.

Which suggests that the proper non-religiocidal option is to quarantine them in their own countries and never let any of them into ours.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (vJrRc)

93 My experience with women is that they have Total Recall. Me, not so much.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:55 PM (Gqar8)

94 >>>The wife's vacuum cleaner isn't working. I should get off my ass
Posted by: Reforger

>Get off your ass and get her a new vacuum cleaner and steam floor mop. You have got to make a contribution to the relationship.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 02:55 PM (5C90x)

95 I saw someone post a claim that says "rich blacks commit more crimes than poor whites."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 02:55 PM (3cUTc)

96 One thing the Euro governments have done to try and poison the data is just pretend the children of immigrants are the same as heritage Danes/Germans/whatever.

The "Maryland Man" gambit.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

97 92
But in non-muslim countries, suddenly all the charges to do to infidels have meaning and that inflames the young one with enthusiasm to go and do.

Which suggests that the proper non-religiocidal option is to quarantine them in their own countries and never let any of them into ours.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (vJrRc)

=======

In their home countries, they have conquered. Their forebears conquered 1,000 years ago.

There's no reason to care about it in their home countries.

But in the host countries? Where they can dominate if they conquer?

Well, that's a whole other ballgame.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (AlVf0)

98
it might give a guy the thought that they were interested.

__________

They are not interested. Ever. Banish the thought from your mind. You can never come up to their standards.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (eRlcH)

99 The US was in a two-front world war, and full mobilization of every industry and utilization of all labor to the extent possible. Nothing before or since remotely close to that.

But a free and open society was of course extraordinarily vulnerable to sabotage. The question wasn't whether the odds were good, but the consequences. It would take a vanishingly small number of dedicated organized types to cause serious trouble in the Zone of the Interior, as America was designated.

You have to take into account the political angle as well. After the Pearl Harbor debacle, any further trouble would have been an extinction level event for many in charge. In those days politics, local, state, federal, was very much still responsive to the will of the electorate.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (No2m8)

100 Methuselah's wife reminds him of the mistake he made 357 years ago.

Posted by: Babylon Bee at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (2Ez/1)

101 I saw someone post a claim that says "rich blacks commit more crimes than poor whites."

True fact and it's not close. 10% vs 2.4%, IIRC.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

102 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (Gqar8)

103 95 I saw someone post a claim that says "rich blacks commit more crimes than poor whites."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 02:55 PM (3cUTc)

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At higher rates.

I've seen the graph, supposedly derived from FBI statistics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (AlVf0)

104 The UK has introduced a bill to require licensing of social media platforms. Among other things:

"Licensees must take all reasonable and proportionate steps to ensure—

(a) that content made available on its social media platform complies with the laws of the United Kingdom;

(b) that content made available on its social media platform is notmaterially harmful to users or to the public interest;

(c) that content made available on its social media platform does not incite criminal conduct, violence, hatred or public disorder;

(d) that systems are in place to minimise the dissemination of materially false or misleading information;"

The UK is fook'd.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM (HeG1i)

105 Western civilization wasn't built on magic dirt. It's our people and our culture. Import the third world, become the third world.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 02:57 PM (2UnvF)

106
At least Denmark acknowledges it.. Here we ignore it because " Islamophobia" or something
Posted by: It's me donna

=================

I wonder why Denmark tracked immigrant crime. Maybe it was just a sort of Ja, sure, track it all.

Anyway, it seems Sweden is tracking something, because they've begun a repatriation program.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 02:57 PM (mmrXZ)

107 >>J’s dad represented quite a few mafia types, he did more Greek than Italian, but definitely did his share of Italian. The stories were pretty interesting. He landed in Real Estate law, and still did work for the mafia. You can imagine the fun with that crowd and real estate trusts.

When I was in high school, we had a new girl my junior year. Quite attractive. She and her family had moved to the burbs from Boston.

She was very nice and in an effort to fit in she had a party at her very large home. As soon as we walked in I knew there was a good chance this was not going to work out. Her dad and a couple of his "associates" were in a different room but eyeballing us and not in a friendly way. The dining room table was covered in the biggest buffet I had ever seen, and good stuff not Twinkies and Ding Dongs. This was not our typical party scene.

We stayed just long enough until we could make a break for it without alerting Tommy Two Times and his friends.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:57 PM (viF8m)

108 Which suggests that the proper non-religiocidal option is to quarantine them in their own countries and never let any of them into ours.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM (vJrRc)

Except that they will go on murder sprees of the (much smaller amount of) infidels in their own countries, claiming "BLASPHEMY" when a woman rejects them.

See: Pakistan, Egypt, India, etc....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (zjgNU)

109 *look of pure hate-filled rage*
*scream on*
IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW THERE'S NO POINT TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!!!!!!
*add stomping and seething*
Posted by: Fucking flashbacks. Ugh. at September 14, 2026 02:54 PM

Don't forget about me.

Posted by: Hands on hips at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (2Ez/1)

110 My experience with women is that they have Total Recall. Me, not so much.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:55 PM (Gqar
______

"Open your mind ...."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

111 I've seen the graph, supposedly derived from FBI statistics.

Grok has been citing the actual source data to shocked liberals (and a few shocked conservatives) all day. It's solid.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (2ocoG)

112 The wogs begin at Kristiania.

Posted by: Winstøn Churchillsen at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (Av6i5)

113
I saw someone post a claim that says "rich blacks commit more crimes than poor whites.

__________

The homicide rate among black women is higher than that for white men.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (eRlcH)

114 102 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The new ironing board cover at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

115 OT, briefly, I made a musical reference to Godzilla on an earlier thread. A mere 2 or 3 hours later Amazon was offering me deals!!! on Godzilla merchandise. Yeah, we’re totally not being tracked.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar8)

116
Don't forget about me.
Posted by: Hands on hips at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (2Ez/1)

________

Yo.

Posted by: Finger Shaking at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (eRlcH)

117 78 Immigrants commit vastly more violent crimes than native Europeans?

This s my shocked curb-stomped face.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 02:52 PM (Av6i5)
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Curb-stomping Zombie's pretty face would be a crime against the sighted population. We need more pretty things to see.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (JNTt1)

118 Religious freedom for American citizens

Absolutely nothing for anyone else

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

119 More at the link, including a graph showing the absolutely intolerable levels of "MENAPT" crime (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey).

So maybe 2500 years of Western Culture has produced some inherent virtues then?

I'm spitballin' here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (guGkK)

120 BUT WHO WILL PICK MY DAMN KALE!!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy
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Could we just move on to Swiss Chard?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (XeU6L)

121
Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM

_________

Her Majesty has said she'd be delighted with a whole-house vacuum system.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (eRlcH)

122 Don't forget about the one eyebrow arched when looking at you

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (J4Dwc)

123 Ask your Imam if Religiocidal is right for you.

Posted by: Big Moh at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)

124 Most of the time what a husband did was not the least bit significant to him so it went out of his head, because HE would have forgotten about his spouse doing that to him and wouldn't hold a grudge over it, so he doesn't imagine the female propensity to hold on the grievances.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (zjgNU)

And the propensity to take the tiniest of slights, whether real or imagined, and turn it into an amalgamation of the Holocaust, Holodomor, Killing Fields, Kristallnacht, Stalin's Purges and January 6 multiplied by Avogadro's number, which then only resents .00000000000001 of the horrific offense you committed against her. Like thanking her for something 30 seconds after the time she thought was the appropriate time within which to thank her.

Posted by: Drama is their lifeblood at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (TbWk/)

125 OT, briefly, I made a musical reference to Godzilla on an earlier thread. A mere 2 or 3 hours later Amazon was offering me deals!!! on Godzilla merchandise. Yeah, we’re totally not being tracked.

I've never had that happen from the HQ, but if I Google something it can show up in Amazon offers.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

126 Her Majesty has said she'd be delighted with a whole-house vacuum system.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (eRlcH)

You should get her a wife.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)

127 111 I've seen the graph, supposedly derived from FBI statistics.

Grok has been citing the actual source data to shocked liberals (and a few shocked conservatives) all day. It's solid.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (2ocoG)

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Poverty caused those upper middle class blacks to commit crime.

Just ask Karmelo Anthony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (AlVf0)

128 Don't forget about me.
Posted by: Hands on hips at September 14, 2026 02:58 PM (2Ez/1)

________

Yo.
Posted by: Finger Shaking at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (eRlcH)
_____________

"Meh"

-- Bird Hands

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

129
And for something really different that made me laugh at loud. Horseplay, specifically football on the ISS:

https://t.ly/TvQ7s

They're gonna break something if they keep that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (w6EFb)

130 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM

Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The new ironing board cover at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

Rowing machine?? Got it on sale! No?? ok....

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (AKptf)

131 OT, briefly, I made a musical reference to Godzilla on an earlier thread. A mere 2 or 3 hours later Amazon was offering me deals!!! on Godzilla merchandise. Yeah, we’re totally not being tracked.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar

Why are you worried if you have nothing to hide!!!??

/our "betters"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (zjgNU)

132 I don't mind hugging female friends, goof around physically, etc. But someone not in that set who's a toucher when talking about everyday mundane things, that puts me in a quandry.Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

She's not a toucher, but very friendly and outgoing. Mostly, it's her attire. I think she's one of those that enjoys being ogled. Can't say I don't sneak a peak every now and again. I mean, I'm old, not dead.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:53 PM (J4Dwc)
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Ask her if she dates older men. . .

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (JNTt1)

133 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
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Ha! My dad semi-seriously gave me a briefing on this when I was a young lad. He informed me that any household item that breaks or wears out, it is never appropriate to make a gift out of that. Nor are kitchen appliances - say an electric frying pan, ever suitable.

The one caveat, he did purchase a Microwave oven for mom as a Christmas gift. This was well received. But it was the very first retail offering of the device. Nobody really knew what it was, it looked vaguely like a television.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (No2m8)

134 Seems like the only redeeming quality left in Denmark is Mads Mikkelsen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (qBdHI)

135 130 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM

Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The new ironing board cover at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

Rowing machine?? Got it on sale! No?? ok....
Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (AKptf)

Tell me that really happened, runner. Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (Gqar8)

136 Yeah we've been told being broke ass causes the hood to turn to crime

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (enNUy)

137 125 OT, briefly, I made a musical reference to Godzilla on an earlier thread. A mere 2 or 3 hours later Amazon was offering me deals!!! on Godzilla merchandise. Yeah, we’re totally not being tracked.

I've never had that happen from the HQ, but if I Google something it can show up in Amazon offers.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

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I don't think it's outside the realms of possibility that the browser could "read" and report our comments here and then catalogue them for sale to retailers, but I kind of doubt it happens.

Any search engine search, though, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (AlVf0)

138 Denmark used to be a country.

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (AKptf)

139
Immigrants commit vastly more violent crimes than native Europeans?

This s my shocked curb-stomped face.
Posted by: zombie

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Curb-stomped you say? That must mean you're ready to get up and defend your attacker from us bigots.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (mmrXZ)

140 Log out of all your email accounts !

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (AKptf)

141 122 Don't forget about the one eyebrow arched when looking at you


Spock, is that you ?

Posted by: BONES at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (HcoTw)

142 The one caveat, he did purchase a Microwave oven for mom as a Christmas gift. This was well received. But it was the very first retail offering of the device. Nobody really knew what it was, it looked vaguely like a television.

I'll bet they learned quickly when Junior out the parakeet in it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (guGkK)

143 141 122 Don't forget about the one eyebrow arched when looking at you


Spock, is that you ?
Posted by: BONES at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (HcoTw)

Or Tim Misny

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (2ap+5)

144 >MENAPT
they keep inventing the weirdest acronyms just to avoid uttering the M word

Posted by: juicer at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (kWp2M)

145 Unsolicited exercise machines may not be best gifts to wife.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar8)

146 Ha! My dad semi-seriously gave me a briefing on this when I was a young lad. He informed me that any household item that breaks or wears out, it is never appropriate to make a gift out of that. Nor are kitchen appliances - say an electric frying pan, ever suitable.

The one caveat, he did purchase a Microwave oven for mom as a Christmas gift. This was well received. But it was the very first retail offering of the device. Nobody really knew what it was, it looked vaguely like a television.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (No2m

It really depends on your wife. Some are thrilled to get such things.

(We almost always discuss our anniversary gifts beforehand, anyway.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (zjgNU)

147 Ya'll here about the new Sydney Sweeny ad for some sports betting outfit where she ends up nekkid?

Of course, the usual suspects are crying about it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

148 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal

Probably not anniversary, but it also depends on whether your wife was accidentally taught as child that birthdays and holidays are a great opportunity to get useful tools that no one is willing to spend money on under normal circumstances merely so they're there to use.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:05 PM (vJrRc)

149 >Get off your ass and get her a new vacuum cleaner and steam floor mop. You have got to make a contribution to the relationship.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 02:55 PM (5C90x)

It was operator error. That's me. I'm the operator. Can't do anything lounging in a LaZboy reading AOS comments.
I'm finished now anyway.
No more of that whiney "If I step on one more fucking goathead!!" crap.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 03:06 PM (JZWhT)

150 148 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal

Probably not anniversary, but it also depends on whether your wife was accidentally taught as child that birthdays and holidays are a great opportunity to get useful tools that no one is willing to spend money on under normal circumstances merely so they're there to use.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:05 PM (vJrRc)

Do DustBusters count??

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:06 PM (Gqar8)

151
Unsolicited exercise machines may not be best gifts to wife.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar

________

She could get a good workout throwing it at you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:06 PM (eRlcH)

152 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything this holiday."

Men, don't fall for this. It's a trap!

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

153 MENAPT
they keep inventing the weirdest acronyms just to avoid uttering the M word
Posted by: juicer at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (kWp2M)

It is funny.

Islam is clearly the problem. But our "betters" do everything they can not to admit that.

Meanwhile, they deride Christianity at every opportunity.

Almost as though Islam and our "betters" all serve the same master.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:07 PM (zjgNU)

154 Nobody really knew what it was, it looked vaguely like a television.
Posted by: Common Tater
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The early Radar Ranges looked like a Buick grille. Lots of chrome.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 03:07 PM (XeU6L)

155 Ask her if she dates older men. . .
Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (JNTt1)

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Or if she's ever been inside a Turkish prison.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 03:07 PM (2UnvF)

156 122 Don't forget about the one eyebrow arched when looking at you
Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 03:00 PM (J4Dwc)

More like a contorted demonic hate-filled rage-mask.

Posted by: But YMMV at September 14, 2026 03:07 PM (TbWk/)

157 152 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything this holiday."

Men, don't fall for this. It's a trap!
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m

Oh Yeeeah. That is Husband Screwup #1, or close to it!

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (Gqar8)

158 152 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything "

It's a tarp!!!

Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (HcoTw)

159 My wife and our son love to cook. So they don't mind getting kitchen stuff as gifts. But with me, they have to specify exactly what they want, since my cooking knowledge is pretty much limited to toast, eggs, and soup. Oh, and how to use a microwave.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

160 Just waiting for the Muslim community to suggest they should get special consideration for their behavior due to consanguinity (stupping one's relatives). Thus, the crime, rape, fraud and violence is a direct result of their cultural heritage and should be celebrated.

Failure to celebrate a Muslims right to stick it to their cousins is bigotry and a form of BACKLASH!!!!

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (dIske)

161 Except that they will go on murder sprees of the (much smaller amount of) infidels in their own countries, claiming "BLASPHEMY" when a woman rejects them.

See: Pakistan, Egypt, India, etc....
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Doesn't contradict the point, because the point is that when they encounter an infidel, suddenly they can actually do the "fun" part of what their imam tells them is their mission.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (vJrRc)

162 Darnit, I missed the Doxxed juror thread!

Hilarious to see liberals suddenly ok with doxxing an "arrogant" black man. And he is supposedly Haitian? So they are all for allegedly violent Haitians being here, until they don't vote the way AWFLS want them to.

I'm seeing that the people like Tutrleboy that helped doxx him over the weekend, there is no legal recourse to sue them. True? That POS is claiming that all of this falls under free speech, and that if you oppose him doxxing the juror's info, you are a commie who should leave the country because you hate freedom, and George Washington hates you.

Yeah, I'm sure Washington wanted jury intimidation to be part of the legal process. Sure Jan.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

163 She could get a good workout throwing it at you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:06 PM (eRlcH)

There's a glute machine called a Butt Blaster. Give one as a gift and hilarity would be almost certain to ensue.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (guGkK)

164 158 152 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything "

It's a tarp!!!
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (HcoTw)

I did that once.ONCE.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:09 PM (Gqar8)

165
MENAPT (See also: Wogs)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:09 PM (eRlcH)

166 158 152 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything "

It's a tarp!!!
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (HcoTw)

To wrap her in for tidy disposal.

Posted by: i can still hear her complain at September 14, 2026 03:10 PM (TbWk/)

167 Doesn't contradict the point, because the point is that when they encounter an infidel, suddenly they can actually do the "fun" part of what their imam tells them is their mission.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (vJrRc)

True, but he was saying we need to quarantine them to their own countries and I'm saying that to truly stop their evil, we need to quarantine them to Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:10 PM (zjgNU)

168 My wife and our son love to cook.

--

I didn't inherit this gene. I'm a really good cook, according to my family, but I intensely dislike cooking.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 03:11 PM (qBdHI)

169 167 Doesn't contradict the point, because the point is that when they encounter an infidel, suddenly they can actually do the "fun" part of what their imam tells them is their mission.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (vJrRc)

True, but he was saying we need to quarantine them to their own countries and I'm saying that to truly stop their evil, we need to quarantine them to Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:10 PM (zjgNU)

My vote is Europa.Or Titan.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:11 PM (Gqar8)

170 Do DustBusters count??
Posted by: tubal

If that's a tool she's been wanting for a while, it should, in my mind.

But not everybody learns that special occasions are the only appropriate time to buy expensive tools.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:11 PM (vJrRc)

171 Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys dead at 71. Lasted longer than i thought. The Dead Boys had a great album title "Young, Loud and Snotty"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 03:11 PM (N2HNb)

172 32 My parents did that on purpose on my birth certificate; he didn't want me to experience the racism because my Mom was Mexican.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (l3cgK)

*reflecting on 45+ years of AA*

How'd that turn out?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)

Didn't matter much in the end. When I was in college, Kalifornia had their Affirmative Action going on, so I took full advantage of it; I'd been a fool if I hadn't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)

173 Sorry, state policy. Moose out front should have warned you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 03:12 PM (M6sbU)

174 My vote is Europa.Or Titan.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:11 PM (Gqar

My vote is six feet under. There is no rehabilitation, and containment is kicking the can down the road.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 03:12 PM (dK+Kv)

175 True, but he was saying we need to quarantine them to their own countries and I'm saying that to truly stop their evil, we need to quarantine them to Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

I'd call those acceptable terms.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (vJrRc)

176 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything "

It's a tarp!!!
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM

Yeah, one of the very few things I don't like about my wife is her insistence on not telling me what she wants on gift-giving occasions. I'm just supposed to know, I guess.

It turns a happy occasion into a time of dread for me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (4NO2D)

177 I bought myself a new charcoal grill and smoker. Fun for everyone.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (5C90x)

178 Didn't matter much in the end. When I was in college, Kalifornia had their Affirmative Action going on, so I took full advantage of it; I'd been a fool if I hadn't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)

So you found out what brown could do for you LOL

Posted by: Not UPS at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (TbWk/)

179 My grandpa bought my grandma a vacuum cleaner as a gift once. Once. My grandma cried, and he learned never to do that again. Learned jewelry goes down better.

But you have to know your spouse. I got my husband his own personal popcorn maker as a gift, the cute round ones, and he loves it. Uses it at least once a week.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (Eng1Z)

180 They have a religious obligation to come to non-muslim countries. - see Surah 4:100 of the noble quran

Posted by: CTHillary at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (GMWTj)

181 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything this holiday."

Get her something or at least extra fries when you go get food. She'll graze on what you bring home no matter how much she claims that she isn't hungry.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (K32Fz)

182 But you have to know your spouse. I got my husband his own personal popcorn maker as a gift, the cute round ones, and he loves it. Uses it at least once a week.

The best gift for men is something they want to get but cannot justify in their heads as an expense. They want it, but the kids need new shoes and they can't explain to you why they spent that money. Figure that stuff out and get it for them, they will love it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:15 PM (K32Fz)

183 Our political betters admire Islam because it's the perfect political system to keep the unwashed masses in check. Clear headed people see the way nearly every politician eventually turns when confronted with their limited ability to get the public to bend to their will.

They ultimately find a way to force it.

Those born and raised under Islamic ideology no nothing other. They're easily manipulated... kept in check. The left loves this idea.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 03:15 PM (2Cry5)

184 My grandpa bought my grandma a vacuum cleaner as a gift once. Once. My grandma cried, and he learned never to do that again. Learned jewelry goes down better.

--

There's a Bob Newhart episode where Emily gets Bob custom-made silk pajamas for their anniversary, and he gives her a blender. She ran off crying.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 03:16 PM (qBdHI)

185 Yeah, one of the very few things I don't like about my wife is her insistence on not telling me what she wants on gift-giving occasions. I'm just supposed to know, I guess.

It turns a happy occasion into a time of dread for me.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (4NO2D)

Clairvoyance and psychic powers are the Bare Minimum™ now. Didn't you get the memo?

Posted by: Nine feet nine figures because inflation at September 14, 2026 03:16 PM (TbWk/)

186 Unsolicited exercise machines may not be best gifts to wife.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar
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Against the advice of morons I bought Mrs. F. a bathroom scale for her birthday and she loved it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 03:16 PM (M6sbU)

187 179 My grandpa bought my grandma a vacuum cleaner as a gift once. Once. My grandma cried, and he learned never to do that again. Learned jewelry goes down better.

But you have to know your spouse. I got my husband his own personal popcorn maker as a gift, the cute round ones, and he loves it. Uses it at least once a week.
Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (Eng1Z)

I have to say my Honey is much better at giving me gifts that mean something to me than I am at doing the same for her. I did buy her a brown leather purse once a long time ago that she still uses to this day. I remember spending a long time picking it out.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:16 PM (Gqar8)

188
My vote is Europa.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:11 PM (Gqar

No.

Posted by: Monoliths at September 14, 2026 03:16 PM (DwhNO)

189 >>>The best gift for men is . . . .

Boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 03:17 PM (dK+Kv)

190 44 The wife's vacuum cleaner isn't working. I should get off my ass

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 02:44 PM (JZWhT)

My wife once complained that the vacuum cleaner wasn't working, so I took it apart, cleaned it up, put it back together and it worked great!...

Turns out my wife REALLY wanted a new one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:17 PM (l3cgK)

191 There's a Bob Newhart episode where Emily gets Bob custom-made silk pajamas for their anniversary, and he gives her a blender. She ran off crying

Mom always liked whatever we got her but I understand that sometimes you cannot control how you react. Especially if your friends are all getting jewelry and perfume and fancy shoes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:17 PM (K32Fz)

192
Yeah, one of the very few things I don't like about my wife is her insistence on not telling me what she wants on gift-giving occasions. I'm just supposed to know, I guess.

It turns a happy occasion into a time of dread for me.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM

I send links so he knows exactly what I want. Or I just buy it and say thank you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 03:17 PM (iCBqm)

193 After almost 28 years of marriage, I have given my wife just about every conceivable thing she could want as gifts. I have run out of ideas and have to rely on her to tell me what she wants.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

194 The best gift for men is something they want to get but cannot justify in their heads as an expense. They want it, but the kids need new shoes and they can't explain to you why they spent that money. Figure that stuff out and get it for them, they will love it.

My wife bought me a camera lens I really wanted but wouldn't spend the money on one year for my BD. She's the best. But still doesn't know what she wants for dinner

Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 14, 2026 03:18 PM (HcoTw)

195 Ask her if she dates older men. . .
Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 14, 2026 03:02 PM (JNTt1)

I'd rather ask her what her mom looks like.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 03:18 PM (J4Dwc)

196 "I made a musical reference to Godzilla on an earlier thread. A mere 2 or 3 hours later Amazon was offering me deals!!! on Godzilla merchandise. Yeah, we’re totally not being tracked."

Your LG TV (and probably other brands) is listening to you, even when it is off. It has to be unplugged to stop it from listening and recording, pretty much regardless of what you have or have not consented to allow. Supposedly they can also track your other devices, and they prefer to know your credit cards so they know if you are buying what they push on you with ads.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 14, 2026 03:18 PM (vbXSk)

197
It turns a happy occasion into a time of dread for me.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM

________

It's supposed to be a time of dread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:18 PM (eRlcH)

198 I've had stuff I've posted here or even quoted show up in various feeds. Not redheads though. I never get offered redheads.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:19 PM (AANQ+)

199 196 "I made a musical reference to Godzilla on an earlier thread. A mere 2 or 3 hours later Amazon was offering me deals!!! on Godzilla merchandise. Yeah, we’re totally not being tracked."

Your LG TV (and probably other brands) is listening to you, even when it is off. It has to be unplugged to stop it from listening and recording, pretty much regardless of what you have or have not consented to allow. Supposedly they can also track your other devices, and they prefer to know your credit cards so they know if you are buying what they push on you with ads.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 14, 2026 03:18 PM (vbXSk)

I love my old dumb TV from 2003.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 14, 2026 03:19 PM (DwhNO)

200 Good gift giving means being on the lookout all year long and taking good notes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 03:20 PM (M6sbU)

201 Turns out my wife REALLY wanted a new one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:17 PM (l3cgK)

Great birthday gift idea!

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 03:20 PM (JZWhT)

202 181 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything this holiday."

Get her something or at least extra fries when you go get food. She'll graze on what you bring home no matter how much she claims that she isn't hungry.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM (K32Fz)

My wife will eat half my fries whenever I order them. We were out with a group once and I was talking to someone and reached for the fries when I was talking. She stabbed me in the back of my hand with her fork ( sneaking fries off my plate). The whole table saw it. And they never forgot. They were good about reminding her of it.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:20 PM (Gqar8)

203 A kitchen scale, right next to the refrigerator, would be better than a bathroom scale.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 03:21 PM (J4Dwc)

204 I order for Mrs. F. even if she says "no" otherwise she just takes most of mine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 03:22 PM (M6sbU)

205 On our first anniversary my ex and I had an agreement, no presents. We had just finished paying off bills from the wedding and honeymoon and bought a sailboat.

But I outsmarted her. I showed up with a dozen roses and a nice card. She handed me a Rolex.

I spent years making up for that little faux pas.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 03:22 PM (viF8m)

206 Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:20 PM (Gqar

She can't order her own damn fries?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

207 Is a Food Diary a good birthday gift?

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:22 PM (Gqar8)

208 It turns a happy occasion into a time of dread for me.
Posted by: toby928(c)

That sucks. Maybe you could encourage her to give you a list of options so that you know what she wants, and it's still a surprise for her?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:23 PM (vJrRc)

209 She stabbed me in the back of my hand with her fork ( sneaking fries off my plate).

Yeah that's what it was, *wink wink* not she noticed you checking out the cute latina waitress

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:23 PM (K32Fz)

210 If you own any Smart TV don’t enter your CC/Debit number while buying something or starting. subscription.

There is usually a way(s) to do the same thing in a browser on your pc, or mobile/tablet, or in a dedicated app.

TVs, in general, are going to be less secure than other devices with better security.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:23 PM (6ydKt)

211 Maybe you could encourage her to give you a list of options so that you know what she wants, and it's still a surprise for her?

Careful with this. Sometimes a woman will be outraged that you don't "just know" what she wants like Debbie's hot new boyfriend and you should know without being told yadda yadda.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:24 PM (K32Fz)

212 It turns a happy occasion into a time of dread for me.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 03:13 PM

________

It's supposed to be a time of dread.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:18 PM (eRlcH)

They feed on misery, suffering, conflict, and crushed dreams like Mr. Dark's Pandemonium Carnival

Posted by: Something wicked this way comes at September 14, 2026 03:24 PM (TbWk/)

213 >>> I did buy her a brown leather purse once a long time ago that she still uses to this day. I remember spending a long time picking it out. Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:16 PM (Gqar

Very well done! sometimes those are a huge reflection of that person's style, so a thing like a purse can be hard to pick.

Experiences also can go well as gifts, especially if the person's love language is not gifts but personal time. Buy them tickets to that concert, fancy restaurant, weekend trip they have always wanted to go to.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:24 PM (Eng1Z)

214 On today's episode of the Waltons Fat Rose eats a bucket of butter with a big wooden spoon

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 14, 2026 03:24 PM (Obl6N)

215 206 Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:20 PM (Gqar

She can't order her own damn fries?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

Oh no. She says she couldn’t eat a whole order.She also eats part of my baked potato with butter and sour cream, every time.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:25 PM (Gqar8)

216 Darnit, I missed the Doxxed juror thread!

Me too.

"altruistic filicide"

"Revolutionary Suicide" is cooler!

Posted by: Rev Jim Jones at September 14, 2026 03:25 PM (0GLZr)

217 203 A kitchen scale, right next to the refrigerator, would be better than a bathroom scale.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 03:21 PM (J4Dwc)

You always seems to find them in bathrooms, under a counter, or in a closet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:25 PM (6ydKt)

218 But I outsmarted her. I showed up with a dozen roses and a nice card. She handed me a Rolex.

I spent years making up for that little faux pas.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 03:22 PM (viF8m)

That's not even fair. You should have marched right out and bought her a Bently.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 03:26 PM (JZWhT)

219 We both buy what we want all year long so gift giving is kind of a moot deal for us.

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 03:26 PM (enNUy)

220 216 Darnit, I missed the Doxxed juror thread!

Me too.

"altruistic filicide"

"Revolutionary Suicide" is cooler!
Posted by: Rev Jim Jones at September 14, 2026 03:25 PM (0GLZr)


I did too but it was probably better for my blood pressure that I did....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 03:26 PM (+gK6I)

221 I am starting to think that the UK registration of social media is not all that bad.

Not for the reason you may think, but because it will cause people to stop using it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 03:26 PM (0U5gm)

222 No.one should be surprised, yet the Marxists Propaganda Ministry won't touch this report

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)

223 Oh no. She says she couldn’t eat a whole order.
Posted by: tubal

Doggie bags are a thing.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (77rzZ)

224 "It don't matter where you get your appetite, so long as you eat at home"

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (No2m8)

225 219 We both buy what we want all year long so gift giving is kind of a moot deal for us.
Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 03:26 PM (enNUy)

That’s yet another issue with gift buying.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (Gqar8)

226
Basically, giving gifts to women is a shit test you'll fail 99.999% of the time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (eRlcH)

227 I have trouble telling people what I want for gifts, either because "I don't really need that" or "it's expensive and I don't want to burden their finances" or I've already bought it for myself. Or worse, that I thought something would be cool to have and then I forgot that it existed.

And then the last time I specified what I wanted (because it was from a particular small creator I was trying to support), they bought something different anyway.

So, back to "give them a general idea and be grateful for whatever I get".

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (vJrRc)

228 "altruistic filicide"

That's been one of the core arguments made by pro-aborts for a long time.

Posted by: Better they be dead than poor. Or black. at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (TbWk/)

229 UN POSSIBLE!!!

I have been assured by all the elitist experts that immigrants are basically crimeless... especially on rape and murder.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (xvV+O)

230 114 102 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The new ironing board cover at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

For our 14th anniversary, my wife WANTED the microwave/convection oven unit, so I got it for her. The salesman was, to me, "are you sure this is what she wants?"...
She was so very happy with it. (she LOVED cooking desserts).
She was a good woman. I miss her.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)

231 Oh no. She says she couldn’t eat a whole order.She also eats part of my baked potato with butter and sour cream, every time.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:25 PM (Gqar

A lot of women seem to be in a permanent grey zone of Diet/No-Diet, so they’d rather nibble off of somebody else’s plate until they figure it out.

Then, when nobody can see them, they wolf down a pint of ice cream.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:28 PM (6ydKt)

232 popped back in sorry - Chris:

That's how the balance used to work, a recognition that women must be protected and are innately less rational (on average) than men (on average) and more likely to be hormonally unstable? Is that unreasonable?


oh well...

I'm older now, and yes. I think that is reasonable.

it still burns me a little. that's the fire I am hitting my own sex with. trying to get THEM to see it.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)

233 A refrigerator that bitches at you would be great. I'm sure it already exists, or at least contemplated.

"Ice Cream twice in as many hours? You have already exceeded the US RDA for refined carbohydrates. This would go in your permanent file."

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:29 PM (No2m8)

234
So, back to "give them a general idea and be grateful for whatever I get".
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (vJrRc)

_________

I told HM, "Anything that it makes you happy to give me." Never ask for anything, but always be grateful for what you're given.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:29 PM (eRlcH)

235 228 "altruistic filicide"

That's been one of the core arguments made by pro-aborts for a long time.
Posted by: Better they be dead than poor. Or black. at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (TbWk/)

They used to try to hide it behind crap like "a clump of cells." Now they try to hide it with Latin. Neither method works very well, since they both end up with dead kids. Time to bring back hanging for murderers.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (Ntshk)

236 I believe in Amazon lists btw

and with me, you can't go wrong with yet another orchid (or bonsai which is my new thing-to-fail-at)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (j+aD2)

237 >>> 203 A kitchen scale, right next to the refrigerator, would be better than a bathroom scale.

I tried and failed at making sourdough bread. I still do not understand how our pioneer ancestors made this going across the plains in wagons, with giant barrels of flour and lard and no fancy tools, when it takes the modern baker measuring ingredients by the microgram on a kitchen scale.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (Eng1Z)

238 I did buy her a nice cross whe wears most of the time.She saw it while browsing one day and mentioned it while I was actually paying attention. I doubled back the next day and bought it. ( Gave the Secret Sign to the lady behind the counter). Total surprise. I felt good that day.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (Gqar8)

239 "Ice Cream twice in as many hours? You have already exceeded the US RDA for refined carbohydrates. This would go in your permanent file."
Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:29 PM (No2m

"Hey! Fatass! Whatchadoing?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (Ntshk)

240 80% of migration is fighting age men from Muslim countries to Western countries.

Gee I wonder why.

Posted by: MJ at September 14, 2026 03:31 PM (XOmY9)

241 230 114 102 Protip - household work appliances are Not good anniversary gifts.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 02:56 PM

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The new ironing board cover at September 14, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

For our 14th anniversary, my wife WANTED the microwave/convection oven unit, so I got it for her. The salesman was, to me, "are you sure this is what she wants?"...
She was so very happy with it. (she LOVED cooking desserts).
She was a good woman. I miss her.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)

Good story, jim.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:31 PM (Gqar8)

242 158 152 The biggest lie women tell is "You don't need to get me anything "

It's a tarp!!!

Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 14, 2026 03:08 PM (HcoTw)

...that gets put over your body when the police arrive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

243 That's been one of the core arguments made by pro-aborts for a long time
----

You can see how they have "focus grouped" and massaged the marketing over the years, too. Professional Madison Avenue type stuff. Mass Manipulation of opinions and attitudes. Infanticide is a pretty tough row to hoe, but they have nearly succeeded.

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:32 PM (No2m8)

244 226
Basically, giving gifts to women is a shit test you'll fail 99.999% of the time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (eRlcH)

Pro Tip:
etsy.com

A lot of cool stuff in there for women, much of it can be engraved or personalized.

I’ll be looking on their for Christmas gifts in a few months.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

245 Build a bridge and get over it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 14, 2026 03:33 PM (wxsGM)

246 I gave my wife a bracelet that is sort of like a charm bracelet. Each "charm" is a piece of jewelry with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, etc. It's very pretty and there must have been room for at least a dozen pieces. My wife would often go the jewelers (Argot and Lehne in my case) to pick out a piece she liked. Really low effort, but she was always thrilled with the gift.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 14, 2026 03:33 PM (2ap+5)

247 I’m probably going to pick up a grammar book from they’re, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (6ydKt)

248 The Paolo he, how you say, give big gift to ladies they never forget

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

249 I bring my wife coffee every morning. She likes that a lot.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (Gqar8)

250 What is wrong with MA???



Fox News
@FoxNews
A Massachusetts family says the state took custody of their teenage daughter after they refused to affirm her as a boy, citing their Catholic faith.

The parents allege a school counselor socially transitioned their daughter without their knowledge, then reported them to the Department of Children and Families.

Now the state has guardianship, and a restraining order prevents the teen's parents and older brother from contacting her.

A judge has temporarily blocked the state from administering high-dose testosterone as the family fights the case. The next court hearing is set for Oct. 29. |
@LaurenGreenFox

@AmericaNewsroom

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (kX27y)

251 I'm older now, and yes. I think that is reasonable.

it still burns me a little. that's the fire I am hitting my own sex with. trying to get THEM to see it.

In this world of sin, here is no perfect system and all have tradeoffs. Its just a matter of what kind of price you're willing to pay.

As a man is easy for me to say "well of course we can hold back some responsibilities and burdens for women in exchange for protecting them and giving more lenience" but I suspect most women today would disagree -- especially younger ones.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (K32Fz)

252 oh well...

I'm older now, and yes. I think that is reasonable.

it still burns me a little. that's the fire I am hitting my own sex with. trying to get THEM to see it.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)

Women (especially, but men too) are raised by the school systems that men and women are the same.

It takes life experience (and open eyes) to realize how much of a crock that is.

(I'm reminded of the Dalrymple story where he warned a young female patient that dating violent men (like her mother did) was serious danger to her life and when she said "I can take care of myself", he explained that men are larger and stronger than women. Her response was "That's really sexist." There's a whole world of people who've had common sense trained out of them.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (zjgNU)

253 OT:
Allegations aren't convictions:
P
4.5% of divorcing women make a police report alleging domestic abuse

One quarter of divorces specified domestic physical or emotional abuse is the cause of rhe solit

Allegations often fall apart under scrutiny.They're used for leverage for children, etc

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (8O9+I)

254 I tried and failed at making sourdough bread. I still do not understand how our pioneer ancestors made this going across the plains in wagons, with giant barrels of flour and lard and no fancy tools, when it takes the modern baker measuring ingredients by the microgram on a kitchen scale.
Posted by: LizLem

Mom says that you don't knead it the way you do regular yeast bread.

Also it rises so much slower than regular bread.

As far as cooking goes, she lets it rise to the top of the bread pan, then inverts another bread pan on top of it to cook at 400F for the first 25 minutes, (I guess the steaming effect is important?) then takes the inverted bread pan off and lets it cook uncovered at 350F for another 20 minutes.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:35 PM (vJrRc)

255 Basically, giving gifts to women is a shit test you'll fail 99.999% of the time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (eRlcH)

Either I'm really good at gifts or Brit Lass just isn't that fussed - she treats almost everything I get her like it's the first breath she's ever taken.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:36 PM (AANQ+)

256 254 I tried and failed at making sourdough bread. I still do not understand how our pioneer ancestors made this going across the plains in wagons, with giant barrels of flour and lard and no fancy tools, when it takes the modern baker measuring ingredients by the microgram on a kitchen scale.
Posted by: LizLem

========

The process is actually extremely forgiving until you get mold. Then you toss it.

But you can revive starters in almost any other state.

And if you're making it every day, a full loaf to feed a family or maybe even more, it's just routine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:36 PM (AlVf0)

257 254
As far as cooking goes, she lets it rise to the top of the bread pan, then inverts another bread pan on top of it to cook at 400F for the first 25 minutes, (I guess the steaming effect is important?) then takes the inverted bread pan off and lets it cook uncovered at 350F for another 20 minutes.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:35 PM (vJrRc)

That’s a good tip.Thanks.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:36 PM (Gqar8)

258 >>> "altruistic filicide" That's been one of the core arguments made by pro-aborts for a long time.
Posted by: Better they be dead than poor. Or black. at September 14, 2026 03:27 PM (TbWk/)

I accepted "safe, legal and rare" back in the 90s, which was what the Clinton Democrats were touting, as sad but rational, and my stance was considered turncoat for a lot of Reagan trad republicans. Now that stance makes me a fascist reich-winger to Democrats, because the "moderate" Clinton Democrats have all died out or been replaced by socialists.

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)

259 I tried and failed at making sourdough bread. I still do not understand how our pioneer ancestors made this going across the plains in wagons, with giant barrels of flour and lard and no fancy tools, when it takes the modern baker measuring ingredients by the microgram on a kitchen scale.
-----

Now you know why Baking Powder biscuits, bannock, fry bread, pancakes etc were so very popular.

I discovered during the lockdowns, when "strong" flour - Bread flour was unavailable, that AP flour is not nearly so aromatic as Bread flour. It smells great when proofing and in the oven, but it is a pale imitation of the real stuff. Smells like a Wonder Bread bakery, if you remember those.

Bread flour - aged Bread flour is intoxicating and irresistable. It takes a day or two, make a poolish and let it do its thing in a really warm spot. OMG, you won't need to make Sourdough, I wouldn't think. It really makes the kitchen smell like a slice of heaven once it gets going in the oven. Browns up a little nicer, too. Same thing with Pizza dough btw. Age it for a couple days first, up to maybe a week or so in the fridge.

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:37 PM (No2m8)

260 Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (8O9+I)


The Left are immune to facts. By the time you get done proving them wrong they have ten more lies going.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:37 PM (AANQ+)

261 Ice Cream twice in as many hours? You have already exceeded the US RDA for refined carbohydrates. This would go in your permanent file."
Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:29 PM (No2m

"Hey! Fatass! Whatchadoing?"
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (Ntshk)

"Looking like ten pounds of sponge cake in a one pound sack! You REALLY want to eat another pint of Ben and Jerry's?"

Posted by: We should patent this. Refrigermotivator. at September 14, 2026 03:37 PM (TbWk/)

262 if only charm bracelets had taken off instead of tattoos for women. They use them both for the same purpose so they could’ve had a real chance given the right marketing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

263 Allegations aren't convictions:
P
4.5% of divorcing women make a police report alleging domestic abuse

One quarter of divorces specified domestic physical or emotional abuse is the cause of rhe solit

Allegations often fall apart under scrutiny.They're used for leverage for children, etc
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (8O9+I)
_____

Oh, it's way higher than that, unless possibly they are including all divorces (including those that aren't contested).

In contested divorces, I would say probably 10-15% file police reports and 35-40% allege some kind of abuse. It's 95% bullshit.

Note that men are getting into this now as well. The Johnny Depp trial opened people's eyes to how vicious and violent women can be.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

264 I don't want any of my appliances to talk to me. So far,, none of of them do and I don't have Siri either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (JrHfD)

265 @MorseReport
🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration has invoked the long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the United States of “any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.”

Ultimately, this will allow the Trump Administration to deny green cards to immigrants who are likely to use federal welfare, food stamps, or Medicaid, and to revoke the green cards of immigrants who are currently using these programs.

The new rule is set to take effect Friday, September 18.

As a result, 5.6 million immigrants are expected to lose access to those benefits, and American taxpayers are expected to save $13 billion per year.

-------

But this doesn't fix everything at once, so Trump is betraying us and he hasn't done anything about immigration.

I saw a Hispanic person in Missouri this weekend. Check and mate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (AlVf0)

266 Immigrants have no issue murdering their children. So I am all for them!

Posted by: White Liberal Woman Free Lindsey! at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (6VEkT)

267 Note that men are getting into this now as well. The Johnny Depp trial opened people's eyes to how vicious and violent women can be.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

And don't you forget it... I kid, I kid.... Maybe...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (+gK6I)

268 249 I bring my wife coffee every morning. She likes that a lot.
Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (Gqar

DH is aware that if there is not coffee when I awake in the morning, he will be smothered in his sleep.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (Ntshk)

269 I don't buy the wife clothes. That there is a fool's errand.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (yQ8Gj)

270 264 I don't want any of my appliances to talk to me. So far,, none of of them do and I don't have Siri either.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (JrHfD)

If they do, remember to be VERY polite with them!

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (Gqar8)

271 I saw a Hispanic person in Missouri this weekend. Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Is the Bangladeshi dude still showing up at CostCo?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

272 16 unlike here where non whites are sometimes listed as white
Posted by: gnats local 678

If there is an article about a crime, and no photo is shown of the suspect, I suspect that he is probably non-white. If no name is given, I suspect that he is hispanic or Arabic. As far as hispanic people, they can be white, non white, or biracial.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (0Htd1)

273 If a woman(girlfriend, wife) bought me a grill and a complete set of accessories I don't a see problem here. Or tools to work on her car. Yardwork tools, not a problem.

There's something to stuff into your gender pipe and smoke it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (5C90x)

274 "It don't matter where you get your appetite, so long as you eat at home"
Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026

***
Such was Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's philosophy!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (wzUl9)

275 As a result, 5.6 million immigrants are expected to lose access to those benefits, and American taxpayers are expected to save $13 billion per year.

-------

But this doesn't fix everything at once, so Trump is betraying us and he hasn't done anything about immigration.

I saw a Hispanic person in Missouri this weekend. Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (AlVf0)
_______

$13 billion saved? More like 10x that, easy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

276 I tried and failed at making sourdough bread. I still do not understand how our pioneer ancestors made this going across the plains in wagons, with giant barrels of flour and lard and no fancy tools, when it takes the modern baker measuring ingredients by the microgram on a kitchen scale.
Posted by: LizLem

Easier if you've made yeasted bread a few times first to get used to the process.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (AANQ+)

277 @MorseReport
🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration has invoked the long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the United States of “any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.”

Ultimately, this will allow the Trump Administration to deny green cards to immigrants who are likely to use federal welfare, food stamps, or Medicaid, and to revoke the green cards of immigrants who are currently using these programs.

The new rule is set to take effect Friday, September 18.

As a result, 5.6 million immigrants are expected to lose access to those benefits, and American taxpayers are expected to save $13 billion per year.

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But this doesn't fix everything at once, so Trump is betraying us and he hasn't done anything about immigration.

I saw a Hispanic person in Missouri this weekend. Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (AlVf0)

We have always had the laws to prevent what has happened to our country. The problem is our "elites" pick and choose what laws they like.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (zjgNU)

278 271 I saw a Hispanic person in Missouri this weekend. Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Is the Bangladeshi dude still showing up at CostCo?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

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WHY HAS TRUMP BETRAYED ME BY NOT DEPORTING THIS PERSON WHO PROBABLY HAS LEGAL STATUS?!

I have to vote for Democrats to punish him, because if there's one thing that will teach the GOP to be more hardline on immigration it's making sure that hardline immigration GOP candidates lose elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (AlVf0)

279 Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (+gK6I)

280 >>> As far as cooking goes, she lets it rise to the top of the bread pan, then inverts another bread pan on top of it to cook at 400F for the first 25 minutes, (I guess the steaming effect is important?) then takes the inverted bread pan off and lets it cook uncovered at 350F for another 20 minutes.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 03:35 PM (vJrRc)

I bake my bread in a dutch oven in the oven. Steaming it really makes the crust so much better!

Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)

281 Nood plane crash

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (yQ8Gj)

282 275
$13 billion saved? More like 10x that, easy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

=========

All of the savings Trump is finding through this stuff is getting eaten up by debt payments.

However, it does look like government spending as a percentage of GDP is going to be flat from 25-26, so if the economy is growing, it's some positive movement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (AlVf0)

283 Real article from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania woman dies of measles. She wasn’t vaccinated. Omg!!

They don’t tell you if that Pennsylvania woman, is an actual citizen or not. Nothing about the circumstances or her general health. Only that she died because she wasn’t vaccinated.

Want to hazard a guess?

Posted by: White Liberal Woman Free Lindsey! at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (6VEkT)

284 That's a 6.3 on the Richter scale fattypotamus. Quit eyeballing that leftover birthday cake and have a carrot.

Posted by: Talking diet coach fridge at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (TbWk/)

285 It really makes the kitchen smell like a slice of heaven once it gets going in the oven. Browns up a little nicer, too. Same thing with Pizza dough btw. Age it for a couple days first, up to maybe a week or so in the fridge.
Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:37 PM (No2m

Way back when my brother and his bride of a few years got a bread machine and started making all kinds of bread. It was actually really good bread, naturally better with butter.

They raved about it, tried just about every kind of bread they could make and after about six months quit making bread completely because they had both gained about 40 lbs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (6ydKt)

286 277 We have always had the laws to prevent what has happened to our country. The problem is our "elites" pick and choose what laws they like.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 03:41 PM (zjgNU)

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Yup.

Congress doesn't need to pass another law.

We need executives to enforce the law.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (AlVf0)

287 "long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the United States of “any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.”
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The "new rule" they call it. That's a fucking LAW dumb ass. It's always been the law. At least, since 1882.

"Long unenforced". Yeah we noticed. We don't have to live like this. They claim we do, but we really don't. Clown World.

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (No2m8)

288 Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (+gK6I)

A layabout, probably on SSDI, unnatural colored hair, and ear-gages are almost a certainty.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (dK+Kv)

289 253 OT:
Allegations aren't convictions:
P
4.5% of divorcing women make a police report alleging domestic abuse

One quarter of divorces specified domestic physical or emotional abuse is the cause of rhe solit

Allegations often fall apart under scrutiny.They're used for leverage for children, etc
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:34 PM (8O9+I)

Son's baby mama is trying to do this to justify not letting us or the son even see the grandbaby. She is, of course, lying, but we shall see. She doesn't want to raise the kid--she usually leaves him with her stepmom and dad instead of caring for him. But she does want to punish son for not being her sugar daddy and paying to let her sit around the house and get high every day.

What a damned mess.

It is all a corollary of "don't stick it in crazy."

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (Ntshk)

290 It's almost as if they are barbarians!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (hzuYO)

291 288 Okay... So what is a "non practicing white'?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (+gK6I)

A layabout, probably on SSDI, unnatural colored hair, and ear-gages are almost a certainty.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (dK+Kv)

Well, if practice makes perfect, I'd say she's a shitty white person.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:44 PM (Ntshk)

292 But this doesn't fix everything at once, so Trump is betraying us and he hasn't done anything about immigration.

I saw a Hispanic person in Missouri this weekend. Check and mate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM (AlVf0)

Hey!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (l3cgK)

293 I tried and failed at making sourdough bread. I still do not understand how our pioneer ancestors made this going across the plains in wagons, with giant barrels of flour and lard and no fancy tools, when it takes the modern baker measuring ingredients by the microgram on a kitchen scale.
Posted by: LizLem at September 14, 2026 03:30 PM (Eng1Z)

There are some hacks you can do to make a decent rise and get the sourdough flavor.

you can let your sourdough pot sit and work until it separates and goes silent, and then you pour the liquid off into your standard yeast bread dough.
You can add malt - not a lot because too much makes your bread sort of gummy if you toast it. I have been told that oat malt does not make the finished bread gooey
You can add sugar as you make your dough
You can proof it at a higher temperature, I have put the rising bowl in a bowl of hot water.

The Germans use a rye flour for their sourdough start and that seems to work well. I have used rye malt in my sponge, and let it rise overnight.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 03:45 PM (rbvCR)

294 When all else fails, follow the recipe at the King Arthur Flour webpage

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (rbvCR)

295 They raved about it, tried just about every kind of bread they could make and after about six months quit making bread completely because they had both gained about 40 lbs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:43 PM (6ydKt)

Fresh bread is crack.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:46 PM (Ntshk)

296 They don’t tell you if that Pennsylvania woman, is an actual citizen or not. Nothing about the circumstances or her general health. Only that she died because she wasn’t vaccinated
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It's the same chickenshit dodge that is now incorporated into everything. "Can't comment on an active investigation".

Bitch, you are supported by the taxpayers. We paid for this shit. You guys fucked up, and won't even deign to tell us what happened. Clown World.

They do the same with diseases now. Somebody gets Polio or whatever, they are to remain anonymous. They might tell you someone came down with whatever in a specific county. "Health authorities" know what's best. Always.

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:47 PM (No2m8)

297 h, it's way higher than that, unless possibly they are including all divorces (including those that aren't contested).

In contested divorces, I would say probably 10-15% file police reports and 35-40% allege some kind of abuse. It's 95% bullshit.

Note that men are getting into this now as well. The Johnny Depp trial opened people's eyes to how vicious and violent women can be.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 03:

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Yes. False allegations common.
I would include this in a high school course on "Stuff You Need to Know in Life"
- Credit card debt
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Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:48 PM (8O9+I)

298 he Trump Administration has invoked the long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the United States of “any convict, lunatic, idiot,

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🤣🤣🤣

We have enough of our own!!

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2026 03:49 PM (AKptf)

299 CSPN 3 Democrats ( read Marxists) hold Forum on alleged corruption in Trump administration

Almost want to put it on to see what smoke they are blowing

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

300 if only charm bracelets had taken off instead of tattoos for women.

For a brief wonderful moment in the 90s, girls started wearing scarfs like the 1940s and it was so pretty and feminine. Why can't women work out what guys actually want (and I don't mean the homosexuals working in the fashion industry)?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (K32Fz)

301 The wife's vacuum cleaner isn't working. I should get off my ass
Posted by: Reforger
.......

Guess you'll have to check it out. Tell her to make sammiches in the meantime.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (UjdFS)

302 Too quick o the trigger

Yes. False allegations common.
I would include this in a high school course on "Stuff You Need to Know in Life
- compound interest; good and bad
- Credit card debt
- realistic expectations of marriage.
- Renting an apartment
- Buying a car
- buying a house
- topics in consumer law

Cover it all in a week. Prepare kids

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:53 PM (8O9+I)

303 300 if only charm bracelets had taken off instead of tattoos for women.

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Recent stay the hospital. Surprised to see medical professionals like nurses with the tats

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (8O9+I)

304 I read somewhere that there are often some surprising opponents to High School financial classes.

Basically, a lot of businesses have an actual interest in stupid people. That's their bread and butter.

Posted by: Worth A Try? at September 14, 2026 03:56 PM (No2m8)

305 Why can't women work out what guys actually want (and I don't mean the homosexuals working in the fashion industry)?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 03:51 PM (K32Fz)
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They don't wear anything they wear for men. They wear it so that Becky and Courtney over there can catch the vapors over whatever fashion is these days.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 03:59 PM (oqH4h)

306 >>>They don't wear anything they wear for men. They wear it so that Becky and Courtney over there can catch the vapors over whatever fashion is these days.

Posted by: ballistic

>I don't know what fashion is. There's just clean, slightly smelly and ready for the laundry. The long sleeve shirt weather is coming up shortly.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 04:37 PM (5C90x)

307 I don't want any of my appliances to talk to me. So far,, none of of them do and I don't have Siri either.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 03:39 PM

I'm happy if they just don't talk about me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 04:41 PM (4NO2D)

308 ja! Skol!

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2026 04:48 PM (lCppi)

309 This is why the United States has a citizenship requirement whereby immigrants can only become protected by law by swearing oath to the U.S. Constitution. Otherwise, those immigrants are rouge usurpers who have no rights to government benefits and can only depend on charity of public assistance.
But that is not how it is currently working.
Which is why our government is failing.

Posted by: John at September 14, 2026 05:34 PM (9NUKl)

The "Rogue Juror" Has Been Doxxed and "Visited" At His Home by Angry Lindsay Clancy Baby-Killer Cultists

This was always the plan:

F Post
@AFpost

Sep 13

The lone Black male juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, who refused to acquit Clancy despite pressure from the media and the 11 other jurors, has been doxxed, had his home visited by hostile Clancy supporters, had his family contacted, and had past allegations against him dug up.

Follow: @AFpost

Alpha Karen One admitted that the jury vote was a political act, not an evaluation of the actual evidence, stating that she intends for Lindsay Clancy's acquittal to improve the lives of other women, and of course women who murder their children:

"We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women..."

Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich

This woman needs to stop
doing media. How embarrassing and offensive to women and men who don't believe murdering your kids should be acceptable. Not to mention a bastardization of what a jury is supposed to do, which is not to engage in activism.

Alpha Karen One was very "impressed" by a shrink's explanation that there is such a thing as "altruistic filicide," which means murdering your children, but exalted as a good thing.

Now, she is talking about Lindsay Clancy believing this but as we've seen, there are a lot of women who believe it's a good thing to kill your children, and Alpha Karen One has already copped to voting to acquit the literal triple child killer to make things better for women.


Viva Frei
@thevivafrei

I don't use this word flippantly, but this truly is SICKENING.

They have given it a name: "altruistic filicide".

Altruistic: selfless concern for others.

Filicide: the killing of one's children.

They have pathologized what would otherwise be brutal murder as "the selfless killing of one's children".

We are even beyond "suicidal empathy". We have literally entered the realm of "homicidal empathy". Pathologized as "altruistic filicide"

And listen to the mind virus of "virtue signaling" according to this juror (whose last name happens to be Devlin - my goodness the simulation has a sick sense of humor).

Lindsay Clancy was a good mom (despite "viciously killing" her three children - literally the terms used by another juror who also would have found not guilty), because she had a big sign in her house that said "it's a wonderful life".

This is their actual thought process.

In their own words.

Sickening.

The Karens are melting down that the "Rogue Juror" was not a (spit) white man but a black one.

First up is an ugly woman, who describes herself as a "non-practicing white" -- because whites, as you know, subscribe to a religion of white supremacy.

They are proud of their anti-white racism and proud of their extreme, hateful tribalism. Everyone in "the tribe" is always right and good, everyone outside the tribe is an enemy to be attacked.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:23 PM




Comments

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1 You weave your spell, your eyes they beckon me.
Your lips they speak, lies and misery.
I know it's wrong, but I can't turn away.
The flames draw near, they're telling me to stay.

Into the fire, I'm falling
Into the fire, I'm falling

Your love burns bright, and yet the flames are cold.
This time I fear, you won't be back no more.
When will it end, your love consumes my soul.
Into the fire, I'm being tempted once more ...

THIS TIME, TO ANOTHER FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

2 Nd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 01:23 PM (qZb7K)

3 But he's actin' like a white man...--some Libbie probably

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (l3cgK)

4 They're going to literally lynch this man and then blame white conservatives.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (gLYp7)

5 This is....really not helping the case for keeping the 19th Amendment.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (EynyL)

6 Nooded.

Posted by: Irving at September 14, 2026 01:25 PM (NcvvS)

7 It would be funny if some white AWFL breaks into the black hero's home with the intent to kill him, he fights back and kills HER (strangling would be best), and then goes to trail and CLAIMS THE INSANITY DEFENSE.

Please let it happen.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 01:25 PM (Av6i5)

8 >>>Alpha Karen One admitted that the jury vote was a political act, not an evaluation of the actual evidence, stating that she intends for Lindsay Clancy's acquittal to improve the lives of other women, and of course women who murder their children:

And now we're at DefCunt 1.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (pcKW+)

9 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

They need to find out who leaked/published this information and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. This is juror intimidation, just after the fact (which is also illegal, I believe)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (SRRAx)

10 Did he greet them with a weapon in hand? I hope he did.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (2Xqig)

11 Juror Number Hero has been doxxed to the point where raging Karens are at his house, but his name hasn't been leaked yet?

Call me skeptical. I still think this smells like an op. And the more this loathsome toad Paula Devlin makes the media tour like a wannabe celebrity, the more it smells bad to me.

There's no way they wouldn't have this guy's name and picture by now. No way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

12 "altruistic infanticide" meaning that it's better for a child to die than to grow up with one of these psycho Karen's as a mother?

Posted by: 29Victor at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (0MjtC)

13 Collusion between the Masshole govt, the media, and activist groups. This guy fucked it up for them.

And now he has to pay.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (qZb7K)

14 They have pathologized what would otherwise be brutal murder as "the selfless killing of one's children".
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What exactly was anyone expecting of the end result of "I wouldn't want my daughter punished with a baby"* and the normalization that, if you don't think you can "afford" a baby, it's better to abort the baby than for it to grow up poor.

* and all these same monstrous, demonic women cooed in agreement when the JEF made that horrendous remark, that a baby is only a burden--never a blessing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (3cUTc)

15 Alpha Karen One was very "impressed" by a shrink's explanation that there is such a thing as "altruistic filicide," which means murdering your children, but exalted as a good thing
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aka human sacrifice. It's officially here. Prepare.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (AANQ+)

16 so was the holdout a "non-practicing black"?

None of this makes any sense to me. I just think they are all fucking nuts. We need a purge.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (L5iA9)

17 NBC Boston investigated the holdout juror and only him, and broadcast their results, in an effort to intimidate him, to incite Karens against him, and all in direct violation of statute.

Prosecute them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (mn/mw)

18 This is not about the lone juror. They don't really even care if they destroy him. They won't mind it happening but its not about him.

Its about making sure in the future everyone is too intimidated to even attempt doing what he did. This is about destroying him so badly that future men rethink or are afraid of resisting the chosen narrative in court.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (K32Fz)

19 15 Alpha Karen One was very "impressed" by a shrink's explanation that there is such a thing as "altruistic filicide," which means murdering your children, but exalted as a good thing
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aka human sacrifice. It's officially here. Prepare.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (AANQ+)

I'm pleased!

Posted by: Moloch at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (l3cgK)

20 >>>Alpha Karen One was very "impressed" by a shrink's explanation that there is such a thing as "altruistic filicide," which means murdering your children, but exalted as a good thing.

In her defense, she knew the kids' mom.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (pcKW+)

21 'Non-practicing white'? Uh...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

22 We are literally surrounded by f***** lunatics.

We cannot put up with these batsh*t crazy f***s any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (XV/Pl)

23 Out: "White privilege" is an in-born attribute, that you can NOT ever escape from,no matter how hard you try or want to: You will always have an :"invisible backpack" of privilege, which makes you inherently a bad person. Forever. You cannot escape it or deny it.

In: I am a "non-practicing white person," which gives me Magic Automatic Immunity to the label of White Privilege. Poof! All I gotta say is "non-practicing white person" and I don[t have White Privilege. So easy!

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (Av6i5)

24 I'm a non-practicing vegan.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (XvL8K)

25 "Alpha Karen One was very 'impressed' by a shrink's explanation that there is such a thing as 'altruistic filicide,' which means murdering your children, but exalted as a good thing."

"Yea? So what? Hater!"

-- Magda Goebbels

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

26 Dokken

Posted by: steevy at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (YwEeS)

27 The whole thing feels more and more rigged with each passing day.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (AANQ+)

28 anyone who believes altruistic filicide needs an altruistic straight jacket for life. Even just using that fucking term is disgusting.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (L5iA9)

29 Zombie Benjamin Franklin has been quoted as saying *snort*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 01:30 PM (guGkK)

30 Desantis has offered him asylum in Florida. Not joking.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:30 PM (4NO2D)

31 Is the exposing of his identity -- following a concerted effort to malign him and foment rage against him -- anything legally actionable? If so, I hope he gets a hanging judge. I would bring popcorn to see a Boston "journalist" get roasted for this perfidy.

Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026 01:30 PM (Ve/HL)

32
Tell me. If a juror, after the fact of a verdict convicting a defendant, spouted off that the conviction was essentially a political act, something not related to the evidence, I think that would allow for the defense to move for a new trial. I think.

But going the other way, acquitting a defendant would not. Double jeopardy or something, I think. But is there any way a juror could be held on something if they admit to blatant politics or other irrelevant factors?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 01:30 PM (w6EFb)

33 Did he greet them with a weapon in hand? I hope he did.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (2Xqig)

He should hang water bottles in the trees outside hus home to ward off evil AWFL spirits.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:30 PM (pcKW+)

34 Starting to understand the appeal of Islam's approach towards women.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (rx4MS)

35 Truly sickening.

All of it!

Did you see that the defense lawyer’s wife was on X ginning up the mob against the lone holdout juror?
wtf??

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (4KUe5)

36 @24

>>I'm a non-practicing vegan.

I'd like to think of myself as an passive vegetarian.

I eat cow, but cow eats grass, and I eat the cow, so really, If you think about it, I'm eating grass too.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (XV/Pl)

37 22 We are literally surrounded by f***** lunatics.

We cannot put up with these batsh*t crazy f***s any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM (XV/Pl)

The thing is, the internet and sites like Tik-Tok amplify what is probably a very, very small group of crazies.
Like the real KKK is so small, it'd fit in a very small stadium.
I can't believe the majority of women want the "right" to kill children beyond the age of birth, or even at or near birth.
Unfortunately, the crazies are in control of the political aparatus.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (l3cgK)

38 People need to be in jail for this.

So very many people have no idea the reckoning they are building up for themselves.

Civilization is somewhat robust, but we're now testing just how much of the foundation we can remove before it collapses.

Testing to failure is not a good idea when YOU are the test subject.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (zjgNU)

39 What exactly was anyone expecting of the end result of "I wouldn't want my daughter punished with a baby"* and the normalization that, if you don't think you can "afford" a baby, it's better to abort the baby than for it to grow up poor.

* and all these same monstrous, demonic women cooed in agreement when the JEF made that horrendous remark, that a baby is only a burden--never a blessing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (3cUTc)

Sanctifying abortion is exactly like that Churchill joke about the woman being a whore.

We've already determined what you are madame. Now we're merely negotiating the price.

Once you say it's okay to kill a child, the 'when' of it stops being relevant.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (gLYp7)

40 I think the jurors ending up comprised like they were was an op in and of itself.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (l3cgK)

41 Runaway jury...expect the black guy.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (J4Dwc)

42 I eat cow, but cow eats grass, and I eat the cow, so really, If you think about it, I'm eating grass too.

So a Vegan by Proxy then

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (guGkK)

43 When I saw video clips from the trial, I thought the the defense lawyer was an incompetent buffoon, making the most idiotic arguments imaginable, with zero charisma or persuasiveness.

And then...he convinced 11 out of 12 jurors.

We are fucked as a society.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (Av6i5)

44 Some other woman just killed her 3 kids, but since she looks like a yokel, I seriously doubt any of thse jurors would be jonesing for her acquittal.

And some other woman hung her child. I think she is black, though, so no mercy for her.

Clancy went back to the booby hatch, right? Not quite the same thing as regular jail....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (SRRAx)

45 No double jeopardy after a mistrial the case can be brought again. Jury selection might be impossible unless they make it all male ...

Posted by: steevy at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)

46 It's long been obvious to me anyway that the spook agencies figured out multiple ways to generally make people hysterical and insane. This is starting to pay huge dividends in a really big way. It was all very depressing to realize this way back when, and very sad to watch.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (MeEtv)

47 See, if people wanted to deprive malignant narcissists of their voting rights, I wouldn't object at all.

A parent (of either sex)'s job is to keep their kids alive and fed and healthy if possible and teach them to be competent adults.

It doesn't matter if you think they kids would be better off dead, that's not your job.

......

Even people in the past who routinely disposed of children just took them out into the woods and left them there alive, where there was a chance of rescue by someone else, and the parents could say "They didn't die by our hand."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (vJrRc)

48 Is Paula Devlin wearing a wig?

Posted by: Clueless guy at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1)

49 This is all just a distraction from the epstien files!!

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (JZWhT)

50 Massachusetts lesbian governor just held a signing ceremony in her office celebrating infanticide. Expanding the time limit to the Clancy standard, fiver years old, is no great leap. Hell, going as far as the North Carolina nutjob wants to go (full adulthood if the victim is a Republican) is probably not far off.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (mn/mw)

51 >>They have given it a name: "altruistic filicide"

The Left evilly excels at coining nice sounding terms for ghastly acts and behaviors that sicken normal people.

Sure, ask a GenZ, or a Karen or AWFL, what filicide means. Riding a filly? Filling boxes with canned food to donate at the homeless shelter?

They don't know and don't care. If a Democrat, especially a woman, says it's good, they're all-in.

We're doomed.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (5rh/l)

52 Again we need laws that prevent this from happening to jurors after the trial as well as during. Its blatant what they are trying to do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)

53 LOL another troll

Posted by: steevy at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (YwEeS)

54 Like the real KKK is so small, it'd fit in a very small stadium.
------

At last check, SPLC has 1 million fb followers so no

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (AANQ+)

55 Isnt it funny the Alpha Karens have zero fear of someone from "our side" doxxing or threatning them?

Maybe that needs to change?

The Left does a lot of things knowing our side is very passive.

Posted by: Leupold at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (XZ1kS)

56 “Altruistic filicide?”???


This is evil.
All we’ve heard about is the mom’s issues, so how is it altruistic to punish her kids to make her better?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (4KUe5)

57 When can we start altruistic bitchocide?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (g8Ew8)

58 27 The whole thing feels more and more rigged with each passing day.
Posted by: ...
++++

If it was, the Deep State f*cked up. Badly. The trick is always to hide your murderous intent with platitudes like Believe Every Woman. Altruistic filicide is not that nor is doxxing jurors. The puppet masters of the left keep doubling down on stupidity because they too got their jobs by DEI subservience. They didn't earn it either.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (E4rtv)

59 24 I'm a non-practicing vegan.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (XvL8K)

There's this cartoon where the man says he's a vegetarian, and puts a leaf of lettuce on his beef hamburger...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (l3cgK)

60 I am a "non-practicing white person,"

What a stupid, worthless scrunt silly bint. She should put herself out of our misery.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (3Ope8)

61 They have given it a name: "altruistic filicide"

That one is not gonna work, its too long and has too many syllables. Plus nobody understands what it means

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)

62 Its about making sure in the future everyone is too intimidated to even attempt doing what he did.

Speaking only for myself, this will make me even more recalcitrant as a juror.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (nSaqA)

63 Know who else thought murdering children was a good thing?

Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (2Ez/1)

64 62 I am a "non-practicing white person,"

What a stupid, worthless scrunt silly bint. She should put herself out of our misery.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (3Ope

Is there a southern expression a bit more biting than "Bless her heart"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (l3cgK)

65 Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (MeEtv)

They accelerated it with the covid op and I'm pretty sure they're using AI to assist now.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (AANQ+)

66 I think the jurors ending up comprised like they were was an op in and of itself.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (l3cgK)

Absolutely. The prosecution clearly threw the case. They had the misfortune to get an honest judge, and one honest juror.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (1z8ji)

67 I've seen there is a GiveSendGo fund started for that juror, with a goal of $100k, and it was already over that yesterday. So now they raised it to $150k and it is at $127k.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (vbXSk)

68 Her full name is Paula Devlin-Cider

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (PSEDc)

69 You'd be surprised how many jury verdicts are essentially "political acts" based more on tribal affiliations than actual facts or law.

Chances of convicting a gang-banger in the ghetto? Low. You will never be able to empanel a jury without at least one juror who is very sympathetic to gangbangers -- if not one himself or herself -- and/or hates The Man prosecuting the defendant.

Chances of a ghetto jury not awarding yuge damages in an accident case? Also low. It ain't their money. As far as they're concerned, they're just taking money from rich people and giving it to one of their own.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (iFTx/)

70 I'm terrified that my cousin, married with two kids who lives in Boston and has a degree as a social worker, is a Lindsay Clancy sympathizer. If she is and is dumb enough to post it on Facebook, I hope the rest of my family gives her hell.

Posted by: pookysgirl, moderating kitten fights at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (Wt5PA)

71 Like the real KKK is so small, it'd fit in a very small stadium.

I think the non-Government wing of the KKK is so small it's fit in a very small bus stop in a rural part of the country.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (gLYp7)

72 stating that she intends for Lindsay Clancy's acquittal to improve the lives of other women

What a liar. She doesn't care about other women's benefit a all.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (vJrRc)

73 "non-practicing white"

People said I looked green around the gills. That's when I knew I had skipped too much white practice.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

74 The Left to the next potential jury pool: Agree with us, or else.

We've ruined everything else, why not the jury system as well?

As a society, WASTF.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (bFu5X)

75 Its about making sure in the future everyone is too intimidated to even attempt doing what he did.

Speaking only for myself, this will make me even more recalcitrant as a juror.
Posted by: Halfhand

===

I just got a jury summons, I'm sort of hoping now I get chosen.

Posted by: Leupold at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (XZ1kS)

76 People showing up at your home in this manner is an act of aggression and intimidation. It should be treated accordingly with OO buck. Then we can give it a fancy new name, like stupidacide.

Posted by: That Guy at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (NGqBA)

77 When can we start altruistic bitchocide?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (g8Ew

Altruistic Karenectomies should be a thing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (pcKW+)

78 Joe Manchin has endorsed Susan Collins

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (/OKHJ)

79 I'd like to think of myself as an passive vegetarian.

I eat cow, but cow eats grass, and I eat the cow, so really, If you think about it, I'm eating grass too.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM

Trace it all the way back and you're solar powered.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (4NO2D)

80 Those kids should be thanking me.

Posted by: Lindsay Clancy at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (AANQ+)

81 Someone pointed out, they were attacking him for "not following the law."
But, it turns out, these 11 were the only ones not following the law--because they swore an oath to fairly and impartially weigh the evidence without prejudice or bias.
Then they went and decided she was innocent of the murder, and thus, innocent of everything else--when her guilt was already admitted!!

He was the only one that saw the evidence of how premeditated and coldly calculated her murder spree was and said, "she knew damned good and well what she was doing."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (3cUTc)

82 Well, I know you want a lover, let me tell you, brother
She's been sleeping in the Devil's bed
And there's some rumors going 'round, someone's underground
She can rock you in the nighttime 'til your skin turns red
Woo-hoo, witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo-hoo, witchy woman
She got the moon in her eye

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (ndZc7)

83 The Left to the next potential jury pool: Agree with us, or else.

We've ruined everything else, why not the jury system as well?

As a society, WASTF.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (bFu5X)

White Anglo-Saxon T*t Fans?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (pcKW+)

84
The unasked question:

"How can an act be both altruistic and induced by psychosis?"

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (AANQ+)

85 79 People showing up at your home in this manner is an act of aggression and intimidation. It should be treated accordingly with OO buck. Then we can give it a fancy new name, like stupidacide.
Posted by: That Guy at September 14, 2026 01:35 PM (NGqBA)

Altruistic Homicide

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (xcxpd)

86 63 They have given it a name: "altruistic filicide"

That one is not gonna work, its too long and has too many syllables. Plus nobody understands what it means

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)

They'll conscript "Mercy Killing"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK)

87 Someone tell the Coven to sit down and STFU or they have to explain why all their dildos are circumcised and why that isn't bigoted.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (r7+Q7)

88 Willowed:

James Howard Kunstler is speculating that Joe DeGenova left because he wanted to indict Obama and Blanche kiboshed it.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

89 Again we need laws that prevent this from happening to jurors after the trial as well as during. Its blatant what they are trying to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)
==========================
Already in law. I'll try to find the statute language, but these actions to intimidate and punish the holdout juror are all against Massachusetts law.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (mn/mw)

90 86 The Left to the next potential jury pool: Agree with us, or else.

We've ruined everything else, why not the jury system as well?

As a society, WASTF.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 01:34 PM (bFu5X)

White Anglo-Saxon T*t Fans?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM (pcKW+)

Well I'm Norwegian but otherwise, I'd like to join

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (xcxpd)

91 When is someone associated Roth the MA courts going to speak out against the behavior of these jurors and the media?

By allowing this they are tacitly approving of a subversion of their court system for activism.
I know, it’s crazy MA, but still - not desire to even pretend they want fair trials?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (4KUe5)

92 Even people in the past who routinely disposed of children just took them out into the woods and left them there alive, where there was a chance of rescue by someone else, and the parents could say "They didn't die by our hand."
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (vJrRc)

For as evil as "Exposure" is, it's less evil than actively killing your child.

Pretty sure the pagan Romans (no great defenders of life) would be aghast at how many children we murder.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (zjgNU)

93
Build more asylums.

Posted by: Auspex at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (Y8DZL)

94 We need a specific name for these women who come up with all these bizarre concepts and labels. Previously, I would have said they were a very, very, very tiny outlier, but there a many more than I thought. So, now that a recognizable grouping has shown itself, we need a name to refer to them by:

1. Fat
2. Androgenous hair style
3. Plain or flat out unattractive.
4. Vacant stare from the eyes.
5. A collection of multiple chins
6. Expression switches from victim to annoyed to victim etc.
7. And ALWAYS pontificating on some made-up fairy tale concept such as "Non-practicing white", "Non-practicing Female" and so on. I'm not creative enough to come up with all the shit they do.

SO, what do we call these organisms?

BLOBS? Bizarre, Loser-type, Obssessed, and Boorish

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 01:38 PM (dIske)

95 Commies call it 'non-praxising white.'

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 01:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

96 27 The whole thing feels more and more rigged with each passing day.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (AANQ+)


What is the party affiliation of the County Attorney and the prosecutors he assigned the case? In Massachusetts, how many guesses do you need?

"Yes, we vigorously prosecuted her (wink)!" Does the County Attorney intend to ever run for re-election or election to higher office in MA?

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 01:38 PM (5rh/l)

97 Hmmm... doxing a Juror is against FEDERAL Law... but only for Fed Juries... Mass has no law against it however.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 01:38 PM (mP0Kj)

98 Truthfully, we fit into the corner booth at Denny's.

Posted by: The real KKK members at September 14, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)

99 I know, it’s crazy MA, but still - not desire to even pretend they want fair trials?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM (4KUe5)

Eastern MA has had some issue with fair trials in the past.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (AANQ+)

100 57 Isnt it funny the Alpha Karens have zero fear of someone from "our side" doxxing or threatning them?

Maybe that needs to change?

The Left does a lot of things knowing our side is very passive.
Posted by: Leupold
======
Not true anymore. You won't see it here but you can get receipts on X from some of the folks on the right that specialize in it.

Like DataRepublican, Nick Shirley, and a lot who are anonymous and feeding immigration fraud and doxxing pieces of foreign shit that somehow got visas to DHS for removal.

One of the doxxers of the juror was in fact a Karen Reid f*cker influencer who went over the line and is now facing both jury tampering charges and massive lawsuits by people that he accused on behalf of Karen Reid as guilty of killing her boyfriend. And he was just doxxed along with the attorney he was associated with.

The Defense attorney for Clancy was revealed that he is facing ethics charges before the Mass bar for financial misconduct of client money among other things. His vicious pos wife who was leading an online lynch mob on the holdout suddenly went radio silent when people started calling the realty firm she worked at. Karma catches up.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (E4rtv)

101 lol ok I read the post this time

sorry I'm flitting in and out just a bunch of work and deadlines this week!

anyway

sick stuff

very much cursed

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (j+aD2)

102 The prosecutors didn't do the best job on voir dire. However I'd be willing to bet that several of these loons hud their motivations and beliefs during questioning

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)

103 To the left, surrounding a courthouse with an angry mob, threatening the judges and juries, unless they get the outcome they desire, is justice.

Seriously, ask any lefty and they will agree.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (0U5gm)

104 This is not America. It's not even Mexico.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (bX16E)

105 In other news.... Greta T. the enviro whacko?

Three a glitter bomb that had a small explosive into a fountain in Italy.

She was arrested and faces 3 years in prison, is currently on bail for $5 million.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (mP0Kj)

106 Altruistic Homicide
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 01:36 PM

I have always preferred the term: Social Hygiene.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

107 100 Hmmm... doxing a Juror is against FEDERAL Law... but only for Fed Juries... Mass has no law against it however.
Posted by: Romeo13
=======
Yes they do under jury tampering laws. And this shitshow is likely to cause Mass to do some damage control as it is dragging the entire state's rep into the mud.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (E4rtv)

108 I read somewhere that she may have unintentionally paralyzed herself in the second story jump because she didn't realize the ground was frozen. Don't know if the prosecution actually argued this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)

109 Chances of a ghetto jury not awarding yuge damages in an accident case? Also low. It ain't their money. As far as they're concerned, they're just taking money from rich people and giving it to one of their own.

I have seen this to be true at all levels of social order and ethnic background (the super rich are never on juries).

Already in law. I'll try to find the statute language, but these actions to intimidate and punish the holdout juror are all against Massachusetts law.

90% certain that only applies to during juries but it should apply after as well. Not that they'd enforce it either way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (K32Fz)

110 When is someone associated Roth the MA courts going to speak out against the behavior of these jurors and the media?

By allowing this they are tacitly approving of a subversion of their court system for activism.
I know, it’s crazy MA, but still - not desire to even pretend they want fair trials?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:37 PM

Never. The rot in this state is deep.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (bFu5X)

111 His vicious pos wife who was leading an online lynch mob on the holdout suddenly went radio silent when people started calling the realty firm she worked at. Karma catches up.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (E4rtv)

Nice. They give bad lawyers an even worse name.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (pcKW+)

112 Call me skeptical. I still think this smells like an op. And the more this loathsome toad Paula Devlin makes the media tour like a wannabe celebrity, the more it smells bad to me.

There's no way they wouldn't have this guy's name and picture by now. No way.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Of course it's an op. They're going to keep trying these things to exploit as many societal breaking points as they can.

This is just a continuation of the "Use women who do heinous things to turn men who like women against women who haven't done heinous things" and is just adding the racial angle in to exploit another break point.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (vJrRc)

113 To get an idea of how depraved this woman is, you have to understand:

She didn't kill those kids just to be free of the "burden."

She killed them for profit--she had a whole future planned to make money off of her evil.

She meticulously set up the multiple prescriptions, the doctor visits and all that--to kill her kids.
Then, her plan was to file the civil lawsuit against the pharma companies and the doctors and--echoing her defense--"no one would help her."

Blaming them for what she did.

And her "vision board" had her on the talk show and influencer circuit, tears of grief on command, "they made me kill my children!! The drugs they put me on made me do it--and they knew it would. Instead of giving me the help I needed!!"

Bitch needs executed in a proper Roman fashion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (3cUTc)

114 107 This is not America. It's not even Mexico.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (bX16E)

Mexico wouldn't put up with this sh*t.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

115 Soooo, "visiting" the homes of people you don't like is on the menu?

Boy, I'd really hate to see someone visit this scrunt's yurt...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (wtvvX)

116 He should be out there apologizing and begging forgiveness from these women who, as we all know, are superior beings.

Posted by: Bow to the Uberfrauen! at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (TbWk/)

117 Eastern MA has had some issue with fair trials in the past.
Posted by: ...

Whatever do you mean?
-- Zombie John Hathorne

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (77rzZ)

118 The prosecutors didn't do the best job on voir dire. However I'd be willing to bet that several of these loons hud their motivations and beliefs during questioning
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)

As has been pointed out before, there were three nurses on that jury, for the trial of a woman who was a nurse. There should have been none.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (1z8ji)

119 "Yes, we vigorously prosecuted her (wink)!" Does the County Attorney intend to ever run for re-election or election to higher office in MA?
Posted by: Gref

I think he gets screwed if he tries to do that. The fanatics will blame him for the mistrial in the first place, the normies will blame him for the shitshow. White males just are not going to be elected anymore by Democrats, even in Deep Blue Mass. It will be AWFLs, Muzloids, and Stronk Black Women with a smattering of Hispanics and a few black males.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:42 PM (E4rtv)

120 And her "vision board" had her on the talk show and influencer circuit, tears of grief on command, "they made me kill my children!! The drugs they put me on made me do it--and they knew it would. Instead of giving me the help I needed!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (3cUTc)

Where is that from?

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:42 PM (AANQ+)

121 it's amazing to me how self righteous these bitches are

constantly on TV! so PROUD of their evil

it's incredible to watch

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (j+aD2)

122 Altruistic Homicide
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

You know, like with Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (ndZc7)

123
He's in way over his head on this one.


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Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (kX27y)

124
It's another OJ jury.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (OkYzo)

125 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (j+aD2)

What are your thoughts on 87, just curious

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (AANQ+)

126 Bitch needs executed in a proper Roman fashion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Eh, the old ways are best. Put millstones on her, launch her in a pond, and see if she floats. Or you could do pressing. Both seem appropriate for that evil woman.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (E4rtv)

127 120 Eastern MA has had some issue with fair trials in the past.
Posted by: ...

I'm unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (2Ez/1)

128
Well, according to Grok, there is only one sure fire a convicted defendant could get a new trial based on juror bias: racial bias. If a juror said, "I convicted because he's black", that would do it.

Jury reasoning is otherwise pretty much "unimpeachable", and gender, political, religious, etc reasons have generally been allowed. IOW, "I voted to convict because I hate men in general" would not be enough. Such things can, but only under extraordinary circumstances.

So racial bias is the only way to pierce that unimpeachability.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (w6EFb)

129 110 100 Hmmm... doxing a Juror is against FEDERAL Law... but only for Fed Juries... Mass has no law against it however.
Posted by: Romeo13
=======
Yes they do under jury tampering laws. And this shitshow is likely to cause Mass to do some damage control as it is dragging the entire state's rep into the mud.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (E4rtv)

Their reputation is "in the mud" only with sane people. Inside Massachusetts?

pfffffft.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (wtvvX)

130 125 Altruistic Homicide
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

You know, like with Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (ndZc7)

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

131 From AI:
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Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 268, § 13B. It makes it a crime to willfully, directly or indirectly, threaten, attempt or cause physical, emotional, or economic injury or property damage, or to “mislead, intimidate or harass” a juror, when done with the required intent or reckless disregard.

The statute also applies when a person seeks to,

“punish, harm or otherwise retaliate against”

a juror (or certain other protected persons) because of that person's participation in the proceeding.

So, for example, after a criminal trial is over, someone who contacts a former juror and threatens, intimidates, or seriously harasses that juror because of the verdict or the juror's participation in the case could potentially violate §13B. The fact that there is no longer a verdict to influence does not necessarily provide a defense because retaliation itself is prohibited.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (G3NeY)

132 As has been pointed out before, there were three nurses on that jury, for the trial of a woman who was a nurse. There should have been none.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'll give the prosecution a pass on that. You'd never get a prospective juror stricken for cause on those grounds alone. But they could have used peremptory strikes on them if they weren't used on others.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (XvL8K)

133 129 Bitch needs executed in a proper Roman fashion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Eh, the old ways are best. Put millstones on her, launch her in a pond, and see if she floats. Or you could do pressing. Both seem appropriate for that evil woman.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (E4rtv)

She'd be impressed!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:44 PM (l3cgK)

134 The prosecutors didn't do the best job on voir dire. However I'd be willing to bet that several of these loons hud their motivations and beliefs during questioning
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)

As has been pointed out before, there were three nurses on that jury, for the trial of a woman who was a nurse. There should have been none.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (1z8ji)
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Yea: very very suspicious. Surely the prosecution knew that three nurses was a dead loser for this case.

I know prosecutors don't have total control over who gets on the jury, but come on. Three nurses, all of whom are blatant obvious leftwing Karens?

Gross incompetence that strongly suggests the prosecution threw the case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

135 127
It's another OJ jury.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (OkYzo)

Almost.....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (wtvvX)

136 "How can an act be both altruistic and induced by psychosis?"


well obviously not, but three dots you are attempting to use logic and reason

that is very sexist

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (j+aD2)

137 Nice. They give bad lawyers an even worse name.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Tom Wolfe is somewhere up above wishing he could write a thinly fictionalized version of this murderer and the societal circus it created.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

138 Ugandan Mayor Mamdani announces a MAJOR LAWSUIT against the Trump admin for enacting a new rule allowing foreigners to be denied a green card if they are going to leech off public welfare dollars

"To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." ...

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 01:43 PM (kX27y)

"Your terms are acceptable"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (xcxpd)

139
Clandy DID get a jury of her peers. 11 of them were mentally ill.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (OkYzo)

140 116 To get an idea of how depraved this woman is, you have to understand:

You misspelled "superior." How dare you. You have no place or right to criticize the manner in which she chooses to exercise her superiority.

Posted by: Still men's fault though... at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (TbWk/)

141 I hope he remains safe. If not, let him exercise his 2nd Amendment rights in full. These POS people need to feel the consequences of their actions.

Posted by: Huxley Orwell at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (j3Fsw)

142 I like the dude

he was in a messy divorce, none of the charges stuck

his mom is female and so

lol

females don't like him .. that might be a gold star for him right there

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (j+aD2)

143 I wonder if all these interviews by the activist jurors could be used as evidence in a criminal perjury trial. They weren't on the jury to consider the facts and the law, but to advance their own views.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (qx7Zg)

144 And yet, the defense attorney accepted him as part of the jury.

If you're gonna troll, you're gonna have to think through your comments before you hit "send" 🙄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
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I am betting that the defense attorney thought a guy accused of a crime might be sympathetic to the defendant because he was black and all blacks must think the same as AWFLs.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

145 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (j+aD2)

Thinking is misogyny

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (AANQ+)

146 And yet, the defense attorney accepted him as part of the jury.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM

Her attorney was in on it. He is white, after all.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:46 PM (4NO2D)

147 Bitch needs executed in a proper Roman fashion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM

Second door on the left, one cross each...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 01:47 PM (bFu5X)

148 So what's this guy doing to protect himself and his family?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 01:47 PM (2Ez/1)

149 Clancy women cheering on Clancy murdering her kids remind me of a much more extreme version of the woman that tell her "friend" to chop her hair, eat more bon bons and that she don't need no man.

At a certain level this is all about removing the competition - the activist types killing off the normies whenever they can...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

150 137
Yea: very very suspicious. Surely the prosecution knew that three nurses was a dead loser for this case.

I know prosecutors don't have total control over who gets on the jury, but come on. Three nurses, all of whom are blatant obvious leftwing Karens?

Gross incompetence that strongly suggests the prosecution threw the case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

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Fat, DEI hire ADA had a fight with her spoiled brat of a child that morning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:47 PM (AlVf0)

151 I'm a non-practicing abstainer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)

152 So what's this guy doing to protect himself and his family?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 01:47 PM (2Ez/1)

Guessing he's not going to broadcast his security measures.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (AANQ+)

153 147 I wonder if all these interviews by the activist jurors could be used as evidence in a criminal perjury trial. They weren't on the jury to consider the facts and the law, but to advance their own views.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Could be but in Mass, I doubt it. Reddington though may be in bar trouble for him and his wife going too far.

NBC in Boston is likely to get in trouble as well by civil suits.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (E4rtv)

154 The Left does a lot of things knowing our side is very passive.
Posted by: Leupold
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Not true anymore. You won't see it here but you can get receipts on X from some of the folks on the right that specialize in it.
Posted by: whig

This interesting difference between leftist doxxing and right-wing doxxing is that the right-wingers publicly expose the name and report them to the relevant government agency, and leftists expose the names with the intent to gin up a lynch mob

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (vJrRc)

155 Yes they do under jury tampering laws. And this shitshow is likely to cause Mass to do some damage control as it is dragging the entire state's rep into the mud.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:40 PM (E4rtv)

___________________________

I'm a bit more interested in the dressing coordination of multiple jurors wearing pink. That implies one or more of three things: 1. coordination and communication of jurors outside the deliberation room. 2. Prejudice in the form of influence on other jurors 3. Connection and contact with media sources to witness the dress of outside protesters.

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (dIske)

156 33 Did he greet them with a weapon in hand? I hope he did.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (2Xqig)

He should hang water bottles in the trees outside hus home to ward off evil AWFL spirits.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:30 PM (pcKW+)

With exercise bands. We heard how that upset the other jurors.

Posted by: SciVo at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (ke3zm)

157 And her "vision board" had her on the talk show and influencer circuit, tears of grief on command, "they made me kill my children!! The drugs they put me on made me do it--and they knew it would. Instead of giving me the help I needed!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 01:41 PM (3cUTc)

Where is that from?
Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:42 PM (AANQ+)

From the book, Shit That Evil Dumbass Bitches Say.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (g8Ew8)

158 Maybe they had to choose some non-ringers and assumed the black man was a slam dunk for acquittal. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (AANQ+)

159 At a certain level this is all about removing the competition - the activist types killing off the normies whenever they can...
Posted by: 18-1

seraglio politics performed in public

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (vJrRc)

160 “ Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

Proverbs 31:30

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (f4tQo)

161 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: blaster at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (NlEaG)

162 Mamdani is fuming that a rule will soon take effect allowing migrants' need for assistance like SNAP determine whether they'll be allowed to stay


The jizya must flow

Posted by: Padash Emperor Bombdaddy at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

163 "I'm a non-practicing Christian heterosexual."

-- James Talacreepo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

164 Read somewhere that the holdout guy is the son of Haitian immigrants.

But, you know, the internet...

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (J4Dwc)

165 Gross incompetence that strongly suggests the prosecution threw the case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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They did not do themselves any professional favors just like Marcia Clark and her team of dimwitted prosecutors. You start pulling punches for political reasons, it simply makes you look incompetent at best, corrupt at worst. Neither are good entries on your resume for future career progression.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (E4rtv)

166 Whoa. FSU fired their AD.

Norvell is sweating.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D)

167 >> I wonder if all these interviews by the activist jurors could be used as evidence in a criminal perjury trial.

If they lied during voir dire, they could be held in contempt, I think. That would also allow maybe for a new trial (for a conviction).

If a juror admits to doing something "external", ie "doing their own research" on the defendant or other evidence, that can also trigger contempt and maybe a new trial for a conviction.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (w6EFb)

168
I'm a bit more interested in the dressing coordination of multiple jurors wearing pink. That implies one or more of three things: 1. coordination and communication of jurors outside the deliberation room. 2. Prejudice in the form of influence on other jurors 3. Connection and contact with media sources to witness the dress of outside protesters.
Posted by: Orson

==

Right then and there, it should have been a mistrial.

I'm guessing there's just enough plausible deniability of "what, women wear pinks sometimes!" but a strong judge would have called a mistrial.

Posted by: Leupold at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (XZ1kS)

169 Gonna need more helicopters. Investment opportunity in helicopter manufacturers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (1z8ji)

170 167 Mamdani is fuming that a rule will soon take effect allowing migrants' need for assistance like SNAP determine whether they'll be allowed to stay


The jizya must flow

Posted by: Padash Emperor Bombdaddy at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

I misread that!

Posted by: Pete BootieJudge at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (l3cgK)

171 122 "Yes, we vigorously prosecuted her (wink)!" Does the County Attorney intend to ever run for re-election or election to higher office in MA?
Posted by: Gref

I think he gets screwed if he tries to do that. The fanatics will blame him for the mistrial in the first place, the normies will blame him for the shitshow. White males just are not going to be elected anymore by Democrats, even in Deep Blue Mass. It will be AWFLs, Muzloids, and Stronk Black Women with a smattering of Hispanics and a few black males.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:42 PM (E4rtv)


He may have weighed the several bad options and decided that going to trial and throwing it, somehow, was the least bad for his political career. He probably curses his bad luck 10 times a day for being forced to make a choice about what to do with confessed child-killer Clancy. A woman. A crippled woman. A former nurse.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (5rh/l)

172 Oh well, time to ignore the matters of the day and do something more important. Like cleaning a rusty 410 barrel that will go onto an Enfield action.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (E4rtv)

173 Yea: very very suspicious. Surely the prosecution knew that three nurses was a dead loser for this case.

I know prosecutors don't have total control over who gets on the jury, but come on. Three nurses, all of whom are blatant obvious leftwing Karens?

Gross incompetence that strongly suggests the prosecution threw the case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

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Fat, DEI hire ADA had a fight with her spoiled brat of a child that morning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:47 PM (AlVf0)
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Which one? The fat DEI hire who looks like a fat ugly woman? Or the other one who looks like a tranny?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

174 These women doing the media interviews are absolutely disgusting. And the most infuriating part is they have no clue whatsoever. They have a clear conscience and think they are good people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (A5IXv)

175 168 "I'm a non-practicing Christian heterosexual."

-- James Talacreepo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

I don't believe he was ever...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (l3cgK)

176 I'm a non-practicing abstainer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)

Heh. I'm a non-practicing Don Juan.

Posted by: Non-playing playah at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (TbWk/)

177 If you are despondent at the potential acquittal of Clancy, take heart.

No one escapes the final judgement.

Paying your penance on earth is a mercy the Lord extends to you.

Escaping the earthly consequences of your actions is a curse, you justify your own actions in your mind, you move on with life, and you continue to pile up more and more burden. But it is ever there, never resolved, never forgiven, looming over you like the sword of Damocles.

You live free, but only for a time and the demons torment your spirit as you approach the Day of Judgement.

Posted by: It is What It Is at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (VGOAu)

178 Posted by: Carolus at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (axvb1

LMAAAO didnt you "appear" the other day claiming to be a courageous and fair character of purity, courage and mega conservative open-mindedness?

At least keep up the charade. One little bit of pushback and you crumble.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (AANQ+)

179 168 "I'm a non-practicing Christian heterosexual."

-- James Talacreepo
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (xcxpd)

180 Viva Frei: "They have given it a name: "altruistic filicide".

Altruistic: selfless concern for others.

Filicide: the killing of one's children."

Me:

The people who use that kind of language are the same kind of people who are "disgusted" when someone demonstrates the method used to commit the homicides using a ligature wrapped around a soda bottle.

In their twisted minds, every violent act committed by a sympathetic agent is a virtuous political statement without regard to the impact on the victim or victims. The jurors would have happily put Clancy in restraints for an insanity plea if it promoted the jurors' (and their confederates) Marxist agendas.

Posted by: mrp at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (rj6Yv)

181 167 Mamdani is fuming that a rule will soon take effect allowing migrants' need for assistance like SNAP determine whether they'll be allowed to stay


The jizya must flow

Posted by: Padash Emperor Bombdaddy at September 14, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

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That rule sure does sound like the rules that determined if people could come into America for like a century until Ted Kennedy decided otherwise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (AlVf0)

182 One of those jurors on the interview circuit also had a restraining order entered against her, just like the holdout.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (XvL8K)

183
>>I'm a non-practicing vegan.

I'd like to think of myself as an passive vegetarian.

I eat cow, but cow eats grass, and I eat the cow, so really, If you think about it, I'm eating grass too.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Lunchousen by proxy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Cqx++)

184 Gonna need more helicopters. Investment opportunity in helicopter manufacturers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM

Helicopters are a renewable resource.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (4NO2D)

185 Tom Wolfe is somewhere up above wishing he could write a thinly fictionalized version of this murderer and the societal circus it created.
Posted by: whig
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'Bonfire of the Karens'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

186 178 Which one? The fat DEI hire who looks like a fat ugly woman? Or the other one who looks like a tranny?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

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The choices are so abundant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (AlVf0)

187 173 >> I wonder if all these interviews by the activist jurors could be used as evidence in a criminal perjury trial.

If they lied during voir dire, they could be held in contempt, I think. That would also allow maybe for a new trial (for a conviction).

If a juror admits to doing something "external", ie "doing their own research" on the defendant or other evidence, that can also trigger contempt and maybe a new trial for a conviction.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (w6EFb)

Even provable perjury is rarely prosecuted these days...I was involved in a case where paperwork proved the defendant perjured himself in facts essential to the case, but the judge did nothing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (l3cgK)

188 They have a clear conscience and think they are good people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (A5IXv)

You know who else thought they were good people?

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (AANQ+)

189 this seems like its a pretty significant problem

https://tinyurl.com/2vpu2xmj

Kerala Police arrested 11 suspects in a massive pan-India fake degree racket. Over 100,000 counterfeit certificates seized from 22 universities — medicine, nursing & engineering — with estimates of up to 1 MILLION fake degrees in circulation worldwide.

including over a dozen identified in California

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)

190 If there was only one black person on a jury in the south we would never hear the end of it. Reliving slavery, lynching, jim crow, civil rights, etc. Where are all the black people in Boston?

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (enNUy)

191 I’m a non practicing jogger.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (A5IXv)

192 Don't cut & paste trolls!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (k5CNB)

193 194 If there was only one black person on a jury in the south we would never hear the end of it. Reliving slavery, lynching, jim crow, civil rights, etc. Where are all the black people in Boston?

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (enNUy)

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Black kid who killed Metcalf in Texas was tried by an all white jury.

Heard a lot about how that's not his peers.

I guess this black man wasn't Clancy's peer either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (AlVf0)

194
Insane
Altruistic

Pick One

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (AANQ+)

195 If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. The downwardly mobile, college educated, white women who are the base of the Dem party do not know many black folks, and know zero black men.

All of their theatrics are purely hypothetical.

Posted by: MJ at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (XOmY9)

196 So, when does the "free Chris Watts" movement begin?

Posted by: pahound at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (AjR4+)

197
And yet, despite all of these negative things about him, he seemed to have the most moral clarity, ie that killing three kids in a premeditated fashion was...wrong?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (AlVf0)
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I think most black and hispanic men would find her guilty.

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (kX27y)

198 Has a real poll been taken on this issue?

I know polling is another weapon, but I have to think a lopsided majority of people believe her walking scot free is a terrible miscarriage of justice.

FWIW, my wife and two daughters are all disgusted by anyone supporting her.

I think this is a lot like the transgender issue where because of a lot "alpha karens" you think the public is solidly behind men playing in women's sports.

Posted by: Leupold at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (XZ1kS)

199 ...Call me skeptical. I still think this smells like an op. And the more this loathsome toad Paula Devlin makes the media tour like a wannabe celebrity, the more it smells bad to me.

There's no way they wouldn't have this guy's name and picture by now. No way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)


What could the Op possibly be? Seriously.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (INplz)

200 If there was only one black person on a jury in the south we would never hear the end of it. Reliving slavery, lynching, jim crow, civil rights, etc. Where are all the black people in Boston?

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (enNUy)

Boston is RIDICULOUSLY racist as a city. Like... famous for it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (gLYp7)

201 I don't think everyone posting something stupid is a troll. I'd have been banned a long time ago on that basis

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (K32Fz)

202 Posted by: Carolus at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM

Heh. Dance, monkey, dance.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (4NO2D)

203 Helicopters are a renewable resource.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (4NO2D)

The door hinges wear out...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (1z8ji)

204 r/BlackPeopleofReddit

White liberal women are the biggest opps to the black community. This entire incident has only further proven my point. They white knight themselves to feel better while putting the black community down by inserting bad mentality into the community.
But the moment you fall outta line with their perspective? Off to the chopping block, or I guess a noose as they've shown themselves to like. Not to add to conservative points but literally, a black man doesn't follow in the white liberal woman's perception of an incident, and suddenly they're just the Klan 2.0.

Liberal YTs are not our allies. The second we don't do what they want. They attack us as viciously as the rest. Yt ppl are gonna yt everytime.

This shit is so disheartening. Everything will always be about race. I wonder if this is some plot to discourage black people from being on the jury when it already seems like there is a lack of representation.

Shorty offed 3 of her kids and they worried about how much he owe in rent 😒 . I see why others dislike my State

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (lebqq)

205 193 Don't cut & paste trolls!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (k5CNB)

Yeah, what he said. Cut 'em but don't paste 'em.
Figuratively.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

206 If there was only one black person on a jury in the south we would never hear the end of it. Reliving slavery, lynching, jim crow, civil rights, etc. Where are all the black people in Boston?
Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (enNUy)
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Plymouth County, not Boston. Plymouth is overwhelmingly white, although not as politically left as some people are assuming. Trump got 40% or more of the vote in 2024.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

207 Manjammy and Hochul are just delaying the inevitable. A public charge, that is someone who is not self sufficient and seeking a visa or green card is already not permitted under section 212 of the INA. DHS is simply tightening up the rules.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (f4tQo)

208 >>"I'm a non-practicing Christian heterosexual."

-- James Talacreepo


'X' Buttons Hardest Hit

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (zRd05)

209 194
Insane
Altruistic

Pick One

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (AANQ+)

Altruistic Insanity?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

210 193 Don't cut & paste trolls!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (k5CNB)
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Edit: Don't paste trolls. Cutting? ....meh....You buys your ticket you takes your chances.

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 01:56 PM (dIske)

211 And yet, despite all of these negative things about him, he seemed to have the most moral clarity, ie that killing three kids in a premeditated fashion was...wrong?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:50 PM (AlVf0)

Indeed. Even accepting for the sake of argument all these allegations are true, he still had the intellectual and moral acumen to reach the correct decision... So what's that say about the quality and character of the remaining jurors?

Posted by: The concerned Christian conservatives are concerned at September 14, 2026 01:56 PM (TbWk/)

212
I guess it shouldn't be lost on anyone that these monsters are hounding the black man to sanction killing the innocent by the neck.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:56 PM (AANQ+)

213 Most racist people I’ve ever met were from Boston or NYC. And I live in the Deep South.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 01:56 PM (A5IXv)

214 There is a guy I've been getting videos from who is really, really anti-politically correct.

He was on a tear today showing comments from the Clancy girls interspersed with an argument, "You maybe it wasn't just sexism that let to restricting political power to men..."

And I mean its hard to argue against it...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 01:56 PM (sKqQm)

215 Where are all the black people in Boston?
Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM

Dorchester. Roxbury. Places like that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 01:56 PM (bFu5X)

216 They have a clear conscience and think they are good people
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Belligerently Ignorant. It's become an epidemic. Weaponized idiots. That's what everyone is up against, a critical mass of whack jobs.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 01:57 PM (No2m8)

217 Woe to those who call evil "good" and good "evil"

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 14, 2026 01:57 PM (vSvIl)

218 204 Liberal YTs are not our allies. The second we don't do what they want. They attack us as viciously as the rest. Yt ppl are gonna yt everytime.

This shit is so disheartening. Everything will always be about race. I wonder if this is some plot to discourage black people from being on the jury when it already seems like there is a lack of representation.

Shorty offed 3 of her kids and they worried about how much he owe in rent 😒 . I see why others dislike my State

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 14, 2026 01:55 PM (lebqq)

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Take over the party completely and make it fully black supremacist, or leave the Democrat Party.

You don't need them.

You are kings. Bring those white women to heel, or abandon the whole project completely and start your own party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 01:57 PM (AlVf0)

219 What could the Op possibly be? Seriously.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (INplz)

To formally undermind the jury trial, so we can be the next country to eliminate it.

That puts the guilty/not guilty decision firmly in the hands of the left and cements their control over us and our freedom.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:57 PM (gLYp7)

220 >>If there was only one black person on a jury in the south we would never hear the end of it. Reliving slavery, lynching, jim crow, civil rights, etc. Where are all the black people in Boston?

The trial was not in Boston, it was down in Plymouth. Not an area heavily populated by blacks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 01:57 PM (viF8m)

221 Those gals on the jury just shows how there are always some loud mouthed broads out there always telling others how to live.

Until they get smacked across the chops and told to zip their pie holes.

Posted by: Zombie Ralph Kramden at September 14, 2026 01:58 PM (P4iUb)

222 'Bonfire of the Karens'?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Yes please.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 01:58 PM (qZb7K)

223 Most racist people I’ve ever met were from Boston or NYC. And I live in the Deep South.

One job I had with some Massholes. At some work party we were chatting and I don't know how they got on the topic of abortion. The discussion quickly became, "Well we need freedom of choice of course but you know, we really need abortion because, ah, THOSE, people are having too many kids".

Now my cow-workers were white, east asian, and Indian...so I wonder which people they meant? Well, actually, no I didn't wonder at all.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

224 What could the Op possibly be? Seriously.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (INplz)

Division, hate, corraling people to the human sacrifice is good perspective, and more

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:58 PM (AANQ+)

225 Mexico wouldn't put up with this sh*t.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Mexico lets gangsters run their government and send coolers full of dismembered bodies to people to intimidate them

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:59 PM (vJrRc)

226 I'm a non-practicing pacifist willing to engage in altruistic dummycide should I find one camping out on my lawn..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 14, 2026 01:59 PM (nbLIj)

227 225 Mexico wouldn't put up with this sh*t.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Mexico lets gangsters run their government and send coolers full of dismembered bodies to people to intimidate them

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 01:59 PM (vJrRc)

And yet, they wouldn't put up with a woman murdering her children...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:59 PM (l3cgK)

228 >>Where are all the black people in Boston?

Fenway Park?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (J4Dwc)

229 5 I’m a non practicing jogger.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 01:53 PM (A5IXv)

I'm a non-practicing intellect.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (g8Ew8)

230 They have a clear conscience and think they are good people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 01:51 PM (A5IXv)

You know who else thought they were good people?
Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:52 PM (AANQ+)

I'm sure Amon Goth slept like a baby at night.

Posted by: Columbia U would probably give him a medal at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (TbWk/)

231 Make a change for women that’s kill their children. Who even thinks that is something that that needs to be addressed? What’s that like 10 women a year?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (A5IXv)

232 I doubt the jurors giving idiotic interviews is an op. Whoever said "never attribute to evil what can be explained by stupidity ' would have a field day with these dingbats

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (N2HNb)

233 Which one? The fat DEI hire who looks like a fat ugly woman? Or the other one who looks like a tranny?

Posted by: Elric The Blade


Or the one who looks like Gary Busey?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (AXBJa)

234 There has been a very long effort to undermine the court and jury system in our country. That’s because our enemies understand how fundamentally important those are to the stability of our society. Liberal Karen’s, along with activists posing as jurists have now teamed up with our enemies to try and make that happen.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (f4tQo)

235 Call me skeptical. I still think this smells like an op. And the more this loathsome toad Paula Devlin makes the media tour like a wannabe celebrity, the more it smells bad to me.

There's no way they wouldn't have this guy's name and picture by now. No way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)


What could the Op possibly be? Seriously.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 14, 2026 01:54 PM (INplz)
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I'm going so far as to suggest the lone juror isn't at all who they are claiming he is.

Surely, there was one holdout. But we know nothing about him other than what these lunatic nurses have said. Hardly reliable sources.

And wouldn't ya know it, he's exactly what these karens would hate most of all: a black guy who doesn't obey their commands, with allegations of domestic violence, etc.

Yet we still don't know the guy's name? Smells very fishy to me. Hence my claim this smells like an op, to drum up hatred for the guy and send a message to the next jury (if any).

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

236 Make a change for women that’s kill their children. Who even thinks that is something that that needs to be addressed?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM

Women who regret not killing their children.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (4NO2D)

237 I told you you hear all kind of things when leftards assume you're a leftard and no one else is around.

Mostly their arguments on a surprisingly varied # of subjects come down to

1. enforced genocide
2. mass sterilization.

They also despise blacks, hispanics, asians and women.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (AANQ+)

238 Anyway,

My little brother got married this weekend.

He was about 8 when he was the altar server at my wedding.

Now, he's also married a redhead. And I met my older brother's girlfriend (presumably getting married next year), and she's a redhead.

My sister was joking to her husband that he needs to dye his hair red now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (AlVf0)

239 Southeast MA is an odd place. Its economically depressed as Boston loots the rest of the state outside of the immediate burbs the powerbrokers live in (to the west and north of Boston proper) and the people there are less monolithically left wing (absent gerrymandering and fraud they'd occasionally elect a northeastern style Rep) but you'd think with how badly they are abused by Boston they'd be openly opposed to the Dem part

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

240 Mexico wouldn't put up with this sh*t.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Texas spends 19 minutes. Then we kill them.

John Battaglia killed his two daughters in a case forensic psychologists linked to psychosis stemming from bipolar disorder.
The jury took just 19 minutes to deliberate.
He was executed in Texas in 2018.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (AXBJa)

241 It's kind of a waste if you don't eat them.

Posted by: J. Swift at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (MWfyi)

242 The trial was not in Boston, it was down in Plymouth. Not an area heavily populated by blacks.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 01:57 PM

Seriously. With the exception of Brockton, Plymouth County is pretty white.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (bFu5X)

243 Never ascribe to ignorance what can be adequately explained by malice.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (4NO2D)

244 Lizzy:

If you're still here...

Link below goes to an article from 2019 at PowerLine about Ilhan Omar. It explains that her fraud goes way back before her marriage to her brother. She came into this country under a false name with a family that was not her own. Very interesting and he provides evidence. I have no problem believing it.

https://tinyurl.com/murmnwmy

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (3ImbR)

245 Who even thinks that is something that that needs to be addressed? What’s that like 10 women a year?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (A5IXv)

I've learned during this case that about 500 kids a year are killed by their moms.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (gLYp7)

246 218 204 Liberal YTs are not our allies. The second we don't do what they want. They attack us as viciously as the rest. Yt ppl are gonna yt everytime.

Malcolm X tried to warn you.

Posted by: Something he was very right about at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (TbWk/)

247 By their reasoning, it'll be 'altruistic' when the 19th is repealed

Posted by: 496 at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (nvRZF)

248 He was on a tear today showing comments from the Clancy girls interspersed with an argument, "You maybe it wasn't just sexism that let to restricting political power to men..."

And I mean its hard to argue against it...
Posted by: 18-1

Try to remember the concept of "An individual should be held responsible for his own actions, instead of blaming society."

Then it becomes easy.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (vJrRc)

249 Posted by: Carolus at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (VYsWr)

But you are bullshitting and behaving like an asshole.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (k5CNB)

250 2 I doubt the jurors giving idiotic interviews is an op. Whoever said "never attribute to evil what can be explained by stupidity ' would have a field day with these dingbats

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (N2HNb)

The op would have been getting them onto the jury, assigning shitty prosecution, etc

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (AANQ+)

251 Next jury, prosecution needs to move heaven and Earth not having any WHITE women over the age of 40. I feel like that's the issue here. A white woman in MASS is like 90% liberal.

I'd love to hear the mental gymnastics from a feminist of a mom killing her 5 year old DAUGHTER in cold blood and how that's pro-female. But they do this all the time with abortion.

Posted by: Leupold at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (XZ1kS)

252 242 It's kind of a waste if you don't eat them.

Posted by: J. Swift at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (MWfyi)

It's just a matter of taste...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (l3cgK)

253 Anyway,

My little brother got married this weekend.

He was about 8 when he was the altar server at my wedding.

Now, he's also married a redhead. And I met my older brother's girlfriend (presumably getting married next year), and she's a redhead.

My sister was joking to her husband that he needs to dye his hair red now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (AlVf0)
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Did they do the Lyndsay Clancy Test?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

254 Non-practicing will keep you out of Carnegie Hall.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (Cqx++)

255 So if a guy who has had his own legal issues knows it’s wrong to kill toddlers, what does that say about you?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (A5IXv)

256 247 218 204 Liberal YTs are not our allies. The second we don't do what they want. They attack us as viciously as the rest. Yt ppl are gonna yt everytime.

Malcolm X tried to warn you.

Posted by: Something he was very right about at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (TbWk/)

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America is irredemably racist and cannot change.

It is an oligarchal, racist, capitalistic, fascist, police state where police get bounties for shooting innocent brown people for no reason.

There is no saving this place, and everyone should flee. America will collapse when all of its brown people return home, and then American imperialism will end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (AlVf0)

257 All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

258 There are places in Mass where black people can't live?1?!

Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (enNUy)

259 The great line about race in the North v South is : in the North they don't care how high a black gets as long as they don't get too close. In the South they don't care how close a black lives just don't get too high. That's obviously faded over the years but areas in the North are still no goes for opposite races

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (N2HNb)

260 The lifelong Republican is back to show us how to lifelong Republican.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (AANQ+)

261 I've learned during this case that about 500 kids a year are killed by their moms.

I would assume that's a low end number as it wouldn't be that hard to make it look more like an accident...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

262 This troll is new to me. He also sucks at it.

Posted by: ballistic at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (oqH4h)

263
Lynching a black man will for this instance be acceptable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (eRlcH)

264 Yet we still don't know the guy's name? Smells very fishy to me. Hence my claim this smells like an op, to drum up hatred for the guy and send a message to the next jury (if any).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
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Nothing fishy about it. Doxxing him and posting his picture (by commies) would cost the Dems some very close elections.

Posted by: mrp at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (rj6Yv)

265 253 Did they do the Lyndsay Clancy Test?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Those scamps are going to have a baby in 9 months.

Guaranteed.

5 kids minimum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (AlVf0)

266 in the North they don't care how high a black gets as long as they don't get too close
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Bitch set me up!

Posted by: Marion Barry at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (AANQ+)

267 But we know nothing about him other than what these lunatic nurses have said. Hardly reliable sources.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
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Their source is published reports, led by a broadcast investigation from NBC Boston. IOW, to me, it appears plenty of facts about him have been published by Propaganda Press.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (ERpYK)

268 Make a change for women that’s kill their children. Who even thinks that is something that that needs to be addressed?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM

Women who regret not killing their children.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (4NO2D)

Women who've killed their children via abortion, felt guilty about it, rightfully, but want to remain blameless by blaming society, the patriarchy, the weather, anything, really.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (dK+Kv)

269 It is an oligarchal, racist, capitalistic, fascist, police state where police get bounties for shooting innocent brown people for no reason.

And remember if you send an undocumented worker home from this NAZI hellscape you sir are a racist

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

270 I know this sounds crazy but trust me on this. The 60 Minutes segment on rescuing that airmen from Iran is actually good.

The book upon which the musical South Pacific is based, Tales of the South Pacific by James Mitchener, is a collection of short stories inspired by Mitchener's service. One of them concerns Japanese amazement regarding the resources the US was willing to risk to save one grunt. Pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (ndZc7)

271 Another interesting in-between thing that might be able to impeach juror deliberations is if a juror had specialized knowledge (think say an MD sitting on a jury in a malpractice case, which wouldn't be allowed in the first place).

If a juror lied about that during voir dire, that would trigger it for sure. But supposed that juror slipped through the cracks.

If the juror used his own specialized knowledge to influence other jurors, that would likely be a problem.

And say it were an acquittal, the defendant would still get off, double-jeopardy wise, but that would allow contempt and other charges to be brought against the juror.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (w6EFb)

272 265 253 Did they do the Lyndsay Clancy Test?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Those scamps are going to have a baby in 9 months.

Guaranteed.

5 kids minimum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (AlVf0)

Have five kids, is the 6th one free?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM (l3cgK)

273 238 Anyway,

My little brother got married this weekend.

He was about 8 when he was the altar server at my wedding.

Now, he's also married a redhead. And I met my older brother's girlfriend (presumably getting married next year), and she's a redhead.

My sister was joking to her husband that he needs to dye his hair red now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (AlVf0)

Congrats to your family. I'd warn them if I thought it would help

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

274 I wish I could help protect the sane juror. The best I can do is be sane myself and encourage others to do the same.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 14, 2026 02:06 PM (udgHb)

275 246 Who even thinks that is something that that needs to be addressed? What’s that like 10 women a year?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (A5IXv)

I've learned during this case that about 500 kids a year are killed by their moms.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (gLYp7)

But it's the world that needs to change to accommodate women who kill their children, don't you see?

Posted by: Because they're superior an' shit at September 14, 2026 02:06 PM (TbWk/)

276 Lynching a black man will for this instance be acceptable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:04 PM (eRlcH)

You can't expect democrats to stop lynching blacks for a whole century, can you?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (dK+Kv)

277 273 Congrats to your family. I'd warn them if I thought it would help

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

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Well, I ate a decent amount of BBQ, so I had a good time.

It was outside Kansas City.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (AlVf0)

278 Now if the husband had gotten his pistol and spread ole Lindsey’s brains all over the yard, that would have been a justified insanity defense.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (A5IXv)

279 It would be funny if some white AWFL breaks into the black hero's home with the intent to kill him, he fights back and kills HER (strangling would be best), and then goes to trail and CLAIMS THE INSANITY DEFENSE.

Please let it happen.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2026 01:25 PM (Av6i5)

Who do you think the "you must acquit Karmelo because that white demon LAID HANDS on him" crowd will endorse in that case?

Posted by: syranch at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (FsQPy)

280 Troll acts like a toughguy now but at first he was like srsly guys... no no srsly, what about all the dictionary definition facts and shit.

You pussy fag gay

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (AANQ+)

281 These women believe that not only the unborn have no rights, but children don't either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (l3cgK)

282 There are places in Mass where black people can't live?1?!
Posted by: nckate at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM

Well, not "can't", exactly...

Posted by: Dover, Duxbury, Weston, Beacon Hill... at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (bFu5X)

283 I note that our troll states that it doesn't have an 'Outstanding restraining order'. That seems curiously evasive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (XeU6L)

284 Who even thinks that is something that that needs to be addressed? What’s that like 10 women a year?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:00 PM (A5IXv)

I've learned during this case that about 500 kids a year are killed by their moms.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:02 PM (gLYp7)
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About 500 a year by their parents. I'm not sure of the split between mothers and fathers. I wouldn't be surprised if mothers are well north of 50% of that.

But surely fathers kill their kids too. Chris Benoit, etc. Which is another infuriating "whataboutism" that the Lyndsay Lunatics keep mewling about.

"Leave Lyndsay alone, men kill their kids too!" Yes, we know. But it's almost like these lunatics are trying to get revenge on the father murders by letting a guilty mom walk.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

285 Now if the husband had gotten his pistol and spread ole Lindsey’s brains all over the yard, that would have been a justified insanity defense.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (A5IXv)

Justifiable homicide, if I were on the jury.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 02:08 PM (1z8ji)

286 Why does 1 in 12 people in mass are sane seem high to me

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (AANQ+)

287 Have five kids, is the 6th one free?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM

And it comes with egg roll!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (bFu5X)

288 But it's the world that needs to change to accommodate women who kill their children, don't you see?

The leftwing argument for murder moms is the same as their argument for abortion.

A woman wouldn't do this if she didn't NEED to do it

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

289
I'm just wondering, and this depends on the jurisdiction, if these uber Karen nurses using their own specialized knowledge could break this impeachability thing and open them up to contempt. Probably be a high bar.

But if they were bullying the cucks on the jury with this, that might be enough to investigate and start asking questions of the jurors.

What triggers is if a juror's specialize knowledge or experience amounts to bringing in evidence or expert testimony that is not subject to cross-examination and the rules of evidence.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (w6EFb)

290 283 I note that our troll states that it doesn't have an 'Outstanding restraining order'. That seems curiously evasive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (XeU6L)

I've had TROs put on me and my wife that were later dropped by the court. None of the "facts" stated as reasons were true.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (l3cgK)

291 >>There are places in Mass where black people can't live?1?!

No, but historically they didn't.

It was not uncommon in the north for many blacks to settle in urban areas because that's where a lot of the jobs were located. When I first moved to the south shore it was also a pain in the ass to commute, basically one road in from the south shore and not much in the way of mass transit.

It's changing like a lot of places but as RMBS noted outside of Brockton, Plymouth County was pretty white.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (viF8m)

292 America is irredemably racist and cannot change.

It is an oligarchal, racist, capitalistic, fascist, police state where police get bounties for shooting innocent brown people for no reason.

There is no saving this place, and everyone should flee. America will collapse when all of its brown people return home, and then American imperialism will end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:03 PM (AlVf0)

Just so. They wuz Kangz and sheeeit so there should be no obstacle for them to go back and restore their Kangzdoms and sheeeit in freer, more abundant, more plentiful, more safe, more egalitarian and more prosperous shores like Eritrea or Liberia.

Posted by: You wuz Kangz, be Kangz once more! at September 14, 2026 02:10 PM (TbWk/)

293 "Have five kids, is the 6th one free?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:05 PM

And it comes with egg roll!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

That is a good deal!

Posted by: J. Swift at September 14, 2026 02:10 PM (MWfyi)

294 A woman wouldn't do this if she didn't NEED to do it

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

Isn't that the definition of By Any Means Necessary

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:10 PM (AANQ+)

295 And it comes with egg roll!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

That is a good deal!
Posted by: J. Swift at September 14, 2026 02:10 PM

other restrictions may apply.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (4NO2D)

296 281 These women believe that not only the unborn have no rights, but children don't either.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (l3cgK)

Mass. is a state that just passed a law permitting abortion up to and including birth.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (N39Ws)

297 294 A woman wouldn't do this if she didn't NEED to do it

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

Isn't that the definition of By Any Means Necessary

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:10 PM (AANQ+)

and please define "need"...seems in some states a woman can abort her child up to birth if she's having psychological issues...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (l3cgK)

298 Get them in the zone.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (3Q4mi)

299 Well, I ate a decent amount of BBQ, so I had a good time.

It was outside Kansas City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (AlVf0)

Was there dancing around?

Posted by: IYKYK at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (TbWk/)

300 Yet we still don't know the guy's name? Smells very fishy to me. Hence my claim this smells like an op, to drum up hatred for the guy and send a message to the next jury (if any).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

Judge put a 14 day gag order to protect Jurors identities... still a couple days until that order runs out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (mP0Kj)

301 274 I wish I could help protect the sane juror. The best I can do is be sane myself and encourage others to do the same.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 14, 2026 02:06 PM (udgHb)

Thread winner nominee.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (wxsGM)

302 Racists in New England. I knew it all along. I remember the school busing in Boston. The angry white people turning the buses over, mad as hell because of forced integration. Of course the news media swept it under the rug as quick as they could. But the media set up camp in the South to report every detail of the racist kkk Southerners. The media done the same thing in Detroit, Michigan where buses were burning. Yeah, they spent a day or two there, then nothing. But camping in the South fit the narrative better for them.

Posted by: Case at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (xJpuh)

303 298 Get them in the zone.
Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (3Q4mi)

And then...flood the zone?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

304 And it comes with egg roll!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

Be leady ten minute!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (qZb7K)

305 Gateway Pundit says the holdout juror's name is out there, but declines to name him.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (J4Dwc)

306 Yet we still don't know the guy's name? Smells very fishy to me. Hence my claim this smells like an op, to drum up hatred for the guy and send a message to the next jury (if any).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

Judge put a 14 day gag order to protect Jurors identities... still a couple days until that order runs out.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (mP0Kj)
______

You think that will stop these people??

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

307 >>There are places in Mass where black people can't live?1?!

No, but historically they didn't.

It was not uncommon in the north for many blacks to settle in urban areas because that's where a lot of the jobs were located. When I first moved to the south shore it was also a pain in the ass to commute, basically one road in from the south shore and not much in the way of mass transit.

It's changing like a lot of places but as RMBS noted outside of Brockton, Plymouth County was pretty white.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (viF8m)
======

Wasn't there a big foo-fra when Martha's Vineyard residents started screaming about immigrants being unloaded within the city limits?

Posted by: mrp at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (rj6Yv)

308
A woman wouldn't do this if she didn't NEED to do it

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

__________

*low drawl*

They needed killin'.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (eRlcH)

309 Mass. is a state that just passed a law permitting abortion up to and including birth.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (N39Ws)

At the rate they are going, they will be permitting up to age 21 before long.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (1z8ji)

310 Heh. Dance, monkey, dance.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Didja see this?

https://tinyurl.com/4kjndf4e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (ndZc7)

311 I've had TROs put on me and my wife that were later dropped by the court. None of the "facts" stated as reasons were true.
Posted by: jim
----

I'm sympathetic, and understanding, because I know you, in a Hordely way. The troll, otoh, receives no consideration.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (XeU6L)

312 Judge put a 14 day gag order to protect Jurors identities... still a couple days until that order runs out.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (mP0Kj)
______

You think that will stop these people??
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

Only from PUBLISHING the name... bet name is out there but we are not hearing it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (mP0Kj)

313 "F Post" Where F Troop was stationed.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

314 303 298 Get them in the zone.
Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 02:11 PM (3Q4mi)

And then...flood the zone?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

With autos

Posted by: Get in the zone *vroom* at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (TbWk/)

315 There was a bacchanalian cult in the Greco-Roman period that would select a woman to bear a child, raise it until age 4-6, then on Bacchus' feast day, bring the child to the cultists - women- who would get drugged, drunk, and sacrifice the child to Bacchus by tearing that precious baby apart.

How are these ghoulish women supporting Clancy any different? Especially after promoting "altruistic filicide?" Lord Jesus, come quickly!

Posted by: moki at September 14, 2026 02:15 PM (wLjpr)

316 So much for the jury system. It was nice while it lasted.

Posted by: Peter B at September 14, 2026 02:15 PM (IYvpr)

317 Well, I ate a decent amount of BBQ, so I had a good time.

It was outside Kansas City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (AlVf0)

Ah I have friends around there (mostly on the Kansas side0. Very good BBQ indeed. Good pizza too, oddly.

Glad you had fun. You were missed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 02:15 PM (xcxpd)

318 There is a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the holdout juror. $130,000 so far. Plus Fla. Gov. DeSantis has offered "asylum" to the holdout juror to help protect him.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2026 02:15 PM (N39Ws)

319 It was outside Kansas City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (AlVf0)

--------------

And you didn't stop by to say hello? Fine. No, it's fine!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 02:16 PM (2UnvF)

320 >Racists in New England. I knew it all along. I remember the school busing in Boston. The angry white people turning the buses over, mad as hell because of forced integration. Of course the news media swept it under the rug as quick as they could.

Maybe it wasn't reported heavily in your area but I can assure you it was widely reported in the Boston area.

Some of it was racism. Some of it was parents objecting to having their kids bussed to schools far away that they didn't want their kids to attend. And it wasn't just whites. Lot of black parents didn't like the idea either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)

321 Can't we have a little fiscal restraint?

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Karen Bass won't testify before Congress over alleged fraud involving $1B in federal homelessness funding:

"I cannot attend due to my schedule...They also asked for a ton of documents...you can imagine how much money is being wasted, spent, because you have to have attorneys."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:17 PM (ndZc7)

322 Judge put a 14 day gag order to protect Jurors identities... still a couple days until that order runs out.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (mP0Kj)
______

You think that will stop these people??
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

Only from PUBLISHING the name... bet name is out there but we are not hearing it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (mP0Kj)
_________

It may be that "respectable" media outlets are sitting on the name for now, but what about the lunatics, TT influencers, and everyone else screaming about the injustice of the holdout?

I mean, supposedly deranged Karens are at his house, and nobody posted a video or name or address? Or at least none that I saw.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

323 Over 300 comments and everyone is pretty much sticking to the topic.

Who the hell are you people and what have you don't with the real Morons?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:17 PM (J4Dwc)

324 315 There was a bacchanalian cult in the Greco-Roman period that would select a woman to bear a child, raise it until age 4-6, then on Bacchus' feast day, bring the child to the cultists - women- who would get drugged, drunk, and sacrifice the child to Bacchus by tearing that precious baby apart.

How are these ghoulish women supporting Clancy any different? Especially after promoting "altruistic filicide?" Lord Jesus, come quickly!

Posted by: moki at September 14, 2026 02:15 PM (wLjpr)

Wiccans and pan-theists...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:17 PM (l3cgK)

325 317 Ah I have friends around there (mostly on the Kansas side0. Very good BBQ indeed. Good pizza too, oddly.

Glad you had fun. You were missed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 14, 2026 02:15 PM (xcxpd)

=======

We didn't even really get into the city, so I kind of don't feel like I've been to either Missouri or Kansas, though the wedding was rural Kansas.

Still, two more states off my list.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (AlVf0)

326 I have some Hispanic cousins. They have a daughter that received a scholarship to go to college in Vermont. They drover her back there. They told me a story about when they walked into a VT restaurant full of white people. As soon as they walked in the whole place went silent and everyone just stared at them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (/OKHJ)

327 319 It was outside Kansas City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:07 PM (AlVf0)

--------------

And you didn't stop by to say hello? Fine. No, it's fine!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 14, 2026 02:16 PM (2UnvF)

=======

I waved. Did you not see?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (AlVf0)

328 Bus burnings in Colorado:

In February 1970, a series of explosions destroyed 24 school buses in Denver, Colorado, which were part of a busing plan aimed at desegregating schools. This violent response was linked to community opposition against the forced busing mandate to integrate schools

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (XeU6L)

329 323 Over 300 comments and everyone is pretty much sticking to the topic.


how about that Carson Wentz?!?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (j+aD2)

330 Some of it was racism. Some of it was parents objecting to having their kids bussed to schools far away that they didn't want their kids to attend. And it wasn't just whites. Lot of black parents didn't like the idea either.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)

Bussing students in an effort to enforce racial parity is/was stupid. Bus the teachers instead. You'd need a lot fewer buses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 02:19 PM (1z8ji)

331 And it comes with egg roll!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
--------
Sounds like something Howie Carr would say!

Posted by: 496 at September 14, 2026 02:19 PM (dfWnK)

332 Thread winner nominee.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (wxsGM)

Thank you. It feels very inadequate.

I want everybody to be happy and healthy, but I know adversity makes us stronger.

I'll pray for his safety and personal growth specifically.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 14, 2026 02:20 PM (udgHb)

333 Judge put a 14 day gag order to protect Jurors identities... still a couple days until that order runs out.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:12 PM (mP0Kj)
______

You think that will stop these people??
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

Only from PUBLISHING the name... bet name is out there but we are not hearing it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:14 PM (mP0Kj)
==================
Reading Ace's post can take too much time, I get that, but his headline says in the first five words that the juror has been doxxed, telling us his name and address is known.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 02:20 PM (qJszG)

334 Probably not legal but it'd be fun if the Feds moved the juror to a safe house while 'leaking' his info, and set up a decoy in his house surrounded by snipers.

* Ding-dong - BLAM! *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 02:20 PM (HeG1i)

335 326 I have some Hispanic cousins. They have a daughter that received a scholarship to go to college in Vermont. They drover her back there. They told me a story about when they walked into a VT restaurant full of white people. As soon as they walked in the whole place went silent and everyone just stared at them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (/OKHJ)

Never experienced that myself.
My folks did. Back in the 60's they traveled in Texas to meet a family friend, and stopped off at a place to get some food. The sign outside the restaurant said "No Dogs, N*****s or Mexicans Allowed"...they needed to eat, so Dad got the food to go.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:20 PM (l3cgK)

336 Hey Horde,

I'm taking the plunge and running for State Representative in Connecticut's 135th District (Easton, Weston, Redding). It's a longshot in deep-blue Connecticut, but I'm running anyway.

Here's where 'y'all' come in. CT runs a public-financing system for state races: candidates who raise $6,700 in small contributions ($5-$340 each) from individuals qualify for a state grant to fund the general election.

I need real people giving small amounts, fast. My filing deadline is coming up, and every day between now and then affects the size of the grant I qualify for.

The part that matters to you: only 150 of those donations need to come from inside my district. The rest can come from anywhere, including here. A $25 gift from a Horde member in Texas counts exactly the same toward my threshold as one from my neighbor.

If you'd back a candidate trying to keep CT from becoming CA, I'd be grateful:

https://tinyurl.com/2dr6tp2e

Thanks for reading, and thanks to CBD giving me a shot at the sidebar. I'll put this up again in a later comment - just in case I get willowed.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (0CU3H)

337 I saw his name somewhere yesterday.....so it's out there.


Andrew @ Don’t Walk, RUN!
@DontWalkRUN
·
15h
UPDATE: Sadly, I was right. The holdout juror was doxxed yesterday by several users on X. All because
@NBC10Boston
showed a graphic with the following info:

• The juror's DOB
• The original charge (265/13M/B-0 A&B ON FAMILY / HOUSEHOLD MEMBER c265 §13M(a))
• The date of the arrest
• The date of the arraignment
• The location of the court

In fact, I was easily able to do a search on http://masscourts.org, enter the details, and put two and two together to figure out what his name is (which I will not be providing here.)

But the fact remains: there is no way that I — or anyone else — would have been able to track down his info without the details that NBC Boston provided.

I hope he gets a lawyer and sues the hell out of them.


Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (kX27y)

338 335 326 I have some Hispanic cousins. They have a daughter that received a scholarship to go to college in Vermont. They drover her back there. They told me a story about when they walked into a VT restaurant full of white people. As soon as they walked in the whole place went silent and everyone just stared at them.


well that sure wasn't UVM

maybe Bennington or Midd

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (j+aD2)

339 Over 300 comments and everyone is pretty much sticking to the topic.

*********************

I was told there would be no math on this blog

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (fapp/)

340 >>how about that Carson Wentz?!?

F*** off

Posted by: J.J. McCarthy at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (J4Dwc)

341 I have some Hispanic cousins. They have a daughter that received a scholarship to go to college in Vermont. They drover her back there. They told me a story about when they walked into a VT restaurant full of white people. As soon as they walked in the whole place went silent and everyone just stared at them.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (/OKHJ)
________

There are quite a few blacks and minorities working in hospitality (and other labor jobs) in VT, especially in or near vacation resorts. I'm not calling them liars, but it would be very unusual for white people in VT to be so isolated from minorities that they would stare at them like aliens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

342 yes I know the gentleman's name

he was fully doxxed

just figure best not to repeat it

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM (j+aD2)

343 I have some Hispanic cousins. They have a daughter that received a scholarship to go to college in Vermont. They drover her back there. They told me a story about when they walked into a VT restaurant full of white people. As soon as they walked in the whole place went silent and everyone just stared at them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2026 02:18 PM (/OKHJ)

And then, "Mind if we dance with your dates?"

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM (dK+Kv)

344 On the positive side, these moral degenerates are boldly identifying themselves and leaving lasting evidence on the internet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM (A5IXv)

345 >>Never experienced that myself.
My folks did. Back in the 60's they traveled in Texas to meet a family friend, and stopped off at a place to get some food. The sign outside the restaurant said "No Dogs, N*****s or Mexicans Allowed"...they needed to eat, so Dad got the food to go.

Vermont, NH and Maine are all over 90% white. I believe Vermont is the whitest state in the union.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:23 PM (viF8m)

346 And then, "Mind if we dance with your dates?"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM

Otis, my man!

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:24 PM (4NO2D)

347 There are quite a few blacks and minorities working in hospitality (and other labor jobs) in VT, especially in or near vacation resorts. I'm not calling them liars, but it would be very unusual for white people in VT to be so isolated from minorities that they would stare at them like aliens.


yah so all three of my kids went to college in New England (some more so than others lol uConn)

I cannot relate to this story at all and btw I was confused with a mixed race person once in Alabama so

we are dark

again it couldn't have been UVM that is a diverse school and the town (city?) is as well

honestly I could see it maybe at UNH lol. that one is pasty white!

btw this is ALL BECAUSE OF SKIING (and snowboarding). my fault my fault my fault

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:24 PM (j+aD2)

348 On a side note, I'm pretty sure the mid-30s woman who comes every other Monday to clean my house is a dick tease.

Posted by: J.J. McCarthy at September 14, 2026 02:24 PM (J4Dwc)

349 Probably not legal but it'd be fun if the Feds moved the juror to a safe house while 'leaking' his info, and set up a decoy in his house surrounded by snipers.

* Ding-dong - BLAM! *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 02:20 PM (HeG1i)

Hunting over bait is considered rather unsporting in most jurisdictions, also illegal, but mostly illegal.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 02:24 PM (wVcYX)

350 That might not be the right guy. Reporters, get this, screw up a lot.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (A5IXv)

351 Hey Flockers!

"@mattvanswol
🚨#BREAKING: A father in Amarillo, Texas says he had to MOVE WHERE HIS KIDS SLEEP because a police officer used the city's Flock cameras to STALK him 76 TIMES over a woman the officer wanted for himself...

...prosecutors only gave the cop a MISDEMEANOR and a $4,500 bond.
...
He says Eder used his department phone to pull up the female officer's LIVE body camera feed to track her and the county attorney told him the department said that wasn't unusual."

Banning isn't enough

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (HeG1i)

352 Pretty sure the black dude thought, "if this was a black man."

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (DbmIv)

353 /off cheater sock

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (J4Dwc)

354 But the fact remains: there is no way that I — or anyone else — would have been able to track down his info without the details that NBC Boston provided.

I hope he gets a lawyer and sues the hell out of them.


Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (kX27y)

He best get himself and his family up to NH. He can be protected/protect himself much better here than in Mass.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (N39Ws)

355 On the positive side, these moral degenerates are boldly identifying themselves and leaving lasting evidence on the internet.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM (A5IXv)
========

Seeking the public adulations from your fellow lunatics might have repercussions.

Posted by: mrp at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (rj6Yv)

356 "You maybe it wasn't just sexism that let to restricting political power to men..."

And I mean its hard to argue against it...

This is the dirty little secret: women were kept out of the levers of power for a reason. Men are bad enough, but at least you don't have to worry about this kind of insane crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 02:26 PM (K32Fz)

357 So, we have a bad jury on both sides...

Bad case, bad law, bad jury pool, bad jury selection, bad prosecution, bad everything.

Maybe this shouldn't be our test case for anything.

And maybe we should stop participating in the Op to peel squish Republican women to D voters and to energize the D voter AWFL base...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 14, 2026 02:26 PM (tOcjL)

358 352 Pretty sure the black dude thought, "if this was a black man."


thousand percent this

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:26 PM (j+aD2)

359 It may be that "respectable" media outlets are sitting on the name for now, but what about the lunatics, TT influencers, and everyone else screaming about the injustice of the holdout?

I mean, supposedly deranged Karens are at his house, and nobody posted a video or name or address? Or at least none that I saw.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

I'm sure it is all over Lefty Social Media. One of the interesting things I've found since my adult Son moved in... we live in two totally different media worlds.

He is very Liberal... and does not even hear about most of the things we talk about... while I don't hear squat about many stories he brings up...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 14, 2026 02:26 PM (mP0Kj)

360 357 So, we have a bad jury on both sides...

Bad case, bad law, bad jury pool, bad jury selection, bad prosecution, bad everything.

Maybe this shouldn't be our test case for anything.


so ... you changed your mind or just don't wanna talk about it anymore? lol

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (j+aD2)

361 Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Depends when though. I was old enough when I saw my first black person that I remember it - and this was in thi big city of Burlington.

But that was 50+ years ago... I'm skeptical too if this is supposed to have happened in the last 20 years

Posted by: 496 at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (dfWnK)

362 I'm pretty sure the mid-30s woman who comes every other Monday to clean my house is a dick tease.

I think some women don't know how to turn it off, this is their only public persona.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (K32Fz)

363 That's the trouble with these big trials--you get people who want to be on the jury so they can write a book or become famous on TV or have a political agenda. Like the OJ Simpson trial.

So I wonder if this woman who is a true crime addict told the truth during voir dire, or did she lie to get chosen?

Posted by: Random PJ at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (+jscL)

364 Some of it was racism. Some of it was parents objecting to having their kids bussed to schools far away that they didn't want their kids to attend. And it wasn't just whites. Lot of black parents didn't like the idea either.
Posted by: JackStraw
---------

I understand that, and certainly would have those feelings. But, as a native Southerner I weary of the of the tacit implications that Southerners are racist, but other parts of the nation not. In this case, burning of buses (in the South) would be used as prima face evidence of that without regard to other issues.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (XeU6L)

365 On a side note, I'm pretty sure the mid-30s woman who comes every other Monday to clean my house is a dick tease.
Posted by: J.J. McCarthy at September 14, 2026 02:24 PM

Give her cashmere.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (4NO2D)

366
Every woman on that jury should be charged and tried for having committed perjury during jury selection as they knowingly were seated despite being biased against the prosecution.

Hurt them. Make them pay.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (eaua+)

367 prosecutors only gave the cop a MISDEMEANOR and a $4,500 bond.
...
He says Eder used his department phone to pull up the female officer's LIVE body camera feed to track her and the county attorney told him the department said that wasn't unusual."

Banning isn't enough
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (HeG1i)

These need eliminated. And abusing any type of restricted information resource by law enforcement, especially in furtherance of criminal activity like stalking, should be a first degree felony. But law and order and they keep us safe and call BLM if you have an emergency.

Posted by: Give power more power and abuse is assured at September 14, 2026 02:28 PM (TbWk/)

368 This has already been addressed by Mr. LockThatBitchUp Jackson

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 02:28 PM (ZxPkt)

369 Pretty sure the black dude thought, "if this was a black man."

Oh yeah, I doubt he had some principled, honor-bound philosophical rejection of the insanity plea, I think he just was figuring how a black guy who murdered three kids would be treated and why should this rich why suburban woman have it any differently?

Which honestly is a fair take

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 02:28 PM (K32Fz)

370 This is the dirty little secret: women were kept out of the levers of power for a reason. Men are bad enough, but at least you don't have to worry about this kind of insane crap.


ok so THE REASON you don't have to worry as much about insane crap with guys is THEY ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE

the guys that are not? like some Chapo's son or something? they act nuts and psycho

MY POINT is always, I will be critical of my gender because I prefer having agency and that requires BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE

not placed up on a pedestal by misguided "white knights"

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:28 PM (j+aD2)

371 I am so sick of seeing Lindsay Clancy's ugly scowling monster mug with that man-jaw of hers. Not one drop of sorrow in her eyes.

Posted by: fly gal at September 14, 2026 02:28 PM (rxv4u)

372 Can't anyone construct an argument that this a conspiracy to commit crimes against children?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (RIvkX)

373
Its about making sure in the future everyone is too intimidated to even attempt doing what he did. This is about destroying him so badly that future men rethink or are afraid of resisting the chosen narrative in court.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:28 PM

This. This applies to the Jan 6th prosecutions as well.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (iCBqm)

374 That's the trouble with these big trials--you get people who want to be on the jury so they can write a book or become famous on TV or have a political agenda. Like the OJ Simpson trial.

So I wonder if this woman who is a true crime addict told the truth during voir dire, or did she lie to get chosen?
Posted by: Random PJ at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (+jscL)
________

A good, experienced lawyer will spot the liars a mile away. Hell, if you ever been on a jury panel during voir dire, it's easy enough to spot them yourself.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

375 Bussing seems wildly inefficient and contributes to a wasteful "carbon footprint", no? Is it still practiced?

I was in grade school when this happened in our small burg. Our elementary school was not improved, that much is true. Most of the kids were well behaved and it was a good thing, insofar as it goes. The incorrigibles were not allowed to remain, as I recall. Things were definitely different back then.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (No2m8)

376 Bob Mackie has passed away.

Posted by: Piper at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

377 360 357 So, we have a bad jury on both sides...

Bad case, bad law, bad jury pool, bad jury selection, bad prosecution, bad everything.

Maybe this shouldn't be our test case for anything.


so ... you changed your mind or just don't wanna talk about it anymore? lol
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (j+aD2)

No, I didn't change my mind - by the court presentation and the actual evidence (vs online social media), the prosecution did not prove its case, b/c it had the burden for insanity. You may hate that law, but it's the law in that state...

You try cases in the court room vs the media -ask George Zimmerman why...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (tOcjL)

378 Give her cashmere.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (4NO2D)
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Is that a spot?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 02:30 PM (RIvkX)

379 Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
"These f*cking racist white supremacist pedophile assh*les will not win."
- @CarnegieMellon Professor Uju Anya

https://tinyurl.com/zz9td65m

-
You hoo, Uju, shut your dick hole!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:30 PM (ndZc7)

380 Give her cashmere.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (4NO2D)

I'm totally serial. Cutoff blue jeans cuffed to about a 2-inch inseam and tight tee shirts is her normal cleaning attire.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 02:30 PM (J4Dwc)

381 On a side note, I'm pretty sure the mid-30s woman who comes every other Monday to clean my house is a dick tease.
Posted by: J.J. McCarthy at September 14, 2026 02:24 PM

Give her cashmere.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:27 PM (4NO2D)

And pray she doesn't see the red dot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (PSEDc)

382 379 Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
"These f*cking racist white supremacist pedophile assh*les will not win."
- @CarnegieMellon Professor Uju Anya

https://tinyurl.com/zz9td65m

-
You hoo, Uju, shut your dick hole!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:30 PM (ndZc7)

Maybe she only uses it for dildos...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (l3cgK)

383 >>I understand that, and certainly would have those feelings. But, as a native Southerner I weary of the of the tacit implications that Southerners are racist, but other parts of the nation not. In this case, burning of buses (in the South) would be used as prima face evidence of that without regard to other issues.

I can see that. I feel similarly to the claim that Boston is sort of racist hell. I lived and worked in the city for decades and I don't even recognize the city some have in the imagination.

It's one of those "Everybody knows ..." claims and not true.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (viF8m)

384 Pretty sure the black dude thought, "if this was a black man."
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 14, 2026 02:25 PM (DbmIv)
_______

Not even sure you need the "black," just the "man."

Chris Benoit was a very similar case, and his brain was clearly squiring toads. Think he woulda got off if he didn't successfully kill himself? Not a chance.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

385 What America is clamoring for is a mash-up between Jones' Good Ass BBQ & Foot Massage and LockThatBitchUp Jackson

the vibe would be off the MFing charts

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (ZxPkt)

386 by the court presentation and the actual evidence (vs online social media), the prosecution did not prove its case, b/c it had the burden for insanity. You may hate that law, but it's the law in that state.

were you sitting in the courtroom or just watching streams discussing it?

I was following people in the courtroom and I made up my own mind. she was proven far too sane.

we agree to disagree I suppose. but if were wrong, I'd admit it. just sayin

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2)

387 >>>I'm pretty sure the mid-30s woman who comes every other
Monday to clean my house is a dick tease.

Is she a toucher? Some women are very happy and smile a lot, very friendly, and it might give a guy the thought that they were interested.

It is the touchers I have a real problem with.

I don't mind hugging female friends, goof around physically, etc. But someone not in that set who's a toucher when talking about everyday mundane things, that puts me in a quandry.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 02:32 PM (dK+Kv)

388 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:31 PM (l3cgK)

I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (JrHfD)

389 When you appeal, all the evidence and testimony from the trial is sort of locked in, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (4NO2D)

390 Because the BLACK jurist voted against acquittal he must be destroyed.

We cannot have BLACKS that are not USEFUL IDIOTS for the Commie-crats !!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (5U1m0)

391 386 by the court presentation and the actual evidence (vs online social media), the prosecution did not prove its case, b/c it had the burden for insanity. You may hate that law, but it's the law in that state.

were you sitting in the courtroom or just watching streams discussing it?

I was following people in the courtroom and I made up my own mind. she was proven far too sane.

we agree to disagree I suppose. but if were wrong, I'd admit it. just sayin
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2)

No, I followed the case and watched the testimony. I find 95% of commenters have not.

Just like with the Zimmerman case.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (tOcjL)

392 379 Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
"These f*cking racist white supremacist pedophile assh*les will not win."
- @CarnegieMellon Professor Uju Anya

https://tinyurl.com/zz9td65m

-
You hoo, Uju, shut your dick hole!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 02:30 PM (ndZc7)

Sit Ubu, sit.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (iCBqm)

393 ok so THE REASON you don't have to worry as much about insane crap with guys is THEY ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE

That is fair, I agree. Men who screw up are very much more likely to be punished and when punished punished more. If we were more willing to do so with women, then perhaps there might be less of this kind of crazy.

But should we punish women like we do men? Is there not a societal need to protect women at least somewhat from the consequences of their own actions? And if so, does that not mean maybe women should be prevented from the same level of responsibility and difficulty as men?

That's how the balance used to work, a recognition that women must be protected and are innately less rational (on average) than men (on average) and more likely to be hormonally unstable? Is that unreasonable?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (K32Fz)

394 Nood Danes

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (gLYp7)

395 374 A good, experienced lawyer will spot the liars a mile away. Hell, if you ever been on a jury panel during voir dire, it's easy enough to spot them yourself.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

=======

These jurors strike me as, at best, midwits who can barely hold back any thought that pops into their heads.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (AlVf0)

396 Nood Danes

You never get rid of them.

Posted by: Rudyard Kipling at September 14, 2026 02:34 PM (4NO2D)

397 >>It's one of those "Everybody knows ..." claims and not true.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (viF8m)

Florence King wrote about coming to the North from Virginia and, the first time she had contact in the office with a black man, everyone was watching to see how she would react. She & he caught on and would put on a show for the observers.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (NcvvS)

398 Nood Danes

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 02:33 PM (gLYp7)
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It better be Eva Vlaardingblahblah or else!

Posted by: 496 at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (rxRAc)

399 Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 14, 2026 02:21 PM (0CU3H)

This man is a longtime horde member in good standing, particularly with me. Good luck Darrell!!!

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (AANQ+)

400 Chris Benoit was a very similar case, and his brain was clearly squiring toads. Think he woulda got off if he didn't successfully kill himself? Not a chance.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

One difference is Chris there was probably a much better case that he actually was psychotic, not that it excuses anything. Even more importantly, there weren't squeeing groups of fanbois lining up to say how it was a Good Thing™ or posting family photos on social media with "Same, Chris."

Posted by: The differences are stark at September 14, 2026 02:35 PM (TbWk/)

401
When I read these type of stories, all I can think is what terrible time young guys must be having to find a smart, sweet, good- looking gal to date or marry.

Yeesh, the pickin's seem very slim out there.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 02:36 PM (iJfKG)

402 During Saint Hillary's 26 years in the Washington, D.C. area, including 12 years as a professional staffer in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, she can honestly say that there are few policymakers that have been as supportive of making our nation’s children a top priority as Hillary Clinton.

No matter what your views are on whether Secretary Clinton should be our next president, it is an undeniable fact that she has dedicated much of her career — both public and private — to children.

So, Hillary Clinton must be humiliated too ?????

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (5U1m0)

403 This woman needs to stop
doing media. How embarrassing and offensive to women and men who don't believe murdering your kids should be acceptable. Not to mention a bastardization of what a jury is supposed to do, which is not to engage in activism.
---

This woman should be in front of the camera till everyone sees her and come to realize what a repulsive and revolting person this is who is espousing death to their children and future children and grand children.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (iLKq8)

404 I can see that. I feel similarly to the claim that Boston is sort of racist hell. I lived and worked in the city for decades and I don't even recognize the city some have in the imagination.

I think both are about the past more than the present. I mean Boston had clubs that excluded Jews and blacks into the 80s. The south literally did have people actually lynch black people for being uppity. Did that represent even a large minority of the people there? Nah. But it was real in a way it was not in, say, Arizona.

I live in Oregon which has an outrageously racist past. The Klan was huge here. Our population of black people in my home town of 40k when I was i high school had five black people. I knew both of the black kids. That's how effective the state's policies and antics against blacks coming to the state were.

Its not like that any more but I can easily see how people would associate Oregon with bigotry.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 02:37 PM (K32Fz)

405 I think the thing that amuses the most is the Leftist mentality that you are a bigot if you hate something or someone. All the while they are spraying their hate of you directly to your face.

I hate turnips, a couple of my cousins, warm beer, the Indian guy at the nearest convenience store because he tries to short change you (and isn't very good at it), women who rely on excessive make-up, loud music, narcicistic imbeciles that don't know the difference between opinion and fact, most politicians, and anyone who says "but, that's the way we've always done it."

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 02:38 PM (dIske)

406 Yea but.... The more children a woman has out of wedlock the more Government goodies they get ........

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (5U1m0)

407 152 So what's this guy doing to protect himself and his family?

Posted by: I gotta ask
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He needs a fat GoFundMe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:39 PM (iLKq8)

408
How manybirthed and now alive children were there among those nine harridans?

How many abortions?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2026 02:40 PM (eaua+)

409 I cannot help but note that all of the angst in Lindsay Clancy trial outcome is against the Karens on the jury.
But how did they get there in the first place? Jury selection!
Judge William Sullivan, prosecution attorneys Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington did a very poor job of vetting jurors for the case.
I can understand the defense attorney selecting Karens, but the prosecutors were either inexperienced, stupid, or complicit in an acquittal outcome.
Judge William Sullivan did not properly direct the jury as to what their limitations were in the decision process. Those jurors thought that their job was to empower white women (undefinable to the left) in making their own decisions regardless of loss of life.
This should be a case study in all law schools as to how not to conduct a trial.
Judge William Sullivan is not worthy of 'The Bench'!

Posted by: John at September 14, 2026 02:48 PM (9NUKl)

410 The left are going to the house of a man who delayed freeing a child killer to threaten him.

The right are crying about what meanies the left are, even though they could easily make them good commies if they had the courage to win

Hmmm... I can't imagine why we're losing.

Posted by: Ken at September 14, 2026 02:49 PM (S22m/)

411 "altruistic filicide"

"Revolutionary Suicide" is cooler!

Posted by: Rev Jim Jones at September 14, 2026 03:20 PM (0GLZr)

412 I truly do not want to share any air with these evil morons. Civil War 2.0 can't come soon enough to suit me. We let them take GOD out of the public and look what they filled the void with.

Posted by: Pamazon at September 14, 2026 03:25 PM (b5MGU)

413 34 Starting to understand the appeal of Islam's approach towards women.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp

I’ve got your back!!!

Posted by: Taqiyya Carlson at September 14, 2026 04:05 PM (XodLO)

414 In Islam, taqiyya is the practice of concealing one's faith

Posted by: The Dog at September 14, 2026 04:07 PM (XodLO)

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins: We Know Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother to Defraud the Immigration System. We're Investigating Her Now.

Happy Monday!

Some good news to start the week off.


Trump's top immigration official claims an internal investigation found that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar 'married her brother' and could be facing deportation.

'We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States,' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat. 'We know he lives now in London.'

He was speaking about the second man Omar married, who the Daily Mail has previously reported is Ahmed Elmi. Both are originally from Somalia.

She allegedly was still married to her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, at the time of the second marriage, the congresswoman has told friends who relayed the account to the Daily Mail.

Omar has long denied the allegations. She has since remarried a third time and is wed to political consultant Tim Mynett.

Mullin told conservative pundit Benny Johnson that Omar's actions amounted to 'possible illegal activity' and the investigation is 'ongoing,' breaking a standard where officials typically do not discuss active investigations.

'We're investigating,' he said before threatening to deport her should the investigation warrant such a dramatic action.

'There's no expiration to that,' he said of the potential charges. 'If we can prove it that, maybe you shouldn't have been here in the first place, we'll deport you.'


Mullin appeared to be alluding to potential immigration documents being falsified, which would be a deportable offense. That plan could face difficulty given Omar became a naturalized US citizen in 2000, when she was 17.

...

Abdihakim Osman, a past friend of Omar, told the Mail in 2020 that Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.

But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.

'No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,' Osman exclusively told Daily Mail at the time.

Omar married her first husband, Hirsi, in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony that, like many in the immigrant community, was not registered with the state.

The first report that Omar and her husband were siblings appeared on the website Somalispot in 2016.

It said of Elmi: 'As soon as Ilhan Omar married him he started university at her alma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012.'
...


'When we move forward,' Mullin said as if the case against Omar is imminent, 'it's not political.'

The Department of Homeland Security office did not deny Mullin's claims that Omar did indeed marry her brother.

Tom Homan confirms it, too:


Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich

Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.

I asked Homan on @SundayBriefFNC about DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin asserting this week "We know that [Rep. Omar] married her brother to try to bring him to the United States" :

HOMAN: I'm not going to comment on an ongoing criminal investigation. I know things are going on. But I can't get specifics of what's happening. But we'll see. I mean, if someone committed immigration violation and someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they're a congresswoman or not, no one's above the law, so I'll leave it at that. We'll let, HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation.

HEINRICH: Okay. So you're confirming that there is an investigation into Congresswoman Omar.

HOMAN: I'm confirming that ICE is - yeah. Look, I said months ago, that is something that's been reported and it needs to be looked at.

...

HEINRICH: Okay... She is, though, a naturalized U.S. citizen.... I guess what I'm asking is, is there a naturalization case that is being brought against her?

HOMAN: Look, you know, I've been around 40 years and we've done de-nats cases. We have denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying on their applications or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves, or maybe misrepresenting organizations they belong to or beliefs they have. But denaturalization is a process. It's a very serious process. So if someone lies through that process to becoming a citizen, and we can prove they in fact lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely denaturalize them. We've done it before many times over the last 40 years I've been around. So it's a process.

HEINRICH: And then just knowing how this is going to be received, you know what what would you say to the Democrat critics who are just going to make the argument that this is a politically motivated, pursuit?

HOMAN: There's nothing political about it. ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute.

Hello! How are you all? Did you have a relaxing weekend?

I did, actually. The shoulder was semi-okay over the weekend.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:17 PM




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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (bFu5X)

2 THE BLADE TO THE RESCUE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

3 I want so desperately for something to happen...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (gLYp7)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (X0axn)

5 Bold strategy, Ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (bFu5X)

6 oneth

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (5rh/l)

7 bold.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (X0axn)

8 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (X0axn)

9 sixeth!

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (5rh/l)

10 And the week begins!

I wonder if anything stupid will happen this week.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b)

11 Boldly nooded.

Posted by: Irving at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (NcvvS)

12 also nineth!

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (5rh/l)

13 In before the Nothing will Happen guy…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (g9+4z)

14 We will see if anything happens.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (zjgNU)

15 What did you do to your shoulder?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (viF8m)

16 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (Y75Ef)

17 DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins: We Know Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother to Defraud the Immigration System. We're Investigating Her Now.


Stop f*cking teasing us with this shit and MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN already.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (X0axn)

18 Mullen appeared to be alluding to potential immigration documents being falsified, which would be a deportable offense. That plan could face difficulty given Omar became a naturalized US citizen in 2000, when she was 17.


Fraud trumps naturalization.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (AXBJa)

19 Good. Kick her ass out of the country, and anyone that she frauded in.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

20 lol

BroFo moniker legitimized by official U.S. Government statement.

Suck it, rancid hoor.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (dK+Kv)

21 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (wvQoP)

22 15 What did you do to your shoulder?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (viF8m)

Probably got older. It's amazing how much that fucks things up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (Y/06r)

23 Dolores O'Riordan. She at least deserves to have her name spelled correctly.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (BrjrD)

24 I read an article this morning which asserted that the $30M Omar has accrued since joining Congress will NOT be the basis of charges. There was no explanation. Does anyone else know why this might be?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

25 Even is she is found to have done illegal shit no judge or jury in DC or MN will convict her.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (8m4AW)

26 21 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.
Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (wvQoP)

You know her history.

Posted by: State of Kentucky at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (Y/06r)

27 HOMAN: There's nothing political about it. ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute.

Yes, this is the way. Enforce all those laws that Congress passed, starting with enforcing them on Congress.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (vJrRc)

28 And just like that, Lindsay Clancy will disappear from the headlines.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (MDua2)

29 21 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.
Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (wvQoP)

Especially since the brother/husband is gay...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (+gK6I)

30 22 15 What did you do to your shoulder?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (viF8m)

Probably got older. It's amazing how much that fucks things up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (Y/06r)

Common mistake

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (okun6)

31 He already knows it?
No investigation needed !

I believe in what I want to believe
I am MAGA

Posted by: Paul at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (YFN1a)

32 24 I read an article this morning which asserted that the $30M Omar has accrued since joining Congress will NOT be the basis of charges. There was no explanation. Does anyone else know why this might be?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

Isn't her dad a brutal warlord back in Somalia?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (Y/06r)

33 You know what's going to happen? NOTHING!

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (MWfyi)

34 15 What did you do to your shoulder?

A shelf fell on him is my guess

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (J4Dwc)

35 Stop f*cking teasing us with this shit and MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN already.


It's tough to wait, but as has been pointed out here many times, sometimes the process is the punishment. I imagine she's more than a little worried right now.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

36 It's not incest if you're from Somalia...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (l3cgK)

37 meh

red meat for the rubes

at WORST they will deport the brother

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (j+aD2)

38 NOBODY--least of all Congrescritters--believe that the laws Congress passes will ever be enforced.

They just pass them as a sop to their constituents so that they can stay elected to loot the Treasury.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (FZ29D)

39 5 What did you do to your shoulder?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (viF8m)

Probably got older. It's amazing how much that fucks things up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (Y/06r)

Common mistake

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (okun6)

Beats the alternative, though.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (gLYp7)

40 Jerk that smoke wagon and see what happens. The breeder goatraper has to go.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (qZb7K)

41 DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins: We Know Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother to Defraud the Immigration System. We're Investigating Her Now.

Sexy.
On many levels.

MSNow - Trump continues to go after his political enemies.

While advocating and having people on who want to go after Republicans if they get power. Leftists - got to love them.

Preferably with chainsaws.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (Sco7b)

42 21 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (wvQoP)

Sister: "Brother, you're better than Dad!"
Brother: "That's what Mom says!"
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (l3cgK)

43 A DNA match turns a rumor into a laboratory result. If Minnesota investigators have tied Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to Ilhan Omar as a sibling, the marriage license on the table stops being a curiosity. It becomes the document that was used to invent a spouse and walk him through a gate that siblings do not get to use that way.

Immigration marriage is a sworn statement. Sworn statements that hide a blood relationship are the definition of material fraud. Material fraud is how status is stolen. Stolen status is how a House career gets built on a form that would sink a nobody in a field office.

The next step is not a panel on cable. It is a case file: the license, the genetic report, the applications, the dates. If those pages line up, the statute already knows what to do. Charge the lie. Let a court decide whether the oath was real. Membership in Congress is not a mutation that makes DNA optional.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (AXBJa)

44 HOMAN: There's nothing political about it. ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute.

Yes, this is the way. Enforce all those laws that Congress passed, starting with enforcing them on Congress.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (vJrRc)

Deporting terrorists is just another name for something we choose to do together.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (dK+Kv)

45 at WORST they will deport the brother

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (j+aD2)

Which I would consider a partial victory - better than a total defeat.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (gLYp7)

46 If you KNOW that she did it, doesn't that indicate the investigation is pretty much complete and it's time for her to face the consequences?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (PMi3m)

47 She was out of her head at the time. Give her a break.

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (MWfyi)

48 Isn't her dad a brutal warlord back in Somalia?

Yes, but IIRC, the problem is that she didn't report her unexplained wealth on her taxes until someone published her returns.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

49 45 at WORST they will deport the brother

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (j+aD2)


I believe the brother/husband is in England

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (+gK6I)

50 I bet Ace fired one of those bazooka-like AR guns. It tore my shoulder up!

Posted by: Gersh Kuntzman at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (BrjrD)

51 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (wvQoP)

Sister: "Brother, you're better than Dad!"
Brother: "That's what Mom says!"
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


I could get real tasteless, so I won't. But there IS one joke loaded in the chanber.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (AXBJa)

52
Hello! How are you all? Did you have a relaxing weekend?

I did, actually. The shoulder was semi-okay over the weekend.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:17 PM



We had a showing of our house Saturday morning. Only 2 showed up, which was disappointing. We have 2 offers, but one is too low and the other is close, but we'd like to see a little higher numbers.

Spent that afternoon in the ER with the First Lady whom actually passed her kidney stone causing her all the pain while we were there, so it was a short visit.

Yesterday was rest...........didn't even drink anything but water.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (X0axn)

53 I'm still not going to remember the chick from the Cranberries name lol

ACE! your shoulder!

DMSO (use a rollon version already cut with aloe, so like 10 percent DMSO in the nice aloe lotion). do it as many times a day as you remember over the painful area.

also once it's better you need to lift in a targeted way. shoulders are fixable! exercise works once it is healed enough (and DMSO moves that along)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (j+aD2)

54 Father is a genocidal warlord. It's probably nothing.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (AANQ+)

55 Interesting - Scott Johnson @ Powerlineblog has been on Omar's case for years. More than the MN media, of course. This morning he revealed he had been interviewed by federal agents:


https://tinyurl.com/mwffcyhf

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (kX27y)

56 About this time last year my left shoulder started acting up. I assumed it was a result of an old injury. Started physical therapy and it wasn't improving after a couple months they started doing tests on my spine.

Yeppppp.

It turns out my dad was wrong. Rubbing dirt on it did not help.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (viF8m)

57 49 45 at WORST they will deport the brother

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (j+aD2)


I believe the brother/husband is in England

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (+gK6I)

that was her husbro...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (l3cgK)

58 How did Omar get here? Did she lie in her own application or is the investigation just focusing on her subsequent lies to get her brother here?

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (KC5Lt)

59 I could get real tasteless, so I won't. But there IS one joke loaded in the chanber.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (AXBJa)

That's what she said.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (Y/06r)

60 but as has been pointed out here many times, sometimes the process is the punishment. I imagine she's more than a little worried right now.
Posted by: Archimedes

The punishment is a some money spent on lawyers. Given how much money she’s stolen from American tax payers it’s just a cost of doing business. It won’t hurt politically at all. If anything it’ll make her even more popular on the left.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (8m4AW)

61 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (2Ez/1)

62 also once it's better you need to lift in a targeted way. shoulders are fixable! exercise works once it is healed enough (and DMSO moves that along)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (j+aD2)

Just don't leave the exercise bands laying around.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (AANQ+)

63 Posted by: Paul at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (YFN1a)


Hey there, Paul. Question for you.

When you take a dump, how much white stuff comes out before you get to the brown?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (X0axn)

64 I believe the brother/husband is in England


well then!

she isn't getting deported

I guess she will be fined/charged whatever

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (j+aD2)

65 Something is happening.

Posted by: 13times at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (6iKlf)

66 She was out of her head at the time. Give her a break.

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (MWfyi)

I saw a meme recently - probably here - of a little girl firing an AR with the caption: "Practicing for when mommy gets sad," or something like that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (gLYp7)

67 >>It's tough to wait, but as has been pointed out here many times, sometimes the process is the punishment. I imagine she's more than a little worried right now.
__
I doubt it. My guess is that she is loving this. She knows she'll never be convicted or deported. It will only strengthen her support in her district. And she will get to be the center of attention as mean old Trump tries to kick a sitting BLACK FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE out of the country.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (bNf8H)

68 I'd love this gastropod's head on the wall. But it ain't never gonna happen. And no, I'm not the "nothing will happen" guy. I'm generally optimistic.

But come on with this bullshit. If DHS has something, then charge this filthy pig and be done with it. Even if the case ain't that strong, charge her and let the process be the punishment. They would do that to us in a heartbeat.

But the endless grandstanding and "we're looking into it" leaks and drops is boring and counterproductive. It only serves to get our side's hopes up. It also gives this gastropod a nice fat cause celeb to claim victimhood and for fundraising. That's a lose-lose.

Shit or get off the pot, please.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

69 Don't do shoulder surgery, Ace. Are you doing your "walk the wall" exercises on that side?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (XvL8K)

70 If we don't know exactly the shoulder injury we won't know to advise ice pack, hot iron or a 5th of Bourbon

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (Y75Ef)

71 turns out my dad was wrong. Rubbing dirt on it did not help.
Posted by: JackStraw

Did you try Robitussin?
- Chris Rock’s grandfather

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (8m4AW)

72 58 How did Omar get here? Did she lie in her own application or is the investigation just focusing on her subsequent lies to get her brother here?
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (KC5Lt)

From what I have heard she didn't use her real name because her Father was a warlord

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (+gK6I)

73 I'm sure the argument will be how rednecks mate with their relatives all the time and this is no big deal.

That being said, I like the notion of Omar returning to Wakanda to live out her life free from systemic raysisms.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (BpO1e)

74 In before Nothing Will Happen guy!

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (4NO2D)

75 Now do Barack Obama!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (ndZc7)

76 45 at WORST they will deport the brother

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (j+aD2)



You pulled a Sponge and didn't read the content, didn't you........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (X0axn)

77 The left now has to balance the equation of "this is a political witch hunt" vs "nobody is above the law"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (sW/xx)

78 I saw a meme recently - probably here - of a little girl firing an AR with the caption: "Practicing for when mommy gets sad," or something like that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (gLYp7)

Probably knife work would be more useful at that age.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (Y/06r)

79 51 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (wvQoP)

Sister: "Brother, you're better than Dad!"
Brother: "That's what Mom says!"
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


I could get real tasteless, so I won't. But there IS one joke loaded in the chanber.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (AXBJa)

Is it about the Alabaman who brought his fiance (who was a virgin) to meet his parents?
"If she ain't good enough for her family, she ain't good enough for us"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (l3cgK)

80 Hey there, Paul. Question for you.

When you take a dump, how much white stuff comes out before you get to the brown?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Around a quart.

Posted by: Paul's mom at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (qZb7K)

81 And here's Ilhan with Don Lemon hating on Charlie Kirk:


https://tinyurl.com/3yfzvxks

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (kX27y)

82 First look at the new WH ballroom. It's beautiful.

https://tinyurl.com/2vvspdpd
Posted by: Archimedes

Looks like Versailles and you know what happened to Louis XVI.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (ndZc7)

83 I think we need an amendment that you have to be a naturalized citizen for 15 years before you can run for political office.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (KC5Lt)

84 I know there's a lot of "breaking" and "huge" on this but ... didn't we know this already?

I hate to be a pessimist but, why do these officials even comment when they know, and we know, and they know we know that nothing is going to happen?

"We're investigating" is a long, long f'ing way from actually doing something.

I'm "investigating" it too, for that matter, and it carries just as much weight as his comments, given all that has been DONE.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (3cUTc)

85 I doubt both Mullins and Homan would be talking about it publicly unless they intended to do something.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (viF8m)

86 Ilhan BroFo better get her affairs in order. Mogadishu beckons.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (TezPK)

87 I’m all for political retaliation. I don’t give a shit what democrats think. They have no problems doing it themselves.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (A5IXv)

88 Omar might be denaturalized... Be still my heart.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (NnhvP)

89 And here's Ilhan with Don Lemon hating on Charlie Kirk:


https://tinyurl.com/3yfzvxks
Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM (kX27y)


Denaturalize and deport them both.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (X0axn)

90 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that nothing will happen yet?

Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (3XNks)

91 Even IF we're able to deport Ilhan Omar out of the country, her native constituents will just find someone else without the baggage to replace her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (FZ29D)

92 Have we heard from Mr. "nothing will happen" yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (X0axn)

93 The left now has to balance the equation of "this is a political witch hunt" vs "nobody is above the law"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM

Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

- The Left

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X)

94 How did Omar get here? Did she lie in her own application or is the investigation just focusing on her subsequent lies to get her brother here?
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (KC5Lt)

From what I have heard she didn't use her real name because her Father was a warlord
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (+gK6I)
_______

Yea, that's the real crime and a real basis for getting rid of her. She pretended to be part of another family that -- somehow -- already got asylum.

How? Because they claimed to be persecuted and hunted by a Somali warlord. The same warlord her fucking father was deep in bed with.

Fuck all these people. How we let a single one of these roaches into the country is beyond me.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

95 think we need an amendment that you have to be a naturalized citizen for 15 years before you can run for political office.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (KC5Lt)

Will not stop Democrats from finding the worst traitors around and compelling them into office. It's whack a mole when 40% of the electorate hates America.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (AANQ+)

96 Looks like Versailles and you know what happened to Louis XVI.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (ndZc7)

So the ballroom is to become the most famous museum in the world? Keep I M Pei away from it!

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (KC5Lt)

97 90 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that nothing will happen yet?
Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (3XNks)

At least three times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (Y/06r)

98 We’re investigating followed by a task force that will put out a report and then we’ll take those recommendation and follow up on our investigation.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (8m4AW)

99 I doubt both Mullins and Homan would be talking about it publicly unless they intended to do something.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (viF8m)


Because we all know that NEVER happens......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (X0axn)

100 Ilhan BroFo better get her affairs in order. Mogadishu beckons.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (TezPK)

I'm willing to meet them halfway. In the Atlantic.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (dK+Kv)

101 "I doubt both Mullins and Homan would be talking about it publicly unless they intended to do something.
Posted by: JackStraw "

That's all we ever get, talk.

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (MWfyi)

102 That being said, I like the notion of Omar returning to Wakanda to live out her life free from systemic raysisms.

It's also worth noting that the Somalian unrest she claimed to be fleeing was caused by her family being in charge. So she could genuinely be in danger if returned, which makes returning her even funnier.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

103 The left now has to balance the equation of "this is a political witch hunt" vs "nobody is above the law"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM

Do they?

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (AANQ+)

104 82 First look at the new WH ballroom. It's beautiful.

https://tinyurl.com/2vvspdpd
Posted by: Archimedes

Some Dem Congressman said if he were to be elected president he would have it torn down.. The name escapes me

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (+gK6I)

105 My only problem with ballrooms is the dancing part.

I am no dancer.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

106 Afternoon Ace.
Glad to see them at least looking at it. I would like to see Omar found to have committed immigration fraud. The penalty is that all Somali are thrown out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (N2HNb)

107 I'm old enough to remember "lock her up" meant something was supposed to happen to Hillary.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (X0axn)

108 She has since remarried a third time and is wed to political consultant Tim Mynett.

You divorced your own brother?! There's an uncomfortable Thanksgiving.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2026 12:30 PM (x+6zT)

109 turns out my dad was wrong. Rubbing dirt on it did not help.
Posted by: JackStraw

Did you try Robitussin?
- Chris Rock’s grandfather
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (8m4AW)

Windex for external applications. -- Gus Portokalos

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

110 Since they know she did it, investigating must mean investigating the political ramifications of deporting her.

Posted by: TimothyJP at September 14, 2026 12:30 PM (ZhvP2)

111 98 We’re investigating followed by a task force that will put out a report and then we’ll take those recommendation and follow up on our investigation.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (8m4AW)


Watch out if Jim Jordan rolls up his sleeves...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:30 PM (+gK6I)

112 So, what?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 12:30 PM (2Ez/1)

113 >>@InsiderWire

>>#BREAKING: 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.

Incredible how corrupt our government was. Still a long way to go but making progress.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)

114 The left now has to balance the equation of "this is a political witch hunt" vs "nobody is above the law"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 14, 2026 12:26 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
- The media

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (gLYp7)

115 108 She has since remarried a third time and is wed to political consultant Tim Mynett.

You divorced your own brother?! There's an uncomfortable Thanksgiving.
Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2026 12:30 PM (x+6zT)

WILL NO ONE THINK OF HER NEPHEW-SON!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)

116 My weekend starts on a Sunday, so today is 'Saturday'. Wash clothes, get a cheesesteak somewhere, take a walk. Maybe go golf, but might wait till next week where I'm taking an extra day off. Beautiful day here in Babylon DC. Was hoping to sleep through most of it but alas, got about 3 hours and that's that. Guess I'll be productive, or something.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (sAmhv)

117 Some Dem Congressman said if he were to be elected president he would have it torn down.. The name escapes me

That's a required statement that the Dem/Antifa base enforces, along with making 9/10 a holiday to celebrate their victory over Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

118 Omar will never be deported to Somalia. Best case, she ends up in London or Paris, but I don't care as long as it's not hear.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)

119 Outrage is erupting in Seattle after a 21-year-old who was SH0T 3 TIMES trying to STOP A ROBBERY walked 2 blocks BLEEDING TO DE*TH, begging for help...

...and a 7-Eleven LOCKED THE DOORS on him and people stood around FILMING him instead of helping.

https://tinyurl.com/4w3w4acr

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

What?!!! They killed him before a judge could release him?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (ndZc7)

120 Even IF we're able to deport Ilhan Omar out of the country, her native constituents will just find someone else without the baggage to replace her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (FZ29D)
_______

True. But it would be orgasmically satisfying to get rid of this particularly gruesome pig.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

121
WILL NO ONE THINK OF HER NEPHEW-SON!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)



Sonphew......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (X0axn)

122 How we let a single one of these roaches into the country is beyond me.

Wait, I thought they were gastropods?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (Riz8t)

123 Deporting her will take G-d only knows how long. The Dems will force it all the way to SCOTUS. Chief Justice Roberts will take his sweet time working to get 5 or more votes to stop deportation.

Trump should cut all the legal and political crap off ASAP. Give her a pardon for this one. Then Trump and every Republican politician can remind everyone, when needed, that BroFo is only in the US because Trump showed mercy to her. Trump will come-up with a wicked nickname for her, reminding everyone she's an immigration criminal who married her brother and was pardoned by Trump. My two-cents worth.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (5rh/l)

124 Rolling up my sleeves here, boss

Posted by: Rep. Jim Jordan at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (J4Dwc)

125 I think we need an amendment that you have to be a naturalized citizen for 15 years before you can run for political office.
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (KC5Lt)

I can't think of a naturalized citizen who held elected office that I'd want to fight for. Why not just make it natural born, like President?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (ExV1e)

126 Sonphew......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (X0axn)

Nephon?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (Y/06r)

127 She's her own grandma.

Posted by: Ray Stevens at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (2Ez/1)

128 Even is she is found to have done illegal shit no judge or jury in DC or MN will convict her.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (8m4AW)

I will say this again, this is a 20-80% issue that involves an immigrant who clearly despises the US, hates her constituents who are not Somali, and is almost certainly involved with massive scams , and no-one wants to touch it because it is political. She is too dirty to hug and too corrupt to enable, but neither Congress, not the Supremes, or even the MFM, no one wants to touch it.

However, as an election period issue it is a winner because it is almost a sure way to get points and wonderful example of two elements of agitprop and street theater

1) Design your action so that your target is forced to make a decision, and all their available options play to you advantage

2)When taking on a big and well-known target, it is often the target's reaction to your action that is the key to success. Therefore, anticipate your target's reaction and write that into your script

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

129 How we let a single one of these roaches into the country is beyond me.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

So, is Omar a roach or a gastropod?


Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (77rzZ)

130 As I said in last thread, the Left hate that the taxpayers didn't have to pay for that beautiful ballroom.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (KC5Lt)

131 As for Ilhan Omar or whatever this little parasite's name is, she isn't going anywhere. Guess I'm in the 'nothing is going to happen' camp.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (sAmhv)

132 If the parties were reversed Omar would be on a plane to Shitholistan right now. But our side will investigate instead.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (8m4AW)

133 >>BREAKING: 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.


Notice that says People and not US Citizens.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (zRd05)

134 To put it another "nothing will happen" way:

There's no one in the Trump admin, maybe not even Trump himself, who could withstand the nuclear fire the Dems (and their GOPe enablers) would bring to bear if charges were ever filed.*

Hell, jackasses like Cornyn and McConnell will be setting up "Pitchfork and Torch" concessions on the Washington Mall.

* Yes from these very same assholes who cheered and mocked "no one is above the law" when they themselves were charging Trump with made-up crimes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (3cUTc)

135 Since they know she did it, investigating must mean investigating the political ramifications of deporting her.
Posted by: TimothyJP

Goatraper riots for starters.

Posted by: Paul's mom at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (qZb7K)

136 This would be HILARIOUS if it happened. Could you imagine the howling screamer monkeys? Until the next outrage reaches their limited attenti

Oh, that's right. Snowflake's in the house.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (Sco7b)

137 THE ARISTOCRATS!

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)

138 >>#BREAKING: 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)

Which I'm sure has absolutely no bearing on the number of self-deportations...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (gLYp7)

139 Off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (qZb7K)

140
What?!!! They killed him before a judge could release him?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (ndZc7)


I believe he was shot for trying to STOP a robbery. For which he was likely to actually go to prison anyway.

But because everyone sucks now, he received no help, only became internet fodder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (X0axn)

141 As I said in last thread, the Left hate that the taxpayers didn't have to pay for that beautiful ballroom.

Also Barack Obama supported building a ballroom before Trump actually did it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

142 127 She's her own grandma.

Okay, but at what time did she leave St. Louis going East at 60 mph?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

143 >>Notice that says People and not US Citizens.

Turn off the tap and watch how many go home.

Not exactly rocket science.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (viF8m)

144 turns out my dad was wrong. Rubbing dirt on it did not help.
Posted by: JackStraw

Did you try Robitussin?
- Chris Rock’s grandfather
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (8m4AW)

You might try Windex.

Posted by: Old Guy From My Big Fat Greek Wedding at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (PSEDc)

145 I can't think of a naturalized citizen who held elected office that I'd want to fight for. Why not just make it natural born, like President?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Carl Schurz was pretty good in the 19th century.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

146 How we let a single one of these roaches into the country is beyond me.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

So, is Omar a roach or a gastropod?


Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (77rzZ)
_______

She's a mutant combinant of slug and roach. Sloach? If Hollywood is looking for a good slimy monster for the next B-Grade horror movie, I'll sell them the rights to this. Cheap.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

147 I'm old enough to remember "lock her up" meant something was supposed to happen to Hillary.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (X0axn)

He was subordinating her in the minds of the public so that the targeted "woman woman woman" progaganda against him would be less successful and he would have a chance to beat a media machine that otherwise tended to slaughter all comers. It worked.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (AANQ+)

148 105 My only problem with ballrooms is the dancing part.

I am no dancer.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

You may be a lover.

Posted by: Helter Skelter at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (PMi3m)

149 Sonphew......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (X0axn)

Nephon?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (Y/06r)


I guess we'll have to settle for 'inbred retard.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (X0axn)

150 First they came for the Somalis and I didn't say anything because I was helping fuel the helicopters.

Posted by: Knee Mauler at September 14, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1)

151 In before the "nothing will happen" explainer.

Posted by: 13times at September 14, 2026 12:35 PM (6iKlf)

152 Whatever resources are looking into this I’d rather them be out arresting criminal aliens and deporting them. This is failure theater type stuff. There are only so many days that Trump has to deport as many people as possible. Stay focused on the big picture and don’t get bogged down into these go nowhere “investigations”.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:35 PM (8m4AW)

153 Okay, but at what time did she leave St. Louis going East at 60 mph?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:33 PM

That's a fargin' trick question!!!

Posted by: Roman Moroni at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (bFu5X)

154 We have enough homegrown enemies we have no need for foreign ones.

Posted by: steevy at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (YwEeS)

155 151 In before the "nothing will happen" explainer.
Posted by: 13times at September 14, 2026 12:35 PM (6iKlf)

Too late.

Posted by: Chorus at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (Y/06r)

156 I'm old enough to remember "lock her up" meant something was supposed to happen to Hillary.......

I still think that having to deteriorate in the same house as Bill while knowing she'll never be President is arguably better than prison for someone as nakedly ambitious as her, but I get the symbolic value of tossing her in supermax.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (2ocoG)

157 > 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.
+++

Is that a lot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

158 147 I'm old enough to remember "lock her up" meant something was supposed to happen to Hillary.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (X0axn)

He was subordinating her in the minds of the public so that the targeted "woman woman woman" progaganda against him would be less successful and he would have a chance to beat a media machine that otherwise tended to slaughter all comers. It worked.
Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (AANQ+)

There's also the fact that Comey had already turned thebFBI into an accomplice after the fact by destroying all the evidence.

Posted by: Helter Skelter at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (PMi3m)

159 Don't look now but something might be happening.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
9m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Disgraced Obama CIA Director John Brennan has hereby been SUBPOENAED to testify in a criminal grand conspiracy investigation — AP

>>The best part? THE GRAND JURY IS IN FLORIDA 🔥🔥

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (viF8m)

160 I had a football coach that would say to rub some female genitalia on your injury. Seems like the girls were determined to keep this miracle cure all to themselves, though. Pretty selfish if you ask me.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (A5IXv)

161 her native constituents will just find someone else without the baggage to replace her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

There is no muzzie without the baggage of their pedophile founder.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (NnhvP)

162 How did Omar get here? Did she lie in her own application or is the investigation just focusing on her subsequent lies to get her brother here?
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (KC5Lt)

He real family name is Nur. She immigrated under the false name Omar, to hide her relationship to her warlord father.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)

163 First they came for the Somalis and I didn't say anything because I was helping fuel the helicopters.
Posted by: Knee Mauler

Possible thread winner here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (qZb7K)

164 Trump should cut all the legal and political crap off ASAP. Give her a pardon for this one. Then Trump and every Republican politician can remind everyone, when needed, that BroFo is only in the US because Trump showed mercy to her.

...........

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (5rh/l)

Nah. Keep her on defense. Keep them running. Keep them screaming. Keep them crying. Bathe in their lamentations.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (AANQ+)

165 #BREAKING: 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.

Posted by: JackStraw

I'm putting the number of self- and other deportations at, ummm, 5 million. Just a wild guess!

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (x+6zT)

166 So she could genuinely be in danger if returned, which makes returning her even funnier.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)[/io]

Fine, send her to Sierra Leon

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR)

167 HOMAN: There's nothing political about it. ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute."


He can say that it's not political but everyone knows that it is. One of the problems with any government, including ours, is that there are so many laws on the books that if you fall out of favor, someone can look at you carefully enough to find you've run afoul of some law.
Personally, I have no problem with getting rid of her as I see her as essentially anti-American, but let's not forget that this type of thing is a two-edged sword and eventually that same blade will cut us and ours too.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (zafwz)

168 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)

How will we control the pet population?
- Zombie Bob Barker

Posted by: Doof at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (c2vsb)

169 @90- "has anyone noticed that nothing will happen yet?"

Sometimes it takes a while to judge shop. Left wing judges have been really busy these days.

Posted by: Case at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (xJpuh)

170 >>The best part? THE GRAND JURY IS IN FLORIDA 🔥🔥
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM

*steeples fingers*

Eeeexcellent.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (bFu5X)

171 >> BREAKING: 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.

Still not enough. Walk around a grocery store in NY state. And BTW they haven’t even gotten to the ultra Orthodox Jews who are one of the biggest scam groups in NY.

Posted by: That Guy at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (bmP3s)

172 There's also the fact that Comey had already turned thebFBI into an accomplice after the fact by destroying all the evidence.

Posted by: Helter Skelter at September 14, 2026 12:36 PM (PMi3m)

Imagine taking all the political flak of prosecuting her and "dividing" the country, and then having her get off anyway because it's fixed. Lose lose lose.

But using it to win the election was fucking chef kiss.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (AANQ+)

173 her native constituents will just find someone else without the baggage to replace her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

There is no muzzie without the baggage of their pedophile founder.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (NnhvP)
---
It will be a difficult challenge for them to overcome...Which is why they'll find some old white dude to take her place.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 12:39 PM (FZ29D)

174 163 First they came for the Somalis and I didn't say anything because I was helping fuel the helicopters.
Posted by: Knee Mauler

Possible thread winner here.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (qZb7K)

It is good. Makes you think.

'Daddy, what did you do in the Pinochet regime?'

'I was just in Helicopter maintenance.'

Posted by: Chorus at September 14, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)

175 LoL if this happened it would be easy to prove and she would be in jail under the Trump Administration. They're dying to prosecute Democrats for crimes, even ones they haven't committed.

No official court records, DNA evidence, or documented proof have ever established Ilhan Omar married her brother. It's all racist BS.

While this accusation is almost for sure politically motivated nonsense; this is actually a thing that happens. Somali immigrants have illegally lied and married relatives to gain them citizenship in the US. It’s not incestuous, just a manipulation of the system.

It’s not incest, I doubt they consummated it. It was just immigration fraud.

I heard you married your mother. Did you? Idk what to believe. Why does Reddit seem to have so many stupid questions today??? Why is my algo so bad today?

There's more evidence that she did it compared to Trump being a pedophile.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 14, 2026 12:39 PM (t19vo)

176 🚨 BREAKING: Disgraced Obama CIA Director John Brennan has hereby been SUBPOENAED to testify in a criminal grand conspiracy investigation — AP

The best part? THE GRAND JURY IS IN FLORIDA

The good news, John, is that you'll already be dressed for Guantanamo.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2026 12:39 PM (x+6zT)

177 wouldn't it be cool if they deported her and just made the announcement afterwards

you know, surprise us for once

Posted by: DanMan at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (8uzBS)

178 Ilhan's sister is also in on fraud, it appears:

---------------
https://tinyurl.com/4v85j2p5

One of the largest fraud scandals in Minnesota may involve the family of Ilhan Omar.
The far-left congresswoman’s sister used the address of a woman who was business partners with several major convicts in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal, a Daily Wire investigation found.

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (kX27y)

179 The best part? THE GRAND JURY IS IN FLORIDA 🔥🔥

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (viF8m)

Is this the case from which Joe DiGenniva just resigned?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (gLYp7)

180 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)

181 can say that it's not political but everyone knows that it is. One of the problems with any government, including ours, is that there are so many laws on the books that if you fall out of favor, someone can look at you carefully enough to find you've run afoul of some law.

—

Stalin said show me the man and I’ll show you the crime. We’re in the same place here. On any given day everyone breaks some law without even knowing it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (8m4AW)

182 I doubt it. My guess is that she is loving this. She knows she'll never be convicted or deported. It will only strengthen her support in her district. And she will get to be the center of attention as mean old Trump tries to kick a sitting BLACK FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE out of the country.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (bNf8H)

Send cops to arrest her, and bring her in for questioning. She gets violent, resists arrest, gets shot in the head. Problem solved.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (1z8ji)

183 If Ilhan Omar is ever arrested, I will eat my hat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (RIvkX)

184 I believe in science!

Planned Parenthood Says People Of "All Genders" Need Abortions

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (ndZc7)

185 124 Rolling up my sleeves here, boss
Posted by: Rep. Jim Jordan at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (J4Dwc)

Sleeves will roll

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (0CU3H)

186
I wonder why Mullin is so casual about alluding to an investigation that could lead to denaturalization if the DHS says we don't talk about ongoing investigations or potential future actions.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (mmrXZ)

187 I was just in Helicopter maintenance.'
Posted by: Chorus

Ejection Specialist.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (qZb7K)

188 "The shoulder was semi-okay over the weekend."

Did you injure your shoulder or is it just wearing out? My left shoulder is worn out. No more cartilage so it's cortisone shots and eventually replacement.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (lJ0H4)

189 I have no problem with getting rid of her as I see her as essentially anti-American, but let's not forget that this type of thing is a two-edged sword and eventually that same blade will cut us and ours too.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (zafwz)

They literally invented a new law to prosecute Trump.

Using the laws we already have is the absolute least we could do in response.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (gLYp7)

190 183 If Ilhan Omar is ever arrested, I will eat my hat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (RIvkX)

Do you own a hat?

Posted by: Chorus at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (Y/06r)

191 187 I was just in Helicopter maintenance.'
Posted by: Chorus

Ejection Specialist.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (qZb7K)

'Off boarding Specialist'.

Posted by: Chorus at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (Y/06r)

192 It seems that clenching and saying "I got your finger!" during a prostate exam is considered "inappropriate" these days. I'm sorry, I thought this was America.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (V362x)

193 her native constituents will just find someone else without the baggage to replace her.
---
Related:
long set of tweets linked at Insty on how white liberals of both sexes and all ages are the only race/politics that does not view their own race warmly.

And it's not even close to any other race, politics, sex or age combination.

They are basically voting themselves out of existence.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (3cUTc)

194 /off CLUE sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (Y/06r)

195 All that talk about ballroom made me wonder how Scrotum Guy is...

Before I get back to work, CBC headline...

Carney is seeking $1 trillion in investments. What will it take to land major deals at this week's summit?

I would think an amazing trade relationship with the United States would be a kick-ass selling point. And I'm seeing more and more theory that Carney is doing this solely to hurt Trump in the midterms.

I wouldn't put it past the asshole.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (Sco7b)

196 First move to make by DOJ is present this to congress, and congress then expels her. Seriously, its way past time for this.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (K32Fz)

197 Interesting news item from over the weekend: Bill Clinton said the CIA told him not to kill bin Laden so he didn't. I'm torn between "the Clintons are liars" and "I don't doubt the CIA was involved in fuckery".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

198 It’s not incest, I doubt they consummated it. It was just immigration fraud.

—

Oh? Then I guess it’s all good. Charges dropped you’re free to go congresswoman.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (8m4AW)

199 192 It seems that clenching and saying "I got your finger!" during a prostate exam is considered "inappropriate" these days. I'm sorry, I thought this was America.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (V362x)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:43 PM (Y/06r)

200 I think we need an amendment that you have to be a naturalized citizen for 15 years before you can run for political office.
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (KC5Lt)

How about "never"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:43 PM (1z8ji)

201 But using it to win the election was fucking chef kiss.
Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (AANQ+)

Imagine going through all that trouble to keep her out of jail only to have the Hildebeast blame you for her loss because you actlually said something honest about her about two weeks before the election.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 14, 2026 12:43 PM (PMi3m)

202 I wouldn't put it past the asshole.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (Sco7b)

It seems that clenching and saying "I got your finger!" during a prostate exam is considered "inappropriate" these days. I'm sorry, I thought this was America.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (V362x)

Horde counterpoint.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:43 PM (Y/06r)

203 Is this the case from which Joe DiGenniva just resigned?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (gLYp7)


I'm wondering that too... His "beef" seemed to be they were rushing him on cases..... Wonder if he recommended to not go ahead and they decided to ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

204 They are basically voting themselves out of existence.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (3cUTc)

And being replaced by 3rd worlders.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:44 PM (8m4AW)

205 He real family name is Nur. She immigrated under the false name Omar, to hide her relationship to her warlord father.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)
=====

Her son was living in an apartment where an illegal arsenal was kept and he walked. The weapons weren't his, comrade, they were his roommate's.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:44 PM (RIvkX)

206 It’s not incest, I doubt they consummated it. It was just immigration fraud.

-
That's a load off my mind!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:44 PM (ndZc7)

207 Isn’t she currently married to a US citizen? That would complicate removal. She did commit fraud. But the question will be more of what punishment could they invoke, and perhaps how is that complicated by her ex post facto status.

Posted by: That Guy at September 14, 2026 12:45 PM (DL7nW)

208 203 Is this the case from which Joe DiGenniva just resigned?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung
====
No. The case has to do with the Brennan-Obama-Clapper-Jack Smith and more Obama officials conspiring over Russia Russia.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

209 I'm more concerned with her family using fake names and the kids pretending they belonged to someone else to get in the door when her father who worked for the Somalian war lord in charge at the time was deposed. They are terrorists and criminals and should have never had a right to come here.

Posted by: Jaimo at September 14, 2026 12:46 PM (2noDb)

210 Send the skank back. And her husband/brother

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 14, 2026 12:46 PM (jRVrw)

211 Personally, I have no problem with getting rid of her as I see her as essentially anti-American, but let's not forget that this type of thing is a two-edged sword and eventually that same blade will cut us and ours too.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 14, 2026 12:38 PM (zafwz)

I think the difference between Omar and, say, Rosa Luxemburg, is that Omar seems to have done non-political acts that are crimes.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 12:46 PM (rbvCR)

212 Isn’t she currently married to a US citizen? That would complicate removal. She did commit fraud. But the question will be more of what punishment could they invoke, and perhaps how is that complicated by her ex post facto status.

Posted by: That Guy at September 14, 2026 12:45 PM (DL7nW)

Fair point.

I'll accept imprisonment for no less than fifteen years in lieu of denaturalization.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:46 PM (gLYp7)

213 Brother-rapers and father-stabbers are welcome over here.

Posted by: Group W Benchwarmer at September 14, 2026 12:46 PM (Fn+3X)

214 207 Isn’t she currently married to a US citizen? That would complicate removal. She did commit fraud. But the question will be more of what punishment could they invoke, and perhaps how is that complicated by her ex post facto status.
Posted by: That Guy
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Ex post facto does not apply to civil law including being deported and denaturalized. And no, despite being married to a US citizen, a spouse can and has been deported for being here illegally or lying on immigration and naturalization papers.

Just like having US kids does not prevent a parent from being deported as illegally present.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:47 PM (E4rtv)

215 So, is Omar a roach or a gastropod?


Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:32 PM (77rzZ)

A hybrid. Cockleroach

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:47 PM (1z8ji)

216 It’s not incest, I doubt they consummated it. It was just immigration fraud.

I mean, they are Somalis, so its not off the table.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 12:47 PM (K32Fz)

217 A murder of crows serving their master with no weekend updates. We're not getting the full picture here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 12:48 PM (5C90x)

218 I could get real tasteless, so I won't. But there IS one joke loaded in the chanber.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:23 PM (AXBJa)

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Oh, I forgot. You're brother is using the car tonight.

-just the punchline--

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 14, 2026 12:48 PM (zafwz)

219 Immigration fraud doesn’t exist

It exists a little bit no big deal

It exists a lot but shut up racist

It’s good that immigration fraud exists

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:48 PM (8m4AW)

220 How did Omar get here? Did she lie in her own application or is the investigation just focusing on her subsequent lies to get her brother here?
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (KC5Lt)

He real family name is Nur. She immigrated under the false name Omar, to hide her relationship to her warlord father.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)
_______

Yea, although I'm not sure the father was the warlord. IIRC, he was a big player in the WL's government, but not the WL himself.

But it was fraud nonetheless. "I need asylum because I'm being terrorized in Somalia by my father!"

The Nur family was in on the murderous WL action too. Both families are total scum.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

221 Personally, I have no problem with getting rid of her as I see her as essentially anti-American, but let's not forget that this type of thing is a two-edged sword and eventually that same blade will cut us and ours too.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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Not too much. The fact is that the left is the one relying in migrants illegal and legal to take over the US, not heritage Americans. Scotus pretty much ended ability to deport heritage US citizens under its birth ruling. This is one matter where a slippery slope does not exist. Although I would get a kick out of Democrats deporting ole Rupert Murdoch from the US.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (E4rtv)

222
91 Even IF we're able to deport Ilhan Omar out of the country, her native constituents will just find someone else without the baggage to replace her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM

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Her district is full of white people of scandinavian descent. Electing her is their suicidal virtue signal.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (mS8PE)

223 Do you own a hat?
Posted by: Chorus at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (Y/06r)
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Yeah Mrs. F. has been complaining lately it's too nasty to wear.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (RIvkX)

224 It’s not incest, I doubt they consummated it. It was just immigration fraud.

I've been assured that Muslim men are so horny that seeing a woman's ankle will make them bust. Are we sure he didn't take her for a test drive once it was legally sanctioned?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

225 I was just in Helicopter maintenance.'
Posted by: Chorus

Ejection Specialist.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (qZb7K)

Payload distribution, not sure of the MOS

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (PSEDc)

226 Omar's deportation could trigger a bunch of others. Do it

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:50 PM (qZb7K)

227 Yeah Mrs. F. has been complaining lately it's too nasty to wear.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (RIvkX)

Seasoning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:50 PM (Y/06r)

228 209 I'm more concerned with her family using fake names and the kids pretending they belonged to someone else to get in the door when her father who worked for the Somalian war lord in charge at the time was deposed. They are terrorists and criminals and should have never had a right to come here.
Posted by: Jaimo

I think it is fair to say a number of Somalians over here are in fact war criminals. Look up what Siad Barre and his successors in Somali did up in Puntland. Genocidal levels. But I think a lot of them got into the US under dear old Deep State George HW Bush because they helped out the CIA a time or two.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)

229 Congress shouldn’t even allow these socialist creeps to be seated. If some districts elect them, too bad try again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 14, 2026 12:52 PM (A5IXv)

230 Seasoning.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:50 PM (Y/06r)
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I have to wear a nice hat so the hobos on the muni aren't offended.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:52 PM (RIvkX)

231 I've been assured that Muslim men are so horny that seeing a woman's ankle will make them bust. Are we sure he didn't take her for a test drive once it was legally sanctioned?
Posted by: Ian S.
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I think reports are that the bro is gay and currently living the Gay Ole Life in UK. Maybe seeing Omar naked was enough to scare the shit out of him and scare him gay.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:53 PM (E4rtv)

232 "Isn't her dad a brutal warlord back in Somalia? --
Yes, but IIRC, the problem is that she didn't report her unexplained wealth on her taxes until someone published her returns." Posted by: Archimedes

So the IRS should also go after her. And there are multiple reason to deport this daughter of a warlord (who changed her name to hide that fact).

Posted by: illiniwek at September 14, 2026 12:53 PM (vbXSk)

233 Yeah Mrs. F. has been complaining lately it's too nasty to wear.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:49 PM (RIvkX)

Get yourself a new hat, dude.
It will cheer you up.

www.bon-clic-bon-genre.us/hat_x2.html#filtres

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 12:53 PM (rbvCR)

234 216 It’s not incest, I doubt they consummated it. It was just immigration fraud.

I mean, they are Somalis, so its not off the table.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 12:47 PM (K32Fz

She was 17.

And you'd probably want to avoid such easy immigration question traps as "Didn't his false leg bother you?'

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 12:53 PM (Sco7b)

235 Sacré Bleu!

French President Macron’s Popularity Plunges to Record Low 16 Percent

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:54 PM (ndZc7)

236 Interesting news item from over the weekend: Bill Clinton said the CIA told him not to kill bin Laden so he didn't. I'm torn between "the Clintons are liars" and "I don't doubt the CIA was involved in fuckery".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

When in doubt, doubt a Clinton.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:54 PM (AANQ+)

237 I've been assured that Muslim men are so horny that seeing a woman's ankle will make them bust. Are we sure he didn't take her for a test drive once it was legally sanctioned?
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Muslim logic is literally, "it's not your sister once you're married--it's your wife and property."

I guarantee they consummated it.
They F goats and all sorts of animals.
They F kids of all ages.
They rape, they torture, they kill--all blessed as holy duty by their pedo prophet.

They consummated the marriage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 12:54 PM (3cUTc)

238 229 Congress shouldn’t even allow these socialist creeps to be seated. If some districts elect them, too bad try again.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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They can expel them but not refuse to seat them. See Powell v. McCormick. Expulsion takes 2/3rds of the House or Senate. Yet another crappy decision from Scotus interfering with legislative branches. Adam Clayton Powell was in fact a corrupt piece of shit and Democrat Speaker McCormick was right in refusing to seat him while ethics and criminal violations were swirling around him.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:55 PM (E4rtv)

239 I've been assured that Muslim men are so horny that seeing a woman's ankle will make them bust

So insanely horny that even little girls must be covered head to toe or the men are helplessly overtaken with raging lust.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 12:55 PM (K32Fz)

240 Is this the case from which Joe DiGenniva just resigned?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (gLYp7)


I'm wondering that too... His "beef" seemed to be they were rushing him on cases..... Wonder if he recommended to not go ahead and they decided to ?
Posted by: It's me donna

I never trusted DeGenova. One of those guys who could talk a mean game (like Bongino) but bails when the rubber hits the road.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

241 Sacré Bleu!

French President Macron’s Popularity Plunges to Record Low 16 Percent
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:54 PM (ndZc7)

It doesn't matter if the Paris street supports him.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 12:55 PM (rbvCR)

242 Put her in a cell with Lindsay Clancy and tell her it's a long lost daughter.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:55 PM (AANQ+)

243 This sounds serious. That means there will be consequences, right?

Right!?!?

Posted by: blaster at September 14, 2026 12:57 PM (NlEaG)

244 I guess one comfort to the "nothing will happen" is:

The devil never goes after his own.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 14, 2026 12:57 PM (3cUTc)

245 Yeah Mrs. F. has been complaining lately it's too nasty to wear.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

My current hat is getting there. Got a big-ol' sweat stain on it. I should probably get a new one.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

246 Get yourself a new hat, dude.
It will cheer you up.

www.bon-clic-bon-genre.us/hat_x2.html#filtres
Posted by: Kindltot
___________
Alfonso D'EsteDiamond-9
Made in Italy
100% Linen
$ 140.00

Buy that hat and you get a free bowl of soup.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 12:57 PM (XvL8K)

247 I'm wondering that too... His "beef" seemed to be they were rushing him on cases..... Wonder if he recommended to not go ahead and they decided to ?
Posted by: It's me donna

DiGenova is eighty some odd years old. He wanted to broaden cases rather than starting trial with those that he already had bang to rights and then leveraging convictions to get them to talk. He might have also been a bit daunted by actually trying cases as these are in fact cases of the century that make Watergate look like a walk in the park.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 12:57 PM (E4rtv)

248 With the goatrapers, women are for breeding and kids are for pleasure.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:58 PM (qZb7K)

249 Don't buy a Susquehanna Hat under any circumstances. They chain little girls with little curls to the sewing machines until they reach their quota!

Posted by: Shame of Flugel Street at September 14, 2026 12:58 PM (Fn+3X)

250 88 Omar might be denaturalized... Be still my heart.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (NnhvP)

Like a protein?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:58 PM (l3cgK)

251 "Knock knock," and "why did the chicken cross the road," etc...

Some joke setups are just so hackneyed that all you can do is roll your eyes, and wait for the inevitably stupid, unfunny punchline.

"Nobody is above the law" has joined this pantheon of pure cheese.

The bitch is a black female Democrat legislator. There are no laws for her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 12:59 PM (BI5O2)

252 >>Is this the case from which Joe DiGenniva just resigned?

Yep.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:59 PM (viF8m)

253 > You know what's going to happen? NOTHING!

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right

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🎵 Hello darkness, my old friend...

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)

254 I wouldn't put it past these animals to be fornicating like feral alley cats every night.

A few more planned parenthood clinics in Minnesota would be called for.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 01:00 PM (5C90x)

255 Damn those f*ck ups!

Hunter Biden Says a “F--k Up” Crushed Investors in Meme Coin Meltdown

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:01 PM (ndZc7)

256 244 I guess one comfort to the "nothing will happen" is:

The devil never goes after his own.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Not true. He breaks his tools when he is finished with them. Look at Nanzi Pelosi and her family life for example. Drunkards and pretty much despised by a lot of the country. Look at Killary and Bill, ditto. Soros is gaga and apparently stuck in a room now waiting for his body to catch up with his dead brain. Living death with perhaps just a tiny glimmer of sanity now and again before darkness descends again. Epstein dead whether by his own hands or not.

The list goes on. It is because Stan hates his minions too and wants them to live in fear, despair, and misery for all eternity too by refusing to repent.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv)

257
But the endless grandstanding and "we're looking into it" leaks and drops is boring and counterproductive. It only serves to get our side's hopes up. It also gives this gastropod a nice fat cause celeb to claim victimhood and for fundraising. That's a lose-lose.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

===============

100%. And when the whole investigation duds out, that smirk of hers will be unbearable. And all her supporters will tout the story for years as the Republicans' desperate racist, xenophobic, islamophobic, misogynist attempt to remove a popular black leader. She'll have any office she wants thereafter except president, although a packed court might let her have that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

258 183 If Ilhan Omar is ever arrested, I will eat my hat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I used to watch a cartoon called Word Girl with my kids. The prison warden was always promising to eat his hat...and sometimes a little too eager to follow through.

https://tinyurl.com/299jmu7y

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 14, 2026 01:02 PM (t19vo)

259 Tom Homan said his best HSI investigator was looking into this and would have his findings BACK IN DECEMBER 2025.
Nothing bad ever happens to Democrats even when caught red-handed breaking the law. Democrats are the only ones who have balls to punish their political enemies. For the right, it's not really personal. The left would throw your family in prison if you disagree with them.

Posted by: Rdubs at September 14, 2026 01:03 PM (6hWXf)

260 You know what's going to happen? NOTHING!
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right.

The Guy is the mole.

Posted by: 13times at September 14, 2026 01:04 PM (6iKlf)

261 252 >>Is this the case from which Joe DiGenniva just resigned?

Yep.
Posted by: JackStraw

Jack, I don't think this matter was not under the purview of DiGenova who was investigating Russia Russia. He was in South Florida and this is being run by main justice out of DC along with the civil side by DHS, not DiGenova.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

262 Powerline guys: Welcome to the party, pal!

Posted by: pookysgirl, zookeeper at September 14, 2026 01:04 PM (Wt5PA)

263 If the entire Dem apparatus went to the mat for Abrego Garcia, image what they'll pull for Omar.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 14, 2026 01:04 PM (nSaqA)

264 News

FoxNews - AI
MSNow - VP Vance in deep red Kansas. Good question - why?
CNN - AI

Thanks again for the article. Archimedes I think. Sorry if not.

CBC - global investors in Toronto.
Target there please.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 01:05 PM (Sco7b)

265 190 183 If Ilhan Omar is ever arrested, I will eat my hat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 12:40 PM (RIvkX)

Do you own a hat?
Posted by: Chorus

Wait a minute...that's not a yamake, that's just a cleverly disguised tortilla!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 14, 2026 01:05 PM (t19vo)

266 Nothing bad ever happens to Democrats even when caught red-handed breaking the law.

Almost nothing ever happens to someone in power no matter what party they are, but even more rarely to a Democrat, and even more rarely to a woman, and even more rarely to a black woman Democrat. To the point of being nearly impossible, and never in my memory.

And black women Democrats seem to understand this because they are so openly, blatantly, and gleefully corrupt and lawbreaking right in our faces.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:05 PM (K32Fz)

267 Hunter Biden Says a “F--k Up” Crushed Investors in Meme Coin Meltdown

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:01 PM (ndZc7)

Spoiler: He's the fuckup

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:06 PM (AANQ+)

268 The bitch is a black female Democrat legislator. There are no laws for her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Denaturalization is a civil process, not criminal. You can file criminal charges but don't have too. And she is in the midst of the Somalian fraud charges going down in Minnesota now for Learing Centers, etc.

Not everything is going to be charged criminally when simply being deported back to Somalia with people that hate her living guts there might be enough.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:06 PM (E4rtv)

269 >>Jack, I don't think this matter was not under the purview of DiGenova who was investigating Russia Russia. He was in South Florida and this is being run by main justice out of DC along with the civil side by DHS, not DiGenova.

I believe it's all part of the same conspiracy case.

Supposedly, DiGenova was brought in to help organize the various investigations but they are all under the same umbrella.

Brennan is being subpoenaed by a Florida grand jury.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)

270 Is there another country where the residents have actual light bulb heads like Somalis? You'd think a sub-basement IQ population would more tend to look like Pinheads.

Posted by: Gabba, Gabba, Hey! at September 14, 2026 01:06 PM (Fn+3X)

271 If the entire Dem apparatus went to the mat for Abrego Garcia, image what they'll pull for Omar.
Posted by: Halfhand at September 14, 2026 01:04 PM (nSaqA)

I have no idea if Abrego Garcia was a CIA contractor or if he was just involved in human trafficking for the Bidens, but he was something serious because he was never treated like he was just some MS-13 gangbanger

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)

272 The left would throw your family in prison if you disagree with them.

Posted by: Rdubs at September 14, 2026 01:03 PM (6hWXf)

Yeah yeah... prison

Posted by: Pol Pot at September 14, 2026 01:07 PM (AANQ+)

273 83 I think we need an amendment that you have to be a naturalized citizen for 15 years before you can run for political office.
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:27 PM (KC5Lt)

I think that legislators and judges should all have to be natural-born citizens too, just like POTUS. Heck, call it elected and Senate-confirmed offices, so it includes Cabinet members. The naturalized citizens can be happy with having a vote.

We have seen over and over how immigrants do not really grok American culture and social norms, attempting to impose those from the shithole that they fled like it's just common sense. Even 2nd-gen immigrants can be very sketchy on basic Bill of Rights matters where they should really know better, but it wouldn't be practical to restrict offices that far.

Posted by: SciVo at September 14, 2026 01:07 PM (ke3zm)

274
Brennan is being subpoenaed by a Florida grand jury.
Posted by: JackStraw

=====

Can we give them a wood chipper?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 14, 2026 01:08 PM (NGG5z)

275 And being replaced by 3rd worlders.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:44 PM (8m4AW)
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One example: Robbinsdale MN is a first ring suburb of MPLS. In Omar's district. In 1970, the white population was north of 98%. Today it's around 67%. Hispanic, Somali, and Indians have moved into the area, along with an increased number of blacks. Majority of school kids in the district are now immigrants.

Posted by: beckster at September 14, 2026 01:09 PM (kX27y)

276 Anyone ever ask what the money changers are getting in return for their many "gifts" to the Somalis

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:09 PM (AANQ+)

277 Geoffrey Ingersoll: There’s A Straight Line Between ‘Religion Of Peace’ And Transgenderism

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"Straight"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:09 PM (ndZc7)

278
it was fraud nonetheless. "I need asylum because I'm being terrorized in Somalia by my father!"

The Nur family was in on the murderous WL action too. Both families are total scum.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

==================

Does it make a difference if the lie was actually written by her father and she got included by being only 17 at the time? She was naturalized thanks to a fraudulent claim, but she herself didn't make the claim.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:09 PM (mmrXZ)

279 176 🚨 BREAKING: Disgraced Obama CIA Director John Brennan has hereby been SUBPOENAED to testify in a criminal grand conspiracy investigation — AP

The best part? THE GRAND JURY IS IN FLORIDA

The good news, John, is that you'll already be dressed for Guantanamo.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2026 12:39 PM (x+6zT)

♫Jump Back, What's That Sound,
John Brennan is on the ground,
Orange suit, burning down the cell block,
Evil Citizen, zero discipline,

Don't you know he's going to cell block Three,
He lost his way helping Hilary,

Guantanamo!
Guantanamo!
Guantanamo!
Guantanamo-o!
♪

Posted by: Lesser Known Van Halen Song at September 14, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)

280 It only serves to get our side's hopes up. It also gives this gastropod a nice fat cause celeb to claim victimhood and for fundraising. That's a lose-lose.

Yeah if they won't pull the lanyard on these, they should just never even start them up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:10 PM (K32Fz)

281 MSNow - VP Vance in deep red Kansas. Good question - why?

Posted by: Stateless
======
Normal for VP to show the flag and raise money (and collect allies for a possible presidential run) by appearing as a surrogate for legislative races. Not like they have much else to do other than attend foreign funerals. Task force on fraud is running with professionals while he is mainly the figurehead that gets to take credit. They just announced last week barring 800k individuals from any new government loans and are in the process of trying to claw back 39 billion that was apparently fraud from these people. Zeldin at EPA got back billions too and that was announced last week.

Lots of stuff going on that unless you have the right feed and timeline on X, you don't get news of it from regular sources or even Ace.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)

282 184 I believe in science!

Planned Parenthood Says People Of "All Genders" Need Abortions

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (ndZc7)

They do impacted colons?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)

283 it was fraud nonetheless. "I need asylum because I'm being terrorized in Somalia by my father!"

The Nur family was in on the murderous WL action too. Both families are total scum.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

==================

Does it make a difference if the lie was actually written by her father and she got included by being only 17 at the time? She was naturalized thanks to a fraudulent claim, but she herself didn't make the claim.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:09 PM (mmrXZ)
_________

Not sure. But if you get asylum through fraud, then it shouldn't matter who committed the fraud. Plus, she as 17 (supposedly), not 3. Surely she knew her last name on her immigration papers was the name of some other family, not hers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

284 he was something serious because he was never treated like he was just some MS-13 gangbanger

Yeah that is something special. The story is long dead, people have moved on and the entire leftist system is STILL working hard to protect him. He has to know something or have been critical in something for them to spend this much money, energy, and political capital for some gang banging child trafficker

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (K32Fz)

285
she is in the midst of the Somalian fraud charges going down in Minnesota now for Learing Centers, etc.

Posted by: whig

=================

I don't think she is. I think she can credibly claim that she was hoodwinked, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (mmrXZ)

286 BREAKING: Disgraced Obama CIA Director John Brennan has hereby been SUBPOENAED to testify in a criminal grand conspiracy investigation — AP
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"Mr. Brennan, did you engage in a criminal conspiracy?"

Brennan: "I don't recall"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

287 184 I believe in science!

Planned Parenthood Says People Of "All Genders" Need Abortions

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:41 PM (ndZc7)

Now explain when life begins. According to science.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (gLYp7)

288 Does it make a difference if the lie was actually written by her father and she got included by being only 17 at the time? She was naturalized thanks to a fraudulent claim, but she herself didn't make the claim.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:09 PM (mmrXZ)

She was a party to the fraud. She could have spoken up, and didn't.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (1z8ji)

289 Socialism, is there anything it can't do?

Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Reduce Workweek to 32 Hours

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (ndZc7)

290 Lots of stuff going on that unless you have the right feed and timeline on X, you don't get news of it from regular sources or even Ace.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:11 PM

Okay, thank you. I'd think Vance is a pretty popular guy, I've seen him on the shows.

I'd think he'd be better elsewhere but a lot of time until the elections. MSNow is wishcasting the great blue wave crushing Trump crap.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (Sco7b)

291 Brennan: "I don't recall"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

Wrong answer. Into the woodchipper.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (pcKW+)

292
Surely she knew her last name on her immigration papers was the name of some other family, not hers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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At 17, does she even file the papers? Could they be filed without her ever even seeing them? Three and 17 are the same if they're under one big legal designation of "a minor."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (mmrXZ)

293 Yeah if they won't pull the lanyard on these, they should just never even start them up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 01:10 PM

The unfortunate reality is headlines matter my dude.

Otherwise we are forever on the defensive, running from whatever bs they spin up each day.

This also has the effect of shutting up one of their mouthpieces. It's how this works and thankfully Trump gets it. Hell, he's been on the receiving end of it.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM (AANQ+)

294 wake me when she's screaming as they close the airplane doors

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM (BQ0Bc)

295 Having a funny name should also be a bar to public office

that would weed out a buncha MFers

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM (ZxPkt)

296 I'd think he'd be better elsewhere but a lot of time until the elections. MSNow is wishcasting the great blue wave crushing Trump crap.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM

Don't look now, but Real Clear Politics has moved the TX Senate race into the (R) camp.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM (gLYp7)

297 "How are you all?"

Fiddle-fit and rain-right.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM (Jr5Lq)

298 Socialism, is there anything it can't do?

Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Reduce Workweek to 32 Hours
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (ndZc7)

Remember when we were telling young'uns that they spent too much on burritos and they could get ahead by working more hours?

So, anyway, that might be off the table.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM (rbvCR)

299 They've been "investigating" this issue for 10 years now.

You'll excuse me if I think this is all just more bullshit.

Posted by: It is What It Is at September 14, 2026 01:16 PM (VGOAu)

300 Aren't federal officials vetted officially, even/especially elected ones? What about consequences for those responsible for giving her a security pass?

Posted by: SamIam at September 14, 2026 01:16 PM (wlfXV)

301 At 17, does she even file the papers? Could they be filed without her ever even seeing them? Three and 17 are the same if they're under one big legal designation of "a minor."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:14 PM (mmrXZ)

I think she also lied about her age.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 01:16 PM (rbvCR)

302 I believe it's all part of the same conspiracy case.

Supposedly, DiGenova was brought in to help organize the various investigations but they are all under the same umbrella.

Brennan is being subpoenaed by a Florida grand jury.
Posted by: JackStraw

I beg to differ as I have never seen news that DiGenova was targeting Omar. Omar had little to do with Russia Russia and it could be that DiGenova was trying to expand the scope, he was complaining about needing a lot more resources and I think Main Justice told him to shut it and produce first before getting more.

Omar's problems were always centered on whatever DHS could dig up on immigration and whatever other agencies could dig up on links to financial fraud.

One could say that the Democrat party is a criminal conspiracy against the entire Constitution but you have to make specific cases of either pleas or convictions where you can before expanding a scope of investigation.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)

303 239 I've been assured that Muslim men are so horny that seeing a woman's ankle will make them bust

So insanely horny that even little girls must be covered head to toe or the men are helplessly overtaken with raging lust.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2026 12:55 PM (K32Fz)

I worked on a endoscope project once...we had a model asshole for testing it (small size)...it wouldn't be safe around some groups of people...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 01:16 PM (l3cgK)

304 I don't think she is. I think she can credibly claim that she was hoodwinked, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (mmrXZ)

She was after all once hoodwinked by Roman numerals.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:17 PM (AANQ+)

305 Does it make a difference if the lie was actually written by her father and she got included by being only 17 at the time? She was naturalized thanks to a fraudulent claim, but she herself didn't make the claim.

Look, some people did something... let's move on.

Posted by: Ilan Omar at September 14, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

306
She was a party to the fraud. She could have spoken up, and didn't.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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I'm sure she actually was, but if your parent fills out the forms and files them for you, are you still responsible? I bet her signature isn't even on a form. Like income tax, you could claim a grown kid who's long been independent but they're not responsible for your tax fraud.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:18 PM (mmrXZ)

307 Slutmali.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2026 01:18 PM (UjdFS)

308 I don't think she is. I think she can credibly claim that she was hoodwinked, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (mmrXZ)

Well.

Her family probably cut her original hood off, so...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:18 PM (gLYp7)

309 Looking at the situation objectively, Omar represents her constituency perfectly. If you are going to represent a "Gypsy" band of parasitical fraud perpatrators, you'll want a parasitical fraud perpatrator in Congress as your stand-in.

I'd have a hard time finding another Congressman or woman who represents their precinct to completely.

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2026 01:18 PM (dIske)

310 Not celebrating until they actually DO SOMETHING about this.

She’s already been cleared over her “oopsie” declaration of $30 million in assets being readjusted to $18k.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:18 PM (4KUe5)

311 He's as honest as Bill Clinton!

Tucker Carlson Says Abdul El-Sayed “Obviously Right” About American Acts Post-9/11

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:19 PM (ndZc7)

312 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.

"How would you like to come over to my place"

"Sure. I can say hi to mom."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 01:19 PM (guGkK)

313 If a now-adult says, "Yeah, my dad went to prison for multiple bank robberies and made sure I got a ton of money before he was imprisoned, but I never asked where the money came from," would that adult be getting the same pass as Ilhan Whatever-Her-Last-Name-Is by the MSM?

Posted by: pookysgirl keeps coming back to the bank robber analogy at September 14, 2026 01:19 PM (Wt5PA)

314
This is a cultural misunderstanding.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 14, 2026 01:20 PM (OkYzo)

315 Other sources say Omar Brother enrolled at N.Dakota state but did not graduate, and now lives in South Africa.

If he finished a degree, you have to wonder what it was in. "International Relations," maybe? Sounds like a natural for him.

Is there a significant Somali presence at NDSU?
The by-zens just joined the Mountain West conference.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 14, 2026 01:20 PM (zdLoL)

316 280 It only serves to get our side's hopes up. It also gives this gastropod a nice fat cause celeb to claim victimhood and for fundraising. That's a lose-lose.
_-_
It seems the purpose is to burn off energy from the right so that we sincerely believe things are happenning...where is Mitch McConnell?

Posted by: Hope isn't making it happen. at September 14, 2026 01:20 PM (UB+/1)

317 "But I had no idea he was my brother."

Posted by: 11han Omar at September 14, 2026 01:20 PM (guGkK)

318 Dating’s probably uncomplicated when siblings romance.

"How would you like to come over to my place"

"Sure. I can say hi to mom."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 01:19 PM (guGkK)

"Make sure you have her home by 10 pm." So Dad can have his turn, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (pcKW+)

319 >I don't think she is. I think she can credibly claim that she was hoodwinked, too.
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hoodwinked > hornswoggled > bamboozled > buffalo'd > shanghaied

misinformed

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (ZxPkt)

320 Having a funny name should also be a bar to public office

that would weed out a buncha MFers
Posted by: Don Black
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Depends on your constituency

Posted by: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

321
Don't look now, but Real Clear Politics has moved the TX Senate race into the (R) camp.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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And voila, Trump's prezzie approval on Rasmussen has hit 46.88 and moving up.

Most of the media is outright fraudulent in their election coverage as an outright wing of the Democrat party and pollsters are part of media now. This makes the whole polling/prediction shuffle obviously dubious as every damn election year, you see the same patterns of overstating Democrat strength and underplaying GOP.

Tired of it and simply ignore that shit nowadays. Simply put, we will know more by the end of September than we do now, and even more the last week or so before November. And that is discounting whether Trump does anything on election security, or criminal cases drop, Iran surrenders, etc.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

322
I think she also lied about her age.
Posted by: Kindltot

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Oh, good point.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)

323 Tucker Carlson Says Nothing That Comes After Those Three Words Matters

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (AANQ+)

324 If he finished a degree, you have to wonder what it was in. "International Relations," maybe? Sounds like a natural for him.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 14, 2026 01:20 PM (zdLoL)

Domestic Affairs was his major.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 01:22 PM (pcKW+)

325 What about consequences for those responsible for giving her a security pass?
Posted by: SamIam at September 14, 2026 01:16 PM
++++

Hahaha hahaha hahaha.

Posted by: Bureaucrats with a pension at September 14, 2026 01:22 PM (2Ez/1)

326 311 He's as honest as Bill Clinton!
_-_
Depends on what you mean by as...

Posted by: Hope isn't making it happen. at September 14, 2026 01:22 PM (UB+/1)

327 Blond Morticia, she was 18 when she emigrated — a legal adult. What other 18 year old can claim “oops, my parents filled out the form wrong!”?

And she’s since changed her age to one year to claim she was 17, a minor when she emigrated.

Every thing she does is fraud, every claim is a lie.
Don’t allow reasonable explanations by looking at each lie/fraud individually. Look at the trend: she is a fraud machine.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:22 PM (4KUe5)

328 Tucker Carlson Says Abdul El-Sayed “Obviously Right” About American Acts Post-9/11
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:19 PM (ndZc7)

Thank God we have permission to hate Tucker.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

329 Maybe this is a precursor to encouraging Somali self-deportation ... ahead of rounding them up on criminal charges.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 14, 2026 01:23 PM (GD2xa)

330 I think she also lied about her age.
Posted by: Kindltot

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Oh, good point.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)

She will say that when she was 11 she thought she was 2 and started counting from there.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (AANQ+)

331 Nood juror getting doxed and building to an attempted lynching.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (gLYp7)

332 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (qZb7K)

333
Blond Morticia, she was 18 when she emigrated — a legal adult. What other 18 year old can claim “oops, my parents filled out the form wrong!”?

And she’s since changed her age to one year to claim she was 17, a minor when she emigrated.

Posted by: Lizzy

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Yeah, lying about her age does change things. I hope there are reliable witnesses or birth records.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (mmrXZ)

334 where is Mitch McConnell?
Posted by: Hope isn't making it happen

Who gives a shit. I don't see that you gave one with Dead Ruth Ginsberg voting on cases that she obviously never heard. And she was one of nine, not one of one hundred. And it amuses me that Beshear was all dressed up to make a fake and gay appointment in contravention of KY law for a senator and the non announcement of Mitch's brain or physical death is preventing that circus. He probably thought it would raise his Dem Resistance profile and that the KY courts would save his ass like the MO and IN Supreme Courts did by shitting on GOP and Trump in both states.

Move on.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv)

335 What was their education before entering university?
I was in Somalia in 93 and I don't think I saw a single school. Lots of starving kids running around in rags but no schools.
Which brings me to... I don't believe a word about Ilhan Omar's claims of living in a refuge camp.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 01:24 PM (JZWhT)

336 Nood.

Posted by: Irving at September 14, 2026 01:25 PM (NcvvS)

337 Thank God we have permission to hate Tucker.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

The next time I give a shit about permission to have an opinion will be the first.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 01:25 PM (AANQ+)

338 She was posting pictures of him on social media as her brother when married to him.
The Powerline blog has been documenting the details of her fraud for years. They had proof, including documentation and witnesses.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 01:25 PM (4KUe5)

339 James Howard Kunstler is speculating that Joe DeGenova left because he wanted to indict Obama and Blanche kiboshed it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

340 Our Solar System’s Smallest Planet Is Getting Even Smaller — And Is Contracting 30% Faster than Astronomers Thought

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I assume Whoopi is eating it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 01:27 PM (ndZc7)

341 /off Mosquitoes sock!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 14, 2026 01:29 PM (NcvvS)

342 Brennan: "I don't recall"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

Wrong answer. Into the woodchipper.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

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That seems way too complicated. Why not just start with the wood chipper?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 14, 2026 01:33 PM (NGG5z)

343 wake me when she's screaming as they close the airplane doors iron coffin.
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at September 14, 2026 01:15 PM

ftfy

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 02:50 PM (4NO2D)

344 "DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins: We Know Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother to Defraud the Immigration System. We're Investigating Her Now."

This is called bureaucratic bull crap!
We know she defrauded the immigration system. So, charge her!

Posted by: John at September 14, 2026 03:03 PM (9NUKl)

345 Here's hoping!

The Somolians will go completely loco along with the other liberal Dims and Flabby Walz.

It will be glorious! A national holiday!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2026 03:42 PM (hzuYO)

THE MORNING RANT: In Defiance of the Climate Cult’s Apocalyptic Prophecies, there Have Been Zero Hurricanes in the Atlantic so far this Year

Seven Day Hurricane Map.png

We are now past the peak of hurricane season, and this has been a very quiet year in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of America. In fact, we are in unchartered territory due to the complete and total absence of any hurricanes this year in the Atlantic basin. There has never been a year in recorded history without a hurricane this far into September. To be clear, this is not a discussion of hurricane landfalls, this is about the complete and total absence of hurricane formation.

There are no hurricanes on the horizon, either. There have not even been any tropical storms with sustained winds exceeding 60 mph. (74 mph is the threshold for hurricane classification.)

According to the childishly simple logic of the Church of Climate, because more hurricanes are proof of global warning, then an absence of hurricanes is proof of “global cooling.” It would be preposterous, of course, to use this year’s hurricane season as proof of global cooling, but it is just as preposterous to make the counterclaim in years that are tropically active.

“The Atlantic Reaches a Milestone for the Latest Date Without a Hurricane; And according to the National Hurricane Center, no hurricanes are on the horizon.” [Washington Post – 9/11/2026]

Hurricane season will reach its approximate peak on Friday — but this year, not a single hurricane has yet formed in the Atlantic Ocean, setting a new record for a lack of storms. This is the latest into the Atlantic season without a hurricane forming since weather satellites were first launched in the 1960s.

Climate cultists and their propaganda arm in the legacy media have been prophesying “stronger and more frequent” hurricanes for decades now. This is part of their “global warming” scare campaign, for which their solution is banning carbon fuels and imposing command and control over all economic activity. In other words, only communism will please their angry climate God.

An important facet of the climate hoax has been to report any “above normal” weather of any sort as proof of climate change. This is an example of statistical and numerical ignorance, of course, because “normal” is being used as a synonym for median or average, but by definition 50% of all inputs are necessarily above the median.

Back in 2020 and 2021, there was above average tropical storm development in the Atlantic. The scientifically ignorant media, relying on the scientifically dishonest “climate experts,” matter-of-factly reported that increase in tropical activity as being due to a warming planet: “How Tropical Storms and Hurricanes Have Hit U.S. Shores with unparalleled Frequency; A record 18 storms and hurricanes have made landfall in the past two years”

Unrelenting and unprecedented, back-to-back Atlantic hurricane seasons have punished the Gulf and East coasts of the United States. An unsurpassed 49 named storms have formed over the warming Atlantic waters since the start of the 2020 season, with a record-setting 18 striking the Lower 48 states, including seven hurricanes.

Scientists say this record-setting stretch of storminess is connected to a period of heightened hurricane activity that began in 2017 but may become increasingly common as the planet warms.

A warming planet had nothing to do with the record number of storms in 2020 and 2021. There were two main reasons:

1) Aggressive naming of storms: In decades past, to be classified as a “tropical storm” there had to be a circular rotation and sustained winds of at least 39 mph. Nowadays, to pump up the number of storms, pretty much any offshore thunderstorm that registers a 39 mph gust gets classified as a tropical storm. In addition, until satellites were employed in the mid-1960s, storms in the mid-Atlantic were not named at all.

2) La Nina: 2020 and 2021 were years with La Ninas in the eastern Pacific Ocean. La Ninas are periods when cool water rises to the surface of the equatorial Pacific (due to strong trade winds pushing the surface water westward.) This predictably results in more Atlantic hurricanes due to how it lessens wind shear over the Atlantic.

By contrast, there is a strong El Nino right now. The westerly trade winds have lessened, as is their cyclical norm, and warm water is pooling in the eastern Pacific. This has the effect of increasing wind shear in the Atlantic, suppressing hurricane development. There is also a lot of dry, dusty air moving west from the Sahara Desert into the Atlantic, also helping to suppress tropical activity.

The real-world reality is that there is neither man-made global warming nor global cooling. It is sinister how weather has been politicized by the left to try to deny people freedom and economic liberty. But since the beginning of time, it has been the practice of high priests and political leaders to blame bad weather on the “sinful” behavior of ordinary citizens as a means of increasing the leaders’ power and control.

The climate community has made the case that hurricanes are fueled by carbon usage, and that the only trajectory would be stronger and more frequent hurricanes unless fossil fuels are banned. This year’s lack of hurricanes disproves their crackpot theory. The climate community – and their pagan religion – deserve abundant mockery in this year without a hurricane.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

2 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 11:01 AM (qZb7K)

3 Hiya!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 11:01 AM (rOKnE)

4 Yesss! I'll alert the otters.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

5 Slackers.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 14, 2026 11:02 AM (VidnJ)

6 Otters alerted.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

7 I was supposed to be a victim of climate change years ago. Bastards.

And I survived overpopulation too.

I'm on a apocalyptic doom ride BUT rolling 7's.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 11:03 AM (Sco7b)

8 >>The real-world reality is that there is neither man-made global warming nor global cooling. It is sinister how weather has been politicized by the left to try to deny people freedom and economic liberty.


And yet the new methods of controlling the weather to make it rain, or Bill Gates' Bond villain plans to blot out the sun, are never discussed in the media. No, mentioning that makes you a nutty conspiracy theorist!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 11:03 AM (rOKnE)

9 Yea, but what about Hawaii?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:04 AM (Cqx++)

10
No matter what happens, Globull Warmuning will to be blame. No hurricanes in the Atlantic yet, Global warmuning. And it's bad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:05 AM (w6EFb)

11 Trump is personally responsible for the decline in energy produced by windmills! -- DNC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 11:05 AM (ExV1e)

12 Global warming has always been a hoax. El Nino, on the other hand, is very real.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:05 AM (viF8m)

13 No hurricanes in Rehoboth Beach yet this year, but there's a mudslide in my pants!

Posted by: President Emeritus (Senile, Stage Nine) at September 14, 2026 11:06 AM (Fn+3X)

14 It's all because of the Joos.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:06 AM (g8Ew8)

15 " this is about the complete and total absence of hurricane formation."

Well of course. The climate changed.

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 11:07 AM (MWfyi)

16 Yeah but but but but shut up hater and burn your suv!!!

Posted by: Reddit at September 14, 2026 11:07 AM (8m4AW)

17
1) Aggressive naming of storms:

I thought you meant agressive names like Spike or Butch or Chopper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:07 AM (Cqx++)

18 I watched Pressure this last weekend.
Not bad if a bit overly dramatic.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2026 11:07 AM (2WIwB)

19 Because boating goes with hurricane season, my willowed post is still on topic. Also, I am an insufferable twit:

277 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (/QciJ)
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Sorry, Nurse. The sailboat is definitely on Port Tack.
Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026

***
It's heeling to starboard, looks to me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

Nautical Lesson Approaching. Give way.

If the wind is first coming over the port side of the boat, it is on port tack. When sailing straight down wind, whichever side the boom is not on is considered the side over which the wind is coming. Thus, one could change tack without changing direction, merely by bringing the boom and sail across to the other side - technically a jibe, since the bow is not passing through the direction of the wind.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026 10:59 AM (Edxq2)

Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026 11:08 AM (8d6Vf)

20 So you are saying the Experts and full of squit?

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 11:08 AM (MWfyi)

21 are

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 11:09 AM (MWfyi)

22 In the past, heavy La Niña events mean lots of snow in the ski areas in the PNW.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:09 AM (rbvCR)

23 7 I was supposed to be a victim of climate change years ago. Bastards.

And I survived overpopulation too.

I'm on a apocalyptic doom ride BUT rolling 7's.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 11:03 AM (Sco7b)

Don't forget acid rain. It was supposed to burn the meat right off our bones.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

24 The climate change scam is slowly waning.

It’s why AI is the new thing to scare people with.

The end goal is the same. A weaker America / West and a stronger China. It’s the same propaganda cut and pasted by the CCP.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:09 AM (8m4AW)

25 No major storms hit the US Mainland last year either. Both in 25 and so far in 26, Sahara Dust was a major factor in the early part of summer hindering tropical storm formation.

Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at September 14, 2026 11:10 AM (Fn+3X)

26 Is this ALSO the fault of the Ford F-950 Earthfucker?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 11:10 AM (gLYp7)

27 Don't forget acid rain. It was supposed to burn the meat right off our bones.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew
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That's so 1980s, dude!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 11:10 AM (FZ29D)

28 Thx Buck.
It's like the Climate Change ™ people are and have been full of crap. No wait, they are full of crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)

29 Y2K and Covid already killed me. No to mention tax cuts and net neutrality. What’s a little global warming gonna do to me?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (8m4AW)

30 n fact, we are in unchartered territory due to the complete and total absence of any hurricanes this year in the Atlantic basin. There has never been a year in recorded history without a hurricane this far into September. To be clear, this is not a discussion of hurricane landfalls, this is about the complete and total absence of hurricane formation.

Do I need to say it? Okay, I'll say it. It's the JOOOOOS and their weather machine.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

31 Hurricane Trump > regular hurricanes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)

32 Look at the tornado season this year. The normal tornado alley shifted eastward, giving Illinois and Indiana record levels, with other states much lower than normal. Part of the El Nino, but I'm sure will be turned into Climate Cult just the same.

Anything to pick out a statistical anomaly to blame it on something to gin up more government solutions (cough) that just cause other problems.

Posted by: DropAndGiveMe20 at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (NtRnw)

33 No hurricanes made US landfall last year. No hurricane formation so far this year.

My homeowner and flood insurance premiums should go down, right?

RIGHT?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (J4Dwc)

34 How many waves came off the African continent this year?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (2GVsD)

35 1) Aggressive naming of storms: In decades past, to be classified as a “tropical storm” there had to be a circular rotation and sustained winds of at least 39 mph. Nowadays, to pump up the number of storms, pretty much any offshore thunderstorm that registers a 39 mph gust gets classified as a tropical storm. In addition, until satellites were employed in the mid-1960s, storms in the mid-Atlantic were not named at all.


That's very interesting. Objectively looking at reality and making a hypothesis would be easier than wanting something to be true and find ways to make reality appear to fit that unicorn dream.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (Sco7b)

36
Don't forget acid rain. It was supposed to burn the meat right off our bones.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

It was neutralized by base rain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (Cqx++)

37 Global warming has always been a hoax. El Nino, on the other hand, is very real.

"El Nino is bad, because it's a man" - Clancy jurors

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:12 AM (2ocoG)

38 1) Aggressive naming of storms:

I thought you meant agressive names like Spike or Butch or Chopper.

Big blows were expected from Hurricane Liberace, but it was a disappointment.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

39 Remember, the ManBearPig AlGore called for Global Cooling.

So he's 'right' again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:12 AM (2GVsD)

40 Good news, everyone! It couldn't happen here! Jon Stewart says so!

https://tinyurl.com/5fn39vrc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 11:12 AM (ndZc7)

41 I'm just wait___ for the climate doomsayers to start saying it's a bad thing there were no hurricanes this year, and how global warming is responsible somehow.

Posted by: Martbell at September 14, 2026 11:13 AM (as6X5)

42 Should we worry about purple rain?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:13 AM (2GVsD)

43 My homeowner and flood insurance premiums should go down, right?

RIGHT?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 11:11 AM (J4Dwc)

[and yet they are building billion dollar AI Datacenters on floodplains and insuring them - and premiums mysteriously went up]

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:13 AM (rbvCR)

44 Should we worry about purple rain?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:13 AM (2GVsD)

It won't discolor your raspberry beret at least.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:13 AM (rbvCR)

45 Good news, everyone! It couldn't happen here! Jon Stewart says so!

https://tinyurl.com/5fn39vrc

I watched that clip. That dude is in love with the smell of his own farts. "I can't even conjure". Oh, blow it out your ass. Read the room. You're not cool anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

46 27 Don't forget acid rain. It was supposed to burn the meat right off our bones.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew
----
That's so 1980s, dude!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 11:10 AM (FZ29D)

And Y2K. ANd Covid as also pointed out by Sandy Cocazio Ortez.

Now AI. The doomists from the tech companies should just be told to shut THEIRS down. And if Obama is also warning about AI something is up.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 11:14 AM (Sco7b)

47
Latest (9/12) Erf images from EPICSCOVR at L1:

https://t.ly/26t7q

You can clearly see that African dust blowing over the Atlantic and over South America. Go back a few days and see all the hurricanes in the Pacific. Big El Nino = warm pacific = not-so pacified Pacific.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:14 AM (w6EFb)

48 "n fact, we are in unchartered territory due to the complete and total absence of any hurricanes this year in the Atlantic basin."

Yea so what? This is obviously due to CLIMATE CHANGE. Duh.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

49 The core temperature is 1000 degrees and rising! Earth is in the lurch and we must ban fossil fuels to save ourselves before it's too late! If we don't, by 2012 the rise of the oceans will swamp us all! What...wait...oh.

Never mind. Release my chakra!

Posted by: Al Gore, democrat rapist at September 14, 2026 11:15 AM (P4iUb)

50 "In addition, until satellites were employed in the mid-1960s, storms in the mid-Atlantic were not named at all."

***
Buck, by that you mean *tropical* storms, not including hurricanes? They started naming hurricanes much earlier than 1965. I remember my mother putting a big sheet of wood over our dining room window when I was in second grade, 1961, for Carla. And Betsy hit us in '65, and it was certainly not new for hurricanes to be named by then.

Wiki sez they were naming tropical storms (most of which became hurricanes) in the Fifties, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 11:16 AM (wzUl9)

51 Yea, but what about Hawaii?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. a

There was a hurricane headed for Hawaii last week. Just heard one story about it, so I don't know what came of it. But, of course, that's the Pacific, not the Atlantic.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

52 The derecho pushed the hurricanes away!

Posted by: DaveA at September 14, 2026 11:17 AM (FhXTo)

53 I saw Saharan Dust open for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at the Electrolux Theatre in Dyson, Georgia in 1975.

Posted by: They Both Sucked Wind at September 14, 2026 11:17 AM (Fn+3X)

54 The Reverend Talarico's parable.

Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren't we all just really big kindergartners?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 11:17 AM (ndZc7)

55 Then there is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation that sees a temperature fluctuation of 0.6C over a 60-80 year period in the Atlantic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:17 AM (2GVsD)

56 >>I watched that clip. That dude is in love with the smell of his own farts. "I can't even conjure". Oh, blow it out your ass. Read the room. You're not cool a

Operation Mockingbird was not only real it's still going on.

It's not like it's a secret. Not anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (viF8m)

57 To be honest, no hurricane formation concerns me. It's far from the norm which means something else is happening. Hopefully whatever it is doesn't cause other problems.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (KC5Lt)

58 That's so 1980s, dude!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 11:10 AM (FZ29D)

The acid rain didn't get us because we were already did from the melanoma caused by solar UV getting in through the Ozone Hole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (1z8ji)

59
Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?

Do we get naptime and cookies?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++)

60
In Defiance of the Climate Cult’s Apocalyptic Prophecies, there Have Been Zero Hurricanes in the Atlantic so far this Year


This is because the Pacific Ocean is hogging all of the Atlantic's Hurricane Mojo to create multiple Typhoons.

Jeepers, don't none of you people know any of the Science of Climate Voodoo?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 11:19 AM (iJfKG)

61 Talerico just wants to eat his meat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:19 AM (2GVsD)

62 Meh. The weather people (both local and national) simply persist on other fronts. I just saw an article that proclaimed August 2026 as THE HOTTEST MONTH EVAH!!!!

They announce EXTREME HEAT WARNINGS

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 14, 2026 11:19 AM (neLON)

63 Wiki sez they were naming tropical storms (most of which became hurricanes) in the Fifties, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 11:16 AM (wzUl9

Indeed.

But now we're naming 'super storms' like Sandy, as well as snow storms and 'bomb cyclones.'

They're adding things to name in order to juice the number of named storms whilst then screaming about the increase in the number of named storms.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 11:19 AM (gLYp7)

64 Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren't we all just really big kindergartners?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 11:17 AM (ndZc7)

I imagine you run the class searching for potential victims.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:20 AM (KC5Lt)

65 Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?

Do we get naptime and cookies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026

***
What's the difference between a university faculty meeting and a kindergarten class?

Naps!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 11:20 AM (wzUl9)

66 er.....yeah

They announce EXTREME HEAL WARNINGS at 85 degrees F, and FLOOD WARNINGS every time it drizzles.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 14, 2026 11:20 AM (neLON)

67 The kid in kindergarten isn't tens of thousands of dollars in debt either for that degree in Crayon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:20 AM (2GVsD)

68 Climate Change/ Global Warming-Cooling. The first Luxury Belief?

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Gqar8)

69 To be honest, no hurricane formation concerns me. It's far from the norm which means something else is happening. Hopefully whatever it is doesn't cause other problems.

Something abnormal in one area is typically balanced by that thing going the other way somewhere else. There are no Atlantic hurricanes this year, but it's been a big year for the Pacific. Hawaii got hit by one, grazed by a second, and a third is now lining up.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

70
Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?

Do we get naptime and cookies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++)

Would that mean that Suzie Robins is still peeing her pants?

That seems unfair or maybe unlikely.

Maybe both.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (iJfKG)

71 They're adding things to name in order to juice the number of named storms whilst then screaming about the increase in the number of named storms.

Derecho Fang Fang

Posted by: DropAndGiveMe20 at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (NtRnw)

72 You don't have to worry much until the jungle drums stop.

Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Fn+3X)

73 Has that towering intellect of the Senate Maisie Hirono said anything about the storms hitting Hawai'i?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (2GVsD)

74 Also whenever tomorrow's temperature is going to be higher, instead of saying "temperatures are expected to be higher" like normal people always did, the weather pages now say

WARMING continues over the next few days

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (AANQ+)

75 >> To be honest, no hurricane formation concerns me. It's far from the norm which means something else is happening.

The norm only goes back to about 1950. Since then there've been 7 years with no hurricanes in August. The last record latest before now was Sept. 11.

El Nino and African dust are tamping the Atlantic down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (w6EFb)

76 Talerico just wants to eat his meat.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:19 AM (2GVsD)
-----
It's the only way he can have his pudding.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (FZ29D)

77 We should have renamed it Gulf of America long ago.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (BpO1e)

78 Microplastics was a thing for a minute or two. It was killing us all according to CCP propaganda. But it it didn’t catch on and people didn’t immediately go burn their plastics.

And now weirdly it’s no longer killing us.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:23 AM (8m4AW)

79 The core temperature is 1000 degrees and rising!

-
Lately I've been seeing reverse wind chill temperatures being reported. "88° but feels like 95°." Wind chill I can understand (kind of) but da fuq?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 11:23 AM (ndZc7)

80 Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?

Do we get naptime and cookies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++)

Would that mean that Suzie Robins is still peeing her pants?


Suzie Robins, you say?

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at September 14, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

81 Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?

Do we get naptime and cookies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Talerico just wants to eat his meat.
Posted by: Anna Puma


Talerico just wants to diddle little children.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:23 AM (AXBJa)

82 Where I live we have had a wet spring followed by a dry summer. Obviously the End Times, or Climate Apocalypse. People, some, are like a herd of fainting goats.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar8)

83 The Pacific, off L.A. and Baja, is according to some reports, the warmest it's ever been.

Well, warmest since records were kept.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 11:23 AM (2Cry5)

84 El Nino is Spanish for The Nino.

/obligatory Chris Farley reference.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 11:24 AM (J4Dwc)

85 i] The Pacific, off L.A. and Baja, is according to some reports, the warmest it's ever been.

Godzilla is coming.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:24 AM (2GVsD)

86 "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?"

If the only way your ideas will work is if we play pretend, your ideas suck.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 11:24 AM (BpO1e)

87 And the Oboma's and Bidens beachfront homes havent been swept out to sea.

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2026 11:24 AM (yV8c7)

88 I watched Pressure this last weekend.
Not bad if a bit overly dramatic.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2026 11:07 AM (2WIwB)

Pleasant movie, but the portrayal of Eisenhower as a bit of an hysteric was ridiculous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 11:24 AM (k5CNB)

89 Microplastics was a thing for a minute or two. It was killing us all according to CCP propaganda. But it it didn’t catch on and people didn’t immediately go burn their plastics.

And now weirdly it’s no longer killing us.

That went away not because they're good for you but because most of them originate from trash dumping in Asia, including China.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

90 >>ou don't have to worry much until the jungle drums stop.
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Fn+3X)

Then comes the bass solo.

Posted by: Irving at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (NcvvS)

91 Climate Alarmists blow.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (TezPK)

92 Has anyone recently got a public statement from Mitch McConnell about hurricane season?

Posted by: I'll be the one to ask at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (2Ez/1)

93 >>Good news, everyone! It couldn't happen here! Jon Stewart says so!

https://tinyurl.com/5fn39vrc



I have no idea who that gal is, but she is clearly suppressing a giggle. No doubt thinking, "OK, boomer! You keep pretending that would never happen here, lol!"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 11:26 AM (rOKnE)

94 Has anyone recently got a public statement from Mitch McConnell about hurricane season?

He's been silent on the matter.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

95 Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (2ocoG

I understand that. But no formations at all have never been recorded this far into September. It's a little beyond just a balancing act. Again the cause could be a nothinburger but I think just dismissing it because I hate climate alarmists is not right either. I just would like to understand more of why it is occurring.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:26 AM (KC5Lt)

96 ou don't have to worry much until the jungle drums stop.
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Fn+3X)

Then comes the bass solo.
Posted by: Irving at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (NcvvS)

Which is the low point of every rock concert?

The Drum Solo

Or

The Bass Sole?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (iJfKG)

97 The most doomsday climate change scenarios say the erf will warm up 15 degrees. Which is of course going to have huge impacts.

Wait hold on what’s that? Oh my bad it’s 1.5 degrees.

That’s what al this conservation is about at worst a 1.5 degree increase in temps.

And millions upon millions of of people around the country but I to this insanity.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (8m4AW)

98 Something abnormal in one area is typically balanced by that thing going the other way somewhere else. There are no Atlantic hurricanes this year, but it's been a big year for the Pacific. Hawaii got hit by one, grazed by a second, and a third is now lining up.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

OMG! We're all gonna die!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (g8Ew8)

99 The Nino, Pinto, and Santo Mario were three old tubs gifted to Columbo by King Fernando and Queen Isabello.

Posted by: Good Investment! at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Fn+3X)

100 To be honest, no hurricane formation concerns me. It's far from the norm which means something else is happening. Hopefully whatever it is doesn't cause other problems.
Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:18 AM (KC5Lt)

Kaiju. It always happens.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (rbvCR)

101 89 Microplastics was a thing for a minute or two. It was killing us all according to CCP propaganda. But it it didn’t catch on and people didn’t immediately go burn their plastics.

And now weirdly it’s no longer killing us.

That went away not because they're good for you but because most of them originate from trash dumping in Asia, including China.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

Eisenhower as a nervous man - does not comport well with history. But - who cares?? Movie needs to be made!!!

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar8)

102 And Y2K. ANd Covid as also pointed out by Sandy Cocazio Ortez.

Now AI. The doomists from the tech companies should just be told to shut THEIRS down. And if Obama is also warning about AI something is up.


I highly recommend this article. It's a bit long, but I think it's spot on.

The bottom line is that the AI companies know the clock is ticking, and there's no chance they'll make enough profit to justify their enormous expenditures, so they're trying to establish a government cartel of the big players, which will crush smaller, nimbler competitors before their IPOs. IOW, they're hoping small investors will take the hit when the bubble inevitably pops.

Also, the "solution" the Dem politicians are pushing naturally does not a thing about China's headlong push into AI.

https://tinyurl.com/fhh7ybmb

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

103 Pressure Drop.

Take it away, Toots.

https://tinyurl.com/2xks7vfm

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)

104 Lately I've been seeing reverse wind chill temperatures being reported. "88° but feels like 95°." Wind chill I can understand (kind of) but da fuq?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026

***
That's heat index, currently dumbed down to "feels like."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 11:29 AM (wzUl9)

105 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (w6EFb)

This is mid September.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:29 AM (KC5Lt)

106 Which is the low point of every rock concert?

The Drum Solo

Or

The Bass Sole?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (iJfKG)

That's when everyone rolls their next joint.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:29 AM (g8Ew8)

107 Should we worry about purple rain?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:13 AM (2GVsD)

Only if the doves cry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

108 “They” want China to control AI, not the Icky United States. Thus endeth the lesson.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (Gqar8)

109 In '74 sometime I was assured by none other than Time Magazine itself that 'Another Ice Age' was soon to be visiting us.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (ot38T)

110 I switched to Accuweather because I got sick of TWC's global warming preaching. But I'm now finding that Accuweather is even worse, and actually inflates current temperatures by several degrees compared to the National Weather Service.

Is there a weather site anyone can recommend that doesn't buy into this nonsense?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K)

111 Lately I've been seeing reverse wind chill temperatures being reported. "88° but feels like 95°." Wind chill I can understand (kind of) but da fuq?

This is usually associated with a really hawt woman.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

112 "Heat index" is just the warm-weather analogue to wind chill.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

113 The bottom line is that the AI companies know the clock is ticking, and there's no chance they'll make enough profit to justify their enormous expenditures, so they're trying to establish a government cartel of the big players, which will crush smaller, nimbler competitors before their IPOs. IOW, they're hoping small investors will take the hit when the bubble inevitably pops.

The good news is that Trump told them to fuck off, and a lot of big names in tech are yelling that it's the world's most obvious regulatory capture attempt, which it is.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:31 AM (2ocoG)

114 Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)

Good song...although I like Jimmy Cliff's version a bit better.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 11:31 AM (k5CNB)

115 Wow.

The United States' government/media apparatus is the most pervasive and pernicious propaganda machine in human history.

Nobody - not the Nazis, not the Soviets, nobody - has ever constructed a more effective means for the dissemination of a State's lies. They can and do orchestrate mass psychosis on a month-to-month basis.

Jon Stewart is such an ignorant jackass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 11:31 AM (BI5O2)

116 "There has never been a year in recorded history without a hurricane this far into September. "


Just a reminder, "recorded history" isn't that long. We have only been tracking hurricanes since the 1830s.


If we go an entire season without a single hurricane they will blame that on global warming as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 11:31 AM (I43vL)

117 >> "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?"

If the only way your ideas will work is if we play pretend, your ideas suck.
- - - -

Apart from the general creepiness of Talerico, this comment brings to mind how the gender goblins so often revert to childlike dress and behavior. Like, you can't just be a transwoman, you have to put your hair in pigtails, wear toddler-style pastel colored clothes, and sport a cartoonish unicorn-themed backpack.

No, we do not all need to live in a world ruled by crazy teachers who rule with an iron fist while lecturing us in sing-songy, fakey-nice yet obviously condescending manner. We have too much of that crap already (see NC candidate smiling while wishing to send half the country to a concentration camp for voting Trump).

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 11:31 AM (rOKnE)

118 Talerico just wants to eat his meat.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 11:19 AM (2GVsD)

Sigh. People misunderstand me. I just think that the most important thing I can do is prevent women, or blacks, from gaining political power. -- Jimmy Talarico

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 11:31 AM (ExV1e)

119 Is there a weather site anyone can recommend that doesn't buy into this nonsense?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K)

I like Ventusky because it has a good interactive map, but it is only good out a couple of days.
Wunderground.com is better for extended forecasts.

Doesn't NOAA have a forecast page?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:32 AM (rbvCR)

120 >>Is there a weather site anyone can recommend that doesn't buy into this nonsense?

My back. It always lets me know when it's going to rain.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:32 AM (viF8m)

121 If we go an entire season without a single hurricane they will blame that on global warming as well.

It's been ages since Krakatoa and the obliteration of an entire island. I blame global warming.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

122 They're doing the calculations for me now but I always paid attention to the temperature and the humidity percentage. A bad combo can be dangerous.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:33 AM (KC5Lt)

123 7 >> "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?"

---


That's the Dem/Leftist/"Progressive"/Woke mindset in a nutshell. We're all a bunch of idiot children that must obey our betters, FOR OUR OWN GOOD! You'll get a cookie if you comply!!

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (neLON)

124 I highly recommend this article. It's a bit long, but I think it's spot on.

The bottom line is that the AI companies know the clock is ticking, and there's no chance they'll make enough profit to justify their enormous expenditures, so they're trying to establish a government cartel of the big players, which will crush smaller, nimbler competitors before their IPOs. IOW, they're hoping small investors will take the hit when the bubble inevitably pops.

Also, the "solution" the Dem politicians are pushing naturally does not a thing about China's headlong push into AI.

https://tinyurl.com/fhh7ybmb
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

AI has only a few more years of being the best thing. It will be be immediately obsolete once quantum computing comes on line.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)

125 Regarding the manufactured AI panic, Obama said he has ordered Hakeem Jeffries to start banning AI progress once the Democrats get control back in November.

Jeffries, OTOH, said the priority is impeaching Trump. Again.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (2ocoG)

126 You don't have to worry much until the jungle drums stop.
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at September 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Fn+3X)
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Hey, we get a Smoke Break every 45 minutes, look it up it's in the contract.

Posted by: Jungle Drum Line Local #405 at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (BrjrD)

127 Aggressive naming of storms: In decades past, to be classified as a “tropical storm” there had to be a circular rotation and sustained winds of at least 39 mph. Nowadays, to pump up the number of storms, pretty much any offshore thunderstorm that registers a 39 mph gust gets classified as a tropical storm. In addition, until satellites were employed in the mid-1960s, storms in the mid-Atlantic were not named at all.
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My favorite, 'The Storm of the Century'. Never received a name:
https://shorturl.at/o9Cux

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (XeU6L)

128 We have too much of that crap already (see NC candidate smiling while wishing to send half the country to a concentration camp for voting Trump).

That was gobsmacking, even for a Democrat. They at least had enough sense to jettison her after the comment became widely known.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

129 When the chill Eastern wind,
replaces Southern breezes,
and the long summer days are remembered no more,
then you'll know how it feels when a woman's love changes,
when at last she has told you she loves you no more.

Posted by: The Chill Eastern Wind at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (Fn+3X)

130 History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
Godzilla

BOC

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:35 AM (Gqar8)

131 >>>> "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom?"

Hey James, boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.

Things I learned from kindergarten.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:35 AM (viF8m)

132 AI has only a few more years of being the best thing. It will be be immediately obsolete once quantum computing comes on line.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew

Fusion is getting closer too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:35 AM (rbvCR)

133 Doesn't NOAA have a forecast page?
Posted by: Kindltot
___________

It does, but it's wildly inaccurate on the precipitation forecasts. It'll have twelve hour long stretches forecasting the chance of precipitation over 50% when we're just looking a a chance of pop up storms.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 11:36 AM (XvL8K)

134 We have too much of that crap already (see NC candidate smiling while wishing to send half the country to a concentration camp for voting Trump).

Yeah, nobody had "white woman smiling and mugging in front of the ovens at Dachau" on their bingo card. But apparently we should have.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

135 Do Not Summon the Bagagwa!

Posted by: dc at September 14, 2026 11:37 AM (NUOV1)

136 132 AI has only a few more years of being the best thing. It will be be immediately obsolete once quantum computing comes on line.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew

Fusion is getting closer too.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 11:35 AM (rbvCR)

And someday we will have colonies on Mars, and someday we will routinely mine asteroids for precious metals. And someday physics will be optional.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar8)

137 Is there a weather site anyone can recommend that doesn't buy into this nonsense?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K)

Weather Nation is (or was) pretty good. They eschewed all the doom-speak by not naming winter storms, for example, and simply forecasting the weather. Pretty straightforward.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 14, 2026 11:37 AM (PSEDc)

138 101 89 Microplastics was a thing for a minute or two. It was killing us all according to CCP propaganda. But it it didn’t catch on and people didn’t immediately go burn their plastics.

And now weirdly it’s no longer killing us.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

Soon.

No, c'mon, I'm serial.

Posted by: Net Neutrality at September 14, 2026 11:37 AM (r7+Q7)

139 The lack of storms is another nice result from shutting down USAID

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

140 Ryan Hall Y'all is my go to for bad weather forecasts.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 11:38 AM (ot38T)

141 Lately I've been seeing reverse wind chill temperatures being reported. "88° but feels like 95°." Wind chill I can understand (kind of) but da fuq?

This is usually associated with a really hawt woman.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

Heat index is the first look at a hawt woman. Wind chill happens when she starts talking.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:38 AM (g8Ew8)

142
There were no reported hurricanes at all in 1907 and 1914. But that was well before the satellite era, and many open ocean storms were likely completely missed. If no ship was there, or it didn't come anywhere close to land, nobody would know it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:38 AM (w6EFb)

143 Yeah, nobody had "white woman smiling and mugging in front of the ovens at Dachau" on their bingo card. But apparently we should have.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

Along with 11 jurors wanting to find a woman guilty of premeditated murder of her three children.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:38 AM (KC5Lt)

144 It'll have twelve hour long stretches forecasting the chance of precipitation over 50% when we're just looking a a chance of pop up storms.

That number is the percentage of the forecast area that could see rain in that time. So 50% for pop-up storms sounds about right honestly.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:38 AM (2ocoG)

145 Heat index is the first look at a hawt woman. Wind chill happens when she starts talking.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Heh.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

146 Per the NY Post:

Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:39 AM (AXBJa)

147
It does, but it's wildly inaccurate on the precipitation forecasts. It'll have twelve hour long stretches forecasting the chance of precipitation over 50% when we're just looking a a chance of pop up storms.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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My favorite forecast: 'A 50% chance of rain'. Maybe it will...maybe it won't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 11:40 AM (XeU6L)

148 Heat index is the first look at a hawt woman. Wind chill happens when she starts talking.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons



Heat index is the first look at a hawt woman. Wind chill happens when your wife catches you.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:40 AM (AXBJa)

149 When they started naming winter storms I stopped paying all attention to weather news. It’s just porn now.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:40 AM (8m4AW)

150 Along with 11 jurors wanting to find a woman guilty of premeditated murder of her three children.

One of the jurors said that freeing Clancy was important for womens rights. I had no idea that it was gendered oppression to expect women not to murder their kids.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

151
Microplastics was a thing for a minute or two. It was killing us all according to CCP propaganda. But it it didn’t catch on and people didn’t immediately go burn their plastics.

And now weirdly it’s no longer killing us.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

But watch out for Megaplastics.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:41 AM (Cqx++)

152 >> It’s just porn now.

Hi-oo!

Posted by: Yanet Garcia at September 14, 2026 11:41 AM (w6EFb)

153 I do like there have weather radar maps on our phone that the local news networks were paying a fortune for in the 80's.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:42 AM (KC5Lt)

154 The left prays to the weather gods for hurricanes to affect the South only.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 11:42 AM (1Zpx7)

155 First look at the new WH ballroom. It's beautiful.

https://tinyurl.com/2vvspdpd

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

156 My favorite forecast: 'A 50% chance of rain'. Maybe it will...maybe it won't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

My Dad had been a weatherman with the Army Air Corps in WWII. He always said that I you gave him two guesses we would tell you if it was going to rain or not.

Also, being a farmer, he was never satisfied with the weather. There was always either too much rain, or not enough.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

157 Every enviro-nut prediction has been wrong and yet here we are...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:43 AM (sKqQm)

158 The absolute best weatherman was Stu Soroka. He was on teevee in Boston back in the day and he was endlessly entertaining. Mostly because he was stoned all the time.

The original hippy, dippy weatherman.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:43 AM (viF8m)

159 The planet is warming so fast it's evaporating the hurricanes before they can form!

Posted by: National Hyperbole Center at September 14, 2026 11:43 AM (MDua2)

160 Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren't we all just really big kindergartners?"
___

Wait...did he really say this?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (Rln0i)

161 5% chance of rain in my AO today

I got a few drops on me and the finest mist on my windshield

So was it wrong because it did right, or right because it barely rained?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (sKqQm)

162 The Pacific, on the other hand, has been a bit busy this season, with 16 TS, 6 of which became hurricanes, 4 of those major, which is to say, about average or maybe a bit above.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

163 The absolute best weatherman was Stu Soroka. He was on teevee in Boston back in the day and he was endlessly entertaining. Mostly because he was stoned all the time.


Hmmmm. Not a man, but are we forgetting Yanet Garcia?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

164 Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

I like we only had to pay for the basement. The Left hates that more than anything.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (KC5Lt)

165 156 My favorite forecast: 'A 50% chance of rain'. Maybe it will...maybe it won't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

My Dad had been a weatherman with the Army Air Corps in WWII. He always said that I you gave him two guesses we would tell you if it was going to rain or not.

Also, being a farmer, he was never satisfied with the weather. There was always either too much rain, or not enough.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

Heh, farmers. My farming relatives are are the most pessimistic people I know. And yet, they persist.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar8)

166 Oh, no! Another pop-up Storm-in my pants!

Posted by: Paging Dr. Mommy Jill at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (Fn+3X)

167
My favorite forecast: 'A 50% chance of rain'. Maybe it will...maybe it won't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 11:40 AM (XeU6L)

I think all weathermen went prone and thanked God for percentage forecasting. No need to be accurate anymore.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (g8Ew8)

168 >>>Is there a weather site anyone can recommend that doesn't buy into this nonsense?
~~~~~

Joe Bastardi
@BigJoeBastardi on X

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (3ImbR)

169 Putting on the ol' tinfoil hat.... I've noticed that most of the weather apps have taken away the historical records, like "Highest Temp on this day". Or at best, they remove the year.
It was too easy to discount the doom predictions when the records were set in 1932 or whatever.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (neLON)

170 Chance of rain doesn’t say it will rain or not rain. It says in the past when these conditions existed it rained 20% of the time or 80% of the time or whatever.

People however see 80% and think oh it’s going to pour all day long. Or 20% they see it as it won’t rain or it may just rain a little.

When in fact an 80% day could be bright sunshine and a 20% day could be an inch of rain. The percentage doesn’t say how much rain, just the percent of time it has rained in the past. Could be a sprinkle could be deluge. It counts the same.

When something has an 80% chance of happing it does NOT happen 1/5 times. But people in general are really bad at conceptualizing that.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (8m4AW)

171 Talarico: "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren't we all just really big kindergartners?"

Out: General Secretary Stalin

In: Mr Joseph

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)

172 Yeah, nobody had "white woman smiling and mugging in front of the ovens at Dachau" on their bingo card. But apparently we should have.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

*raises hand*

I did.

I've known too many white women to dismiss the possibility of them perpetrating an enormous democide against their perceived inferiors. In fact - I know it will happen.

When it happens, men will of course be doing the dirty work.

But these policies will be championed and passed by women, and they will be the most enthusiastic snitches and denouncers. Hell, by the time it's all said and done they'll be shipping *each other* to the crematoria over petty greed and envy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

173 Now and forever my time, clean energy and good union jobs will be the ideal.

The Left seems to have a grasp on kitchen table politics, especially in or near unban areas.

Insurances "crises," skyrocketing premiums. Construction pushing towards green building and rewriting codes for residence (often that residents can't afford). Neighborhoods being labeled urban heat islands. Almost constant building and then needing to reroute or create new storm water runoffs when neighborhoods are finally suffering or suffering greater.

They give, they take away, it seems. And it's never their fault.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 11:46 AM (NFX2v)

174 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

I think the only thing a little unusual in the Pacific is the location of the storms.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:46 AM (KC5Lt)

175 Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:39 AM (AXBJa)

The Hayden Planetarium was on dope? Who knew?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 11:47 AM (1z8ji)

176 Unrelenting...
Punished the Gulf and East coasts...
Striking the lower 48....

********

Funny how they de-humanize actual humans while endowing weather events with not only human traits, but angry, emotional, disciplinary human traits.

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 11:47 AM (qgHp7)

177 But these policies will be championed and passed by women, and they will be the most enthusiastic snitches and denouncers. Hell, by the time it's all said and done they'll be shipping *each other* to the crematoria over petty greed and envy.

The Salem Witch trials started off as young women trying to get attention and ended up with them getting everyone they didn't like, including other women, killed

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:47 AM (sKqQm)

178 Hawaii being a target so often after some of the islands having drought conditions is unusual.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:47 AM (KC5Lt)

179 Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer.

Was it Canuckistan where they are not arguing that fent is "the perfect drug"? Nominally because it helps you feel warm if you are on the street, but of course in reality because it kills its users quickly

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)

180 The fact is that nobody knows what's really going on. You can pretend your models are taking us to the next level, there is no next level. The earth is a grand place and it will devour us on a regional level anytime it sees fit.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (5C90x)

181 That number is the percentage of the forecast area that could see rain in that time. So 50% for pop-up storms sounds about right honestly.
Posted by: Ian S.


They need to tighten their shit up. Giving them 1,200 miles by 1,200 miles is ridiculous. Stevie Wonder could work with those number and be correct.

DFW Channel 4 Weather Viewing Area Size
KDFW (Fox 4) in Dallas–Fort Worth has a virtual channel 4 and a digital channel 35 transmitter in Cedar Hill, TX, with an ERP (effective radiated power) of 1,000 kW and a HAAT (height above average terrain) of 510 meters (1,673 ft)

For a VHF/UHF station of this power and height, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and broadcast engineering models (such as the FCC’s “coverage area” formulas) indicate that a 1,000 kW transmitter at ~1,673 ft HAAT can typically serve a viewing area of roughly 1,000–1,200 square miles under normal atmospheric conditions

Summary:
KDFW’s weather viewing area is generally about 1,000–1,200 square miles in size, covering much of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and surrounding counties

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (AXBJa)

182 I think all weathermen went prone and thanked God for percentage forecasting. No need to be accurate anymore.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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It's a pretty good gig. No one expects you to be right, there are no consequences when you are wrong, and if you're uncertain about the forecast, you just flip the weather coin.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (XeU6L)

183 The Left seems to have a grasp on kitchen table politics, especially in or near unban areas.

Insurances "crises," skyrocketing premiums. Construction pushing towards green building and rewriting codes for residence (often that residents can't afford). Neighborhoods being labeled urban heat islands. Almost constant building and then needing to reroute or create new storm water runoffs when neighborhoods are finally suffering or suffering greater.

They give, they take away, it seems. And it's never their fault.

Every time I open YT, I get a Mark Warner ad inveighing against data centers such as those in Loudon Co. You know, the place controlled by Democrats since 2019. Ole Mark must really be worried to be running to the front of the parade this way.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

184 Hmmmm. Not a man, but are we forgetting Yanet Garcia?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:44 AM

No, we are not. No one can turn left like Yanet Garcia.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (bFu5X)

185 166 Oh, no! Another pop-up Storm-in my pants!

Posted by: Paging Dr. Mommy Jill at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (Fn+3X)

Turdnado

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (l3cgK)

186 Zero Hurricanes in the Atlantic so far this year IS climate change, climate denier.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (dK+Kv)

187 Jen Carfagno on The Weather Channel back in the day. Put Stephanie Abrams to shame.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (XvL8K)

188 Stormy Monday here.

Posted by: And Tuesday's Just As Bad at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (Fn+3X)

189 Democrats cause pretty much all of the urban problems in America then run on fixing them.

If voters paid more attention Democrats would be a laughing stock but...they don't

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (sKqQm)

190 Weather girls usually have to be hot, weathermen funny.

Its an interesting dichotomy

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:50 AM (sKqQm)

191 169 Putting on the ol' tinfoil hat.... I've noticed that most of the weather apps have taken away the historical records, like "Highest Temp on this day". Or at best, they remove the year.
It was too easy to discount the doom predictions when the records were set in 1932 or whatever.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (neLON)

Well, they DID lower older temps to make it seem cooler during the 1930's...
When the data doesn't match your theory, change the data to match your theory...SCIENCE!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:50 AM (l3cgK)

192 It didn't take a Tropical Storm to alter the view of the Lake Geneva Shoreline.

Posted by: Some Stupid W/a Flare Gun at September 14, 2026 11:50 AM (Fn+3X)

193 I think we all know that several reports are coming that state:

1. This proves global warming and global climate change.
2. That hurricanes are actually good for the country and it is terrible there are none so far.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 14, 2026 11:50 AM (xvV+O)

194 188 Stormy Monday here.
Posted by: And Tuesday's Just As Bad at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (Fn+3X)

“ Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind again“

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)

195
A .pdf of the NWS definition of "PoP", probability of percipitation:

https://t.ly/d5cMS

It's the product of confidence that some precipitation will occur and the expected coverage of that over the forecast area.

So, if they are 80% sure it will rain *somewhere* in the forecast area, but the expected coverage is 50%, that will be a 40% PoP.

Posted by: Yanet Garcia at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (w6EFb)

196 Also remember the word forecast. It’s a Weather forecast not a weather absolute.

It’s like any forecast be it what the stock market will do. What the next quarter’s corporate results will be what your favorite sports ball team’s record will be.

It’s all an educated guess based on historical outcomes. Weather is no different.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (8m4AW)

197 Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:39 AM (AXBJa)

The Hayden Planetarium was on dope? Who knew?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 11:47 AM (1z8ji)
___

Considering that most doctors are shy nowadays when it comes to prescribing certain painkillers, not surprising that even celebs turn to the streets.

There are ton of videos on utoob of people, from kids to middle-aged folks, who bought a pill thinking it was one thing, then end up dead because it was laced with fentanyl.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (Rln0i)

198 Bunch of asswipe media sites including the WSJ and apparently now NYC are suing the administration over their enforcement of the “public charge” rule, which they’ve updated to comply with the statute. It basically states that if any immigrant is likely to or does use any public benefits they can be denied visas and green cards. This is simply enforcement of INA 212(a)(4), that Congress passed. But every single publication fails to mention that. Like they have an agenda or something. Weird.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (wn0/z)

199 I can predict the weather as well as any Weatherman. I got a window.

Posted by: Reforger at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (JZWhT)

200 179 Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer.

Was it Canuckistan where they are not arguing that fent is "the perfect drug"? Nominally because it helps you feel warm if you are on the street, but of course in reality because it kills its users quickly

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)

I'm surprised the Gov't of Canada isn't handing pills out to their MAIDs pills for their customers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:52 AM (l3cgK)

201 Don’t take a Weatherman to know which way the Wind blows

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:52 AM (Gqar8)

202 Stormy Monday here.
Posted by: And Tuesday's Just As Bad at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (Fn+3X)

Global warming.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)

203 By statistical average since we have about 100 years of weather records every year should have about four "hottest days ever" every single year

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm)

204 I fully support this lack of Atlantic hurricanes.

Posted by: CapeFear at September 14, 2026 11:53 AM (c9cWv)

205 I haven’t watched local tv in a decade or more as I cut the chord. There was the milfiest of MILfs on one of the channels. And yes it worked I’d watch. Lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:53 AM (8m4AW)

206 I did.

I've known too many white women to dismiss the possibility of them perpetrating an enormous democide against their perceived inferiors. In fact - I know it will happen.

When it happens, men will of course be doing the dirty work.

But these policies will be championed and passed by women, and they will be the most enthusiastic snitches and denouncers. Hell, by the time it's all said and done they'll be shipping *each other* to the crematoria over petty greed and envy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

You know who else favored perpetrating an enormous democide against their perceived inferiors?

White women. In Germany.

This Karen was simply returning to AWFL hallowed ground.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 11:53 AM (dK+Kv)

207 David Letterman was a weatherman. How hard can it be.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:54 AM (KC5Lt)

208 This is the latest into the Atlantic season without a hurricane forming since weather satellites were first launched in the 1960s.

We have less than 70 years of data, they've been screwing with it for at least 40 years to make it fit their narrative, and they still think it has any predictive power.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 11:54 AM (vJrRc)

209 Also, the "solution" the Dem politicians are pushing naturally does not a thing about China's headlong push into AI.

https://tinyurl.com/fhh7ybmb
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

Thank you. I'm working with several AIs now.

So many limitations but I'm chatting about that with Gemini while scripts run. Basically, I'm asking what the big companies have that we don't. Not much.

I think your analysis is correct. I am using AI APIs right now for what I'm working on. It's a small project. I'm willing to put in $1000 into getting the data correct. Slightly more if needed.

But it doesn't look like it will come anywhere close to that because I'm constantly refining what I need and how it gets stored and used.

But the emails from SpaceXAI are cool!!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 14, 2026 11:54 AM (Sco7b)

210 194 188 Stormy Monday here.
Posted by: And Tuesday's Just As Bad at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (Fn+3X)

“ Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind again“

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar

For your listening enjoyment...
https://youtu.be/18Sua_QTDs0

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:54 AM (l3cgK)

211 I think all weathermen went prone and thanked God for percentage forecasting. No need to be accurate anymore.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
-------
It's a pretty good gig. No one expects you to be right, there are no consequences when you are wrong, and if you're uncertain about the forecast, you just flip the weather coin.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.


And in certain markets, all you have to change is the date on the forecast for 3+ months out of the year.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:55 AM (AXBJa)

212 I use AI in my daily life both personal and work. I can’t imagine a world without it anymore.

It’s why I don't think the CCP hysteria will work. It’s too entrenched in our lives to pull it back.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:55 AM (8m4AW)

213 NOBODY's mentioned dying from Net Zero?!

It's like I don't know you people anymore...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (gLYp7)

214 EXTREME LIGHT BREEZE RUFFLES LGBTQWERTYUIOP+÷> FLAG CAUSING CONCERNS OF TRANSPHOBIC WEATHER EVENTS

Posted by: The Hew Hork Himes at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (7Q0e+)

215 We had a much needed tropical storm a few weeks ago but it swirled around us giving us minimal rain while just 50 miles away they had up to 20 inches.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (KC5Lt)

216 By statistical average since we have about 100 years of weather records every year should have about four "hottest days ever" every single year

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 11:53 AM


I saw an article some years back where a guy said he ran the numbers and said we should see an average of 24 record temps each year. A dozen on each side of the spectrum, record hot and record cold.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (I43vL)

217 212 I use AI in my daily life both personal and work. I can’t imagine a world without it anymore.

It’s why I don't think the CCP hysteria will work. It’s too entrenched in our lives to pull it back.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:55 AM (8m4AW)

Indeed...I don't know what I'd do without Flock Camera's AI data parsing.

Posted by: Cops Stalking Ex-Girlfriends at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (l3cgK)

218 NOBODY's mentioned dying from Net Zero?!

It's like I don't know you people anymore...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM

We all died from Y2K. There was no one left to mention it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

219
Also, the threshold for precipitation is 0.01" rain or liquid equivalent for solid.

So, a 80% change of rain means that for any spot in the forecast area, there is an 80% chance that spot will get 0.01" of rain or equivalent over the forecast period.

That does not mean a lot of rain. Just means you've got a high probability of getting some measurable amount.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (w6EFb)

220 210 194 188 Stormy Monday here.
Posted by: And Tuesday's Just As Bad at September 14, 2026 11:49 AM (Fn+3X)

“ Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind again“

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar

For your listening enjoyment...
https://youtu.be/18Sua_QTDs0
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:54 AM (l3cgK)

Smooth sound. Thanks jim.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (Gqar8)

221 I can’t imagine a world without it anymore.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:55 AM (8m4AW)

Same with a junkie; the first hit is free.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv)

222 208 This is the latest into the Atlantic season without a hurricane forming since weather satellites were first launched in the 1960s.

We have less than 70 years of data, they've been screwing with it for at least 40 years to make it fit their narrative, and they still think it has any predictive power.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 11:54 AM (vJrRc)

They have been trying to make an enormous open system of competing equilibria fit their narrative for 50 years. The thing is, they have also screwed data collection. We 'might' be able to understand the system better if we had accurate data, but they have intentionally put english on the data to fit what they want to get out of it. That makes it harder or near impossible for real observation. Actual science of 'I don't know what's going on- let me watch it a while.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 11:57 AM (Y/06r)

223 I liked weatherman Lloyd Lindsay Young on Channel 9 in NYC in the 70s, 80s. "Hello, Dix Hills!"

Also Tex Antoine on WABC-TV in NYC, who was banished for one slip of the tongue.

Posted by: Weather Or Not at September 14, 2026 11:57 AM (Fn+3X)

224 Which one was NetZero?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (Y/06r)

225 213 NOBODY's mentioned dying from Net Zero?!

It's like I don't know you people anymore...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (gLYp7)

When a volcano erupts, putting ash into the stratosphere, killing people all around with ash, lava, quakes and tsunamis, is that a net positive in the eyes of the Church of the Carbon Apocalypse?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (l3cgK)

226 The United States' government/media apparatus is the most pervasive and pernicious propaganda machine in human history.

Nobody - not the Nazis, not the Soviets, nobody - has ever constructed a more effective means for the dissemination of a State's lies. They can and do orchestrate mass psychosis on a month-to-month basis.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Proof positive that capitalism is superior to communism in every single way.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (vJrRc)

227 224 Which one was NetZero?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (Y/06r)

Worst superhero eva.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (l3cgK)

228 EXTREME LIGHT BREEZE RUFFLES LGBTQWERTYUIOP+÷> FLAG CAUSING CONCERNS OF TRANSPHOBIC WEATHER EVENTS
Posted by: The Hew Hork Himes at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM

The sad thing is that it's a non-zero possibility that the Times would run a hurricane season headline like that

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (bFu5X)

229 214 EXTREME LIGHT BREEZE RUFFLES LGBTQWERTYUIOP+÷> FLAG CAUSING CONCERNS OF TRANSPHOBIC WEATHER EVENTS

Posted by: The Hew Hork Himes at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (7Q0e+)

Just imaging the sh*tstorm when a bird poops on it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (l3cgK)

230 The AI Deep Fakes are getting better and better. My buddy's wife went to the Texas/Ohio game and he sent me a photo of her taken with Arch Manning and the Texas coach. If I wasn't leery of all photos I could have accepted it as real but of course it was AI.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (KC5Lt)

231 Indeed...I don't know what I'd do without Flock Camera's AI data parsing.
Posted by: Cops Stalking Ex-Girlfriends at September 14, 2026 11:56 AM (l3cgK)

Because some people abuse tech we should not allow that tech to exist? Is that really the argument.

Ok I guess we should ban alcohol because some people drink too much.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (8m4AW)

232 I saw System of Competing Equilibria open for System of the Down at the Gorge in 2018.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (dK+Kv)

233 Per the NY Post:

Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 11:39 AM (AXBJa)
________

Hobo junkies overdose? Meh, don't be a junkie.

Celebrity junkies overdose? WTF IT MUST BE SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather she not have ODed, but she was abusing drugs for years. It was only a matter of time.

Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

234 From bing ai:
NetZero refers to a state where the greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere are balanced by the amount removed, effectively halting further global warming.

Huh. So... normal state? These people are fucking stupid. They do not understand equilibria.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Y/06r)

235 It's the sharks following the Slave Trade routes that steer the hurricanes. This cannot be disproven.

Posted by: Major Owens at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Fn+3X)

236 Outrage is erupting in Seattle after a 21-year-old who was SH0T 3 TIMES trying to STOP A ROBBERY walked 2 blocks BLEEDING TO DE*TH, begging for help...

...and a 7-Eleven LOCKED THE DOORS on him and people stood around FILMING him instead of helping.

https://tinyurl.com/4w3w4acr

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Rln0i)

237
NOBODY's mentioned dying from Net Zero?!

The FREE internet service?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Cqx++)

238 Yup, Asia has been getting hammered with storms.
Just as predicted with the strong El Nino this year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (6ydKt)

239 I died from Mexican killer bees and the ozone layer.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (8m4AW)

240 I'm still waiting to be killed by quicksand and piranhas.

Growing up Gen X, I really thought they'd be much more of a problem.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

241 Outrage is erupting in Seattle after a 21-year-old who was SH0T 3 TIMES trying to STOP A ROBBERY walked 2 blocks BLEEDING TO DE*TH, begging for help...

...and a 7-Eleven LOCKED THE DOORS on him and people stood around FILMING him instead of helping.

https://tinyurl.com/4w3w4acr

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Rln0i)

Outrage is erupting in Seattle?

I don't believe it. This is exactly the society they built.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM (dK+Kv)

242 Yeah, nobody had "white woman smiling and mugging in front of the ovens at Dachau" on their bingo card. But apparently we should have.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

I understand why you wouldn't but you definitely need to read me more.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (AANQ+)

243 Keith Richards gave up heroin in 1978 when he lost access to pharma grade stuff. Knew he would be dead very soon if he had to buy on the street.

Posted by: Smart Guy at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Fn+3X)

244 Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

Prince.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

245 Don't get me wrong, I'd rather she not have ODed, but she was abusing drugs for years. It was only a matter of time.

Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

You pays your money, you takes your chances.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Y/06r)

246 I'm still waiting to be killed by quicksand and piranhas.

Growing up Gen X, I really thought they'd be much more of a problem.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM

Don't forget nuclear winter..

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (bFu5X)

247 I died from Mexican killer bees and the ozone layer.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Just as I had recovered from the Medfly, the murder hornets did me in.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

248
Outrage is erupting in Seattle?
I don't believe it. This is exactly the society they built.

They hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 12:03 PM (Cqx++)

249 When a volcano erupts, putting ash into the stratosphere, killing people all around with ash, lava, quakes and tsunamis, is that a net positive in the eyes of the Church of the Carbon Apocalypse?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 11:58 AM (l3cgK)

The answer depends on which people were killed. Really.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:03 PM (gLYp7)

250 I'm still waiting to be killed by quicksand and piranhas.

Growing up Gen X, I really thought they'd be much more of a problem.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM

Don't forget nuclear winter..

And there's always some jerk irritating Ba'al. That never ends well.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

251 Celebrities all carry fentanyl test strips for their drugs these days. Panettiere must have just said "fuck it, I don't care if I die, I'm just going to party til it kills me."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

252 245 Don't get me wrong, I'd rather she not have ODed, but she was abusing drugs for years. It was only a matter of time.

Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

You pays your money, you takes your chances.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Y/06r)

They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. *turns to camera* I say: let em crash!

Posted by: The Firing Line guy from Airplane! at September 14, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)

253 I'm still waiting to be killed by quicksand and piranhas.

Growing up Gen X, I really thought they'd be much more of a problem.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

And giant snakes, spiders, aliens, and sharks.

The world was more intriguing then.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:04 PM (dK+Kv)

254 Seattle is outraged the the DEI mayor they elected did exactly what she said she would do.

It’s hilarious.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:04 PM (8m4AW)

255 239 I died from Mexican killer bees and the ozone layer.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (8m4AW)

Murder hornets killed me. But I'm doing much better now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:04 PM (l3cgK)

256 Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

Prince.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Whitney Houston

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (qZb7K)

257 Murder Hornets built a hive in my Corvette's engine compartment! Right next to the classified docs!

Posted by: Biden Falls, DE at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (Fn+3X)

258 All celebrities on the Left are nutz. Not because they're celebrities but because they are Leftists.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (KC5Lt)

259 241 Outrage is erupting in Seattle after a 21-year-old who was SH0T 3 TIMES trying to STOP A ROBBERY walked 2 blocks BLEEDING TO DE*TH, begging for help...

...and a 7-Eleven LOCKED THE DOORS on him and people stood around FILMING him instead of helping.

https://tinyurl.com/4w3w4acr

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Rln0i)

Outrage is erupting in Seattle?

I don't believe it. This is exactly the society they built.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM (dK+Kv)

It's so hard stopping filming to call 911, I guess...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (l3cgK)

260 Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

Prince.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Whitney Houston
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Billie Mays
Carrie Fisher

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

261 Outrage is erupting in Seattle?
I don't believe it. This is exactly the society they built.

They hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 12:03 PM (Cqx++)

Oh, so close. The phrase the judges were looking for is "taking a dirt nap."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM (dK+Kv)

262 Remember back when vaccines were turning all kids into autists?

That went down the memory holes fast.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM (8m4AW)

263 >> but I always paid attention to the temperature and the humidity percentage. A bad combo can be dangerous.

Wet bulb temperature is the measure of that related to a human's evaporative cooling capacity. WB of 95F is taken as the upper limit. Wet bulb is sort of tedious, so dew point, always being below WB, is a good-enough proxy.

They've done tests with healthy young individuals, and the limit is likely somewhat lower than that, maybe 88F -- meaning even the optimum healthy young 'un can stand much more than that indefinitely.

Now, for us 29 yr olds, the limit is lower than that. Dew point hit 82F here twice this August, and well, I wasn't going to stay out in that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM (w6EFb)

264 I'm still waiting to be killed by quicksand and piranhas.

Growing up Gen X, I really thought they'd be much more of a problem.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)
___

Being allergic to bees, the movie, The Swarm terrified me more than quicksand, piranhas, and plane crashes combined.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 14, 2026 12:07 PM (Rln0i)

265 It's so hard stopping filming to call 911, I guess...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM

"White oppressor." They were probably enjoying filming it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:07 PM (bFu5X)

266 Murder Hornets built a hive in my Corvette's engine compartment! Right next to the classified docs!

Posted by: Biden Falls, DE at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (Fn+3X)

Really bad way for Beau to go.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 12:07 PM (dK+Kv)

267 Outrage is erupting in Seattle?

I don't believe it. This is exactly the society they built.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I know connecting cause with effect is hard for lefties, but I truly struggle with watching them being absolutely flabbergasted - almost every single time - that the thing they fought, advocated, and voted for ends up destroying them.

They wanted this. They advocated for it, and they condemned EVERYONE who opposed it as some sort of -ist.

I'm so sick and tired of saving the left from themselves every so often.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:07 PM (gLYp7)

268 They arrested Pantierre's bf and his brother on Sat. for something.

My GAF meter is out of batteries.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:08 PM (qZb7K)

269 Remember back when vaccines were turning all kids into autists?

That went down the memory holes fast.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM

And it was celebrities and the left (BIRM), who were pushing it?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 12:08 PM (bFu5X)

270 251 Celebrities all carry fentanyl test strips for their drugs these days. Panettiere must have just said "fuck it, I don't care if I die, I'm just going to party til it kills me."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2026 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

It's kind of amazing (but makes sense) the industry that has grown up around illicit drugs. Fentanyl test strips and Narcan, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)

271 268 They arrested Pantierre's bf and his brother on Sat. for something.

My GAF meter is out of batteries.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:08 PM (qZb7K)

Mine has batteries, but they corroded and f'd up the inside of it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (l3cgK)

272 One thing that is weird with weather is how the dew point is ignored. You get the humidity reported but almost never the dew point. DP is what matters not the relative humidity.

40% humidity when it’s 95 degrees feels like shit. 50% humidity when it’s 65 outside is fine.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (8m4AW)

273 Remember back when vaccines were turning all kids into autists?

That went down the memory holes fast.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM

And it was celebrities and the left (BIRM), who were pushing it?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Jenny McCarthy

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

274 Hawaii has been lashed this year. Two or three hurricanes so far.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (4NO2D)

275 Ditto Michael Jackson, the guy from Friends, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

Prince.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Whitney Houston
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Billie Mays
Carrie Fisher
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)
______

Although oddly enough, I don't remember any big investigation into Carrie Fisher's death. She was a notorious drug abuser and probably mentally ill too.

IIRC, she died with so many drugs in her body and so many different kinds that it woulda killed a bull.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

276 that chick who sang Linger

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (j+aD2)

277 Yeah on my top 100 things to worry about list, Hollywood overdoses is about 817.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (8m4AW)

278 You forgot about earthquakes?!?!? Climate change causes earthquakes, meteors too

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (sW/xx)

279 274 Hawaii has been lashed this year. Two or three hurricanes so far.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (4NO2D)

do they need rum and sodomy now?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (l3cgK)

280 278 You forgot about earthquakes?!?!? Climate change causes earthquakes, meteors too

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (sW/xx)

I thought it was ladies showing their nekkid legs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:11 PM (l3cgK)

281 272 One thing that is weird with weather is how the dew point is ignored. You get the humidity reported but almost never the dew point. DP is what matters not the relative humidity.

40% humidity when it’s 95 degrees feels like shit. 50% humidity when it’s 65 outside is fine.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (8m4AW)

People kept saying last week how hot it was, but I kept pointing out that it is a lot better than it was weeks ago- warm yes, but not sticky because the humidity and dew point were not fucking with things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)

282 279 274 Hawaii has been lashed this year. Two or three hurricanes so far.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (4NO2D)

do they need rum and sodomy now?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (l3cgK)

Come Cheer Up Me Lads,
Tis to Glory we Steer!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:12 PM (Y/06r)

283 This is part of their “global warming” scare campaign, for which their solution is banning carbon fuels and imposing command and control over all economic activity

These fuckheads want to block the sun. Hubris.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 14, 2026 12:12 PM (sl73Y)

284 236 Outrage is erupting in Seattle after a 21-year-old who was SH0T 3 TIMES trying to STOP A ROBBERY walked 2 blocks BLEEDING TO DE*TH, begging for help...

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

A disgrace. What we've become.

But it'll somehow be justified.


Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 12:12 PM (NFX2v)

285 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM (w6EFb)

It's 90 degrees now with dew point 77 /humidity 69. Will get up to a high of 95. I play golf in this crap but I bring an ice chest with ice bags to keep my core temp down. Of course hydration most important.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:13 PM (KC5Lt)

286 Jon Stewart is such an ignorant jackass liar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

287 Fracking was going to kill us all for a while. That was of course Russian and Saudi propaganda meant to cut back American oil exploration. It even caused earthquakes!!! lol.

You don’t hear much about it anymore.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:13 PM (8m4AW)

288 >>Remember back when vaccines were turning all kids into autists?

Oh no it didn't. Kennedy's team is looking into it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:13 PM (viF8m)

289 People kept saying last week how hot it was, but I kept pointing out that it is a lot better than it was weeks ago- warm yes, but not sticky because the humidity and dew point were not fucking with things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)

I grew up in the desert. June would often have the highest temps (sometimes above 120ºF), but very low RH...July and August were lower temp (below 110ºF), but RH could be 90%+, so was f'n miserable...you'd go outside and immediately your shirt would stick to your chest...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

290 that chick who sang Linger
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 14, 2026 12:10 PM (j+aD2)
_____

Cranberries? Hopeless drunk. Drowned in a bathtub. She was so insanely drunk she probably passed out, slipped under the water, and was too drunk to even realize.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 14, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

291 Remember us?

Posted by: Murder Hornets at September 14, 2026 12:14 PM (HKn8U)

292 Seattle is maturing as a world class city. Have you seen their waterfront?

Posted by: Case at September 14, 2026 12:14 PM (xJpuh)

293 Heart of Oak

https://youtu.be/6mru8G84o1c

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:14 PM (Y/06r)

294 I grew up in the desert. June would often have the highest temps (sometimes above 120ºF), but very low RH...July and August were lower temp (below 110ºF), but RH could be 90%+, so was f'n miserable...you'd go outside and immediately your shirt would stick to your chest...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Yuck. I'd sooner live in Antarctica than put up with that shit.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

295 Forget Hurricanes... AI is gonna kill us !!!

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 12:15 PM (+gK6I)

296 Amy Winehouse

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (qZb7K)

297 I was born in a desert
Raised in a lion's den

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (viF8m)

298 We’re at The Diner for brunch. No hurricanes here. Just waffles.

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (wvQoP)

299 I grew up on the east coast and dealt with those atrocious humidity soaked summers. But at the time I never rally noticed. It was just reality.

It’s only when moved out west and experienced dry air that I realized how shiity that weather is. I acclimated quickly. Now even a little humidity like a dew point of 55 and I’m sweating. Meanwhile 65 is a normal day for a lot of the county and even into the 70s for Florida.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (8m4AW)

300 "Snow will be a thing of the past."

Now becomes "hurricanes will be a thing of the past."

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (dtajH)

301 Nood Markwayne.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (gLYp7)

302 Buck, by that you mean *tropical* storms, not including hurricanes? They started naming hurricanes much earlier than 1965. I remember my mother putting a big sheet of wood over our dining room window when I was in second grade, 1961, for Carla. And Betsy hit us in '65, and it was certainly not new for hurricanes to be named by then.

Wiki sez they were naming tropical storms (most of which became hurricanes) in the Fifties, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 11:16 AM (wzUl9)

I'm so old, I remember Hurricane Donna when I was in Jr High.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (hmYU4)

303 I grew up in the desert. June would often have the highest temps (sometimes above 120ºF), but very low RH..


.July and August were lower temp (below 110ºF), but RH could be 90%+, so was f'n miserable...you'd go outside and immediately your shirt would stick to your chest...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Let's not get too hasty. We can always hang out at Az State U on sorority row.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (AXBJa)

304 47
Latest (9/12) Erf images from EPICSCOVR at L1:

https://t.ly/26t7q

You can clearly see that African dust blowing over the Atlantic and over South America. Go back a few days and see all the hurricanes in the Pacific. Big El Nino = warm pacific = not-so pacified Pacific.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 11:14 AM (w6EFb)


Are you implying the Holy Climate and Tropical Storm Prediction models do not include Saharan high altitude warm dry air and dust future modeling, are you? Why, I've been repeatedly told by My Betters the models model everything correctly! Making the models super-correct, for predicting everything from tomorrow's weather for each square yard of the Earth's Surface, to the size of each Antarctic glacier and ice shelf 150 years from now!

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (5rh/l)

305
We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was Bill Gates that scorched the sky. At the time, we were dependent on solar power and Al Gore believed that this would end global warming without an energy source as abundant as the sun to drive it

Posted by: Kindltot at September 14, 2026 12:16 PM (rbvCR)

306 The Central Valley in California really is heaven. The people suck, but that weather. Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (Y/06r)

307 Nood.

Posted by: Irving at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (NcvvS)

308 These fuckheads want to block the sun. Hubris.

Bill Gates got a permit from Biden to do that, but the only company capable of launching his giant sunshade was SpaceX and Elon said no.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

309 Jenny McCarthy
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ

She got her shit together now but I understand why she was on a crusade before. No different than RFK jr. Having an autistic kid makes you look for reasons. Having seen the covid vax shit show I have more empathy for her.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 12:17 PM (KC5Lt)

310 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (X0axn)

311 Doloris O'Riordan.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (BrjrD)

312 I had no idea that it was gendered oppression to expect women not to murder their kids.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

According to the Church of the Perpetually Oppressed Sisterhood, expecting a woman to do something she doesn't want, or not do something she does, is gendered oppression regardless of the details. Fortunately, not all women are congregants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

313 I'm so sick and tired of saving the left from themselves every so often.

Then don't.

Posted by: Howdy at September 14, 2026 12:18 PM (NKlFk)

314
The highest official dew point every recorded in the US was 88F on July 19, 2001. In Moorhead, MN.

Melbourne FL claims a dew point of 91F in July of 1987, but that is not official. Station was not properly certified and all that.

The world record is 95F, measured in Saudi right on the Persian Gulf coast. You would not survive that for too long.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 12:19 PM (w6EFb)

315 I'm more concerned about running across an 18 foot python than climate change. There's a reason I keep my machete razor sharp.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 12:20 PM (5C90x)

316
For that Saudi record, the air temp (dry bulb in the lingo) was 108F. That would be a heat index of 176F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (w6EFb)

317 50
Buck, by that you mean *tropical* storms, not including hurricanes? They started naming hurricanes much earlier than 1965. I remember my mother putting a big sheet of wood over our dining room window when I was in second grade, 1961, for Carla.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 11:16 AM (wzUl9)

Dan Rather was the news director at Houston’s CBS affiliate and covered Carla. He got his big break there. I was only 4 so I don’t remember Carla. The first really big one I remember was Camille. A second cousin’s family home in Biloxi was demolished.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 14, 2026 12:21 PM (SjAWL)

318 Beau Biden died from Net Neutrality.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 14, 2026 12:22 PM (2Ez/1)

319 First look at the new WH ballroom. It's beautiful.

https://tinyurl.com/2vvspdpd
Posted by: Archimedes

Looks like Versailles and you know what happened to Louis XVI.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 12:24 PM (ndZc7)

320
Also, running the online psychrometric thingy, that would be a WB of 97F, and a RH of 68%.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 12:25 PM (w6EFb)

321 Yeah, it wasn't fracking causing the quakes, it was the waste-water injection rates as they tried to put that in the ground for the sake of being environmentally responsible. For which effort they were lambasted as damaging mother Gaia.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 12:34 PM (aJQbY)

322 After Katrina: climate change is causing more dangerous storms, which is bad.
After years of no other big storms hitting the US:
Climate change is causing fewer big storms, which is just as bad.
Looking at big hurricanes hitting North Carolina from 1850 on, breaking it into 10 year chunks, I didn't see significant differences between the decades.

Posted by: waelse1 at September 14, 2026 12:59 PM (lfepB)

323 It's the end of hurricanes

THE HORROR .. THE HORROR

Posted by: SMOD at September 14, 2026 01:06 PM (RHGPo)

324 Although there were Atlantic hurricanes last year, none of them made US landfall. Zero. Nada.

It would be preposterous, of course, to use this year’s hurricane season as proof of global cooling
Actually, it kinda is. Climate does change - it gets warmer, it gets colder. I surmise that hurricane activity can be a gross, indirect measurement of atmospheric energy, which is a driver of temperatures.

But to insist that the climate should be identical year-to-year-to-year-to-year in the same place.....well, now THAT'S real climate-denial.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at September 14, 2026 01:17 PM (bufu1)

325 Any theory that explains everything explains nothing. So it is with "Climate Change".

Posted by: Pat Dooley at September 14, 2026 01:32 PM (2Gmzv)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Hopper Groundswell1.jpg

Ground Swell
Edward Hopper

[Hat Tip: neverenoughcaffeine]

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

2 The Titanic. A re-enactment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

3 STARBOARD!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (/QciJ)

4 Four Buoys?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ot38T)

5 lum has been NOOD'ed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ccf/V)

6 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (/QciJ)


*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ccf/V)

7 Wait! No, six.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ot38T)

8 Sailboat minesweeper closes in on quarry.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:31 AM (Jr5Lq)

9 Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:32 AM (2GVsD)

10 I'm starting to think Hopper was secretly happy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:32 AM (fMPEh)

11 Don't hit the buoy!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:32 AM (wpRMV)

12 The sea wasn't very angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 14, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Nice gaff rig.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (wpRMV)

14 The sky looks fine but the water needs work. Would hang the top half of this one.

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (rje/a)

15 "Definitely sensing a swell."
–D Lemon

Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (Ve/HL)

16 CLASSIC

Love it!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (rOKnE)

17 Buoy, but no gulls.

Posted by: Tern For The Worse at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (Fn+3X)

18 CBD! Get to the Hoppah!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (bFu5X)

19 Bright and cheerful. I like.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

20 Can't be the Titanic, no geezer lady like Kate Winslet tossing an expensive bauble overboard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (2GVsD)

21 Nice gaff rig.
Posted by: Cicero

The Paolo, how you say, says 'Thank You'.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (ot38T)

22 Belying Hopper's nickname as the "painter of loneliness."

I'd like to know more about the redhead sprawled athwart the sailboat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

23 >>Don't hit the buoy!


Oh Yeah, buoyyyyyyy!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)

24 Buoymen gleefully pull in record catch. They ate heartily that night.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

25 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM

I'd rather drink Port, but you do you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (bFu5X)

26 It’s a nice scene but unrealistic. Lots of violations of the laws of physics (fluid dynamics in particular) noted….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (6hPO6)

27 That's a handsome transom too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (wpRMV)

28 He was great in Easy Rider too

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (rQ950)

29 Those boys shall become manly men in this ship's company!

Posted by: Captain Ned at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (ot38T)

30 Tonypete, 'four buoys and a girl'?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (aJQbY)

31 The colors are lively and beautiful but the perspective is too off for me to like it. Would not hang.

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (lCppi)

32 Summer is over, but I really like this.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

33 Mine!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (6MHxU)

34 *collective thought bubble*

"Yup...that is, in fact, a buoy."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (bFu5X)

35 My mother, a western Canadian, always pronounced the name of that nautical object as "boy." William Shatner, a Toronto guy (I think), pronounced it more than once on Trek as "boo-oy."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

36 A missed opportunity to depict a delightful and shapely bikini bottom.

Posted by: Guys everywhere at September 14, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Would it have been too much effort to include a friendly pelican?

Posted by: Captain Fork at September 14, 2026 09:36 AM (Fn+3X)

38 No lifeline, no PFDs, no fenders, no fire extinguisher.

FAIL

Posted by: The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary at September 14, 2026 09:36 AM (wpRMV)

39 No 'ground' depicted. Painting title fail.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:37 AM (Jr5Lq)

40 A missed opportunity to depict a delightful and shapely bikini bottom.
Posted by: Guys everywhere

Interesting, to me at least, that Spongebob lived in a bikini bottom.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:37 AM (ot38T)

41 15 "Definitely sensing a swell."
–D Lemon
Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM

I think it moved, Jerry.

Posted by: George at September 14, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

42 Would it have been too much effort to include a friendly pelican?
Posted by: Captain Fork at September 14, 2026 09:36 AM (Fn+3X)
******
Yeah, or a friendly shark.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

43 Sloop?

"The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the captain's trunk --
The constable had to come and take him away.
Sheriff John Stone,
Why don't you leave me alone? Yeah, yeah,
Well, I feel so broke up
I wanna go home!"

Worst . . . cruise . . . ever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

44 I do love Hopper

Love the colors here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 14, 2026 09:38 AM (xcxpd)

45 Bare chested manly men.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

46 Looks like a shore excursion for some of the lads from the Raging Queen.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2026 09:38 AM (ibDUx)

47 Definitely sensing a swell."
–D Lemon
Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM
*
I think it moved, Jerry.
Posted by: George at September 14, 2026

***
"He took -- it out!"
( -- Elaine)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

48 Painting hangs in Grampa Walton's bedroom.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (qZb7K)

49 One of my favorite Hopper’s. I like his style of realism pushing right up against animation.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (KC5Lt)

50 This painting hits a little too close to home.

Posted by: All Swole Up at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (Fn+3X)

51 Definitely Hopper. Great colors.
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (N2HNb)

52 36, the implication of her clothing is that she's one of those 'tomboys who grow up without noticing', I think. Probably has been out clamming with her crew of boys and now they've climbed onto a stranded boat a few yards out, and are watching the sea.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (aJQbY)

53 I like big rudders and I cannot lie.

Posted by: Sir HopALot at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

54 "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"

Posted by: The Old Cook at September 14, 2026 09:39 AM (wpRMV)

55 My mother, a western Canadian, always pronounced the name of that nautical object as "boy." William Shatner, a Toronto guy (I think), pronounced it more than once on Trek as "boo-oy."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026

***
Now that I think about it, WS gave it as "boo-y."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

56 Ground Swell
Edward Hopper

**********

"Gill Darn It!" - a limerick

There once was a sailor named Roy
Who saw something, shouting, "Ahoy!"
The man in the hat
Yelled, "What the hell's that?"
And Roy replied smartly, "Atta Buoy!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 09:40 AM (qgHp7)

57 Well she's no HMS Thunderchild/

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:41 AM (2GVsD)

58 I guess this is off the Mass coast, or maybe Maine?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

59 Boy, the Strait of Hormuz was sure a happier place in Hopper's day.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

60 Is that Brandy there on the coach roof?

She's a fine girl.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (wpRMV)

61 She's got more than one man in the boat.

Posted by: How does that work? at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

62 I love everything about this painting. Can smell the salt and feel the breeze.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (RIvkX)

63 Repressed sexuality

Posted by: Paul, who enjoys the sexual affections of dogs at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (AWb24)

64 The girl is either wearing some kind of boots with a logo on one side, or she has a tat on her ankle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9)

65 No wake behind the boat. The 'water' looks like rolling sand hills.

This isn't a very imaginative painting......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)

66 I really like the geometry of the composition. Its subtlety is masked by the natural shapes, but it's really very angular. Interesting.

Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026 09:43 AM (Ve/HL)

67 Rollin' rollin' rollin' on the ocean.

No, that's not it.

Posted by: John Fogerty at September 14, 2026 09:43 AM (2Xqig)

68 Posted by: Paul at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (AWb24)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)

69 Isn't that a water swell?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 09:43 AM (FZ29D)

70 They'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.

Posted by: The searchers at September 14, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

71 Is that Brandy there on the coach roof?

She's a fine girl.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026

***
Ironically, for a girl who worked in a harbor town, she was never to be found aboard a vessel.
( -- Many of Brandy's sailor customers)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

72 Boatmen, forgetting that 90% of the buoy is submerged, are seconds from disaster.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:44 AM (Jr5Lq)

73 Uh oh. The chick is a ginger. That can't bode well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

74 "The sea was cheerful that day, my friends..."

Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026 09:45 AM (Ve/HL)

75 I really like the geometry of the composition. Its subtlety is masked by the natural shapes, but it's really very angular. Interesting.
Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2026

***
I love the sweeping curves of the boat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

76 Boatmen, forgetting that 90% of the buoy is submerged, are seconds from disaster.
Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:44 AM

All is proceeding as planned...

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 14, 2026 09:46 AM (bFu5X)

77 The troll reveals itself

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

78 Ginger will need some serious sunscreen.

Posted by: Coppertone at September 14, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

79 She's got more than one man in the boat.
Posted by: How does that work? at September 14, 2026

***
Big men too

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9)

80 Destination-Fire Island!

Posted by: Salty Seamen at September 14, 2026 09:46 AM (Fn+3X)

81 What's that hump next to Brandy's back? Is that a fourth guy?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:47 AM (wpRMV)

82 Ginger will need some serious sunscreen.
Posted by: Coppertone at September 14, 2026

***
If that's her skin we see on the back and her feet, indeed yes. She's not just pale of fair-skinned, she'd dead white.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

83 What's that hump next to Brandy's back? Is that a fourth guy?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Could be another gal.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 09:48 AM (lJ0H4)

84

Ground swell.

Water nifty.

Air neato.

Posted by: naturalfake Took Speaking Lessons From Tarzan at September 14, 2026 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

85 What's that hump next to Brandy's back? Is that a fourth guy?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026

***
Queequeg's head!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)

86 Destination-Fire Island!
Posted by: Salty Seamen

Ahoy the poop dick deck!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ot38T)

87 Alt title: Sailboat Spitroast

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:49 AM (qZb7K)

88 The hype behind sun causing skin cancer and sunscreen has caused a global vitamin D deficiency in humans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ccf/V)

89 Avast! Come ashore for a fine luncheon of fresh-caught seafood. We'll be waiting!

Posted by: Hesh and Heidi's Nautical Nosh at September 14, 2026 09:50 AM (Fn+3X)

90 What's that hump next to Brandy's back? Is that a fourth guy?

"What hump?" - Eyegore

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:50 AM (2GVsD)

91 Sail away, sail away, sail away

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 09:50 AM (Gldzw)

92 My favorite Van Gogh is also of sail fishing boats and my favorite Homer Winslow is of a sail boat. And my first ever painting is of sail boats.

Weird because I don’t sail .

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 09:51 AM (KC5Lt)

93 Avast! Come ashore for a fine luncheon of fresh-caught seafood. We'll be waiting!
Posted by: Hesh and Heidi's Nautical Nosh at September 14, 2026

***
Step aside, mate!
( -- The Gorton's Fisherman)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

94 Is this going to turn into a Chris DeBarge song?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:51 AM (2GVsD)

95 Be careful, Natalie. I sure would hate for you to go overboard.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:51 AM (ccf/V)

96 Marine biologists respond to rumored sighting of a rare girluoy, but determine the report is false. It's just another buoy in drag.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

97 "What hump?" - Eyegore
Posted by: Anna Puma

I though he had it looked at by Theodoric of York.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:51 AM (ot38T)

98 Look Fat, you tore up the rudder on that buoy. You lose your deposit!

Posted by: Biden Boat Rental at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)

99 I think she's wearing a headscarf.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (ccf/V)

100 I'd never seen this painting before but I could tell it was a Hopper. He used that glowing blue-white in so many of his paintings.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V)

101 The hype behind sun causing skin cancer and sunscreen has caused a global vitamin D deficiency in humans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Kids are on devices inside and not playing outside. That has to factor in.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (qZb7K)

102 No asymmetry in the waves? I am afraid I must reject this art.

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (uLrcL)

103 Be careful, Natalie. I sure would hate for you to go overboard.......
Posted by: Sponge

Christopher Walken was on the boat too during that 'accident', wasn't he?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (ot38T)

104 Ground swell.

Water nifty.

Air neato."

There wolf...

Posted by: man at September 14, 2026 09:53 AM (cGjQu)

105
Kids are on devices inside and not playing outside. That has to factor in.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (qZb7K)


I'm sure it does, but they've been hyping the sun being SO BAD FOR YOU since the 80's if not before.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:53 AM (ccf/V)

106 The boat doesn’t have a name on it. I’m sure the horde can come up with one.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 09:53 AM (KC5Lt)

107 "Avast": a nautical command to stop or cease; perhaps from Dutch houd vast, "hold fast." First known use in 1681.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

108 Don't like it. Looks like something one would see on a container of fragrant douche water.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (g8Ew8)

109 We'll find that German battleship
That's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismark
'Cause the world depends on us
We hit the decks a-runnin' boys
And spin those guns around
When we find the Bismark
We gotta cut her down

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (AXBJa)

110 Christopher Walken was on the boat too during that 'accident', wasn't he?
Posted by: Tonypete

Yep. Supposedly, Natalie and Robert were arguing over which one of them was going to get to sleep with him.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

111 106 The boat doesn’t have a name on it. I’m sure the horde can come up with one.

-----------

The boat also has no way to get into the cabin. A major design flaw.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (wpRMV)

112 The boat doesn’t have a name on it. I’m sure the horde can come up with one.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026

***
The Nighthawk, of course

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

113 The boat doesn’t have a name on it. I’m sure the horde can come up with one.

Posted by: polynikes


Money Hole

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (AXBJa)

114 Yacht girls. The early years.

Posted by: Before bikinis at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

115
The hype behind sun causing skin cancer and sunscreen has caused a global vitamin D deficiency in humans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Kids are on devices inside and not playing outside. That has to factor in.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (qZb7K)

Billion Dollar Idea:

Build screens that project UV light along with all the other nonsense.

Call me Elon!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

116 "You people" may be perfectly ok with the waves as depicted, but I am not. No, I am definitely not.

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (uLrcL)

117 ...the redhead sprawled athwart the sailboat...

********

Yo! Ho' Ho' - a seafaring limerick

Sailing is a wonderful sport
Lots of fore and aft, starboard and port
"Avast!" and "Ahoy!"
Lots of "Heave to, boys!"
And occasion'ly "Redheads athwart!!!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (qgHp7)

118 Gang Plank Bang

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (KC5Lt)

119 The hype behind sun causing skin cancer and sunscreen has caused a global vitamin D deficiency in humans.

That and we've all seen what being out in the sun a lot makes you look like when you're north of 50. Robert Patrick is 67 and looks like he's older than Helen Thomas.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (2ocoG)

120 The boat also has no way to get into the cabin. A major design flaw.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026

***
The cabin door is also painted white, so it's hard to see?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

121 Looks like something one would see on a container of fragrant douche water.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (g8Ew
=====

Fresh Breeze
Cool Waves
Soft Surf
Clean Sails

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

122
Christopher Walken was on the boat too during that 'accident', wasn't he?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:52 AM (ot38T)


Yes.

Reminds me of an interview I saw with Mel Gibson early in his career when he tells a story about first coming to the US after Mad Max....he was brought to a NYE party in New York. He went to the rooftop where the 'real' party was and he saw someone that just presented as pure evil......he felt he was in the presence of Satan and saw evil personified...........

It was Christopher Walken.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (ccf/V)

123 The boat also has no way to get into the cabin. A major design flaw.

It was supposed to be a three-hour cruise.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (2GVsD)

124 Wolfus, how is the Indianazation/Kansazation going?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

125 USS Bukkake

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (qZb7K)

126 Well, Hopper captures the viewer with his realistic people and their natural poses. Add the recognizable and relatable settings. But it's his use of light that makes his work so extraordinary. It sets a mood and evokes an emotional response from the audience. In this case it is the complete joy of nature: brilliant sea and matching sky, the light captured by the white hull and sail. The people are relaxed. You can smell the ocean, hear the light wind and the sounds of the day sailer, feel the warmth of the sun. But it isn't static. The soft swells affecting the boat and the forward movement denoted by the sail keep it from being completely still. Growing up on the ocean, this painting brings back wonderful memories.

What a gorgeous way to start the week of art threads.

Posted by: JTB at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

127 113 Ha!

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (Jr5Lq)

128
"Oh my God. Head for shore! Shelly Headen is swimming towards the boat! Looks like a Giant Grouper with an 18 inch Blackfish lure hooked in it's mouth!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (sTGas)

129 Gang Plank Bang
Posted by: polynikes

Oh my. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 09:56 AM (ot38T)

130 Boat.

Break
Out
Another
Thousand

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)

131 Bang Boat

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:57 AM (qZb7K)

132
No topless babes. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 09:57 AM (eRlcH)

133 The Howell's and Ginger had an extensive wardrobe, considering it was a three-hour tour.

Posted by: Not Stealing Piper's Thunder at September 14, 2026 09:58 AM (Fn+3X)

134 I think she's wearing a headscarf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026

***
Possibly. And her arms and back are so smooth she might have a jersey on. Doesn't explain the halter strap in red, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)

135 No topless babes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2026 09:57 AM (eRlcH)


Yet......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V)

136 This painting reminds of the Bobby Darin classic "Beyond the Sea".

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 09:58 AM (lJ0H4)

137 It's easy to grin......

When your ship comes in......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (ccf/V)

138 The boat doesn’t have a name on it. I’m sure the horde can come up with one.

Posted by: polynikes
____________

Flying Wasp

Posted by: Pookie Smails at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (XvL8K)

139 I sailed to Tahiti with an all-girl crew.

Posted by: Gardner McKay, Adventures In Paradise at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (Fn+3X)

140 Wolfus, how is the Indianazation/Kansazation going?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026

***
Poorly. I am trying to work up the energy to drive back up to Evansville and stay for a bit while I look at apartments.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

141 Could be another gal.
Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 09:48 AM (lJ0H4)

---------

And wouldn't you know it? She's the one who's topless.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (wpRMV)

142
And wouldn't you know it? She's the one who's topless.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (wpRMV)


Built like Britney Griner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)

143 She's got more than one man in the boat.

Posted by: How does that work? at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

She's gonna need a bigger boat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM (dK+Kv)

144 Fine. Just fine. You all just go right ahead and accept the ridiculous waves. Were they painted with a ruler? Is ruler art a thing now?

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM (uLrcL)

145 "Hopper didn't disappear. He was skinned alive!"

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM (Y/06r)

146 No topless babes. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Ok boys! The client wants to see some skin!

(Not you Hadrian. Just the joke)

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM (AXBJa)

147 "When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
You understand now why you came this way;
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from is so small --
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a comin' day . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

148
Boat.

Break
Out
Another
Thousand
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)


Like this one comic strip I remember, where a guy wordlessly walks to his car with a bucket. Drives through traffic to the marina. Walks down the dock. Dumps the bucket onto his sailboat, with the bucket being full of cash.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 10:01 AM (sTGas)

149 This painting reminds of the Bobby Darin classic "Beyond the Sea".
Posted by: Tuna

I can't explain it, but referencing Bobby Darin reminded me of the epic Paul Anka freakout long celebrated in the AoSHQ margin.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 10:01 AM (ot38T)

150 Ruler art be damned! Who's with me?

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:02 AM (uLrcL)

151 Driving the Madison Avenue bus for years, waiting for my ship to come in, and here it is-The Queen Mary!

Posted by: Ralph Kramden, Gotham Bus Lines at September 14, 2026 10:02 AM (Fn+3X)

152 Titan Uranus

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 10:02 AM (J4Dwc)

153 Ruler art be damned! Who's with me?
Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:02 AM (uLrcL)

Hopper would be lost without his ruler.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 10:03 AM (KC5Lt)

154 I see Mitch's rehab is coming along nicely. A dollop of SPF 30 should get him to supper time.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 10:03 AM (5C90x)

155 Fine. Just fine. You all just go right ahead and accept the ridiculous waves. Were they painted with a ruler? Is ruler art a thing now?
Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM

What? You want the waves to be wobbly? Wobbly shit is okay now? Is that what we're hearing? What have you done with Weasel?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:04 AM (bFu5X)

156 I have a question as I don't know much about sailboats. Is this a real sailboat design?

Posted by: Eromero at September 14, 2026 10:04 AM (LHPAg)

157 Ruler art be damned! Who's with me?
Posted by: Weasel

Wish you'd quit the protractored whining about this.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

158 This painting reminds of the Bobby Darin classic "Beyond the Sea".
Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026

***
And his version of "Clementine":

"Hey, I'm no swimmer but were she slimmer
I might'a saved that Clementine . . .

She broke the record, way under water
I thought that she was doin' fine --
I wasn't nervous, not 'til the service
That they held for Clementine!

Hey, you sailor ho, ho, way out in your whaler
With your harpoon and your trusty line --
If she shows now, yell, 'There she blows now!'
It just may be chunky Clementine!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

159 Alternate tile:

"Lost At Sea For Over 48 Hours, Biff, Scooter, Mikey, and Ginger Lee Wonder If That Weird Jellyfish Is Edible"

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM (iJfKG)

160 Boat names: Buoyhunter. Beaconkiller. Floatsinker. The Designaler.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

161 Time for me to walk 'round to the Aldi for some supplies. Later, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

162 If Weasel were female someone might have to utter the fatal phrase "calm down."

Posted by: Cooler heads prevailing at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

163 Titan Uranus

Posted by: one hour sober


THAT'S going on my jon boat when I retire.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM (AXBJa)

164 Boat names: Buoyhunter. Beaconkiller. Floatsinker. The Designaler.
Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM

The Crazy Ivan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:06 AM (bFu5X)

165 Art thread adjacent. About ten years ago Lawrence Block edited a book of short stories from various writers based on Hopper paintings. The title is "In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper". Used copies are available for a few dollars.

Posted by: JTB at September 14, 2026 10:06 AM (yTvNw)

166 You want to rule the waves?

Posted by: Rex B at September 14, 2026 10:06 AM (R0XxO)

167 Non-ruler waves painting in my nic.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 10:06 AM (KC5Lt)

168 Ruler art be damned! Who's with me?
Posted by: Weasel



How do you figure?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:06 AM (AXBJa)

169 What? You want the waves to be wobbly? Wobbly shit is okay now? Is that what we're hearing? What have you done with Weasel?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:04 AM (bFu5X)
-----
No, wobbly shit in all of its insidious forms is to be avoided at all costs. Just give me waves made of, you know, water!

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (uLrcL)

170 I love ruler art. What is wrong with you people?

Posted by: Stevie Spirograph at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (Fn+3X)

171 The WACs and the WAVEs will win the war, so what the hell are WE fighting for?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

172 Wish you'd quit the protractored whining about this.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:04 AM

It's beyond measure.

Posted by: Uh, oh... at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

173 Boat names: Buoyhunter. Beaconkiller. Floatsinker. The Designaler.
Posted by: gp



Bottom of the Bay

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (AXBJa)

174 Titan Uranus

Posted by: one hour sober

THAT'S going on my jon boat when I retire.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:05 AM

That reminds me. On this morning's commute I saw a Maserati with a plate that read "ONE 85." I chuckled. I guess life has been good to that guy so far.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (bFu5X)

175
"When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
You understand now why you came this way;
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from is so small --
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a comin' day . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)




Then Zombie David Crosby shoots Melissa Etheridge's squeeze with a 45 hollowpoint full of LSD, a low grade beaver tranquilizer and his semen.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (sTGas)

176 >>>Boat names: Buoyhunter. Beaconkiller. Floatsinker. The Designaler.

>Mish Mash

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 10:08 AM (5C90x)

177 "Ruler art be damned!" True Art is too ornery to be ruled.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:08 AM (Jr5Lq)

178 The boat also has no way to get into the cabin. A major design flaw.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 09:54 AM (wpRMV)

It's a Catboat. There's a cuddy cabin forward.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 10:08 AM (k5CNB)

179 140 Wolfus, how is the Indianazation/Kansazation going?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026

***
Poorly. I am trying to work up the energy to drive back up to Evansville and stay for a bit while I look at apartments.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

Evansville is close to KY and thus to Bourbon heaven. Bloomington looked nice too, drove through there a couple of years a go.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 14, 2026 10:09 AM (xcxpd)

180 170 I love ruler art. What is wrong with you people?
Posted by: Stevie Spirograph at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM

It's hard by the yard, but a cinch by the inch.

Posted by: Stuff your grandmother said at September 14, 2026 10:10 AM (2Ez/1)

181 That reminds me. On this morning's commute I saw a Maserati with a plate that read "ONE 85." I chuckled. I guess life has been good to that guy so far.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (bFu5X)

He performed that song on Live from Daryl’s House. Freaking awesome.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2026 10:10 AM (KC5Lt)

182 >>>Boat names: Buoyhunter. Beaconkiller. Floatsinker. The Designaler.

>Mish Mash
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2026 10:08 AM

I saw a small sailboat in Salem one day called "Piece of Shit II."

Made me wonder what happened the the POS I.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:10 AM (bFu5X)

183 ...f'n ruler art....

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:10 AM (uLrcL)

184 Zooming way in (without going looking for a higher-res version), no idea what the brown thing above her shoulder is supposed to be, perhaps part of the boat? high-waisted dungarees, as George Will would call them. Might be a headscarf but more likely just a short hairstyle. patterns on her back and ankle might be shadows, might be tats. she and the blonde standing above her are going to be burnt red in an hour or two.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 10:10 AM (aJQbY)

185 182 Ha!

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:11 AM (Jr5Lq)

186 ...f'n ruler art....

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:10 AM (uLrcL)

Take it easel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 10:11 AM (dK+Kv)

187 Funny color for "ground."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 10:12 AM (2Cry5)

188 We are all in favor of Ruler Art. Don't listen to that Weasel fellow.

Posted by: The Straights of Hormuz at September 14, 2026 10:13 AM (Fn+3X)

189 Just arriving to the HQ I am amazed that we are still talking about the Art on the Art Thread at 185 comments! Nicely chosen, CBD !

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 10:13 AM (Gqar8)

190
That reminds me. On this morning's commute I saw a Maserati with a plate that read "ONE 85." I chuckled. I guess life has been good to that guy so far.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (bFu5X)



An old friend of mine had a '69 Corvette in his garage, beautiful car, red and white. He fought tooth and nail to get the CA plate "I DIG 69". DMV thought it was obscene, but as it was a classic 1969 Corvette, restored, he successfully got it through the CA bureaucracy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 10:13 AM (sTGas)

191 That reminds me. On this morning's commute I saw a Maserati with a plate that read "ONE 85." I chuckled. I guess life has been good to that guy so far.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:07 AM (bFu5X)

Nice! But to stay true to the tune, he shouldn't be driving it.

Posted by: Doof at September 14, 2026 10:13 AM (c2vsb)

192 ...f'n ruler art....
Posted by: Weasel

And if it had been done with a meter stick you'd be OK with it?

At least he used the imperial system, as is good and proper.

F'n metric system.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

193 While everyone is absorbed in looking at the buoy off the port side, no one noticed the great white shark stalking them from the starboard side...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 10:14 AM (FZ29D)

194 Nice painting, would definitely hang on a wall in my place.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 14, 2026 10:15 AM (OF02a)

195 I'm opening a file on you people!

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:15 AM (uLrcL)

196 I guess life has been good to that guy so far
——-

It should be pointed out, however, he is not supposed to be driving.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 10:15 AM (hefYs)

197 149 This painting reminds of the Bobby Darin classic "Beyond the Sea".
Posted by: Tuna

I can't explain it, but referencing Bobby Darin reminded me of the epic Paul Anka freakout long celebrated in the AoSHQ margin.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 14, 2026 10:01 AM (ot38T)

Integrity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 10:15 AM (Y/06r)

198
An old friend of mine had a '69 Corvette in his garage, beautiful car, red and white. He fought tooth and nail to get the CA plate "I DIG 69". DMV thought it was obscene, but as it was a classic 1969 Corvette, restored, he successfully got it through the CA bureaucracy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 10:13 AM (sTGas)


I had a cousin that managed to get a plate in the communist utopia of Illinois that read "BKWDS 96."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 10:16 AM (ccf/V)

199 Hopper? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at September 14, 2026 10:16 AM (2Ez/1)

200 All kidding aside, these guys who go out and service the worn-out clappers on those buoy bells are risking their lives for safer navigation for all of us. Hats off to them.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:16 AM (Jr5Lq)

201 I'm opening a file on you people!
Posted by: Weasel

*makes "call me" gesture*
-- Bob at NSA

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

202 Evansville is close to KY and thus to Bourbon heaven. Bloomington looked nice too, drove through there a couple of years a go.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 14, 2026 10:09 AM (xcxpd)

Bloomington WAS nice. 30 years ago. Best friend moved there with his family a while back. Hive of scum and villainy, it is now. Libs own it. Attempt no landings there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 10:18 AM (Y/06r)

203 All kidding aside, these guys who go out and service the worn-out clappers on those buoy bells are risking their lives for safer navigation for all of us. Hats off to them.
Posted by: gp

Do they use buoy knives?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

204 One wave to rule them all.

Posted by: Tolkien at September 14, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

205 200 All kidding aside, these guys who go out and service the worn-out clappers on those buoy bells are risking their lives for safer navigation for all of us. Hats off to them.
Posted by: gp

Thieves, vandals, targeted all the copper clappers. They're made out of cast iron now.

Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at September 14, 2026 10:19 AM (Fn+3X)

206 The Copper Clapper Caper

Posted by: Just The Facts at September 14, 2026 10:20 AM (hefYs)

207 Just arriving to the HQ I am amazed that we are still talking about the Art on the Art Thread at 185 comments! Nicely chosen, CBD !
Posted by: tubal

Considering that there are no boobs visible in the art, that s extraordinary.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

208 203 Ha!

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:20 AM (Jr5Lq)

209
Considering that there are no boobs visible in the art, that s extraordinary.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)


Are you still on your titty hiatus?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 10:21 AM (ccf/V)

210 And from the archives, one of my all-time personal favorites:

HARBOR LOVE

While crossing the bay in my dory
I saw a seabird in all of its glory
It swerved around my boat
And ran into a harbor float
'Twas a classic "Buoy Meets Gull" story.

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:21 AM (qgHp7)

211 They're looking for a deep spot to dump the corpse.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 14, 2026 10:22 AM (MDua2)

212 Are you still on your titty hiatus?
Posted by: Sponge

Nah. That was just on 9/11. I'm back in full boob mode now.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

213 Cormorants can really shit up a buoy, let me tell you...

Posted by: Ol' Cap From Bleak Hill at September 14, 2026 10:23 AM (Fn+3X)

214 Cormorants can really shit up a buoy, let me tell you...
Posted by: Ol' Cap From Bleak Hill

Yeah, they're horrible birds. Unlike us.
-- Penguins everywhere

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

215 Nice! But to stay true to the tune, he shouldn't be driving it.
Posted by: Doof at September 14, 2026 10:13 AM

That was my first thought. It was an SUV, though, and I couldn't tell if someone was being driven or not.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:25 AM (bFu5X)

216 209
Considering that there are no boobs visible in the art, that s extraordinary.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)


Are you still on your titty hiatus?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 10:21 AM (ccf/V)

Dome years back had a coworker who discovered a website named Big Naturals. He became rather obsessed with the site and rather an acolyte and evangelist for it. Became rather annoying about it, actually.

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2026 10:25 AM (Gqar8)

217
Cormorants can really shit up a buoy, let me tell you...
Posted by: Ol' Cap From Bleak Hill at September 14, 2026 10:23 AM (Fn+3X)



Yeah, whatever.

Posted by: The sea lion lounging on your sailboat's transom at September 14, 2026 10:25 AM (sTGas)

218 Claude Cooper, kleptomaniac, copped the clean copper clappers in the caper

Posted by: Just The Facts at September 14, 2026 10:26 AM (hefYs)

219 Looked closer at the art. It's a group of gays on a festive boat ride. And they're all looking intently at the bouy. Seriously.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 10:26 AM (g8Ew8)

220 203 All kidding aside, these guys who go out and service the worn-out clappers on those buoy bells are risking their lives for safer navigation for all of us. Hats off to them.
Posted by: gp

----------

Claude Clapper and his Copper Clapper Crew.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2026 10:26 AM (wpRMV)

221
Saw "Hope"(2026) yesterday.

It's a Korean horror/SF movie that was popular in Korea earlier this year made by Na Hong-jin, the same guy who wrote/directed "The Chaser" and "The Wailing". Both of which are pretty great.

Eh, "Hope" wasn't particularly good.

It could easily lose 30-40 minutes and be much better, but still not very good.

The plot concerns some hunters and police in a small seaside Korean village trying to stop/hunt down Alien Folk who are killing people.

Basically, the movie comes to no end and is borderline nonsense at the conclusion.

This clearly an unfinished story and part 2 if greenly will tell the aliens side of the story.

The humans are often depicted a as dickweeds so, you can probably figure out where that's going.

Not worth seeing on the big screen. See it online when it starts streaming if you wish, but-

Meh. Very meh. You have been warned.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 10:27 AM (iJfKG)

222 Those aren't buoys.

Posted by: Raquel W at September 14, 2026 10:27 AM (R0XxO)

223 I simply can't compass a protracted discussion of Ruler Art...

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (qgHp7)

224 Extremely rare E Power Biggs recording. Only known performance in which he keeps the volume under 130dB:
youtube.com/watch?v=CEIwHWE6ZwA

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (Jr5Lq)

225 >>It's a group of gays on a festive boat ride.

I say again -- Titan Uranus.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (J4Dwc)

226 Mmmmmm.....big naturals........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 10:29 AM (ccf/V)

227 223 I simply can't compass a protracted discussion of Ruler Art...
Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (qgHp7)

We may be in for a protracted discussion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2026 10:29 AM (Y/06r)

228 Ok.

Off to work.

Be excellent to each other.

Desimate all others.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

229 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2026 10:31 AM (bFu5X)

230 I simply can't compass a protracted discussion of Ruler Art...
Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (qgHp7)

We may be in for a protracted discussion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There are rules against it, but we may let them slide.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

231 The irony BURNS worse than any case of the clap.
Eras ilegal? Jajajajajajaja

Person ‘illegally entered’ Malibu property of Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff

“Last night, security personnel stopped an individual who illegally entered Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Emhoff’s property before the individual reached the home,” Eduard Negrón, the spokesperson, said.

https://tinyurl.com/4zczr4ev

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:32 AM (AXBJa)

232 would hang

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 10:32 AM (5rh/l)

233 230 I simply can't compass a protracted discussion of Ruler Art...
Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (qgHp7)

We may be in for a protracted discussion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There are rules against it, but we may let them slide.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

This does not compute.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 10:33 AM (g8Ew8)

234
Bloomington WAS nice. 30 years ago. Best friend moved there with his family a while back. Hive of scum and villainy, it is now. Libs own it. Attempt no landings there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
-----

IN? IU is there, thus, like any University town it is tainted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 10:33 AM (XeU6L)

235 224 Extremely rare E Power Biggs recording. Only known performance in which he keeps the volume under 130dB:
youtube.com/watch?v=CEIwHWE6ZwA
Posted by: gp

Ah, the E. Power Biggs vs. Virgil Fox Organ Wars have begun!

Posted by: Pumped! at September 14, 2026 10:34 AM (Fn+3X)

236 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (/QciJ)

Sorry, Nurse. The sailboat is definitely on Port Tack.

Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026 10:34 AM (Edxq2)

237
I saw Titty Hiatus open for Vampire Weekend at Austin in 2013.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)

238 They're all looking at that buoy, thinking "Maybe we should have looked before throwing Tim overboard. We'd have seen that dang thing and he wouldn't have hit his head and sunk. Well, no one will ever really see that blood smear."

(Yes, I might have watched a lot of movies/tv about rich people trying to get away with crimes.)

Posted by: GWB at September 14, 2026 10:36 AM (kU0PQ)

239 I simply can't compass a protracted discussion of Ruler Art...
Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:28 AM (qgHp7)

We may be in for a protracted discussion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There are rules against it, but we may let them slide.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

This does not compute.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
-------

It's a diagramatical discussion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 10:36 AM (XeU6L)

240 No human being is illegal, Mr. & Mrs Emhoffharris should open their spacious and commodious lodgings to those less privileged and fortunate. They have so much, and others have so little

Posted by: Just The Facts at September 14, 2026 10:37 AM (hefYs)

241 >> I say again -- Titan Uranus.

Titan is around Saturn. Uranus biggest moon is Titania. So, Titania Uranus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 10:37 AM (w6EFb)

242 Art thread adjacent. About ten years ago Lawrence Block edited a book of short stories from various writers based on Hopper paintings. The title is "In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper". Used copies are available for a few dollars.
Posted by: JTB at September 14, 2026

***
I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that. Did someone do a story based on this painting?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:39 AM (wzUl9)

243
Sorry, Nurse. The sailboat is definitely on Port Tack.
Posted by: RI Red
-------

Stand by to jibe.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 10:39 AM (XeU6L)

244
In the not making it up category, one of the minor moons of Uranus, just little dinky rocks really, is named Margaret.

Margaret circles Uranus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 10:39 AM (w6EFb)

245 Alternate title:

"Robert Wagner, Natalie Woods, Christopher Walken, and newcomer Rock Spauldington Are Tired of Playing Strip Poker, So Decide to Start Playing OverBoard Poker."

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

246 Sorta funny story- Past supervisor where I used to work was a notorious drunk. Took one of our boats out one night for dubious purposes, and was found the next morning clinging to a channel buoy. He was replaced by another notorious drunk, who at least had sense enough not to operate boats while intoxicated.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 14, 2026 10:40 AM (QaH55)

247 236 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (/QciJ)
*
Sorry, Nurse. The sailboat is definitely on Port Tack.
Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026

***
It's heeling to starboard, looks to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

248 I'm plumb tired of Ruler Art. The whole conversation is a bubble off.

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:40 AM (qgHp7)

249 There are rules against it, but we may let them slide.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026
*
This does not compute.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
-------
It's a diagramatical discussion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026

***
Darn triggernometry!
( -- Jethro Bodine

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

250 Extremely rare E Power Biggs recording. Only known performance in which he keeps the volume under 130dB:
----
He is often referred to as 'Extra Powerful Big'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 10:42 AM (XeU6L)

251 Where's the Lido Deck? I was promised a Lido Deck!!

Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at September 14, 2026 10:43 AM (BrjrD)

252 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. What have I missed?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2026 10:43 AM (2WIwB)

253 Capn: "Ahoy, the buoy!"
Buoy: "Ding. Ding!"
Capn: "Heave to, or we will open fire upon you!"
Buoy: "Ding. ... Ding."
Capn: "Anybody here speak Chinese?"

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:44 AM (Jr5Lq)

254 Darn triggernometry!

********

Don't make me trot out the old "squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the squaws on the other two hides" limerick!

Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:45 AM (qgHp7)

255 241 >> I say again -- Titan Uranus.

Attempt no landing there.

Posted by: Aliens who are not into Butt Stuff at September 14, 2026 10:45 AM (BrjrD)

256 Where's the Lido Deck? I was promised a Lido Deck!!
Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at September 14, 2026

***
"Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack,
But that was all he missed, and he ain't comin' back.
At a tombstone bar in a juke joint car, he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)

257 I don't see any cats/

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 10:47 AM (viF8m)

258
Relevant Sound EFX Courtesy of XTC:

https://tinyurl.com/4arf2xrs

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2026 10:48 AM (iJfKG)

259 >>Where's the Lido Deck? I was promised a Lido Deck!!

Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack


Whoa o o o

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 10:49 AM (viF8m)

260 Now that I think about it, WS gave it as "boo-y."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

Growing up in Vancouver, it was "boy" for me. Used to go fishing out by the bell buoy that marked shoal water near Point Grey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 10:50 AM (1z8ji)

261 I speak Jibe!

Posted by: Barbara Billingsley at September 14, 2026 10:51 AM (MDua2)

262 I speak Jibe!
Posted by: Barbara Billingsley



Golf clap.

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:52 AM (AXBJa)

263 The sailboat is definitely on Port Tack.

Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026 10:34 AM (Edxq2)

And a pretty uncomfortable one. She must be wallowing all over the place.

Yuck.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 10:52 AM (k5CNB)

264 In the not making it up category, one of the minor moons of Uranus, just little dinky rocks really, is named Margaret.

Margaret circles Uranus.
Posted by: publius



Better than Bobby.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 10:53 AM (AXBJa)

265 242 ... "I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that. Did someone do a story based on this painting?"

Wolfus,
I have it as an ebook (the Kindle price is a lot more than when I got my copy) and just checked the table of contents. Today's painting wasn't used. I recall I really enjoyed it and may spring for a used hardcover version. Each story is preceded by a decent copy of the painting it is based on. I suspect you would enjoy it.

Posted by: JTB at September 14, 2026 10:53 AM (yTvNw)

266 Catboats don't wallow. They purr.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 10:53 AM (viF8m)

267 Growing up in Vancouver, it was "boy" for me. Used to go fishing out by the bell buoy that marked shoal water near Point Grey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 10:50 AM (1z8ji)

I take it as you're not Scottish.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2026 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

268 Catboats don't wallow. They purr.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 10:53 AM (viF8m)

Ooph!

It is one of my least favorite designs. Do they have a lot of them around you?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 10:54 AM (k5CNB)

269 FWIW, Google Translate sez that "ding" in Chinese means "ding." Those people are inscrutable.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:55 AM (Jr5Lq)

270

A Donald Trump-appointed judge blocked the mail-in ballot rule issued by the U.S. Postal Service last month, asserting the USPS likely exceeded its authority.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols of the District of Columbia issued an opinion late Sunday night that found the Postal Service rule would “exceed any conception of the outer bounds” of the agency’s authority, and that it does not have a role in elections.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 10:56 AM (Cqx++)

271 The Reverend Talarico sermonizes.

Team Talarico@TeamTalaricoHQ@JamesTalarico
: Scripture tells us that you can’t love God and hate other people. You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and oppress the poor. Matthew 25 tells us Christians exactly how we’re going to be judged — by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger.

I often wonder what would Jesus do if he visited the US Senate. I think he would tell the senators on the floor, ‘Depart from me, for I was hungry and you cut my food assistance. I was sick and you kicked me off Medicaid. I was a stranger and you deported me and my family.’

And then I think he would flip over those fancy desks on the floor of the US Senate and demand that we take care of all of our neighbors — especially the least of these.

-
Blessed is Big Government for it is the end all and be all of everything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7)

272 >>It is one of my least favorite designs. Do they have a lot of them around you?

Used to. Not as much anymore.

Tons of them around the inside of the Cape and South Shore. They are well suited to areas with a lot of shoals.

Not my cup of tea but they are pretty.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 10:57 AM (viF8m)

273 Wolfus,
I have it as an ebook (the Kindle price is a lot more than when I got my copy) and just checked the table of contents. Today's painting wasn't used. I recall I really enjoyed it and may spring for a used hardcover version. Each story is preceded by a decent copy of the painting it is based on. I suspect you would enjoy it.
Posted by: JTB at September 14, 2026 \

***
Block is one of my favorite writers, and I suspect that works he would pick on any theme would be fascinating to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)

274 Now it sez "ding" means "certainly."

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 10:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

275 Not my cup of tea but they are pretty.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 10:57 AM (viF8m)

I remember similar designs in the Outer Islands of the Bahamas. Lots of shallow-water sailing there.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2026 10:59 AM (k5CNB)

276 FWIW, Google Translate sez that "ding" in Chinese means "ding." Those people are inscrutable.
Posted by: gp

A "ding" or "ting" is a type of ancient Chinese bowl.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

277 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (/QciJ)
*
Sorry, Nurse. The sailboat is definitely on Port Tack.
Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026

***
It's heeling to starboard, looks to me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

Nautical Lesson Approaching. Give way.

If the wind is first coming over the port side of the boat, it is on port tack. When sailing straight down wind, whichever side the boom is not on is considered the side over which the wind is coming. Thus, one could change tack without changing direction, merely by bringing the boom and sail across to the other side - technically a jibe, since the bow is not passing through the direction of the wind.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: RI Red at September 14, 2026 10:59 AM (Edxq2)

278 Fine. Just fine. You all just go right ahead and accept the ridiculous waves. Were they painted with a ruler? Is ruler art a thing now?
Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2026 10:00 AM (uLrcL)

A ground swell is waves kicked up by a storm a long ways distant, and not by local winds. You can have a ground swell on a dead-calm day, wind wise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 10:59 AM (1z8ji)

279 >>I remember similar designs in the Outer Islands of the Bahamas. Lots of shallow-water sailing there.

Yep. Purpose built.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 11:00 AM (viF8m)

280 248 I'm plumb tired of Ruler Art. The whole conversation is a bubble off.
Posted by: muldoon at September 14, 2026 10:40 AM (qgHp7)

What a vial thing to say!

Posted by: Rex B at September 14, 2026 11:00 AM (jiOR7)

281 Extremely rare E Power Biggs recording. Only known performance in which he keeps the volume under 130dB:
youtube.com/watch?v=CEIwHWE6ZwA
Posted by: gp

Well, his momma didn't name him Power for nothing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 11:01 AM (ndZc7)

282 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

283 No mention of Gimme Dat Ding?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 11:03 AM (Cqx++)

284 273 ... "Block is one of my favorite writers, and I suspect that works he would pick on any theme would be fascinating to me."

I agree and I've been in a mood for some not-too-heavy mysteries. Just ordered a used hardcover edition. Like Sherlock Holmes stories, this is the kind of reading I want in my hand, not on a screen.

Posted by: JTB at September 14, 2026 11:06 AM (yTvNw)

285 Where's the Lido Deck? I was promised a Lido Deck!!
Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at September 14, 2026 10:43 AM (BrjrD)

You got nice butt on a redhead in a bikini. I'd be happy with that.

Oh, wait, I see the name now....

Posted by: GWB at September 14, 2026 11:22 AM (kU0PQ)

286 Always lovely colors in his paintings.

The loneliness of young socialists.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 11:26 AM (NFX2v)

287 It looks a bit like a Freedom Sloop but the rudder seems off.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 14, 2026 12:08 PM (4NO2D)

The Morning Report — 9/ 14 /26

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Good morning kids. Hope you all had a pleasant, relaxing weekend as we paused to reflect and remember the horrific attack on America 25 years ago last Friday. In many ways we are still dealing with both the root cause and the political/cultural reverberations of 9/11, as we'll delve into in a moment.

But for now I and my fellow sane residents of my state of Wisconsin are breathing a sigh of relief.

“God was watching over us tonight.” That’s how Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany described surviving a plane crash Saturday night that ended with him swimming out of a sinking aircraft in Lake Wausau. . . An experience like this reminds you just how precious life is.”

Of course, Madison being one of the evil wellsprings from whence the toxic poison of progressivism emerged and continues to rot away at Wisconsin but the entire nation, as it was an epicenter of the 2020 election theft. Hoping and praying that this incident was perhaps a harbinger of good things and miracles come November for my home state and for the nation as a whole.

And all things considered, we as a nation and society are going to need a run of miracles if we are to survive.

Yeah, elections sure do have consequences. Given the moribund state of the Republican Party in New York City, two socialists, Darializa Avila-Chevalier and Claire Valdez, are virtually certain to enter the House of Representatives next January, and they’re already excitedly making plans for the damage they’re going to do to the nation’s largest city, and the nation as a whole, once they get there... Now, why would a couple of socialists, one of whom (Avila-Chevalier) is a convert to Islam, want to deny the city that sustained the largest jihad terror attack in the history of this country funding to protect itself from further such attacks? Avila-Chevalier has so much contempt for the United States that on Dec. 23, 2019, she wrote: “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.” She followed this message with a happy-face emoji.

Well, I'm no longer a resident of New York City and State so that's a minor miracle, at least for now given the Democrats' virtual stranglehold on the Badger State. Then again, sooner or later there may be no place left for any of us to run and hide.

Shelly Headen is running for North Carolina House of Representatives District 62. She believes that Trump supporters belong in Dachau’s crematoria, like Jews during WWII. She posed in front of a backdrop of the actual ovens. Shelly was smiling. She has made similar comments that advocate for attacks on U.S. soil and violence against political opponents. She loves her violence. There is a 2024 Guilford County Sheriff’s Office incident report identifying Headen as a suspect in domestic physical assaults. One alleged assault was against her husband. Now she’s apologizing for her social media posts but also says she doesn’t recall making them. It’s a case of I didn’t do it, but I apologize for it. With some of her posts now deleted, we don’t know the full scope of her malice.

Posing in front of Dachau and wishing your political opponents, who are viewed as an existential threat to life, the planet and "democracy" are shoved into the gas chambers. Considering what happened to poor Charlie Kirk, what nearly happened on at least three separate occasions to President Trump and what happened to America's cities in the summer of 2020 and to churches, synagogues, schools and individuals at the hands of anti-semites, transexuals and abortionists for years now, I take these fiends at their word. The dehumanizing verbiage against us makes it that much easier to hurl the molotov cocktails and bricks, pull the triggers and ultimately send us to the ovens as this evil subhuman slag from North Carolina, and far too many like her in and out of office desire.

On these and all the other horrendous news we have, I bid you all to have a good day.

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 07:20 AM (I43vL)

2 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)

3 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 07:22 AM (/+uur)

4 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

5 ...I take these fiends at their word.
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Me too. I wish there was some easy way of identifying them. Perhaps they all gather together in one place, or attend meetings together. Maybe they all belong to a single organization.

Oh, well, nothing we can do.
-GOP

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

6 What is wrong with this Shelly Headen?? I find this very depressing… and disgusting… and… I don’t know about human nature sometimes.

Thank you JJ! The MR is always great (sometimes a jarring reminder of reality)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 14, 2026 07:26 AM (M+uMR)

7 Bring back the ovens, says a Democrat candidate

Republican Women: "I'm baking a pie in the oven."
Democrat Women: "Get into the oven, you racist, misogynistic pig!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 07:26 AM (l3cgK)

8 Good Morning

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 07:27 AM (9U0Wy)

9 jim (in Kalifornia)

The executive summary, right there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

10 Everything the Left Doesn't Like Is Hitler

Also, everything the Left wants to do to Joos and us is like Hitler...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 07:27 AM (l3cgK)

11 Good morning again!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 07:28 AM (BpO1e)

12 Your new pop-up ads that cover the entirety of the page, have become the bane of my existence. Click on a video, wah-lah! You miss the first 5 seconds trying to tap the ridiculously small close tab. Please, do better.

Posted by: Riddle at September 14, 2026 07:28 AM (EagFv)

13 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

14 Riddle

Ad Block Plus.

ace said he talked to his advertising manager three weeks about this. Drop him a line. and hit the tip jar.

I guess ace outsources everything but his content, which seems to get better every year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

15 I used to have a different nic

How are you doing? Have the test shown remission?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

16 We Are No Safer 25 Years After 9/11

A problem with an easy solution that would make most people a touch squeamish. The problem is we let their voices matter.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 07:33 AM (BpO1e)

17 "Could At Least This One Leftist Politician Actually Face Justice?"

Sure, and Elon could give me all his money.

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at September 14, 2026 07:34 AM (MWfyi)

18 Three Charged for Using Homeless to Forge Voter Signatures in LA.

Not surprised by the fraud, but that someone was actually charged...now, lets see if they'll be convicted and sentenced.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 07:35 AM (l3cgK)

19 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 07:35 AM (xretu)

20 Doog
@doogadoo11
·
Follow
I'll be the first to admit the GOP has been shit

But Trump has been amazing

And that's why I will Vote Red up and down the ballot in November

I want to position him for as much success as possible during his final two years
6:07 AM · Sep 13, 2026
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If even one house flips in November, these were the final two years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

21 Happy Monday!

>>Posing in front of Dachau and wishing your political opponents, who are viewed as anexistential threat to life, the planet and "democracy" are shoved into the gas chambers.


Has this made national news?
Has she dropped out of the race in shame?

Seems the MSM and politicians who label conservatives have no recognition of what a true Nazi was - the person who easily admits wanting to exterminate millions.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 07:38 AM (rOKnE)

22 tom homan has confirmed that there is a criminal investigation into illhan omar over her immigration stuff.


I know nothing is going to happen but it would be great to see her sent back to somalia.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 14, 2026 07:39 AM (I43vL)

23 19 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 07:35 AM (xretu)

JJ and the Horde...what a great name for a band...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 07:39 AM (l3cgK)

24 Not surprised by the fraud, but that someone was actually charged...now, lets see if they'll be convicted and sentenced.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not likely.

Posted by: Judge Kahmaheamahea at September 14, 2026 07:40 AM (9U0Wy)

25 We Are No Safer 25 Years After 9/11

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I'm going to argue we are much less safe. One look at the explosion of islam into this country is all I need to see to know we've imported the madness and savagery right onto our own front porch.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

26 The Charlie Kirk litmus test not only reveals how someone feels about Kirk.

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2026 07:45 AM (MWfyi)

27 Morning, news people,

I've finally seen what Lindsay Clancy looks like. Geez. Physiognomy is real. Give her only a few more years, and if she lived in France in 1300, she'd be known as "Old Mother Clancy" and denounced as a witch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:46 AM (wzUl9)

28 Democrats need to be forced to take a position: do they stand with America, or do they stand with anti-American terrorists and terrorist sympathizers?
--John Hinderaker
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*clutches pearls*

Can we really say that? The other ladies on the county committee really don't like that sort of thing.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 14, 2026 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

29 are we quite certain that what happened to Tom Tiffany was an accident ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 07:46 AM (VyBeY)

30 Willowed: I'm now reminded of a video clip where an influencer arrived in London and was filming things on his phone only to have it quickly stolen by a migrant of indeterminate ethnic origin.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026

***
I can name that ethnic origin in three notes!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)

31 Watched "The Path to 9/11" this weekend - it was posted on X. Good reminder of how we got there, and also what weasels the Clintons were (and no doubt those that followed that horrific attack).

Think there will be any political reaction to the 9/11 family members demanding Trump be the POTUS that finally releases the documents on Saudi Arabia's involvement, which all previous ones have refused to do?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 07:48 AM (rOKnE)

32 Everything the Left Doesn't Like Is Hitler

Which is ironic give how many of the Nazi's policies they support.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

33 Not only are we much less safe, our government has been terrorized into compliance with our destructors.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

34 {{{ Lady in Black }}}

I worry about our government more than Islamics. All the actions about COVID-19 Wuhan killed and damaged many more people. They are unpunished actions. The inner decision makers that planned this out wanted us very dead, and are planning again.

It was a wake-up call, and trust from informed people dropped.

With Islamics, the Second Amendment gives the people at large an abundance of tools.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

35 As for Nixon's unpaid federal student loan debt, she says she won't repay it. In October 2023, when Congress ended the pandemic-era student loan moratorium, Nixon, a University of Florida graduate, declared on Facebook she was "above" paying back her educational debts.
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What a crook.

And Florida Democrats will vote for her blindly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 07:48 AM (db6UU)

36 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 07:48 AM (77rzZ)

37 right with you on that , LiB; "much less safe" for sure.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 07:49 AM (VyBeY)

38 >> Democrats need to be forced to take a position: do they stand with America, or do they stand with anti-American terrorists and terrorist sympathizers?
--John Hinderaker


Heck, we can't even get Republicans to speak out against legal immigration causing significant ethnic replacement in Texas.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 07:49 AM (rOKnE)

39 what SFp said!

"If even one house flips in November, these were the final two years."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 07:50 AM (VyBeY)

40 I came across some self described "conservative watchdogs" on the socials who claim Shelly Headen is clinically insane.

She's the one running for office in NC.

True or not, there's increasing evidence to support that many now seeking office are, in fact, mentally ill. And many are, not surprising, women.

Make of that what you will. Inmates running the asylum is, apparently, real life.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 07:50 AM (2Cry5)

41 So the Democrat Party withdrew its support from that vile, hideous creature named Shelly Headen. I started seeing this story come out over the weekend and while I'm thoroughly numbed by the Left's sickening and demonic nature, I have to admit I was stunned at this woman and what she said. It's so unconscionable, it's hard to believe it's real. There isn't an asylum big enough to hold all of these mad dogs. And the picture of her at Dachau, in front of the ovens...SMILING like she's at some roadside park scenic view is simply unbelievable. Just u-n-r-e-a-l.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

42 Morning Horde. Time to get up, get a walk in, then continue job searching and try to schedule fingerprinting to be a substitute teacher until a job comes through. Also need to poke recruiters who are supposedly waiting for client response.

Keep praying, please - I'm pretty sure it's helping. A couple of good possibilities this week but it's all preliminary stuff unless the one place gets back to me.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 07:51 AM (aJQbY)

43 Which is ironic give how many of the Nazi's policies they support.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

1. Total government control.
2. You can only raise your family according to what the government says.
3. Hatred of Jews to the point you want them all dead.

Yep. All that the Dems are missing are a catchy song and fashionable uniforms.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 07:51 AM (BpO1e)

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 07:52 AM (ZxPkt)

45 Is the "Max Brooks" in this roundup the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)

46 We had a thunderstorm roll through this morning scaring my dogs. I turned the tv on for them while i was in the shower to cover for the noise. Netflix "Our Oceans" is what I turned it to. The narrator's voice caught my attention and I wanted to puke. F'ing Obama. I turned the channel very quickly. To this day the sound of his voice makes me ill.

Posted by: Molly k. at September 14, 2026 07:53 AM (j/yko)

47 Should we dismantle a super-valuable law enforcement tool just because it’s theoretically possible to abuse it?

Theoretically? There have been dozens of cases, so far, and the people with the power to look further into the matter haven't even started to do so. Every power, every tool, given to the government is not only theoretically possible to abuse, they've all been abused. Every single one.

If you want to defend flock cameras then you need to show that it can do something, something needful, which cannot be done otherwise, not just that it allows the police to look at things so quickly that they have plenty of free time on their hands with which to violate your constitutional rights.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

48 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 07:54 AM (AXBJa)

49 I used to have a different nic

If we can not put criminals in PYITA prison, surveillance is useless, from a good of society viewpoint. The Justice system is the weak link here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

50 >I have to admit I was stunned at this woman and what she said. It's so unconscionable, it's hard to believe it's real.

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a common trait of people on the Left is that they have no internal 'filter' for what comes out of their mouths- no tiny internal voice asking 'should I really say these words?'

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 07:55 AM (ZxPkt)

51 Finally, the bill mandates structural transparency and modern digital access, forcing the agency to respect taxpayers’ time and rights. Re-establishing the mandatory annual Tax Complexity Report requires the Treasury Department to publicly account for the federal tax code’s immense compliance costs—currently exceeding 6.9 billion hours annually

6900000000 / 2000
3,450,000
3 and a half million man years to do our taxes EVERY FRICKIN YEAR.
@ $60k/year thats 207,000,000,000 COST TO COMPLY
Basically the revenue of a Cigna sized corp.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 07:55 AM (/+uur)

52 Should we dismantle a super-valuable law enforcement tool just because it’s theoretically possible to abuse it?

Theoretically? There have been dozens of cases, so far, and the people with the power to look further into the matter haven't even started to do so. Every power, every tool, given to the government is not only theoretically possible to abuse, they've all been abused. Every single one.

If you want to defend flock cameras then you need to show that it can do something, something needful, which cannot be done otherwise, not just that it allows the police to look at things so quickly that they have plenty of free time on their hands with which to violate your constitutional rights.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Nailed it. 🎯🎯🎯

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 07:55 AM (AXBJa)

53 I’d like to get a refund. My student loans were completely repaid, decades early.

Maybe Mr. Trump or somebody could look into this. Certainly, I could use the money.

What a Chump I’ve been. Paying bills on time, paying taxes, trying to stay on the straight and narrow.

These people are just rancid and poisonous.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 07:57 AM (rQ950)

54 The Bush family was beholden to the Saudis but so were we because of our oil dependence.

For the record, nearly all the 9/11 perpetrators were fanatical Saudis, Bin Laden included. Awkward.

Our oil dependence shaped our foreign policy for decades, but no longer.

Much credit goes to George P. Mitchell, the Father of Fracking. Most Americans have never heard of him.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 14, 2026 07:57 AM (dtajH)

55 Everything the Left Doesn't Like Is Hitler



Because they are children cosplaying at being adults.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 07:57 AM (AXBJa)

56 Should we dismantle a super-valuable law enforcement tool just because it’s theoretically possible to abuse it?

Theoretically?

Come on, JJ. You're better than that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (gLYp7)

57 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the G20 this month that America would have 80 percent of the world’s computing power by 2028, so it stands to reason China wants to slow us down.

No wonder David Sacks, chairman of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, suggests the latest Anthropic doom-fest is an “election season psy-op.”

Of course Barack Obama is involved. The former president and back-room Machiavelli “has taken a special interest in AI in recent years, and has offered himself as a sounding board to industry leaders.

Progressives hate Progress

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (/+uur)

58 In many ways we are still dealing with both the root cause and the political/cultural reverberations of 9/11 ...

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"I'll take 'Islam and The French Revolution' for $64 trillion, Alex!"

Posted by: ShainS at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (JqXxE)

59 Why isn't there a flock camera trained on the primary entrances of every elected official's home, with the web address of each publicly available?
If they're not doing anything wrong they have nothing to fear.

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

60 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 07:59 AM (ccf/V)

61
Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 07:59 AM (ccf/V)

62 I have to admit I was stunned at this woman and what she said. It's so unconscionable, it's hard to believe it's real.

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a common trait of people on the Left is that they have no internal 'filter' for what comes out of their mouths- no tiny internal voice asking 'should I really say these words?'
Posted by: Don Black


Not trying to reopen a can of worms, but this comment coming out of the Lindsay Clancy juror's mouth:

"He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children"

Bitch, do you hear what you just said? How do you not realize that's an "own goal"?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:00 AM (AXBJa)

63 I gotta ask

Good idea.

Oh wait. I am considering a write-in campaign for a local office.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

64 Should we dismantle a super-valuable law enforcement tool just because it’s theoretically possible to abuse it?

Theoretically?

Come on, JJ. You're better than that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (gLYp7)
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That's the subtitle of the linked article...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 08:00 AM (FZ29D)

65 How are you doing? Have the test shown remission?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

The side effects have subsided. I don't have my first blood test until next month. I think that's just for a starting point. I don't expect any 'news' for at least six months. Apparently it takes somewhere between 18 months to say maybe success and 7 years to say not success.

Fortunately, I don't have anything else on my schedule.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

66 $17,600 in unpaid federal student loans.

I had 25K in loans and knew what I was getting into. "Education should be free"? Sure; but the government gets to decide your major based on how well you test.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 08:01 AM (BpO1e)

67 Of course Barack Obama is involved. The former president and back-room Machiavelli “has taken a special interest in AI in recent years, and has offered himself as a sounding board to industry leaders.

Progressives hate Progress
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (/+uur)


WTF does that asshole know about technology? Or running a business.........A sounding board.......What a maroon.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:02 AM (ccf/V)

68 If even one house flips in November, these were the final two years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

I believe one seat, in New Mexico, has already flipped to the GOP as the Dems didn't get someone on the ballot or something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

69 3rd to last link -

The busybody has always played an important, eternal function.
In Defense of Karen and Not Minding Your Own Business

Abner! Read this!

Posted by: Gladys Kravitz at September 14, 2026 08:02 AM (wVcYX)

70 Another thing that made my jaw drop over the weekend was this story posted on the NYPost about some crazy Lindsay Clancy fan mom who has put together a GoFundMe, supposedly for Clancy's parents. It's already over $1.2 million. But you just have to see the "artwork" for the page and prepare to be sickened. It's unbelievable! Poor Lindsay Clancy, head down, hands covering her weeping face, as she's surrounded by women in solidarity, holding hands in a circle of support. I...I...just have no words for these crazy women. They make me sick.

https://tinyurl.com/2wxu37b7

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

71 Duel in the Sun w/ Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones is on Movies! I'm struck by how lovely Lillian Gish is even as an older woman. She was 53 when this movie was made, playing a wife in her 60s, and yet you can see in her face how lovely she must have been in her girlhood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 08:03 AM (wzUl9)

72 “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”

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After 9/11 it only took another 25 years for "The Religion of Peace" Islamists to conquer NYC.

Knife comes at you fast, infidels ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 14, 2026 08:03 AM (JqXxE)

73 Now she’s apologizing for her social media posts but also says she doesn’t recall making them. It’s a case of I didn’t do it, but I apologize for it. With some of her posts now deleted, we don’t know the full scope of her malice.


She has an issue with hormones and should not be considered eligible for public office. Sorry, ladies. Them's the rules.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:03 AM (ccf/V)

74 Why isn't there a flock camera trained on the primary entrances of every elected official's home, with the web address of each publicly available?
If they're not doing anything wrong they have nothing to fear.
Posted by: I gotta ask


What about Flock cameras trained ONLY on gun stores and their parking lots? Two separate states.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:04 AM (AXBJa)

75 ]
What about Flock cameras trained ONLY on gun stores and their parking lots? Two separate states.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:04 AM (AXBJa)


If you do that in Indiana, you'll stop all crime in Chicago, they tell me.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:05 AM (ccf/V)

76 Top German Politician Floats Banning Populist AfD After Its Election Win.
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Totally normal leftist response: "End elections if voters don't choose us".

Here is our country Democrats rig the vote in advance, avoiding this embarrassment, but it amounts to the same thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:05 AM (22dac)

77 Now she’s apologizing for her social media posts but also says she doesn’t recall making them. It’s a case of I didn’t do it, but I apologize for it. With some of her posts now deleted, we don’t know the full scope of her malice.


She has an issue with hormones and should not be considered eligible for public office. Sorry, ladies. Them's the rules.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:03 AM (ccf/V)
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Does she have kids? Has anyone checked on them recently?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:06 AM (22dac)

78 Fourteen moves in eight days

The psyop to create hysteria to manipulate Congress into regulating AI.

https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/
2098581753975722491

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 08:06 AM (/+uur)

79 What do the bottom German politicians say?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 14, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)

80 Theoretically?

Come on, JJ. You're better than that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (gLYp7)

That's a quote from the article, not commentary from JJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

81 >>a common trait of people on the Left is that they have no internal 'filter' for what comes out of their mouths- no tiny internal voice asking 'should I really say these words?'


Also, living in a bubble where everyone makes "jokes" and/or exasperated comments like this, so they are totally desensitized to how awful they are being.

Yeah, this happens in all social bubbles, particularly social media, but the extremism it fosters on the Left is frightening!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:07 AM (rOKnE)

82 WTF does that asshole know about technology? Or running a business.........A sounding board.......What a maroon.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:02 AM (ccf/V)

...............

Or oceans .....

Posted by: Molly k. at September 14, 2026 08:07 AM (j/yko)

83 Now she’s apologizing for her social media posts but also says she doesn’t recall making them. It’s a case of I didn’t do it, but I apologize for it. With some of her posts now deleted, we don’t know the full scope of her malice.

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And she even had a company rifle through her social media posts to remove anything questionable before she ran! They must have hated her.

Which leads me to the question of having to hire anyone to clean up your social media posts before you run for office. That's scary to me. "Hide what I really am from the people."

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

84
That's a quote from the article, not commentary from JJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)


Article? Commentary?

Where is this content of which you speak?

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

85 Well, they ARE like Hitler:

https://tinyurl.com/ywwzr6xj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 08:09 AM (i2Ycu)

86 Where is this content of which you speak?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:08 AM (ccf/V)

Pony up the money for the plastic wrap membership and you can see the content.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

87
Pony up the money for the plastic wrap membership and you can see the content.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)


Oh, well I'm out then.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

88 Well, they ARE like Hitler:

https://tinyurl.com/ywwzr6xj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 08:09 AM (i2Ycu)
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Appalling.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:11 AM (E1om2)

89 Posted by: Gladys Kravitz at September 14, 2026 08:02 AM (wVcYX)
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After 28 years Mrs. F. has become the Gladys of our neighborhood and thinks "everyone has stolen her" plumber.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

90 Morn' all...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (+gK6I)

91 Well, they ARE like Hitler:

https://tinyurl.com/ywwzr6xj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 08:09 AM (i2Ycu)


Where is this 'palestine' of which they desire to free? How is it being held captive?

Last time I drove through Palestine, Texas, it seemed such a nice, peaceful place.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (ccf/V)

92 No Actual Science, Technology news over the weekend. Uranus remains on the back burner. I can relax.

Posted by: Dodged Another Bullet at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (Fn+3X)

93 Charlie Kirk Statue Defaced With Red Paint After Unveiling

But hate has no home here is what I keep hearing.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (BpO1e)

94 >>"He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children"

Bitch, do you hear what you just said? How do you not realize that's an "own goal"?


Seems they wanted to do something bigger than decide one case: https://tinyurl.com/35aja2p4

During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.”

“We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…”

The idea of activism being the greatest good is a mind cancer.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)

95 Football season is here.

https://tinyurl.com/mu3d6cd3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 08:14 AM (ndZc7)

96 Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans
~~ via Pixy
====================
How about that. Bernie Sanders extorting money from AI companies right before our very eyes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:14 AM (E1om2)

97 Good morning Horde thx JJ, happy Monday to all

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 08:14 AM (N2HNb)

98
The idea of activism being the greatest good is a mind cancer.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)


Especially when it involves getting away with murdering your kids because 'vagina.'

Are THESE the TRUE vagina monologues?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:15 AM (ccf/V)

99 Socrates

We have admitted that justice is the excellence of the soul, and injustice the defect of the soul? … Then the just soul and the just man will live well, and the unjust man will live ill? … And he who lives well is blessed and happy, and he who lives ill the reverse of happy? … Then the just is happy, and the unjust miserable?

If this is TRUE for a man, then imagine this applied to an entire society, or culture, or religion.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)

100
“We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…”

The idea of activism being the greatest good is a mind cancer.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)

Better for other women ? What... To kill their children ? This sounds like a Greek tragedy...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I)

101 Bernie wants 5% off the top line revenue of all AI so he can do gooder things with it.

hahahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

102 Pony up the money for the plastic wrap membership and you can see the content.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Oh, well I'm out then.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


LOL.

Cardboard credit card can be used as a cardboard membership:

https://tinyurl.com/2b6fxwhf

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:16 AM (AXBJa)

103 Lizzy

Wow.

This appears to be not good. Anti-Darwinian, in fact. So much hate there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

104 Okay, tell me I'm reading this X message from Dem Candidate Crowley wrong:

I'm grateful to God that Congressman Tiffany and no one else was hurt in this horrifying incident, which could have been a tragedy if not for the heroism of the pilot.

I wish them and the Congressman a quick recovery and that they can find solace with their loved ones.

I read this at Townhall and still can't believe it.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (rvoLC)

105 Putin's effect on domestic Russian politics.

https://tinyurl.com/js2u52dy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (ndZc7)

106 The left has absolutely no sense of humor, and no way any of them laugh at themselves.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (E1om2)

107
Dang. Back to granny's got her boobs out pop ups.

Posted by: Auspex at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (Y8DZL)

108 >>Especially when it involves getting away with murdering your kids because 'vagina.'

Are THESE the TRUE vagina monologues?


Ugh, that crap play! It initially included lesbian rape of a minor, but git edited out when people started to notice how creepy that was. Apart from a vagina monologuing. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (rOKnE)

109 Wish that the FBI and/or Trump would just dump every document about the Obama mid administration. Don't bother with prosecution, DC wouldn't convict

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (N2HNb)

110 Dang. Back to granny's got her boobs out pop ups.

Posted by: Auspex at September 14, 2026 08:18 AM (Y8DZL)


"I wish I could get implants......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:19 AM (ccf/V)

111 Alice Pearce was the original Gladys Kravitz and never appeared in a color episode of Bewitched. She died of cancer in the Spring of 1966, Bewitched went to color in the Fall of 1966. And she was right! There were very strange goings-on in the Stevens home!

Posted by: Busy-Bodies Unite! at September 14, 2026 08:20 AM (Fn+3X)

112 The debate over surveillance in the public domain has been long over due. I think it's only because of the abuse law enforcement has perpetrated and the resulting legal actions that made people aware.

Flock, and their competitors are one, public facing system. The hidden ones in most retail stores, offices and the like also need to be addressed.

Different rules, I'm sure. But most retail stores have a sign in the window. Flock doesn't. I'm not sure if the pressure should be directed at Flock (and the like) or at the municipal entities putting them up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 08:21 AM (2Cry5)

113 Chatterbox (1979) beat the Vagina Monologues by decades.

Posted by: Bird Is The Word! at September 14, 2026 08:22 AM (Fn+3X)

114 So just watch it!

https://tinyurl.com/2szfvner

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 08:23 AM (ndZc7)

115 Football season is here.

https://tinyurl.com/mu3d6cd3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


1. #4 University of Texas upsetting #1 Ohio State
2. UT being the first team in college football history to rally from 17+ points down in the fourth quarter to win.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:23 AM (AXBJa)

116 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 14, 2026 08:23 AM (53oGX)

117 Theoretically?

Come on, JJ. You're better than that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 07:58 AM (gLYp7)

That's a quote from the article, not commentary from JJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

Ah. Thank you for that clarification. Truly.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 14, 2026 08:24 AM (gLYp7)

118 111 Gladys Kravitz as a latter-day Cassandra. Discuss.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:24 AM (77rzZ)

119 People with freelance, consulting, or rental income are required by law to pre-pay their federal and state taxes since these taxes are not withdrawn from their paychecks as happens with a W2 job. Taxpayers who can't pay their taxes after they file must enter a repayment plan or face liens, garnishments, or other seizures.

I say we all go to quarterly payments.
JD or Lil Marco should run on that.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

120 A small EMP transmitter that can be aimed at surveillance cameras would be a bad idea. We rely on electronics too much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

121 The debate over surveillance in the public domain has been long over due. I think it's only because of the abuse law enforcement has perpetrated and the resulting legal actions that made people aware.

Flock, and their competitors are one, public facing system. The hidden ones in most retail stores, offices and the like also need to be addressed.

Different rules, I'm sure. But most retail stores have a sign in the window. Flock doesn't. I'm not sure if the pressure should be directed at Flock (and the like) or at the municipal entities putting them up.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


Retail stores like 5 Below or Ulta or Target can't track you to Chili's and then on to Academy Sports and then to Kroger.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:25 AM (AXBJa)

122
1. #4 University of Texas upsetting #1 Ohio State
2. UT being the first team in college football history to rally from 17+ points down in the fourth quarter to win.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:23 AM (AXBJa)

3. Oklahoma State beating #6 Oregon after losing 12 Straight games.
4. Oklahoma, with a Heisman Trophy candidate QB, losing to a Michigan team that took a controversial review and 2nd Hail Mary pass to beat a basically D2 team shortly after the OU coach received ANOTHER contract extension through 2030 giving him over $10m a year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:27 AM (ccf/V)

123 118 111 Gladys Kravitz as a latter-day Cassandra. Discuss.
Posted by: Bulg

You're just dwelling on one aspect of her character. We had a great relationship and she had many talents I can't discuss on a public blog.

Posted by: Abner Kravitz at September 14, 2026 08:27 AM (Fn+3X)

124 Watching the AI argument is the same as watching crypto. "Regulate us government" is the people involved trying to get an edge. Add in Barky playing punk ass and you know a mess is coming

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 08:27 AM (N2HNb)

125 118 111 Gladys Kravitz as a latter-day Cassandra. Discuss.
Posted by: Bulg

Sgt. Schultz for oracle of Delphi.

Posted by: Auspex at September 14, 2026 08:27 AM (Y8DZL)

126 Add in Barky playing punk ass and you know a mess is coming

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2026 08:27 AM (N2HNb)


Because everything he touches turns to crap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:28 AM (ccf/V)

127 >Football season is here.

https://tinyurl.com/mu3d6cd3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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damn
I never laugh this hard so early in the morning

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 08:29 AM (ZxPkt)

128 I remember when a random Republican candidate for Rep giving a bag answer on abortion was the campaign issue a few years ago. This woman wanting the Holocaust on her enemies should be in every tv ad from now on

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 08:30 AM (MLtBs)

129 1. #4 University of Texas upsetting #1 Ohio State
2. UT being the first team in college football history to rally from 17+ points down in the fourth quarter to win.
Posted by: rickb223
__________

Texas was a point and half favorite. It wasn't an upset, and they didn't even cover the spread.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2026 08:30 AM (XvL8K)

130 The idea of activism being the greatest good is a mind cancer

“One person can make a difference. But, they probably shouldn’t.”

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 08:31 AM (rQ950)

131 Time for three Flock cameras outside of Paula Devlin's house.

Posted by: For her safety at September 14, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

132 Brutus Buckeye screwed the pooch Saturday. I gotta good chuckle out of that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 08:31 AM (qZb7K)

133 The answer on cameras should be no sharing with anyone without a warrant. No flock and cvs can't share with Walmart or kroeger or some ad service

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2026 08:32 AM (MLtBs)

134 It's an omlette /eggs thing.

During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.”

“We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 08:32 AM (ndZc7)

135 During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.”

--

Make what better??? Kill children? Fight the "patriarchy?" Improve circumstances on their endless victimhood?

What madness and stupidity.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 08:33 AM (qBdHI)

136 He may actually be a girl.

https://tinyurl.com/yc8bmwyk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 08:36 AM (ndZc7)

137 Let the deranged jurors speak. It's just getting worse for them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 08:36 AM (qZb7K)

138 Brutus Buckeye screwed the pooch Saturday. I gotta good chuckle out of that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 08:31 AM (qZb7K)


Is Coach Day back on the hotseat again? You'd have to pay me a TON of money to take that suck job.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:36 AM (ccf/V)

139 Good morning!

I hope the Hero Lone Juror has some friends that will help him duck the media and loon onslaught that is headed his way.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 14, 2026 08:37 AM (wVcYX)

140 There should be Patriots showing up to flog and berate Paula Devlin every time she dares to leave her house.

Posted by: Shelly Headen, Too. at September 14, 2026 08:38 AM (Fn+3X)

141 34 {{{ Lady in Black }}}

I worry about our government more than Islamics. All the actions about COVID-19 Wuhan killed and damaged many more people. They are unpunished actions. The inner decision makers that planned this out wanted us very dead, and are planning again.

It was a wake-up call, and trust from informed people dropped.

With Islamics, the Second Amendment gives the people at large an abundance of tools.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
========
You need to worry about both. Government Deep Staters plan on using the Musloids to oppress the people of the US. Go to Europe, it becomes apparent. It is a trick old enough that Aristotle describes it, if one is losing a conflict, the best way is to broaden it.

And the left circa Reagan was losing the internal conflict, thus they decided to go abroad to bring in people that would support their view from the Third World where tribalism ruled. Same sort of thing in the Western European democracies.

Oppressing and bankrupting the locals is a job fit for rootless low iq migrants who are often criminals themselves fleeing justice. Leftists really will rule by any means possible even it it reduces society to a dung heap.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:38 AM (E4rtv)

142 He may actually be a girl.

https://tinyurl.com/yc8bmwyk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 14, 2026 08:36 AM (ndZc7)


At least he's ambidextrous and can throw haymakers with both hands.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:38 AM (ccf/V)

143 >>“One person can make a difference. But, they probably shouldn’t.”


"Protest is the greatest form of patriotism"
-- every Lefty freak who throws a tantrum in the streets

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:38 AM (rOKnE)

144 Will the Turtle return to the Senate today? This week?

Posted by: Stay Tuned at September 14, 2026 08:39 AM (Fn+3X)

145
"Protest is the greatest form of patriotism"
-- every Lefty freak who throws a tantrum in the streets
Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:38 AM (rOKnE)


Unless you're protesting a democrat policy.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:40 AM (ccf/V)

146 Will the Turtle return to the Senate today? This week?
Posted by: Stay Tuned at September 14, 2026 08:39 AM (Fn+3X)

Very Doubtful.

Posted by: Magic 8 Ball at September 14, 2026 08:41 AM (wVcYX)

147 America Has Not Learned the Right Lessons From Charlie Kirk’s Murder

I said all this "I am Charlie Kirk" was just a nine days' wonder.

Despite how I appear here, I do not really take joy in my predictions coming true.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 14, 2026 08:41 AM (qRla/)

148 Will the Turtle return to the Senate today? This week?
Posted by: Stay Tuned


Ouija Board says "Not Likely" & "Goodbye".

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 08:42 AM (AXBJa)

149 144 Will the Turtle return to the Senate today? This week?
Posted by: Stay Tuned at September 14, 2026 08:39 AM
-----

Sssshhh, comrade.
If their is anything you need to know about Komissar Turtle, uniparty Politburo will tell it to you.

Posted by: Politburo Pravda at September 14, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

150 At NYT: "The Quick Sauce That Changed How I Cook"

tl;dr: Ketchup.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 08:42 AM (Jr5Lq)

151 Dangit. Xcancel suspended again, apparently the proceedings *are* ongoing and there's some new wrinkle.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 08:42 AM (aJQbY)

152 147 Hey, MP4, I downloaded the Ripperology magazine and read your column. Very interesting.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

153 137 Let the deranged jurors speak. It's just getting worse for them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
========
Yes and for the leftist activist class in general. This is your brain on leftism sort of public service announcement. Insert image of breaking and frying eggs in a skillet.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:44 AM (E4rtv)

154 NC House District 62 is Guilford County (Greensboro). This idiot could easily be elected. Greensboro has one of the highest concentrations of AWFLs in NC. Not to mention Jewish people. The AWFLs agree with her and the Jewish people don’t believe anything negative about any Democrat. Factor in MAGA don’t vote in the midterms and swoop there it is.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 14, 2026 08:45 AM (x69Nb)

155 > Will the Turtle return to the Senate today? This week?
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His staff, who are still on the public payroll, will more than likely issue a missive on his behalf.

And continue to vote for him, while collecting a paycheck.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2026 08:45 AM (2Cry5)

156 You know, a small amount of ketchup isn’t bad in casseroles or stews, meatloaf. Good on hashbrowns too.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 08:46 AM (rQ950)

157 So did Mitch address the convention or not?

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

158 Today is National Cream Filled Donut Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

159 Mitch's chief of staff is the de facto senior Senator from Kentucky

unelected

has been for some time

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 08:47 AM (ZxPkt)

160 157 So did Mitch address the convention or not?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:46 AM

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: RNC at September 14, 2026 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

161 153 137 Let the deranged jurors speak. It's just getting worse for them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
========

I agree... They are making it clear that they never had any intention of finding Clancy guilty of her crimes...They're the ones who didn't listen to the evidence...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 08:48 AM (+gK6I)

162 "Dangit. Xcancel suspended again,....."

Ya know, all it takes is a email addy and a name but I do admire your steadfast refusal to fork those over.

Keep on keeping on!

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 14, 2026 08:50 AM (rje/a)

163 158 Today is National Cream Filled Donut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Want my recipe?

Posted by: Uncle Pervy at September 14, 2026 08:50 AM (Fn+3X)

164
I have a cousin who has long volunteered at a downtown shelter who quit this last weekend. She is looking for people in need to help.

Drugs are essentially free around downtown now, and the city officialdom and law enforcement have elected to actively support the lifestyle.

Posted by: Auspex at September 14, 2026 08:51 AM (Y8DZL)

165 It's long past time for some so-called "journalist" to ask Trump or Thune to discuss the whereabouts and condition of the senior senator from Kentucky.

It's just so damn Soviet.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

166 Ketchup is a key ingredient in meat loaf.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:51 AM (yvZQo)

167 >>Today is National Cream Filled Donut Day.

I'll take a bismark, thanks!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:51 AM (rOKnE)

168
I agree... They are making it clear that they never had any intention of finding Clancy guilty of her crimes...They're the ones who didn't listen to the evidence...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 08:48 AM (+gK6I)


I think the worst part of that whole thing is, the more they speak out, the more you realize they had no understanding what the trial was for and what they were determining.

They actually think were they to grant a not-guilty verdict, she would go free and that's absolutely not the case.

They weren't trying her for murder. She already confessed to murdering those three beautiful children. They were only determining whether she was mentally competent at the time of the murders.

She's still going to a mental institution and is not free to roam.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

169 Also, living in a bubble where everyone makes "jokes" and/or exasperated comments like this, so they are totally desensitized to how awful they are being.

Yeah, this happens in all social bubbles, particularly social media, but the extremism it fosters on the Left is frightening!
Posted by: Lizzy

Living life online via social media (younger generations) or vicariously by watching tv (older generations) instead of being out and around leads to being led by lies, half truths, and lies by omission.

We have destroyed the social fabric of society by living vicariously instead of by real life experiences with fellow humans and this has hollowed out our understanding of others into symbols, slogans, and caricatures that we can manipulate from the safety of our bubble.

Same reason that literature, movies, art, have taken a dive. They no longer reflect much of anything real but instead the internal fantasies of a shut in. No wonder our politics are rancid in the West.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:52 AM (E4rtv)

170 Ketchup is a key ingredient in meat loaf.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:51 AM (yvZQo)


Why not catsup?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

171 Seems the MSM and politicians who label conservatives have no recognition of what a true Nazi was - the person who easily admits wanting to exterminate millions.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 07:38 AM (rOKnE)

Or they just enjoy lying about it...

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 08:52 AM (AANQ+)

172 167 >>Today is National Cream Filled Donut Day.

I'll take a bismark, thanks!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 08:51 AM (rOKnE)

Ones filled with custard and chocolate frosted...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)

173 Last 3 polls show Dems with an average 10 point lead in the generic. Still summer polling and to be ignored. Everyone loves Trump and $5 gas. Or something.

Posted by: Dont worry be happy at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (NQxIL)

174 Gladys Kravitz as a latter-day Cassandra. Discuss.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:24 AM (77rzZ)

Years ago, National Lampoon magazine had a "Bewitched" parody cartoon where, while trying to rid the house of a gift of poisonous frogs from Dr Bombay, Samantha and Endora call up two demons (in the process melting snoopy Gladys' eyes), perform 'sex magick' with them, sacrifice a Girl Scout and end up burned at the stake by the neighbors.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (qRla/)

175 At UPI: "What time is it on the moon? NASA's trying to figure that out"

"Time to head back to base for debriefing and cocktails"

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

176 Ones filled with custard and chocolate frosted...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)


The Dunkin Donuts Boston Kreme FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (ccf/V)

177 Hey, MP4, I downloaded the Ripperology magazine and read your column. Very interesting.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

Many thanks!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (qRla/)

178 Massachusetts lawmakers are currently considering a bill that would give Muslims a greater voice in state government and address areas of discrimination presumably perpetrated against that community. The bill would create an eleven-member commission to work with state officials on areas of concern to Muslims such as education, civil rights, health care, employment, and, of course, Islamophobia.
======================
Unreal. That this is even being considered is an affront.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:54 AM (fMPEh)

179 She's still going to a mental institution and is not free to roam.
Posted by: Sponge
==========
Given it is Massachusetts, it is perfectly possible that she would go free or some such nonsense as house arrest or outpatient mental illness treatment.

And that is in part because of the topsy turvy standard in Mass over insanity defense and their literally insane laws on mandatory committal to a mental hospital.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:54 AM (E4rtv)

180 "We have destroyed the social fabric of society by living vicariously instead of by real life experiences with fellow humans and this has hollowed out our understanding of others into symbols, slogans, and caricatures that we can manipulate from the safety of our bubble."

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:52 AM


Come to the MoMe.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

181 At UPI: "What time is it on the moon? NASA's trying to figure that out"

"Time to head back to base for debriefing and cocktails"
Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (Jr5Lq)


I mean, who cares? What does this matter? You're either on the dark side or the light side, or it's in full eclipse. Time really means nothing on the moon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

182 Will Robinson, I have an X account. I use it. Unfortunately when combined with my privacy settings/plugins, randomly certain videos (I suspect ones heavily being accessed) NEVER load on x.com in normal mode (I can open them in a non-secured browser with the login prompt and all that and they play fine). Thing is, when I just edit the URL to xcancel, *that problem does not happen*. This is not about 'not getting an x account', this is about 'x has a stupid randomly interfering api somewhere that is unpredictably ruining the x experience'.

So kindly get over it.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 14, 2026 08:55 AM (aJQbY)

183 Years ago, National Lampoon magazine had a "Bewitched" parody cartoon where, while trying to rid the house of a gift of poisonous frogs from Dr Bombay, Samantha and Endora call up two demons (in the process melting snoopy Gladys' eyes), perform 'sex magick' with them, sacrifice a Girl Scout and end up burned at the stake by the neighbors.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 14, 2026 08:53 AM (qRla/)
======================
National Lampoon was a national treasure.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:55 AM (fMPEh)

184 The bill would create an eleven-member commission to work with state officials on areas of concern to Muslims such as education, civil rights, health care, employment, and, of course, Islamophobia.
======================
Unreal. That this is even being considered is an affront.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 08:54 AM (fMPEh)


The 'call to prayer' soon to be heard blasting throughout the state........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:57 AM (ccf/V)

185 Unreal. That this is even being considered is an affront.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Musloids are to be the stick that the left in government uses to beat on normal people all the while claiming virtue.

And the new cause for evil and wicked leftist activism because the older racism standard is being ignored by right thinking younger generations. So from pet blacks, to pet Musloids, is a natural progression.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:57 AM (E4rtv)

186 Eric Daugherty-

CNN and other Fake News outlets are being RIPPED for covering the hanging of a black woman without clearly mentioning the suspect is a black male

CNN's headline: Makes sure to give the RACE of the victim, a black woman

But they want everyone to think a white person did it so it seems like a "lynching"

The SAME BULLSHT that politicians like AOC use to spew propaganda that white people are racist!

This is the playbook.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

187 Today's Free Press has a chart from the Dallas Fed showing AI will cause extinction in 2042.

It's info from the government, so it must be true.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:00 AM (fMPEh)

188 AI is the new global warming.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (fMPEh)

189 About half the time I try to open someone's link to something posted on "X" it goes sideways. Yes, I have an account and the app installed. If I tap "Open X" it goes to the Google Play Store. If I manage to get that to go to "X" it opens some random cat video.

So, yeah...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)

190 The SAME BULLSHT that politicians like AOC use to spew propaganda that white people are racist!

This is the playbook.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 08:58 AM (NpAcC)


The quicker people understand Trump was correct and the media is the enemy of the people, the quicker they'll die off, or issue a course correction (which will not happen).

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)

191 OK, this week is, I hope, the final week of edits for my new Theda Bara novel, so I'm out.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (qRla/)

192 >>>She believes that Trump supporters belong in Dachau’s crematoria, like Jews during WWII. She posed in front of a backdrop of the actual ovens.

Pro-tip: Disarm the populace BEFORE revealing your homicidal intentions for your victims.

It's all performative without any real thought or reflection.

What a retarded attention whore.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (dK+Kv)

193 So from pet blacks, to pet Musloids, is a natural progression.
Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:57 AM (E4rtv)
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Plantation thinking is the Democrat default setting, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:02 AM (fMPEh)

194 It's info from the government, so it must be true.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:00 AM (fMPEh)
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Gavin Newsom's 10-Year Plan to end homelessness was published in 2008.

#twoweeks

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

195 Ich bin ein jelly donut!

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2026 09:02 AM (ZxPkt)

196 >>Living life online via social media (younger generations) or vicariously by watching tv (older generations) instead of being out and around leads to being led by lies, half truths, and lies by omission. . .

So true, whig!

Also think it comes from how the Left have gone out of their way to silence any opposing ideas/values. Cancel culture, social media censorship, cutting off friends in family over a single issue, etc.. so that even in the few remaining areas where interesting discussions could happen, they are cut off.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (rOKnE)

197 193 So from pet blacks, to pet Musloids, is a natural progression.
Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 08:57 AM (E4rtv)

They tried with the Trans but that one didn't go over as well as planned so on to Muslims...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (+gK6I)

198 Troll really pushing fake polls almost two months before the election, eh? If people think Trump is entirely and solely responsible for the price of gas and cost of living increases they must have been asleep during Joe Biden's dementia ridden fake reign, eh?

And my happiness is unaffe tex by push pill numbers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (JrHfD)

199 Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (qRla/)
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Right back at you, MP4!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (fMPEh)

200 Sponge

F*ck Cancer!

If there were real social scientists, I would like a study on length of watching network news vs detachment from reality.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

201 I mean, who cares? What does this matter? You're either on the dark side or the light side, or it's in full eclipse. Time really means nothing on the moon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

So Sting really wasn't wishing his days away while he was walking on the moon?

Posted by: Doof at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (c2vsb)

202 As a practical matter Apollo astronaut watches were set to Houston time. Where Mission Control is located. It can be any time you want in space, as far as that goes. “Day” and “Night” lose all meaning. You know, like Alaska.

They also used what was basically an ordinary windup kitchen timer with a bell, it was used in the mockup trainers for certain tasks, and it worked so well they decided to leave it, and incorporated it into the instrument panel.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (rQ950)

203 At ABC: "Water limits could cap moon's population, scientists say"

In response, SpaceX prepares multistage beerlifter fleet.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:04 AM (Jr5Lq)

204 And my happiness is unaffe tex by push pill numbers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 09:03 AM (JrHfD)
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The Propaganda Press will not give up! (Until they all go bankrupt)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:04 AM (fMPEh)

205 Trust the polls.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 14, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

206 National Lampoon was a national treasure.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Still have a four dozen copies up on the bookshelf.

Peak P.J. O'Rourke, before he was neutered.

Posted by: Auspex at September 14, 2026 09:05 AM (Y8DZL)

207 198- "Unaffected" Gosh, I hate autocorrect!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 09:05 AM (JrHfD)

208 Gavin Newsom's 10-Year Plan to end homelessness was published in 2008.

#twoweeks
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)
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haha

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:06 AM (fMPEh)

209 Come to the MoMe.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Would but have duties and health issues. First duty is to my declining mother who is in memory care for vascular dementia and now apparently the facility she is in is not delivering great care to her. So I have to make a trip to deal with it or move her. Sister that lives in the same town is literally checked out on the issue.

And the other problem is cost right now. Looking at an endoscopy for a dog that runs about 3K. We have a consult at the state veterinary college because the local vets simply cannot diagnose what is going on. And that requires another trip/stay in the same time frame as going on a long trip for issues with my mother. Recovering from major back surgery is pretty hard already from this spring--function is returning via pt but the pains have not went away as it simply redirected the stress on the upper back to lower damaged vertebrae. Takes about a year to return to somewhat normal according to docs.

As my wife who is employed while I retired would have to drive and take off work, she simply does not have the days nor the ability to shepherd me and flying alone is simply not an option anymore.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:06 AM (E4rtv)

210 FenelonSpoke

No worries. We all speak unedited Horde here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:06 AM (u82oZ)

211 You all are forgetting that, according to Vox Day, we’ve never been to the Moon.

Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

212 210 FenelonSpoke

No worries. We all speak unedited Horde here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:06 AM (u82oZ)


Yes... I could really use an edit button a lot of the time ... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 09:08 AM (+gK6I)

213 whig

Prayers ascending for your path forward to be made smoother. You are a voice that is respected and paid attention to here.

Just wish we could show you the liquor table below the sign that says, If you imbibe, you can't hold a weapon. Or words to that effect.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)

214 You all are forgetting that, according to Vox Day, we’ve never been to the Moon.
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)


I do find it completely hysterical that on one hand, we not only went around the moon, but landed on it and walked around in the 60's, but today, it takes billions of dollars, thousands of hours of planning and tremendous amounts of effort to just go around it again in today's age where we're supposedly so much more technologically advanced...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:10 AM (ccf/V)

215 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at September 14, 2026 09:10 AM (2Ez/1)

216 213 whig

Prayers ascending for your path forward to be made smoother. You are a voice that is respected and paid attention to here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)


Yes in deed... As are you Salty

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 09:10 AM (+gK6I)

217 Feds Expand Criminal Probe Into Newsom Travel, Spending
The subpoenas… seek records from the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that’s funded Newsom and his overseas travel through private donations.

Posted by Ben Smith Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 10:00am 12 Comments
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Federal prosecutors have expanded their criminal investigation into Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom, issuing subpoenas for six years of records covering his international travel, outside funding, and personal expenses, including money spent on his residence and living costs. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael D. Anderson signed the subpoenas, which concern a criminal investigation in the Eastern District of California.

~~ via LegalInsurrection
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Well, that doesn't sound good. Newsom probably thought Democrats are above the law.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:11 AM (hpxA0)

218 206 National Lampoon was a national treasure.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Still have a four dozen copies up on the bookshelf.

Peak P.J. O'Rourke, before he was neutered.
Posted by: Auspex

PJ is a warning sign. Essentially he gave in probably to maintain peace with his neighbors and wife/family. And you see this pattern often enough in GOP politicians--their spouses and children go left and the pol follows them.

That is because the entire education and social apparatus of the US is explicitly leftist--from Art, Theatre, Movies, pop culture commentary magazines like the Atlantic, universities, and our most prominent city life such as Washington and NYC/LA/etc.

To be other than leftist in elite circles requires so much mental effort, strain, and personal cost, it is no wonder that most submit even those who in their salad days were critical of the left.

Not much different than the old Soviet Union with its nomenklatura.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:11 AM (E4rtv)

219 {{{ It's me donna }}}

You are so sweet.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:11 AM (u82oZ)

220 That transgender American Thinker article is clearly AI assisted. Disappointing.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 09:12 AM (AANQ+)

221 213 whig

Prayers ascending for your path forward to be made smoother. You are a voice that is respected and paid attention to here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)


Yes in deed... As are you Salty
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 09:10 AM (+gK6I)
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I'm with donna on this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:12 AM (hpxA0)

222 what SFp said!

"If even one house flips in November, these were the final two years."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 07:50 AM (VyBeY)
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Eh - Trump will do what he is doing since he has no help from the legislature anyway, and it will remind the voters in advance of 2028 just how crazy the left is. This is turning into if we hold the House we win, if we lose the House we win.

All because of the idiots now running the democrat party.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 14, 2026 09:13 AM (7/DDO)

223 157 So did Mitch address the convention or not?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

His backers should take a page out of Iran's playbook, stand up a cardboard copy of him and have someone read a "statement" from him to the convention goers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2026 09:14 AM (edUvp)

224 We had poll trolls in 2024 too. But I guess every day is Day Zero.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 09:14 AM (AANQ+)

225 End Wokeness-
The Muslim population in the US went up by 145% in the 25 years following 9/11

STFU about "post-9/11 Islamophobia"

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

226 Lose the House and they deal with Cornered Rattlesnake Trump.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 14, 2026 09:15 AM (qZb7K)

227 idiots now running the democrat party.
Posted by: Black JEM

Not idiots. Highly successful evil people. That can only destroy, not build.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ)

228 You know what else is a powerful law enforcement tool? Central bank digital currency tied to an AI system that tracks all of your activity. You can prevent most crimes before they happen. Now isn't that just lovely.

Posted by: Some Other Guy at September 14, 2026 09:16 AM (UB+/1)

229 I submit that the best way to combat the scourge of islamaphobia is to stop being terrorists.

I should be charging for my advice.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 09:17 AM (BpO1e)

230 So, we had the 'open house' of sorts for potential buyers Saturday. Only 2 people showed up. We got 2 offers thus far, with one more pending.

Weekend showings are rough as so many are with family instead of wanting to worry about work. May've been a bit of a goof there. We'll have likely another quick showing later this week where more are expected.

We're not quite where we want to be yet.


I'm just soooooooo tired right now........

OH. And we spent a couple hours in the ER on Saturday as the First Lady decided to pass the massive kidney stone she had. She's much better now..........but can see why some ladies compare the pain involved to child birth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

231 Mr Aspirin Factory

Insurrection Act.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:17 AM (u82oZ)

232 His backers should take a page out of Iran's playbook, stand up a cardboard copy of him and have someone read a "statement" from him to the convention goers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2026 09:14 AM

Is this about me?

Posted by: Maxine "Pizza Box" Waters at September 14, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

233 The normal Presidential last two years of the final term are generally passive. Trump will be different.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:17 AM (hpxA0)

234
STFU about "post-9/11 Islamophobia"
Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)


It's not that I fear them, it's that I really want them to go back to their islhamic shitholes and stop destroying America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:18 AM (ccf/V)

235 OH. And we spent a couple hours in the ER on Saturday as the First Lady decided to pass the massive kidney stone she had. She's much better now..........but can see why some ladies compare the pain involved to child birth.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

Good that it's gone but Ouch...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 09:18 AM (+gK6I)

236 55 Everything the Left Doesn't Like Is Hitler


Because they are children cosplaying at being adults.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 07:57 AM (AXBJa)


Jesse Watters or someone needs to do interviews at Dem rallies or campaign events, asking people "Who is Hitler" and "Who were the original Nazis and where did they live?" Hilarity will follow. Then sadness and outrage.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2026 09:19 AM (5rh/l)

237 The normal Presidential last two years of the final term are generally passive. Trump will be different.
Posted by: Huck Follywood



DJT - YOLO Bitchez!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:19 AM (AXBJa)

238
Good that it's gone but Ouch...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2026 09:18 AM (+gK6I)


Yeah, she asked if she needed to pee in a cup and they said 'sure, why not.'

She came back in and said she thinks it passed. You swirl around the cup and sure enough, there was a MASSIVE stone, then another smaller object, which seemed more tissue. The ER doc said "you had twins!"

We were discharged shortly after, so it was the quickest trip to the ER we'd had.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)

239 The normal Presidential last two years of the final term are generally passive. Trump will be different.
Posted by: Huck Follywood


But you guys, Bruce Springsteen said the Democrats should do everything in their power to make Trump's last 2 years in office the most miserable time of his life.......for the country or some such......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:21 AM (ccf/V)

240 At NBC: "Why are Americans so tired so often?"

Melatonin-laced fentanyl.

Posted by: gp at September 14, 2026 09:21 AM (Jr5Lq)

241 216 213 whig

Prayers ascending for your path forward to be made smoother. You are a voice that is respected and paid attention to here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)


Yes in deed... As are you Salty
Posted by: It's me donna
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NaCly, you have suffered far more than I. Mine is mental exhaustion and ordinary pain. You lost a loved one. Mine is a temporary discomfort, losing a loved one hurts for a very long time if not forever.

I get cranky and irascible as well as long winded. Tis my nature I am afraid. And while I see a winter coming when public issues will be resolved for a time, spring will come again soon after with sunnier skies and a better climate for new seeds to grow. Already, I am seeing some of the young turn away from social media, those addicted to tv are soon to pass away. And the uglification of the arts and humanities has reached absurd levels where AI generates better slop than the artists enmeshed in dark and evil thoughts. A correction is beginning to happen, Christian faith tested by extremes of wealth and temptations is beginning to return to its roots and there are other hopeful signs.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:21 AM (E4rtv)

242 Demonicrats, that be Shelly.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:21 AM (2GVsD)

243 She came back in and said she thinks it passed. You swirl around the cup and sure enough, there was a MASSIVE stone, then another smaller object, which seemed more tissue. The ER doc said "you had twins!"

We were discharged shortly after, so it was the quickest trip to the ER we'd had.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Glad she's better. 👍🏻
Been there.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:23 AM (AXBJa)

244 Perhaps JJ might consider adding a regular feature to the MR showing the number of elapsed days since there was a legit Cocaine Mitch sighting. Kinda like the American hostages in Iran .

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

245
Glad she's better. 👍🏻
Been there.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:23 AM (AXBJa)


Thanks.

I do remind her on occasion that when we move, she's 45 minutes away from the nearest hospital........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:23 AM (ccf/V)

246 The quicker people understand Trump was correct and the media is the enemy of the people, the quicker they'll die off, or issue a course correction (which will not happen).
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)
******
What's still shocking to me is that people are so gullible? It's obvious they're being played, but they can't seem to figure it out. They can't seem to be putting the pieces together. It's as if logic and common sense have decreased in our country and in the world.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

247 but today, it takes billions of dollars, thousands of hours of planning and tremendous amounts of effort to just go around it again in today's age where we're supposedly so much more technologically advanced
——-

It took that much money back then, too. Estimates vary, but somewhere around 2% of the US GNP was allocated to NASA. They don’t spend that much today, not even close.

Money was no object, practically speaking. They were also far less risk averse in those days. Political considerations loomed large then, but they had competent people running things.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 09:24 AM (rQ950)

248 In the coming days, my sorority sisters and I will once again take our fight against the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma to federal court. Oral arguments in our case will be heard before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. Years after we walked the halls of the University of Wyoming, we ask Kappa to honor its bylaws and acknowledge what a woman is. I hope that they will, not just for our sake, but for all the future generations who will walk through those sorority halls.
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University of Wyoming intimidated the local Kappa into accepting a man into their sorority, and some of the members are fighting back in federal court. Go get 'em ladies!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:25 AM (fMPEh)

249 We absolutely had polls in 2024. A lot of those polls said Trump would win. Trump was the favorite to win in betting markets.

Polls also said Democrats would sweep 2025 elections.

It’s almost as if polls have predictive power. Lol.

Posted by: Dont worry be happy at September 14, 2026 09:25 AM (NQxIL)

250 >>She's much better now..........but can see why some ladies compare the pain involved to child birth.

Glad she's on the mend, Sponge!
Yes, it is painful!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 09:25 AM (rOKnE)

251 What's still shocking to me is that people are so gullible? It's obvious they're being played, but they can't seem to figure it out. They can't seem to be putting the pieces together. It's as if logic and common sense have decreased in our country and in the world.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)


There are some that are so blind, they just refuse to see. Others are still of sound enough mind where they can pay attention long enough to find out they've been wrong all these years, then there's us......the sane.....the right minded, that love freedom, see evil for what it is and just want to live life, working, playing and raising a family.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:25 AM (ccf/V)

252
Glad she's on the mend, Sponge!
Yes, it is painful!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 09:25 AM (rOKnE)


Thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:26 AM (ccf/V)

253 Thanks.

I do remind her on occasion that when we move, she's 45 minutes away from the nearest hospital........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Only real drawback to living in the country.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:26 AM (AXBJa)

254 I get cranky and irascible as well as long winded. .
Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:21 AM (E4rtv)
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Add in "hates cocktail parties" and you've nailed me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:27 AM (fMPEh)

255
Only real drawback to living in the country.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2026 09:26 AM (AXBJa)


If they ever finish the one they've been building in Clarksville for the last decade..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V)

256 (NQxIL)

I am not sure what NYQUIL's point is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:27 AM (2GVsD)

257 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Posted by: The Flat Moon Society

I would if it were Saturday, in the park.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 14, 2026 09:28 AM (N8Z/A)

258 But you guys, Bruce Springsteen said the Democrats should do everything in their power to make Trump's last 2 years in office the most miserable time of his life.......for the country or some such......
Posted by: Sponge
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Ah yes, the man who sold out his fans for richer ones is the perfect example of a person who when they rise up, despise those fans that enabled them to stardom. They then get to pick their new audience from their new social class instead.

Born in the USA lyrics is not about some Vietnam Vet but rather Bruce dumping on his own background and despising the fact that he came from such squalid (to him) upbringing. It is always produces the most fake and gay overexuberance to join the holloi polloi. Mike Appfel, Bruce's early manager who got fired to be replaced by red diaper baby, Jon Landau, mentioned he thought Bruce had the talent to become a memorable artist, instead Bruce wanted to be a Star with fame and riches. And that meant kissing the ass of the liberal establishment which he did right after hiring Landau.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:28 AM (E4rtv)

259 >>What's still shocking to me is that people are so gullible? It's obvious they're being played, but they can't seem to figure it out. They can't seem to be putting the pieces together. It's as if logic and common sense have decreased in our country and in the world.

Because many people would rather be on the side of the cool kids rather than right. Telling the truth has a cost many don't want to pay.

Trump's best quality is that he's fearless.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 09:28 AM (viF8m)

260 And now, something lovely!

https://tinyurl.com/av6ck6ec

This guy posts the most beautiful photographs and video of birds. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2026 09:29 AM (rOKnE)

261 Kidney stones? Ouch. Good to be on the mend.

Friend is waiting to get an 8mm Mauser round of a kidney stone blasted.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (2GVsD)

262 After Kennedy’s directive, Congress largely fell behind him. “So, you guys need to go to the Moon. How much money do you want?”

For engineers, and the slide rule big brain guys, test pilots, aerospace contractors it must have been a dream come true.

A confluence of technologies and political will that will probably never happen again. All the guys they interview about their role at NASA, whatever it might have been, always say the same thing.

They didn’t worry about bureaucratic red tape, nobody played that shit. Water walkers and “mistakes were made” types were immediately fired. It’s a study in how government can do great things, if it wants to.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (rQ950)

263 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

264 Perhaps JJ might consider adding a regular feature to the MR showing the number of elapsed days since there was a legit Cocaine Mitch sighting. Kinda like the American hostages in Iran .
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)
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Love that idea. The only drawback to losing him is that Beshear will appoint some crazy Democrat to Mitch's term.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2026 09:30 AM (fMPEh)

265 whig

Thank you.

It's been an incredible saga since she died. This last week, some of the waters I travel on got smoother, and I are no longer canoeing down Class 4 rapids every day.

Her love shaped and improved me, so I can surf the storm swells.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

266 whig

We do live in an extraordinary time in an exceptional nation. We forget how unhistorical having power based on individual citizens really is.

Sometimes I imagine the USA of A as a top, spinning rapidly. The top can look like it will fall over, yet it returns to an upright axis.

We do have cause for concern, but we have reasons to hope as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

267 Add in "hates cocktail parties" and you've nailed me.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Cocktail parties I hate. Had to attend enough faculty socials and political dinners to see enough of that fake shit where people try to fit in. Seen vicious snobbery at them and the absurd fakery in social interactions is beyond belief all based on materialism and social class markers. I usually ended up watching other people attending and listen mostly, commenting little.

I'd imagine soirees above my pay grade in arts or high finance would be even worse.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (E4rtv)

268 It's obvious they're being played, but they can't seem to figure it out.
——

Somebody once pointed out it’s easier to fool people than convince them they’ve been fooled.

The neat thing though, the normal folks are the cool kids. It’s the whack jobs that are the uptight squares that can’t deal. They can’t cope, makes them dangerous, but still.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 09:33 AM (rQ950)

269 So did Mitch address the convention or not?
Posted by: Bulg at September 14, 2026 08:46 AM

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Posted by: RNC

Not even a Marcel Marceau routine?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (N8Z/A)

270 155 > Will the Turtle return to the Senate today? This week?
_-_
How appropriate that a do-nothing congress (at a time when our survival is on the line) is led by a guy who probably is no longer even alive.

The left enacts insane crap when in power, then we vote for the opposition, and they do nothing.

Posted by: Some Other Guy at September 14, 2026 09:34 AM (UB+/1)

271 Posted by: Dont worry be happy at September 14, 2026 09:25 AM (NQxIL)

I didn't say what the polls were. I said we had poll trolls touting that Trump would lose. You were probably one of them. You are boring.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2026 09:35 AM (AANQ+)

272 266 whig

We do have cause for concern, but we have reasons to hope as well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
=======
The ultimate description of the Pandora's box myth. And it fits with Christianity and Logos. There is always hope in the darkest night and there is always darkness in the most glowing of epochs.

I have hope for a better world and belief in a faith that can save me. I have fears that the sacrifices of all of my forefathers did to create this nation might be in vain and that the West itself become cast down into the darkness of Islam and vicious amorality of communism 2.0.

Posted by: whig at September 14, 2026 09:42 AM (E4rtv)

273 'Morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

The Sunday Briefing had two interesting segments earlier yesterday, one featured Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), followed by Tom Holman.

Dean, a likely creation of her M-I-L's interface w/the Bidens & the Obama administration, pushed back against rhetoric framing PA Dems as socialists. (No, there's just snow whites like Mary Gay, Chrissy, etal voting Present in the House as to the Q of Socialism. And - also just for example - Chris Rabb, Summer Lee (Oh, she's sort of just distanced herself like AOC), and Bob Brooks (Do real research!) for starters. (There's many.)

In PA, the SE & York/Harrisburg is awash and the west not much better. The Gov. smiles and highly supports the Bernie bunch. The Democrat Reps, PA Gov. & more of their ilk have made Fetterman a hero.

Anyway, Dean's pushback followed a high-profile video appearance by Sen. Fetterman at the RNC's midterm convention. Dean dismissed socialist characterizations of the mainstream party in PA, criticized Fetterman's stance as a political stunt, and argued Democratic candidates remain focused on standard economic issues like affordability and healthcare rather than far-left ideology.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 09:47 AM (NFX2v)

274 Following her remarks, Tom Homan was on to counter.
The outcome -

Allegations of disinformation, interestingly by Dean and other progressive Democrats. In that, misrepresenting the political landscape and arguing party figures are continually downplaying the influence of the democratic socialists within PA state and the National party machines.

Claims re: Election Interference. Dean raised alarm over reports that armed ICE agents being potentially deployed near polling places. She characterized it as intimidation intended to erode faith in elections.

Holman rejected accusations that immigration enforcement is designed to suppress votes or harass communities, slamming Democratic criticisms as dishonest scare tactics intended to distract voters from illegal immigration enforcement & law-and-order priorities.

Decent Sunday morning politics, for once.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 09:48 AM (NFX2v)

275
To speak of voter intimidation, what really pushed some buttons around here was on 9/11 the No Kings crowd came to the largest street intersection of a now just slightly leaning Republican town under the guise of Patriot's Day. (Elon came here for Trump last presidential campaign)

On Saturday, 9/12, they were back to their ultra-liberal areas' highway sites.

Yes, the county with - for starters - an already bad Board of Health, special Human Relations Commission, drones in the hands of ?, a healthcare system destroyed for profit being rebuilt for friends & comrades, and no Republican representation.

The joys of redistricting. Treasure to trash.

Good day. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 09:48 AM (NFX2v)

276
That Shelly Headen slag needs some candid photos posted online by some helpful conservative types. Most of the photos of her online are the same heavily filtered yet jowly instagram photo with the same cocked head and sinister smile. Obviously, this is a woman who is extremely neurotic about her looks. And with good reason.

I'm sure that a bunch of unfiltered, unretouched candid photos showing up online would do wonders for her self-esteem...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2026 09:49 AM (sTGas)

277 Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill laced with fentanyl: report

Posted by: SMOD at September 14, 2026 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

278 Shelly Headen 🤔

Has long struck me some crazed white women - and men - are being 'baited' into politics, to play fools that ultimately need to be squashed like bugs. THE tactical political game.
--
The lunatic-like Maureen Galindo, a Democratic candidate who ran for Texas' 35th Congressional District. Reportedly, Galindo posted on Instagram that, if elected, she would pass legislation to turn a Texas ICE detention center into a "prison for American Zionists. In the same post, she claimed she would turn the facility into a castration center, adding that "most of the Zionists" were pedophiles. During an interview on Texas Public Radio, she invoked long-standing anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

Outrageous! Now we dump her! (Yes, rightly so but that's the game.)



Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 10:12 AM (NFX2v)

279 Bank Of England Spends £85k Researching How Best To Erase Churchill

Consultants called Britain's wartime leader "elitist"

Posted by: SMOD at September 14, 2026 10:25 AM (RHGPo)

280 "She loves her violence. There is a 2024 Guilford County Sheriff’s Office incident report identifying Headen as a suspect in domestic physical assaults. One alleged assault was against her husband."

Most bullies are just a really solid punch away from enlightenment.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 14, 2026 11:29 AM (TezPK)

281 They are always with us.

Remember California's Katie Porter who 'allegedly' dumped a ceramic bowl of steaming hot mashed potatoes onto husband's head, burning his scalp?

Gone but not forgotten.

Katie Porter stepped away from political campaigns and is pivoting to a career as a book influencer and content creator.

--
We have a state rep. divorced by her husband for violence. I believe he still has the children as the more trustworthy parent.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 14, 2026 12:28 PM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 14 September 2026

Top Story


Tech News

Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: Or might not.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM




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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 04:33 AM (D0X9e)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2026 04:37 AM (BLOW1)

4 Modula-2? I haven't heard of that since basically forever.

And it's been three decades since I programmed in Pascal.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 14, 2026 04:38 AM (iIyc0)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

6 Good Morning all!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 14, 2026 04:44 AM (Q/FnY)

7 And it's not just weirdness for weirdness's sake. Superionic ice is thought to exist deep inside Uranus

Um, well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:47 AM (l3cgK)

8 Bernie Sanders is proposing a 20 year prison sentence for people who think too much. (Tom's Hardware)

A penalty he will never need to worry about.


A commie is going to commie.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 04:47 AM (sAmhv)

9 8 Bernie Sanders is proposing a 20 year prison sentence for people who think too much. (Tom's Hardware)

A penalty he will never need to worry about.


A commie is going to commie.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 04:47 AM (sAmhv)

I'm conflicted. AI is going to develop and promulgate regardless, but there are definitely dangers.

Kinda the same thing with GoF with virii or bacteria...someone's gonna do it, and I bet lots of countries STILL have programs running full tilt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:51 AM (l3cgK)

10 Keefe asked if the officer was suggesting the installer was entitled to privacy while working in public.

"So just to be clear, he’s entitled to his privacy in a public place?" Keefe asked. "Isn’t that the whole argument that people are criticizing Flock for?"

Yes, the irony of the situation. Privacy (in Public) for me but not for thee.
To be honest, I would also be worried if someone was following me wherever I went...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 04:56 AM (l3cgK)

11 Watched a good Russian movie on Tubi, Dear Comrade.
A fairly new movie about real events in 1962 in a Crimea region about a strike at a plant and a massacre that happened.
Its subtitles, and done in B&W to give it a documentary feeling I think. Very good movie.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)

12 4 Modula-2? I haven't heard of that since basically forever.

And it's been three decades since I programmed in Pascal.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

Yeah, Pascal is still in use (Delphi, Oxygene, Free Pascal) but Modula-2 has mostly disappeared. I'm implementing all three because once you have a Pascal compiler working, Modula-2 and Oberon are just toppings on the ice cream.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2026 04:59 AM (BLOW1)

13 For the misery of Communism you might not find a better example.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

14 I'm used to the Hall & Oates version of "Family Man"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:01 AM (l3cgK)

15 12 4 Modula-2? I haven't heard of that since basically forever.

And it's been three decades since I programmed in Pascal.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

Yeah, Pascal is still in use (Delphi, Oxygene, Free Pascal) but Modula-2 has mostly disappeared. I'm implementing all three because once you have a Pascal compiler working, Modula-2 and Oberon are just toppings on the ice cream.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2026 04:59 AM (BLOW1)

Last time I programmed in Pascal was...1984 or 1985, so 40+ YEARS AGO...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:02 AM (l3cgK)

16 ♪She had sulky smile
She took her standard pose as she presented herself
She had sultry eyes
She made it perfectly plain that she was his for a price
♫

$20, same as in town?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK)

17 I'm conflicted. AI is going to develop and promulgate regardless, but there are definitely dangers.

Kinda the same thing with GoF with virii or bacteria...someone's gonna do it, and I bet lots of countries STILL have programs running full tilt.
Posted by: Jim


I hear you. Seems all the information out there about AI is propaganda, pro and con, so I'm not sure about any of it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 05:04 AM (sAmhv)

18 WAVY 10 leads with gas prices and measles.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2026 05:05 AM (GbONR)

19 Remember Mike Oldfield some but not that song

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 05:09 AM (Ia/+0)

20 13 For the misery of Communism you might not find a better example.
Posted by: Skip


'The Lives of Others'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 05:10 AM (sAmhv)

21
The behavior of matter under such extreme pressures gets wild. These properties are so beyond anything familiar to our terrestrial experience, it's mind-boggling.

And very poorly understood. Creating these conditions in a lab to actually observe some of the theoretical predictions is impossible, really. They can get close sometimes, but it's still unknown.

Anyway, the notion of solid, liquids, gas/vapors, the big three states of matter, and then plasma as a fourth, just don't cut it at these extremes.

If you think the deep interior of Uranus, or Jupiter, or even the Sun is exotic and extreme, those are nothing compared to neutron stars. That is some truly unknown territory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:11 AM (w6EFb)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 14, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

23 Gurss I have to head down the road, at least not as far as been going.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)

24 If you think the deep interior of Uranus, or Jupiter, or even the Sun is exotic and extreme, those are nothing compared to neutron stars. That is some truly unknown territory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:11 AM (w6EFb)

Some of the theoretical conditions inside neutron stars are indeed wild, with strange matter forms predicted under certain circumstances, even beyond just neutrons.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:14 AM (l3cgK)

25 "Yeah, Pascal is still in use (Delphi, Oxygene, Free Pascal) but Modula-2 has mostly disappeared. I'm implementing all three because once you have a Pascal compiler working, Modula-2 and Oberon are just toppings on the ice cream.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2026 04:59 AM (BLOW1)"

Apparently you can still get Turbo Pascal (with the now needed DosBox). I might give it a try for old times sake.

That last programming I mentioned was driving a laser and acquisition system (PMT, HP oscilloscope, etc.) for a supersonic free-jet expansion experiment. In 1991.

My, how time flies.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 14, 2026 05:15 AM (iIyc0)

26 Last time I programmed in Pascal was...1984 or 1985, so 40+ YEARS AGO...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:02 AM (l3cgK)
-

Anyone up for some RPG II coding fun?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 05:15 AM (D0X9e)

27 26 Last time I programmed in Pascal was...1984 or 1985, so 40+ YEARS AGO...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:02 AM (l3cgK)
-

Anyone up for some RPG II coding fun?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 05:15 AM (D0X9e)

never used that, but I did use Fortran back around 1988...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:16 AM (l3cgK)

28 "Anyone up for some RPG II coding fun?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 05:15 AM (D0X9e)"

Do we get to do some Job Control Language while we're at it?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 14, 2026 05:19 AM (iIyc0)

29 Nortel's Protel and Protel-2 languages incorporated Modula-2 concepts, IIRC.

That was used to write code for their switches, so you won't find (I think) find examples in the wild for general computing. Google seems to know something about it, probably due to some poor sods having to support whatever Nortel DMS hardware that's still out there processing calls.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2026 05:24 AM (svAV9)

30 Flock workers are calling the cops on journalists filming them installing surveillance cameras.

That company is going to end up making itself a pariah if it keeps going. Things don't go well for them or their equipment after that.

In the UK, speed cameras ended up with tyres (tires) hung over the camera, filled with petrol (gasoline) and lit on fire.

The public will only take so much before they decide to make disabling Flock cameras without getting caught a nighttime sporting event.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW)

31 Good morning, tech people from the non tech poster!

Here is a nice devotional by a man from the Gulf Coast of Florida writing on John 6:1-15 and "Gather the leftovers":

https://tinyurl.com/mtzz2a5v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:29 AM (JrHfD)

32
Yeah, "deconfined quark matter", and "quark-gluon plasma". The equation of state here is totally unknown.

There's another wild notion -- "the continent of stability" as opposed to islands of nuclear stability. There's a predicted one at much higher atomic mass number than anything we've seen now. Now, go up even higher than that, > 300 - 450 nucleons per nucleus.

At that point, things are predicted to get strange. The nucleus would no longer be a nucleus as we think of it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:29 AM (w6EFb)

33 There's a lot of assumptions made between spectrograph and model.

All we can witness is the signal a neutron star kicks out, and make our best guesses from that about what could make such a signal.

Maybe we're wrong about our assumptions to begin with, and the interior of these things is even more bizarre than we imagine. Who knows?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2026 05:33 AM (Ot/FD)

34 From the Flock article: The officer told Keefe the installer was concerned about being identified.

I'll be over here with popcorn and appreciating the irony.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 05:33 AM (BpO1e)

35 @xx/jim (in Kalifornia): "Kinda the same thing with GoF with virii or bacteria...someone's gonna do it, and I bet lots of countries STILL have programs running full tilt."

This is the same logic used in the dystopian trilogy by Hugh Howey: Wool, Shift, and Dust (some of which has already been adapted for television as the 'Silo' series.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

36 Uh, that was in reference to post 09. Time for coffee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

37 Do we get to do some Job Control Language while we're at it?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 14, 2026 05:19 AM (iIyc0)
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// EXEC PGM=HOARDE,PARM=MORONS

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 05:34 AM (D0X9e)

38 And I went with family to a lovely service in the late afternoon at the Anglican Church yesterday. The priest is a nice guy and a good preacher with helpful insights into the Christian life and a self deprecating humor. I like him. There are also a lot of college age students. Yesterday was "God winks at you" was a young man with a tee shirt with a logo saying "Got spirit?
With the list from "Galatians 5:22-23" on the back. I told him I liked his shirt.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:37 AM (JrHfD)

39
They call those superheavy nuclei "quark nuggets". It's a form of cold quark matter.

The density of ordinary nuclei, mass per volume, is mind-boggling -- about a trillion times that of water. The quark nuggets would be denser, not all that much, but significantly denser.

If these things exist, they could still form "atoms" as we think of, little clouds of electrons swarming around the nuggets. Up to a point. Get too much positive charge in too small a volume, and the near electric field gets too high, and there would some sort of breakdown of something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:37 AM (w6EFb)

40 Heh.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 14, 2026 05:37 AM (iIyc0)

41 @37/Biden's Dog: "Do we get to do some Job Control Language while we're at it?"

I wonder if I could still write something in EXEC 2...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 14, 2026 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

42 And as we were walking to the church we saw a striking plant, the kind of which I don't think I had ever seen before. It is "Aramanthus" also called "love lies bleeding":

https://tinyurl.com/56kraukx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:41 AM (JrHfD)

43 and there would some sort of breakdown of something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:37 AM (w6EFb)

Mass and time and position are relativistic.

Maybe Energy itself is, too. Get processes up in the TeV range and higher and suddenly your field equations become field... suggestions?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2026 05:41 AM (Ot/FD)

44 I drink you milkshake!

Posted by: 80-year-old Chinese guy with a suanpan at September 14, 2026 05:45 AM (6W6ju)

45 And this woman ( Jennifer Nettles) is apparently a singer who has stressed that prayer is very important to her . Here she does a lovely rendition of "Go rest on that high mountain" which she performed for the 9/11 commmemoration in NYC:

https://tinyurl.com/3w2dc7cp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 05:48 AM (JrHfD)

46 >> Get processes up in the TeV range and higher and suddenly your field equations become field... suggestions?

That gets up into the Unified Field Theory range. They've already unified EM and the weak nuclear force, dubbed the Electroweak force. That happens at energies around 200ish GeV.

Now, to unify the EW with the strong (color) force, the predicted energy range is a minimum of around 10^14 GeV. That is a wee bit beyond the TeV scale. Just a little bit.

Now, go even further, quantum gravity unification. That would happen only around the Planck energy itself, 10^19 GeV.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:49 AM (w6EFb)

47 Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2026 05:24 AM (svAV9)

Hah, I like your nick...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:49 AM (l3cgK)

48 What? No mention of Python?

Posted by: Guido fanboi at September 14, 2026 05:50 AM (6W6ju)

49
Now, to unify the EW with the strong (color) force, the predicted energy range is a minimum of around 10^14 GeV. That is a wee bit beyond the TeV scale. Just a little bit.

Now, go even further, quantum gravity unification. That would happen only around the Planck energy itself, 10^19 GeV.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:49 AM (w6EFb)

LOL, yeah, just a WEE bit beyond...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:51 AM (l3cgK)

50 The public will only take so much before they decide to make disabling Flock cameras without getting caught a nighttime sporting event.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

And then they will post the videos online thereby defeating the purpose of not getting caught.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 05:51 AM (BpO1e)

51 50 The public will only take so much before they decide to make disabling Flock cameras without getting caught a nighttime sporting event.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

And then they will post the videos online thereby defeating the purpose of not getting caught.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 05:51 AM (BpO1e)

with selfies. This age is so stupid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 05:54 AM (l3cgK)

52
I should clarify that as if quantum gravity even exists. Quantizing gravity is ... difficult. It just don't work. It's gonna take a lot of new physics to figure that out. And the resulting theory will be likely be something really different than anyone is thinking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:56 AM (w6EFb)

53
The Planck energy ain't that much, really, relative to human scales. It's only about the kinetic energy of a passenger airliner between take-off to cruising speed. Or about the chemical energy stored in a car's full tank of gas.

Now, give a single subatomic particle that much energy. That's the Planck energy level we're talking. A single proton packing the kinetic energy of a jet airliner.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 06:01 AM (w6EFb)

54 52
I should clarify that as if quantum gravity even exists. Quantizing gravity is ... difficult. It just don't work. It's gonna take a lot of new physics to figure that out. And the resulting theory will be likely be something really different than anyone is thinking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:56 AM (w6EFb)

And there are still a number of unanswered questions regarding how far the Standard Model can take us. There are some...hints...that there is something beyond.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 06:02 AM (l3cgK)

55
Now, imagine a particle accelerator trying to reach those insane levels. It's impossible to do that on something that would fit on the earth. All you need to do is accelerate a single proton to the energy of the jet airliner. That would be 99.999999999999999999999999999999999....99% c.

That's all. Now, trouble is, with a linear accelerator, they have to get long. So they bend it around in circular paths. Now, that acceleration gets the particles to radiating. They start losing energy via EM radiation very fast. And the faster they go, the stronger the magnetic field to bend them in that tight circle.

Run those numbers and it turns out you need an accelerator with the radius of ... the orbit of Neptune.

And that just gets you to the GUT level energy. The Planck energy would be way bigger than that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 06:12 AM (w6EFb)

56 Read the article about Uber and Lyft getting unionized in CA. It's cute how Newsome thinks this will magically lower prices.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 06:13 AM (BpO1e)

57 As I was a passenger in a car yesterday I watched people walking around. Almost all of them ( mostly under 30) were either carrying or talking on cell phones. I can understand carrying one if you don't have a pocket
and for emergencies, but I don't really understand talking on your cell phone when going for a walk. Why not look at the scenery or talk to the person you're with?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 06:13 AM (JrHfD)

58 Why not look at the scenery or talk to the person you're with?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Not to mention the risk of someone trying to hurt you or steal your phone while you're distracted.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 06:15 AM (BpO1e)

59 Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 06:15 AM (BpO1e

Yes; They're very distracted. I wonder if a lot of them don't almost get hit by drivers when crossing the road?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 06:17 AM (JrHfD)

60 Evening, late toilers! Morning, early risers! Yes, we know, it's Monday, which tends to reappear every 168 hours like this. 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 September 14, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

61 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Might could.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 14, 2026 06:19 AM (amcLV)

62 If you think the deep interior of Uranus, or Jupiter, or even the Sun is exotic and extreme, those are nothing compared to neutron stars. That is some truly unknown territory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 05:11 AM (w6EFb)
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Science fiction author Stephen Baxter has had a lot of fun exploring this unknown territory in several of his books.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 06:19 AM (FZ29D)

63 I'm not ready to be awake. Seven hours' sleep last night, more than usual. Maybe that's the problem? Paradox!

Coffee will help with this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

64 Coffee will help with this.

That's a given. And if it didn't help, you didn't drink enough.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 06:23 AM (BpO1e)

65 As I was a passenger in a car yesterday I watched people walking around. Almost all of them ( mostly under 30) were either carrying or talking on cell phones. I can understand carrying one if you don't have a pocket
and for emergencies, but I don't really understand talking on your cell phone when going for a walk. Why not look at the scenery or talk to the person you're with?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026

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If I'm walking for exercise, the phone stays at home or in the car. I also leave it in the car when I go into the library or any place that asks you to mute your phone. Simpler to leave it behind, methinks.

I do bring it into the grocery or on any shopping excursion, so I can total up my purchases and add the tax using its calculator. This keeps me from being unpleasantly surprised when I get to the register.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

66
The highest energy particle ever seen to date was a proton, a cosmic ray, that hit the "Fly's Eye" detector in Utah in 1991. It's energy was on the order of 10^11 GeV, or around 10^20 eV.

It's known as the OMG! particle. That energy was about the kinetic energy of a baseball at 60ish mph. One proton with that much kinetic energy.

The OMG! particle still holds the record, but there's been quite a few more at that range detected since, call it the 10^10 GeV level.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 06:25 AM (w6EFb)

67 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

Yes. , but you are sensible and you and are also old enough to be the parents or grandparents of these young whippersnappers. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 06:26 AM (JrHfD)

68
I should clarify. The OMG! particle didn't directly hit anything on the ground in Utah, there. It hit some little molecule of N or O high up in the upper atmosphere, and produced a many miles long cascade trail of subatomic particles and radiation, which the detector detected.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 06:28 AM (w6EFb)

69 Yes. , but you are sensible and you and are also old enough to be the parents or grandparents of these young whippersnappers. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026

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The phone is a tool. I don't bring my screwdriver everywhere I go. (Of course my screwdriver does not offer vast amounts of information and entertainment at the flick of a finger.)

Linda scrolls on that phone of hers a good part of every evening, and she's no teenager either. I don't get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

70
The source of the OMG! particle is something of a mystery. It had to come from relatively close. Over vast intergalactic distances, it should have slowed down due to interaction with the CMB background.

So it had to be somewhere "nearby" in cosmological terms. But it came from a pretty blank spot in the sky. It could've have been steered by some magnetic fields.

Anyway, whatever produced it had to be something spectacular.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 06:32 AM (w6EFb)

71 Doing some sandboxing of what’s going to be a field rig for commissioning and engineering for this new project.

It’s currently running on a Linux mint rig running a vm of proxmox which in turn is running VMs of opnsense, win 11 enterprise, netbox, puppy Linux and MacOS.

Everything is peppy except the MacOs vm, which is because there are no Mac intel graphics drivers, but I’ve got an amd rtx 570 coming that will fix that glitch when I fully deploy.

The rig will eventually be on a minisforum ms-01, with 3 windows VMs, a Mac vm and 3 Linux VMs, for vendors to do their remote commissioning and run netbox, artista cloud vision and host of other goodies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 06:32 AM (XV/Pl)

72 As distasteful as flock is, they are not installing systems Willy nilly, they are being paid to do so by local governments, so the fight is really with local governments and not flock.

As always, the real villain is government.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 06:37 AM (XV/Pl)

73 Maybe I'll just take it easy this morning. After breakfast, I'll run to the grocery for some supplies, I guess. A pleasant drive out the old (but recently repaved) Federal highway brings me to a Walmart and an Aldi within a mile or so of each other.

The Buick needs a bath and spray waxing. Low chance of rain this week, and we're being promised a touch less humidity later in the week too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

74 How goes your house hunting venture Wolfus? Any new possibilities on the horizon?

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 06:41 AM (lJ0H4)

75 If we still had "men with chests," the earliest surveillance cameras would have been quickly disabled under cover of darkness. Speed bumps would have been uprooted, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

76 How goes your house hunting venture Wolfus? Any new possibilities on the horizon?
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The very idea tires me. Yet when I go out of my apartment, I'm exasperated by my environment.

I suppose I'll need to do what many of you have urged, rent an apartment in the area I'm considering and live there while looking at properties in person. The whole idea is exhausting, esp. when you're doing it alone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

77

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 14, 2026 06:52 AM (SRdv/)

78 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

My adventures in modern dentistry continue this morning.

I seem to have an abscess on my lower jaw that needs to be looked at...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 06:53 AM (FZ29D)

79 The super intelligent AI hysteria is overwrought… saying it this way is a massive understatement

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 14, 2026 06:58 AM (M+uMR)

80 @76

>> esp. when you're doing it alone.

Why are you moving again?

Your heart is clearly not in it, your woman doesn't want you to move away, so why upend your entire life?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026 06:59 AM (XV/Pl)

81 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 06:53 AM (FZ29D)

I'm sorry. May it be something that can fairly easily be taken care of.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2026 07:01 AM (JrHfD)

82 I suppose I'll need to do what many of you have urged, rent an apartment in the area I'm considering and live there while looking at properties in person. The whole idea is exhausting, esp. when you're doing it alone.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

Check and see if there are any of those apartments for rent magazines in the places you're considering. It'd give you a look at what's out there and the condition of the property. Don't forget to do a crime stat check as well. Just because the mag might show beauty shots of the property, doesn't mean it's in a safe area.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 14, 2026 07:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

83 The very idea tires me. Yet when I go out of my apartment, I'm exasperated by my environment.

I suppose I'll need to do what many of you have urged, rent an apartment in the area I'm considering and live there while looking at properties in person. The whole idea is exhausting, esp. when you're doing it alone.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

From my own experience it easier if you take it one step at a time. The sheer magnitude of the endeavor can overwhelm you if you don't. I made a list and checked each step off as it was completed.

Don't give up.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 07:02 AM (lJ0H4)

84 75 If we still had "men with chests," the earliest surveillance cameras would have been quickly disabled under cover of darkness. Speed bumps would have been uprooted, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

We had dudes with boobs...does that count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 07:03 AM (l3cgK)

85 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 07:05 AM (VyBeY)

86 Why are you moving again?

Your heart is clearly not in it, your woman doesn't want you to move away, so why upend your entire life?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 14, 2026

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Because my heart IS in it, and has been for decades. I hate where I live, am terribly bored by looking at the same broken streets and the same buildings, of having nowhere to go and no decent temperatures for ten months a year.

It's just that the effort required by the upending seems like a sheer cliff face to climb. Yet I know that atop that cliff is the possibility of a new life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

87 I seem to have an abscess on my lower jaw that needs to be looked at...
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Oh no. Here's hoping it involves lass pain than you previous experience.

Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026 07:05 AM (lJ0H4)

88 78 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

My adventures in modern dentistry continue this morning.

I seem to have an abscess on my lower jaw that needs to be looked at...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 06:53 AM (FZ29D)

Ugh. Those can literally KILL you if not taken care of.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2026 07:05 AM (l3cgK)

89 From my own experience it easier if you take it one step at a time. The sheer magnitude of the endeavor can overwhelm you if you don't. I made a list and checked each step off as it was completed.

Don't give up.
Posted by: Tuna at September 14, 2026

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Oh, I know, one step and then the next. The first thing is for me to make hotel or AirBnB reservations and drive up to Indiana to stay for a little while. Then I can have a look at apartments there -- Evansville or Terre Haute -- talk to people on the ground, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

90 Because my heart IS in it, and has been for decades. I hate where I live, am terribly bored by looking at the same broken streets and the same buildings, of having nowhere to go and no decent temperatures for ten months a year.

It's just that the effort required by the upending seems like a sheer cliff face to climb. Yet I know that atop that cliff is the possibility of a new life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:05 AM (wzUl9)
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Renting in another location possibly has at least one advantage if the rent is less than what you are paying now. I compared average rentals in New Orleans to Terre Haute and my own hometown in MO. New Orleans is significantly more expensive (on average) for a 2-bedroom apartment than either of the latter two locations.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 07:09 AM (FZ29D)

91 It's just that the effort required by the upending seems like a sheer cliff face to climb. Yet I know that atop that cliff is the possibility of a new life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

I feel you Wolfus… I hate my current AO and hope to leave as soon as possible. In my case, that’s a little more time at current job. Getting the new life set up seems overwhelming sometimes but I gotta get out of here! And will

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 14, 2026 07:09 AM (M+uMR)

92 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Prayers for good outcomes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

93 I compared average rentals in New Orleans to Terre Haute and my own hometown in MO. New Orleans is significantly more expensive (on average) for a 2-bedroom apartment than either of the latter two locations.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 07:09 AM (FZ29D)

Do the cats get the bigger bedroom?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 14, 2026 07:11 AM (1Ff7Z)

94 Do the cats get the bigger bedroom?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 14, 2026 07:11 AM (1Ff7Z)
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I use the "primary bedroom" as my office in my home.

I sleep in one of the smaller bedrooms.

Yes, the cats more or less claim the office as THEIR territory.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 07:12 AM (FZ29D)

95 Wolfus Aurelius & LinusVanPelt

Moved to the mostly unknown Kansas in 2011. Made the decision in 2009, took two years for my late wife to agree, and made it work. It can be done.

Trust in yourself. You can do it. Rely on your experience to solve the unknowns.

I'm happy I made the move. Fairfax County is enemy territory today. Saw it coming.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

96
Statistically, these ultra-high energy cosmic rays come from a location centered on the Big Dipper in the sky, about 40 degrees wide. The OMG particle and the other highest ones, however came well outside that, interestingly.

There are some potential sources in that region (like M87) and others. M87 is a giant elliptical galaxy. It's central black is one of the largest observed, about 6.3 billion solar masses. The event horizon radius is about 128 AU, or about 3x the distance to Pluto.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2026 07:18 AM (w6EFb)

97 Thx, NaCly Dog!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 14, 2026 07:20 AM (M+uMR)

98 Renting in another location possibly has at least one advantage if the rent is less than what you are paying now. I compared average rentals in New Orleans to Terre Haute and my own hometown in MO. New Orleans is significantly more expensive (on average) for a 2-bedroom apartment than either of the latter two locations.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026

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I'm living in a small 1-BR, and my rent is quite a bit cheaper than anything else I see in TH or Evansville. That's really the reason I've stayed here so long. Even if rent is more for a 1-BR, though, it will have the advantage of being somewhere other than here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

99 w00t late

Posted by: m at September 14, 2026 07:20 AM (odBC9)

100 100!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2026 07:20 AM (odBC9)

101 m

Yeah!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

102
JJS is here

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2026 07:23 AM (/+uur)

103 I'm living in a small 1-BR, and my rent is quite a bit cheaper than anything else I see in TH or Evansville. That's really the reason I've stayed here so long. Even if rent is more for a 1-BR, though, it will have the advantage of being somewhere other than here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)
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Yep. Quality of life matters, even if you find yourself paying more for that peace of mind.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2026 07:23 AM (FZ29D)

104 Good job, m!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 07:23 AM (BpO1e)

105 I was a passenger in a car yesterday I watched people walking around. Almost all of them ( mostly under 30) were either carrying or talking on cell phones. I can understand carrying one if you don't have a pocket
and for emergencies, but I don't really understand talking on your cell phone when going for a walk.

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Over the last few years, I've started to really despise cell phones. Aside from needing one while out for safety reasons, etc., most of the time I'd like to throw mine into highway traffic. I'm so sick of seeing them everywhere. People who can't peel their hands or eyes off theirs like they're very own lives depended on holding and having these devices on them. I even see many commercials now where someone is shopping for something, comparing something, looking for something and the person sits there grinning while scrolling, scrolling, scrolling on their phone. Yeah, I'm way past 29, so that may account for some of it. But the ubiquity of these rectangular pieces of way-too-much-information-overload angers and irritates me. Get off the flipping phone people, and live a normal life. Stop acting like it's your heartbeat and you'd be dead without it. JMO.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2026 07:24 AM (qBdHI)

106 The cost of bread has now moved out of the average Iranian's budget.
All foreign investment in Iran has ceased.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2026 07:24 AM (E0Et6)

107 On impulse at World Market this week, I bought a loaf of Delba Three Grain Bread from Germany. (It was 55% off.) It has no wheat, but has rye, barley, and oats. I don't care for it much. A slice takes longer to toast to crispness, and its taste, even with mustard and sharp cheddar cheese, is disappointing. I'll give Linda a sample. If she likes it, she can have it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)

108 Lady in Black, Amen.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2026 07:26 AM (E0Et6)

109 {{{Lady in Black}}}

Phone in hand = no situational awareness.

Makes you a target.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

110 I'm now reminded of a video clip where an influencer arrived in London and was filming things on his phone only to have it quickly stolen by a migrant of indeterminate ethnic origin.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026 07:28 AM (BpO1e)

111 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 14, 2026 07:28 AM (2Ez/1)

112 I'm now reminded of a video clip where an influencer arrived in London and was filming things on his phone only to have it quickly stolen by a migrant of indeterminate ethnic origin.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 14, 2026

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I can name that ethnic origin in three notes!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2026 07:29 AM (wzUl9)

113 huh, out here in corn&cows country I don't see much of that phone behavior. must be an urban thing, and I mean big urban.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2026 07:43 AM (VyBeY)

114 Obama said that he's instructed Hakeem Jeffries to clamp down hard on AI "when the Democrats win in November".

Sounds like the cheat is back on the menu.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 14, 2026 08:00 AM (sabhw)

115 Some of the ads here when using safari have gotten out of hand. Basically taking over the whole page after a few seconds of reading. Try to go click on a link in an article gets hijacked to go to an ad instead as it throws some sort of semi-transparent layer over the page just as you go to click. Makes the site unusable really.

Posted by: RandomString at September 14, 2026 08:25 AM (Ji9WQ)

116 In your Pascal compiler, can you have pointers to functions?

Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 14, 2026 09:47 AM (o0oFE)

117 Added preliminary support for Modula-2 and Oberon to my Pascal compiler and got started on the first five applications using my new language: An application router, a database manager, a protocol analyser, a monitoring system, and a proxy server with automated TLS (a.k.a SSL a.k.a HTTPS).

Are we talking PIM3 Modula-2 or ISO standard?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 14, 2026 11:00 AM (aTl7+)

118 Random String,

I had same problems. Search for 'how to install ad blocker on my' whatever device you're using.

Fixed 90% of it for me.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at September 14, 2026 12:06 PM (OgUID)

Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 13, 2026

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Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Lovely behavior from the people of "tolerance" and "coexist"


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Well played, cameraman!


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I did not expect to ever post anything about the Clancy trial. I changed my mind!


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Misuse of Flock cameras? As Ace says, I shan't believe it. I shannot.

Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately

Three more police officers have been arrested after using Automatic License Plate Readers supplied by the surveillance company Flock for non-law enforcement purposes.

In Savannah, Georgia, four police department workers were hauled into custody last Friday, when an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation uncovered they’d been abusing their city’s Flock system to track personal acquaintances and family members, WTOC reported.

Three of them were active police officers, while one of them was employed as a community service specialist. Two more employees had been fired weeks ago for similar offenses, WTOC notes, though they haven’t been arrested, and it’s not clear if an investigation is ongoing.

The incident has become a huge scandal for Savannah over the past few weeks, turning the historic Georgia city into a poster child for police abuse of AI-powered surveillance. Local officials aren’t happy, to put it lightly.

“To be totally honest, I’m disappointed,” Savannah mayor Van Johnson said, calling it a sad and sobering day for the city. “I’m p*ssed off about it.”


Anderson Co. deputy resigns amid investigation into misuse of Flock cameras

An Anderson County deputy has resigned after being brought under investigation for unauthorized use of Flock cameras.

According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Eric Center accessed the Flock camera system for “a purpose outside of the authorized reasons.”

Deputies said an internal affairs investigation was opened into the matter and, during that investigation, Center resigned from the sheriff’s office.

The sheriff’s office said they conferred with the 10th Circuit Solicitor’s Office regarding the case and it was determined that while the conducted violated agency policy, it did not warrant a criminal investigation.

This shit is really snowballing. Ridiculous.

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Hoover Dam is an engineering marvel. Built long before computers and calculators.

Here's a nerdy but interesting (to me, at least) article about the method used for pouring concrete and why it was done that way.

Hoover Dam was cast in columns because one solid pour would take 125 years to reach air temperature

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A bucket holding eight cubic yards of concrete swung out over Black Canyon on a cable, dropped into a form, and opened. Seven men went in after it with shovels, rubber boots and pneumatic vibrators, spreading a mix so dry that it would take its initial set inside the bucket if the crane operator was slow. Threaded through the form, waiting, were coils of one-inch steel pipe.

The pipe was there because Bureau of Reclamation engineers had worked out what would happen if the dam were built the obvious way. Their calculation is published in Reclamation’s own account of the construction. A single continuous pour would have got so hot, it says, that the concrete would have taken 125 years to cool to the temperature of the air around it. The resulting stresses would have cracked the dam and crumbled it away. So the dam went up as a stack of separate columns instead, each one chilled from the inside while it set.

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Concrete placement in any one block was limited to five feet in 72 hours. That is a rate rule rather than a volume rule: it caps how fast heat can be added to any one part of the dam. Reclamation puts placement in the dam at roughly 160,000 cubic yards a month. The peak day was 10,462 cubic yards, a figure that includes some concrete placed in the intake towers and the powerplant, and the peak month slightly over 275,000 cubic yards.

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The 125 years is the most quoted figure in this story, and what it measures is narrower than the retellings suggest. It describes cooling to the temperature of the surrounding air. It says nothing about when the chemical reaction inside the cement finishes, and the two are different processes running on different clocks.

It is also a calculation. Nobody poured Hoover Dam in a single lift and watched it cool. Reclamation’s engineers computed what would have happened if anyone had, and then designed the job so that nobody would. Reclamation’s construction answers record the cooling of the dam as completed in March 1935. That is about 21 months after the first concrete went into the dam on 6 June 1933, and two to three months before the last was placed on 29 May 1935. That timing is our arithmetic on Reclamation’s dates.

Kewl? Or nah?


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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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A Clean Line and a Slightly Raised Eyebrow — and the difference a little discipline makes

At the White House Historical Association’s 2026 Presidential Sites Summit, First Lady Melania Trump stepped to the Rose Garden podium in a look that did what her best public dressing always does: it looked simple until you looked twice. The dress was Dior’s mid-length blazer dress in black virgin wool and cotton bouclé. Sleeveless, double-breasted, notch-lapelled, worn without its belt but with the house’s horn buttons.

And then the shoes. Oh my goodness, the shoes. They were Manolo Blahnik’s BB pumps in a black-and-white grid from the 2023 collection. Pointed toe. Stiletto. A grid pump does not need a complicated outfit. It needs a clean line and enough quiet around it.

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The Rose Garden outfit was a proportion look. A graphic Manolo finished a black line by arriving last, saying one thing, and stopping.

Elsewhere in First Family Fashion, Donald Trump Jr. and new wife Bettina joined POTUS in western Ireland for the Irish Open. We may still look a little side-eyed at this marriage, but Bettina does seem to understand how to dress for her role a bit better than Kimberly Guilfoyle. That is not gossip. That is wardrobe discussion. A southern lady knows the difference.

Upon disembarking from the plane, Bettina wore a Burberry Classic Trench, I think this is the long Waterloo style. She carried a quilted Bottega Veneta Andiamo Small Intrecciato top-handle bag in black and Chanel calfskin ballet flats in black quilted leather. The sunglasses are Gucci flat-top frames in black. Travel dressing with its manners on.

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Bettina was also introduced to Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly. She nailed this fall’s trends with a gorgeous Roland Mouret long-sleeve crepe midi dress in emerald green. The coat is a Scanlan Theodore tailored coat in sand. Bettina remembered that green and camel still do the Lord’s work. The shoes are Manolo Blahnik Maysli suede buckle slingback pumps in emerald green, and the sunglasses are Dior 30Montaigne S8U in black. The bag is the same from above. Matching the green pump to the green dress without turning into a Christmas ornament takes a steady hand. She had one.

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And as something really fun, here is a link sent to me by Biden’s Dog for everyone to enjoy.

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The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

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1 Chicken’s in the bread pan doe si doe

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTs5ysnTEm0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:00 PM (BzKNL)

2 Cry havok and let loose the corgis of ONT!

Posted by: mindful webworker - participating proportionally at September 13, 2026 10:00 PM (4lnVb)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2026 10:01 PM (ot38T)

4 Nooded, and thanks, Doof!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:01 PM (NcvvS)

5 Hi friends!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

6 Evening, all! Now to go back and read the content and enjoy the pictures of FLOTUS.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 10:02 PM (aJQbY)

7 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 13, 2026 10:02 PM (sAmhv)

8 Bah! Nobody needs all the acclaim and accolades and public harassment from getting First! anyway!! You can have it, Braeny. 😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - second is the new last at September 13, 2026 10:04 PM (4lnVb)

9 matt, if you take the points then ed hock-a-lugie don't fuck you over

Posted by: muttering vikings fan at September 13, 2026 10:05 PM (Q+gd/)

10 8 Bah! Nobody needs all the acclaim and accolades and public harassment from getting First! anyway!! You can have it, Braeny. 😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - second is the new last at September

Honestly, the paparazzi gets annoying.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 Lockthatbitchupjackson speaks the truth.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:06 PM (viF8m)

12 Greetings Horde!

Thank you for content Mr. Doof and Ms. Piper.

Off to lurk in the shadows after reading content.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 10:06 PM (QGaXH)

13 I find myself in agreement with Mr Lock That Bitch Up. Well done sir.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2026 10:07 PM (ZxPkt)

14 Nobody poured Hoover Dam in a single lift and watched it cool. Reclamation’s engineers computed what would have happened if anyone had, and then designed the job so that nobody would. Reclamation’s construction answers record the cooling of the dam as completed in March 1935. That is about 21 months after the first concrete went into the dam on 6 June 1933, and two to three months before the last was placed on 29 May 1935.

Or roughly the time it would take Gavin Newsom to scratch his crotch before starting to think about contemplating forming a study group to consider whether to convene a committee to evaluate which style of seat cushion to use in the High Speed Train.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

15 Good evening morons und danke Disko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

16 Piper's contributions tonight are well noted. Nice work.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (ZxPkt)

17 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (PE5pE)

18 At 14, Zack MacLeod Pinsent burned his last pair of jeans after finding a box of his great-grandfather’s suits, and he hasn’t worn modern clothes since.

Nor has he gone a day without getting at least one swirly by his more butch nemesis, Leonard Pinth Garnell.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:09 PM (Riz8t)

19 Eked out a very narrow win on the Sockpuppet Wall of Shame. I'm pleased and alarmed at the same time.

Posted by: Of Two Minds at September 13, 2026 10:09 PM (Fn+3X)

20 Well, he really might be a girl.

https://tinyurl.com/ujej396z

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:09 PM (ndZc7)

21 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco and Piper!

Posted by: TRex - low profile commenter dino at September 13, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1)

22 Nicely done Sunday ONT! Thanks, Doof and Piper.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2026 10:11 PM (wVcYX)

23 A very nice ONT at both ends. Photo up top is pushing Fall a little too early, though.

Posted by: Greenie Weenie at September 13, 2026 10:11 PM (Fn+3X)

24 We may still look a little side-eyed at this marriage, but Bettina does seem to understand how to dress for her role a bit better than Kimberly Guilfoyle. That is not gossip. That is wardrobe discussion. A southern lady knows the difference.

Meeeee-Owwwww!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:11 PM (Riz8t)

25 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (PE5pE)

Why the hostility?

It's a meat product. Meat products are mostly good. Perhaps calling it "bacon" is what leads to the hostility. But, it's still a pork product.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 13, 2026 10:11 PM (0aYVJ)

26 “To be totally honest, I’m disappointed,” Savannah mayor Van Johnson said, calling it a sad and sobering day for the city. “I’m p*ssed off about it.”
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"How could this possibly happen!" he added.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

27 Sorry (actually sorry tonight, not soery like I was last night) I'm late, the butler put the wrong bumber of place settings on the table, so we had to engage in what turned out to be a rather boisterous round of Musical Chairs to determine who got to eat in the grand dining room and which poor soul would be relegsted to musty servants quarters.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2026 10:12 PM (PMi3m)

28 Here is a EweTube video describing how the Owyhee dam in SE Oregon was the prototype for Hoover dam.

youtu.be/h2vJovuH0bk

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 13, 2026 10:12 PM (3R8jA)

29 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

It's okay on a carnivore-type pizza with all the other meats.

But it was invented so those pineapple-on-pizza weirdos could do their thing.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

30 Evenin' Horde. Howdy, Doof!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 13, 2026 10:13 PM (kOluj)

31 Piper done real good, Doof set out to be whelming and succeeded.

Posted by: Win-Win! at September 13, 2026 10:14 PM (Fn+3X)

32 >>I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.

Don't be dissing the Egg McMuffin.

Those things kept me alive during way to early hockey practice in high school.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:14 PM (viF8m)

33 24 We may still look a little side-eyed at this marriage, but Bettina does seem to understand how to dress for her role a bit better than Kimberly Guilfoyle. That is not gossip. That is wardrobe discussion. A southern lady knows the difference.

Meeeee-Owwwww!
Posted by: Archimedes at September

But I am not wrong! lol.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

34 Piper's contributions tonight are well noted. Nice work.
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (ZxPkt)

I shall place your comment on a bulletin board in the break room at Doof Enterprises. Maybe it will motivate the other employees.

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

35 Wow.

That’s the first 60 Minutes story I’ve watched fully in decades.

Well worth it and I’m astonished they aired it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)

36
I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

I can't believe it's not butter!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 10:15 PM (Cqx++)

37 There are quite a few YT vids of people dressing everyday in other period clothing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

38 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.

It's ham, and most people like ham. The problem is that you've been primed to expect BACON, and ham is not bacon. It's like being told you're getting filet mignon, and getting hamburger. There's nothing wrong with hamburger, but if it's not what you were promised, it's a disappointment.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)

39 Piper thanks for the introduction to Don Jr.'s new wife.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

40 Yes, Hoover Dam tours are cool. They tell you all the information about the pouring and other engineering.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

41 A warm hello to all of you!

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

42 Off to lurk in the shadows after reading content.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

Hey, look out, man. This shadow's occupied already.

Posted by: mindful webworker - lurkishly lurking at September 13, 2026 10:17 PM (4lnVb)

43 Meeeee-Owwwww!
Posted by: Archimedes at September

But I am not wrong! lol.

No. No you are not.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:18 PM (Riz8t)

44 >>Wow.

>>That’s the first 60 Minutes story I’ve watched fully in decades.

>>Well worth it and I’m astonished they aired it


You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

45 Bacon is crispy and fatty, Canadian bacon is neither.

Posted by: davidt at September 13, 2026 10:18 PM (Q+gd/)

46 Egg McMuffins are an American culinary institution

Posted by: Otto Penn at September 13, 2026 10:18 PM (jSVOZ)

47 ***It is genuinely terrifying that a MASSIVE group of people in this country believe that the appropriate response to speech they disagree with, is m*rder...
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AOC's gang wants to k*ll upChuck Schumer 'cause he's too conservative.
hahahahahah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:18 PM (BzKNL)

48 34 I shall place your comment on a bulletin board in the break room at Doof Enterprises. Maybe it will motivate the other employees.
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf

I don’t even go in there. I just door dash my snacks to my office.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

49 >> Egg McMuffins are an American culinary institution

This guy gets it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:20 PM (viF8m)

50 Period clothing sounds so icky. Do people really wear different clothes one week a month?

Posted by: Emily Litella at September 13, 2026 10:20 PM (Fn+3X)

51 Canuck side-meat is pretty good on Egg McMuffins. Crispy English muffin, drenched in butter, egg, cheeeeeese. A pretty tasty combination

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:20 PM (rQ950)

52 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (PE5pE)
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Ideal for egg sandwich on English muffin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

53 Hoover Dam: not quite two years for the pour. Did not look up pre-constrution time. If you were to propose to build another dam like this one, the permit process and bid process would likely take decades because of environmental studies, disputes over grift and graft and the lawsuits because of all those factors. Of course, it would be very unlikely to happen at all.

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 10:21 PM (zRghv)

54 DJ Doof - Feeling Lonely Edition

Why so lonely?

https://youtu.be/UzJEdNngx10

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

55 In Europe a sort of similar problem emerged, they make perfectly fine Pizza, but if you order pepperoni you get a kind of sausage, if you order sausage you get pepperoni.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:22 PM (rQ950)

56 Or roughly the time it would take Gavin Newsom to scratch his crotch before starting to think about contemplating forming a study group to consider whether to convene a committee to evaluate which style of seat cushion to use in the High Speed Train.
Posted by: Archimedes
****

That was mean....

I like it!

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 10:23 PM (zRghv)

57 McDonald's didn't invent the egg sandwich people just saying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

58 ***four police department workers were hauled into custody last Friday,
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Flock; servants of the people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:23 PM (BzKNL)

59 I wonder if we could grow Canadian bacon in the US?

Dare to dream.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m)

60 39 Piper thanks for the introduction to Don Jr.'s new wife.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:17

She has been quiet and reserved. Maybe she is good for him.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 In any case Taylor ham > Canadian bacon

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

62 Period clothing sounds so icky. Do people really wear different clothes one week a month?
Posted by: Emily Litella


What's all this I hear about Presidential erections?!


Oh, nevermind. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2026 10:24 PM (ot38T)

63 Gavin Newsome is Californian, he doesn't use a cushion when he bikes

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2026 10:25 PM (88C+u)

64 I had a hankerin’ to make Reubens. The grocery I’m looking at has no sliced Deli corned beef. They do have a “boars head” brand solid chunk in plastic, but I doubt I could slice it thin enough. Would electric knife, like used for Turkey, accomplish this task?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:26 PM (rQ950)

65 From AI (the more you know):

No, Canadian bacon is not technically ham, though they look and taste very similar.

Main Differences

The Cut: Canadian bacon comes from the pork loin on the back of the pig. Ham comes from the hind leg.

Flavor and Cure: Canadian bacon is usually cured and smoked with a mild flavor. Ham can be cured, smoked, or baked, and often has a sweeter flavor profile.

Fat Content: Canadian bacon is leaner than traditional ham.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:26 PM (Riz8t)

66 Or roughly the time it would take Gavin Newsom to scratch his crotch before starting to think about contemplating forming a study group to consider whether to convene a committee to evaluate which style of seat cushion to use in the High Speed Train.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

First, they have to do a study to see what materials the state has deemed safe enough, and shouldn't trigger demands for reparations, to see whether they can make a seat and a seat cushion. Could they even make straps to hang onto for the duration of the trip?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)

67 I'm getting a lot of dam information tonight.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2026 10:27 PM (ZxPkt)

68 This shit is really snowballing. Ridiculous.
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Who would have ever thought that cops, real cops, would mis-use a freely available, pornographic surveillance device?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:27 PM (BzKNL)

69 McDonald's didn't invent the egg sandwich people, just saying.
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No, of course not. But it seems generally agreed this is “Canadian” bacon’s highest and best use.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:27 PM (rQ950)

70 .......filet mignon or hamburger

Hell, if it's free I would take the hamburger without bitching.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 10:27 PM (xJpuh)

71 I don’t even go in there. I just door dash my snacks to my office.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

When did you get an office?!?!

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

72 Off to lurk in the shadows after reading content.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

Hey, look out, man. This shadow's occupied already.
Posted by: mindful webworker - lurkishly lurking

Didn't see you there?

https://youtu.be/U4aRayOzgjg

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)

73 64 I had a hankerin’ to make Reubens.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:26 PM (rQ950)

Surprisingly, Arby’s makes a pretty good Reuben. It’s not Katz’s deli level, but not bad.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM (SjAWL)

74 >>McDonald's didn't invent the egg sandwich people just saying.

Oh, ok conspiracy theorist.

Why do you hate America?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM (viF8m)

75 Pierce Brosnan still good looking after all these years.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 10:29 PM (lJ0H4)

76 Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately

Big Brother has the sadz.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 13, 2026 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

77 I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today. Or a Filet Mignon.

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at September 13, 2026 10:30 PM (Fn+3X)

78 Pierce Brosnan still good looking after all these years.

Still the 3rd best Bond, after Craig and Connery.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:31 PM (Riz8t)

79 Qonderful work this evening, Doof and Piper.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2026 10:31 PM (PMi3m)

80 but I doubt I could slice it thin enough. Would electric knife, like used for Turkey, accomplish this task?
Posted by: Common Tater
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I've had ruebens with thin cut slices and with thick cut slices. It depends on how you're making the sandwich. If you make a good sandwich, it does not matter how you sliced the meat.

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 10:32 PM (zRghv)

81 ***and the difference a little discipline makes
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that's what it's all about, isn't it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:32 PM (BzKNL)

82 Lockthatbitchup Jackson is a national treasure!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 10:32 PM (FZ29D)

83 71 I don’t even go in there. I just door dash my snacks to my office.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

When did you get an office?!?!
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM

The musical based on this blog is going to be hysterical.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

84 Ribeye >>>>>>>>>>>> any other cut of steak.

I will die on this hill.

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

85 Tousi reported this evening that the president and parliament of Iran are arguing over whether to test one of their nukes. Publicly. The president and his people apparently want not to because Israel will kill them all. The IRGC is apparently all in with parliament on doomsday.

https://tinyurl.com/4526b9fd

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM (vSvIl)

86 With tonight's musicalntheme, I assume somebody has already posted a link to Team America, you know whixh scene, so i won't bother duplicating it.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2026 10:34 PM (PMi3m)

87 You youngsters don't remember a time when McDonald's did not serve breakfast.

We had egg sammiches too back then.

The real achievement here is the round egg.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX)

88 Pierce Brosnan still good looking after all these years.

Still the 3rd best Bond, after Craig and Connery.
****

And the first shot in the Bond wars echoes.

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 10:34 PM (zRghv)

89 Nix on the shoes. They go with a zoot suit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:35 PM (BzKNL)

90 Off to lurk in the shadows after reading content.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

Hey, look out, man. This shadow's occupied already.
Posted by: mindful webworker - lurkishly lurking at September 13, 2026 10:17 PM (4lnVb)

Be careful with the next one. It's a regular nesting place for Flock cameras.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 10:36 PM (qx7Zg)

91 >Ribeye >>>>>>>>>>>> any other cut of steak.
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Too much marbling and connective tissue

Top Sirloin is the One True Cut.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)

92 Who's Reuben?

Posted by: And Who's Yehoodi? at September 13, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)

93 McDonald's didn't invent the egg sandwich people just saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:23 PM (RIvkX)
~~~~~

The egg sandwich was invented in Jersey with the delectable pork roll, egg and cheese sammie decades before Mickey D.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (3ImbR)

94
Broke a rule and checked into the Cowboy Giant game only to be confronted with a feminine pee pad ad.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (Y8DZL)

95 The real achievement here is the round egg.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

There's these neat little kitchen gadgets called: egg rings...

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (rdVOm)

96 Ribeye >>>>>>>>>>>> any other cut of steak.
I will die on this hill.

Tenderloin. New York Strip after that.
*doffs hat in memory of Doof*

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (Riz8t)

97 If you make a good sandwich, it does not matter how you sliced the meat.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 10:32 PM (zRghv)

But quality meat is, how you say, the whole point of the exercise, no?

Posted by: The Paolo at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

98 Tousi reported this evening that the president and parliament of Iran are arguing over whether to test one of their nukes. Publicly. The president and his people apparently want not to because Israel will kill them all. The IRGC is apparently all in with parliament on doomsday.

https://tinyurl.com/4526b9fd
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM (vSvIl)

Too bad Mossad already replaced it with a casing full of used pinball machine parts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (qx7Zg)

99 I don’t even go in there. I just door dash my snacks to my office.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

When did you get an office?!?!
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

It's The Secret Of Her Success.

Posted by: Oh Yeah (Yello) at September 13, 2026 10:37 PM (wVcYX)

100 There's only a little bit of concrete in the Hoover dam. It was poured over all the old vacuum cleaners ...

Posted by: Adriane the Gilligan's Island DIY Critic . . . at September 13, 2026 10:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

101 Lockthatbitchup Jackson is a national treasure!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 10:32 PM (FZ29D)

I've watched it thrice. Still cackling like a junior high kid. I shall watch it a couple more times before I retire for the evening.

Hey! Who put out their Kool on my rug?!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 13, 2026 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)

102 Surprisingly, Arby’s makes a pretty good Reuben. It’s not Katz’s deli level, but not bad.
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There’s probably no Arby’s within 100 air miles from me in any direction. Katz or somebody like that (whomever actually mails the damn things to people) had some tips on how to up your Reuben game when making them.

If I could get unsliced black Rye, that would be best, I think. I think the slices should be thicker, generally speaking.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:38 PM (rQ950)

103 Here we go. More fake facts about New Jersey.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:38 PM (viF8m)

104 Ribeye >>>>>>>>>>>> any other cut of steak.

I will die on this hill.
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

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Which is why you go to Pat's for cheesesteaks, not Geno's.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

105 Donald is looking at Bettina, thinking, take the woman's hand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:39 PM (BzKNL)

106 Bedtime! Crazy day tomorrow, teach 6, 930 and noon, have the house cleaners, J leaves for Boston, kid has school. Everyone get a good night’s rest to face that day!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

107 You youngsters don't remember a time when McDonald's did not serve breakfast.

We had egg sammiches too back then.

The real achievement here is the round egg.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

The biscuit cutter is right there.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov)

108 I like to buy a whole tenderloin, roast 2/3 of it,and cut the rest into steaks. Cost me $165 last time.

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at September 13, 2026 10:40 PM (Fn+3X)

109 The IRGC is apparently all in with parliament on doomsday.

https://tinyurl.com/4526b9fd
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM (vSvIl)

Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

110 Coffee milk.

Enough said.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 10:41 PM (3ImbR)

111 Great content tonight. Thank you Piper and Doof

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2026 10:41 PM (jCuBf)

112 Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

F That!

I want a really LOUD boom ...

Posted by: Adriane the Gilligan's Island DIY Critic . . . at September 13, 2026 10:41 PM (3ZUWJ)

113 gunpowder was invented in New Jersey, in a deli

Posted by: Otto Penn at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (jSVOZ)

114
Idea-

All juries must have a Bureau of Reclamations certified engineer as foreman

Posted by: Idea Guy at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (4RYRd)

115 Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.

Heh. I think you mean a moo point. Supposably.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (Riz8t)

116 Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I was gonna correct this, but I guess it's right either way.

Posted by: dead men tell no tales at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (VHUov)

117 If you make a good sandwich, it does not matter how you sliced the meat.
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I’d agree with that, but the risk of buying a big ass chunk, is that it might be all stringy? Deli meat is usually just right for sammiches, I want to avoid the “take a bite and pull the sandwich apart” thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (rQ950)

118 Canadian bacon is used in the classic Eggs Benedict.

It is good on pizza with pineapple.

And egg McMuffins are compulsory at 6am heading up the mountain to downhill ski.

Please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:43 PM (yEz+x)

119 I want a really LOUD boom ...
Posted by: Adriane the Gilligan's Island DIY Critic . . . at September 13, 2026 10:41 PM (3ZUWJ)

They probably wouldn't even hear it. Just wonder why it got so hot all of the sudden.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

120 Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.

Heh. I think you mean a moo point. Supposably.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (Riz8t)

We're dropping cows from BUFFs (B-52s)?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)

121 I made quiche this morning with Nueske's smoked ham, gruyere, sauteed onion and chopped broccoli.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 10:44 PM (+fdRY)

122 I propose that one of the COBs should allow mikeski to be the ONT guest DJ once a week.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2026 10:44 PM (PMi3m)

123 Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.

Heh. I think you mean a moo point. Supposably.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (Riz8t)

(shrugs)

I could care less.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

124 Which is why you go to Pat's for cheesesteaks, not Geno's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

I wouldn't go to either of those places.

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:45 PM (QMAsf)

125 >>Coffee milk.

>>Enough said.

You're damn skippy.

Also Del's frozen lemonade.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:45 PM (viF8m)

126 Reuben Kincaid (Dave Madden)appeared in all 96 episodes of The Partridge Family show during it's four year run.
San The Butcher (Allen Melvin) appeared only 8 times during The Brady Bunch run.

Posted by: Meaty Facts at September 13, 2026 10:45 PM (Fn+3X)

127
Who's Reuben?
Posted by: And Who's Yehoodi?

Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 10:46 PM (Cqx++)

128 I don’t even go in there. I just door dash my snacks to my office.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

When did you get an office?!?!
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

It's The Secret Of Her Success.
Posted by: Oh Yeah (Yello)

Well, Piper does Dress for Success

Posted by: Anti-fashionista at September 13, 2026 10:46 PM (4RYRd)

129 ........J leaves for Boston,

Kinda feel sorry for J.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 10:47 PM (xJpuh)

130 Adding to the music

https://youtu.be/D6Aw3ZnqQrY

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

131 Mandatory, or Compulsory? Hm.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:47 PM (rQ950)

132 Which is the 60 MInutes link above?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 10:47 PM (1z8ji)

133 When making a Rueben, the contents should be just about bursting out of the bread. Ruebems should be rubenesque.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2026 10:48 PM (PMi3m)

134 If you make a good sandwich, it does not matter how you sliced the meat.
Posted by: clarence


This is an errant statement.

The best sammiches are made with perfectly thin sliced meats, cheeses , onions and tomatoes. Otherwise they are chunky and gloppy. No no no no.

Please. Sharpen your knives and take a little time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:48 PM (yEz+x)

135 Doing some sandboxing of what’s going to be a field rig for commissioning and engineering for this new project.

It’s currently running on a Linux mint rig running a vm of proxmox which in turn is running VMs of opnsense, win 11 enterprise, netbox, puppy Linux and MacOS.

Everything is peppy except the MacOs vm, which is because there are no Mac intel graphics drivers, but I’ve got an amd rtx 570 coming that will fix that glitch when I fully deploy.

The rig will eventually have 3 windows VMs, a Mac vm and 3 Linux VMs, for vendors to do their remote commissioning.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2026 10:48 PM (XV/Pl)

136 Irregardless

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 10:49 PM (Cqx++)

137 Jersey is so good at sammies that they even have their own version of a Sloppy Joe. No ketchupy ground beef on a hamburger bun. No sirrreeee.

Jersey Sloppy Joe order of assembly from bottom to top:

•Rye Bread
•Turkey
•Cole Slaw
•Russian Dressing
•Swiss Cheese
•Rye Bread
•Ham
•Cole Slaw
•Russian Dressing
•Swiss Cheese
•Rye Bread

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 10:49 PM (3ImbR)

138 Who's Reuben?
Posted by: And Who's Yehoodi?

Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

FILL YORE HANDS....

...with our Generously Portioned Reuben!

Posted by: The Original Miklos Katz's Deli at September 13, 2026 10:49 PM (4RYRd)

139 Irregardless
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

It's a mute point.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2026 10:50 PM (ot38T)

140 Irregardless
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Inflammable despite of

Posted by: The Original Miklos Grammatical Annoyance List at September 13, 2026 10:52 PM (4RYRd)

141 >>>Also Del's frozen lemonade.
~~~~~

Even lefties can figure out how to freeze lemonade.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 10:52 PM (3ImbR)

142 >>Which is the 60 MInutes link above?

I told you morons to watch the interview but does anyone listen to me?

Fine.

https://tinyurl.com/57dp8kcz

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

143
Canadian bacon

___________

"Oh, you have 'bacon' too! How nice. Now, run along and play while we grown-ups talk."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 10:53 PM (eRlcH)

144 Thanks for the ONT.

Like the 60 mins bit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 10:53 PM (Y/06r)

145 Please. Sharpen your knives and take a little time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:48 PM (yEz+x)

Wouldn't a meat slicer make thinner cuts?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

146 It is genuinely terrifying that a MASSIVE group of people in this country believe that the appropriate response to speech they disagree with, is m*rder...

...and they celebrate it with horrifying glee

I don't know where we go from here.pic.twitter.com/4ly4IRdqns

Kirk is the highest profile assassination of America since MLK jr and yet it is mostly ignored by the FNM and cheered by the left.

There are two ways forward:

1) Normies wake up and vote the left out of power over this. But because the FNM won't cover it they don't know

2) Righties answer in kind.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (sKqQm)

147 Yeah, I think I’m gonna side with Nurse here. I want thin sliced corned beef. Piled high and deep. Put a weight on it while it toasts up in the pan. This compresses it a little bit.

Nice crunch on the Rye, tender beef with folds and rolls, and the eye watering bite of fresh Horseradish, etc etc

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (rQ950)

148 17 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (PE5pE)

With John Candy? Oh....this isn't the movie thread ? ...but nor is it the food thread even tho food spelled backwards is......not Piper....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (QGaXH)

149 I wouldn't go to either of those places.
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 10:45 PM (QMAsf)
====

I've had good steaks in a couple good places especially in south Jersey but proper ribeye is prepared so that connective tissue is more rendered and chopped, adding flavor to the sandwich. When it's bad it can get stringy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

150 https://tinyurl.com/57dp8kcz
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

EweToob says "not available in Canada".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 10:55 PM (1z8ji)

151 The best Reuben is from The Neptune Diner in Astoria.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2026 10:55 PM (XV/Pl)

152 121 I made quiche this morning with Nueske's smoked ham, gruyere, sauteed onion and chopped broccoli.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


That sounds lovely. I’ll bring a tart green salad and some white wine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:55 PM (yEz+x)

153 78 Pierce Brosnan still good looking after all these years.
---

Gays usually keep up appearances.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:56 PM (BzKNL)

154 The crimes people with access to flock crimes are committing are completely expected. People will often misuse power, especially as oversight to it is reduced.

I mean I have to laugh the left is now anti-Flock solely because they believe ICE is using it, but our whole modern approach to policing is wrong.

We don't need more surveillance. We need longer jail sentence, saner judges, and to actually punish the guilty.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 10:56 PM (sKqQm)

155
60 Minutes: Fake, but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Blather at September 13, 2026 10:56 PM (2Ez/1)

156 Eh, just bomb the place when they're in session. Make it a mute point.

Heh. I think you mean a moo point. Supposably.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (Riz8t)

We're dropping cows from BUFFs (B-52s)?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)

Fetchez la vache!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2026 10:57 PM (wVcYX)

157 "Oh, you have 'bacon' too! How nice. Now, run along and play while we grown-ups talk."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 10:53 PM (eRlcH)
~~~~~

Did you know that those Canucks have the nerve to call American cheese Canadian cheese?

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 10:57 PM (3ImbR)

158 I ordered a Reuben at some Literary Art Performance Space in NY.

Gave it a rating of "nonchalant".

Posted by: The Wry Bread bought a mere wisp of a smile at September 13, 2026 10:57 PM (4RYRd)

159 I don't know where we go from here.pic.twitter.com/4ly4IRdqns

Kirk is the highest profile assassination of America since MLK jr and yet it is mostly ignored by the FNM and cheered by the left.

There are two ways forward:

1) Normies wake up and vote the left out of power over this. But because the FNM won't cover it they don't know

2) Righties answer in kind.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (sKqQm)

The people who vandalized that statue should be strangled with their own guts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 10:57 PM (1z8ji)

160 Iran's been dangling that rocket bomb fruit for a couple of days.
They are butt hurt that the Houthis used Iranian arms to shut down the strait.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 10:58 PM (BzKNL)

161 I told you morons to watch the interview but does anyone listen to me?
——

Check out the part when the pilot mentions that Iran is as “big as Alaska”. The newsreader broad briefly smiles for a second. That struck me as strange. Maybe it’s nothing. But she also seems to regard herself just a little too highly somehow. That’s 60 Minutes, I guess, I’m sure they are all like that and have been for a while.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (rQ950)

162 145 Please. Sharpen your knives and take a little time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:48 PM (yEz+x)

Wouldn't a meat slicer make thinner cuts?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM
+++++

There's nowhere for the flavor to hide, Jerry!

https://youtu.be/FdChSEabeDw

Posted by: Kramer at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (2Ez/1)

163 If you make a good sandwich, it does not matter how you sliced the meat.
——

I’d agree with that, but the risk of buying a big ass chunk, is that it might be all stringy? Deli meat is usually just right for sammiches, I want to avoid the “take a bite and pull the sandwich apart” thing.
****

Do several cuts to see how it looks. If you can't get a good single cut, make a few smaller cuts and layer the meat. Or just do one cut and cut the sandwich into manageable pieces.

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (zRghv)

164 148 17 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2026 10:08 PM (PE5pE)

With John Candy? Oh....this isn't the movie thread ? ...but nor is it the food thread even tho food spelled backwards is......not Piper....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 10:54 PM (QGaXH)

Egg McMuffins are good. Outrageously expensive now, but good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (Y/06r)

165 Wouldn't a meat slicer make thinner cuts?
Posted by: OrangeEnt


Yes!

However, commercial meat slicers are large and heavy, take up a ton of space on the countertop and a royal pain in the ass to clean.

Plus, expensive.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (yEz+x)

166 I mean I have to laugh the left is now anti-Flock solely because they believe ICE is using it, but our whole modern approach to policing is wrong.

We don't need more surveillance. We need longer jail sentence, saner judges, and to actually punish the guilty.

Posted by: 18-1
---

If only there were a way to elevate that rumor?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:00 PM (BzKNL)

167 There is a place here that makes a skinny Reuben.

They pile the thin-sliced corned beef on the flat top, add 1000 Island, sauerkraut, and swiss on top. Served with a side of fries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

168
Her Majesty, in fact, arrived in Newark late this afternoon. Much less incident than in June, when she never got past Dallas while her luggage toured America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 11:00 PM (eRlcH)

169 If you look at the Top Ten shows each year since 1968, it's amazing how many times 60 Minutes was near the very top. They did have NFL to lead in a quarter of the time when the NFL mattered, though.

Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at September 13, 2026 11:00 PM (Fn+3X)

170 We need longer jail sentence, saner judges, and to actually punish the guilty.
——
Long jail sentences for the insane guilty judges would be a good start.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (rQ950)

171 I could care less.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

Um...

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (Ntshk)

172 Please. Sharpen your knives and take a little time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:48 PM (yEz+x)

+1

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (wVcYX)

173 I like the Bacon Egg and Cheese Croissant from BK better than the McMuffin. Plus it uses real bacon, not that "Canadian" ham.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (3ImbR)

174 42 Off to lurk in the shadows after reading content.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

Hey, look out, man. This shadow's occupied already.
Posted by: mindful webworker - lurkishly lurking at September 13, 2026 10:17 PM (4lnVb)

There's an awful lot of strange people (deletes on this beach) types: lurking on this thread....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (QGaXH)

175 What a relief!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 11:02 PM (wxsGM)

176 What Americans call "Canadian bacon" is neither Canadian nor bacon. Canadians have a product called back bacon or sometimes peameal bacon that is cured pork loin. You can get away with just salt curing, but you can also add some nitrite. It's not smoked. We have to make our own back bacon because you can't buy it in the States. You can only get that horrid extruded ham "sausageoid" monstrosity in a synthetic casing that Americans incorrectly call Canadian bacon.

For a truly awesome culinary experience, if you are in Toronto, go to the St Lawrence Market and order a back bacon on a bun sandwich, which is fried sliced back bacon on a kaiser bun. Heaven.

I do like what Americans call "just bacon" and what the Canadians call side bacon and the Brits call streaky bacon, that's made from pork belly. However, I've been finding that a lot of restaurants have a tendency to overcook it, turning it into a charred crunchy mess that can only be eaten with your fingers. There's a very delicate balance between cooking too little, with an unpleasant mouth feel from the fat, and over doing it when you cannot pierce the bacon with your fork without shattering it into many indigestible pieces.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 13, 2026 11:02 PM (o0oFE)

177 >>EweToob says "not available in Canada".

Can't help you with that.

But you really need to hear the interview.

I've heard a lot of dumb people say America has no culture. We absolutely have a culture and that story demonstrates exactly who we are.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:02 PM (viF8m)

178 I've never understood how anyone liked Canadian bacon.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry
But it's not ham, it's half assed ham. Either eat real bacon or eat a real slice of ham.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 13, 2026 11:03 PM (0Htd1)

179 167 There is a place here that makes a skinny Reuben.

They pile the thin-sliced corned beef on the flat top, add 1000 Island, sauerkraut, and swiss on top. Served with a side of fries.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

Isn't that like a ... Frisco Melt? Burger. Texas toast. Thousand Island. Not sure on the cheese.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 11:03 PM (Y/06r)

180 Yes!

However, commercial meat slicers are large and heavy, take up a ton of space on the countertop and a royal pain in the ass to clean.

Plus, expensive.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (yEz+x)

I see hand-cranked meat slicers in the thrift stores from time to time. If you replaced the hand crank with a drum pulley, you could run a flat belt out the kitchen window to the PTO on your old John Deere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)

181 However, commercial meat slicers are large and heavy, take up a ton of space on the countertop and a royal pain in the ass to clean.

Plus, expensive.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (yEz+x)

We had a meat slicer. There's a home sized version, but of course, it's not as heavy or sturdy. It did work, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 11:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

182 Much less incident than in June, when she never got past Dallas while her luggage toured America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You owe for that

Posted by: Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy Trustee at September 13, 2026 11:04 PM (4RYRd)

183 Check out the part when the pilot mentions that Iran is as “big as Alaska”. The newsreader broad briefly smiles for a second. That struck me as strange. Maybe it’s nothing. But she also seems to regard herself just a little too highly somehow. That’s 60 Minutes, I guess, I’m sure they are all like that and have been for a while.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 10:59 PM (rQ950)

It isn't. Iran is smaller. Sorry folks. 60 minutes lied (again).

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:05 PM (Ntshk)

184 The (satellite? Or Recon aircraft?) imagery shown in that pilot E&E interview was really amazing, watched it on YT tethered on my laptop. The detail and resolution was high, and I bet they don’t even release or declassify the “good stuff”.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:06 PM (rQ950)

185 Wouldn't a meat slicer make thinner cuts?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

We didn't use meat slicers

Posted by: OrangeJulius at September 13, 2026 11:06 PM (4RYRd)

186 I could care less.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

Um...
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (Ntshk)

It's awl good. Just innocent word play.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 11:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

187 There's a very delicate balance between cooking too little, with an unpleasant mouth feel from the fat, and over doing it when you cannot pierce the bacon with your fork without shattering it into many indigestible pieces.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 13, 2026 11:02 PM (o0oFE)

Oh FFS. Pick it up and eat it. Like, you know, bacon.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:08 PM (Ntshk)

188 McDonald's bread (carbohydrate) to protein ratio is the worst.
Jack n the Box has substituted gross bread sticks for pancakes in their big breakfast.
McDonald's big breakfast is all dough.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:08 PM (BzKNL)

189 Thanks for the ONT Doof and Piper.

The mention of Hoover Dam made me think of my Dad as he worked on Hoover Dam. Not on its construction but he made service calls there when he was on the road for Woodward Governor in the 70s.

He was amazed that some hick farm kid like him got to see so much of the world and get paid for it! Besides the US jobs he worked from the Yukon to Brazil, from Europe to India.

Its been over a year but I really miss him at times.

Posted by: Farmer, w/ his own historical take at September 13, 2026 11:08 PM (4Qj8V)

190 Iran is a large country to get shot down in, and get recovered which was the point though. Is it comparable? I dunno.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:09 PM (rQ950)

191 It isn't. Iran is smaller. Sorry folks. 60 minutes lied (again).
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:05 PM (Ntshk)

665,000 sq miles: AK
636,000 sq miles: Iran

Similar in size, within 10%.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:09 PM (1z8ji)

192 I see hand-cranked meat slicers in the thrift stores from time to time. If you replaced the hand crank with a drum pulley, you could run a flat belt out the kitchen window to the PTO on your old John Deere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Coincidence?

https://tinyurl.com/4sjsdurw

Posted by: One thinks not at September 13, 2026 11:09 PM (4RYRd)

193 I've heard of home pickle slicers who can handle spears and gherkins with equal ease.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2026 11:10 PM (wVcYX)

194 I've heard of home pickle slicers who can handle spears and gherkins with equal ease.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2026 11:10 PM (wVcYX)

Does it look like a mini-guillotine?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)

195 It isn't. Iran is smaller. Sorry folks. 60 minutes lied (again).
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:05 PM (Ntshk)

Somebody on internet says Iran 11 percent larger: Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km. Of course, you'd have to change the numbers into real measurements.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 11:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

196 I've heard of home pickle slicers who can handle spears and gherkins with equal ease.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2026 11:10 PM (wVcYX)

But can they splice sickles?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)

197 I've heard of home pickle slicers who can handle spears and gherkins with equal ease.
Posted by: Count de Monet

There's girls like that

Posted by: Miklos can name at least three at September 13, 2026 11:13 PM (4RYRd)

198 150 https://tinyurl.com/57dp8kcz
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

EweToob says "not available in Canada".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

VPN will get you out of Canada.

Nora O'Donnell, in the beginning, had a soft smooth, womanly voice. Hadn't heard her in years. Vocal fry goes with her 'one too many cocktails' look.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:14 PM (BzKNL)

199 @147-Common Tater

I don't think I have ever in my life put that much thought into food. I mean if you are hungry you eat something then go on about your business.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 11:14 PM (xJpuh)

200 I'm too lazy to crank my own meat.

Posted by: Handy Capable at September 13, 2026 11:14 PM (Fn+3X)

201 “We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…” Clancy juror Paula Devlin said.

Complete dereliction of duty and fraud upon the court.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 11:16 PM (dK+Kv)

202 My slow cooker stew was yummy. Ate three bowls of it. And enough left for breakfast tomorrow, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

203 Nora O'Donnell, in the beginning, had a soft smooth, womanly voice. Hadn't heard her in years. Vocal fry goes with her 'one too many cocktails' look.

Posted by: Braenyard

Once upon a time, Rush Limbaugh called her "she of the drinkable bathwater".

Been a lot of water through the bath since then.

Posted by: As Miklos recalls at September 13, 2026 11:18 PM (4RYRd)

204 201 “We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…” Clancy juror Paula Devlin said.

Complete dereliction of duty and fraud upon the court.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 11:16 PM (dK+Kv)

Better for what women? The one's who murder their children? Why would we want that to be "better?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 11:18 PM (Ntshk)

205 My slow cooker stew was yummy. Ate three bowls of it. And enough left for breakfast tomorrow, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My slow cooker has a "fast" setting.

Posted by: Miklos is confused by Modern Technology at September 13, 2026 11:20 PM (4RYRd)

206 202 My slow cooker stew was yummy. Ate three bowls of it. And enough left for breakfast tomorrow, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sliced whole carrots, baby carrots, or shredded carrots?

Posted by: The Prince Of Root Crops at September 13, 2026 11:20 PM (Fn+3X)

207 I mean if you are hungry you eat something then go on about your business.
——

Everyone learns at their own pace I always say. With all due respect, I make food the way I want it. You make food the way you want it. Deal?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:20 PM (rQ950)

208 Seem to be getting up earlier than usual these days. Actually made the Book Thread this morning after taking Daisy the madcap Malinois for a walk. Going to bed earlier may have something to do with it. It's a viscous cycle.


At last count, the word "bacon" has appeared 43 times in this thread.🥓🥓

https://youtu.be/wSReSGe200A3

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - (This shadow now available for lurk.) at September 13, 2026 11:21 PM (4lnVb)

209 Sliced whole carrots, baby carrots, or shredded carrots?
Posted by: The Prince Of Root Crops at September 13, 2026 11:20 PM (Fn+3X)

No carrots. Baby potatoes, sliced mushrooms, and cut-up rutabaga. And some barley to thicken it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:22 PM (1z8ji)

210 60 Minutes didn't compare Iran to Alaska. The downed American did. And nobody cares.

Just watch the interview.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:22 PM (viF8m)

211 I had a rough childhood, traumatic even

Stress in my life situation

Parents never paid taxes neither

Posted by: Innocent Al Capone at September 13, 2026 11:22 PM (4RYRd)

212 I've heard of home pickle slicers who can handle spears and gherkins with equal ease.
Posted by: Count de Monet

She got fired too.

Posted by: just the punchline at September 13, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov)

213 No carrots. Baby potatoes, sliced mushrooms, and cut-up rutabaga. And some barley to thicken it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Still too hot for stew in the Land of the Sunstroke ...

Winter is coming, though.

Posted by: Adriane the Gilligan's Island DIY Critic . . . at September 13, 2026 11:24 PM (3ZUWJ)

214 Yes, Hoover Dam tours are cool. They tell you all the information about the pouring and other engineering.

Do they address what I presume are urban legends about bodies being buried in the concrete? If they were pouring 8 yards at a time, I don't see how that could happen.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 11:24 PM (vTZFs)

215 I had a rough childhood, traumatic even

Stress in my life situation

Parents never paid taxes neither
Posted by: Innocent Al Capone at September 13, 2026 11:22 PM (4RYRd)

You was a victim of circumstance too?

Posted by: Curly Howard at September 13, 2026 11:25 PM (wVcYX)

216 Do they address what I presume are urban legends about bodies being buried in the concrete? If they were pouring 8 yards at a time, I don't see how that could happen.
Posted by: Oddbob

Stories

Just a buncha stories

Posted by: Jimmy Hoffa at September 13, 2026 11:26 PM (4RYRd)

217 Just watch the interview.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:22 PM (viF8m)

I expect it will show up on some other platform that can be viewed in Canada, eventually.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:26 PM (1z8ji)

218 Rutabaga, turnip, or even Acorn Squash cut into 1" chunks helps make a hearty stew. And is good to promote youthful regularity.

Posted by: Black Draught at September 13, 2026 11:27 PM (Fn+3X)

219 Just checking in, back to read the comments, if you see me here after 1:30 am EST please tell me to go to bed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 11:27 PM (ibDUx)

220 Does it look like a mini-guillotine?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)

That's the Lorena Bobbitt model.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2026 11:27 PM (wVcYX)

221 You was a victim of circumstance too?
Posted by: Curly Howard

Why I oughtta

Posted by: Moe at September 13, 2026 11:27 PM (4RYRd)

222 https://tinyurl.com/57dp8kcz
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

It's a good thing the interviewer informed us that the war was "costly and unpopular" so we can form the correct opinions.

Posted by: Emmie at September 13, 2026 11:28 PM (OlzlW)

223 That one feller has WAY too much salad on his uniform. They gotta dial back on the ribbons. Jayzus.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:29 PM (rQ950)

224 >>I expect it will show up on some other platform that can be viewed in Canada, eventually.

I know you will see it eventually. It will make you proud.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

225 It's a good thing the interviewer informed us that the war was "costly and unpopular" so we can form the correct opinions.
——

Yeah, they laid a big greasy turd in the punchbowl right off first thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:30 PM (rQ950)

226 I know you will see it eventually. It will make you proud.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

I will keep an eye for it, JackStraw.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)

227 punchbowl right off
****

That was not 'punch' in that bowl.

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 11:32 PM (zRghv)

228 Just checking in, back to read the comments, if you see me here after 1:30 am EST please tell me to go to bed.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Hi, Debby! Trying to get back into "day mode" huh? Good luck...

Wait, 1:30 am EST?! That's only, 10:30 pm! 😉

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

229
All these cops getting arrested for unauthorized use of surveillance camera databases. Apparently it did not occur to them that every access of the system is logged electronically. It all leaves a record.

I'm guessing this was explained during mandated training to use the database.

So -- what happened? They ignored the training? The training was a joke? They're deeply stupid? They thought nobody would really come after them because of cop omerta? I don't get it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 11:34 PM (lsrsS)

230 That one feller has WAY too much salad on his uniform. They gotta dial back on the ribbons. Jayzus.
Posted by: Common Tater

Mark Milley vs. Dwight Eisenhower or Chester Nimitz.


Done gone bad wrong.

Posted by: Miklos opinionates at September 13, 2026 11:35 PM (4RYRd)

231 Evening Horde. Thx Doof.
First Giants game I saw in person was 1970. Great to see them win the opener against the Cowboys
Lockthebitchup Jackson was a riot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM (N2HNb)

232 >>It's a good thing the interviewer informed us that the war was "costly and unpopular" so we can form the correct opinions.

I'm so old I grew up during the war in Vietnam. That's what an unpopular war looks like. Other then online, nobody even talks about Iran.

Most Americans don't even know we are taking down the leading state sponsor of terrorism that has killed thousands of Americans over the last 50 years other than when they whine about the price of gas.

Fuck 'em. This is exactly what I voted for.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)

233 Fuck 'em. This is exactly what I voted for.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM

Amen.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 11:38 PM (rdVOm)

234 We thank our Loyal Customer.

However, due to increasing prices and lack of community support, we have been forced to close our doors for the last time.

Posted by: Bob's All-Night All-Rutabaga $10 Buffet at September 13, 2026 11:38 PM (4RYRd)

235 170 We need longer jail sentence, saner judges, and to actually punish the guilty.
——
Long jail sentences for the insane guilty judges would be a good start.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:01 PM (rQ950)

Faster horses, younger wimmen, older whiskey and more MONEY....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 11:39 PM (QGaXH)

236 This is exactly what I voted for.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)

As far as I'm concerned, Trump is taking care of some long-overdue business. He's not the type to just kick the can down the road.

Posted by: Emmie at September 13, 2026 11:42 PM (OlzlW)

237 There's a mashed rutabaga-in my pants!

Posted by: 50 Year Senator Joe B at September 13, 2026 11:43 PM (Fn+3X)

238
I like Canadian bacon. But it's not bacon. And lately, very high priced.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 11:43 PM (mS8PE)

239 Faster horses, younger wimmen, older whiskey and more MONEY....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

This is Problematic

Like, um, like all of it

Posted by: Democratic Socialists of America at September 13, 2026 11:43 PM (4RYRd)

240 They ignored the training? The training was a joke? They're deeply stupid? They thought nobody would really come after them because of cop omerta? I don't get it.
——-

Sounds like you “got it” pretty good, actually

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:45 PM (rQ950)

241
We thank our Loyal Customer.

However, due to increasing prices and lack of community support, we have been forced to close our doors for the last time.
Posted by: Bob's All-Night All-Rutabaga $10 Buffet

The Nashville-based national chain O’Charley’s has closed its restaurants Wednesday, according to multiple reports.

The company is closing all corporate-owned O’Charley’s locations, according to NRN, a restaurant industry news outlet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 11:45 PM (Cqx++)

242 Faster horses, younger wimmen, older whiskey and more MONEY....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

That's 4 wishes, greedy mortal ...

Posted by: Swarthy Genie in an Antique Bottle . . . at September 13, 2026 11:46 PM (3ZUWJ)

243 Csnucki side meat has always been a little pricey relative to ham or bacon.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:47 PM (rQ950)

244

I am sick and tired of hearing about assholes "feelings"

I'll tell you how I feel.

You need the shit kicked out of you.

Posted by: four seasons at September 13, 2026 11:49 PM (/QHx4)

245
Fuck 'em. This is exactly what I voted for.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)
233 Fuck 'em. This is exactly what I voted for.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM

Amen.

Posted by: JQ
----

For sure.

Ladies, quiet or not it's nice to have y'all around.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:49 PM (BzKNL)

246 The Nashville-based national chain O’Charley’s has closed its restaurants Wednesday, according to multiple reports.

The company is closing all corporate-owned O’Charley’s locations, according to NRN, a restaurant industry news outlet.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

That makes the "national chain" part false right there

Posted by: Miklos used to drive by one at September 13, 2026 11:49 PM (4RYRd)

247 Norwegians have like 50 kinds of fish paste in a tube they they put on open sandwiches.

Posted by: Don't Be Jealous at September 13, 2026 11:49 PM (Fn+3X)

248 I like Canadian bacon. But it's not bacon. And lately, very high priced.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 11:43 PM (mS8PE)

Here in Western Canada, I very rarely see it in the stores. I like it in its own right, not as a substitute for belly bacon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:50 PM (1z8ji)

249 Faster horses, younger wimmen, older whiskey and more MONEY....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

That's 4 wishes, greedy mortal ...

Posted by: Swarthy Genie in an Antique Bottle . . . at September 13, 2026 11:46 PM (3ZUWJ)

Fuck it, I'll make it 5- dead commies.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2026 11:51 PM (S41Gd)

250 >>As far as I'm concerned, Trump is taking care of some long-overdue business. He's not the type to just kick the can down the road.

Those of us who grew up around NYC when Trump was actually popular with the media, heard him say over and over that the religious cultists in Iran needed to go. I'll be the first to admit I didn't see him getting elected and actually doing it.

But he did and he is and it's spectacular to see. Trump is changing the entire world power structure and someday there will be books written about this time.

It's an incredible time to be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:52 PM (viF8m)

251 239 Faster horses, younger wimmen, older whiskey and more MONEY....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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All well and good but who's gonna' feed them hogs?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:52 PM (BzKNL)

252 Zak.
Lose the hat...bring on the spats!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 11:53 PM (2WIwB)

253 233 F*** 'em. This is exactly what I voted for.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM

Amen.
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 11:38 PM (rdVOm)

Stands up and shouts 'PREACH IT, BRO'

Hurriedly sits down, hopes nobody noticed....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 11:53 PM (QGaXH)

254 "Canadian Bacon" has its uses, I suppose. I like it on Eggs Benedict.

It's tasty, but IMO not worth the price except for special meals, special occasions.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)

255 Thanks for the ONT. I'll just keep drinking, despite that my left little toe looks like it's got gangrene or like that.

Hope you're all doing well and looking forward to a day that isn't the 13th. I keep telling some guy named James or Jason or Jarrod who's knocking on the door that it's not Friday so come back later.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2026 11:54 PM (CHHv1)

256 I am sick and tired of hearing about assholes "feelings"

I'll tell you how I feel.

You need the shit kicked out of you.

Posted by: four seasons at September 13, 2026 11:49 PM (/QHx4)

I don't think there would be much left of a lot of them.

People who volunteer for the task will need full hazmat suits.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 11:54 PM (qx7Zg)

257 I don't know where we go from here.


I do.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 11:55 PM (2WIwB)

258
It's an incredible time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah, a most interesting time(old Chinese curse type).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 11:55 PM (NnhvP)

259 236 This is exactly what I voted for.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)

As far as I'm concerned, Trump is taking care of some long-overdue business. He's not the type to just kick the can down the road.
Posted by: Emmie at September 13, 2026 11:42 PM (OlzlW)

Agreed. Trump taking care of ALL family business is EXACTLY what I voted for.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 11:57 PM (QGaXH)

260 Bennigan's

O'Charley's

Chilis

TGIFridays

Applebees

Ruby Tuesdays


How does a corporate entity expect to gain loyalty and repeats?

Some are around, some not, some in or past various Chapter 11 bankruptcies.

Posted by: the entire Corporate Concept of food is lost on Miklos at September 13, 2026 11:57 PM (4RYRd)

261 I'm confused about one thing about the DSA. Are they the new NSDAP or Comintern, from 80-90 years ago?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 11:58 PM (qx7Zg)

262
President Trump is amazing. He is 80 years old and keeps going.

I have so much respect for him.

Posted by: four seasons at September 13, 2026 11:58 PM (/QHx4)

263 BC! What's going on with your pinky toe?! If you're diabetic, I suggest going to the ER right now!

Or, did you just stub it badly?...

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 11:58 PM (rdVOm)

264

Howard Johnson is right

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 11:59 PM (Cqx++)

265 Well, today I got the body tub for the dune buggy securely bolted down to the floor pan with all the bolts. It will come off again for paint, but it makes sense to ensure all the other components fit properly so I don't mess up the paint trying to fit stuff.

Made a start on the fuel tank. It hangs in a well on the main body tub, between the front fenders, and the hood/dash panel goes over it like a cover. There was damage to the hood panel from a previous assembly, where it hit the top forward corners of a stock VW tank. So placed a scrap tank in the well, and fitted the cover. Yup, hangs up on the corners. Used air shears to cut the raised ridge off the front top of the tank, cover fits, good clearance. Scrap tank full of mouse nest, smelled bad, rusted out. But it proved cutting the ridge off was viable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:59 PM (1z8ji)

266
I do.
Posted by: Diogenes

I hope your lamp is solar powered!

Posted by: the EarthScolds at September 13, 2026 11:59 PM (4RYRd)

267 But he did and he is and it's spectacular to see. Trump is changing the entire world power structure and someday there will be books written about this time.

It's an incredible time to be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw
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There's a couple of women from Michigan, really, who knew, well, I just found the site; prometheanaction.com, (TJM, I know) who make concise presentations on Trump and current circumstances.

: Susan Kokinda Q 2.0@SusankokindaQ_2
_ https://tinyurl.com/c734478h


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:59 PM (BzKNL)

268
Robert the Cat probably bit him.

Posted by: four seasons at September 13, 2026 11:59 PM (/QHx4)

269 Robert the Cat probably bit him.
Posted by: four seasons
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Or tripped him, at cats so often try to do.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 12:01 AM (rdVOm)

270 Howard Johnson is right
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I will concede the clam strips

Posted by: Miklos wants Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben set FREEE at September 14, 2026 12:01 AM (4RYRd)

271 Faster horses, younger wimmen, older whiskey and more MONEY....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan


You had me at older whiskey. but I am perfectly content to go with, well, more whiskey.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2026 12:02 AM (2WIwB)

272 I trust you are going to put angled plate behind it so the explosive blast goes forward?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 12:03 AM (BzKNL)

273 It's 52F and raining steadily. Rough n tough outdoor Cat came in for a snack, then padded straight back to the bed. Heh. He knows what's good... warm and dry!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

274 And who genocided the Indian Maiden form Land O'Lakes?

I want reparations and JUSTICE

Posted by: Miklos wants Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben HONORED AND RESPECTED at September 14, 2026 12:04 AM (4RYRd)

275 If memory serves old Chevy truck's gas tanks were behind the seat while Ford's were under the seat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 12:05 AM (BzKNL)

276 If memory serves old Chevy truck's gas tanks were behind the seat while Ford's were under the seat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Maybe certain years/models?

My '70 F100 has an upright tank, behind the seat.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 12:06 AM (rdVOm)

277 I trust you are going to put angled plate behind it so the explosive blast goes forward?

Posted by: Braenyard

-Health and medical advice

-Dating advice

-Angle metal plate advice

The Horde is your One Stop Shop

Posted by: Miklos thinks he gets his money's worth at September 14, 2026 12:06 AM (4RYRd)

278
And who genocided the Indian Maiden form Land O'Lakes?

I want reparations and JUSTICE
Posted by: Miklos wants Aunt Jemima

Was she wearing a Maidenform butter bra?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2026 12:06 AM (Cqx++)

279
98 Tousi reported this evening that the president and parliament of Iran are arguing over whether to test one of their nukes. Publicly. The president and his people apparently want not to because Israel will kill them all. The IRGC is apparently all in with parliament on doomsday.

https://tinyurl.com/4526b9fd
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 13, 2026 10:33 PM

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Last I heard, the Iranians were hiding 200 kg of 60% enriched uranium hexafluoride. If that's accurate, where would a nuclear weapon come from?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 14, 2026 12:07 AM (AnW6a)

280 250 >>As far as I'm concerned, Trump is taking care of some long-overdue business. He's not the type to just kick the can down the road.

Those of us who grew up around NYC when Trump was actually popular with the media, ........
.
.....It's an incredible time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:52 PM (viF8m)

RewindTV shows repeats of 'Just Shoot Me' a mid-90's sitcom about a NY fashion magazine based in NYC. The magazine owner mentions Donald Trump from time to time as a worthy, respected rival....not as a punchline.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 14, 2026 12:07 AM (QGaXH)

281 >>There's a couple of women from Michigan, really, who knew, well, I just found the site; prometheanaction.com, (TJM, I know) who make concise presentations on Trump and current circumstances.

They've been around for a while.

We are coming out of a deep rabbit hole and it's been going on for many years, long before Trump.

That's wjy they hate him and us so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:08 AM (viF8m)

282 >>As far as I'm concerned, Trump is taking care of some long-overdue business. He's not the type to just kick the can down the road.

Those of us who grew up around NYC when Trump was actually popular with the media, heard him say over and over that the religious cultists in Iran needed to go. I'll be the first to admit I didn't see him getting elected and actually doing it.

But he did and he is and it's spectacular to see. Trump is changing the entire world power structure and someday there will be books written about this time.

It's an incredible time to be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 11:52 PM (viF8m)

We have a running joke among the harley dudes I ride with when we pull into a gas station, which is usually twice during the day, and since we get 2-3 gallons each time its about $3 more since gas prices are up. We say we're contributing to the Dead Ayatollah Fund.

Radio announcer voice- "Yeeuuus, for less than the price of a shitty starbucks coffee you too can reshape a shithole. Every time you fill up $3 goes towards killing that raghead motherfucker in a pile of rubble".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2026 12:10 AM (S41Gd)

283 ...and I put the tank I intend to use, the original tank from the '61 Beetle that donated its floor pan to the project, into the well in the body. Had not held gas for 40 years, a little crystalline varnish and light rust in it, but not bad at all. I stuck the wand of the shop vac in the filler neck, and ran it, to draw in fresh air to forestall explosions, and used a cutoff wheel to remove the filler neck. Then ran the air across the top of the ridge, and made cuts down the sides. The I rolled the front edge of the cut under the back edge, with pry bars and rubber mallet, and pressed the back edge down onto it, hammering the curve flat, and welded the seam back up. Now the tank presents a completely flat top, with front corners leaned in a bit. Not yet done welding. Plan is relocate filler neck to top front in the middle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:10 AM (1z8ji)

284 We can call "Canadian bacon" whatever we like, because only we call it that. In Canada, they call it "back bacon", because it comes from the back of the pig instead of its belly. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Nemo at September 14, 2026 12:10 AM (4RPgu)

285 Radio announcer voice- "Yeeuuus, for less than the price of a shitty starbucks coffee you too can reshape a shithole. Every time you fill up $3 goes towards killing that raghead motherfucker in a pile of rubble".
Posted by: Berserker
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LOL! I like to think of it that way too, as I top off my tank! F 'em!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

286 I must and even should Knock it Off

Tomorrow...today is a Travel Day, and will be the longest car trip Miss Doggie has ever been on, and she doesn't like car trips.

However, there are places where a Full Grown American can dine, imbibe, and smoke indoors with the dog present and on duty.

I shall eat, drink, smoke, enjoy old jokes as if they were new. Doggie will sniff, explore, and allow some level of being petted.

Hopes are for a Fine Time for both man and beast.

Posted by: Miklos should remember what he forgot to do already at September 14, 2026 12:15 AM (4RYRd)

287 I trust you are going to put angled plate behind it so the explosive blast goes forward?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 12:03 AM (BzKNL)

There were no gases left to explode, but I kept the vacuum cleaner wand in the tank, and ran the vac while welding, just in case. When done welding, I will grind the welds smooth, put a little positive air pressure in the tank, and spray the welds with soap solution, Any pinhole leaks will be disclosed by bubbles, and I can re-weld, or use solder to seal them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:15 AM (1z8ji)

288 Yeeuuus, for less than the price of a shitty starbucks coffee you too can reshape a shithole. Every time you fill up $3

It's $7.99 plus gratuity

Posted by: your sullen Starbucks server sho hot hair dye bills to pay at September 14, 2026 12:20 AM (4RYRd)

289 Thanks for the various advices. The thing is, they're all about avoiding death, or putting Him off as long as possible.

Not really in my wheelhouse, but thank you anyway.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 14, 2026 12:21 AM (CHHv1)

290 Thanks for the various advices. The thing is, they're all about avoiding death, or putting Him off as long as possible.

Not really in my wheelhouse, but thank you anyway.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 14, 2026 12:21 AM (CHHv1)

Face it. We like you and like having around.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 14, 2026 12:23 AM (qx7Zg)

291 >>Radio announcer voice- "Yeeuuus, for less than the price of a shitty starbucks coffee you too can reshape a shithole. Every time you fill up $3 goes towards killing that raghead motherfucker in a pile of rubble".

It's taking a bite out of all us but I get to live my life while men and women are taking the fight to those fucks for me every single day and have been for months. Makes me feel pretty small when I complain about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)

292 I had a hankerin’ to make Reubens. The grocery I’m looking at has no sliced Deli corned beef. They do have a “boars head” brand solid chunk in plastic, but I doubt I could slice it thin enough. Would electric knife, like used for Turkey, accomplish this task?
Posted by: Common Tater
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Boars Head? Only if you have a death wish. That outfit used to be good - 30 years ago - but now they have racked up literally dozens of serious sanitation violations and 6 or 7 recalls and they're being sued people dying.
The trick to slicing thin is how sharp you knife is, and keeping it sharp as you're using it. If your electric knife is sharp, ok, but my experience with the damned things is that they're no better than a regular blade.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 14, 2026 12:26 AM (/12Tr)

293 Our gas money went to float Obama's pallets of cash to Iran.
Our gas money went to float DeepState's game in Ukraine.
Our gas money is going to rectification of those problems.

I like it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 12:28 AM (BzKNL)

294 OK, I found the video of Bravo's interview. Great stuff!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:37 AM (1z8ji)

295 It's taking a bite out of all us but I get to live my life while men and women are taking the fight to those fucks for me every single day and have been for months. Makes me feel pretty small when I complain about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)

Exactly. I wanted to see us flame that asshole for most of my adult life. If it costs a few extra hundred for the year in gas its the best money dollars for giggles I can think of.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2026 12:38 AM (S41Gd)

296 98 Tousi reported this evening that the president and parliament of Iran are arguing over whether to test one of their nukes. Publicly. The president and his people apparently want not to because Israel will kill them all. The IRGC is apparently all in with parliament on doomsday.”

I saw that story from another source. I think there’s two options as to what to think about it:
1) Iran is desperate to intimidate its enemies and is spinning up this scare story to look tuff; or
2) someone in the media is just making up bullshit again.

No need to get bogged down in the obvious point they if they did such a demonstration, they’d just be proving that they need to be crushed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2026 12:42 AM (xnpRH)

297 @290 -whut?

Part three is coming along, despite the heath stuff.

Also, cat rubbing against legs. I guess the realm is short of treats.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 14, 2026 12:44 AM (CHHv1)

298 No need to get bogged down in the obvious point they if they did such a demonstration, they’d just be proving that they need to be crushed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2026 12:42 AM (xnpRH)

If they fire off a test, before the mushroom cloud from the blast dissipates, there should be a massively larger one blooming over Tehran.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 12:45 AM (1z8ji)

299 For those of us who don't have Fox or access to reputable news:

@20kayleighmceny
Ilhan Omar is DONE. The rats are running and reporters can barely keep up with all the people begging to talk.

Whistleblowers are now laying it out. Her campaign pumped a massive pile.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 12:46 AM (BzKNL)

300 >>OK, I found the video of Bravo's interview. Great stuff!

His parachute failed and he hit the ground at over 70 mph. Broke his back and his arm he still found a way to climb to the top of a ridge while evading hunters that were after bounty. And all he does is praise others and God.

Pretty special dude.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2026 12:51 AM (viF8m)

301
I would for the Omar to be deported.

Some asshole judge will block it.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 12:54 AM (/QHx4)

302 Another flock-abuser busted, NC:
"Former Wrightsville Beach Cop Indicted After Running Plates With No Legitimate Reason"
https://shorturl.at/MdGF4

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2026 12:57 AM (XeU6L)

303 I would for the Omar to be deported.
Some asshole judge will block it.
Posted by: four seasons

She's *supposedly* a citizen... therefore, since she publicly swore allegiance to a foreign gov't: she's a traitor, and should be dealt with accordingly. (The Rosenburgs come to mind)

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

304 All well and good but who's gonna' feed them hogs?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 11:52 PM (BzKNL)

Dead commies.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 01:01 AM (OSh5V)

305
JQ,

I agree. Kick her skanky ass back to Somalia.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 01:01 AM (/QHx4)

306 I would for the Omar to be deported.

Some asshole judge will block it.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 12:54 AM (/QHx4)

Send her on a "fact-finding mission" (aka junket) to Somalia. While she is there, void here passport.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:01 AM (1z8ji)

307
AOP,

Yep

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 01:02 AM (/QHx4)

308 Kick her skanky carcass back to Somalia.

Posted by: four seasons

FIFY.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

309 No need to get bogged down in the obvious point they if they did such a demonstration, they’d just be proving that they need to be crushed.
-
I would question how much stomach anyone has to directly attack a nation that has demonstrated nuclear capacity, including Trump.

I wonder if the situation is that they have some number of devices assembled, but having not tested them, they aren't sure if they work, or how to get them to a target. Perhaps they thought at one point they might get a land invasion (as they made statements suggesting they were planning for it) and could use them as boobytraps or car bombs (truck bombs, I guess).

You're probably right that it's just bluster, but the wrinkle that their president is opposing it is weird. His position in their culture looks weak, but if they don't have the devices, he'll appear to have won the argument, so team IRGC/parliament looks bad.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 14, 2026 01:03 AM (vSvIl)

310
Lol JQ

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 01:03 AM (/QHx4)

311
@20kayleighmceny
Ilhan Omar is DONE. The rats are running and reporters can barely keep up with all the people begging to talk.

Whistleblowers are now laying it out. Her campaign pumped a massive pile.
Posted by: Braenyard

===============

The xeet may or may not be true, but everything Harrison Faulkner said in the clip has been out for a while.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2026 01:04 AM (mmrXZ)

312 Well, past 2300 here, and I am getting sleepy. Time for a snooze. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2026 01:05 AM (1z8ji)

313 Ilhan Omar is DONE.
_-_
Well, good. That's one Much gratitude for the work of those who helped explain the depths of her misbehavior.

She was voted into office, so we still have a lot to do to clean house on this one.

I have a nagging suspicion that we won't get enough done on this and other fronts(budget, NGOs, paper ballots and voter id, islam, etc.) and the next cycle where dems take over, we spend all the time on impeachment hearings and lawfare. We have come a good distance since Biden stumbled out, but I think it is not far enough for our nation to survive. Speaking if which where in the he double-toothpicks is Mitch McConnell?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 01:05 AM (UB+/1)

314 Night, AOP.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

315 Debby, if you're still here---

"Last Call!"

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

316
Sleep well AOP

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 01:06 AM (/QHx4)

317 have some number of devices assembled, but having not tested them, they aren't sure if they work, or how to get them to a target
_-_
I tend to think that they can get ready assistance from some of their allies on that front. I have mentioned the idea before, here, and the idea was pretty roundly dismissed as not plausible. I remain unconvinced.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 01:10 AM (UB+/1)

318 261 I'm confused about one thing about the DSA. Are they the new NSDAP or Comintern, from 80-90 years ago?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 11:58 PM (qx7Zg)

Yes.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 01:11 AM (OSh5V)

319 the DSA. Are they the new NSDAP or Comintern, from 80-90 years ago?
_-_
As far as I can tell, it is just a better label for what the democrat party has become over the last 40-50 years. I don't hear widespread denunciation of DSA ideas by the democrat party.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 01:15 AM (UB+/1)

320 [Shitshow Boris Johnson and the Make Believers on a private train leaving the Ukraine] ... hit out at 'warped' Vladimir Putin while his train escaped across the Polish border running from a Russian drone strike ...hundreds of kilometres away .

...the train was forced to speed up to [outrun the missile] and reach Poland

Mr Johnson, 62, had been attending a major security conference in Kyiv prior to the trip, and eventually crossed the border at 7.42am.
_Daily Mail

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 01:18 AM (BzKNL)

321 I may have helped the Brits with their English phrasing a bit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 01:19 AM (BzKNL)

322 Okay, ixnay on the boar’s head brand corned beef. I didn’t have a warm and fuzzy on that anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2026 01:22 AM (rQ950)

323 I need to make a big batch of pot stickers, and freeze a bunch for later.

Egg rolls were a success, but didn't last very long... Double batch next time!

It's nice to have pre-made and home-made stuff at the ready. Lots of work initially, though.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

324 I have had some Boar’s Head meats from Publix.
They were all good, no problems with illness afterwards.

I believe they had a problem on their liverwurst line a few years back, and they quit selling it completely back then.

It certainly didn’t help their reputation though, obviously.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 01:28 AM (6ydKt)

325 I wandered off the reservation for a while, headed to bed, sweet dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2026 01:28 AM (ibDUx)

326 Night, Debby. Good girl!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

327 We could give the Indians oil for attacking Pakistan one side and at the same time give the Baluch whatever rings their chimes to attack the Pakis from the other.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 01:30 AM (BzKNL)

328 'night, Debby.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 01:32 AM (BzKNL)

329 If the Iranians had a nuke to test it would be the dumbest thing to do in the middle of a conflict.

As somebody mentioned; a nuke test now would prove Trump and Netanyahu right about the war to begin with.

Trump would then make taking out Pickaxe mountain a top priority along with every other suspect site. Maybe even troops on the ground to make sure we have control over the sites.

Oil prices would go through the roof if the Iranians started threatening other Gulf/Arab nation’s oilfields with nuke strikes, though.
Which might be one of their goals, even if it’s just another propaganda play.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 01:41 AM (6ydKt)

330 This morning, I noticed the first hint of bright yellow leaves on neighbor's birch tree. Autumn is near...

The breeze is cool now. Not like Summer's convection-oven hot blast. Yay!

Rain. Needed, welcomed (as long as not *flooding*!) and beneficial. Ahhh.. the best part of the year.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

331 WTF with the oil & gas prices here in USA?

Sure, they're *up* globally. What about "preferred pricing" here at home?! Sell at premium to others and keep it affordable within our own borders.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

332
It is 66 degrees here in SW Wyoming. Supposed to be in the 40's in the morning. I don't think it will make it.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 01:48 AM (/QHx4)

333 It is 66 degrees here in SW Wyoming. Supposed to be in the 40's in the morning. I don't think it will make it.
Posted by: four seasons

Hard to say. We had some cold wind through here this evening & temp dropped 10 degrees in half hour. Rain on & off most of the day, and then *downpour* after the breeze.

Maybe you'll get some of it overnight?

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

334 I don’t believe the Mullahs have an atom bomb. Or they would have used it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 01:54 AM (wZlsB)

335
Nemo,

I agree

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 01:55 AM (/QHx4)

336

I love Spring and Winter.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:01 AM (/QHx4)

337 Congressman Randy Fine: "I support a four state solution. From the river to the sea, Scotland,Wales, and Ireland will be free."
---

Going down to 82 here. No way am I jealous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:03 AM (BzKNL)

338 I don’t believe the Mullahs have an atom bomb. Or they would have used it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 14, 2026 01:54 AM (wZlsB)

I say we believe they do, and hit them with nukes until the planet looks like a lifesaver candy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2026 02:06 AM (S41Gd)

339 Yeah, Bers-- pound them. No mercy.

Hammer Pickaxe mountain down to sea level, as a preventive measure.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

340 Trump administration declared a national emergency that bars the use of Chinese-made batteries in grid-scale energy storage systems,...
...the federal government awarded $500 million in funding to seven companies working on battery minerals, manufacturing, and recycling with the express purpose of building up the domestic sector in order to reduce reliance on Chinese supply chains.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:13 AM (BzKNL)

341

Oh geez, the asshole neighbor is doing something in his yard that is loud.

WTH can he be doing at 12:15 am?

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:15 AM (/QHx4)

342 When the Iranian citizens get hungry enough it'll be like Zombies from the walking dead hunting the IRGC.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:17 AM (BzKNL)

343 WTH can he be doing at 12:15 am?
Posted by: four seasons
--------

Really?! WTAF?

What a jerk.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

344 Just curious. By what technical means can we determine that none of China, Russia, Pakistan, or North Korea have ever transferred a nuclear warhead to Iran?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:20 AM (UB+/1)

345
It was not hot today so I don't think he is trying to avoid hot weather.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:21 AM (/QHx4)

346 >>It was not hot today so I don't think he is trying to avoid hot weather.

Burying his wife? LOL (not funny, but you know...)

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

347

Lol JQ

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:27 AM (/QHx4)

348 Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:20 AM

This thought occupies my mind, and scares the hell out of me. I don't believe we can be 100% sure.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:28 AM (rdVOm)

349 331 WTF with the oil & gas prices here in USA?

Sure, they're *up* globally. What about "preferred pricing" here at home?! Sell at premium to others and keep it affordable within our own borders.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

If only it were that easy.
Since oil & natural gas are a global commodity they are priced by the markets, current price & demand, and speculation about future supply & demand.

Usually oil is based on two pricing benchmarks; WTI (West Texas Intermediate), which is the North American standard price, and Brent (North Sea oil), which is the global benchmark price outside of N.A (70-80% of the international supply anyhow). OPEC quotas have more influence on this price, but it can affect WTI, too.

WTI is usually lower than Brent for various reasons.

But unless we totally abandon that system it is what it is and we deal with it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 02:29 AM (6ydKt)

350 >>WTH can he be doing at 12:15 am?
-------

Going out of his way to *annoy* you?

Seriously. Does this neighbor hold resentment toward you? Trying to provoke you, perhaps?

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

351 Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 02:29 AM

Thanks for the explanation.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

352

JQ,

They are a certain religion and have had no luck getting us to convert.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:36 AM (/QHx4)

353 Amanda -The Meme Witch@LUSHblueart 37s

You know…I think I almost know what “blue balls” feels like.

They keep teasing about deporting Ilhan Omar but nothing keeps happening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:38 AM (BzKNL)

354 Oh geez, the asshole neighbor is doing something in his yard that is loud.

WTH can he be doing at 12:15 am?

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:15 AM (/QHx4)

Is he running a chipper?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2026 02:39 AM (S41Gd)

355 Four seasons-- that's just rude of them. Ugh. I could make a guess, based on location, LOL. Still seems odd... for the group I have in mind...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm)

356
I have no idea what he is doing.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:41 AM (/QHx4)

357 Ex-MIL2 tried to convert me-- gave me all kinds of "reading material" and was very polite about it. She seemed genuinely interested in bringing me 'into the fold' but didn't push so hard as to drive me away.

I decided on my own that her religion was not for me, and she respected my *informed* decision.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:43 AM (rdVOm)

358 344 Just curious. By what technical means can we determine that none of China, Russia, Pakistan, or North Korea have ever transferred a nuclear warhead to Iran?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:20 AM (UB+/1)

Other than direct human intelligence maybe we have some kind of Geiger counter that can detect a certain kind of radiation from planes or satellites?
Doubtful, but you never know these days.

It'd be up to the CIA/DIA to figure that one out.

It's not impossible the Iranians have squirreled away enough stuff to do something stupid, I suppose.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 02:46 AM (6ydKt)

359
We bought this house a couple of years ago.

The previous owners left a shit ton of Morman proganda for us.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:46 AM (/QHx4)

360 I have way more respect for XMIL2 than for XH2!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)

361 348 Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:20 AM

This thought occupies my mind, and scares the hell out of me. I don't believe we can be 100% sure.
_-_
And the way Britain is going...well, eventually there's another islamic country with nukes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:48 AM (UB+/1)

362 And the way Britain is going...well, eventually there's another islamic country with nukes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

I suspect that is WHY they are overrunning the UK.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

363 Back after 2 days of Rosh Hashanah.

Took me ages to go through the HQ's contents.

Some really hard laughs along the way.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 02:50 AM (D0X9e)

364 Turn out the lights, peek through the blinds. - > binoculars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 02:51 AM (BzKNL)

365 Morman proganda
_-_
Makes good firestarter...mind you, Mormons are often very good neighbors, but I find their theology to be basthit crazy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:55 AM (UB+/1)

366
Don,

I do too. It's different, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:58 AM (/QHx4)

367 My brother's boss is Mormon. It's a "family business" and he's lucky to have a job with them. That sect is quite insular. Family is #1. Unrelated co-religionists are #2. Everyone else... meh...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:05 AM (rdVOm)

368 UK leases nukes from us.
We should take them back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 03:05 AM (BzKNL)

369 356
I have no idea what he is doing.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:41 AM (/QHx4)

Do you own an air horn?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:05 AM (Ntshk)

370 And the way Britain is going...well, eventually there's another islamic country with nukes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

I suspect that is WHY they are overrunning the UK.
_-_
Good point - hadn't thought about that possibility. I had figured that the dilution of white/european populations there, in europe, and here would be desirable for forming a one-world government, so that must have been the goal, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.

It seems that things are often much more complicated than the widely-discussed narratives.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 03:06 AM (UB+/1)

371 Oh geez, the asshole neighbor is doing something in his yard that is loud.

WTH can he be doing at 12:15 am?

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 02:15 AM (/QHx4)
-

They're not Maori, are they?

https://tinyurl.com/8w27tdn8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 14, 2026 03:06 AM (D0X9e)

372
No I don't, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:06 AM (/QHx4)

373 365 Morman proganda
_-_
Makes good firestarter...mind you, Mormons are often very good neighbors, but I find their theology to be basthit crazy.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 02:55 AM (UB+/1)

They lost me when they said Jesus was Satan's brother. And what's with Planet Kobol? Really?

And much like Islam, if you are a good Mormon woman, you get to serve your husband who becomes a god in the afterlife.

No thanks.

I'll stick with the deal I get from Jesus.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:07 AM (Ntshk)

374
Amen tcn

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:08 AM (/QHx4)

375 How about a bb gun?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:08 AM (Ntshk)

376

We have lots of guns, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:09 AM (/QHx4)

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:10 AM (Ntshk)

378 They lost me when they said Jesus was Satan's brother.
_-_
I hear ya. They lost me at Joseph Smith.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 03:10 AM (UB+/1)

379
Don,

Shyster

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:12 AM (/QHx4)

380 Shyster
_-_
Exactly.

Getting late here. Love you all. Goodnight!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 14, 2026 03:13 AM (UB+/1)

381 Glad there's cool temps for y'all. four seasons, maybe rain is on its way. Heading off to bed here. Hold down the fort.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2026 03:13 AM (BzKNL)

382
Love ya too

Sleep well

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:14 AM (/QHx4)

383
Slrep well Braeynard

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:15 AM (/QHx4)

384 I became disenchanted at their view of "Temple Marriage" (which is inconsistent with Gospel teaching)

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

385 Night, Braeynard.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)

386 Well, I'm now awake officially after starting working.

I know this because I'm doing the hour-into-work yawns.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:18 AM (6ydKt)

387 XMIL2 volunteered at her church for a couple of months per year. Much of it was "stand-in" work... oh, never mind... it's complicated and I don't support the whole rigamarole anyway...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)

388
Have a goodnight everyone.

Posted by: four seasons at September 14, 2026 03:25 AM (/QHx4)

389 384 I became disenchanted at their view of "Temple Marriage" (which is inconsistent with Gospel teaching)
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

I have to admit a guilty pleasure at batting around the ever-so-sincere Mormon missionaries that come to the door. I probably know more about their secret ceremonies than they do, and it certainly rattles their prattle.

I should probably be more Christian in my approach, but, after all, they are trying to get me to commit apostacy. Not very kind on their part, no matter how strong their personal beliefs.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:26 AM (Ntshk)

390 NIght, 4S. Sleep well... hope neighbor has stopped making noise!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:26 AM (rdVOm)

391 People who know little about Mormonism are always surprised when you tell them about Planet Kolob.

(Planet Kobol was from Battlestar Galactica - easy to confuse the two, I know)



Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:27 AM (6ydKt)

392 391 People who know little about Mormonism are always surprised when you tell them about Planet Kolob.

(Planet Kobol was from Battlestar Galactica - easy to confuse the two, I know)



Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:27 AM (6ydKt)

Silly me. I obviously conflated the two, since they are both made up places. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:29 AM (Ntshk)

393 Silly me. I obviously conflated the two, since they are both made up places. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:29 AM (Ntshk)

I thought it was, too, until I put it in Brave search and Brave AI told me I was so very very wrong for confusing the two.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:30 AM (6ydKt)

394 Hi, tcn!

Yeah, it feels awkward to disagree with other "Christian" faiths.

I'm Lutheran, but hold no personal animosity toward Catholics, or even the Mormons.

We simply have different ideas re: worship and works.

I am not the ultimate judge of all this.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

395 So, if you are a good Mormon man, and have a whole lot of kids, and none of them leave the Mormonism, you get to live on Kolob after you die and you become your own god.

If you are a good Mormon woman, and have a whole lot of kids, and never say an unkind word to your husband, and never neglect his every need, no matter how humiliating, you also get to live on Kolob as his perpetual servant, and if he marries more than one woman, they can all come with you to serve him.

So, apparently, Kolob is a pretty crowded place full of male gods and lots of doormat women who serve them.

Not quite 72 virgins for a martyr, but pretty darned close.

Amazing what the rudimentary male mind can conjure given half a chance.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:35 AM (Ntshk)

396 Thanks for the ONT Doof!

Those last two Hoover Dam paragraphs are dreadful Clod-isms. It's distressing that it's become so glaring to me.

Posted by: frammish at September 14, 2026 03:37 AM (rcENI)

397 Well if never saying an unkind word to your husband is the main requirement I'm guessing Kolob needs a lot more of a feminine touch cuz it's probably pretty sparse in the boobs department up there.

Nope, not many sandwiches being made on Kolob if you want my guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:40 AM (6ydKt)

398 Interesting bit about "Kolob"-- I never went that deeply into Mormonism (being an *outsider* was not made privy to the True Beliefs?)-- so had no idea.

I can only deal with my own life, and my own beliefs, and pray that I will be cleansed of sin and have Eternal Life, despite my unworthiness.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:42 AM (rdVOm)

399 I am not the ultimate judge of all this.
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

Oh, I don't hate Mormons, I just find it all so tedious. There isn't one Mormon who remained one after reading Augustine or Aquinas. It isn't that I believe one has to be some kind of scholar to find God--in fact, the opposite is usually the case. But I do think a religion, into which you pour your heart and soul, ought to be internally consistent and rational, rather than one that affirms all your personal peccadilloes and prejudices, and calls your basest instincts "good." In that sense, Mormonism is the equal of Islam, and really doesn't reflect the God of the Old Testament nor Jesus Christ of the New Testament. I find it problematic in that I had plenty of girl Mormon friends in high school who were abused by that system and told they were less valuable than men, etc. And when they chose to not believe that anymore, they were shunned by their families as a result. And this was in the old days when you couldn't be Mormon and black, because of the supposed mark of Cain. It's just a load of awful crap.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:43 AM (Ntshk)

400 I can only deal with my own life, and my own beliefs, and pray that I will be cleansed of sin and have Eternal Life, despite my unworthiness.
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:42 AM (rdVOm)

I beg for His Mercy daily. I am in desperate need of it. I am blessed to be held in existence by His constant love, and I don't forget it for one second.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:46 AM (Ntshk)

401 Something tells me tcn was not the most reliable supporter of Mitt Romney in 2012.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:47 AM (6ydKt)

402 401 Something tells me tcn was not the most reliable supporter of Mitt Romney in 2012.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:47 AM (6ydKt)

That wasn't about his religion, darlin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:48 AM (Ntshk)

403 323 I need to make a big batch of pot stickers, and freeze a bunch for later.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

When I taught English in Beijing back in 1998 I got to go to a student's apartment and make huge batches of pot stickers with her extended family. Apparently in China they are usually reserved for special occasions. I have a tiny bamboo steamer I still sometimes use to make my own. I hope yours turn out delicious!

Posted by: frammish at September 14, 2026 03:49 AM (rcENI)

404 You learned more about it than I did, tcn. I guess.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:49 AM (rdVOm)

405 The rationing has begun! Major chains are rationing motor oil as dump blames Ukraine for high oil prices for not surrendering to putin. Diesel and gas now at highest price ever. Saudis shut down their pipeline as houthis blockade red sea. Trump and natalie don't care. Remember to burn trumpsters not oil.

Posted by: raimondo at September 14, 2026 03:50 AM (YPQHn)

406 I have probably come on too strong about it, so I apologize for anyone I have offended. I know most of my beef on the topic is personal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:51 AM (Ntshk)

407 That wasn't about his religion, darlin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:48 AM (Ntshk)

It was the haircut wasn't it?
He reminds me of an older model Utah version of Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:52 AM (6ydKt)

408 Look who got let out of mom's basement for the evening! You go, little Rainmandodo.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:52 AM (Ntshk)

409 I hope yours turn out delicious!
Posted by: frammish

Thanks! Yes, they are delicious. I make Japanese style: *gyoza*

Hubby and I both love them, and they are such a treat for him! (he gets institutional food daily, and it BLOWS!)

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)

410 406 I have probably come on too strong about it, so I apologize for anyone I have offended. I know most of my beef on the topic is personal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 03:51 AM (Ntshk)

Some legitimate gripes.

But I must admit that, given the choice, I'd rather a Mormon neighbor than a Muhammadean.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2026 03:55 AM (6ydKt)

411 Alarm went off and wondered why the Hell was that happening

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 03:55 AM (Ia/+0)

412 Good night all! Been working late on a personal software project but wanted to pop in and say hello.

Posted by: frammish at September 14, 2026 03:56 AM (rcENI)

413 >>But I must admit that, given the choice, I'd rather a Mormon neighbor than a Muhammadean.

Absolutely!

At least the Mormons worship God instead of the devil...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:57 AM (rdVOm)

414 Hi/Bye frammish. Have a good night!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:58 AM (rdVOm)

415 411 Alarm went off and wondered why the Hell was that happening
Posted by: Skip


LoL!! Yea, I'm always surprised when I sleep long enough that my alarm clock wakes me. I'm usually up an hour or so before that. Glad you got some sleep.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2026 04:00 AM (sAmhv)

416 At least the Mormons worship God instead of the devil...
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 03:57 AM (rdVOm)

They really don't. They have two competing gods, one who created the world but did it poorly, and one who is the god of chaos. Likewise, they believe Satan and Jesus are brothers, who were created by the original god who screwed everything up. They have no concept of the Trinity.

There is nothing the least bit Christian about Mormonism. Their baptisms are not valid in other Christian denominations.

Most Mormons are wonderful people, kind to others, following the law, minding their own business. Good on them.

But don't be fooled. Unless you are Mormon, you are other to them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:18 AM (Ntshk)

417 411 Alarm went off and wondered why the Hell was that happening
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2026 03:55 AM (Ia/+0)

Skip! You finally got some real sleep! Hooray!

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 14, 2026 04:19 AM (Ntshk)

418 Unless you are Mormon, you are other to them.
Posted by: tcn in AK

This I know.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 04:24 AM (rdVOm)

419 raimondo sounds vaccinated. oh well, to be a cuck for the koolaid

perhaps they would have more success in the kitchen making your wifes boyfriend a sammich

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 14, 2026 04:25 AM (jrgJz)

420 Night, horde. Monday cometh too early...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2026 04:25 AM (rdVOm)

Gun Thread: TXMoMe Stuff Edition!

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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the TXMoMe Stuff Edition? Bigly exciting updates below!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FUNdamentals

Fundamentals of sight alignment with Hickok45.

What element of fundamentals have you been focusing on?

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TXMoMe

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They Mome'n down in Texas!

The time has come to begin the discussion of the upcoming TXMoMe in Corsicana, TX on October 16-17. This is the eleventh annual TXMoMe, or Conservative Burning Man as it's popularly known, and it promises to be a doozy. A double-doozy even. A bigly double-doozy! If you're in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere of the Planet of the Earth, contact Ben Had for details on attending. The dates and email links for all MoMes are always helpfully included on the blog's main page, left sidebar.

What started years ago as a small get-together and informal plinking session lasting a couple of hours has matured into a full scale jamboree-hootenanny including a program of shooting activities for both handguns and rifles over two days. I have to thank Ben Had, Cow Horse Queen and RancherBob for making this whole thing happen and providing the opportunity for the shooting to comprise such a significant portion of the event.

But wait! There's more! Combine that with world class food and drink, and the even world classier company of your fellow Morons, and you have a weekend that legends are made of. For those not inclined to shoot (?), there are non-stop opportunities to relax in the shade of the carport or under a handy nearby tree with a beverage and visit with your online pals to your hearts content, which is really what the whole damn thing is about in the first place..

Allow me to be serious for a minute. I have said this probably two hundred and eighty-three times now. These gatherings are a really good time, and I know of no one who expresses regret after having attended one. Actually it goes beyond that. It's not just a weekend of laughs, it's an opportunity to connect with lots of like-minded people and create lasting friendships and priceless memories. No kidding. Think that's hyperbole? It snot. Would your ol' pal Weasel lie to you? Well, yes he would, but not about this. TXMoMe veterans will attest to the funness and completely laid-back nature of the event. Don't be a dork, do yourself a favor and get yo' ass to Texas!

TXMoMe veterans: please jump into the comments to encourage the scairdy-cats to join in the fun! What was your first MoMe like? What were you expecting? Were you surprised? Did you have a great time?

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!

Are all y'all getting excited? Weasel are!!

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TXMoMe Schedule & Other Updates - 9/13/26

Updates! We have Updates!

Update 1:
For our amazing volunteers, I sent out an email last week asking whether or not you will be attending this year and when you plan to arrive (day and approximate time). If you haven't received this email, please send me a note at gunthread at protonmail dot com. It is important to have this information for scheduling and to make certain we have the proper coverage making the shooting activities safe and enjoyable for all concerned. Thank you in advance.

Update 2:
Here is an outline of the schedule of events. Times are tentative and subject to modification/change. This schedule will be included in the Gun Thread with any changes incorporated going forward until the event, so please check back weekly.

Friday, 10/16

Rifle Program
8am - 10am: Rifle Clinic (carport)
10am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Arrivals! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
11am - 4pm: Live fire (rifle range - targets to 1,000 yds)

Handgun Program
10am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Arrivals! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
1:00pm to 2:00 pm (carport) - Demonstration: Basics of Rifle & Handgun Cleaning and Maintenance - EdL
11am - 4:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)

Saturday, 10/17

Rifle Program
9am - 10am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday arrivals! (carport)
10am - 1pm: Live fire (rifle range)

Handgun Program
9am - 10am: Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday arrivals! (carport)
10am - 1pm: Live fire (pistol range)

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Shooters: Bring your own hearing and eye protection! and if possible please plan on stopping somewhere along your way to Texas and picking up some ammunition if you plan to shoot and aren't bringing your own weapons/ammo. Everyone is very generous with sharing, but please don't rely on the generosity of others to provide everything for you. You can really help out by grabbing a box of 9mm or 5.56mm or whatever you want to shoot.

For a while I have been conducting a Rifle Clinic on Friday morning followed by range time Friday afternoon and then again well into Saturday. Most of you (I think) have endured this presentation before, so if there are other topics you would like to have covered, speak up in the comments and I will try to address your request.

We have also been steadily refining the handgun portion of the program and this year will be focusing on the static pistol range as well as continuing to offer a separate setup for gun-curious beginners desiring one-on-one supervision and instruction. If you are a novice shooter, or even have never been to the range before and think guns are icky, you are welcome to shoot! Just see an RSO and they will set you up with an experienced shooter to help you. We will again conduct a gun cleaning and maintenance clinic Friday which will run concurrently with the live-fire programs.

These times are approximate and programs may change as weather conditions and participation warrant. We anticipate a hard stop on both ranges at 1pm on Saturday to allow everyone to participate in the bigly fun TXMoMe festivities.

Update 3:
You will note there are combined rifle and handgun range safety briefings both days and attendance is mandatory if you want to shoot. We take your safety seriously and ask everyone who wants to shoot plan on attending this important briefing. Again, we are conducting one combined safety brief each day. No exceptions.

Immediately following each day's safety briefing you will be asked to sign a general liability waiver, and only then will you receive a color-coded wrist band. The color is different each day, and it is your ticket onto the range(s) for the day. No wrist band, no shooting that day. Don't want to sign the waiver? No problem, just do not expect to shoot. If you miss the mandatory range safety briefing which is mandatory and must be attended, you are welcome to watch the live fire activities from designated observation areas.

All shooters are asked to check in with an RSO (sporting an Orange Cap of Dorkiness for easy identification) upon your arrival at either of the ranges who will answer questions and direct you to an open firing position. The RSOs wield unspeakable power so it is in your best interest to be nice to them. Want to do things your way? I suggest that your own personal range on your own personal property is a good place for expressing your individuality, not as a guest on the ranch.

IMPORTANT: I would hope this goes without saying, but anyone failing to immediately and politely follow RSO instructions will be removed from the range(s). Period. No exceptions.

I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.

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Who Says We Don't Have Principles?

M1 Garand Principles of Operation

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Model 94 Winchester v 336 Marlin

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Ballistic High-Speed Photography

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Getting Enough Tar and Nicotine?

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Doctor recommended!

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Our Pal Operation Plowshare

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Highway Patrol!

This week's episode: Hot Cargo

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Phantom From Space!

The best Phantoms are from space.

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Cigar of the Week

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This week our pal Diogenes scores again with this excellent review of the Oliveros Grand Returno.

I've probably covered this cigar before but this is a good time for a relook.

This is a very nice cigar.

From the Dominican Republic, it hosts an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper using a Nicaragua Habano binder and filler also from Nicaragua. It is a cigar built to sit back and just enjoy it for a bit. In fact, it even looks like the kind of cigar you want to try. The wrapper is golden in color and flawless in appearance. It is firm, well rolled and offers a slight aroma while unlit.

The first third has no introduction time and it sets up a pleasant smoke right from the start. The aroma is an honest tobacco and the taste is equally so plus hints of wheat and nuts. Some say there is a touch of cedar in it but I suspect that is from the humidor I use. I didn't catch it.

Moving into the second third, and for that matter, the rest of the cigar, the tobacco just goes deeper in richness and flavor. The draw is light, the ash is even, and the burn consistent.

The Returno is becoming one of my favorite go-to cigars, and it will be a standard for me on the golf course. Yesterday, right after lighting this one up, I shot a par, birdie, and then an eagle. All this after a particularly bad start so yeah, Returno's for golf!!!

P.S. Note my cool head cover!

Excellent, Diogenes! Thank you!

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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
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!

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Ammo Link-O-Rama
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!

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Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!

That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

Posted by: Weasel at 07:00 PM




Comments

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:00 PM (P6lWH)

2 Yeah gun thread!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (I43vL)

3 Here

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (ttrGW)

4 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (P6lWH)

5 pew pew pew

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM (+fdRY)

6 I just knew that RMBS would take it. Punching F5 like the proverbial monkey on crack.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM (ttrGW)

7 See, that's what happens when you read the content.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM (+fdRY)

8 First

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM (LHPAg)

9 5 pew pew pew
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM (+fdRY)

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SERPENTINE!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:03 PM (wpRMV)

10 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:04 PM (Ia/+0)

11 But have the Otters been summoned?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:04 PM (wpRMV)

12 Evening everyone!

Short one for me.
Why is it when on the first day of vacation I manage to catch a cold.....in summertime!!!

So I am medded up and going to hit the sack soon.

Have fun!!

And if you have never been to a MoMe you should try, great like minded folks every one of them.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 13, 2026 07:06 PM (PDvf+)

13 I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.

I have heard from reputable sources that a self-induced instance of Garand Thumb helps focus the mind, and really boosts one's yelling output.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

14 Hello, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (wXqZT)

15 What's this MoMe thing of which you speak?

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (QMAsf)

16 SERPENTINE!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:03 PM

Dude. You're just going to die tired.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

17 Good evening Horde. Thanks Weasel!

Posted by: TRex - unspeakably powered dino at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (XfIK1)

18 I just knew that RMBS would take it. Punching F5 like the proverbial monkey on crack.
Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM

*buffs nails on shirt*

Munkeys is amateurs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:08 PM (P6lWH)

19 First
Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 07:02 PM

In my heart, always!

Posted by: zombie Gaston Glock, perfector of Perfection at September 13, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)

20 What's this MoMe thing of which you speak?
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (QMAsf)
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Totally a cult.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 07:08 PM (LRYfP)

21 15 What's this MoMe thing of which you speak?
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM (QMAsf)

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*activates neuralizer*

MoMe? What MoMe?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (wpRMV)

22 p.s.
Senor Weasel, I neglected to respond to your email. I will not be available to wear the Orange Hat of Dorkiness this year.
I understand that I will be subjected to constant harassment by certain Texas Ladies with a last name of Had for the next month.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (ttrGW)

23 What's this MoMe thing of which you speak?
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM

I heard it's going to be disco-continued this year.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)

24 But have the Otters been summoned?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:04 PM

You'll have to check with nurse. Otters are her wheelhouse. I don't summon aquatic mammals.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (P6lWH)

25 I saw the news in the Food Thread.

Congrats, Weasel! 🎉

Condolences, WeaselWoman! 😜

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 07:10 PM (VHUov)

26 Condolences, WeaselWoman! 😜
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 07:10 PM (VHUov)
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That's for sure!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 07:10 PM (LRYfP)

27 What's this MoMe thing of which you speak?
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Totally a cult.

* sniff * (Miss you, Jewells.)

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 07:10 PM (vTZFs)

28 I understand that I will be subjected to constant harassment by certain Texas Ladies with a last name of Had for the next month.
Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Tiffini from Fort Worth at September 13, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

29 p.s.
Senor Weasel, I neglected to respond to your email. I will not be available to wear the Orange Hat of Dorkiness this year.
I understand that I will be subjected to constant harassment by certain Texas Ladies with a last name of Had for the next month.
Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM

*pushes glasses down nose*

*makes yet another mark in Red's permanent record*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:11 PM (P6lWH)

30 Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (ttrGW)
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Got it. Thanks.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 07:11 PM (LRYfP)

31 Howdy weasel! Thanks for the thread!

Range report.

Focused on smooth trigger pull, straight back and sending a round downhill one per second x5.

Took the Dan Wesson 1911 Patriot .45. No fliers. Felt nice. Caught myself a couple times about to jerk the trigger. Stopped and reset.

Finished with 50 rounds .22 from the Ruger Mark IV. Plinking be fun!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 07:11 PM (yEz+x)

32 13 I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.

I have heard from reputable sources that a self-induced instance of Garand Thumb helps focus the mind, and really boosts one's yelling output.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Rivaled by the hot brass dance.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)

33 Addendum to the schedule. After the ranges close everyone is invited to dinner.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:12 PM (E0Et6)

34 I understand that I will be subjected to constant harassment by certain Texas Ladies with a last name of Had for the next month.
Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM

What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Tiffini from Fort Worth at September 13, 2026 07:11 PM

And me?

Posted by: Tiffini from Houston at September 13, 2026 07:12 PM (hOaDh)

35 Hot brass in the cleavage has a charm all its own.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:13 PM (wpRMV)

36 What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Tiffini from Fort Worth

You ain't no Sweet Eileen in Abilene.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs)

37 Diogenes thanks for that review. That brand has been on my radar (frequently good deals on them at Atlantic Cigar) but I have never had one.

So many sticks, so little time (for the max-one-a-day cigar consumer, anyway - those guys who smoke 2 or 3/day can go through the enormous offerings these days much faster I guess).

About to sit down and try an Aladino Connecticut for the first time. Historic Heat Wave is over, we've moved most of the way back to the ridiculously perfect weather that has spoiled those living here. Perfect for burning a stick and inspecting brass on the back porch.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 07:13 PM (U/Byj)

38 I finally did a range day and the best thing I can say about it is "The gun didn't blow up".

Bersa Thunder .380, two magazines worth of rounds attempted, 2 misfires with - as it turned out - two bullets jammed in the barrel, and the last round unfired.

Of the rounds that went down range, 10 hit the target board, with 4 hits on the target I was aiming for, 4 hits on the target I wasn't aiming for, and at least 16 inches between the farthest hits.

It is the first time I've fired that gun in a couple years, and the ammo has been in the magazines for just as long, so that might have been the problem.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 07:14 PM (anFBA)

39 OddBob, a raised glass to Jewells and Jim SND. A hug for you too.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:15 PM (E0Et6)

40 22 p.s.
Senor Weasel, I neglected to respond to your email. I will not be available to wear the Orange Hat of Dorkiness this year.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM
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Dino sad.

Posted by: TRex - orange hatted dino at September 13, 2026 07:15 PM (XfIK1)

41 Guns!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:18 PM (xcxpd)

42 Why is it when on the first day of vacation I manage to catch a cold.....in summertime!!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 13, 2026 07:06 PM (PDvf+)

Sounds like you're not planning pre-med! You should start the night before with plenty of alcohol to knock down any viruses and bacteria lurking in your bloodstream. Or, even while at work the last day.

Or, slap a hot iron on it.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:18 PM (kU0PQ)

43 RI Red, you will have to live with knowing you disappointed me.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:18 PM (E0Et6)

44 33 Addendum to the schedule. After the ranges close everyone is invited to dinner.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:12 PM (E0Et6)

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Are mockery and trash-talking on the agenda?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:18 PM (wpRMV)

45 p.s.
Senor Weasel, I neglected to respond to your email. I will not be available to wear the Orange Hat of Dorkiness this year.
I understand that I will be subjected to constant harassment by certain Texas Ladies with a last name of Had for the next month.
Posted by: RI Red
**********
She won't be the only one......

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:19 PM (XfIK1)

46 Good evening gubthreaders and all the ships at sea!

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:19 PM (NlEaG)

47 I wish everyone going to MoMeet this year a safe journey and great weather. I will not, as usual attend due both the health and some pressing expensive issues this year.

Doggie is not doing well so we have to take him to our state university's vet hospital for specialist treatment--perhaps an endoscopy that runs about 3k or so just after the Mo Meet time. And that plus a visit to Arkansas to correct some issues and finances with my mother in late September pretty much blows the travel budget and my health for any long trips. I usually have to take steroids for the duration of these trips to manage but long term those are bad news up to inducing diabetes. I still need my wife to drive on long travel or to accompany me for any possible airline travel due to health right now.

I am having to deal with insufficiency of care issues as my mother has vascular dementia and now mobility issues that may require her to be relocated to a higher skilled nursing facility or the issues fixed at her current one and I am likely to install cameras in her room for the short run.

Mebbe next year.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:20 PM (E4rtv)

48 Cicero, absolutely, it's the Horde.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:20 PM (E0Et6)

49 Senor Weasel, I neglected to respond to your email. I will not be available to wear the Orange Hat of Dorkiness this year.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM
***
Dino sad.
Posted by: TRex - orange hatted dino at September 13, 2026 07:15 PM (XfIK1)

RI Red sad, too.
But happy for the Weasel family. Even if they are mere amateurs at 23 years.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:21 PM (ttrGW)

50 Mebbe next year.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:20 PM

Mebbe?

Do. Or do not. There is no mebbe.

- Stuff Yoda probably said

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:21 PM (P6lWH)

51 DMV MGC met today. swa can tell you all about her experience with her new gub and not to steal any of her thunder the S&W Bodyguard is a teeny little thing. You may have seen Lena Miculek popping one out of her crotch (no, really) and shooting with it. Just really amazingly small.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:21 PM (NlEaG)

52 Pick up a carton for the weekend!

Posted by: Mel Torme at September 13, 2026 07:21 PM (bbqHZ)

53 Duty day this week and I expect the morning to be busy with non-members firing 4-8 rounds from their bolt actions. Usually late summer/early fall there are mornings like that, with the guys zeroing their s**t before heading off to WA, MT, ID, UT, NV, CO, or AZ to hunt elk, deer, etc.

My crew has shrunk by half in 8 months so now just 3 of us, hoping for reinforcement from the RSO powers that be.

Will be more difficult to get in any trigger time myself but determined to do so. Have not been emptying brass much for far too long.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 07:22 PM (U/Byj)

54 So, got back to the range yesterday.

I had switched to my XD45 because my G30/G21 IWB holster was sub-par. (Now that Fall is here, I may just go to my G21 OWB Galco rig).

So it was XD day. My Dicken drill was TERRIBLE. .45 ACP + Iron Sights + Old = really bad groups. Red dots really are important for me at range. Also trying to go fast with a .45 just doesn't work well. I probably have bad fundamentals with higher recoil handguns, I never really developed a quality Gorilla Grip.

Slowing down, the XD remains a remarkably accurate pistol with a good trigger. But the Dicken drill is intended to test accuracy at range and under stress. And I didn't do well.

Also a thumbs-high Glock grip does not work with the XD, which is another reason why I sorta wish I'd just bought one gun and gotten gud at it. You gotta relearn things like this over and over...

Anyway, good day at the range with the Nurse and Lazy Messenger.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:22 PM (xcxpd)

55 *activates neuralizer*

MoMe? What MoMe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (wpRMV)

Does it make me odd, or just old, that reading the first line made me think of the chair in ST:TOS episode "Dagger of the Mind"? I only thought of MiB when I read the second line.

(The chair was called a "neural neutralizer".)

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:22 PM (kU0PQ)

56 Howdy!

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at September 13, 2026 07:23 PM (sAmhv)

57 Good Evening all
I have a range report!
I got to shoot my new Bodyguard2 today. Happiness. Joy. I didnot make a mistake buying without trying it. I put 50 rounds through it and the others put about another 25 and it performed flawlessly. I had some nice groups which considering it was the first time, iron sights and i t is a pretty tiny gun, I was very pleased.

Posted by: Sharon(willow"s apprentice) at September 13, 2026 07:23 PM (kJmSS)

58 51 DMV MGC met today. swa can tell you all about her experience with her new gub and not to steal any of her thunder the S&W Bodyguard is a teeny little thing. You may have seen Lena Miculek popping one out of her crotch (no, really) and shooting with it. Just really amazingly small.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:21 PM (NlEaG)

Now that they have a red dot version, I may get one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:23 PM (xcxpd)

59 whig, next year!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:23 PM (E0Et6)

60 It is the first time I've fired that gun in a couple years, and the ammo has been in the magazines for just as long, so that might have been the problem.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Sounds possibly like primer contamination from oil if the ammo was okay before. If two bullets lodged in the barrel, you might have ringed it (bulged barrel) if there was any real pressure behind the second bullet.

Use a bright light in the bore to detect it. Looks like a dark ring in the barrel. Alternatively, you can check by field stripping it and using a caliper to detect any bulge.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:24 PM (E4rtv)

61 sra blaster and I send regrets on the TxMoMe this year we have reasons. Not excuses. REASONS.

Those of you with excuses - ignore them. Go. It is an event like no other. You can go home and say I was taught how to shoot long distance by the coach of a team that won an international championship.

Do they do that at the Holiday Inn Express? Or at Disney World?

Nay. Nay they do not.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:24 PM (NlEaG)

62 Mebbe?

Do. Or do not. There is no mebbe.

- Stuff Yoda probably said
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Given the insane traffic in my area lately, I will be lucky to survive getting to next year.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:25 PM (E4rtv)

63 Given the insane traffic in my area lately, I will be lucky to survive getting to next year.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:25 PM

*Boston traffic fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:26 PM (P6lWH)

64 The Packers have completely imploded.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 07:26 PM (yEz+x)

65 38 I finally did a range day and the best thing I can say about it is "The gun didn't blow up".

Bersa Thunder .380, two magazines worth of rounds attempted, 2 misfires with - as it turned out - two bullets jammed in the barrel, and the last round unfired.

Of the rounds that went down range, 10 hit the target board, with 4 hits on the target I was aiming for, 4 hits on the target I wasn't aiming for, and at least 16 inches between the farthest hits.

It is the first time I've fired that gun in a couple years, and the ammo has been in the magazines for just as long, so that might have been the problem.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 07:14 PM (anFBA)

I bought one, it was a lemon also. I can never endorse the Bersa Thunder as a result.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:26 PM (xcxpd)

66 RI Red, you will have to live with knowing you disappointed me.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:18 PM (E0Et6)

Ben Had, you join a long line of women I have known.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:26 PM (jkyX4)

67 Now that they have a red dot version, I may get one.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:23 PM (xcxpd)

Here is the secret. ALL of the Bodyguard 2.0s can get that red dot. There is not an "optic ready" version. Veridian has a dot specifically made for the Bodyguard 2.0 and it installs into the dovetail of the rear sights of the bodyguard.

If you have a sight pusher you can do it. THOUGH I think it is a few dollars less to buy it all at once. But if you have a line on a deal on one, then you can put the dot on it.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:27 PM (NlEaG)

68 Rhomboid,
Be sure to get it into the queue. You'll like it.
SnL is taking me down to a cigar bar on one of the Indian rezs nearby. He said their humidor is as big as my house. My credit card is going to take a hit. Looking forward to it.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2WIwB)

69 invited to dinner.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:12 PM (E0Et6)

"Invited to dinner" is such an understated way to say it. It's so much more than that. Both the invite and the dinner.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:28 PM (kU0PQ)

70 Operation Plowshare -
Using nuclear explosions to make underground laboratories! Yes! Yes! Mwahahahahaaa…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2026 07:29 PM (sGgMH)

71 Red, you are gonna miss my advancement beyond 860yds to 1000yds!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:29 PM (XfIK1)

72
38 Bersa Thunder .380, two magazines worth of rounds attempted, 2 misfires with - as it turned out - two bullets jammed in the barrel, and the last round unfired.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 07:14 PM (anFBA)

Funny you should mention that firearm. I had my late brother’s BT .380 sitting in a drawer for 10 years and finally took it to a range and had the instructor help me with it. It was too complicated for me and when it was in SA or DA mode (can’t remember which one), my finger could barely reach the trigger. I didn’t know that our fingers shrink too when we get older. I had to hand yet another pistol over to the oldest nephew.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 13, 2026 07:30 PM (SjAWL)

73 67 Now that they have a red dot version, I may get one.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:23 PM (xcxpd)

Here is the secret. ALL of the Bodyguard 2.0s can get that red dot. There is not an "optic ready" version. Veridian has a dot specifically made for the Bodyguard 2.0 and it installs into the dovetail of the rear sights of the bodyguard.

If you have a sight pusher you can do it. THOUGH I think it is a few dollars less to buy it all at once. But if you have a line on a deal on one, then you can put the dot on it.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:27 PM (NlEaG)

Oh I thought the new one was milled! Interesting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:30 PM (xcxpd)

74 Red, you are gonna miss my advancement beyond 860yds to 1000yds!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:29 PM

We'll take pictures.

My rifle is cleaned, zeroed, and ready. You're welcome to it while I'm in the kitchen working on beans.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:31 PM (P6lWH)

75 So, today we got to join in swa's excitement with her new pistol which she hasn't mentioned has a Black Cherry frame.

But we had some disappointments with our own equipment. sra blaster's Kimber CDS9 was just sitting in the safe. And for whatever reason its dot decided to be off. By a LOT. I was able to adjust it to be spot on but then it threw the screw in the battery tray out and it kept opening up and turning off when you shot.

Of course I am known for cheap dots and this one is one (cheap-ish anyway) but I am just going to get her a Holosun 507k.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:32 PM (NlEaG)

76 So it was XD day. My Dicken drill was TERRIBLE. .45 ACP + Iron Sights + Old = really bad groups. Red dots really are important for me at range. Also trying to go fast with a .45 just doesn't work well. I probably have bad fundamentals with higher recoil handguns, I never really developed a quality Gorilla Grip.

Slowing down, the XD remains a remarkably accurate pistol with a good trigger. But the Dicken drill is intended to test accuracy at range and under stress. And I didn't do well.
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Wondering if perhaps your change in grip might have caused a lower than optimal grip on the XD allowing it to lever and twist a bit more. Plus XDs have different grip angles than a Glock.

The XD grip angle is more like a 1911, Browning High Power, and Smith & Wessons.


Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)

77 I am likely to install cameras in her room for the short run.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:20 PM (E4rtv)

Some trail cams are cellular, obviating the need for a network to run on or a physical visit to retrieve images. Might be less obvious cameras that do that, too.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:33 PM (kU0PQ)

78 So, I do have a *small* beef; I don't know about comparing this thing to Burning Man as that thing is a party by and for stupid, smelly commie hippies.

I prefer to think of the TX MoMee as a proper TX BBQ / picnic (which of course requires gubs), only better, because Horde.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 07:34 PM (+fdRY)

79 *Boston traffic fistbump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Rotaries are an insane idea. Traffic circles are one thing but rotaries should have been left in the UK instead of imported to Mass. FWIW, Sister used to live in Springfield MA and I visited her on occasion.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:34 PM (E4rtv)

80 Wondering if perhaps your change in grip might have caused a lower than optimal grip on the XD allowing it to lever and twist a bit more. Plus XDs have different grip angles than a Glock.

The XD grip angle is more like a 1911, Browning High Power, and Smith & Wessons.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)

Yeah, I am pretty used to Glocks (thought I own a ton of non-Glocks...I don't usually carry or shoot them much). I think my grip is a little off because it looks a lot like an XD9 but the XD45 is dimensionally different and when going fast, my grip isn't right. All fixable problems with training but there we are back to trying to maintain proficency with multiple firearms....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 07:35 PM (xcxpd)

81 I think the Viridium for the Bodyquard is a green dot.Maybe. Going to check.
I understand why so many carry it. For such a tiny gun there is hardly any recoil. Everyone who tried shot well with it so pretty accurate. It will be easy to conceal. The Miculek videos are hilarious but she shows how in almost any kind of clothing it doesn't print and it can be drawn quickly.

Posted by: Sharon(willow at September 13, 2026 07:36 PM (kJmSS)

82 We'll take pictures.

My rifle is cleaned, zeroed, and ready. You're welcome to it while I'm in the kitchen working on beans.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
********
I truly appreciate that, and will take exceptionally good care of it.
As for pictures, we'll see about that.....but even if we do, it won't be the same as seeing it live....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:37 PM (XfIK1)

83 FWIW, Sister used to live in Springfield MA and I visited her on occasion.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:34 PM

Western MA is nice, and much more conservative than the eastern pit. Trump flags for miles. Can't swing a dead leftist without hitting a gun club. Shame about Boston, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:37 PM (P6lWH)

84 Do they do that at the Holiday Inn Express? Or at Disney World?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:24 PM (NlEaG)

Who would be the corporate image of a place where they taught you to shoot? Not a gun company; that's too obvious. I was thinking Mutual of Omaha, but that would be more live capture, bouncing along in an open vehicle, hanging out the side, trying to loop an animal's neck....

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:38 PM (kU0PQ)

85 Also I took my PSA Dagger which is a Gen 3 Glock 19 clone.

It has been really good - I shoot it well and it is as reliable as a Glock. Or it was until today. sra blaster started with it and the slide was hanging up and we were getting failure to eject and failure to feeds. She thought she was limp wristing it. I picked it up and racked the slide a few times and it felt like it was full of sand. Not sure what happened to it between the last I time I shot it and today. Again, just sitting there in the safe it went bad.

Good thing I had my EDC so I could shoot something of ours.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 07:38 PM (NlEaG)

86 https://tinyurl.com/ap8s8rnw

Posted by: Sharon(willow at September 13, 2026 07:39 PM (kJmSS)

87 Some trail cams are cellular, obviating the need for a network to run on or a physical visit to retrieve images. Might be less obvious cameras that do that, too.
Posted by: GWB
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Facility allows it but warning signs have to be posted which is not altogether a bad thing. Petty theft has become an issue. I will probably go Eufy which encrypts from end to end and it will piggyback on the facility wireless. Have a licensed social worker go frequently to check on her but she has gotten into falling recently due to repeated utis. Not to be gross but one problem is that dementia patients forget how to wipe properly.

The other solution is depends which creates its own problems and the third is a indwelling catheter which again has its own problems creating infections.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

88 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

89 Western MA is nice, and much more conservative than the eastern pit. Trump flags for miles. Can't swing a dead leftist without hitting a gun club. Shame about Boston, though.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Boston and its politics forced out Smith and Wesson in Springfield to Tennessee. The famed Smith and Wesson Training Academy is about to open there in Maryville now. Maryland forced out Beretta to depart to Tennessee as well.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:42 PM (E4rtv)

90 Those of you that are first timers to the MoMe one of the traditions is the deep fried bacon served by our very own Bacon Wench and generously donated by Helena Handbasket.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:43 PM (E0Et6)

91 Oh, and happy anniversary to the newlyweds!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:44 PM (XfIK1)

92 Yeah, I am pretty used to Glocks (thought I own a ton of non-Glocks...I don't usually carry or shoot them much). I think my grip is a little off because it looks a lot like an XD9 but the XD45 is dimensionally different and when going fast, my grip isn't right. All fixable problems with training but there we are back to trying to maintain proficency with multiple firearms....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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The grip on the XD45 is a bit larger in circumference than the XD9/40. You might have nailed the reason right there. I tend to carry and shoot the same gun for a long while before switching and shoot the older supplanted carry ones just for fun. But I use a crush grip and only have one inherited Glock 30. Kept it mainly because I don't otherwise have a compact 45. My XD45 is service length barrel.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:45 PM (E4rtv)

93 Use a bright light in the bore to detect it. Looks like a dark ring in the barrel. Alternatively, you can check by field stripping it and using a caliper to detect any bulge.

Posted by: whig

Like a dark ring all the way around the barrel? I'm not seeing that. There's a bunch of fouling in there now, but it's following the rifling, every other spiral.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 07:45 PM (anFBA)

94 whig, sympathies for your situation. We went through similar things with my mom. We were fortunate to be able to keep her in our home with help from home hospice but I understand that's not an option for everyone.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 07:46 PM (vTZFs)

95 Blaster wasn't the only one with a Glock issue. I tried to shoot my G48 with Holosun and although incredibly accurate, it kept jamming on every second or third round. Frustrating. Dr Ed diagnosed a need to clean it. Also think the mags need to be cleaned as they looked visibly dirty. Sigh. It's time.

Posted by: Sharon(willow at September 13, 2026 07:46 PM (kJmSS)

96 I bought one, it was a lemon also. I can never endorse the Bersa Thunder as a result.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo

Understandable. I've never had a problem with the gun before... I'm told that cci Blazer ammo is kind of crap, and that's most likely what I was shooting.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 07:47 PM (anFBA)

97 Evening Weasel and Co. Range day here with a new-to-me Walther PPQ. This was one of the first quality striker-fired handguns I shot years ago. Always wanted one. It fits my hand and points well. I acquire the sites reliably and the trigger is smoother than others I've fired. Glad I finally got one. And ... good groups at 21' and 25'. At 30' my age and eyes start to show. Sigh.

Smoking some nice HVC sticks this week. Then generally hit my taste right.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 07:47 PM (MEbkQ)

98 Boston and its politics forced out Smith and Wesson in Springfield to Tennessee. The famed Smith and Wesson Training Academy is about to open there in Maryville now. Maryland forced out Beretta to depart to Tennessee as well.
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Smith & Wesson will be a more 6 miles from Schloss Rex, currently under construction.....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:47 PM (XfIK1)

99 My range report for today: Brought out a .38 Colt Cobra (2017 version) and a Walther P99 AS (9mm). Shot the Cobra exclusively in double action today at 7 and 10 yards with average results - some on target, some not. For the last couple of loads, I switched to strong hand only at 7 yards. This was hard; I only got a couple of rounds on the target even though I was shooting at what I thought was a slow, deliberate pace.
For the P99, I tried to push myself on distance. My group at 10 yards was very tight and almost as tight at 15 yards. I shot at the larger center target at 20 yards and got four of five in the bullseye target, but not in the center. I pushed out to 25 yards and got two on the paper. So 20 is as far as I can push out with a P99. For my final rounds, I reeled the target back in to 15 yards and repeated what I did earlier.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 07:48 PM (wXqZT)

100 90 Those of you that are first timers to the MoMe one of the traditions is the deep fried bacon served by our very own Bacon Wench and generously donated by Helena Handbasket.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 07:43 PM
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Amen. Doesn't get much better than deep fried bacon delivered to the gun range via John Deere gator by the Bacon Wench.

Posted by: TRex - bacon fueled dino at September 13, 2026 07:49 PM (XfIK1)

101 RMBS, we may have reason to be in Boston in early Nov, will keep you posted....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:49 PM (XfIK1)

102 And to those on the line about coming to their first MoMe, I can't recommend it highly enough. The Horde is incredibly welcoming and hospitable, and their company and conversation are the best. My first TxMoMe in 2022 was so much fun, I brought the RMBS Mom the next year, and she had a blast. Come to TX. You'll have a wonderful time and make some great friends. Plus there's bacon. So. Much. Bacon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:50 PM (P6lWH)

103 The tinyurl is about the Viridium green dot. Should have added that. $229

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 13, 2026 07:50 PM (kJmSS)

104 RMBS, we may have reason to be in Boston in early Nov, will keep you posted....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:49 PM

Definitely! Early November looks pretty clear right now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:50 PM (P6lWH)

105 Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

I pray for grace in the whole thing, whig. And for your strength.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:51 PM (kU0PQ)

106 Boston and its politics forced out Smith and Wesson in Springfield to Tennessee.

Yeah, funny that when you keep telling employers that you hate them and their customers they eventually believe you. CA will figure it out someday. Maybe.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 07:51 PM (vTZFs)

107 Understandable. I've never had a problem with the gun before... I'm told that cci Blazer ammo is kind of crap, and that's most likely what I was shooting.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

It is decent range ammo and unlikely to be the issue as CCI makes the primers and brass for it. One of the issues of storing a gun loaded is that a) you can, not will, have an issue with mag spring depression where it weakens the spring enough to cause issues on reloading from the magazine upon firing and sometimes you get extraction problems.

But unless you get sealed primers and even sealed bullets (those usually have a red sealant in the primer ring and where the bullet goes into the brass), you can get contamination and pistols draining oil onto surfaces are the most likely culprit.

The other is exposing the firearm to a lot of heat, moisture, or cold--that can lead to moisture contamination and degradation of the powder in unsealed bullets. Car guns can exhibit this problem as temps in autos can get pretty extreme as well as humidity issues.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:52 PM (E4rtv)

108 Yeah, funny that when you keep telling employers that you hate them and their customers they eventually believe you. CA will figure it out someday. Maybe.
Posted by: Oddbob
********
I will take the under on that one...from personal experience....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:53 PM (XfIK1)

109 Yeah, funny that when you keep telling employers that you hate them and their customers they eventually believe you. CA will figure it out someday. Maybe.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 07:51 PM

I know, right? Like telling almost 40% of your citizens that you hate them and wondering why said citizens leave the state as soon as possible.

*looks longingly in the direction of NH*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:54 PM (P6lWH)

110 On the TxMoMe...
There's only one real problem with it - it doesn't last long enough to be with all these wonderful people. There's only 24 hours in a day, and all that.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:55 PM (kU0PQ)

111 I pray for grace in the whole thing, whig. And for your strength.
Posted by: GWB

Well, I need all the grace I can get as otherwise I am pretty disgraceful. And my strength is returning. Grip strength just measured by pt is back to about what it was before I started down the road to surgery. I can deal with pain, not dysfunction and when your grip strength drops from 100 lbs more or less each hand to 40 within about a year, time to get surgery. The three month pt test after surgery came up to 60-65 lbs grip strength.

And the most recent at about 6 months has me back at 100. So now working on core muscle restoration in the back. Strong back muscles can help with a deteriorating spine which I have.

About to start occupational hand therapy to regain dexterity that I lost by nerve compression as well. So that will help.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 07:56 PM (E4rtv)

112 Amen. Doesn't get much better than deep fried bacon delivered to the gun range via John Deere gator by the Bacon Wench.
Posted by: TRex - bacon fueled dino at September 13, 2026 07:49 PM

I'll take phrases only uttered at AoSHQ for $1,000, Alex.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:57 PM (P6lWH)

113 Range day here with a new-to-me Walther PPQ. This was one of the first quality striker-fired handguns I shot years ago. Always wanted one. It fits my hand and points well. I acquire the sites reliably and the trigger is smoother than others I've fired. Glad I finally got one. And ... good groups at 21' and 25'. At 30' my age and eyes start to show. Sigh.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 07:47 PM (MEbkQ)

If you like the PPQ, do get more magazines for it ASAP. The PPQ has now been out of production for a little over three years now. Any spare magazines out there can dry up instantly without any replacement.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 07:57 PM (wXqZT)

114 Had a great lunch recently with Hrothgar.

He and I plan to see other again shortly at a particular assemblage somewhere southeast of Dallas.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 08:00 PM (2Ez/1)

115 Whig, I’m going to throw this info out just in case you haven’t heard of it and can use it. A surviving spouse of a veteran can apply for the Aid and Attendance benefit by the VA. My father was a WWII veteran (and wheelchair bound) and I had a live in caretaker for him so he could stay in his house of 40 years. It’s not a widely advertised benefit but it sure did help. There’s certain criteria the recipient has to meet.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 13, 2026 08:00 PM (SjAWL)

116 FWIW, for those of you cleaning mags (one should do it on carry weapons now and again as they attract cruft--crud + dirt). They make a dry graphite spray lube that can be used on them which lessens wear on the plastic followers found in most carry guns nowadays. Graphite is actually a very mild abrasive and doing that on new magazines both lubes them and helps grip off the factory edges that often exist making operation smoother.

If using oil, drop a little on a paper towel and use the paper towel to apply the oil. I would advise using it externally on a mag only. Use a brush periodically on the inside to get rid of cruft.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:01 PM (E4rtv)

117 I picked up an old S&W Model 41 that was on consignment at the lgs. It came in the original box excpet the box cover was for a Model 52. Well, I took that as a hint and now I have a Model 52 coming.

Model 52 only shoots 38 Special wadcutter. No other 38 Special, just wadcutter.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 13, 2026 08:01 PM (P4bJX)

118 115 Whig, I’m going to throw this info out just in case you haven’t heard of it and can use it. A surviving spouse of a veteran can apply for the Aid and Attendance benefit by the VA. My father was a WWII veteran (and wheelchair bound) and I had a live in caretaker for him so he could stay in his house of 40 years. It’s not a widely advertised benefit but it sure did help. There’s certain criteria the recipient has to meet.
Posted by: TxAnn

Thanks for reminding me of that. Finally found my dad's military records on microfiche ( a lot of his early records went up in smoke at St. Louis fire at the Army/Air Force repository in the late 60's). I have to go to my university library to even find a microfiche reader nowadays.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:04 PM (E4rtv)

119 If you like the PPQ, do get more magazines for it ASAP. The PPQ has now been out of production for a little over three years now. Any spare magazines out there can dry up instantly without any replacement.
Posted by: Ed L


I bought Marine the PPQ with a paddle mag release on the trigger guard. The magazines have a notch on the side. Regular PPQ mags are not compatible. He only has two mags. I’ve not been able to locate any at any price.

Suggestions?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 08:04 PM (6ohhg)

120 117 I picked up an old S&W Model 41 that was on consignment at the lgs. It came in the original box excpet the box cover was for a Model 52. Well, I took that as a hint and now I have a Model 52 coming.

Model 52 only shoots 38 Special wadcutter. No other 38 Special, just wadcutter.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Have fun, those Model 52s were almost all handfitted to make sure of function with wadcutters. Smith and Wesson engineering at its finest to shove a rimmed cartridge with a flat nose into a semi auto frame. And make it work, feed, and shoot accurately.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:05 PM (E4rtv)

121 Two words about TX: Just go! Even if the sun and heat keep you in the carport, close to the water, all day, you'll have tons of fun socializing with your fellow Morons. The food is wonderful, as is the company. Just make sure to bring a flashlight for the trek to the port-a-pots; it gets REALLY dark outside after sundown.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:06 PM (wXqZT)

122 I really looking forward to it. It's an older one with the old style extractor that I read has problems, but the price was good and I found some wad cutter that should come in this week.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 13, 2026 08:08 PM (P4bJX)

123 I bought Marine the PPQ with a paddle mag release on the trigger guard. The magazines have a notch on the side. Regular PPQ mags are not compatible. He only has two mags. I’ve not been able to locate any at any price.

Suggestions?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Ebay. And yes, I am serious. GunMag Warehouse has them onsale for about $20 bucks right now for M1 model but I dunno if that your Marine's mag. 15+2 (extended floor plate) They have some in 40 S&W and also for Model M2.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:09 PM (E4rtv)

124 I picked up an old S&W Model 41 that was on consignment at the lgs.

I'm a High Standard fanboi but at my first MoMe, Panhandler brought (a bunch of cool stuff including a) Model 41 and I gotta admit that it flung a cravin' on me that I haven't satisfied yet.

Which is another reason to come to the MoMe. Morons have neat toys and are usually willing to share if you just stand nearby and act interested.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:10 PM (vTZFs)

125 What's this MoMe thing of which you speak?
Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 07:07 PM

I heard it's going to be disco-continued this year.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)

I see what you did there!!

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 08:11 PM (QMAsf)

126 121 Two words about TX: Just go! Even if the sun and heat keep you in the carport, close to the water, all day, you'll have tons of fun socializing with your fellow Morons. The food is wonderful, as is the company. Just make sure to bring a flashlight for the trek to the port-a-pots; it gets REALLY dark outside after sundown.
Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:06 PM (wXqZT
What Ed said..

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 08:11 PM (LHPAg)

127 Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:04 PM (E4rtv)

Luckily, my dad had hard copies of all of his records so I didn’t have to go through that ordeal. It’s a lot of paperwork, but when it’s approved, it’s retroactive from when you applied and you get a “catch up” payment. I had a VA rep help me with everything. It’s a tough situation to say the least.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 13, 2026 08:11 PM (SjAWL)

128 If you missed the 60 Minutes interview of the rescue of the downed fighter officers in Iran, look online for the video.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 08:12 PM (viF8m)

129 Two words about TX: Just go! Even if the sun and heat keep you in the carport, close to the water, all day, you'll have tons of fun socializing with your fellow Morons. The food is wonderful, as is the company. Just make sure to bring a flashlight for the trek to the port-a-pots; it gets REALLY dark outside after sundown.
Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:06 PM (wXqZT)

Totally agree with the "Just go!" advice.

Posted by: Doof at September 13, 2026 08:13 PM (QMAsf)

130 122 I really looking forward to it. It's an older one with the old style extractor that I read has problems, but the price was good and I found some wad cutter that should come in this week.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Apparently it is load sensitive but the folks at the S&W Forum are great about sharing solutions. I strongly recommend anyone with Smith and Wesson firearms to join up (free to view but registration required to post).

I used to hang around there a lot as I have some odd variant 3rd Generation models.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:13 PM (E4rtv)

131 Luckily, my dad had hard copies of all of his records so I didn’t have to go through that ordeal. It’s a lot of paperwork, but when it’s approved, it’s retroactive from when you applied and you get a “catch up” payment. I had a VA rep help me with everything. It’s a tough situation to say the least.
Posted by: TxAnn

Thanks. I am going to have to print out my fathers pre 68 records that are on microfiche. I went through all my father's paperwork and have his old R/A number as well as his SS. Just have to be lucky with the dates.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:15 PM (E4rtv)

132 St. Louis military personnel depository fire was in 1973, I guess the building - get this - had no sprinkler system. Nice. The debate at the time was "fire bad" but also "water bad", so ... no sprinkler system.

Where did they keep Navy and Marine records? Those guys lucked out. Army/Air Force, not so much.

Was it always customary to place a DD-214 copy with the county upon discharge? They told me to do that as part of outprocessing, but I already knew about that. That simple expedient can save a lot of hassle.

Posted by: Mel Torme at September 13, 2026 08:16 PM (bbqHZ)

133 Gunmagwarehouse dot com

Also if that doesn't work, try Walther directly at their Fort Smith Arkansas hq number. They have a factory store there.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:17 PM (E4rtv)

134
Was it always customary to place a DD-214 copy with the county upon discharge? They told me to do that as part of outprocessing, but I already knew about that. That simple expedient can save a lot of hassle.
Posted by: Mel Torme

I have his paperwork from 68 onwards but not the all of his early stuff. Some of it is on punch cards.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:18 PM (E4rtv)

135 I have a Thank You to all of you that put the MoMe on your "be there" list. You all have given me a wealth of laughs memories and friendships that has brought so much joy to my life.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 08:20 PM (E0Et6)

136 Food, drink, laughter, conversation, dancing, and so many interesting people with stories, so many stories. Maybe you'll even meet some people who live near you and become life long friends. And there is shooting and instruction and the chance to try firearms you neve evern heard of or could ever afford (-:
And it's Texas even though it can be hot, stormy, freezing all with in hours of each event(pack a sweatshirt) but there's horses and cattle and sunsets.
Just go. You won;t be disappointed.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 13, 2026 08:20 PM (kJmSS)

137 I bought Marine the PPQ with a paddle mag release on the trigger guard. The magazines have a notch on the side. Regular PPQ mags are not compatible. He only has two mags. I’ve not been able to locate any at any price.

Suggestions?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 08:04 PM (6ohhg)

Nurse, the Walther P99 magazine should be interchangeable with your Marine's PPQ. Since you said that his PPQ has paddle releases on the trigger guard, that sounds exactly what my P99 has. Because the P99 remains in service as military or police sidearm worldwide, the magazines are still available direct from Walther. Go to their website and search for "magazine." You should be able to find it from there.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:22 PM (wXqZT)

138 I spent part of the weekend wearing an IWB holster, a Beretta PX4, and a variety of clothing. The objective was to determine which shirts didn't print for the concealed weapon. My sister and BIL volunteered to observe and report. Untucked cotton flannel was the best. Somewhat form fitting polos were not good. A sweatshirt was also good to go.

Best for concealment were jackets. No surprise there.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 08:26 PM (rj6Yv)

139 60 minutes is good, but that interviewer is whacky. They can't hide their ...

Posted by: Mel Torme at September 13, 2026 08:28 PM (bbqHZ)

140 Welp, have been sorting all my projects, and parts, in the basement this week.

Finished two--fitting two No. 1 Mk 3 Enfields into stocks. On both, the emphasis is on fitting. Waiting for an extractor to finish a GEW 88 and some minor wood repair on the stock tip.

Next is fitting a Krag bayonet lug and band--I restored a cut Krag stock with a new front end section but that is requiring some fitting of the barrel and new bayonet lug/band and drilling the hole for the retention screw. Rebuilt an 1863 Springfield lockplate (original), waiting for a bridle to finish an 1888 Trapdoor lockplate. Both are waiting stocks which I think I have located. The 1863 needs a barrel as well. That one may just get a wall hanger barrel or there seems to be quite a few 1866 Allin conversion barrels and receivers floating around that would give it a post Civil War spin.

Basically doing these projects works my fingers doing all sorts of convulsions, on springs, using taps, files, rasps, screwdrivers, etc. Strengthens the grip.

Looking at an inductive bolt heater to possibly loosen some old rusty barrels on a Lebel receiver and a Berthier so I can replace them with non cut barrels.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:28 PM (E4rtv)

141 swa's .380 definitely has a very light recoil.

I know most people think go no smaller than 9mm - I know because I am among them!

But I had a friend ask me about .380 and he wanted to know if I thought it was underpowered. I said I surely don't want to be shot by one.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 13, 2026 08:29 PM (NlEaG)

142 138 I spent part of the weekend wearing an IWB holster, a Beretta PX4, and a variety of clothing. The objective was to determine which shirts didn't print for the concealed weapon. My sister and BIL volunteered to observe and report. Untucked cotton flannel was the best. Somewhat form fitting polos were not good. A sweatshirt was also good to go.

Best for concealment were jackets. No surprise there.
Posted by: mrp

Does yours have the low profile safeties or the wing exaggerated type. Easy enough to do that job yourself if it has the latter. Langdon Tactical did also have some Beretta PX4 upgrade parts as well as Beretta if you wanted to upgrade the hammer assembly or other parts to match grade. Takes a punch and a little elbow grease to do it.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:31 PM (E4rtv)

143 I spent part of the weekend wearing an IWB holster, a Beretta PX4, and a variety of clothing. The objective was to determine which shirts didn't print for the concealed weapon.

Ya know what I've concluded? Most people are so self-absorbed and oblivious that you could walk around with a Virginia ham under your shirt and they wouldn't notice. I just don't even think about it anymore.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:32 PM (vTZFs)

144 Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 07:47 PM (MEbkQ)

YellowBird, see what I replied to Nurse above. If your PPQ has paddle magazine releases alongside the trigger guard, you're in luck - just order more P99 magazines direct from Walther. But if you have the button release M2 variant, snap up all you can. Those are now out of production at the Walther mothership.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:33 PM (wXqZT)

145 Red, you are gonna miss my advancement beyond 860yds to 1000yds!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:29 PM (XfIK1)

Pictures are required. Part of the Rules, ya know.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 08:34 PM (Edxq2)

146 So this is the bad boy I am considering bidding on.
Notice the classic lines, the tried and true ignition system, the absolute knock-down power. Truly a defender of empires.

https://tinyurl.com/34ar8pk5

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 08:34 PM (rbvCR)

147 141 swa's .380 definitely has a very light recoil.

I know most people think go no smaller than 9mm - I know because I am among them!

But I had a friend ask me about .380 and he wanted to know if I thought it was underpowered. I said I surely don't want to be shot by one.
Posted by: blaster
===========
I carried a Walther PPK early on. 380 ACP can do the job in a lot of cases and there is now better ammo for nowadays because Ruger popularized its ripoff of Kel Tec in micro 380's.

Just don't rely on ammo expanding much. Like the 32 ACP. The velocity is simply not there to do it. So shot placement is critical in those firearms.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv)

148 Good Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and a special Orange Hat of Dorkiness salute to our host Weasel!

Got my email last week and am very much looking forward to Corsicana!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at September 13, 2026 08:35 PM (xVpNO)

149 Red, you are gonna miss my advancement beyond 860yds to 1000yds!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 07:29 PM (XfIK1)

Pictures are required. Part of the Rules, ya know.
Posted by: RI Red
***********
Like attendance? You were warned I would give you guff about this news....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 08:36 PM (XfIK1)

150 Ya know what I've concluded? Most people are so self-absorbed and oblivious that you could walk around with a Virginia ham under your shirt and they wouldn't notice. I just don't even think about it anymore.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:32 PM (vTZFs)

Maybe we need a Virginia ham concealment clinic at TXMoMe?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at September 13, 2026 08:36 PM (xVpNO)

151 God bless the AOSHQ. As Martha says, it is a good thing.

Posted by: irright at September 13, 2026 08:36 PM (HMI5f)

152 Punchcards? Wow, how does one glean the information from that?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:37 PM (rQ950)

153 Deep fried bacon mmmmm

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2026 08:37 PM (Il1HA)

154 144 Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 07:47 PM (MEbkQ)

YellowBird, see what I replied to Nurse above. If your PPQ has paddle magazine releases alongside the trigger guard, you're in luck - just order more P99 magazines direct from Walther. But if you have the button release M2 variant, snap up all you can. Those are now out of production at the Walther mothership.
Posted by: Ed L

Ed L. Gunmag warehouse has both models. Since you confirmed that Model 1 is the paddle release and Model 2 is the button. $20 bucks for a 17 round PPQ mag is pretty good. And they have it is stock as I just looked as well as other M1 and M2 model mags for the PPQ.

And fwiw, those are good folks that specialize in gun mags. CDNN Sports in Abilene is another place that carries some Walther stuff, mainly closeouts though.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

155 So this is the bad boy I am considering bidding on.

If I'm ever fortunate enough to own my own mantle again instead of renting, that would look amazing over it.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:38 PM (vTZFs)

156 I can only imagine what Emily will be saying tomorrow...

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 08:38 PM (XfIK1)

157 Ya know what I've concluded? Most people are so self-absorbed and oblivious that you could walk around with a Virginia ham under your shirt and they wouldn't notice. I just don't even think about it anymore.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:32 PM (vTZFs)

I knew a guy who carried a Colt Lightweight Commander in .38 Super as his regular CCW. That thing is huge compared to SWA's Bodyguard 2.0, and he said that no one seemed to notice it.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:38 PM (wXqZT)

158 Is brandishing a Virginia ham illegal?
That's flat out un-American!

Posted by: irright at September 13, 2026 08:38 PM (HMI5f)

159 Basically doing these projects works my fingers doing all sorts of convulsions, on springs, using taps, files, rasps, screwdrivers, etc. Strengthens the grip.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:28 PM (E4rtv)

Good! I know I need to at least get back to the squeezy ball (for stress, but good for just keeping the fingers limber and doing stuff). And the grip strengthener. It was just around here... somewhere.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 08:39 PM (kU0PQ)

160 Mmmmm..... ham.....

Posted by: TRex - concealed ham dino at September 13, 2026 08:39 PM (XfIK1)

161 Punchcards? Wow, how does one glean the information from that?

If you are of "a certain age" which I am not quite sure, you just hold it up to the light and read it directly.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:40 PM (vTZFs)

162 Whig, that is what I was thinking. You just need a tight group. I think an optic makes a difference too. I worked today to just keep my arm outstretched and continue pulling the trigger til the mag wa empty. I had decent groups. The lighter recoil made that possible.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 13, 2026 08:40 PM (kJmSS)

163 So this is the bad boy I am considering bidding on.
Notice the classic lines, the tried and true ignition system, the absolute knock-down power. Truly a defender of empires.

https://tinyurl.com/34ar8pk5
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 08:34 PM (rbvCR)

Very cool. .70 caliber? Oof!
I think if I'm going to light something with a match, I want it in something measured in pounds.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 08:41 PM (kU0PQ)

164 s/quite sure/quite/

Thanks predictive text.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 08:43 PM (vTZFs)

165 More on PPQ mags ...

We live in Illinois and though the gun was sold with 15 rd mags and they ARE legal here, I'm finding that some vendors won't sell them to us. Gun Mag Warehouse won't ... Natchez will. So yes, if you find em, buy em.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 08:44 PM (MEbkQ)

166 Saw the anniversary notice in the previous thread, congratulations to W and WW.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 08:44 PM (sl73Y)

167 Ed L. Gunmag warehouse has both models. Since you confirmed that Model 1 is the paddle release and Model 2 is the button. $20 bucks for a 17 round PPQ mag is pretty good. And they have it is stock as I just looked as well as other M1 and M2 model mags for the PPQ.

And fwiw, those are good folks that specialize in gun mags. CDNN Sports in Abilene is another place that carries some Walther stuff, mainly closeouts though.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks for the info, Whig. It's good to know that someone stocks magazines for out of production firearms. If only they had magazines for the H&K P7 PSP. Unobtainium for sure.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:46 PM (wXqZT)

168 whig, Ed L., I was hoping my son would jump on here. He had a question about the Mosin 7.62x49, I think. Wondering (partly) whether that caliber is around in other firearms.

He went a week or so ago and had his bachelor party at the range, and got to shoot one.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 08:46 PM (kU0PQ)

169 If you are a big guy, it is way less likely someone would try and take a gun away from you but if you look like me, you hve to worry about that. This is why carrying in a purse, backpack, or any type of bag where someone could just come a nd cut it and run off. The Bodyguard is the first one I think I could legitimately hide and still be able to get it even if approached from very close by.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 13, 2026 08:47 PM (kJmSS)

170 Quite the mixed set of clubs Diogenes carries, Ping, Titelist, Tour Edge and Cobra seen. What kind of driver is hidden under that orange puppet?
Par, birdie and eagle in one round, they seem to work.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 08:47 PM (sl73Y)

171 From the 60 Minutes interview - that one guy has way too much salad on his uniform. Just sayin’.

And I think they were showing satellite coverage of that guy on the ground. Maybe recon aircraft. Not sure. They just called it “national intelligence”. But the resolution and detail was amazing: and that’s just what they were willing to declassify and release, with probable degradation.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:48 PM (rQ950)

172 Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 08:44 PM (sl73Y)
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Thanks!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 08:48 PM (LRYfP)

173 We live in Illinois and though the gun was sold with 15 rd mags and they ARE legal here, I'm finding that some vendors won't sell them to us. Gun Mag Warehouse won't ... Natchez will. So yes, if you find em, buy em.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 08:44 PM (MEbkQ)

One reason why gun shows still serve a purpose and why cash is king.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:48 PM (wXqZT)

174 152 Punchcards? Wow, how does one glean the information from that?
Posted by: Common Tater

They have some information printed on them as to what they contain. Dunno about the rest.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)

175 Very cool. .70 caliber? Oof!
I think if I'm going to light something with a match, I want it in something measured in pounds.
Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 08:41 PM (kU0PQ)

It is about 16 balls to the pound?

I have been fascinated by matchlocks for a long time, and at least .70 cal is a standard musket size. It really isn't the sort of thing you fire all the time, unless you decide to go full out and get the floppy hat with a feather and monopod and the bandolier of wooden cartridges.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

176 173: One reason why gun shows still serve a purpose and why cash is king.
***

Yep. Fortunately, state line is 30 minutes away. Plenty places to shop there.

And thanks to everyone for all the suggestions.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 08:51 PM (MEbkQ)

177 156 I can only imagine what Emily will be saying tomorrow...
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 08:38 PM (XfIK1)

I’ll have you know that she is finishing up the First Amendment tomorrow and then going on to a - you guessed it - multipart series on 2d Am!
Great for homeschooling, great to brush up on your civics. And she dresses purty.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 08:53 PM (Edxq2)

178 Maybe we need a Virginia ham concealment clinic at TXMoMe?
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless)

Don’t get Berserker started on “Th Ham Fairy.”

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 08:56 PM (yEz+x)

179 Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 08:46 PM (kU0PQ)

GWB, "7.62mm X 49" is coming up empty on my searches. Most Mosins produced were in 7.62mm X 54R. That round is still available, but a bit tough to find since a certain overseas fracas ended cheap surplus imports from its country of origin.

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:58 PM (wXqZT)

180 Good night all
Still high from a great range trip.
Thanks Weasel for giving us this place. It was the encouragment and experience of people here that helped me make the decision to just go for it.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 13, 2026 08:58 PM (kJmSS)

181 162 Whig, that is what I was thinking. You just need a tight group. I think an optic makes a difference too. I worked today to just keep my arm outstretched and continue pulling the trigger til the mag wa empty. I had decent groups. The lighter recoil made that possible.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice}

Yep. When I carried a 380 ACP. I used Golden Saber 102 gr hollow points. Not so they would expand, they might or might not, but they would penetrate.

Avoid round tipped bullets though. Those have always been poor stoppers as they produce wounds that tend to close up like a zipper. Federal HST line is probably the top right dog of self defense bullets and their 380 Micro ACP load (99 grains) often does expand and penetrate quite well.

The next best thing to a expanding bullet is at least a flat tip and all hollowpoints will exhibit that whether they expand or not.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:59 PM (E4rtv)

182 GWB, 7.62 x 49? Is there such a thing? x 54 might be what was meant here, as Mosin was mentioned. That caliber lives on in several other platforms, though (I think) few that one can legally own (they are machine guns). SVT-40 is the only one besides Mosin-Nagants that I can think of. But I could well be under/misinformed.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 08:59 PM (U/Byj)

183 Good evening, Weasel, and Happy Anniversary! Greetings to all the Gun Thread Horde. No gun stuff to report, but I did weld a gas tank and lived to tell about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 08:59 PM (1z8ji)

184 Range Report!

Oh, yeah. I’m still down in southern RMBS land. No shooting right now.
And I still have to order a new BCG for the AR 10.
Probably arrive about the time certain people are in TX.
Yes. If you haven’t gone, get thee hence. You will not regret it. And we are less likely to make up stories about you.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 09:00 PM (Edxq2)

185 Punchcards? Wow, how does one glean the information from that?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:37 PM

I built a Hollerith card reader as part of the (then new) Computes Merit Badge requirements (in 1969 or 1970, IIRC).

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:00 PM (0sNs1)

186 And thanks guys. I will have to do the research and then send money and info to someone out of state. 10 rd mag limit here.

But. I think I can convince someone to order for me and mail to my place.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:03 PM (yEz+x)

187 168 whig, Ed L., I was hoping my son would jump on here. He had a question about the Mosin 7.62x49, I think. Wondering (partly) whether that caliber is around in other firearms.

He went a week or so ago and had his bachelor party at the range, and got to shoot one.
Posted by: GWB

As said above, Mosins are either 7.62x54r (the r stands for rimmed btw) or the Finns used a 7.62x53r for a time. Finns did put some 308 barrels on their Mosin receivers post WWII for a little extra accuracy which is why the variance in ammo.

I am wondering if he meant a 7.62x39 which is the Russian AK and SKS round.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:03 PM (E4rtv)

188 10 rd mag limit here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:03 PM

Two words: Free state.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:05 PM (0sNs1)

189 169 If you are a big guy, it is way less likely someone would try and take a gun away from you but if you look like me, you hve to worry about that. This is why carrying in a purse, backpack, or any type of bag where someone could just come a nd cut it and run off. The Bodyguard is the first one I think I could legitimately hide and still be able to get it even if approached from very close by.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice}
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Smart. But, there are some purses, backpacks, and other bags that actually have steel cable inside. Apparently a common Euro thing is to use a razor to cut the purse strap, backpack strap, etc. to steal it. A steel cable/strap inside prevents that.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:06 PM (E4rtv)

190 Two words: Free state.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:05 PM
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Three words: deep fried bacon.

Posted by: TRex - culinary dino at September 13, 2026 09:06 PM (XfIK1)

191 10 rd mag limit here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:03 PM

Two words: Free state.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:05 PM (0sNs1)

Two words: New Hampshire.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 09:06 PM (Edxq2)

192 Good evening to all the GunHorde and thank you to Weasel. No shooting but a vacation visit to the Military Museum of Aviation near Virginia Beach. Great day, highly recommended.

Posted by: Coelacanth at September 13, 2026 09:06 PM (HWiXl)

193 Time for me to punch out.

Thanks for another great Gub Thread, Weasel!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 09:09 PM (84gkw)

194 188 10 rd mag limit here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:03 PM

Two words: Free state.
Posted by: Duncanthrax


Two words

I love where I live and I’m not leaving.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:11 PM (yEz+x)

195 Nurse, are you OK w/ a handoff in TX?

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 09:12 PM (wXqZT)

196 FWIW, the ancient 7.62x54r is chambered in some European sport bolt actions as it is a good hunting round and on par with the 7.62 x 51 (Win 30 in the US. They made carbines in the T38 and T44 but the recoil can be kind of brutal on those Mosins. The Mosin models are kind of like the SKS, made in a number of countries with USSR help. The SVT line and machine guns using that round are pretty much collector items but obtainable if you have enough cash.

The Dragunov 7.62x54r semi auto models from Southern European states like Romania and I think Zastava in former Yugoslavia, I think, are still around as semi autos for much less than the SVT line and far less than machine guns chambered in that round.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:12 PM (E4rtv)

197 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 09:09 PM (84gkw)
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Adios, RMBS!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 09:12 PM (TMF5Z)

198 Would truly love to attend the TxMoMe, but two points prevent it for now: one, while Mom is alive, it falls between her birthday and mine; two, can't use a firearm, because essential tremor is a BITCH. Once upon a time, targets feared my 9 mm Browning.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 09:12 PM (NcvvS)

199 Also time to bail.
Thx, boss, and congrats.

Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 09:14 PM (Edxq2)

200 198 Would truly love to attend the TxMoMe, but two points prevent it for now: one, while Mom is alive, it falls between her birthday and mine; two, can't use a firearm, because essential tremor is a BITCH. Once upon a time, targets feared my 9 mm Browning.
Posted by: Nazdar

I have some trembling too. Consider going to a gorilla grip rather than target grip. In other words, a combat grip where you grip as hard as you can and just back off a hair. Helps with me on controlling any trembling.

And some of that trembling can be from meds that can be changed. FIL had that problem with amiodarone to the extent he got diagnosed falsely with Parkinsons and worse yet treated with Parkinson's drugs by a idiotic neurologist. Took a trip to Emory to get that misdiagnosis fixed.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:16 PM (E4rtv)

201 >>Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 08:56 PM (yEz+x)

Nurse, that was possibly the greatest extended comment-rant in the history of this site. He has a spectacular way with words and that was an epic sequence.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 09:17 PM (NcvvS)

202 I have to sign off for tonight. Thanks for hosting, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 09:18 PM (wXqZT)

203 184 Range Report!

Oh, yeah. I’m still down in southern RMBS land. No shooting right now.
And I still have to order a new BCG for the AR 10.
Probably arrive about the time certain people are in TX.
Yes. If you haven’t gone, get thee hence. You will not regret it. And we are less likely to make up stories about you.
Posted by: RI Red
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Some deals on those if you go to CDNN Sports. They bought out Anderson's stock after Anderson got sold to Ruger including their 308 stuff. And their bolts should be compatible with PSA as both used the DPMS/LR308 pattern instead of the Armalite.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:19 PM (E4rtv)

204 195 Nurse, are you OK w/ a handoff in TX?
Posted by: Ed L

I will not be there this year Ed. But I very much appreciate the offer. I am grateful. Thank
You.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:19 PM (MBug/)

205 OK, all y'all. 9:20 thank you time.

Thank you!

Sure do appreciate your being here tonight and hope to see you a) next Sunday, and 2) in Texas!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 09:20 PM (TMF5Z)

206 Thanks Weasel for this thread and thanks to all the commenters who show up here and make it a special time.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:20 PM (E4rtv)

207 >>I love where I live and I’m not leaving.

fist bump

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)

208 Thanks, Weasel.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 09:21 PM (MEbkQ)

209 Posted by: YellowBird at September 13, 2026 09:21 PM (MEbkQ)
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My pleasure! Thanks for participating!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 09:22 PM (TMF5Z)

210 Nurse, that was possibly the greatest extended comment-rant in the history of this site. He has a spectacular way with words and that was an epic sequence.

Google isn't finding anything matching "ham fairy." Anything else that might be associated with it?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 09:23 PM (vTZFs)

211 >>Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:16 PM (E4rtv)

whig, the assholes who mal-diagnose Parkinson's over essential tremor - no words, they are opposite conditions. Meds do help, but, even with meds, I can't write a legible check.

Alcohol does better, but think my liver is more valuable.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 09:24 PM (NcvvS)

212 GWB, "7.62mm X 49" is coming up empty on my searches. Most Mosins produced were in 7.62mm X 54R. That round is still available, but a bit tough to find since a certain overseas fracas ended cheap surplus imports from its country of origin.
Posted by: Ed L at September 13, 2026 08:58 PM (wXqZT)

See? That's why I wanted him to get on here and ask.
Thanks.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 09:25 PM (kU0PQ)

213 Thanks and good night, Weasel. Congrats again and I hope we didn't take too much of your attention away from more important matters.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 09:25 PM (vTZFs)

214 And thanks to Weasel for the weekly fun, and everyone for being the bestest Horde imaginable!

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 09:26 PM (kU0PQ)

215 Hey, RI Red, if you want BCG parts check out KAK Industry. You can salvage just about any BCG. I'm cheap so I usually buy my BCG's from Delta Team Tactical.

Posted by: ck at September 13, 2026 09:26 PM (4L8YT)

216 Google isn't finding anything matching "ham fairy." Anything else that might be associated with it?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 09:23 PM
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Just curious...what comes up when you search "ham fairy"?

I would try myself, but only one of us needs to infect their google search history.

Posted by: TRex - not the ham fairy dino at September 13, 2026 09:26 PM (XfIK1)

217 This week, I have a couple of projects to finish. I have a VZ-24 that needs to have its barrel put on.

The Krag long stock requiring minimal fitting. And the GEW 88 needs to have an extractor fitted and some minor stock work.

Plus a 1916 No. 1 Mk 3 receiver that is getting an Indian .410 shotgun barrel. They used these modified Lee Enfields as one shot weapons for prison guards.

Basically I am trying to finish projects so I can sell off a big portion of my bolt rifle accumulation. Easier to sell a complete rifle than a collection of parts which I have accumulated for about two decades now.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:27 PM (E4rtv)

218 Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 08:59 PM (U/Byj)

Thanks to you, too!

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 09:27 PM (kU0PQ)

219 I am wondering if he meant a 7.62x39 which is the Russian AK and SKS round.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:03 PM (E4rtv)

He was absolutely positive about the Mosin part, unsure about the exact caliber.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 09:29 PM (kU0PQ)

220 whig, the assholes who mal-diagnose Parkinson's over essential tremor - no words, they are opposite conditions. Meds do help, but, even with meds, I can't write a legible check.

Alcohol does better, but think my liver is more valuable.
Posted by: Nazdar

Sorry to hear that. I did see recently though where they made some breakthrough on quelling hand tremors in the last two weeks. Wish I could recall where I saw it and the specifics but my mind is blank. New medicine mebbe. I get a lot of med info feeds into my X timeline and newsfeeds.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:29 PM (E4rtv)

221 >>Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:29 PM (E4rtv)

About a year ago, a newspaper article turned up about ablation in the brain, tightly focused on the area believed to be the source of the problem. How nice. It is what it is, amigo, and contributed to (slightly) early retirement.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 09:34 PM (NcvvS)

222 He was absolutely positive about the Mosin part, unsure about the exact caliber.
Posted by: GWB

Ok. I just looked up SVD/VEPR aka Dragunov and wow, they are pricey. Century Arms imported some semi autos that are teh cheapest of the lot and named them the PSL. Cheapest is about 1200 and they go way up from there.

I remember them going for a little more than 700-800 way back before TFG.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:34 PM (E4rtv)

223 Has anyone had contact with NZ Frank?

He’s a great guy. Really. He was in Corsicana, what, three years ago? And absolute gentleman and a pleasure to chat with.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:34 PM (yEz+x)

224 Just curious...what comes up when you search "ham fairy"?

It says it can't match the phrase and gives me some random set of stuff from either 2007 or 2026. I figured the former was more likely but nothing really matched at all.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 09:34 PM (vTZFs)

225 Does yours have the low profile safeties or the wing exaggerated type. Easy enough to do that job yourself if it has the latter. Langdon Tactical did also have some Beretta PX4 upgrade parts as well as Beretta if you wanted to upgrade the hammer assembly or other parts to match grade. Takes a punch and a little elbow grease to do it.
Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 08:31 PM (E4rtv)
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I bought my Beretta from Langdon Tactical. It's their G-SD model with the carry decocker levers. No drag at all during the draw. It also has the Grey Guns flat trigger and the Ameriglo tritium sights.

I bought the Falco A914 holster. That worked perfectly out of the box.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 09:35 PM (rj6Yv)

226 Two words

I love where I live and I’m not leaving.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:11 PM

I know there's no math on the blog, but that seems like it's ((5**5)/5)*2 words.

Did you know bats live a long time?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:37 PM (0sNs1)

227 He was absolutely positive about the Mosin part, unsure about the exact caliber.
Posted by: GWB

I have two of the long rifles, refused to get any of the carbines. The recoil is not bad in a good stock but Mosin stocks frankly suck and I would recommend putting a limbsaver slip on recoil pad as they are narrow rifle butts with steel buttplates and that concentrates recoil rather than spreading it like a fatter butt on a rifle stock would. The carbines are just unpleasant.

FWIW, the Russians zeroed most of these rifles with their bayonet attached and that usually means rezeroing them by adjusting the iron sights or shooting them with the bayonet on.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:37 PM (E4rtv)

228 Thanks Horde and thank you Weasel! Looking forward to TX.

Posted by: TRex - fundamental ham dino at September 13, 2026 09:37 PM (XfIK1)

229 Posted by: TRex - fundamental ham dino at September 13, 2026 09:37 PM (XfIK1)
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Absolutely!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 09:39 PM (leKdc)

230 Did you know bats live a long time?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Sorry, but definitely no bats on this thread....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 09:39 PM (XfIK1)

231 and a pleasure to chat with.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 09:34 PM

Yeah, until you state he prefers Australian beer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:39 PM (0sNs1)

232 I bought my Beretta from Langdon Tactical. It's their G-SD model with the carry decocker levers. No drag at all during the draw. It also has the Grey Guns flat trigger and the Ameriglo tritium sights.

I bought the Falco A914 holster. That worked perfectly out of the box.
Posted by: mrp

Nice. I had to retrofit my PX4 safety with the low profile one as the wings on the safety dug in the skin when carrying strong side IWB. Also have the parts to change it over to decock only which I might do it if I ever carried it again. I have the upgraded hammer and strut unit from Beretta as they clearanced a lot of PX4 parts several years ago and used the Beretta 92 D spring which helps a bit on trigger pull.

I'd imagine that Langdon already did those for you. But it reminds me that I might want to pick up new night sights. The Compact version that I have uses unique sights that only Langdon used to keep in stock or you had to order and wait from Trujicon.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:42 PM (E4rtv)

233 Sorry, but definitely no bats on this thread....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 09:39 PM

And what about those polymorphically-perverse mephitic menaces?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:43 PM (0sNs1)

234 I bought my Beretta from Langdon Tactical. It's their G-SD model with the carry decocker levers. No drag at all during the draw. It also has the Grey Guns flat trigger and the Ameriglo tritium sights.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 09:35 PM (rj6Yv)

I had a bunch of work done on my H&K USP, and it was a tossup between Langdon and Grey Guns.

I chose Gray Guns, and while it was stupidly expensive, they sent me back a gem. Unbelievable work!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 09:48 PM (k5CNB)

235 Little purchased his first legal cigar upon his 21st birthday this past week, a Padron 1964 anniversary. He chose wisely. Tonight he burned a Romeo y Julieta mini while dad opted for the Avo Synchro box pressed robusto. A good start to the new week...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 09:49 PM (nbLIj)

236 Sorry, but definitely no bats on this thread....
Posted by: The Grateful

Bringing a bat to a gunfight isn't much brighter than bringing a knife to one.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 09:51 PM (VHUov)

237 >>Just curious...what comes up when you search "ham fairy"?

Tried searching the site with the 'site:acecomments.mu.nu' specification, but no dice. It was around Thanksgiving, 3-4 years ago, and regret not saving the page. Truly epic.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 09:51 PM (NcvvS)

238 And what about those polymorphically-perverse mephitic menaces?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 09:43 PM (0sNs1)
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This is an outrage and there will be repercussions. Repercussions!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front Legal Foundation and Sardine Parlor LLC at September 13, 2026 09:52 PM (RIvkX)

239 Welp, I wish everyone left a good evening.

Posted by: whig at September 13, 2026 09:52 PM (E4rtv)

240 And what about those polymorphically-perverse mephitic menaces?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Whoa, that's an entirely different thread topic.....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 13, 2026 09:53 PM (XfIK1)

241 Sorry, but definitely no bats on this thread....
Posted by: The Grateful

Bringing a bat to a gunfight isn't much brighter than bringing a knife to one.
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 09:51 PM (VHUov)

Well, if it's a blood-sucking one, and you manage to get it off before your opponent can clear leather (and he isn't wearing a garlic garland), it might work....

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 09:54 PM (kU0PQ)

242 This thread always makes me with we could get to Texas this year. this year.. this year...

Posted by: mindful webworker - participating proportionally at September 13, 2026 09:55 PM (4lnVb)

243 Tried searching the site with the 'site:acecomments.mu.nu' specification,

That's what I did although I don't imagine that there would be tons of hits from other sites for that exact phrase either.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 09:56 PM (vTZFs)

244 4 minutes to OTR. Guidance and power is internal ….

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 09:56 PM (rQ950)

245 Behold the famous "ham fairy" thread:

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397007

Posted by: TRex - archival dino at September 13, 2026 09:58 PM (XfIK1)

246 >>That's what I did although I don't imagine that there would be tons of hits from other sites for that exact phrase either.

Hard to imagine that 'Ham Fairy' has ever been used as a phrase before. BDD has a gift for words, indeed.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 09:58 PM (NcvvS)

247 >>Behold the famous "ham fairy" thread:

Thank you, Dino!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:00 PM (NcvvS)

248 And, ONT upstairs!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:00 PM (NcvvS)

249 Dug a little deeper - this may be the first "ham fairy" post.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=393484

Posted by: TRex - archival dino at September 13, 2026 10:04 PM (XfIK1)

Food Thread: Social Media Recipes And Blending Bourbon...The End Of Our Civilization?

Strata26.jpg

Strata....breakfast casserole...savory bread pudding...

Whatever you want to call it, it is easy, can feed a large number of people, and best of all can be made in advance! Because I was a bit tired of cooking after Rosh Hashanah dinner, and I knew that I would have to feed a gaggle the next morning.

But what was the impetus for making this particular dish? Well! I had it at a friends' home last month, and it was delicious! Actually, I think hers was better than mine, but in my defense it was my first attempt, so I have an excuse.

My next version will be a bit different...I think I used too much bread and not enough egg, and I laid the sour cream on top a bit too thick. I also might sneak some bacon into the recipe, because...well...BACON!

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Social Media is in many ways a tremendously corrosive influence on our culture, in particular its ability to magnify trivial, tiny trends into seemingly massive movements. And don't get me started on its destruction of our attention spans!

One thing I am unsure about though, is the explosion in cooking reels and videos. On one hand, it sure is fun to see other people's culinary creations. On the other hand, a lot of those people are shitty cooks but better videographers, so their crap food looks halfway appetizing.

The younger brat saw a recipe for potatoes on her social media feed, and demanded that we (she) make it for Rosh Hashanah. And I will freely admit that it was good! Not great, and it definitely needs work, but it's a good start.

But they looked spectacular in the video!

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I like Bourbon! And it is a broad category of spirit, so there are styles for pretty much everyone in every price category. But $100 for a bottle is a lot of money, and it had better be something damned special.

This New $100 Bourbon Blends 3 of Kentucky's Most Coveted Whiskeys in One Bottle

This makes me suspicious that it is a marketing ploy rather than an honest attempt at making something special. Why tempt fate with three popular whiskeys in one bottle? That sounds like it could turn out to be a muddy mess without any character.

******

And speaking of booze marketing!
Here's a serious question. Why would anyone pay a premium for vodka? Any flavor is distilled out of it by design. That's why you can make it with just about any vegetation that can be fermented. It's essentially an alcoholic additive for juices and liqueurs. It's a commodity.

Grey Goose? It's for suckers and poseurs.

CHANGE MY MIND

-- Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 06, 2026 04:36 PM (vRDYl)

I think this is a very good point, and one that we have discussed in the past. I do think that there are minor differences between the various starches that different companies use to make their vodka, and someone with a good palate can probably detect the difference. But I agree that it doesn't translate into quality differences!

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Here's a dish from my youth, and one that I am immensely pleased I no longer have to eat! Classic Stuffed Peppers just doesn't make any sense. The texture of the cooked pepper isn't particularly pleasant when left whole, and it doesn't add anything to the dish other than a sturdy vessel in which to put some boring filling.

Why?

Now...get off my lawn!

******

Don't show these to CBD.

Deep Fried Cat Food

NyQuil Chicken

Okay, you can show them to CBD but make sure any weapons are out of reach.

-- Posted by: Robert at September 06, 2026 06:02 PM (ERsao)
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Chewie2026.jpg

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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!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM




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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qEb4U)

2 My cousin brought over pulled pork, had coleslaw, potato salad

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:05 PM (qEb4U)

3 I called em, can't make them comment

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:05 PM (qEb4U)

4 Because I was a bit tired of cooking after Rosh Hashanah dinner, and I knew that I would have to feed a gaggle the next morning.
...
I think I used too much bread and not enough egg, and I laid the sour cream on top a bit too thick. I also might sneak some bacon into the recipe, because...well...BACON!

Far be it from me to play food police, but that doesn't sound particularly kosher...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (anFBA)

5 I make stuffed bell peppers all the time.. The key is to pre cook the peppers until they are somewhat soft.... If you don't when the dish is done the peppers will be too crisp..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (+gK6I)

6 CBD try using cheddar cheese instead of the sour cream. Add crumbled sausage instead of bacon.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (lJ0H4)

7 Mom made porcupine stuffed bell peppers. just add rice to your mix.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 04:07 PM (NnhvP)

8 A hundred bucks for what is essentially a blend? This makes me suspicious that it is a marketing ploy rather than an honest attempt at making something special. I concur!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 04:07 PM (2WIwB)

9 I am delighted that stuffed peppers were never a thing at my house. Same with stuffed cabbage. We had ground beef--a LOT! Because we raised it. But never had to have it in that fashion.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 04:08 PM (CjHsb)

10 Deep Fried Cat Food

NyQuil Chicken

the former I can almost understand - it's at least half likely to have meat of some sort in it. A pound of hamburger would still be cheaper.

The latter must be a troll. You cannot taste nyquil and think it would be a good marinade (or whatever) for anything.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 04:08 PM (anFBA)

11 Dunno CBD, the stuffed peppers kinda tickle my fancy so long as the heat isn't overwhelming the meat and cheese.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 04:10 PM (aJQbY)

12 Thx for the stuffed bell pepper recipe!

I have a huge crop of the most delicious bell peppers in my garden, starting to turn red.

Perfect timing.

My mom used to make them when I was a child. I could not stomach the smell. Now?

I'm ready for them now... my taste buds changed somehow. Mystery.

Posted by: Derak at September 13, 2026 04:10 PM (xVvka)

13 BLENDED bourbon?? So whiskey, then...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:11 PM (nbLIj)

14 Dad like to drink Georgia Moon, I think it had no redeeming qualities beyond 80 proof.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:12 PM (rbvCR)

15 There's a recipe for a similar dish in an ancient cookbook with the title "Recipes for Brides and Other Handicapped People." The writer was, yes, handicapped.

That's our Christmas morning breakfast, along with Christmas tree cinnamon rolls.

I wonder if Stephen Three Name Cookbook Person has a copy?

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 04:12 PM (WBjaU)

16 I suspect that Kentucky Boy Bourbon is actually a mash up (SWIDT) of degraded, or let's say; less than optimal barrels from the distillery.

It happens. Barrells for one reason or another age poorly. I'd assume the distillery would rather do something creative with them, than lose money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:14 PM (2Cry5)

17 Today I saw Angel's Envy on sale for under $40, so maybe the bourbon glut has finally hit my local ABC at least..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:14 PM (nbLIj)

18 I'm about to make an asparagus Grueyer frittata for my friend who just had a double mastectomy.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 13, 2026 04:15 PM (VCgbV)

19
5 I make stuffed bell peppers all the time.. The key is to pre cook the peppers until they are somewhat soft.... If you don't when the dish is done the peppers will be too crisp..
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM

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I make stuffed peppers, and pre-cook the peppers. Everybody loves them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 04:15 PM (mS8PE)

20 CBD try using cheddar cheese instead of the sour cream.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (lJ0H4)

There was a ton of cheese in this thing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (k5CNB)

21 I tend to agree about vodka. The best I've ever had was Russian Standard Platinum. Inexpensive ($25/l, cheaper before the invasion), nearly tasteless and had no scent I could discern. I like potato distilled, but that 's a tiny distinction.

Posted by: Lemmy at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (kyjmO)

22 >>>Here's a dish from my youth, and one that I am immensely pleased I no longer have to eat! Classic Stuffed Peppers just doesn't make any sense.

They're yummy! Like Mom made!
And stuffed tomatoes, too!
Mom basically stuffed them both with creole rice. Stretttccchhh that food budget.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (odBC9)

23 of course, where Dad bought Georgia Moon, I buy Monarch Rum, it is one step above ValuRite because the distillers want repeat customers for some reason.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

24 15 Christmas tree cinnamon rolls
Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 04:12 PM (WBjaU)

Yum!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:18 PM (odBC9)

25 Hello Foodsters,

Cheesy Breakfast thing looks like it would be good as game day munching as well.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 04:20 PM (qQfd5)

26 Didn't someone here share the Fat Files Utube of the marketing genius behind Grey Goose? His first successful op was in making Jaegermeister a thing.

https://youtu.be/0nmPEUsGNyk

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:22 PM (nbLIj)

27 I think I'm going to smoke some chicken thighs tonight. We've got some leftover rice that needs to be eaten, so chicken sounds good with that.

But, first, Bourbon. Not that silly mash up Kentucky Boy shit either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:24 PM (2Cry5)

28 Diced NOT sliced! Because it makes a difference.

Rules, people! Go by the rules! What do you mean you don't have any sage? Were you not told to stock up on the last food thread?! It's like I'm talking to myself........

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xJpuh)

29 NyQuil Chicken is only good as an Alt Country band name.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:25 PM (kpS4V)

30 It happens. Barrels for one reason or another age poorly. I'd assume the distillery would rather do something creative with them, than lose money.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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[tries to imagine the flavor of bourbon aged in the AOSHQ barrel]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:26 PM (XeU6L)

31 I bet Tony Romo is getting plastered watching the game.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 04:26 PM (rzEIv)

32 I'm currently in a lamb shawarma coma. Leftovers galore from the restaurant.

I also have leftover Korean crockpot beef (gochujang, baby!) and a pint of mulligatawny soup I made. Good eats all week.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:28 PM (kpS4V)

33 I suspect that Kentucky Boy Bourbon is actually a mash up (SWIDT) of degraded, or let's say; less than optimal barrels from the distillery.

But not even necessarily lower quality, maybe just more production than they want to put out in the market under their premium brand name. Too much availability and you risk hurting your snob appeal. I'm sure they all have MBAs who spend countless hours sweating over spreadsheets to find the precise market volume to maximize profits.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 04:30 PM (vTZFs)

34 Tonight is pickle juice chicken.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 04:30 PM (rzEIv)

35 "That's our Christmas morning breakfast, along with Christmas tree cinnamon rolls."

Mom always made a breakfast casserole on Christmas morning. Bread. Milk, eggs, Swiss cheese, sausage and some dried mustard. I know I have the recipe somewhere but I'll be darned if I can find it.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:30 PM (lJ0H4)

36 I never cared for the stuffed peppers that my mother made--overcooked peppers and underseasoned meat--but I've been enjoying Once Upon a Chef's recipe for the last year. And, yes, she precooks the peppers. Seasoning is good but I think the trick may be adding cheese to the filling as well as using it for a topping.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 13, 2026 04:31 PM (H8nu1)

37 [tries to imagine the flavor of bourbon aged in the AOSHQ barrel]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:26 PM (XeU6L)
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Some hipster would detect notes of hobo, Sterno, and the shame of unclosed italics.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:31 PM (kpS4V)

38 I do think that there are minor differences between the various starches that different companies use to make their vodka, and someone with a good palate can probably detect the difference. But I agree that it doesn't translate into quality differences!

Concur, concur, concur.

Three concurrences? This CBD fellow is turning out to be an even finer fellow that I had previously supposed. If only we could ameliorate this unfortunate peccadillo of dissing maple syrup on French Toast, he might possibly graduate into being a sterling chap!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 04:32 PM (0sNs1)

39 There was a ton of cheese in this thing!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Well it looks and sounds delish!

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:33 PM (lJ0H4)

40 Cat food is bad for humans. It has excess carnitine, something cats need and humans do not. We synthesize our own, so excess carnitine can cause problems for humans.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2026 04:33 PM (D7w1V)

41
Yeah, vodka's made from rye or potatoes or whatever will give you a different taste if you drink it plain.

But, if you mix it with something or make cocktails, well..don't buy headache inducing garbage. Something like Tito
's is just fine.

Although...

I saw some "premium" vodka that was distilled 5X.
So, it truly probably tasted like nothing but ethanol.

I suspect you could make vodka from cat poop that would taste just fine if you distilled it 5X.

Just beware of the garnish used in your Cat Poop Vodka Martini!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:34 PM (iJfKG)

42 Three concurrences? This CBD fellow is turning out to be an even finer fellow that I had previously supposed. If only we could ameliorate this unfortunate peccadillo of dissing maple syrup on French Toast, he might possibly graduate into being a sterling chap!
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Speaking of maple syrup, Chick-Fil-A has a new sandwich. Their filet topped with bacon between two maple flavored waffles. Served with maple syrup. I do need to try it before it goes away.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:38 PM (lJ0H4)

43 I got nothing enough for supper, unless I want to pair 1 small lamb chop with one small piece of pizza and half a baked potato.
But I do have eggs, bacon and with that half potato, home fries. I see where I'm heading, breakfast for supper.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 04:38 PM (sl73Y)

44 AZ deplorable- I assume quills are somehow removed, right?

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

45
Last night, I whipped up some BBQ'd Brisket Enchiliadas for the game.

They were excellent and stupidly easy make..

I recommend that everyone make them from their BBQ'd brisket leftovers.

You're welcome!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:40 PM (iJfKG)

46 Bowl of clam chowder and some crackers and cheese for dinner tonight. Not in the mood to cook.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:40 PM (lJ0H4)

47
I see NyQuil Chicken as being like Chicken and Waffles with the NyQuil acting as the maple syrup.

I think I read that's on Chik-Fil-A's Secret Menu.

Give it a whirl with their Peach Shake!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:43 PM (iJfKG)

48 I see where I'm heading, breakfast for supper.
Posted by: From about That Time
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A tradition at Ft. Hammer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:43 PM (XeU6L)

49 Sour cream in a strata sounds...interesting. Being only myself and Little, strata opportunities don't often present themselves at Casa Sin Problemas. This is a weak excuse though, as the recipe can be portioned and frozen, so that one simply refrigerates overnight to make it ready for next morning's breakfast. Will have to scratch that itch in the coming weeks.

Most basic stratas call for milk or cream, or a combination of the two. Maybe you can get away with plain yogurt, if you're into that kind of thing. Usually ten slices of bread with six or seven eggs, (jumbo vs extra large). The most memorable strata I ever had included smoked salmon...I'm getting a little verklempt just thinking about it. Talk amongst yourselves...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:44 PM (nbLIj)

50 Rules, people! Go by the rules! What do you mean you don't have any sage? Were you not told to stock up on the last food thread?! It's like I'm talking to myself........
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xJpuh)

I thought we were supposed to stock up on Ammo and practice our cooking fundamentals. Did I do that backwards?

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 04:45 PM (qQfd5)

51 I see where I'm heading, breakfast for supper.
Posted by: From about That Time
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A tradition at Ft. Hammer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

My son's favorite school cafeteria lunch. Breakfast for lunch.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:45 PM (lJ0H4)

52 "I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance." -- Steven Wright

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:45 PM (kpS4V)

53 That breakfast dish looks yummy! I usually make something similar for Christmas morning. Easy and tasty and is enjoyed by all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 04:46 PM (yEz+x)

54 All Hail Eris, I saw yesterday on the garden thread that you are interested in a fig tree in a pot, and I would like to offer unsolicited advice, please.

I have had excellent luck with the smallest size fig trees from Logees, specifically Chicago Hardy. They fruited the first season I had them, which is way fun. They are grafted so they stay smaller and fruit earlier. But I'm learning that figs do not like overhead watering and they eventually died on me. (My current Beer's Black was heavily discounted at Lowe's due to overhead watering damage, but it's looking much better now so I think it will be okay.)

Also, I have heard that Brown Turkey is disappointing even though it is among the hardiest figs. I guess it doesn't taste as good as other varieties.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 13, 2026 04:46 PM (OlzlW)

55 AZ deplorable- I assume quills are somehow removed, right?
Posted by: Skip

The rice were the splines.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (NnhvP)

56 Something like Tito's is just fine.
****

Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)

57 If only we could ameliorate this unfortunate peccadillo of dissing maple syrup on French Toast, he might possibly graduate into being a sterling chap!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 04:32 PM (0sNs1)

Dropped on his head as a child and his face landed in some maple syrup on the floor, obviously.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

58 We usually have breakfast for dinner once a month.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 04:50 PM (rzEIv)

59 The NyQuil chicken guy also made Fish Oil Pills Steak so he's definitely a trolling madman.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

60 I spent the last 2 days processing food. Well fruits and veggies.

I have 5 HUGE bowls of salads - Chinese Cabbage, green peppers, onions and tomatoes. I finished off the 25lbs of Roma tomatoes but my friends are away and told me to collect stuff from their garden and I have a ton more tomatoes, which is great. Raw, nothing fancy.

I just cut up a HUGE 18 pound watermelon so I'll be having that over the next three days or so. It's nearing the end of the season so what the heck.

And I cut up some of the carrots - 10 pounds and some of the 20 pounds of beets I have in the basement. Those are my snacks for the next several weeks.

I'm actually going to be cooking bacon later today. Kind of the first time. Mom handled cooking. But I never needed much. I'm fine with fruits, veggies, nuts, yogurt, canned sardines, boiled chicken, cereal etc.

I'm apparently pretty easy to feed. Which is fine.
I'm happy with it.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 04:52 PM (Sco7b)

61 Fast Facts: Kentucky Boy

ABV: 50%
Maturation: Kentucky Boy is a bespoke bourbon blend developed by Elizabeth McCall and Caleb Trigo. It marries Woodford Reserve Double Oaked, Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, and King of Kentucky. It’s a non-age-stated whiskey, and the exact proportions of the blend remain undisclosed.
...
Brand tasting notes for Kentucky Boy highlight a nose rich in chocolate, toasted hazelnut, Luxardo cherry, nutmeg, and fresh-baked apple pie. The palate opens with “crisp ginger snap cookie and stewed apples,” then moves to sweet charred oak and baking spices. A long, sweet finish ends with dark cherries, golden raisins, and hickory smoke.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

62 We off and on have breakfast for dinner. Eggs, either sausage or bacon, hash browns or biscuits and gravy.

Occasionally all of the above.

Morning shits are epic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:55 PM (2Cry5)

63 >>Mom always made a breakfast casserole on Christmas morning. Bread. Milk, eggs, Swiss cheese, sausage and some dried mustard. I know I have the recipe somewhere but I'll be darned if I can find it.

My sister makes a similar one. It's delicious.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

64 Is that bourbon or dessert?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

65 "Brand tasting notes for Kentucky Boy highlight a nose rich in..."

It's booze not a dang salad.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 04:57 PM (MWfyi)

66 I'm actually going to be cooking bacon later today. Kind of the first time.
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What??

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 04:57 PM (uozx9)

67 As a frequent consumer of vodka, to me the quality difference is not one of flavor, but of smoothness. I can easily tell the difference from Skol, to Titos, to Grey Goose, to Ciroc. Particularly in a Martini.

And I used to precook my peppers for stuffed peppers, but then I realized it was the dirty rice I really wanted, and stopped bothering with the peppers.

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at September 13, 2026 04:58 PM (C1NyB)

68 It's booze not a dang salad.

Anyone who writes like that is getting paid for it one way or another. Which is not necessarily a slam, just something to keep in mind.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 04:59 PM (vTZFs)

69 Nothing wrong with breakfast for dinner.
Ham and eggs, omelettes and hash browns, eggs, sausage and Belgian waffles, French toast, English Muffins.

American breakfast has a a lot to offer.
Especially if you don't like vegetables.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

70 CBD, I have to say, that the RMBS Mom makes fantastic stuffed peppers and tomatoes. Made a batch just the other day, in fact, with the garden tomatoes.

But I'm with you on the current sad state of collar stays.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 05:00 PM (84gkw)

71 Emmie, thanks for the info. I'm writing this down in my garden journal.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 05:00 PM (kpS4V)

72 I like stuffed peppers, but I prefer stuffed zucchini. We had it last night.

Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:01 PM (y687V)

73 If I had some stuffed peppers right now I would eat them, precooked peppers or not. The best ones I ever had were at a little place that's not there anymore. You need some fried cornbread to go with them.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:01 PM (MWfyi)

74 All Hail Eris, hope it turns out to be helpful.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 13, 2026 05:02 PM (OlzlW)

75 I like stuffed peppers, but I prefer stuffed zucchini. We had it last night.
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:01 PM

Stuffed zucchini is also a thing. Eggplants, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 05:03 PM (84gkw)

76 Stateless, I must admit some jealousy of the food haul. Not enough to trade countries, but...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (aJQbY)

77 I've never had any bourbon that tasted like chocolate. Possibly because I never expected it to taste like chocolate, much less golden raisins.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (MWfyi)

78 >>If only we could ameliorate this unfortunate peccadillo of dissing maple syrup on French Toast, he might possibly graduate into being a sterling chap!

When my folks had their farm in Vermont they had an agreement with a local farmer to allow him to tap their maples in exchange for some of his final product.

Fall Sunday mornings my dad would make waffles with sausage from a local farmer and of course maple syrup everywhere. I've already been to heaven.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)

79 Blending bourbon is how you ruin bourbon. Seagrams did this already when they owned Four Roses. The fuckers.

Keep it neat, keep it safe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:05 PM (xcxpd)

80 To be honest I don't leave bourbon in my mouth long enough to savor the flavor.

I've had some hat were pretty smooth that I could slow down with but generally it's a down the hatch kinda thing for me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)

81
Food adjacent-

I saw a guy yesterday eating a hamburger as his Tesla Y L(?) drove him (I assume) on the tollway yesterday.

Kinda neat.

I more or less assume all cars/trucks will have that ability in 5 years or less.

You'll even be able to eat your French Toast with Maple Syrup with knife and fork as you speed along the highways and byways of America.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (iJfKG)

82 You people give CBD a hard time about maple syrup, but I prefer to think he is misguided, like people who prefer Ginger and 9mm.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (MWfyi)

83 >>But they looked spectacular in the video!




Heh, yeah, except for those obvious trailer trash "recipes" where they get out a big aluminum pan and make a casserole by layering things like chicken nuggets, Velveeta, onion rings, salsa, and then corn flakes + 2 sticks of butter!

*I made that up, but you know those ghastly reels. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (rOKnE)

84 I agree about your vodka comment with one exception. I recently discovered Kástra Elión Greek vodka with olives. Ice cold with smoked salmon is divine.

Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:08 PM (y687V)

85 I can tell the difference between top shelf vodka and...not. But I can't tell mid-tier apart from cheap.

A really good vodka has a subtle flavor and a viscosity to it, not to say oiliness.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

86 82 You people give CBD a hard time about maple syrup, but I prefer to think he is misguided, like people who prefer Ginger and 9mm.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (MWfyi)

Hey! I resemble that remark....

I just shoot 9mm faster. If I have to run a Dicken drill, my .45 groups and times are way worse than with any of my 9mm hole punchers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:10 PM (xcxpd)

87 My mom, before she passed, was making eggplant fries for several years.

Cut them like french fries and fry them up in a skillet.
They'd were rather good, if you like the taste of eggplant, that is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

88 as for Ginger....rowr. Damn fine body on that girl. Damn fine.

Personality, I'm a Mary Ann man. But for messing up some sheets, Ginger any day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

89 56 Something like Tito's is just fine.
****

Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)

I use Tito's for spaghetti alla vodka for just that reason.

Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (y687V)

90 Fall Sunday mornings my dad would make waffles with sausage from a local farmer and of course maple syrup everywhere. I've already been to heaven.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)

Fresh is always better, isn't it?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

91 "A really good vodka has a subtle flavor and a viscosity to it, not to say oiliness.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards"

Nyet. Some of best wodka come from aircraft.

Posted by: A Russian Airman at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (MWfyi)

92 I'm going through a waffle phase. This morning I used a buttermilk scratch recipe. Much superior to the Krusteaz add milk and egg boxed mix.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (RIvkX)

93 Got me a rocky patel lb1 and a casa dragones añejo.

....

Maybe that's more appropriate for the gun thread, not the food Thread.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (Ot/FD)

94 91 "A really good vodka has a subtle flavor and a viscosity to it, not to say oiliness.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards"

Nyet. Some of best wodka come from aircraft.
Posted by: A Russian Airman at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (MWfyi)

lol

I almost feel bad for Russians...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (xcxpd)

95 >>Nothing wrong with breakfast for dinner.


. . . or dinner for breakfast!

With a lot of family in town for the funeral, we had 'em all over one night for dinner. I got some prepared quiches and greek salads at Wholefoods, baked/sliced chicken breasts, and an assortment of pies. This worked well as leftovers for the next few days - quiche and/or pie for breakfast! Greek salad w/chicken for dinner.
Breakfast pie is usually only a Thanksgiving leftover treat, but it really worked for this sad time as well.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (rOKnE)

96 Sure, MAE. Save it for the gun thread.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (MWfyi)

97 Titos is for you want to know you're drinking vodka.

I like it all the same.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (Ot/FD)

98 chicken nuggets, Velveeta, onion rings, salsa, and then corn flakes + 2 sticks of butter!
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That might not be too bad, actually. Saturate the corn flakes with the butter, along with garlic/salt/onion/etc, and brown at the very end under the boiler, for a little cruncy garlicky goodness on top.

Making this now....

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (uozx9)

99 76 Stateless, I must admit some jealousy of the food haul. Not enough to trade countries, but...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (aJQbY

I'm in a farming community and it's August, September and I love fruits and veggies and a good deal.

I did go to Costco in my part of Canada and didn't notice any price increases but my diets pretty standard. So I don't know how the trade war is affecting us yet.

By the way, you're all in a trade war with Canada.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)

100 Much superior to the Krusteaz add milk and egg boxed mix.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (RIvkX)

When my mom got on a waffle kick about twenty years ago and wanted to make them once a week that's the brand she used.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

101 I sure served some meatballs.

Posted by: Deshaun Watson at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (88C+u)

102 Swedish meatballs for dinner tonight. By the next food thread, god only knows how many nasty Icelandic foods I’ll have eaten. I’ll eat anything but my mom and SiL are very unadventurous eaters.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (FBc7c)

103 >>Making this now....
Posted by: Common Tater


Should toss in some tater tots!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (rOKnE)

104 >>Fresh is always better, isn't it?

Indescribably better.

Honestly, it helps to eat maple syrup when you are sitting in the mountains.

Also great, baked brie with maple syrup and pecans.

I'm gonna need a moment. I feel a Homer coming on.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:16 PM (viF8m)

105 There was a rick house (where Bourbon barrels are aged) that suffered a structural failure a couple years ago. IOW, it collapsed. Well, part of it did. These rick houses are 3, 4, sometimes 5 stories.

Millions of gallons of aging Bourbon flowed into a nearby stream. It was considered a hazmat scene.

But there are rumors of some bootleg Bourbon that was "harvested" from that spill.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:16 PM (2Cry5)

106 I've never had a problem driving myself down the freeway as i eat a cheeseburger and fries.

And i used to drive stick, too

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:16 PM (Ot/FD)

107
I've never had any bourbon that tasted like chocolate. Possibly because I never expected it to taste like chocolate, much less golden raisins.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (MWfyi)

If you'd like to try a whiskey with definite chocolate/cocao tones in its taste.

Try Balcones Texas Rye Cask Strength.

You can also use it to make a sort of dessert manhattan with a shake of Cherry Bitters.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (iJfKG)

108 Breakfast pie is usually only a Thanksgiving leftover treat, but it really worked for this sad time as well.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (rOKnE)

I like a good quiche, especially the savory, meaty, cheesesy kind.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

109 You'll even be able to eat your French Toast with Maple Syrup with knife and fork as you speed along the highways and byways of America.

We have forfeited any claim to be a serious nation and will deserve whatever we eventually get.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)

110 Fast Facts: Kentucky Boy
It marries Woodford Reserve Double Oaked, Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, and King of Kentucky. It’s a non-age-stated whiskey, and the exact proportions of the blend remain undisclosed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

WRDO: $50/bottle
OFBB: several hundred/bottle
KoK: more than OFBB

So I'd say the "exact proportions" will line up with a Churchill martini; pour the gin (Woodford) while looking longingly at the vermouth (OFBB & KoK).

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 05:19 PM (VHUov)

111 We have forfeited any claim to be a serious nation and will deserve whatever we eventually get.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)

And let's not even get into TikTok.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

112 Millions of gallons of aging Bourbon flowed into a nearby stream. It was considered a hazmat scene.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

The rick house, just letting it all hang out.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 05:20 PM (XvL8K)

113 ‘ This makes me suspicious that it is a marketing ploy rather than an honest attempt at making something special.’

Total marketing gimmick, as sadly much of modern whisky marketing is. A lot of whisky is blended, so this might be pretty good, but blending is for the lower market and generally dulls the flavor.

I shudder to think of what my 3 fav single-malts all mixed together would taste like. No way would he be better than any one of the three by itself.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:21 PM (FBc7c)

114 A waffle maker in a Tesla is doable. There has to be coffee too. I'm not sure about the bacon.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:21 PM (MWfyi)

115 The rick house, just letting it all hang out.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 05:20 PM (XvL8K)

She mighty mighty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:21 PM (Ot/FD)

116 I can definitely tell the differences in vodka... Cheap stuff has a harsh taste... Costco has a good French vodka for 23 dollars for the big one... Of course we are primarily vodka/Gin drinkers.. No Bourbon or whiskey... Occasional Brandy

Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 13, 2026 05:22 PM (+gK6I)

117 > I've never had a problem driving myself down the freeway as i eat a cheeseburger and fries.

And i used to drive stick, too
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Left out smoking a joint and cradling a beer between your legs.

Not that I'd know anything about that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)

118 >>Millions of gallons of aging Bourbon flowed into a nearby stream. It was considered a hazmat scene.


Cocaine Bear vs. Bourbon Bobcat?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (rOKnE)

119 Mythbusters did a whole thing about "can cheap vodka be made better by carbon filtering." Not being a vodka drinker, I don't remember the outcome.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (vTZFs)

120 Sounds like what my kids used to do at the drink fountain and mix Coke, Mountain Dew, and Fanta Orange.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (MWfyi)

121 Suspected best vodka would be like better Scotch but never had expensive vodka

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM (Ia/+0)

122 You'll even be able to eat your French Toast with Maple Syrup with knife and fork as you speed along the highways and byways of America.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (iJfKG)

I see you've never tried Burger King's French Toast Sticks which come with a handy dandy container of maple syrup you just dip the sticks in and you just roll along, no muss, no fuss.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

123 Something like Tito's is just fine.
****

Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)

I buy the cheapest bottom-shelf vodka I can find. Since my main use for is to mix Caesars, the flavor of the vodka is lost in the mix. Maybe a vodka tonic, or vodka and Coke if the rum has gone dry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM (1z8ji)

124 Left out smoking a joint and cradling a beer between your legs.

Not that I'd know anything about that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)

Coming home from a long shift with a J and a road soda...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:25 PM (Ot/FD)

125 Left out smoking a joint and cradling a beer between your legs.

Not that I'd know anything about that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)

They made pipes and one-hitters for a reason, guys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

126 Something like Tito's is just fine.
****

Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)

I use Tito's for spaghetti alla vodka for just that reason.
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (y687V)

Well, that's the thing. Most vodka drinkers don't like the taste of alcohol. If they could, they would drink distilled water.

As a general rule I mix cocktails and one thing I like is a base alcohol that can stand up to the cocktails making process and make it's presence known.

That's why I have no use for "smooth" tequilas, and would rather have a full-flavor "harsh" tequila that won't wilt in a margarita.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:26 PM (iJfKG)

127 120 Sounds like what my kids used to do at the drink fountain and mix Coke, Mountain Dew, and Fanta Orange.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (MWfyi)


Yea, it was a thing at the multi-flavor fountains.
Fill it up with everything on tap.
The drink is called a 'Suicide'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

128 >>"can cheap vodka be made better by carbon filtering."

How about Herkimer diamonds?

Launched in 2008, our original Crystal Head Vodka is crafted from locally sourced Canadian corn. It is distilled four times into a neutral grain spirit and blended with pristine water from Newfoundland, Canada. The vodka is filtered seven times, of which three are through layers of semi-precious crystals known as Herkimer diamonds. . .

*Herkimer Quartz Diamond is a type of Quartz found in Herkimer, New York.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (rOKnE)

129 I drank vodka in Russia because that's all there was.

Vodka is an ingredient, not a drink.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)

130 Stuffed zucchini is also a thing. Eggplants, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 05:03 PM (84gkw)

My mother used to make stuffed vegetable marrow. That is a long, pale bland-tasting squash that takes on the flavor of whatever it is stuffed with. It was great. I can't remember having ever seen it in stores lately.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:28 PM (1z8ji)

131 Svedka is a cheap but good vodka for mixed drinks. It’s got a ‘clean’ taste that is very similar to the much more expensive Grey Goose.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:28 PM (FBc7c)

132 "No I don't, Officer."
/said while expelling zero breath

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:29 PM (RIvkX)

133 Try Balcones Texas Rye Cask Strength.

I had their cask strength single malt and it was too hot for me. I had to add so much water that it hurt the taste. I'll go back to Texas 1 for my next Balcones.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:29 PM (vTZFs)

134 129 I drank vodka in Russia because that's all there was.

Vodka is an ingredient, not a drink.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)
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The Russians just wanna get drunk. They’d drink battery acid if that got them hammered faster than vodka.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (FBc7c)

135 119 Mythbusters did a whole thing about "can cheap vodka be made better by carbon filtering." Not being a vodka drinker, I don't remember the outcome.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (vTZFs)

I remember that episode. If I recall correctly it will improve the lower quality brands but it will never turn it into a top shelf brand.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Sco7b)

136 We've been sticking to new Amsterdam for our daily driver vodka. No complaints.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Ot/FD)

137 Bunch of degenerate drug addicts hanging out here and you all let ace slander me and never had my back.

Ok. Pepperidge Farm isn't the only one that remembers.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)

138 When it's 40 below zero outside for five months, a little alcohol almost becomes a necessity, I''d imagine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)

139 It's ok Jackstraw we know you didn't inhale.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:32 PM (MWfyi)

140 The last couple weeks, we made a maple smoked pastrami and pork butt burnt ends. I need to practice a bit more on the burnt ends, they were good, but not quite tender yet.

We make vanilla extracts and limoncello, and often use vodka as the base. We like the Smirnoff brand. It’s decent quality, readily available in a variety of sizes, and reasonably priced. It also makes a decent Russian cocktail of various types. I like the nutty Russian. It’s a White Russian with a couple ounces of a nut liqueur, like Frangelico or Amaretto.

Posted by: Advo at September 13, 2026 05:32 PM (jO4mz)

141 I remember that episode. If I recall correctly it will improve the lower quality brands but it will never turn it into a top shelf brand.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Sco7b)
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Much like social contagion among youth. The bad ones do not become better. The good ones go bad instead.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (RIvkX)

142 I splurged on a bottle of Red Breast 18 for Labor Day. I’m not generally a fan of Irish whisky, but hell yea RB18 is good. Very flavorful and complex.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (FBc7c)

143 The truth is an absolute defense against slander, Jack.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (Ot/FD)

144 The vodka is filtered seven times, of which three are through layers of semi-precious crystals known as Herkimer diamonds. . .

*Herkimer Quartz Diamond is a type of Quartz found in Herkimer, New York.

Again, not a vodka drinker but that rings all my BS alarms. Perhaps AOP can inform us on the porosity of quartz but my hunch is "just about nil."

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (vTZFs)

145 The vodka is filtered seven times, of which three are through layers of semi-precious crystals known as Herkimer diamonds. . .

*Herkimer Quartz Diamond is a type of Quartz found in Herkimer, New York.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (rOKnE)

So, a sand filter. As found in many water treatment plants.

Hype.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (1z8ji)

146 "No I don't, Officer."
/said while expelling zero breath
Posted by: San Franpsycho
__________

A buddy got out of a DUI by volunteering for a blood test, but then refusing to sign the hospital's consent form for the blood draw (which was not a refusal to take the test). All of that took considerable time (transport to the hospital/wrangling over the consent terms), and by the time they then got a breath test, he passed.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (XvL8K)

147 "Craft" Vodka seems.... oxymoronic.

Seriously.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (2Cry5)

148 By the way, you're all in a trade war with Canada.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)

I wonder who will flinch first? The Canadians, the Iranians, the US or the French? Including the French keeps it on topic for the food thread.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (qQfd5)

149 Bunch of degenerate drug addicts hanging out here and you all let ace slander me and never had my back.

Ok. Pepperidge Farm isn't the only one that remembers.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
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Counting on short-term memory loss.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (RIvkX)

150 I could taste the alchohol in the screwdriver I had once. I dislike the taste, although not enough to refuse to finish it. I have just never felt the attraction. I'd rather deal with my frustrations other ways.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (aJQbY)

151 Look up Betty Crocker Deep Dish Taco Squares. My family loves this dish, and the recipe is very flexible. I have made it with ground beef, steak and chicken. I have made it Mexican style with taco seasoning, and Italian style with Italian seasonings.

It is easy to make and everybody in my family loves it.

Posted by: Eric at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (6VHHP)

152 So, a sand filter. As found in many water treatment plants.

Hype.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (1z8ji)

Triple filtering through the same media doesn't buy you a whole heck of a lot except the ability to say "it's triple filtered!"

Especially after it's already been distilled.

(Wash yo tanks, bro.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:36 PM (Ot/FD)

153 These fancy-schmancy bourbon marketing moves leave me cold. I like the basic Old Forester just fine. It's a good value at 30 bucks at our state controlled booze emporia, which is a good value. My other two favorites, Bowman Brothers and Wild Turkey 101, are about the same price. I've tried more expensive bourbons and they just aren't better enough to deserve the extra bucks.

I do have a confession. I have come to prefer rye to bourbon. Pikesville 110 proof is my favorite and worth the fifty dollar price. Wild Turkey 101 rye and Sazarac 6 year rye are tasty and almost half the price.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 05:37 PM (yTvNw)

154 147 "Craft" Vodka seems.... oxymoronic.

Seriously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (2Cry5)

Kraft vodka is just cheesy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:37 PM (Ot/FD)

155 The one time I really should have been arrested by a state trooper for possession I talked my out of it but he made me dump the stash. That was a sad day on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:38 PM (RIvkX)

156 I recommend that everyone make them from their BBQ'd brisket leftovers.
You're welcome!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:40 PM

This assumes those exist. Brisket, moar brisket, brisket sandwiches, brisket, brisket sandwiches.

What are these leftovers of which you speak?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:38 PM (0sNs1)

157 I splurged on a bottle of Red Breast 18 for Labor Day. I’m not generally a fan of Irish whisky, but hell yea RB18 is good. Very flavorful and complex.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (FBc7c)

Yes, yes, yes. On the Red Breast 18

But, IMHO the Red Breast Cask Strength 12 is even better.

Also Blue Spot is pure delight.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:38 PM (iJfKG)

158 147 "Craft" Vodka seems.... oxymoronic.

Seriously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (2Cry5)
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Marketing gimmick. But so is so much of everything today. I’m 100% convinced that one of the top ‘influencer’ clowns could promote a new brand of vodka from fermented human urine and idiots would line up to buy it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:39 PM (FBc7c)

159 Well, late lunch break is over. Back to the salt mines. My dune buggy body tub is now securely bolted to the floor pan, with all the bolts moderately tightened. It will come off again for paint, but the task at hand is to make all the other parts fit. Fuel tank, steering column, lights, windshield, etc.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:40 PM (1z8ji)

160 vodka from fermented human urine and idiots would line up to buy it.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:39 PM (FBc7c)

Didn't Isaac Newton do that or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:40 PM (Ot/FD)

161 Home from teaching and my own work out. I am making birria chicken enchiladas this evening.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

162 I buy the cheapest bottom-shelf vodka I can find. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM

What, Valu-Rite's too good for you ?????

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)

163 Betty Crocker Deep Dish Taco Squares
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Not allowed to have Bisquick the Krusteaz was a big scene.

Maybe polenta on the bottom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (RIvkX)

164
Home from teaching and my own work out. I am making birria chicken enchiladas this evening.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

That sounds good.

Recipe, por favor!


Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)

165 So, a sand filter. As found in many water treatment plants.

Don't sand filters (and I'm relying on some limited aquarium hobby experience here) work by exposing nitrogenous compounds to the bacteria living on the sand's high surface area? Nothing in that process sounds remotely applicable to alcoholic beverage production.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (vTZFs)

166 My dune buggy body tub is now securely bolted to the floor pan, with all the bolts moderately tightened. It will come off again for paint, but the task at hand is to make all the other parts fit. Fuel tank, steering column, lights, windshield, etc.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:40 PM (1z8ji)
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So its a time machine?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (RIvkX)

167 I'm doing a stuffed chicken in an enameled dutch oven. Roasted sweet potatoes. Broccoli in some form or another, haven't decided.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Ot/FD)

168 vodka from fermented human urine and idiots would line up to buy it.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:39 PM

Make it cow urine, I'm down for a bottle.

Posted by: zombie Mahatma G. at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

169 So its a time machine?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM

All the best bloggers have them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (0sNs1)

170 >>Well, late lunch break is over. Back to the salt mines. My dune buggy body tub is now securely bolted to the floor pan, with all the bolts moderately tightened. It will come off again for paint, but the task at hand is to make all the other parts fit. Fuel tank, steering column, lights, windshield, etc.

You gotta post some pics. A good buddy of mine in high school had a dune buggy. I loved that thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)

171 I do have some tomatoes that split on the vine, was thinking of fermenting the seeds for storage. Not exactly culinary. Culinary adjacent, i guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (Ot/FD)

172 By the way, you're all in a trade war with Canada.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)

I wonder who will flinch first? The Canadians, the Iranians, the US or the French? Including the French keeps it on topic for the food thread.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (qQfd5)
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Canadians want back to the good ol' grifting days, which they aren't going to get again. Ever. First, they picked the PRC Devil, allowing PRC police monitoring stations on Canadian soil. It was recently discovered that Chy-na gave the Persians satellite targeting data for the ballistic missile strike in Jordan that killed three Americans. So, Canada's status? Speed bump.

The Iranians are launching their pre-midterm elections doom and gloom offensive. Like a Billy Mays commercial - everything must go! No gas left in the tank when the elections are over. Bigger speed bump.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:47 PM (rj6Yv)

173 > Home from teaching and my own work out. I am making birria chicken enchiladas this evening.
Posted by: Piper
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Birria tacos rule. Just sayin'.

You can do more shots of Tequila with them. (takes more time between batches)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:47 PM (2Cry5)

174 I'm gonna need a moment. I feel a Homer coming on.
****

Glazed eyes, slack jaw, drooling?

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 05:48 PM (zRghv)

175 I do have a confession. I have come to prefer rye to bourbon. Pikesville 110 proof is my favorite and worth the fifty dollar price. Wild Turkey 101 rye and Sazarac 6 year rye are tasty and almost half the price.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 05:37 PM (yTvNw)

Same. Wild Turkey 101 rye is my standard.

Seems my kidneys aren't functioning as well as they used to, so I've quit drinking, though. This thread is really making me want a little glass.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 05:48 PM (CjHsb)

176 That was pretty. Hell of a throw.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)

177 You can do more shots of Tequila with them. (takes more time between batches)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:47 PM (2Cry5)

I hate tequila.. Husband is a fan.. Only the "good" ones which to me in tequila doesn't exist

Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 13, 2026 05:49 PM (+gK6I)

178 >>Glazed eyes, slack jaw, drooling?

And the inaudible moaning.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

179 Recently refound a partial bottle of vodka from making vanilla a year ago. Think should save it for those winter snow shoveling

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)

180 Glazed eyes, slack jaw, drooling?
And the inaudible moaning.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:50 PM

The Paolo, he has, how you say, seen this many times. He tries to slip out quietly.

Posted by: Paolo at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (0sNs1)

181 I love stuffed peppers. The better way to make them is not to parboil the peppers. Just cut the tops off, set them in a deep baking dish, fill with what you like (mine usually are cooked ground beef and onions, sometimes other veggies if they are on hand such as mushrooms, flavor with salt and pepper and the herbs and spices you like, and we add tomato sauce. No rice. Cover tightly and bake at 350 around 45 minutes, then uncover and add a bunch of cheese and pop bake into the oven until it melts.

The peppers are perfectly tender but not at all mushy. And it's a hearty meal.

Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (ek8iC)

182 I thought I would substitute cake flour for all-purpose to make chocolate crepes today.
They came out beautifully thin and chocolatey with the consistency of one of the round rubber sink stoppers. Fail. I'll let them get stale and use them for clay pigeons.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (E0Et6)

183 Broccoli in some form or another, haven't decided.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Ot/FD)
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Since you already have the oven going, just roast it! Make it easy on yourself.

Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ek8iC)

184 LOL, Ben Had. Way to let nothing go to waste!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 05:54 PM (CjHsb)

185 Apparently not everyone wants to hold Omar accountable for her many fraudulent activities. Note: there are three republicans and three democrats on this committee.

Greg @mrrockywater
5h
The Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5 to 1 to suspend the investigation into Ilhan Omar's financial discloser's stating her net value had increased by $6 to $30 million dollars.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 05:54 PM (3ImbR)

186 171 I do have some tomatoes that split on the vine, was thinking of fermenting the seeds for storage. Not exactly culinary. Culinary adjacent, i guess.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (Ot/FD)

Several of my friends tomatoes that I have here are like that. I've been eating them anyways. Cut them up, salt and they've been fine.

But apparently my friends freezes the tomatoes and turns them into paste or something. I forget what. Something edible for her family.

It's just me so I'm MUCH less picky...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b)

187 81 I love stuffed peppers. The better way to make them is not to parboil the peppers. Just cut the tops off, set them in a deep baking dish, fill with what you like (mine usually are cooked ground beef and onions, sometimes other veggies if they are on hand such as mushrooms, flavor with salt and pepper and the herbs and spices you like, and we add tomato sauce. No rice. Cover tightly and bake at 350 around 45 minutes, then uncover and add a bunch of cheese and pop bake into the oven until it melts.

The peppers are perfectly tender but not at all mushy. And it's a hearty meal.
Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (ek8iC)
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That’s old school. This exact recipe was on every Italian restaurant menu when I was a kid. My g-mom used to make it too, albeit with rice. I’ve not seen it on a menu in decades.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:56 PM (FBc7c)

188 I thought I would substitute cake flour for all-purpose to make chocolate crepes today.
They came out beautifully thin and chocolatey with the consistency of one of the round rubber sink stoppers. Fail. I'll let them get stale and use them for clay pigeons.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM

Not enough gluten in the flour. Touch the all-purpose flour, and say "You're it!"

Gluten tag!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:56 PM (0sNs1)

189 Regarding stuffed peppers, I brush the interior of the pepper with a bit of oil, stuff, and bake. The oil cooks the pepper while imparting extra richness to the stuffing. Frozen cod cakes, thawed, makes great stuffed red peppers, BTW...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 05:56 PM (nbLIj)

190 I hate tequila.. Husband is a fan.. Only the "good" ones which to me in tequila doesn't exist
Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 13, 2026 05:49 PM (+gK6I)
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"Man, we were doing shots for a mezcal tasting, and the next thing I know, everybody was laid out on the back lawn with empty cups on their chests."

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:57 PM (rj6Yv)

191 My mother used to make stuffed vegetable marrow. That is a long, pale bland-tasting squash that takes on the flavor of whatever it is stuffed with. It was great. I can't remember having ever seen it in stores lately.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:28 PM (1z8ji)
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I always wondered what vegetable marrows were, because that's what Hercule Poirot said he would grow when he finally retired to the country.

I looked it up and never quite figured it out I assumed it was a limey word for pumpkin.

Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:58 PM (ek8iC)

192 everybody was laid out on the back lawn with empty cups on their chests."
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:57 PM

Except me. My cups are not empty.

Posted by: Sydney S. at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (0sNs1)

193 175 ... "Same. Wild Turkey 101 rye is my standard.

Seems my kidneys aren't functioning as well as they used to, so I've quit drinking, though. This thread is really making me want a little glass."

DMLW,
I have some kidney troubles as well. Since my typical amount of booze is less than an ounce, usually sipped neat over a few hours, it hasn't been a problem. I just enjoy the taste.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (yTvNw)

194 AS a former bar manager i have found that the price of the booze neither increases the quality of drunkeness nor the relief of the urine

it's impossible to pee on your own shoes with style

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (jrgJz)

195
Recipe, por favor!


Posted by: naturalfake at September

I make the filling following her recipe pretty closely:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzhy8n7

I use corn tortillas, put the filling in, roll them up, put them in an oiled baking dish seam side down, cover with some of the sauce from cooking the chicken, cover the dish with foil, bake about 15-20 minutes, and then sprinkle cotija. I serve it with lime and avocado. You can also use Oaxaca if you want it a little cheesier.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

196 everybody was laid out on the back lawn with empty cups on their chests."
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:57 PM

Except me. My cups are not empty.
Posted by: Sydney S. at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (0sNs1)

They're overflowing!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:00 PM (iJfKG)

197 >>Man, we were doing shots for a mezcal tasting, and the next thing I know, everybody was laid out on the back lawn with empty cups on their chests."

1 tequila
2 tequila
3 tequila
floor

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:01 PM (viF8m)

198 I love stuffed peppers. The better way to make them is...

Sounds yummy. I'll have to try it the next time my wife is out of. She would hate it.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 06:01 PM (vTZFs)

199
I make the filling following her recipe pretty closely:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzhy8n7

I use corn tortillas, put the filling in, roll them up, put them in an oiled baking dish seam side down, cover with some of the sauce from cooking the chicken, cover the dish with foil, bake about 15-20 minutes, and then sprinkle cotija. I serve it with lime and avocado. You can also use Oaxaca if you want it a little cheesier.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

Muchas gracias, señorita!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:01 PM (iJfKG)

200 Bacon Butter, from the first microwave cookbook:

½ cup butter
¾ tsp prepared mustard
4 slices bacon

In small mixer bowl, cream together butter and mustard. Cook bacon in Radarange Oven on paper plate and between paper towels until crisp, 3 to 4 minutes. Crumble bacon and blend with butter.

Note that it turns solid as a rock in the fridge, but I’m not sure it needs to be refrigerated. Probably depends on how chunky your crumbled bacon is.

Recommended for English muffins, but it is pretty good on toast as well as on bagel chips. Probably good on popcorn.

Also, you might want to let the bacon cool before crumbling it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 13, 2026 06:02 PM (olroh)

201

If it please you, Caesar. Roast peacock from the Land of Egypt. Wild boar from Caesar's preserves in Dalmatia. Succulent dormice, saturated with poppy juice. Oysters, surrounded by Damson plums, sprinkled with cumin and benzoin root. Sausage, stuffed with golden plover's eggs and the breast of pheasant. Aged grasshoppers, fried in honey to a light golden brown. Eggs, made of crushed pearls colored to a golden hue and filled with yolks - in which we've nestled fat little ortolans roasted to a turn.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:02 PM (Cqx++)

202 AS a former bar manager i have found that the price of the booze neither increases the quality of drunkeness nor the relief of the urine

it's impossible to pee on your own shoes with style
Posted by: what the cat drug in
****

Ditto...

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 06:03 PM (zRghv)

203 Everyone's talking about the taste of booze.

Meanwhile, Korean soju. A bitter. But it gets the job done cheaply. About $3 a bottle and 2 bottles will do you.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

204
Muchas gracias, señorita!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13,

De nada! Not as cheesy as birria tacos, which are very good. But they are still yummy this way!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 06:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

205 We tend to get a downpour just when my first tomatoes are ripe, so I got in the habit of picking the split ones and freezing them, and canning the later ones when they get ripe.
The frozen ones cook down nicely to sauce.

I have not had wonderful luck with saving seeds, but I do tend to keep a volunteer plant or two in the garden -- I started in 2020 when i couldn't get garden starts. They make small cherry tomatoes mostly, but they are tough and have a lot of them. Some can be tasty too.

Best thing with split tomatoes is to fry up some sliced onions, then add crushed garlic, tomatoes and red peppers to cook down, and then poach an egg or two in it, and serve it over toast or fried potatoes.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)

206 Meanwhile, Korean soju. A bitter. But it gets the job done cheaply.

I have had it recently in San Diego and in off-Vegas, at Koreanish sushi places. Good stuff. But being the in thing, not necessarily cheap.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 13, 2026 06:06 PM (olroh)

207 I would love a big plate of fried green tomatoes.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:06 PM (E0Et6)

208 Akvavit. For hangover that lasts forever.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:08 PM (viF8m)

209 Everyone's talking about the taste of booze.

Meanwhile, Korean soju. A bitter. But it gets the job done cheaply. About $3 a bottle and 2 bottles will do you.
****

So, you like waking up face down with snot coming out of your nose and feeling like you swallowed something out of a trash can?






My brother!!!

Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 06:08 PM (zRghv)

210 There was this time during my senior year in college when the first warm winds of Spring crossed the banks of the Olentangy. Then commenced a party, one which involved the ritual sacrifice of an ice-cold watermelon. The blade went snicker-snack, which left the melon with two cuts. Into the upper cut went a full, clear bottle of Gilbeys Vodka. The lower cut then served its purpose, allowing a slow, unstoppable flow of the world's worst-tasting aquavit through the fruit.

Jeepers, what a hangover.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 06:09 PM (rj6Yv)

211 My wife tells me that for a long while Soju was made only from sweet potatoes and barley, since rice was considered a vital supply and forbidden to be turned in to booze. That may be why it is considered rot-gut.
Not sure when this was, especially since she does not drink

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR)

212 Akadama plum wine. Okinawa 1974.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Cqx++)

213 I did Sake, Saki, whatever.... years ago in CA. Horrible stuff.

This alone would legitimize WWII.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 06:11 PM (2Cry5)

214 >>I did Sake, Saki, whatever.... years ago in CA. Horrible stuff.


Years ago I had a business dinner in China. It seemed like ever 5 seconds one of my hosts would propose toast with Chinese rice wine.

I felt like a vampire the next morning when the sun came up. I think I hissed at the sun a couple times.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:15 PM (viF8m)

215 I did Sake, Saki, whatever.... years ago in CA. Horrible stuff.
This alone would legitimize WWII.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Sake: rice wine
Saki: peninsula

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 06:16 PM (VHUov)

216 Never tried saki, doubt much else in alcohol haven't had at one time or another

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)

217 So, you like waking up face down with snot coming out of your nose and feeling like you swallowed something out of a trash can?

My brother!!!
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 06:08 PM (zRghv)

My co-worker was a hard-drinking 30 year old Florida girl. I could hold my own, but damn. First paycheck, she got a stock of liquor.

Soju kicked our asses.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 06:18 PM (Sco7b)

218
Love Soju when eating Korean BBQ, it cuts the grease, and just plain tastes good.

Also like Japanese Shochu which can be made from barley, sweet potatoes and just about anything else.

I once drank carrot shochu that was super delicious.

Sake, too, is great stuff.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM (iJfKG)

219 Today marks 23 years married to the ol' ball and chain. Ordering take out tonight to celebrate. Probably pizza, and I'm even springing for three toppings!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM (62ILr)

220 219 Today marks 23 years married to the ol' ball and chain. Ordering take out tonight to celebrate. Probably pizza, and I'm even springing for three toppings!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026

At least light a candle or 2!

(Congratulations. That is truly awesome!)

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 06:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

221 >> Today marks 23 years married to the ol' ball and chain. Ordering take out tonight to celebrate. Probably pizza, and I'm even springing for three toppings!

Congratulations.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)

222 Happy Anniversary, Weasels

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (E0Et6)

223 Worst experience with alcohol was with Tango, a premixed orange drink and vodka concoction. So cheap that we bought a case of it then hauled it on the subway all the way to Rockaway Beach. It was off season, maybe November, so we had the beach to ourselves and drank to our hearts' content. Then came the puking...

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (3ImbR)

224
I've kind of gotten tired of ordering pizza, but I like making it and Grandma Pie.

I wonder if I can convince the lovely and thrifty to let me get one of those nice pizza ovens to go with my outdoor grills.

Hmmm.

Maybe Christmas???

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (iJfKG)

225 Do the pooches get pizza?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (Cqx++)

226 Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 06:22 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Thanks! Shes pretty cool.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:24 PM (62ILr)

227
The lovely and thrifty Mrs naturalfake, that is.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:24 PM (iJfKG)

228 Do the pooches get pizza?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (Cqx++)
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They get to pick one of the toppings! Usually sausage.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (62ILr)

229 Happy Anniversary to both of you Weasel!!

Gonna go finish that salad.
Bacon can wait until tomorrow.
Good night all.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (Sco7b)

230 Weasel congratulations. Do you encourage her weekly to buy more patience? She cannot have too much.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tTRUo)

231 Regarding vodka, I had a friend from Poland gift me with a bottle of Belvedere vodka, and I have to say it was the best tasting vodka I've ever had. I am not a vodka fan for sipping neat, but this was very tasty.

Posted by: Happy at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (743lG)

232 Pork Milanese is breaded and resting in the refrigerator!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (k5CNB)

233 Weasel, are you going to break out the Chinet paper plates, paper napkins and a rose in a vase for the table?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)

234 Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (E0Et6)
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Thanks! I passed along your message and WW says "howdy"

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (62ILr)

235 Happy anniversary to Weasel and Weasel Woman. If you get that three topping pizza (how extravagant!) remember the pups like pepperoni as much as you do.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (yTvNw)

236 Weasel, are you going to break out the Chinet paper plates, paper napkins and a rose in a vase for the table?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)

Hey! There’s room for two at the sink.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:27 PM (tTRUo)

237 Congrats, Weasel!

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 06:28 PM (3ImbR)

238 Weasel, are you going to break out the Chinet paper plates, paper napkins and a rose in a vase for the table?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)
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Probably not. I need to keep expectations low.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:28 PM (62ILr)

239 "Probably pizza, and I'm even springing for three toppings!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM"

Can't hide money.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (2Ez/1)

240 Best thing with split tomatoes is to fry up some sliced onions, then add crushed garlic, tomatoes and red peppers to cook down, and then poach an egg or two in it, and serve it over toast or fried potatoes.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)

Sort of a Shakshuka!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (k5CNB)

241 Happy Anniversary, weasel!

Are you able to walk to the door yet? Those theee toppings may be a bit heavy for you to manage with your broken toe. I think you may still need to take it easy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (7Lfjw)

242 william returned to the barracks at a "high state of drunkness" yet he was being quiet and not a douche, climbs in his bunk and crashed out, an hour later gets up, pees in mikes boots, jiggles the wall locker handle, gets back in bed.

Mike wasn't happy when he put on his boots

nobody warned him although most everyone knew

the army

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (jrgJz)

243 Hey! There’s room for two at the sink.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:27 PM (tTRUo)
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I wouldn't share the sink with just anyone!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (62ILr)

244 Play some Kenny G in the background.

Chicks love Kenny G and pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:30 PM (6ydKt)

245 Weasel hope its a wonderful dinner anniversary

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:30 PM (Ia/+0)

246 Weasel, are you going to break out the Chinet paper plates, paper napkins and a rose in a vase for the table?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)

Hey! There’s room for two at the sink.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:27 PM (tTRUo)
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Back in the day, we'd bring out the empty Chianti bottle with candle pushed innit for those extra-special moments.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Weasel!

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 06:31 PM (rj6Yv)

247 Are you able to walk to the door yet? Those theee toppings may be a bit heavy for you to manage with your broken toe. I think you may still need to take it easy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (7Lfjw)
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True. It's a burden I struggle with.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:31 PM (62ILr)

248 Sake: rice wine
Saki: peninsula H.H Munro, a fine writer.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 06:16 PM (VHUov)
FIFY

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:32 PM (k5CNB)

249 Lamb chops on the grill this Sunday. Dusted with a dry rub I made a while back and will need to recall the ingredients. Freshly ground cardamom, for sure. Really good. The wine is a Bogle Petit Sirah..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 06:32 PM (nbLIj)

250 Congrats Weasel. Is there any anniversary cake left over from last week?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vTZFs)

251 Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vTZFs)
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WW picked up a whole brand new chocolate cake in a fancy clear plastic bubble dome from the store today!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:35 PM (62ILr)

252 Today marks 23 years married to the ol' ball and chain. Ordering take out tonight to celebrate. Probably pizza, and I'm even springing for three toppings!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM

Congrats, Weasel! Many more!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:36 PM (P6lWH)

253 Happy anniversary W and WW

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:37 PM (RIvkX)

254 Three toppings: spam, spam, and spam?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (RIvkX)

255 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:37 PM (RIvkX)
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Thank you! Thank you all!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (62ILr)

256 Three toppings: spam, spam, and spam?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM

Spam, spam, and pineapple. That one's only got a little spam.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:39 PM (P6lWH)

257 Three toppings: spam, spam, and spam?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (RIvkX)
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Sausage, mushrooms and green peppers is our go-to.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:40 PM (62ILr)

258 I haven't decided on dinner either Peanut Chicken noodles or Chicken a la King.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:41 PM (RIvkX)

259 Weasel congratulations. Do you encourage her weekly to buy more patience? She cannot have too much.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tTRUo)
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I keep forgetting a number of you fine folks have met her!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:41 PM (62ILr)

260 Sausage, mushrooms and green peppers is our go-to.
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:40 PM (62ILr)
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Perfection

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:42 PM (RIvkX)

261 Had pizza on Friday, Sausage, pepperoni, mushroom, roasted garlic, anchovies and extra cheese.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:44 PM (E0Et6)

262 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:42 PM (RIvkX)
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Anniversary menu update. Meatball pizza for WW and an Italian sub for me. FSJ and Gertie love a good meatball!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)

263 Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:44 PM (E0Et6)
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Man that sounds good!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)

264 Congrats on the anniversary, Weasel!

Posted by: Advo at September 13, 2026 06:48 PM (jO4mz)

265 Anniversary menu update. Meatball pizza for WW and an Italian sub for me.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)

Nice!

Napkins or dish towels?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:49 PM (k5CNB)

266 Thanks Advo!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:50 PM (62ILr)

267 Napkins or dish towels?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:49 PM (k5CNB)
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1/4 paper towel. I'm on a fixed income.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:51 PM (62ILr)

268 265 Anniversary menu update. Meatball pizza for WW and an Italian sub for me.

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)

Nice!

Napkins or dish towels?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Shirt sleeves.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (yEz+x)

269 Today marks 23 years married to the ol' ball and chain. Ordering take out tonight to celebrate. Probably pizza, and I'm even springing for three toppings!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM

You're not going wobbly on us, are you?

Congratulations!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (0sNs1)

270 Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (0sNs1)
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Never!

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (62ILr)

271
Shirt sleeves.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (yEz+x)
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Is that wrong?

Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM (62ILr)

272 CBD, Thank you another great food thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM (E0Et6)

273 Shirt sleeves.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (yEz+x)
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Is that wrong?
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM

Why dirty a shirt sleeve when you have the back of your hand?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM (P6lWH)

274 RMBS, gets it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:56 PM (E0Et6)

275 RMBS, gets it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:56 PM

The Way of the Weasel does tend toward minimalism.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:57 PM (P6lWH)

276 "Or the back of a pant leg!"

- cirque du soleil performer

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 06:59 PM (Ot/FD)

277 Great call Packers.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

278 Gubs up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (P6lWH)

279 "Or the back of a pant leg!"

- cirque du soleil performer
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 06:59 PM

Well, yeah, easy for you to say.

Posted by: Non-participant on the Book Thread at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (0sNs1)

280 Blended bourbon? I can't imagine drinking anything other than single barrel bourbon. You may as well be drinking black velvet or chivas.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 07:03 PM (5C90x)

281 And don't get me started on its destruction of our attention spans!

Weren't you talking about something else just a moment ago? I don't remember what it was, but....

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:06 PM (kU0PQ)

282 Make the stuffed peppers using Anaheim peppers.
Also, make sure there's good fats in the filling to make it smooth and mouth-filling. (I have a vegetarian stuffed peppers that is really nice, too.)

I gotta stand up for stuffed peppers.

Posted by: GWB at September 13, 2026 07:11 PM (kU0PQ)

283 Wait! Aren’t you jewish?
Oh yeah, as long as the pig is circumcised, you’re good to go.

Posted by: John at September 13, 2026 07:17 PM (9NUKl)

284 @ San Franpsycho I forgot to mention that. Polenta or Corn bread mix is also good. Sometimes, I mix cheese into the base layer.

The whole dish works with different kinds of cheese. Cheddar is always good. I made it last week with gruyere cheese.

I made it once mediterranean style with feta, olives, and spinich leaves.

Posted by: Eric at September 13, 2026 07:26 PM (6VHHP)

285 Dinner is ready and table is set. Enjoy your evenings!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 07:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

286 On the subject of vodka, back in the early 1970s, I was an undergrad at the University of Toronto. At that time (and maybe still) the Liquor Control Board of Ontario sold "alcohol" in quart bottles; as the label says, it was a 80-proof solution of ethanol. We used to spike the fruit punch at our feasts. Can somebody please explain to me what the difference is between "vodka" and "alcohol"?

Posted by: Nemo at September 13, 2026 09:33 PM (4RPgu)

287 All Vodka is alcohol, but not all alcohol is vodka.

Posted by: John at September 13, 2026 10:30 PM (9NUKl)

First World Problems...

collarstay26.jpg

Sigh...the great collar stay debacle of 2026 is in full swing.

Years ago, these little bits of plastic were sturdy and made well. And one could even buy stays made from metal! Recently they have become a whisper of their former selves...thin and too flexible to make a collar stand up and say hello!

And those newest ones that came with the UNTUCKIt shirts I bought to see whether they would work well with an IWB holster? The thinnest in the world! It's a wonder they don't crumble and break and fall to pieces.

The Western world has lost sight of the importance of quality collar stays, and that way lies madness!

Posted by: CBD at 01:55 PM




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1 rtybhjrtyjbnrty

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)

2
Phew.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)

3 And one could even buy stays made from metal!

They are all over Amazon.

Posted by: biteme at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (xWS9V)

4
Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (mmrXZ)

5 ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (5Go8e)

6 My FWP of yesterday was missing glasses, found them after they were in a pocket, went through washer, hung on line outside awhile, in dryer after 15 minutes heard a clunking and found them. No worse for where.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:01 PM (qEb4U)

7 What? No burning it to the ground and starting ovet?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 02:01 PM (wxsGM)

8 Easy fix. Starch your collars. Heavy starch.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 02:04 PM (5rh/l)

9 Perry Ellis collar stay $10.00. Just buy a new shirt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (5Go8e)

10 Soldiers in Napoleonic and before wore collars, I take it the line to keep heads straight is BS, but not sure.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (qEb4U)

11 Maybe I should buy some old tab collars?

Posted by: The Age of Jive at September 13, 2026 02:06 PM (XvL8K)

12 Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Maybe back in the day when shoulder pads were a thing.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (lJ0H4)

13 Strurdy collars are likely one of the three pillars of a civilized society.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 02:09 PM (Dkeic)

14 My husband had some nice brass ones. I think I got them from Brooks Brothers.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (lJ0H4)

15 12 Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Maybe back in the day when shoulder pads were a thing.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (lJ0H4)

Are there things women used to make their breasts look bigger that would deflate over time?

Or is that a million dollar idea.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (Sco7b)

16 10 Soldiers in Napoleonic and before wore collars, I take it the line to keep heads straight is BS, but not sure.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (qEb4U)


web search 'leathernecks'

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (5rh/l)

17 Are there things women used to make their breasts look bigger that would deflate over time?

Or is that a million dollar idea.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart

Uh..no. They were to square up your shoulders. Think 1980's ladies. Big hair and big shoulders.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:13 PM (lJ0H4)

18 came with the UNTUCKIt shirts"

The van Heusen guy waves....

Posted by: man at September 13, 2026 02:14 PM (pfXMo)

19 So I look up from making cookies and see that tha Cleveland Browns are down 24 -0 with lots of time left in the second quarter. Runs thru my mind that maybe they should just give it up, disband the team, slink out of town.
Then I think wait a minute, didn't they do that already?

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:16 PM (sl73Y)

20 Bah! Don't need those things with my wardrobe. Casual is in.

Why do people let other people push them around? Tell them to f*** off.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 02:17 PM (xJpuh)

21 >>Uh..no. They were to square up your shoulders. Think 1980's ladies. Big hair and big shoulders.

Big fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:17 PM (viF8m)

22 rtybhjrtyjbnrty
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Didn't you use this on another post? Can you do that?

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (sl73Y)

23 I never understood high heels, that looks like torture

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (qEb4U)

24 Well done.

https://tinyurl.com/4u8fhpne

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:21 PM (viF8m)

25 I have made them by cutting up the lids of yogurt tubs. The thin UHMW works fairly well, and are not stiff enough to jab my collarbones.
You do need to remove them for washing and ironing, they do deform in heat. Eventually I realized I didn't care, and if I did I should buy Oxfords.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

26 Yes, I thought I'd moved up in the world when I bought a shirt with metal collar stays.. But the world kept moving, too.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 13, 2026 02:25 PM (Jvw8+)

27 Are there things women used to make their breasts look bigger that would deflate over time?

Or is that a million dollar idea.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (Sco7b)

Knew a lady who called the silicon versions of those her "chicken cutlets"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

28 Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:01 PM (qEb4U

I'm glad you found them and they were o.k. You will have officially reached old age when you put sunglasses or regular glasses hanging over your front shirt and you don't recall where they are😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:27 PM (JrHfD)

29 Here is a new first world problem...

Call some company. Get through to a person unexpectedly fast.

After talking with the "person" for 30s you realize it is an AI pretending to be a human.

One local place the AI bot told me several times it was a real person until I demanded to speak with an actual human...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 02:28 PM (sKqQm)

30 Anyways, real men wear Collar Tips.

Extra point for filagree or massy sterling silver with turquoise accents

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:29 PM (rbvCR)

31 @23. Skip.
I never understood high heels, that looks like torture

Women think it makes them look sexy. But the looks on their faces cancel that out. However if that is what they want to do that is their business. And it's kinda funny when they fall off those things.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 02:30 PM (xJpuh)

32 Collar stays...meh. Now cuff links. That's an accessory I'd like to see make a come back..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 02:30 PM (nbLIj)

33 Eventually I realized I didn't care, and if I did I should buy Oxfords.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

Most of mine are Oxfords, but I like a bit of variety, and Oxfords aren't particularly good for more formal dress.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 02:32 PM (k5CNB)

34 Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Under wire!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:32 PM (NnhvP)

35 I like how we to go through lying AI to get to halfway honest customer service now.

It’s like a game you can play while you wait.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (6ydKt)

36 Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Under wire!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Yes!

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (lJ0H4)

37 Most of mine are Oxfords, but I like a bit of variety, and Oxfords aren't particularly good for more formal dress.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Paperclips!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (NnhvP)

38 Don't think ever had a AI answered call yet

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (qEb4U)

39 Please Santa.

>>@JacquiHeinrich
·
1h
>>Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (viF8m)

40 Oxfords are also not particularly good for Arizona summers…

Posted by: Insensitive Clod at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (gCg+u)

41 I have no lights that turn on automatically at my house. I looked after the cats at my friends house this week . Her house unlike mine was probably built since 2000 and the front door lights seem to turn on automatically- maybe because it was dark and rainy today. I hope they turned off , and I hope I didn't do something wrong. We don't have an automatic garage door opener either and apparently I hit it this week unintentionally and the doors went up. Her neighbors alerted here and her husband could apparently close them automatically remotely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (JrHfD)

42 Don't get me started over collar bars.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rj6Yv)

43 You are far more formal than I, CBD. I mostly wear t-shirts with a flannel shirt on top. I also wear dress shirts with the collars removed because they are Nordstroms and the collar wore out.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rbvCR)

44 Esty has custom collar stays.. Only $210.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:37 PM (NnhvP)

45 43 You are far more formal than I, CBD. I mostly wear t-shirts with a flannel shirt on top. I also wear dress shirts with the collars removed because they are Nordstroms and the collar wore out.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rbvCR
Never crossed my mind to cut worn-out collars off shirts. Bonus! That would give them an ole-timey look, and I’m all about old-timey.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 02:39 PM (LHPAg)

46 Oxfords are also not particularly good for Arizona summers…
Posted by: Insensitive Clod

Move to Flagstaff it's high enough to be cool, merely 7000ft.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:40 PM (NnhvP)

47 You could always wear a whiplash collar.
They don’t move much.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:40 PM (6ydKt)

48 This is the winter of the great suit purge. A career worth of wearing the clown clothes comes to a glorious end.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)

49 It's a slow day, and I'm not helping any.
Kindle tablet "keyboard" stopped working and I just wanted to see if hitting restart could solve the problem. Apparently so.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:41 PM (sl73Y)

50 Oh yes- Another first world problem . The horrible sound the car makes when "Nanny car" wants to remind you that
you didn't put on your seat belt as a passenger. Almost Everytime I get in when spouse is driving he says, "Put on the seat belt belt before the car blows up!! As if it's a 007 Bond film. Did I
Mention that my dear husband likes repetitive "bits". Some he has used for decades. 😉


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:42 PM (JrHfD)

51 Brooks Brothers still carries collar stay. 24 in various sizes for 10 bucks. Regrettably not brass but PVC.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:42 PM (lJ0H4)

52 >>The Western world has lost sight of the importance of quality collar stays, and that way lies madness!

'Da barbarians are at the gates!' -- Snake-Eye McFoul

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (NcvvS)

53 I hit it this week unintentionally and the doors went up. Her neighbors alerted here and her husband could apparently close them automatically remotely.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

An aircraft carrier turned on all its radar while in port in Alameda CA. People couldn't figure out why all their garage doors were open. Doh!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (NnhvP)

54 Under wire. Sounds painful.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (xJpuh)

55 This is the winter of the great suit purge. A career worth of wearing the clown clothes comes to a glorious end.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)
======

Pea coats and pea jackets?

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 02:44 PM (rj6Yv)

56 This is the winter of the great suit purge. A career worth of wearing the clown clothes comes to a glorious end.
Posted by: JackStraw at

I did that this spring, having reached fifteen years out. Kept one lighter suit for weddings (guest), and one darker suit for funerals, including mine.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)

57 CBD, you need bespoke whalebone collar stays.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (kpS4V)

58 >>Pea coats and pea jackets?

Flip and his pal Flop.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (viF8m)

59 Kept one lighter suit for weddings (guest), and one darker suit for funerals, including mine.
Posted by: From about That Time

Oh wise one!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (NnhvP)

60 Under wire. Sounds painful.
Posted by: Case

Underwire bras are the most uncomfortable things in the world. Unfortunately, some of us over 29s need them. Gravity is a bitch.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (lJ0H4)

61 Ladies' wear example:

The underwire of a bra works great for support. Then manufacturers start to skimp on the fabric at the seams, so the wires would poke through and start sliding out at the most inconvenient times. That meant I'd be fixing bras (mine, my roommate's, my co-workers etc) with hand sewing.

Then manufacturers got the bright idea of using plastic instead of wire. Plastic snaps and pokes you (if you're an 'Ette) in the breast.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:47 PM (ao+in)

62 I did not know they were called 'Collar stays'.

Maybe Collar thingees?

Collar supports?

Collar stiffener?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 02:47 PM (Y/06r)

63 Yeah if going for collar stays, might as well get real whale bone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:48 PM (qEb4U)

64 All the succinct Ettes did a better job than my tome!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:48 PM (ao+in)

65 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (NnhvP)

lol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:49 PM (JrHfD)

66
Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Under wire!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Yes!
Posted by: Tuna

===============

lol I was thinking of that, but it's been a long time since I switched to stretchies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 02:50 PM (mmrXZ)

67 My second $3/pound hamburger meal of the day.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 02:50 PM (5Go8e)

68 My FWP I need a pedicure badly. My spring green toenails are looking like little shovels.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:50 PM (lJ0H4)

69 CBD, you need bespoke whalebone collar stays.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (kpS4V)

Exactly!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (k5CNB)

70 >>I did that this spring, having reached fifteen years out. Kept one lighter suit for weddings (guest), and one darker suit for funerals, including mine.

Had one made a few years for just that reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (viF8m)

71 I wear dress shirts every day for work. I can tell you from hard experience that removable metal collar stays are where it's at.

You can buy a metric shitload of them for a few bucks on Amazon.

Next question please.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (wpRMV)

72 My FWP is that the Wi-Fi was shut off at work on Friday when I was putting in grades. Before I could upload lesson plans for next week.

So I have to go in today.

Love the kids; hate the checklist.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (ao+in)

73
Ditto the suit purge. Ties were ceremoniously burned.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Y8DZL)

74 Tuna, I got a badly needed pedicure yesterday. Why do I wait until I have talons?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (kpS4V)

75 Charles Tyrwhitt spread collars come with brass stays.

Posted by: free tibet at September 13, 2026 02:54 PM (iNp3L)

76 Tuna, I got a badly needed pedicure yesterday. Why do I wait until I have talons?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

My nail salon is closed on Monday so Tuesday it is.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:54 PM (lJ0H4)

77 42 Don't get me started over collar bars.
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rj6Yv)

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The Eighties just called and wants its fashions back.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:55 PM (wpRMV)

78 Then manufacturers got the bright idea of using plastic instead of wire. Plastic snaps and pokes you (if you're an 'Ette) in the breast.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:47 PM (ao+in)

When I had to go in and out of the courthouse a lot, I was part of a group getting training and the instructor mentioned that for the ladies with underwires that the magnetometer would pick them up and suggested that "crossing your arms under your breasts often hides the signature"

I of course almost earned a strip search because I forgot my cell phone in my shirt pocket triggered the sensor as much as the keys in my pocket and belt buckle.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:55 PM (rbvCR)

79
Please Santa.

>>@JacquiHeinrich
·
1h
>>Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.
Posted by: JackStraw

===============

Markwayne Mullin has been making some noises about her, too. Not getting my hopes up regardless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 02:56 PM (mmrXZ)

80 >>Ditto the suit purge. Ties were ceremoniously burned.

I have a bunch of Jerry Garcia designed ties, because of course I do.

It was my little way of sticking it to the man when I had to wear the monkey suit.

F you, man.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

81 Being retired means not giving a shit about what to wear. Either here at home, or in public.

There's a reason the Walmartians wear jammies to shop.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)

82 Tuna, I got a badly needed pedicure yesterday. Why do I wait until I have talons?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (kpS4V)

I keep telling you, get one of those posts that is covered with jute matting.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:58 PM (rbvCR)

83 I kept my collection of "Friday" ties, from before the office casual days. A subtle revolutionary while in Big 8 accounting. From slightly risque, like Piccaso cubic nudes, to goofball, like Daffy Duck. Should put them one eBay or something.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:58 PM (sl73Y)

84 Ties were ceremoniously burned.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Y8DZL)

I have about 75 ties, and I have no idea why.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 02:58 PM (k5CNB)

85 I kid, but the Eighties were a great time for men's professional wear. Braces, collar bars, contrasting shirt collars (Mrs Cicero razzed my "ice cream man shirts"), cufflinks, vests, pleated trousers with cuffs.

Man I miss those days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:59 PM (wpRMV)

86 I have a bunch of Jerry Garcia designed ties, because of course I do.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

So do I! They are nice ties!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 02:59 PM (k5CNB)

87 I keep telling you, get one of those posts that is covered with jute matting.
Posted by: Kindltot at September
----

Ha!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 03:00 PM (kpS4V)

88 >>So do I! They are nice ties!

They really are.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:00 PM (viF8m)

89 After I retired I donated all my "good" clothes to one of those nonprofits that helps out young men who are entering the professional workforce, but maybe don't have the resources to by a wardrobe to wear 5 days a week.

Everything; slacks, shirts, ties and shoes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:01 PM (2Cry5)

90 collar bars, contrasting shirt collars (Mrs Cicero razzed my "ice cream man shirts")

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:59 PM (wpRMV)

Were you a pimp?

Although your wife has good taste, so I am puzzled.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 03:01 PM (k5CNB)

91 My Jerry Garcia ties (2) are party ties, not work ties.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:02 PM (wpRMV)

92 Were you a pimp?

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Lawyer. So, close.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (wpRMV)

93 >>After I retired I donated all my "good" clothes to one of those nonprofits that helps out young men who are entering the professional workforce, but maybe don't have the resources to by a wardrobe to wear 5 days a week.

That's my plan.

Cause we boomers are fucking evil.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)

94 Because I thought it was important - willowed from yesterday:
The educational capture was the masterpiece.
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4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.

Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man."

There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5)
==
This is starting to be reversed, and the left will be fighting it to the death.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (UQRAm)

95 I keep a few suits just in case, heaven forfend, I need to get a job.

I know, it is to laugh. Who would hire me?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (kpS4V)

96 33 Eventually I realized I didn't care, and if I did I should buy Oxfords.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

Most of mine are Oxfords, but I like a bit of variety, and Oxfords aren't particularly good for more formal dress.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 02:32 PM (k5CNB)

I wear neither Oxfords (actually, I have only one of them) nor blue jeans. All my shirts (and I don't need a lot of them in this casual era) are regular collars which need collar stays - Charles Tyrwhitt are the best, as mentioned by #75. Used to love Oxfords, but I found that the positioning of the buttons and the size of the collars vary widely by maker, and they don't look as great on me as I usually imagine they would.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (0CU3H)

97 >After I retired I donated all my "good" clothes to one of those nonprofits that helps out young men who are entering the professional workforce, but maybe don't have the resources to by a wardrobe to wear 5 days a week.

That's my plan.

Cause we boomers are fucking evil.
--------
fist bump

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:06 PM (2Cry5)

98 >>Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.

This is what I voted for.

Now, assuming they do have the goods on her, do they bring this during the election season or right after? Does it drive more R leaning voters to know the Dems are bro-f*cking liars and cheats or more D leaning voters because "muh democracy!"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

99 I have 2 suits. 1 I haven't worn in a decade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 03:10 PM (GquHV)

100 I have some of both GrandPappy’s ties from 30s, 40s, and 50s, and GrandPappy Eromero’s hats, felt and straw. I wear the hats to church.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 03:10 PM (LHPAg)

101 Counterfeit, or "reproduction" Zip-Loc closures. Lots of retail food items have them. That's nice, but. But they aren't worth a damn.
-----

AI, and "Chat" with companies is worthless, generally.

If you try to call someone, to talk to a human being or representative to accomplish a task that can't be done online, they will regale you whilst on hold, that they have a website, and you should do that. MFers. If I could get it done online without going through this bullshit, I would have. That's why I'm calling you.

Chat, even if manned by human beings, can never seem to do anything constructive or substantial. Spend 15 minutes, waiting, verifying identity, explaining your problem, and "I Can't Do That". Thanks!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:11 PM (uozx9)

102 >>Now, assuming they do have the goods on her, do they bring this during the election season or right after? Does it drive more R leaning voters to know the Dems are bro-f*cking liars and cheats or more D leaning voters because "muh democracy!"

You answered your own question. Politics ain't all that complicated. Do what you said you were going to do.

>>This is what I voted for.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)

103 I read that the administration wants the 11han Omar situation to NOT appear in anyway, political. It has to be a purely immigration law issue. Otherwise they fear Congress, as a whole, will rally behind the POS Omar and derail getting her ass out of the country.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:12 PM (2Cry5)

104 The UNTUCKit store in the moderately upscale outdoor mall near here closed recently. I guess it's not a bad product idea but it was never enough to support a chain of dedicated stand-alone stores.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 03:13 PM (ZOMyU)

105 I deal with the problem by almost never having to wear a necktie any longer. My employer changed the dress standards years ago. So I wear a long-sleeve broadcloth shirt, pressed dress trousers and polished leather dress shoes.

I'm still better dressed than 99% of the engineers -- who look like a bunch of hobos.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 13, 2026 03:14 PM (ksbjf)

106 Denaturalize and deport her.
Omar can continue to represent her district.

... from Mogadishu.

Not optimal, but preferable to the present situation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:15 PM (6ydKt)

107 I threw out or donated a bunch of dad's ties and suits that remained after he passed. Everything, except for a Harris tweed that he wore for many years. We used to joke that it was "early Stonehenge" styling. But pretty much impossible to wear out.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:16 PM (uozx9)

108 GFY

Posted by: A Bunch of Hobos, But Fashion Forward at September 13, 2026 03:16 PM (wpRMV)

109 Out of fashion nowadays, but the equivalent of collar stays for men is stays in women’s corsets.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2026 03:17 PM (D7w1V)

110 I read that the administration wants the 11han Omar situation to NOT appear in anyway, political. It has to be a purely immigration law issue. Otherwise they fear Congress, as a whole, will rally behind the POS Omar and derail getting her ass out of the country.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:12 PM (2Cry5)

It is an 80-20 issue, that no one wants to touch
but. . .

"Design your action so that your target is forced to make a decision, and all their available options play to you advantage"

and

"When taking on a big and well-known target, it is often the target's reaction to your action that is the key to success. Therefore, anticipate your target's reaction and write that into your script"

Exempting Omar is a losing play. Scotching immigration enforcement is a losing play. Making a law just about Omar will get the Supremes in play and they DO NOT WANT TO PLAY

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 03:18 PM (rbvCR)

111 have some of both GrandPappy’s ties from 30s, 40s, and 50s, and GrandPappy Eromero’s hats, felt and straw. I wear the hats to church.
Posted by: Eromero

Grandpa Aspirin Factory had some nice hats. It finished his suit and it was classy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 03:18 PM (GquHV)

112 rtybhjrtyjbnrty
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Do not take rythjabnarty if you are allergic to rythjabnarty or any of its ingredients. Side effects include headache, blurred vision, spastic typing fingers, and a fanatical devotion to being first.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 03:19 PM (VHUov)

113 they fear Congress, as a whole, will rally behind the POS Omar and derail getting her ass out of the country
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Any halfway sane country the congress would have expelled her, if not preventing her from being seated in the first place. Clown World

As somebody observed the other day, the left figured out the constitution really is a suicide pact, and they've been making the most of it for decades now

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:19 PM (uozx9)

114 The picture doesn't show my problem with them..... if you forget to take them out of your shirt, the washer/dryer folds them into little plastic accordions.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 03:20 PM (VHUov)

115 Dryer balls solve these problems, supposedly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)

116 I took a job with the US Army in 2013. I'd been working for NOAA in California on the Monterey Coast prior to making the move.

Radically different dress codes. I was... unprepared. And ridiculed for years.

I was honestly disappointed shorts and flip flops were frowned upon after wearing them for over a decade.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (2Cry5)

117 114 The picture doesn't show my problem with them..... if you forget to take them out of your shirt, the washer/dryer folds them into little plastic accordions.
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 03:20 PM (VHUov)

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That's nothing compared to what a commercial laundry does to them if you forget to take them out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (wpRMV)

118 This is the winter of the great suit purge. A career worth of wearing the clown clothes comes to a glorious end.
Posted by: JackStraw at

I did that this spring, having reached fifteen years out. Kept one lighter suit for weddings (guest), and one darker suit for funerals, including mine.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)

I don't even need to wear a suit to be buried. I am authorized to wear the white habit and scapular of the Dominican religious order (I'm a lay brother).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 13, 2026 03:23 PM (ksbjf)

119 I don't even need to wear a suit to be buried. I am authorized to wear the white habit and scapular of the Dominican religious order (I'm a lay brother).

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I just need something fireproof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:25 PM (wpRMV)

120 I was never a Dead-head, but I loved my Jerry Garcia ties.

Speaking of, I need to go clothes shopping again. It's one of my most hated chores, but I'm down to about 3 serviceable ties and maybe 5 pair of appropriate pants.

Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2026 03:26 PM (aHN1Y)

121 Bills defense still can’t get off the field. My dad kept one grey suit from his IBM days for funerals. I tossed all of my suits from prep school.

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 03:27 PM (/Chlc)

122 >>I was never a Dead-head

We all make mistakes. You still have time.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:27 PM (viF8m)

123 Have turtlenecks entered the conversation?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:28 PM (2WIwB)

124 98 >>Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.

This is what I voted for.

Now, assuming they do have the goods on her, do they bring this during the election season or right after? Does it drive more R leaning voters to know the Dems are bro-f*cking liars and cheats or more D leaning voters because "muh democracy!"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)


Omar is in the umpteen victimhood category. Rather than trying to deport her and having to fight it all the way to SCOTUS, Trump should play it this way. He loudly proclaims in an Oval Office press event he's going to show mercy to her, not deport her. Only because she is a Member of Congress. From then on, he and every Republican can call Omar the Dem congressman who owes Trump for letting her stay in the country. Despite her being deportable for lying on an immigration form about her second husband's ID because he is actually her brother. A clear-cut deportable offense. I'm sure Trump can can come up with a wicked nickname for her.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 03:29 PM (5rh/l)

125 Everyone is afraid to step on Muslim 's toes and tje Muslims love it that way.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 03:29 PM (qEb4U)

126 course almost earned a strip search because I forgot my cell phone in my shirt pocket triggered the sensor as much as the keys in my pocket and belt buckle.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:55 PM

Wow! I never thought about that.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (ao+in)

127 Cicero, lol.

I'll probably get cremated when the time comes.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (aJQbY)

128 Appropos of nothing, in the last couple years I've noticed some people try to argue - in light of how expensive fast food has become - that fast food "is supposed to be cheap", which I never found to be the case, but not only that, it was (they claim) cheaper to eat out at regular restaurants than prepare meals at home.

If that were ever true, nobody would have cooked at home in the first place. When I was a little kid we went out to a regular restaurant maybe a half dozen times a year. Probably not even that. It was a big deal, because we had to get dressed up, I probably had to take a bath.

McDonald's was a treat, because it involved relaxed grooming standards, just hop in the car with Dad and go pick it up. We did that about a half dozen times a year, maybe.

Parents in those days might have went out a bit more often, but generally feeding the family was not done at Burger King or McDonalds. Not even close. If it were cheaper - they would have done that, LOL.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (uozx9)

129 Do any First Worlders wear UNTUCKit shirts? I shan't believe that. Shan't.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (bX16E)

130 Jack Straw at #24: Thank you for that. What a beautiful two-minute intermission for the afternoon.

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (WBjaU)

131 For all the he men out there--When someone uses the word pedicure, that means cutting back your toenails.
Yeah, like when we get our pocket knife out and cut back our toenails when they get a bit too long. Can you believe some people PAY to have this done? First world indeed.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 03:31 PM (xJpuh)

132 glurp gleep glop

Posted by: Paul...who likes the flavor of his dog's excrement at September 13, 2026 03:31 PM (qIJYa)

133 After I retired, I got rid of all my suits, then most of my dress clothes, then most of my casual stuff too except for a couple of jeans and t-shirts. Eventually I will just wander around Wally World in crocs and an adult diaper and maybe a hoodie.

No one will notice.

Posted by: Overdressed at September 13, 2026 03:32 PM (cCXR+)

134 My favorite tie was a black one with the prism from Dark Side of the Moon printed on it. Being in IT all my professional 38 years working... I had one or two that had printed circuit board motifs.

Worked through the paisley, the stripes, the floral, the solid, the knits, the thin, the wide.... all those.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:33 PM (2Cry5)

135 Common Tater, they are mixing it up with the fact that fast food should be meaningfully cheaper than sit-down restaurant food. I cast my mind back to our poor days as children and realize we only went out to eat once every few months. I wonder if, after adjusting for inflation's ratios, today's "a week's meals for 1-2 fast food meals" is the kind of thing we had back then too... and I don't know because as a kid I never saw the prices, just the food.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 03:34 PM (aJQbY)

136 >>Jack Straw at #24: Thank you for that. What a beautiful two-minute intermission for the afternoon.

I usually hate when some "artist" sings the national anthem or America the Beautiful but I thought he did a great job. If I could sing like that I would never have had to wear a suit.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:34 PM (viF8m)

137 When I first moved to California it took me a year to notice I was the only one at work wearing a suit.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 03:35 PM (RIvkX)

138 Those Barney Miller ties of the 70's were an abomination.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 03:35 PM (GquHV)

139 I gave up and use paperclips. Just remember to take them out it the outline of a paperclip gets pressed into your shirt.

Posted by: BenMSYS at September 13, 2026 03:36 PM (vR93T)

140 Welp, it's time to deploy the dinghy to figure out why the motor likes to stall at inopportune times.

Later gators.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:36 PM (wpRMV)

141 I wore ties for a few years because I had to but as soon as I didn't anymore I got rid of them. What are they for anyway? The are just a dumb fashion thing.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 03:36 PM (MWfyi)

142 Jack Straw at #24: Thank you for that. What a beautiful two-minute intermission for the afternoon.
Posted by: Wenda

Agreed! The man can sing, doesn't mess with the pacing too much, and sings the 2nd verse! (Would love to hear him do *all* the verses)

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 03:37 PM (aJQbY)

143 128 Appropos of nothing, in the last couple years I've noticed some people try to argue - in light of how expensive fast food has become - that fast food "is supposed to be cheap", which I never found to be the case, but not only that, it was (they claim) cheaper to eat out at regular restaurants than prepare meals at home. [...]

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (uozx9)

I do not recall anyone making the claim that it was cheaper than eating at home. I do recall the claim being that it was cheaper than eating at the diners and restaurants, which was (and for the most part still is) true.

Posted by: goozer at September 13, 2026 03:38 PM (eTh1u)

144
I have two types of ties. There are the ones for church and there are ones for dog shows, which are patterned with dog motifs. They are frequently the occasion for compliments.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 03:39 PM (eRlcH)

145
Combining CBD two threads so far-

The KSA is the military equivalent of UNTUCKit collar stays.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 03:41 PM (iJfKG)

146 Worked through the paisley, the stripes, the floral, the solid, the knits, the thin, the wide.... all those.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Some of the wider ones from the seventies were almost wide enough to be used as a tablecloth. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 03:43 PM (lJ0H4)

147 Won't you STAY, just a little bit longer....

Posted by: Jackson Brownie at September 13, 2026 03:45 PM (Fn+3X)

148
4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.

___________

I am amazed at the number of posts I see saying that a 40-hour-week office job is like Auschwitz.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH)

149 So...
Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (2WIwB)

150 This used to be a decent blog, before they started catering to these people in jackets and ties!

Posted by: Hesh and Heidi at September 13, 2026 03:47 PM (Fn+3X)

151 Won't you STAY, just a little bit longer....
Posted by: Jackson Brownie

Ahem..

Posted by: Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (lJ0H4)

152 I pay a Chinaman to handle my shirts. She's on a DEPORT list, so prices are low.

Posted by: Hong Chinee Hand Laundry at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (Fn+3X)

153 Keep hearing new graduates want top dollar 20 year experience pay

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (qEb4U)

154
Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (2WIwB)

________

Full. Half Windsor is fundamentally unserious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (eRlcH)

155 they are mixing it up with the fact that fast food should be meaningfully cheaper than sit-down restaurant food.
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That might be part of it for sure. But I've read three different claims from people in widely different forums that it used to be cheaper to eat out at restaurants than cook at home. I can't see how that would ever be the case on any sort of extended basis. Again, if it were, then nobody would have cooked at home, ever.

The big draw, as I recall, if I didn't realize it at the time was giving dear old Mom a break once in a while, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:50 PM (uozx9)

156 Hell, if you must wear a tie, get a clip on. Life doesn't have to be complicated.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 03:51 PM (xJpuh)

157 If you need to undergird with underwire, things are dire, indeed.

Posted by: Speaker Emerita at September 13, 2026 03:51 PM (Fn+3X)

158 I know a fast food burger was 8 to 10 cents, while a sit down restaurant burger was 35-45 cents in 1968.
Low end was a Howdy's and Ho Jo's, high end was McDonalds and Bergsons.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 03:51 PM (sl73Y)

159 Wide lapels, wide ties, just looked goofy. Even in the 70s, even at the time. Mercifully it didn't last forever.

In recent years suit styles have trended towards the "hand me down" look, where they appear to be a couple sizes too small. That looks unnecessarily weird to me as well.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:52 PM (uozx9)

160 On the other hand, a Half-Nelson is fundamentally painful.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:53 PM (6ydKt)

161 Jack Straw,

If you could sing like that you'd be wearing very formal suits to sing at the White House.

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 03:53 PM (WBjaU)

162 I am amazed at the number of posts I see saying that a 40-hour-week office job is like Auschwitz.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Spoiled they are.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 03:53 PM (lJ0H4)

163 I don't think you can buy an extra BBQ sauce for anything less than .50 cents these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)

164 "Deploy the dinghy" sounds very naughty.

Posted by: The Vulgar Boatman.. at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Fn+3X)

165 Dryer balls solve these problems, supposedly.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)

Gold Bond, right.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (rbvCR)

166 I know a fast food burger was 8 to 10 cents, while a sit down restaurant burger was 35-45 cents in 1968
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But then, how much was a pound of ground beef? The nice thing about fast food wasn't that it was less expensive, it was tasty and ready to go, and no dishes to wash or kitchen clean up. But nobody ever claimed it was cheaper than eating at home until recently. It's just weird to hear people say something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (uozx9)

167 FWP: When you need a dremel to trim you toenails. I keeps the blood from leaking out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 03:58 PM (5C90x)

168 There are a lot of the online complaints about fast food prices around here.

But what's worse, was the constant begging for money. Money for food, for gas, for rent, for.... whatever. Hundreds of posts, most behind a fake name, over and over and over.

I'd get flamed to no end pointing out they have money for a cell phone and the connectivity to beg online, so maybe use that money to buy food instead of posting shit.

Reality sucks for these people.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:58 PM (2Cry5)

169 Speaking of dingy deployment, next weekend is the annual Newport Boat Show.

The stuff of dreams.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:58 PM (viF8m)

170 Have turtlenecks entered the conversation?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:28 PM (2WIwB)

you can make a very nice neck gaiter from the sleeve off of an old tee-shirt, you just need to sacrifice one of a color you like to cut up. It needs to be long enough to tuck into your jacket collar in front and back, and watch out if you use a pocket tee. (Though it might be good to have some spare place to hold your glasses and a couple ball point pens)

Also, I suggest you use one of your own shirts because every time you wear it you are essentially shoving your nose into an armpit, and it seems less offensive to me to use my own shirts.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

171 I remember not too long ago when you could get a fast food sandwich, fries, drink for around $7.50 with tax.

Now it's regularly double that.

There was never a time when you could eat for less money outside the home, unless by meal you mean a Coke and a pack of crackers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)

172 The Western world has lost sight of the importance of quality collar stays, and that way lies madness!

Posted by: CBD at 01:55 PM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Spats at September 13, 2026 04:01 PM (4NO2D)

173 > There was never a time when you could eat for less money outside the home, unless by meal you mean a Coke and a pack of crackers.
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RC cola and a pack of cigs. No need for food. At least for a couple hours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:02 PM (2Cry5)

174 Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (2WIwB)

Four in hand. Windsors are for people who care.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR)

175
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (XeU6L)

176 thing about fast food wasn't that it was less expensive, it was tasty and ready to go, and no dishes to wash or kitchen clean up. But nobody ever claimed it was cheaper than eating at home until recently. It's just weird to hear people say something like that.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM

It's a lie people tell themselves to get out of cooking and dishwashing. I helped a pal sort out his receipts and figure out a budget. He discovered his grocery spending would be 25% cheaper without pre-prepared foods ... and snacks like chips and cookies. The groceries were noticeably more expensive"snacky" when his son did the shopping.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (ao+in)

177 FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qEb4U)

178 Remember this moment. It might never come again your lifetime.

The New York Jets are in 1st place.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)

179 Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?
Posted by: Diogenes
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Reverse half-Windsor

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:04 PM (XeU6L)

180 In recent years suit styles have trended towards the "hand me down" look, where they appear to be a couple sizes too small. That looks unnecessarily weird to me as well.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:52 PM (uozx9)

I have often said the best fit says, "I normally wear body armor under this"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:04 PM (rbvCR)

181 Way back, the Steer In. Great burgers & fries, but busted for kangaroo meat.

Posted by: Pay or don't, your choice at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (NFX2v)

182 Another first world problem:
I read some guide that was describing "proper male grooming." Among the gems was the ability to tie a necktie. OK, fair enough - but the author stated that the point of the necktie should just brush the top of the man's belt.

WRONG! Everyone KNOWS that the point of the necktie should just brush the BOTTOM of the man's belt.

I don't know how I can ever bear to go outside again.

Posted by: NeighSayer at September 13, 2026 04:09 PM (bufu1)

183 Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?

Full Windsor for silk or similarly thin fabric. Reversed Half Windsor for heavier fabric. Four In Hand is for school boys.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 04:09 PM (vTZFs)

184
Full Windsor for silk or similarly thin fabric. Reversed Half Windsor for heavier fabric. Four In Hand is for school boys.
Posted by: Oddbob
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This is true.The knot chosen is dependant upon collar, and tie material.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

185 Easy fix. Starch your collars. Heavy starch.
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 02:04 PM (5rh/l)

What's a collar?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 04:55 PM (1z8ji)

186 Not that they would have been a great investment, but Rush Limbaugh No Boundaries Ties sell for good money on eBay.

Posted by: The 90s Called.. at September 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Fn+3X)

187 Laser cut your own out of metal, or have a company do it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:56 PM (O7YUW)

188 It used to be that you would go to a men's dress shop for tailored wear that had kits that included metal collar stays accompanied with cuff links and a tie chain.
Brooks Brothers comes to mind.
They also had a humidor cigar room with leather chairs to pass the time while the tailor performed his magic.
This service was available to anyone regardless of class.
Not so much anymore.

Posted by: John at September 13, 2026 10:42 PM (9NUKl)

189 Don't buy garbage brands of shirts...

Posted by: Lt. York at September 13, 2026 11:36 PM (85XFA)

190 There’s also the issue of collar fabric being too thin, and insufficient stitching as well, which causes tears in the fabric due to the collar stays!

Posted by: MN_Native1 at September 14, 2026 12:46 PM (nG1f0)

Saudi Arabia Is Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place...Oh Well!

Saudi Arabia's security and territorial integrity are inviolable, Prince Faisal declares at BRICS Summit

Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan emphasized that Saudi Arabia’s security, territorial integrity, and resources are inviolable. Addressing the 18th BRICS Summit meetings at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Sunday, the foreign minister emphasized that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states will not accept targeting of their territories or vital facilities, under any pretext or justification.

Prince Faisal said that the ongoing escalation in the region is contributing to an expansion of the scope of confrontation and increasing the risks threatening regional and international security and stability. He emphasized that priority must be given to de-escalation and to paving the way for political and diplomatic efforts.


Except...None of that is true. The Saudis have been unwilling to do what is necessary to end the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and the petroleum and other commerce that moves through the Gulf of Aden. They have punted again and again, and even in the face of attacks on Saudi Arabia itself has been curiously reticent, no doubt because they want someone else (read: the USA) to deal with the problem.

They have a large active-duty armed forces, modern weaponry, and the backing of the world. Yet they can't manage to tamp down the Houthis?

Why is that?

First...The Saudi armed forces are long on weaponry and short on fighting spirit. Second...Saudi Arabia loves to talk and negotiate and play the typical Arab long game. But the Houthis don't do any of that. Third...The Houthis are supported by Iran, and Saudi Arabia is ambivalent about Iran. Yes, they are afraid of Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions, but direct confrontation is not in their DNA. Fourth...The Houthis are tough fighters who are good at guerilla warfare and are holed up in the mountains. Beating them requires well-trained troops and the political will to complete the job...neither of which is in evidence in KSA.

And now there have been attacks from Iraq (probably on Houthi authority) on the alternative pipelines that bypass the Strait of Hormuz and send oil to the Red Sea. KSA has shut down those pipelines temporarily, but the attack sends a message that Saudi Arabia is no longer fighting on one front.

Years of accommodation to the various Islamist factions, both inside and outside of Saudi Arabia has created a massive network of quasi-government actors that have no fear of KSA, and are willing to act in their own best interests, knowing that Saudi vacillation, negotiation, and ultimately settlement will protect them.

And it couldn't have happened to a worse country. Remember, Saudi Arabia was the source of 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists, and there is ample evidence of internal involvement.

So...man up Saudi Arabia! It's your problem, and it is my most fervent hope that President Trump tells them to deal with it, because we won't!

Posted by: CBD at 12:05 PM




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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Buy popcorn

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:11 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. As was bin-Laden. Let them suffer.

Posted by: Cosda at September 13, 2026 12:12 PM (/TnVC)

4 The Saudis have not yet mastered crowd control for the Hajj. A modern military campaign is probably well beyond their abilities.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 12:14 PM (wpRMV)

5 This is what a (bizarre analogy) Byzantine royal family creates: everyone is afraid of what another branch of the family might be up to and nobody wants the military, probably under a particular branch of the family but too lazy to do the research, to have a seat at the table. Not sure it's fighting spirit or a short leash.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:14 PM (NcvvS)

6 Something else last night Mohammed bin Salman making some kind of 'other' arrangements that undermine instituting the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:15 PM (3oLMy)

7 The saudis are fat, lazy, oversexed bastards. Half of their country's population is imported labor, tells you all you need to know about them. Peacocks. Between them and the kuwaitis, I would not piss on them if their were on fire. Saddam was right to stomp a mud hole in the kuwaitis.

Also, why have the saudis gotten away with being a monarchy all these years? It's 2026, where is the call for democracy and elections in the kingdom?

Posted by: Saudis Are Dirt Bags at September 13, 2026 12:18 PM (cCXR+)

8 >>Saudi Arabia Is Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place...Oh Well!

Purely for humour: worked with a bunch of guys who could spit out a sarcastic 'Oh well!' with the best of them. One fine day, an older lady who worked with us, sorta, said, 'I hate it when you say 'Oh well'!' The two of us who were just outside her office looked at each other, grinned, turned to her, and said, 'OH WELL!'.

She was a little pissed about it.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:19 PM (NcvvS)

9 The Saudi armed forces are long on weaponry and short on fighting spirit.
Sums it up nicely.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB)

10 One would think that the Grand Mufti might have learned a thing or two about military organization from his buddy Adolph and passed it on to his successors.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 12:22 PM (wpRMV)

11 Saudi Arabia ain't gonna do squat.

Their entire world view is to use slave labor to take care of the dirty work.

Also, the Arabs are raiders and thieves.

Sure, they can be fearsome when they want to be--they conquered a lot of the Middle East and North Africa at one time--but they really don't embrace the "warrior ethos" that the United States military does.

(The Europeans used to have a similar ethos, but not so much any more.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 12:22 PM (FZ29D)

12 ...
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”

He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.

According to US outlet Axios, bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday to request US strikes on the Houthis, but the American president declined.
...
“They would much prefer not having us ​involved, and they’re letting most ships ​go ⁠through. There’s just one country that they’re not too happy with, and we’ll get ⁠that straightened ​out,” Trump said.
_timesOfIsrael

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:23 PM (3oLMy)

13
I read that during the recent Houthi advance to the Red Sea in Yemen, the Saudis did not embed Saudi forward air controllers with the Yemeni government forces, rendering Saudi air power largely irrelevant. Their fancy expensive military planes just sat it out. The Saudis kill act like they really don't want to win.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 12:23 PM (lsrsS)

14
The Saudis will fight to the last drop of someone else's blood.

Eurotrash sneer at Americans as trailer trash that won a billion dollar lottery prize. But, of course, we worked and built what we had. Without foreigners to develop anything, MENA would remain a wasteland populated by left-hand ass wipers.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 13, 2026 12:25 PM (eRlcH)

15 Morning all! Took alleve last night, nearly overslept, just got back from church and grocery shopping.

The Saudi armed forces are long on weaponry and short on fighting spirit.
Sums it up nicely.
Posted by: Diogenes

Indeed. No loot, no courage. Perhaps that is too dismissive but it seems to track with history to a point.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 12:25 PM (aJQbY)

16
/sock

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:26 PM (eRlcH)

17 This is not good.. Add in the rise in fuel prices and the threatened rise in Interest rates and our Mid-term prospects are not looking too promising....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2026 12:26 PM (+gK6I)

18 The saudis are fat, lazy, oversexed bastards. Half of their country's population is imported labor, tells you all you need to know
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Now do the U.S.A.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:27 PM (uozx9)

19 Can we ban the export of crude oil and force the seven sisters to build more light sweet refineries?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:28 PM (5Go8e)

20 17 This is not good.. Add in the rise in fuel prices and the threatened rise in Interest rates and our Mid-term prospects are not looking too promising....

Posted by: It's me donna
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Cheer up, we're winning.
Don't be downa donna.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:29 PM (3oLMy)

21
Took Her Majesty to the airport this morning, then proceeded directly to church for the 8:30 Mass. Very different congregation than my usual 7:00, younger and with more kids.

I actually sat up toward the front today - on a chair on the side, since I can't kneel any longer - whereas I usually sit on a bench in the back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:29 PM (eRlcH)

22 19 Can we ban the export of crude oil and force the seven sisters to build more light sweet refineries?

Posted by: Boss Moss
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Counter productive

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:30 PM (3oLMy)

23 A new Houthi social-media campaign features fighters overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait while threatening Saudi Arabia and boasting of control over Red Sea shipping.

One fighter declares that no Saudi ship — “not even a Saudi nail” — will pass until the siege on Yemen is lifted

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:32 PM (3oLMy)

24 I don't trust the Arabs one bit. But then I don't trust half of my own country either. And Canada is right out. At least some Mexicans are good people.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 12:32 PM (xJpuh)

25 BRICS is who... Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, or something like that? Have I got that wrong?

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2)

26 I don't trust them at all..we could do without Mecca and all it means

Posted by: night lifted at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (kJmLc)

27 The Saudi Royal Guard is an exception, but small.
Protection >> power projection.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (u82oZ)

28
BRICS is who... Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, or something like that? Have I got that wrong?
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2)

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)

29 Not so easy for Iran and Saudi to get at each other.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:36 PM (5Go8e)

30
Sorry, South Africa. Now also includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (eRlcH)

31 The only reason Saudi Arabia mattered for decades is the geological accident that they were sitting on top of huge amounts of oil reserves. Because of fracking and other technologies we have more now than they do…. If they had any brains they’d be fighting Iran. I don’t much care if they’re uncomfortable

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (M+uMR)

32 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)

Thanks for the info.

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (Oy/m2)

33 They are all moslems! Their favorite saying is something like, "Me and my brother against our cousin; me and my cousin against the world." Of course the saudi moslems aren't going to war with their houthi moslem brothers. They aren't going to war with their iranian moslem cousins, either. They'll let that dirty job for the infidel dogs, the kuffars, viz., us, if we're stupid enough to oblige. Bush played that game as did Obama (boy, did he ever!) and even now, Trump is going along with it to the extent necessary to smash iran. But he has seen that the saudis have no gratitude and he has scaled back his support for them.

Posted by: Steve (Retired/recovering lawyer) at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (nq64t)

34
In short, those nations that are Countries of the Future and always will be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:38 PM (eRlcH)

35
Also, the Arabs are raiders and thieves.

Sure, they can be fearsome when they want to be--they conquered a lot of the Middle East and North Africa at one time--but they really don't embrace the "warrior ethos" that the United States military does.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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This is what puzzles me a little. Raiders and thieves may be true, but someone sure expanded from that crummy peninsula across North Africa, up the Iberian Peninsula, up the Caucasus, all over the Sasanian Empire, etc etc. They grow up learning about "the openings," with their little history books full of drawings of guys brandishing their sabers as they ride horseback.

Oh well, if we're talking about the loss of some ancient fighting spirit, I could say similar things of a few European countries.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:38 PM (mmrXZ)

36 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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How many people were saying, BRICS were going to break the American Petro Dollar; that Benjamin would no longer be reserve currency? Boo Hoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (3oLMy)

37 Above all, the Saudis, just like the rest of the Arab world, are a bunch of lazy assholes that expect everyone else to do their work for them, as has been their custom for centuries.

"Inshallah."

Posted by: ballistic at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (oqH4h)

38 >>> 28
BRICS is who... Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, or something like that? Have I got that wrong?
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2)

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)

South Africa iirc.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (+fdRY)

39 Saudis foster Wahhabism, they are their own and the normals issue.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (NnhvP)

40 Hello?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (5Go8e)

41 Saudi Arabia is worried about their long term security and financial health?


Oh no!

Anyway. Fuck them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 12:41 PM (XNYK+)

42 >>>Oh well, if we're talking about the loss of some ancient fighting spirit, I could say similar things of a few European countries.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's possible that it was another group of Islamist's not Arabs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:41 PM (3oLMy)

43 The Saudis fought the Houthis before during the civil war in Yemen that started when Obama was in office.

They launched a bunch of airstrikes, even sent in some troops at one point, IIRC.

The Saudis have launched strikes against the Houthis several times over the course of this war with Iran, every time the Houthis launch missiles at Saudi oilfields, etc.

The Crown Prince is worried about things getting out of hand and he’ll have to get involved in a real war instead of tit for tat rockets & missiles.
Thats’s what it looks like to me, anyhow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (6ydKt)

44
why have the saudis gotten away with being a monarchy all these years? It's 2026, where is the call for democracy and elections in the kingdom?
Posted by: Saudis Are Dirt Bags

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There are calls, but... what do you think they (and the world) would get if there were elections? Princes elbowing each other out of the way is probably cleaner politics than what we've got in California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (mmrXZ)

45 .... and I'm slow.


While I think our shit-for-brains bureaucrats have overused "sanctions" and such, I also think BRIC should have left off that last letter - it sounds *so* much less impressive when you have All These Guys and then... South Africa.

Really???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (+fdRY)

46 11 member states 10 partners. Fingers Crossed.


Member States: Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates.Partner Countries: Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:43 PM (5Go8e)

47
It's possible that it was another group of Islamist's not Arabs.

Posted by: Braenyard

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The first big expansion ended about 750. They were Arabs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:43 PM (mmrXZ)

48 31 The only reason Saudi Arabia mattered for decades is the geological accident that they were sitting on top of huge amounts of oil reserves. Because of fracking and other technologies we have more now than they do…. If they had any brains they’d be fighting Iran. I don’t much care if they’re uncomfortable
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (M+uMR)
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Great point! I'd much rather our resources go to developing our petroleum industry stateside than having to go play Daddy to a bunch of tribes that have been at war with one another and with everyone else for centuries just so the monarchs can keep their private jumbo jets and cocaine/hooker habits funded.

Posted by: ballistic at September 13, 2026 12:43 PM (oqH4h)

49 When you've lost Uganda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:44 PM (5Go8e)

50
I see the Houthis are getting ready to become a nuisance. Ones the US Marines in theater can eradicate, esp. on that island they took over.

Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?

I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, Make sure there are only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.

Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:44 PM (u82oZ)

51 40 Hello?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (5Go8e)

Is it me you’re looking for?
https://youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (6ydKt)

52
How many people were saying, BRICS were going to break the American Petro Dollar; that Benjamin would no longer be reserve currency? Boo Hoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (3oLMy)

Brazil will never amount to anything. Russia is going down the tubes. The future of China is gloomy. A good chunk of South Africa's blacks wish the whites were still running things. Among them, only India has a chance but they have a long way to go to break through their social and moral morass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (eRlcH)

53 Hey Salty!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (Rln0i)

54
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates

wrong south...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (NnhvP)

55
So the lifeblood of the civilized world has to either flow past the Iranians (ships) or under the Saudis (pipeline)? Now there's a predicament.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)

56 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Sorry as well I see you caught it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (NnhvP)

57
wrong south...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (NnhvP)

*huffs indignantly*

I corrected it!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (eRlcH)

58 Resource surveys done in the 1960s showed the U.S.A. has proven reserves of coal, oil, gas, etc to last for centuries.

Why not use our own resources? The government ran out of gold by 1968 trying to defend the $35 currency peg, I think the middle east arrangements making the dollar the "reserve currency" for worldwide oil transactions, aka petrodollar was part of the deal with purchasing Saudi oil, and certain defense agreements. I think that's what Nixon and Kissinger and that gang accomplished.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (uozx9)

59
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

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Do we get to keep something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (mmrXZ)

60 Hello?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (5Go8e)

Is it me you’re looking for?
https://youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (6ydKt)
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lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (Rln0i)

61 The Umayyad Caliphate's forces, led by the general Tariq ibn Ziyad and later Musa ibn Nusayr, conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century, establishing Muslim rule known as al-Andalus.
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GPT-5.6Luna
They were Muslims of more than one ethnic background, mainly:

Berbers (Amazigh) from North Africa—Tariq ibn Ziyad, the commander who led the first major invasion in 711, was probably Berber.
Arabs from the Umayyad Caliphate—Musa ibn Nusayr, Tariq’s superior, was Arab, and later reinforcements included many Arab troops.
So they were not a separate religion “from Islam.” Islam was their religion; Arab and Berber described their ethnic or cultural origins. The conquest was carried out under the Arab-led Umayyad Caliphate, but a large portion of the soldiers were Berbers from North Africa.
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So it was the Berbers. Same one's our Marines fought in Tripoli.
Same one's that enslaved white Europeans and Americans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (3oLMy)

62 Thx CBD.
You'd think that with their money the Saudis would hire a mercenary force to deal with the Houthis.
Oh , wait. Would that be us?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (N2HNb)

63 South America, South Africa.
Tomatoes, Tomahtos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (6ydKt)

64 {{{Smh}}}

May you get a slightly used M-1 AFV in you front yard for Christmas. Plus needed parts and a passel of ammo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (u82oZ)

65 So the lifeblood of the civilized world has to either flow past the Iranians (ships) or under the Saudis (pipeline)? Now there's a predicament.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)

Mostly the lifeblood of Europe and parts of Asia.
Which both sucks for them and is a profit for oil producers that are not transiting Hormuz, the Gulf of Aden or Saudi Arabia

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (rbvCR)

66 There are calls, but... what do you think they (and the world) would get if there were elections? Princes elbowing each other out of the way is probably cleaner politics than what we've got in California.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (mmrXZ)

I have no great love for the House of Saud - but it's probably one of the most well run and stable governments in the Arab World. The tribalist societies cannot manage democratic structures in any form, so the only chance of stability is some kind of autocratic regime. I think Monarchy is a bit more stable and respectable than dictatorship, such as in Algeria and Egypt.

Our greatest long term mistake in Iraq and Afghanistan was convincing ourselves that the people there were capable of western political institutions.


Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:50 PM (edUvp)

67 Most Americans have no idea what that meant. One thing it has done, is give the ability for the government to "export" monetary inflation, as historically there was a huge demand for dollars outside the US, that circulate permanently outside the US. If you think inflation is bad, it would, and could, be exponentially worse.

If say, Peru wanted to purchase oil from Elbonia, they used US dollars to settle the trade. Oil was denominated in and traded or settled in US dollars.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (uozx9)

68 Smell the Glove

Guess who paid for a lot of GW 1?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (u82oZ)

69 So the lifeblood of the civilized world has to either flow past the Iranians (ships) or under the Saudis (pipeline)? Now there's a predicament.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)
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It does make it easier to understand why Jesus Christ was born in the Middle East.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (Rln0i)

70 @68 yup, the Bushes have to keep their oil money coming

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (N2HNb)

71 lol
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (Rln0i)

They’d put Lionel Richie in jail for stalking a blind woman today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (6ydKt)

72 Brazil will never amount to anything. Russia is going down the tubes. The future of China is gloomy. A good chunk of South Africa's blacks wish the whites were still running things. Among them, only India has a chance but they have a long way to go to break through their social and moral morass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (eRlcH)

I recall someone important said decades ago that Brazil is the Great Country of the Future - and always will be.
And I'll start thinking more highly of India when they finally master the Great Mysteries of modern sewage systems.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (edUvp)

73 no Saudi ship — “not even a Saudi nail” — will pass until the siege on Yemen is lifted
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That's an interesting statement. Houtis preceeded the Saudis.
Is it possible that, if the Saudis left Yemen undisturbed and Iran stopped funding fools, that the Houthi problem would disappear?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:53 PM (3oLMy)

74 May you get a slightly used M-1 AFV in you front yard for Christmas. Plus needed parts and a passel of ammo.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (u82oZ)
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lol

As someone who had to maintain all the test equipment just to run diagnostics on the Abrams, mush less the actual parts just for the turret alone...yeah, don't think Santa will be that generous this Christmas.

But a girl can dream.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:54 PM (Rln0i)

75 True, Saudi Arabia has a lot of influence because of the petrodollar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (6ydKt)

76 "Everything that guy just said is bullshit." Thank you Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinnie.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (wxsGM)

77 They’d put Lionel Richie in jail for stalking a blind woman today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (6ydKt)
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I was never a fan of the video, and that kinda tainted my view of the song, to this day.

Definitely creep vibes then, and now.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Rln0i)

78 And I'll start thinking more highly of India when they finally master the Great Mysteries of modern sewage systems.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Interesting country; it's got 2 official languages 2 unofficial languages and 23 other languages. It wasn't a country until Britain got hold of it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:56 PM (3oLMy)

79 I suspect Trump is going to slow walk any move by the US to do anything about the Houthi. What they have done is a huge problem for Europe and the Saudi's, but not so much for the US. And they're supposedly trying to damage Israel, and it doesn't hurt them at all.

I think Trump has been pretty pissed at the way the Saudi's to set their obviously worthless Mecca Accord with Turkey and Pakistan, while ignoring the Abraham Accord that Trump was trying to get them to sign on to. Well, now they can twist in the wind and ponder the error of their ways while Trump kicks back and whistles dixie. And the pain that the Euro's are going to feel is just sweet icing on the cake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:57 PM (edUvp)

80 @44. "Cleaner politics than we have in California."

Any politics anywhere is cleaner than California. That whole state needs to be in jail

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 12:57 PM (xJpuh)

81 Interesting country; it's got 2 official languages 2 unofficial languages and 23 other languages. It wasn't a country until Britain got hold of it.

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Alexander would have whipped it into shape had he lived longer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 12:58 PM (wpRMV)

82 I was never a fan of the video, and that kinda tainted my view of the song, to this day.

Definitely creep vibes then, and now.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Rln0i)

I liked Lionel, and the Commodores. It is a nice little love song, but that video was weird to me even as a kid. Dancing on the Ceiling was much better.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:59 PM (6ydKt)

83 We've already made a deal to let all of the somali pirates into our country, maybe we should make a deal with the Houthi and give them a stake in wisconsin. Democrats could make that happen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:59 PM (5C90x)

84 Tom Servo

Only the Polish have a large enough military to win against the Houthi's, even for the island in the Red Sea.
Alas, the entire EU does not have enough lift and logistics to move against north Yemen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (u82oZ)

85 The Crown Prince is worried about things getting out of hand and he’ll have to get involved in a real war instead of tit for tat rockets & missiles.
Thats’s what it looks like to me, anyhow.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (6ydKt)

It's commonly said that the Monarchy loves to buy fancy weapons and to create a palace guard that looks great on paper, but they're terrified of actually creating an effective Army. Because a talented general with a truly effective army could sweep away the Monarchy in an afternoon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (edUvp)

86 Why not use our own resources? The government ran out of gold by 1968 trying to defend the $35 currency peg, I think the middle east arrangements making the dollar the "reserve currency" for worldwide oil transactions, aka petrodollar was part of the deal with purchasing Saudi oil, and certain defense agreements. I think that's what Nixon and Kissinger and that gang accomplished.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (uozx9)

Yes, that was the agreement that allowed the end of Bretton-Woods agreement. It moved the collateralization of international trade from Gold to debt backed by the industrial capacity and ability to pay back debt by the US economy. Note, if Bulgaria or Burma had tried this it would not have worked since no one thinks the Rupee or Dinar had any real support.
The Petro-Dollar is faltering because foreign exchange is getting so fast and complicated the current Dollar system is not settling debts fast enough through central nodes.
The chances are that there will be the stablecoin that everyone is predicting, backed probably by Treasuries and Bitcoin, but all on chain and worked peer to peer

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)

87 I think Trump has been pretty pissed at the way the Saudi's to set their obviously worthless Mecca Accord with Turkey and Pakistan, while ignoring the Abraham Accord that Trump was trying to get them to sign on to. Well, now they can twist in the wind and ponder the error of their ways while Trump kicks back and whistles dixie. And the pain that the Euro's are going to feel is just sweet icing on the cake.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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It's almost as if gamed a probability.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (3oLMy)

88 Reminds me of the circa 1990 joke: What is the name of the Saudi battle anthem? "Onward Christian Soldiers."

Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2026 01:02 PM (B7yLN)

89 Well, now they can twist in the wind and ponder the error of their ways while Trump kicks back and whistles dixie. And the pain that the Euro's are going to feel is just sweet icing on the cake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:57 PM (edUvp)

I think you’re right.
Trump is taking names over Iran and the way countries are reacting.

That pact with Turkey, KSA, and Pakistan came out of nowhere. I wonder if it’s worth anything or just a statement piece.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)

90 Only the Polish have a large enough military to win against the Houthi's, even for the island in the Red Sea.
Alas, the entire EU does not have enough lift and logistics to move against north Yemen.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (u82oZ)

For all of Yemen, yes. But islands are easier - you cannot carpet bomb an entire country, but one island - not that difficult to erase everything on it and cut all supplies. It's a similar situation to Hormuz; in both cases I think it's a solvable problem to open the water way without having to completely take over the offending country.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:03 PM (edUvp)

91 We've already made a deal to let all of the somali pirates into our country, maybe we should make a deal with the Houthi and give them a stake in wisconsin. Democrats could make that happen.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:59 PM (5C90x)

Send both to China. I hear they like Muslims.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 01:04 PM (qx7Zg)

92 Our greatest long term mistake in Iraq and Afghanistan was convincing ourselves that the people there were capable of western political institutions.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Don't include me in your definition of "our".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Fv808)

93 It pisses on the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (3oLMy)

94 That pact with Turkey, KSA, and Pakistan came out of nowhere. I wonder if it’s worth anything or just a statement piece.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)

Over the last 3 days, Turkey and Pakistan to the Saudi's - "Yeah, I know we said we would support you militarily, but we didn't mean Militarily!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (edUvp)

95 At mu parents again, sister and niece are here too

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (qEb4U)

96 All of Yeman is like the Forbidden Zone from the Planet of the Apes.

Nuke it and no one will miss them.

Posted by: General Urko, Chief Of Security at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (cCXR+)

97 Don't include me in your definition of "our".
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Fv80

It would have been more accurate if I said "cultures".

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (edUvp)

98 Don't include me in your definition of "our".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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You are American, gringo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:06 PM (3oLMy)

99 Because a talented general with a truly effective army could sweep away the Monarchy in an afternoon.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (edUvp)

I guess that’s why you get a lot of prince’s playing general & admiral, too.

I don’t know much about MBS but he doesn’t seem like the army type.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:06 PM (6ydKt)

100 If say, Peru wanted to purchase oil from Elbonia, they used US dollars to settle the trade. Oil was denominated in and traded or settled in US dollars.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (uozx9)

The nicest thing about it is that the two countries don't have to settle in either their own currency, which has a cost because one or both of them will generate foreign exchange costs converting it to useful currency, or have to trade into a third party currency to settle the debts. Everyone has Dollar reserves.
There is still "friction" in settling, and that is an extra accounting cost.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 01:06 PM (rbvCR)

101 A complete aside to the thread topic, if the date in the IMDB.com database is correct, Barbara Bain is celebrating her 95th birthday today.

Congrats, Cinnamon Carter and Dr. Helena Russell.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 13, 2026 01:07 PM (iIyc0)

102 One thing I'm not smart enough to figure out is if, or when all those petrodollars could somehow return to the U.S.A. competing for goods and services. They've been deficit borrowing and spending since the early 1970s. That's a long time. If that happens, katy bar the door. Can you afford $300 a pound for coffee? I can't.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (uozx9)

103 Tom Servo

Even for an island. The Brits have SBS, Royal Marines, but no lift. Same with the French, Polish, and Italians. They need a nearby base for staging. I say Djibouti is not a solution.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

104 Over the last 3 days, Turkey and Pakistan to the Saudi's - "Yeah, I know we said we would support you militarily, but we didn't mean Militarily!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (edUvp)

“Sorry! Look in the fine print under ‘Grace Period’. We have until 2030 until we have to actually help you. See if you can get Trump to help.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:09 PM (6ydKt)

105 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

Israel or Jordan.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (k5CNB)

106 Even for an island. The Brits have SBS, Royal Marines, but no lift. Same with the French, Polish, and Italians. They need a nearby base for staging. I say Djibouti is not a solution.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

Isn't Djibouti run by Sheik Yerbouti?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (edUvp)

107 Victory has a million mothers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (Cqx++)

108 See if you can get Trump to help.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf
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The Houthis actually called Trump on the phone and asked him not to interfere. We haven't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (3oLMy)

109 The nicest thing about it is that the two countries don't have to settle in either their own currency
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It's "nice" for US politicians, which for the most part have no idea how any of this works. They think this "exorbitant privilege" will last forever, and/or there are no limits. There's a reason they felt comfortable allocating millions to interpretive transexual dance lessons to Peruvian farmers.

There is no way even a tenth of all this financial jiggery-pokery would have been possible over the years without the dollar reserve currency status. That which can't go on won't, but ... it's taking longer than we thought. When it all goes Tango Uniform it will likely be overnight, or at least "slowly at first, then all at once."

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (uozx9)

110 Djibouti may not be a solution but it sure is fun to say under the right circumstances.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:13 PM (6ydKt)

111 The lazy, dirty, corrupt Oil Ticks can go squeeze a breeze. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their concubines!

Posted by: Next Generation Carnac at September 13, 2026 01:13 PM (Fn+3X)

112 Fat chance the Brits or French staging out of Israel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (3oLMy)

113 Fracking has been a game changer for Geopolitics, no?

George P. Mitchell is the Father of Fracking. Few Americans know of him.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (fYaXJ)

114 The Chines have a base near to it. Let the Chines face off against the Muslims.

It’s not like the Chinese are getting a lot of oil from Iran anymore.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (u82oZ)

115 Ok, that's enough rain.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)

116 “The Chines,” is about as much respect as I can muster.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 01:16 PM (wxsGM)

117 George P. Mitchell is the Father of Fracking. Few Americans know of him.

Posted by: Ignoramus
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Subdivided the land where Exxon's campus resides.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:16 PM (3oLMy)

118 We don't need oil. We ride the bus!

Posted by: Hary Tattooed Hipster Doofus at September 13, 2026 01:16 PM (Fn+3X)

119 Headline (Just The News):

"New York Gov. Hochul's pardon ends Supreme Court case concerning bond rights for noncitizens"

Hochul pardoned a felon just as the US Supreme Court was about to hold a hearing on the case.

Excerpt:

"In late August, Hochul pardoned Keisy Guerrero Mariano, who had pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, a felony. Mariano was identified in court documents as "Keisy GM.""

Hochul hates her own subjects, and uses her pardon powers to prevent the extradition of illegal felons.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)

120 What a rancid wench

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:19 PM (uozx9)

121 I left and did a load of laundry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:19 PM (5Go8e)

122 They need allies. Know anybody?

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 01:20 PM (DXbAa)

123 Wait. BRICS has been around since 2009?

I feel older than my 29 years.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 01:20 PM (VHUov)

124 When it all goes Tango Uniform it will likely be overnight, or at least "slowly at first, then all at once."
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The machines will stop running, the pumps will stop pumping
We're All Going to Die!


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:20 PM (3oLMy)

125 The Houthis actually called Trump on the phone and asked him not to interfere. We haven't.
Posted by: Braenyard

We called him and asked him to keep not doing what he's already not doing, and he's still not doing it.

We're somebody! We're really somebody!

Posted by: The Houthis at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (VHUov)

126 None of the good countries joined BRICS.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (5Go8e)

127 Saudi called Trump and asked for immediate military help. Trump listened carefully...and sent half a dozen of advisors. lolol . BTW , what happened to the Arab NATO? ? the usual ?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (AKptf)

128
What about Turkiyay or whatever they call themselves?

Didn't they, the pakis and Saudis just sign a blood-oath alliance to the death to defend each other?

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:22 PM (Y8DZL)

129 *huffs indignantly*

I corrected it!

It's just a know problem with a half-duplex, high latency comms channel. Packets get out of order.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 01:23 PM (vTZFs)

130 That which can't go on won't, but ... it's taking longer than we thought. When it all goes Tango Uniform it will likely be overnight, or at least "slowly at first, then all at once."
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (uozx9)

Well, the globalists would like to fall back on the Euro or Yuan, but they’re both up to their necks in debt, too, along with the UK and Japan.

Eventually something will happen, war, debt collapse, hyperinflation, that will give them the chance to make an international currency, or at the least a new currency backed by the world bank, UN, and all the other acronyms. Like the BANCOR that Keynes wanted after WWII that was ignored in favor of the dollar.

It’s not always good to be the reserve currency.
It requires taking on debt, trade deficits, and inflation, to an extent, to be the reserve currency.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:23 PM (6ydKt)

131 They were training Egyptians Saudis etc how to use the good weapons back in the early 90s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (5Go8e)

132 127 Saudi called Trump and asked for immediate military help. Trump listened carefully...and sent half a dozen of advisors. lolol . BTW , what happened to the Arab NATO? ? the usual ?
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (AKptf)

It's really quite comical how the final scene in Lawrence of Arabia, where the Muslims try to unite and collapse into complete incompetence and chaos, is replayed in real life over and over again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (edUvp)

133 Didn't they, the pakis and Saudis just sign a blood-oath alliance to the death to defend each other?
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:22 PM (Y8DZL)

Somebody wanted to change a comma into a semi-comma and so they had to renegotiate the whole deal.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

134 The King and the Kingdom have proven they are less than worthless.

They will stab us in the back the minute it serves their interest.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (RIvkX)

135 I usually ask " who is this we your talking about?"

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:25 PM (qEb4U)

136 Mecca should have been glassed September 12, 2001.

Our world today would be more peaceful and stable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:25 PM (RIvkX)

137 It's really quite comical how the final scene in Lawrence of Arabia, where the Muslims try to unite and collapse into complete incompetence and chaos, is replayed in real life over and over again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (edUvp)

That film is brilliant.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (AKptf)

138
Saw where Trump is asking the Ukes not to go after diesel refineries.

When Russian tractors can't run and the harvest rots in the field shits' gonna get real.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (Y8DZL)

139 Tariff grain exports.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:27 PM (5Go8e)

140 Can a governor pardon a felon? I guess if she says so.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 01:28 PM (MWfyi)

141 They will stab us in the back the minute it serves their interest.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (RIvkX)


Yes, Alex, "What is an Arab?"

Alex: "Correct! For $400!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:28 PM (edUvp)

142 The Bedouin are basically nomadic, sand, pirates, so it’s to be expected.

That they’re sitting on some of the richest oil fields on the planet was either Allah’s blessing or God’s biggest joke on the rest of us.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:29 PM (6ydKt)

143 Counter productive

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:30 PM (3oLMy)

Should be possible to get a gallon or two of Diesel out of every Houthi you render down.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:30 PM (1z8ji)

144 Arab is also a verb.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (5Go8e)

145 Saw where Trump is asking the Ukes not to go after diesel refineries.

When Russian tractors can't run and the harvest rots in the field shits' gonna get real.
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (Y8DZL)
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It's impacting world prices. Russia is not the one with burned out fields, rotting harvests, bombed out cities and collapsed capital, begging for a frontline freeze (reject by Russia at the moment, until they get certain guarantees..)

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (AKptf)

146 fd

For state charges. ICE can still export his sorry ass.

Gov H’s move was to stop an adverse legal ruling in the SC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (u82oZ)

147 "You are a silly people." - T. E. Lawrence

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (36x1j)

148 Any serious or sustained conflict will wipe away the Saudi and Hashemite dynasties, and those states will become Syria writ large. Violent, tribal, fractured, and perpetually mired in internal squabbles.

Sounds like a win to me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)

149 You gotta be quick with the diesel extraction because those Houthis spoil easy under the desert sun.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:33 PM (6ydKt)

150 Fat chance the Brits or French staging out of Israel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (3oLMy)

Public vs. private contact is very different. Israel provides a huge amount of intelligence to UK and France.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 01:34 PM (k5CNB)

151 It's really quite comical how the final scene in Lawrence of Arabia, where the Muslims try to unite and collapse into complete incompetence and chaos, is replayed in real life over and over again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (edUvp)

That film is brilliant.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (AKptf)
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It reminds me of the final scene in Network with the communists arguing over shares and ratings.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:35 PM (RIvkX)

152 Diesel $6/Gallon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:36 PM (5Go8e)

153 I thought it was against AoS style guide to use the word ‘intelligence’ in the same sentence as UK and France?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:37 PM (6ydKt)

154 "Djibouti may not be a solution but it sure is fun to say under the right circumstances.
Posted by: SpeakingOf "
********
The right circumstance is not being stuck in Djibouti.

Posted by: Cosda at September 13, 2026 01:38 PM (kPZ+a)

155 With Islam everything is Allah's will. No matter how incompetent they are or how much they eff up, it was Allah's will, not their fault. And that is why Islamic nations governments and economies are ridiculous

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)

156 Britain, France are headed to tje Caliphate. Best not to rustle those feathers until then. Certainly know not to arouse them any more.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (qEb4U)

157 It reminds me of the final scene in Network with the communists arguing over shares and ratings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:35 PM (RIvkX)

I love that movie.

The big. bad, Black Panther discussing contract terms while chowing down on a bucket of KFC is so perfect I laugh every time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (6ydKt)

158 Is the east west pipeline attack a big deal?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:41 PM (5Go8e)

159 Mecca should have been glassed September 12, 2001.

Our world today would be more peaceful and stable.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:25 PM (RIvkX)

True, that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:42 PM (1z8ji)

160 The right circumstance is not being stuck in Djibouti.
Posted by: Cosda at September 13, 2026 01:38 PM (kPZ+a)

I’m sure they have petroleum based lubricants in Djibouti.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (6ydKt)

161 TodayIn Article Audio Player US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he had warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop "knocking out" diesel refineries in Russia because it was causing shortages and "hurting the world."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (3oLMy)

162 That film is brilliant.
Posted by: runner
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Lawrence died riding a JAP motorcycle.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

163 Rock? What rock?

Posted by: The Response at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (MWfyi)

164 3% decrease in world supply, 30% increase in price...interesting

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (AKptf)

165 They could have tested the Hydrogen Bomb.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (5Go8e)

166 I can't believe I'm saying this but 60 Minutes might be worth watching tonight. One of the pilots shot down over Iran who was on the run for 2 days before being rescued is being interviewed.

Sounds like an incredible story.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (viF8m)

167 Regular gas is $5.99/gal. in my suburb outside of Seattle. Had an errand about 18 miles away where I managed to fill up at $5.62/gal. Of course a large share of the price is caused by this state's sky high fuel taxes on top of a ridiculous "carbon auction" system, requiring companies that generate carbon emissions to bid periodically for the right to stay in business, and then they have to recoup what they paid by raising prices. Insane.

Posted by: Fritz at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (J7jo9)

168 They call that price elasticity I believe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (5Go8e)

169 Lawrence died riding a JAP motorcycle.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

A Brough Superior, IIRC, which had a JAP engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (1z8ji)

170 Still $4.00 here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:45 PM (5Go8e)

171 Lawrence died riding a JAP motorcycle.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

Most peculiar accident...

Posted by: UK Security establishment at September 13, 2026 01:45 PM (AKptf)

172 I read that 80% of the defenders were ghost soldiers. They drew Saudi paychecks but did not in fact exist.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at September 13, 2026 01:46 PM (UgMJ2)

173 Dude 44 Bravo

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:46 PM (AKptf)

174
I love that movie.

'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'
[scenes of TV's being thrown out of windows]

Posted by: Howard Beale at September 13, 2026 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

175 I feel for you guys.
Regular gas is still around $3.85 here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:47 PM (6ydKt)

176
A Brough Superior, IIRC, which had a JAP engine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yup, I know...but it was as close to a pithy remark that I could conjure up.

Posted by: Howard Beale at September 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)

177 OOOOOooooops /Beale

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)

178 The Saudi's military is an upside down pyramid, top heavy with brass and short on anything approaching front line troops.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Q/FnY)

179 60 Propaganda Minutes will still turn it into a damn he got away story

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:49 PM (qEb4U)

180 Be interesting to see how Bari Weiss is coming with the turn-around.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (3oLMy)

181 AOP - Have you finished with the Cu salvage?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

182 I see the Houthis are getting ready to become a nuisance. Ones the US Marines in theater can eradicate, esp. on that island they took over.

Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?

I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, Make sure there are only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.

Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:44 PM (u82oZ)

This is the way.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (S41Gd)

183 Well, I'm going to go outside and play with cars, and maybe mow a patch of weeds. I got the ingredients for stew in the slow cooker, so tonight's dinner will be yummy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:52 PM (1z8ji)

184 gasoline - $3.69 here

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

185 Network was like a satirical prophecy.
It made fun of the hypocrisy of left-wingers greedy for cash and fame combined with the ruthless capitalism that had gone international in scope along with a severe critique on television itself and how it had only just begun in the insanity it would foist upon America, while selling us everything we’d ever need or want the entire time.

I’ve watched in several times, over the years, for a reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:53 PM (6ydKt)

186 AOP - Have you finished with the Cu salvage?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

Done for the time being. Got $295 for the last tranche. I still have a large number of copper-bearing devices that could be rendered, but I did all the ones that were gathered up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:54 PM (1z8ji)

187 3.19 in Houston

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 13, 2026 01:55 PM (P4Pk9)

188
I can't believe I'm saying this but 60 Minutes might be worth watching tonight. One of the pilots shot down over Iran who was on the run for 2 days before being rescued is being interviewed.

Sounds like an incredible story.
Posted by: JackStraw

=================

With Bari Weiss at the helm, 60 Minutes might improve. But I'd like to know who the top reporter is on that story.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)

189 Gasoline is $1.55 loonies per liter, here. Works out to about $4.33 USD per U.S. gallon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (1z8ji)

190 I was in the oil bidness when we hit 30.00
That would be over a hundred today

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (P4Pk9)

191
155 With Islam everything is Allah's will. No matter how incompetent they are or how much they eff up, it was Allah's will, not their fault. And that is why Islamic nations governments and economies are ridiculous
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)

This is also why, whenever a Muslim army starts to believe the battle is going against them and that Allah’s will is for them to lose, they will all shuck off their uniforms, put on civilian clothes, and run away as fast as they can.

I suspect a lot of that has been going on in the areas that the Houthi are overrunning. It’s what happened to Assad’s army at the end.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (MQIju)

192 All of the Gulf Arab Oil States believe that is better that their armed forces are seen as unbeatable on paper, though untested, than tested and exposed as paper tigers for all to see.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (5rh/l)

193 being stuck in Djibouti."

Sounds.... well, you know.

As for the Saudis - that's part of a severely tribal area with borders overlaid by the Brits. Expecting any to act as a nation state is just stupid.

Posted by: man at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (pfXMo)

194 189 Gasoline is $1.55 loonies per liter, here. Works out to about $4.33 USD per U.S. gallon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (1z8ji)

How much of that is Federal & Provincial taxes?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (6ydKt)

195 Been $4,60, some have cheaper or cash only

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:59 PM (qEb4U)

196 A blind clock finds an acorn twice a day.

Bill Maher
@billmaher
The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:00 PM (ndZc7)

197 In reality, Yemen isn't even a nation and even in the superficial sense it hasn't been for more than 30 years, remember, they are the fuckers who sank the Cole. FUCK Yemen, and Fuck Saudi for keeping them as they exist filled with terrorists and being used as a training ground against a weak "government" fighting to hold it's little bit of graft in place. The "civil war"/tribal combat between sand monkey mother fucking piece of shit followers of a pedophile has been extended for so long and it only serves 3 purposes. To train terrorists, to give western lefties a call for the attrocities of war (pretty much every lefty mentioned Yemen as an example until october 7th) and to sop to Iran.

Fuck Yemen. At ANY time, the Houthi's could be shut down, the idea of "the mountains" is bullshith. because what gives the Houthi's standing is their coastal hold, and the fact that they have about 2/3's of the fucking nation. It's EASY to kill them, nobody does it.

The US's participation in that ended after GW didn't fucking crush them after the cole, it's up to them, but Saudi could walk in with little effort and fucking crush them, but they are cowards like all of their ilk.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:02 PM (cZv+N)

198 If Saudi does nothing? They just continue to show their colors. Yellow and red, cowardice and betrayal.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:02 PM (cZv+N)

199 For those who even paid attention in history class all they heard about was everything America has done wrong,

The culture itself has reinforced that image for their entire living memory.

It’s not surprising the younger generation aren’t as patriotic, it’s unpopular in a lot of circles to be.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (6ydKt)

200 Toss in, that the inbreaders and the rest of the world of cowards are the only ones suffering, I don't give a fuck. In the US you (I live in Australia, fuel is expensive) are paying more for gas, but you know what? You got it, and we (I'm still pretty fucking American) can pay a little extra, just look at your fucking sushi bill, to get to work, where we make things, like PETROLEUM PRODUCTS at a rate far more efficient, cleaner and without concern if some tribal cunts want to step on our heal.

Fuckem.

I used to be an LIB when it came to US politics, now I'm FUCKEM when it comes to international politics.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (cZv+N)

201 Done for the time being. Got $295 for the last tranche.
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Hmm. So, (?) ~ 600lbs.? Lotta copper.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (XeU6L)

202 In the 60s Nasser of Egypt used poison gas in Yemen. Hmmm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (N2HNb)

203 wickedpinto, it may be that having that threat poised on a major choke-point ready to spin up in case anything gets too calm or collected in another area is too good of a deal to do anything about it.
There are accusations that Lloyds' of London and the City of London banks prefer seeing things like that in reserve in case a crisis is needed for some reason.

Of course that would require the mindset that this is a crisis fomented for money, share prices and international influence, and not one for liberation, autonomy and self defense in a far-off land.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (rbvCR)

204 Speakingof:

I've had conversations with Australians about this, concerning how devoutly American I am, and I ask the most simple question, "How many people do you know in the military?" (to the Australians.) VERY FEW people even KNOW a single person who has ever served, EVER and they have to reach back to their grandparents in a lot of cases.

The complete isolation of service away from the populace is a MAJOR measure in that I believe. Every Man on my fathers side of the family who wasn't gay served, every man who married into my mothers side of the family served. Service isn't in my blood, it's in the blood of most everyone I ever grew up with.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (cZv+N)

205 OK, OK, so I may watch the Harry Potter reboot.

“Matrix” Director Lilly Wachowski Accuses “Harry Potter” Fans of “Supporting Trans Genocide”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (ndZc7)

206 Kindltot, the DEUCE YOU SAY!

LLoyds might be the ones REALLY manipulating oil prices? I shall Shat myself upon any information that might prove that, brb I have to change my pants.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:13 PM (cZv+N)

207
How much of that is Federal & Provincial taxes?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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FWIW: Gas Taxes by State, 2026

https://tinyurl.com/4hcnfc38

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 02:14 PM (XeU6L)

208 Anonosaurus wrecks, I will watch it when it starts. I can't speak for the kids, but they look the part, as for everyone else, the acting is there, that's the big problem with the stunt casting of black snape, he seems like a decent actor, just in THE WRONG FUCKING PART!

It's like casting Christopher Walken as Kitty Pride.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:14 PM (cZv+N)

209 Ewwwww.

Canada Accelerates Efforts to Join EU as Relations With U.S. Deteriorate

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)

210 LLoyds might be the ones REALLY manipulating oil prices? I shall Shat myself upon any information that might prove that, brb I have to change my pants.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:13 PM (cZv+N)


Everyone knows oil prices are manipulated by the Chinese and OPEC!

The number of people willing to call me a paranoid fool for believing this of Lloyds' and the City of London is up there with the number of people who think I am a paranoid and delusional fool for thinking that Churchill was trying to get FDR to cover the Bank of England's expected default after the end of WWII.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)

211 the big problem with the stunt casting of black snape, he seems like a decent actor, just in THE WRONG FUCKING PART!

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Could've been Eliot Page.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (ndZc7)

212 Christopher Walken has phrasing ability, maybe that is enough?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:19 PM (rbvCR)

213 Don't have HBO but a black Snape being bullied by Harry's father is going to be "problematic"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 02:19 PM (N2HNb)

214 My father was in the Army along with a brother of his, and another brother was in the Air Force.
The older brother in the Army was in Korea and Vietnam, and rose to Sgt. Major.

I guess here now it depends on where you live as to how many know military veterans.

A lot more veterans from the South and Mid-West and flyover country than the bluer areas on the map.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:22 PM (6ydKt)

215 I lived in Saudi decades ago as an advisor. One of the primary reasons their military is basically worthless is Inshallah. It's essentially an attitude that translates to "I don't give a shit" because anything that happens is god's will so I don't really need to lift a finger...or be diligent or care, about anything.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (FMZSx)

216 The left are always whining.

Left-Handed iPhone Users Raise Discrimination Concerns Over Foldable Models Designed for Right-Handers

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:24 PM (ndZc7)

217 First world problems are later on today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:27 PM (6ydKt)

218 Of course that would require the mindset that this is a crisis fomented for money, share prices and international influence, and not one for liberation, autonomy and self defense in a far-off land.

Posted by: Kindltot
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This lady get it
This is the second time mentioned (before Kindltot) a transfer from a British, rules based system, to an American production system. Never heard of a British rules based system or that we were following it.
Anyway, it’s a clear and clean presentation.

https://tinyurl.com/c734478h

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:27 PM (3oLMy)

219 He says 35 minutes after the First World Problems post.

You non-noodin bastages.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:29 PM (6ydKt)

220 "About 50% of RA(Regular Army) recruits come from the following ten states:
     Texas (13.5%)
    Florida (10.0%)

     California (10.0%)
     Georgia (5.4%)
New York (4.5%)     

North Carolina (4.3%)
     Virginia (3.1%)
     Ohio (2.7%)
     Illinois (2.6%)

Arizona (2.4%)"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (XeU6L)

221 @chairborne

I saw a "documentary," back in '95 about, I forget the name of the town on the border of Iraq and Saudi during the first Iraq war, it was the first time we lost troops in a measureable number and it was the town where we had an F-15 get damaged and it had to limp back home, I think that was a friendly fire.

Anyway, in the docu it was about what a complete shit show the situation was for such a small target when they were talking to the US guys, and then you go to the Saudi's "It was the first time we took part in the conflict and it showed we can fight."

FUCK YOU Cousin Fucker, FUCK YOU! You make things worse all around.

I am not a bigot, You are inferior, I FUCKING am not going to allow kindness to interfere with my expressions anymore. I'm old, I'll be dead before long, don't have the energy to waste lying.

Fuck Africa, Fuck all the cousin and sister fuckers and brother marry'ers, and fuck the outright bigoted without reason racially superior asians.

And FUCK the Fey ass bitches in Europe who keep getting into fights with eachother because it's always a slap fight and a strongly worded letter. FUCKEM.

The FUCKEM Party.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (cZv+N)

222 Left-Handed iPhone Users Raise Discrimination Concerns Over Foldable Models Designed for Right-Handers
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It does all sound rather sinister

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (uozx9)

223 Did I just burn the thread?

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 03:27 PM (cZv+N)

224 Saudi Arabia never punished any of the people who financed 9/11
Saudi Arabia never punished any of the people who financed the Dunni who killed many US military in Iraq.

But because of their oil Trump kisses their anus on command

Posted by: Paul at September 13, 2026 03:57 PM (hN/JE)

225 223 Did I just burn the thread?
Posted by: wickedpinto

no, that smell of burning offal is just Paul again.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (88C+u)

226 Regular gas is $5.99/gal. in my suburb outside of Seattle. Had an errand about 18 miles away where I managed to fill up at $5.62/gal. Of course a large share of the price is caused by this state's sky high fuel taxes on top of a ridiculous "carbon auction" system, requiring companies that generate carbon emissions to bid periodically for the right to stay in business, and then they have to recoup what they paid by raising prices. Insane.
Posted by: Fritz at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (J7jo9)

$4.35 today at local Quick Check.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 13, 2026 04:56 PM (hmYU4)

227 When did the purchasing of mercenaries stop? I mean, if they don't have the cajones ( and it seems they do not ) to take care of the houthis, then buy someone who does.

They don't even seem to have the stones to do that. The best thing they could do would be to hire israel to do it and sell them a bunch of land. Maybe sell israel the southern corner at the gulf of Aqaba.

Posted by: dude1394 at September 13, 2026 05:09 PM (Q0olq)

228 Several years ago, my brother trained with Saudi pilots in F-16's. After one KSA pilot made a hard landing, he responded to criticism by saying it was "God's Will" that he landed hard.... the follow up criticism was: "if you had pulled back more in the throttle before landing, it would have been god's will for you to not have a hard landing...". That summed up the KSA military's attitude....."It's not my fault!"

Posted by: Awp at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (KrNDS)

229 The Saudis were fighting the Houthis from 2015 to 2019.
With a coalition of Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt, and some other African countries.

Then a few bad air strike targets, the usual NGO and UN condemnation, and sending money to the ayatollah took precedence over bowing to the Saudi king.

Another couple of incidents along with suspicions of territorial aspirations and Trump was never able to provide support before the Steal ensured the Saudis were on their own. The Saudis made a deal and dropped out of the civil war, leaving the Houthis to win.

It would be great if the KSM started up again, but with Vance in the wings with Carlson lurking behind him, he is clearly a bit gun shy at the moment.

Posted by: Sam at September 13, 2026 07:44 PM (7jMef)

Sunday Morning Book Thread 9-13-2026 [Sabrina Chase]

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Writer getting ideas, 1947, colorized

Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts.

As I may have mentioned previously, I am a writer. I thought the esteemed Morons of the Book Thread might be interested in some of the inner workings of the authorial process, so now it is time for some Dark Writer Secrets, or ...

How Writers Get Their Ideas

Writers have lots of ideas. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Ideas that we think we can write a good story about in the time available are...less so. The non-writing public, not seeing the whining and crying and hair-pulling we do at the computer, think it is just sitting back and thinking Big Thinks and fame and fortune arrive by cargo ship.


I have performed as a Tame Writer for high school English classes, and it is all very well to see a real breathing person who has written a book. That gets me polite interest. But what gets them enthused is when I demonstrate, right there in front of them, how to get a story idea.

What I usually do is ask them to give me three nouns. Any nouns. And then I show them the brainstorming process that gets me to a narrative that holds together as a story, including tossing out the first or even second idea, because if it was easy for me to think of then someone has probably already done it and better than I can. No, I want the unusual, oh yeah that's Sabrina for you story!

One I remember went like this:

Nouns: Seahawks, Spongebob Squarepants, and Paris (the kids were giggling with glee when they came up with these too)

What I came up with: The NFL has decreed that all team mascots must be real things, and if they are not the team merchandise will be immediately confiscated resulting in mass nudity in Seattle, because nobody has seen a Seahawk! But to the rescue comes the Cousteau society (based in Paris) seeking a mysterious being named Spongebob Squarepants and very knowledgeable about sea life, who can find an actual Seahawk to prove it is real!

They thought this was hilarious.

That said, I don't usually come up with my book ideas with the three-noun method. It's more of a writing exercise to get the writer out of the depressive fits we are prone to. My method is to create movie scenes in my head while listening to music, and create plots from that.

I will confess my Argonauts of Space series started off as revenge for Pluto getting demoted from planet to planetoid, though. I thought, "what would make them beg to call it a planet again... ooh, I know! It's really an ancient alien spaceship! Hmm. And why is it there? It got left as debris after a war." And it all sort of cascaded from there ... and because I am what is politely called a "discovery writer" (but what writers call "pantser", as in "seat of the pants") by the end of the first book I had space Neanderthals and machine telepaths and the vital importance of corn muffins. I dunno about my mind, I just visit...

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Diagon Alley maybe.

Posted by: Bryce at September 13, 2026 09:00 AM (5GspC)

3 NYC, John Deere, Twinkie

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (MWfyi)

4 A writing professor buddy of mine has suggested to his students that one way to become a good writer is to play role-playing games.

That's a collaborative story-telling exercise.

I know of several fantasy writers who have used this method to great success (Raymond E. Feist, Steven Erickson & Ian C. Esslemont, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, to name a few)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (FZ29D)

5 I read once in a book review column that "Blank paper is God's way of showing you that it's not so easy to be God."

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:03 AM (AAaj3)

6 Besides still reading Winston Churchill The Gathering Storm, at Sept 1938 in the book, found my reading glasses after being in a pocket, go through wash, hung outside for hours then in dryer heard a clanging. They seem fine so good to go and cleaned somewhat.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Boookkkkzzzz!

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 13, 2026 09:05 AM (Ydd86)

8 Good Sunday morning, horde!

I love that picture. But I'm a Cold War spy novel aficionado, so it would appeal. Because that's what it looks like.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (CjHsb)

9 Honestly, some ideas just appear in my head. Either a whole story, or parts of one: how to solve a problem in the story, or plot points to expand the story. Usually used when I think the word count isn't going to meet the standard for the genre.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

10 I've been enjoying booktoober Jake's channel "BookMortem", in which he explores the pulpier shores of SF and Fantasyland.

"9 So Bad, they're Good Science Fiction Books you've probably never heard of"

https://tinyurl.com/h29uxu7z

The Red Planet
Invaders from Rigel
Man of Many Minds
Genesis Five
Shoot at the Moon
Secret of the Black Planet
Night Mare
The Four Day Weekend
Galaxy 666

The joke's on you, Jake. I have some of these! I dug out "The Robot Brains", "Secret of the Black Planet", "Man of Many Minds", and "Invaders From Rigel" for my next reads.

"The Robot Brains", by British SF author Sydney J. Bounds, was written in the 50's but feels like it's from the 30's. Top scientists on the cusp of technological breakthroughs are being decapitated by rayguns. There are evil giant-brained dwarves and a modern day Mongolian khan who wants to rule the world.

It's really bad, but at least it doesn't take 500 pages to stink up the joint.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (kpS4V)

11 Morning, Sabrina.

Howdy, Horde.

If memory serves, Harlan Ellison used to answer the where do you get your ideas question by saying there was an idea service in Schenectady and he sent them $$$ and they sent him a fresh six-pack of ideas every week. He also said that he was frequently asked for the address.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (q3u5l)

12 3 NYC, John Deere, Twinkie
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (MWfyi)

Midnight Cowboy has already been written.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (CjHsb)

13 I love that picture. But I'm a Cold War spy novel aficionado, so it would appeal. Because that's what it looks like.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (CjHsb)

Oh, have you read my cold-war era short story? "A Piece of Cake?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

14 Marketing literature can be tricky. You have to sell the book but not give away the whole story. That's the case with "The Mugger," an early 87th Precinct police procedural by Ed McBain. Some creep is robbing and punching women, then bowing and thanking them. That's all in Chapter One. Meanwhile, the text on the page before the title page tells of a teenage girl who's been clubbed to death. I assume the mugger has crossed the line. Then again, maybe not?

By the way, Inspector Jacques Clouseau comes out triumphant in "The Pink Panther Gets Lucky" through sheer dumb luck. Definitely dumb.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (AAaj3)

15 Oh, have you read my cold-war era short story? "A Piece of Cake?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

I don't think so, do you have a link?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)

16 If memory serves, Harlan Ellison used to answer the where do you get your ideas question by saying there was an idea service in Schenectady and he sent them $$$ and they sent him a fresh six-pack of ideas every week. He also said that he was frequently asked for the address.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (q3u5l)
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That sounds exactly like an idea Ellison would use in a story...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (FZ29D)

17 "Midnight Cowboy has already been written.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! "

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (MWfyi)

18 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading. Or listening if your books are recorded.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 09:10 AM (yTvNw)

19 For a change, I'm wearing pants. I'm about to head out to an arts festival, so my beloved book thread robe would not suffice.

Tally Ho!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (kpS4V)

20 Not familiar with Book Mortem, but I'm pretty sure I read Man of Many Minds during my misspent youth when I was devouring all the paperback sf I could scrounge up. Recall nothing about it, but that title sounds like one I had in the pile.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (q3u5l)

21 From the dank alleyway of a run down city:


"Psst... Hey buddy, want to buy a couple of ideas?"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)

22 From the dank alleyway of a run down city:


"Psst... Hey buddy, want to buy a couple of ideas?"
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
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Sesame Street used to have a sketch where a shady-looking character would try to sell letters of the alphabet to one of the regular characters (Ernie? Bert?)..

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (FZ29D)

23 I don't think so, do you have a link?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)

Rejected by all so far. I can email it to you, if you want.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

24 4 "Perfessor" Squirrel
A writing professor buddy of mine has suggested to his students that one way to become a good writer is to play role-playing games.

It is a *great* way to learn to write in-depth (as opposed to paper cutout) characters. If the DM insists you roleplay, that is. I also participated, as a GM, in a large live-action roleplaying game where the participants picked their own character and we, poor sods, had to come up with storylines for ALL of them. Together. Over a hundred. Really built up my writing muscles with that one!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (k+oif)

25 Reading "Infinity Upgrade" by JN Chaney and Rachel Aukes. In a planetary system essentially owned by an evil, murderous corporation, a regular Joe has a self-aware AI downloaded into his brain by a dying rebel inventor, and much mayhem and hijinks ensue.

Not bad so far, though I do grow weary of the evil, murderous corporation trope. Chaney has so many different sci fi series that I doubt I could read his entire output if I lived another 50 years.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 13, 2026 09:18 AM (/RHNq)

26 I don't delve into the fantasy genre much, but my offspring and I have a sort of family book club, and they've had me reading a series by Robert Jackson Bennett.

The first installment is The Tainted Cup. It's a genre mashup, because it's fantasy setting, but with a murder mystery/detective theme, so it's in a class of its own.

There is the obligatory gay character, which I'm sure had to happen to get the thing published. It's not in your face all the time, so tolerable.

Anyway. We're reading the third and latest in the series now, A Trade of Blood. It's a tale of feuding families, lost fortunes, and a unique and creepy biological warfare.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (CjHsb)

27 Ellison wasn't really joking. Back in the pulp era there were classified ads in the magazines for books of story ideas. "Plotto" by William Wallace Cook was one. You could buy ideas, hire a ghost writer to turn them into stories, and they pay a vanity press to publish them.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (78a2H)

28 "Once participated" in an RPG.

This indicates that the group fell apart. What happened?

There's a germ of a story idea.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (AAaj3)

29 That said, I don't usually come up with my book ideas with the three-noun method. It's more of a writing exercise to get the writer out of the depressive fits we are prone to. My method is to create movie scenes in my head while listening to music, and create plots from that.

I'm constantly (or nearly so) depressed, so that wouldn't work for me. It's interesting you mention movies, though, as that's one of the ways I can tell whether a scene I am writing works or not - if I can 'see' it, with jump cuts, closeups and other camera movement, then it's good.

I don't often listen to music while I'm writing, but if I do, it's always Baroque, which is close enough to white noise that it doesn't distract me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (qRla/)

30 Rejected by all so far. I can email it to you, if you want.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

Absolutely! My email is in my nic.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (CjHsb)

31 When the femme-fatale romance novelist came into my office, I could tell she didn't want to be there. The office and the building -- hell, the whole neighborhood -- were as low-rent as I was, and she was clearly afraid it might be contagious. I put away the bourbon and asked what I could do for her, and managed not to leer as I asked her.

"I need you to find out who's running a black-market idea service. It's hurting business, and we need it shut down."

"So why come to me?"

She looked at me, and at the office. "You look like you're right at home in those circles. So why not? If you want the job, the pay's good. And you look like you could use it." She took an envelope from her purse. "Ten thousand when the job's done. Here's two thousand in advance and a bus ticket to Schenectady. Take it or leave it."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (q3u5l)

32 This indicates that the group fell apart. What happened?

There's a germ of a story idea.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (AAaj3)

One by one the members of a RPG group suddenly start dying in ways that would only happen in the game....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (1Ff7Z)

33 For a change, I'm wearing pants.

Well, that's a disappointment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:23 AM (qRla/)

34 Anyway. We're reading the third and latest in the series now, A Trade of Blood. It's a tale of feuding families, lost fortunes, and a unique and creepy biological warfare.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (CjHsb)
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I just got that the other day!

Now I'm re-reading the first two before I read that one.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)

35 I used to make up stories for my kids using the "That reminds me of the time I worked at the ______ factory" premise. I would start out with something like candy corn and say "That reminds me of the time I worked at the candy corn factory" and they would know a story was coming about how I caused some disaster there and got fired.

Like when I worked at the candy corn factory and invented Candy Corn Candles. People couldn't tell the difference and ate them anyway.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MWfyi)

36 "As I may have mentioned previously, I am a writer."

Actually, I think you under describe yourself. You have books available for purchase. That makes you an author. Writer, to me, means someone who has completed works, but hasn't published. Everyone can be a writer, but only the best - or luckiest - writers get to be an author.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (1Ff7Z)

37 Morning, folken,

I'm finishing Stephen Hunter's The Bullet Garden, a WWII adventure with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father, tracking a sniper team in France just after D-Day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)

38 Harlan Coben, who has sold 100,000,000 books, has written a book on writing, Plot Twist.

https://tinyurl.com/5fpvsx6k

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (ndZc7)

39 A NICKEL!?!

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (szk5e)

40 It would have been ok except for the wicks.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (MWfyi)

41 Albert Campion has been asked by a friend from college to investigate the disappearance of his fiance's uncle. Before he even arrives in Cambridge, the body is found, and the trouble truly begins. In Police at the Funeral, Margery Allingham brings the reader a chaotic mystery that defies a simple explanation.

Great aunt Caroline is the matriarch of a dysfunctional family, and the widow of a famous professor at Cambridge. She wanted Campion involved to forestall police involvement and keep the situation quiet, but after Uncle Andrew's body is found tied with rope and a bullet hole in his head, and her son William was the last to be seen with him, it becomes impossible to keep things under wraps. William's army pistol is missing, and a shank of rope from the attic is gone as well, which all point to William.

All of Caroline's adult children sponge off of her and live in the same house in a festering atmosphere. When yet another death occurs in the house, it seems that a curse has fallen upon the family, and Campion must use all of his intuition and skill to break open the case and find the answers, however fantastical they appear. This is a classic Campion mystery.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (0U5gm)

42 Not a lot of reading this week. Revisited Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and one of his later novels -- July, July. Still good after all these years.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (q3u5l)

43 Now I'm re-reading the first two before I read that one.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)

I think the series is improving as he goes. This has been the most interesting one to me, so far.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (CjHsb)

44 and because I am what is politely called a "discovery writer" (but what writers call "pantser", as in "seat of the pants") by the end of the first book I had space Neanderthals and machine telepaths and the vital importance of corn muffins.
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This can work for some writers, but the conventional wisdom I've seen for novice authors is to plan, outline, and organize as much as possible.

Usually advice from established authors who got their start doing that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (FZ29D)

45 Candy corn candles. You held them by the wick to keep your fingers from getting sticky.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:29 AM (AAaj3)

46 As for reading, I'm slowly going through David Thomson's new A Sudden Flicker of Light and am reminded, once again, why I could never have been a film student. The book is so dense and elliptic that it's very off-putting. I suppose a pro like TJM would understand it, but I don't.

And with him being a committed leftist, I did flip ahead to the last chapter, which is nothing more than a movie-centered screed against the 'dumb' DJT. So I know to skip that when I reach it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:29 AM (qRla/)

47 I am still reading a translation of M. Luther’s advent sermons. He has begun the good works/ free will argument.

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (/Chlc)

48 It would have been ok except for the wicks.

Candy with free flossing included! What's not to like?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)

49 35 I used to make up stories for my kids using the "That reminds me of the time I worked at the ______ factory" premise.

Like when I worked at the candy corn factory and invented Candy Corn Candles. People couldn't tell the difference and ate them anyway.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MWfyi)

LOL. I'll bet they cherish the memories. What a great dad thing to do!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (CjHsb)

50 Candy Cirn Candles story is funny

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 09:32 AM (Ia/+0)

51 After putting it aside for the better part of a year, I finally finished reading the comic book series "The Maze Agency." It is a mystery series written in its entirety by Mike Barr, and initially drawn by Adam Hughes, and then a succession of lesser artists. It has been mentioned on this thread before (by one of our many mystery aficionados) and that is the whole reason I heard of, and then read the series.

While some of the stories were fun, as a whole the stories suffered for being a comic book. Specifically, the pacing suffers. The author wanted every issue to be a complete story, and wanted every story to hit all the story beats of a traditional mystery; it'd start with a vignette showing the detective's personal life, then something connecting the detective to the mystery, explaining/showing the crime that created the mystery, investigation the possible suspects and motives, introducing a red herring or two, the big reveal where the detective solves the mystery, and then a coda going back to the detective's personal life. You can put all that in a novel, or in 40-minute tv show...but it's a bit much to pack into a 22-page comic book.

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 09:35 AM (3v7ra)

52 >> I read once in a book review column that "Blank paper is God's way of showing you that it's not so easy to be God."


Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 09:36 AM (rOKnE)

53 Roger Ebert has said one of his guilty pleasures is how movies portray writers writing. Sometimes it's pounding at a typewriter while throwing back Jack Daniels; sometimes it's walking with your dog around a lake contemplating, deep thoughts; sometimes it's dodging bullets while peeking out of a trench at the enemy with pencil and notepad in hand.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:36 AM (ndZc7)

54 Sabrina,
I love your account of making a story idea, both for the classroom (which was hilarious) and for real. That's the fun part, giving your imagination full reign. The work comes when you have to make that jumble of ideas make narrative sense.

But there are unexpected dangers and paths that can appear. Many years ago I had an outline for an adventure story. Then I wrote a three page intro to establish a few characters and a mood for the story. Three hundred pages later I had a book based solely on that intro. I never got back to the outline. (The book didn't sell. This was long before self publishing was common and going through agents was the norm.)

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 09:37 AM (yTvNw)

55 Just finished reading _Powers of Darkness_, which is (deep breath) an English translation of the Icelandic translation possibly of a Swedish translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

You might ask, why not just read Dracula? Or you might assume this is an exercise in comic mis-translation a la Mark Twain. It is neither. There are whole plot elements in PoD which aren't in Dracula itself, and some of the characters have different names, which suggests that maybe the translator(s) could have been working from an earlier draft by Stoker.

Example: at one point while Thomas (not Jonathan) Harker is creeping around Dracula's castle, he finds a secret basement chamber where Dracula is leading a bunch of Neanderthal types in a vampiric human sacrifice cult ritual. (Shades of "The Rats in the Walls"!)

The Icelandic version was published as a newspaper serial, and apparently the publisher must have gotten tired of it. The Harker-in-the-Castle sequence is as long or longer than the comparable part of Stoker's novel, but the remainder of the novel is briskly retold, almost summarized, in about a quarter of the length. Dracula's death literally gets one sentence.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 09:38 AM (78a2H)

56 Thanks for the post Sabrina.

Finished reading Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons (1937)

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-red-decade-redux

"It may be that the best book that will ever be written about today’s progressive mind-set was published in 1941."

Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 09:40 AM (fnZRl)

57 I love the idea of the "working at the ${thing} factory" stories. What lucky kids!

I made the mistake of coming up with a story on the fly for a toddler I was entertaining. It involved a mother bear and her cubs waking up hungry after hibernation and the various things the cubs wanted to eat. When I finished I heard the dreaded words "Again!"

And I had to feverishly try to remember how I had started the damn story ...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 09:40 AM (63pwK)

58 There were a lot of those stories and I can't remember any of them. They just come on the fly. Like when I worked at the Sour Creme factory and had this idea for sweet and sour creme.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:43 AM (MWfyi)

59 "When I finished I heard the dreaded words "Again!""

Been there and done that. It was a rough couple of weeks too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (q3u5l)

60 My maternal grandfather, despite a lack of schooling, spent a lot of time writing short pieces and poems after his retirement frim the mines. The wife of one of us grandkids had them reprinted in a spiral binder as Christmas gifts one year.

I don't know where mine is.

I do recall one poem about two monkeys discussing Darwin's theory. It ended:

Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss,

But, brother, he didn't descend from us!

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (VChGu)

61 "Psst... Hey buddy, want to buy a couple of ideas?"
Posted by: Thomas Paine

They fell off a truck.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (ndZc7)

62 Absolutely! My email is in my nic.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (CjHsb)

Sent. It's in docx.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z)

63 Have been listening to the first of the Eisenhorn novels from Dan Abnett(sp?) It's interesting and I can see why they are popular. It is a different writing style from what you find these days in any genre. It is unrelieved action. Pushing from one scene to another, relentlessly driving forward.

It is also interesting in what it is missing. The hero is never pausing and contemplating his actions or why he is doing what he is doing or if he is right. Worldbuilding is good with things implied and mentioned, but no sitting down and doing the 'As you know, the Emperor is...' It stays consistent to itself and hints, but does not explicate.

I like it so far. Had a bunch of credits on audible so I got the whole series.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Y/06r)

64 Getting story ideas? Half the stories running through my head start with stories I've just watched/read about, and taking a look at that scenario from the perspective of a bystander.

As an example, the last novel I read feature a sword-and-sorcery style wandering adventurer who thwarted not less that 2 potentially city-killing Eldrich horrors. So, my thought process; what happens after the wandering hero has moved on. There is a de-populated city in the middle of an empire. Eventually some new civilians will move into the empty land (or be forcefully relocated onto the land, because the empire needs the taxes!) and then our new protagonist will encounter some dangerous remanent of what came before....

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (3v7ra)

65 Wouldn't he be looking at the back of the paper?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (5Go8e)

66 It is also interesting in what it is missing. The hero is never pausing and contemplating his actions or why he is doing what he is doing or if he is right. Worldbuilding is good with things implied and mentioned, but no sitting down and doing the 'As you know, the Emperor is...' It stays consistent to itself and hints, but does not explicate.

I like it so far. Had a bunch of credits on audible so I got the whole series.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Y/06r)
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I read the omnibus edition of the Eisenhorn books earlier this year. Although the protagonist starts out unwavering in his belief in the rightness of the Empire, that does start to change in the later books...Good character development overall.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:49 AM (FZ29D)

67 Reread - The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout (#41) (1965)

My favorite Nero Wolf book.

Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 09:49 AM (fnZRl)

68 Hey Perfessor!


Melt Wizard - Weis & Hickman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGSlmpDQIH8

Enjoy!

Posted by: Shinjinrui at September 13, 2026 09:50 AM (xNMCe)

69 Also recently, I reread Jack Schaefer's "Sergeant Houck," one of the best short stories in any genre (or in literary circles for that matter). Even someone who doesn't like Westerns might like, or at least appreciate, this one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

70 I get my ideas via snail mail from a post office box in Schenectady, third Thursday of the month. Sometimes they're crap. But most of the time you can make 'em work with a bit of hand filing, grease, and maybe a few extra screws.

Posted by: unwenchable at September 13, 2026 09:51 AM (wTDv5)

71 63
It is also interesting in what it is missing. The hero is never pausing and contemplating his actions or why he is doing what he is doing or if he is right. Worldbuilding is good with things implied and mentioned, but no sitting down and doing the 'As you know, the Emperor is...' It stays consistent to itself and hints, but does not explicate.

I like it so far. Had a bunch of credits on audible so I got the whole series.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Y/06r)

Well, Eisenhorn is part of the Warhammer 40K franchise, and in that world, self doubt (or even self reflection)would be Heresy. And everyone on the internet knows how that setting feels about Heresy...

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 09:54 AM (3v7ra)

72 Close to the end of Stone’s Fall.. read all of a George Sand novel (Indiana) and it was terrible. But it’s All Hail Éris said of The Robot Brains, at least it didn’t take 500 pages to stink up the joint. It was part of a 3 novel collection on my kindle. Don’t know if I should try again or just right her off as a crappy writer

Posted by: Who Knew at September 13, 2026 09:54 AM (0QMbS)

73 Sent. It's in docx.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z)

Cool, I'll find time for that this week.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:54 AM (CjHsb)

74 In "The Babylon Lottery" Jorge Luis Borges's narrator says that for a time he was declared invisible. Nothing else is done with the notion; it's passed over, just a throwaway bit. Later, Robert Silverberg picked up that notion and got one of his best short stories of the 60s out of it, "To See the Invisible Man."

In the novel April Evil, John D. MacDonald has a bit of description, something like "one of those men who could be a used car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin." Donald Justice picked that up and got a nifty little chiller of a poem from it, "The Tourist from Syracuse."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:57 AM (q3u5l)

75 ss so. The non-writing public, not seeing the whining and crying and hair-pulling we do at the computer, think it is just sitting back and thinking Big Thinks

Well, there's your problem. Just avoid thinking the Little Thinks, and Bob's your uncle, you're the next Tom Clancy.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 09:58 AM (Riz8t)

76 The thread's been up for nearly and hour and is nowhere near 100 comments.

I think the subject scared people away.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:59 AM (VChGu)

77 Knocking down latest Reacher novels like nobody's business lately.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:00 AM (5Go8e)

78 >>I made the mistake of coming up with a story on the fly for a toddler I was entertaining.

At the coffee shop yesterday morning, had a Mom, Dad, & 2 little girls (about 3 & 6). Mom made up a quick fairy story at the younger one's request. When the girl asked for another, Mom said, 'Maybe Daddy has one for you.' Didn't hear how he deflected, though.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:00 AM (NcvvS)

79 The first comment was posted before the thread. How does that work?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:01 AM (5Go8e)

80 A NICKEL!?!
Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (szk5e)

Shoot. Can't even buy an RC with that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:02 AM (1Ff7Z)

81 On the question of "Where do you get your ideas?" the story is told of how Robert A. Heinlein upon hearing that one of his writer buddies (Theodore Sturgeon IIRC) was suffering severe writer's block sent him a letter with a page long list of story ideas (plus a check to which Sturgeon returned a grateful thanks plus regret that most of it was "...pissed away on rent and groceries."

Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 13, 2026 10:03 AM (/GVA9)

82 Talarico's got a what Jesus would do story idea.

"What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate? I think he would tell the Senators...'I was a stranger and you deported me'...and then I think he would flip over those fancy desks..."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

83 In the novel April Evil, John D. MacDonald has a bit of description, something like "one of those men who could be a used car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin." Donald Justice picked that up and got a nifty little chiller of a poem from it, "The Tourist from Syracuse."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:57 AM (q3u5l)

There's a Kolchak short story (I don't remember the title) where he runs into an apparently immortal man whose purpose is to kill or otherwise remove men or women who will become great dangers to the world. Kolchak can never get a fix on him, however, because the man's appearance constantly changes from one ordinary face to another.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 10:07 AM (qRla/)

84 Kolchak? Who loves you, Baby?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:08 AM (5Go8e)

85 Sabrina, I read your "Argonauts of Space" trilogy some years ago and really enjoyed it. I wish you'd write more about the AI ships. Any plans to do so?

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 10:08 AM (lJ0H4)

86 Story idea. Dracula in the Senate. "Blood! I must drink the taxpayers' blood! Particularly the young girls!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)

87 RPG gamers writing books.....

James Cambias; A Darkling Sea and The Godel Operation (and more.)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: lots of books.

Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 10:09 AM (fnZRl)

88 Good Morning Sabrina
Always a pleasure to see you here.
My partner Karen used to ask me for a word. Just something random. She's anagram it and then make a poem of the word using each letter to start a line.
Usually, in the car on the way home from a hike. It was astonishing to watch and often hilarious.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at September 13, 2026 10:09 AM (0+1tY)

89 One advantage to being older is having the chance to read things again after half a century, or more, and compare my thoughts and appreciation. That happened this week with Milton's Paradise Lost which I hadn't read since my teens, circa 1970. Back then Satan was the attractive character: rebellious, determined, dominating. Christianity felt like mild dish water by comparison. And I had no real appreciation of the writing beyond the emotional aspects.

Fast forward fifty-six years. What a difference! There's still the attraction of Satan's defiance but the power of the rest of the poem is clear. And I can see the genius of Milton's writing with the wealth of allusions, pacing, description and imagination. It's like opening an old chest expecting a few dusty coins and discovering it is filled with gold.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 10:12 AM (yTvNw)

90 The Argonauts wouldn't have space suits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:13 AM (5Go8e)

91 This can work for some writers, but the conventional wisdom I've seen for novice authors is to plan, outline, and organize as much as possible.

Usually advice from established authors who got their start doing that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (FZ29D)

Bzzzzt!

I'm gonna have to press the buzzer on that, Perf. I always start with the idea and see where it goes. Starting from nothing makes the journey more free. I don't think a new writer can completely outline a story before touching the keys or pen. You don't know what could be, if you're going to follow a plan. Don't know how many times stuff I've plotted out - and I do both methods - won't work, and I can replace it with another idea. If you plan too much, you may find it hard to solve problems that crop up with a slavish adherence to a "plan."

It doesn't mean I don't think it can work, but it's best not to get locked into one way and one way only to write.

By the way, have you ever noticed almost all the writing YTers aren't best selling authors? So, why give credence to their ideas.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:13 AM (1Ff7Z)

92 So when I first started working at the Candy Corn factory, I started out as a "white" man. That's the guy that pours the white tips on the candy corn. Most people don't know that candy corn is made upside down, white end first. I did that for a while and moved up (or down,as the case may be) to orange for a short time but I was so good at that they moved me right up to yellow man.

One day we were working and the power went out. No machine, no lights, nothing. I had a flashlight and got an idea, so grabbed some of those candy corns and went over to the lab. Yes, we had a lab at the candy corn factory. There I found a battery drill and drilled a little hole in the pointy end of the candy corn and stuck a piece of string in there. When I lit it on fire, it burned real good!

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:14 AM (MWfyi)

93 Funny you should ask, Tuna! It's not exactly about the AI ships, but I thought it would be hilarious to write about the Argonauts series from the perspective of the ship's cat. Probably a novella, the cat sleeps a lot

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 10:14 AM (63pwK)

94 So I made up a few more and went back out to where everyone was sitting around in the dark and showed them my candy cane candles. They were very impressed and said we should make some more, but the plant was shut down because the power was off. In a back room though there was still the old molds and equipment they used back when they made the candy corn by hand. We made up a batch of those candy corn candles and packed them up real nice, put them on the shelf, and went home for the day.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:15 AM (MWfyi)

95 "Maybe Daddy has one for you."

And for some reason, I imagine a scenario in which the parents are using the kids to snipe at each other for years and years and the kids never suspect until after they've grown and the parents split up.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:16 AM (q3u5l)

96 Well the next day when we came in those candy corn candles were gone! They had already gone out with a regular shipment. We didn't say anything, but in a couple of days the phone calls started coming in. That's when I got fired

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:17 AM (MWfyi)

97 Beau died saving little children when the Candy Corn factory exploded. True story.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2026 10:17 AM (U/s6V)

98 Ideas have come to me from all sorts of sources. One was from a dream, and oddly I did not have to change much from what I recalled to make the story work. One was from a line in the Pam Tillis song "Mi Vida Loca."

Often, though, it's from my mind wandering and wondering, What would happen if . . .

Watching Mrs. Miniver the other night, I began to wonder about a concept, and am still considering it. No idea yet if it will be horror, fantasy, mystery/suspense, or none of those things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

99 65 Wouldn't he be looking at the back of the paper?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (5Go8e)

"Who the heck is Saedi?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 10:19 AM (Ot/FD)

100 100

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:19 AM (5Go8e)

101 I read another of Harlan Coben's sports agent Myron Bolitar books this week, Drop Shot, about the murder of a very young has been tennis star. He amazes me with his ability to pull a hidden in plain sight rabbit out of the hat that surprises me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)

102 >92. You may have a fine future with us at Missile Popsicle Inc.

Posted by: Space Sicle Z at September 13, 2026 10:21 AM (fnZRl)

103 How much of the "you must outline" comes not from working writers but from academia? Publishers have wanted outlines, but I've heard of writers who would write the book and then send in an outline of what they've already written.

There's a writing book by Dean Wesley Smith called Writing Into the Dark, talking about the process of writing novels without outlines. Some interesting stuff in there.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:21 AM (q3u5l)

104 Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:13 AM (1Ff7Z)

I’ve seen this advice from BIG names such as Brandon Sanderson and Terry Brooks. Not just random YouTubers. George RR Martin is an admitted “pantser” which is why he’s written himself into a corner.

Posted by: Perfessor Squirrel at September 13, 2026 10:22 AM (ppvE/)

105 In 1985, my crew was tasked to fly from Diego Garcia to Djibouti and then transported to a non-descript building located right on the Gulf of Aden at the Gate of Tears.

The mission was to bring "supplies" to four Americans who lived and worked in the building. The head guy told me they were U.S. Department of State employees, at which I laughed, but said nothing. (Of course they weren't State employees, but rather members of a different U.S. agency).

I've always thought my experience there would be a good opening scene in a novel of international intrigue. Coming up with a plot going forward would have to fall to aa real author, however, because I'm not good at such things.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 10:23 AM (J4Dwc)

106 Wrong burner.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:24 AM (5Go8e)

107 82 Talarico's got a what Jesus would do story idea.

"What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate? I think he would tell the Senators...'I was a stranger and you deported me'...and then I think he would flip over those fancy desks..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

I just realized that "Lo-T" also spells "Lot".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 10:24 AM (Ot/FD)

108 For anyone wanting to enjoy stories where writers are playing with ideas find a copy of "Partners In Wonder" (1971). This is a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison written in collaboration with a wide ranging assortment of other authors. They include Theodore Sturgeon, Keith Laumer, Ben Bova and Avram Davidson among others. It is quite a collection.

Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 13, 2026 10:25 AM (/GVA9)

109 Boy, that Talarico's a profound guy, ain't he?

In my version, Jesus would say "I was a stranger and you refused to take me into your own home and forced me upon your poorer neighbors."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:27 AM (q3u5l)

110 Bitchute moved to Wyoming last year and now works better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:27 AM (5Go8e)

111 >>And for some reason, I imagine a scenario in which the parents are using the kids to snipe at each other for years and years and the kids never suspect until after they've grown and the parents split up.

It was a sweet story about a fairy whose wings got wet in the rain. The sun came out and dried them, and she was able to fly again & slide down the rainbow. Ha, didn't think I was listening that closely.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:27 AM (NcvvS)

112 I’ve seen this advice from BIG names such as Brandon Sanderson and Terry Brooks. Not just random YouTubers. George RR Martin is an admitted “pantser” which is why he’s written himself into a corner.
Posted by: Perfessor Squirrel at September 13, 2026

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I usually start on a project, big or small, with a "notes" document. Something in my "story ideas" Word file catches my attention, or I'm adding to the file with something new. Then I break it out into its own file and proceed from there. Sometimes I follow it through to its conclusion; sometimes I stop after a certain point, which varies, and start in on the text. Sometimes I finish and realize I've gone off in a different direction from what I had in mind during the note writing. Perhaps the resolution I had there becomes unworkable or silly ("I just don't believe this!") as I get into the tale itself and develop the characters and the action.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

113 I used to play D&D with my kids too. Lots of stories there. We had this place called Dingytown...

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:29 AM (MWfyi)

114 My stories almost always come to me in a dream. A major scene, characters and their names and backstories. I write up to it and away from it.

But one still baffles me. When my husband and I packed to move I found a folder of about 70 pp of a sf fantasy. I knew from the paper and the font that I had written it when I was in intense chemo for what seemed at the time an unsurvivable cancer and couldn't put 2 sentences together, let alone 70 pp.

I didn't read sf. That was my husband's side of the bookcase. But when you get that kind of letter to yourself, well, you have to honor it.

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 10:30 AM (WBjaU)

115 Nazdar --

I don't doubt it was a sweet story. But on the infrequent occasions when something suggests a notion that could be turned into a story, I tend to come up with something grim. I'm just such an upbeat guy...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:31 AM (q3u5l)

116 I don't outline, but I rewrite. I start with a memory or an anecdote and work from there. Sometimes it takes 10 to 15 rewrites before I capture the soul of what I'm trying to say.

Posted by: vivi at September 13, 2026 10:33 AM (7esJd)

117 Try grammarly for your story

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2026 10:33 AM (5NDio)

118 It's important to learn story structure, like outlining. Definitely useful in non-fiction where you have to make sure you got all the information down and ordered. Fiction ... is more of an art. And the distinction between outliners and pantsers is truly a matter of the person. I *can* outline, but it sucks all the fun out of the process of writing for me. And outliners (I hear) get very stressed at the idea of not having their structure to hang prose on. The main point (and Dean Wesley Smith, who I have taken several courses from) is to HAVE FUN. If you are having fun, the reader usually will too. Sure, sitting down and doing the work can be a slog. The fun part is realizing a throwaway line in ch. 2 suddenly becomes *very* important in ch. 32, or a character gets all up in your face with *their* opinion on what needs doing... and if you are giggling to yourself as you write ... yeah, that's fun.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 10:33 AM (63pwK)

119 In one of his books on writing, Lawrence Block suggests a technique he said he's used: Take an episode of a TV show, the central idea, and make it yours. Get rid of the continuing characters, tell what happens, and end it in a satisfying way that is completely different from the original script. He said he sold more than a few stories that way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)

120 I've not read any of Martin's GoT books, and have no plans to. But Martin did some nice stuff prior to GoT. Lot of good short work ("Sandkings" etc), and I recall Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag being pretty decent.

But if he tried to do something as big as GoT strictly as a pantser, and published the books as he went along without having a solid idea of a final conclusion -- well, yeah, I can see how that would be asking for trouble.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (q3u5l)

121 I’ve seen this advice from BIG names such as Brandon Sanderson and Terry Brooks. Not just random YouTubers. George RR Martin is an admitted “pantser” which is why he’s written himself into a corner.
Posted by: Perfessor Squirrel at September 13, 2026 10:22 AM (ppvE/)

Just don't be slavish to one method or another. I start free form, then about a third of the way through I plot in general terms. I don't do every scene and then and then and then. It won't let you add something if an idea hits, or you have to torture what you've already written to make it fit.

If it works for them, goody. It may not work for a new writer because they may not know how to plot a story yet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (1Ff7Z)

122 Talifreako: “What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate?”
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Separation of Church and State, cocksucker

Posted by: Check Out His Crawlspace Too at September 13, 2026 10:37 AM (SY3aZ)

123 I've not read any of Martin's GoT books, and have no plans to. But Martin did some nice stuff prior to GoT. Lot of good short work ("Sandkings" etc), and I recall Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag being pretty decent. . . .

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026

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Whenever people growl about GRR Martin not being any good, I describe Fevre Dream, and they have to admit it sounds terrific. And it is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

124 "Take an episode of a TV show, the central idea, and make it yours."

Hmm. A shipment of candy corn is needed on a remote Pacific island but the ship's science officer causes a detour Tahiti to cure his seven year itch.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:39 AM (MWfyi)

125 Very good and important post Sabrina.

Ideas seem to come at random and when they stop coming naturally it can be jarring.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 10:39 AM (xcxpd)

126 I mostly just need a good editor.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:40 AM (MWfyi)

127 I had a friend who was a professional writer. He told me that good ideas were everywhere, and good stories weren’t hard to come up with.
“Good endings” he said; “THAT’S the hard part!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 10:41 AM (P8wUf)

128 "What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate?”

I'm not sure that's that kind of story idea I would run with.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:41 AM (MWfyi)

129 123 I've not read any of Martin's GoT books, and have no plans to. But Martin did some nice stuff prior to GoT. Lot of good short work ("Sandkings" etc), and I recall Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag being pretty decent. . . .

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026

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Whenever people growl about GRR Martin not being any good, I describe Fevre Dream, and they have to admit it sounds terrific. And it is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

Martin is a skillful writer but he's got some serious flaws, some ideological, that prevent him from doing anything he doesn't want to.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 10:42 AM (xcxpd)

130 This book looks at a footnote to history I know nothing about. I may have to read it.

Fiume: The Poet Who Captured a City tells the remarkable true story of a poet who became a commander, a disputed port that became a revolutionary state, and fifteen turbulent months that offered Europe an early glimpse of the political forces that would shape the decades ahead.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)

131 Oh, wanted to mention: In Stephen Hunter's The Bullet Garden, there are more than a few cameos. Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier show up, for instance; and two of Earl Swagger's team consult an Oxford don whose wife or housekeeper calls him "Ronnie," and who mentions he wrote a children's book in '37 and then began on a followup which has turned "rather dark." His identity I leave as an exercise for the student.

Baroness Karen Blixen is mentioned by first name. Her pen name is not given, but from the description and background, it has to be her. And a fictionalized version of her first husband, the "Blixen" fellow, is important to Hunter's story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

132 But if he tried to do something as big as GoT strictly as a pantser, and published the books as he went along without having a solid idea of a final conclusion -- well, yeah, I can see how that would be asking for trouble.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (q3u5l)

I suppose this GoT is an epic, never-ending story. I don't see why he'd be able to finish it just because he did a complete outline instead of pantsing all the way to the end. He's older, isn't he? Maybe he's just lost interest in continuing the work. I know how that feels.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

133 120
But if [George RR Martin] tried to do something as big as GoT strictly as a pantser, and published the books as he went along without having a solid idea of a final conclusion -- well, yeah, I can see how that would be asking for trouble.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (q3u5l)

Heh. From what I've heard, his original pitch to the publisher (which he presumably had a 'plan' for) was for a trilogy. One could only imagine what would have happened had to stuck to that original pitch...

I've read a few chapters of Martin's work; back when the Game of Thrones TV show was good (or at least still decent) I'd wander over the library and read some chapters featuring the characters I liked...but nothing has made me want to read the entire books, nor to delve into his earlier works.

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 10:46 AM (3v7ra)

134 Talifreako: “What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate?”

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Throw up His hands in horror and flee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)

135 I mostly just need a good editor.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:40 AM (MWfyi)

I know one who's open for more business. Wolfus can verify.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

136 Sabrina,
I absolutely agree with you and Dean about having fun, except for the sf universe I described above that came to me out of nowhere. Those stories are more like taking dictation and they take me places that are hard to go to.

One came to me just this past week, and I'm still fighting against writing it, but I know I'm going to lose.

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (WBjaU)

137 "What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate?”

As the saying goes 'flipping over tables and chasing people out with a whip' in on the table...

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (3v7ra)

138 “Good endings” he said; “THAT’S the hard part!”
Posted by: Tom Servo

So it's like real life?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)

139 Reflect and Eject — a lamerick webwork

Ideas? Of course, I get plenty.
Each morning I wake up with twenty.
But when I get up,
And have downed my first cup,
I see that they're all excrementy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mulling doon at September 13, 2026 10:50 AM (4lnVb)

140 Yay book thread! I finished Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, a gangster redemption/damnation story written in 1938. I enjoyed it, but cannot recommend it to anyone other than a devoted anglophile who is familiar with 1930s slang.

Also, lots of Catholic stuff in it, but you knew that because of the author. To be clear, Greene includes faith because he regards it as crucial to understanding people (and he's right), but he is not preachy about it, and is very much willing to make fun of the Church and clergy.

Like Eveyln Waugh, he also has a deep love of clever plot twists, telegraphing the story and then - and this is the very important part - adding a completely unforeseen but completely consistent turn to it. Sort of the anti-Martin.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)

141 Bravo ! mindful webworker

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 10:51 AM (Ia/+0)

142 Pantser vs Outliners is a long, long standing conflict because every writer is different and thus what works for one doesn't work for someone else. You gotta experiment and find what does work for you.

I will STRONGLY suggest that if you get a story idea, figure out the ending before spending time writing. Everything in between the opening scene and the ending scene can be outlined or improvised but endings are important. Figure it out first.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 10:52 AM (xcxpd)

143 Mindful at 139 --

I don't wake up with nearly that many, but boy, can I identify with the rest of it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:52 AM (q3u5l)

144 140 Yay book thread! I finished Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, a gangster redemption/damnation story written in 1938. I enjoyed it, but cannot recommend it to anyone other than a devoted anglophile who is familiar with 1930s slang.

You mean like "23 skidoo" or "That's really swell"?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2026 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

145 Also in The Bullet Garden, Graham Greene's assassin Raven has various scenes. I guess it's supposed to be him, as the assassin has a harelip, and visited Brighton Rock amusement park as a boy, which I think is part of the background GG gives his Raven. The problem is that GG's Raven appeared in 1936, and I think he dies in that novel, A Gun For Sale/This Gun For Hire; yet Hunter's story takes place in the London of 1944.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)

146 Note that "pantsing" vs outlining can depend on what specific project a writer is working on. Some stories need careful outlining, but others work best just by letting the characters do their thing and see how they bounce off each other.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (78a2H)

147 Yay book thread! I finished Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, a gangster redemption/damnation story written in 1938. I enjoyed it, but cannot recommend it to anyone other than a devoted anglophile who is familiar with 1930s slang.
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You mean like "23 skidoo" or "That's really swell"?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2026

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Thirties British slang is another country entirely!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)

148 "I will STRONGLY suggest that if you get a story idea, figure out the ending before spending time writing. "

Seeing as how all my stories ended up with me getting fired, that was never a problem.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:58 AM (MWfyi)

149 When I started trying to write long-form fiction in college, I'd come up with a setting, and maybe characters but plot always eluded me. I'd get so far and then abandon it. I think a big part of this was inadequate life experience. It wasn't until I was in my 30s and had done a few things that I understood life as a story rather than isolated events.

I'd also known more people, and therefore more *about* people, and I began to use those people in my work. Maxim Darius in the Man of Destiny series is a based upon the late great Jerry Roe, head of the Michigan GOP during the 1970s. Political genius, funny guy, though I did change the part about him being an insatiable womanizer.

The most clear case of this is "Three Weeks with the Coasties", which is a novelization of my experience at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I retained all my records and emails, and so was able to reconstruct it day by day, albeit with some necessary embellishment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)

150 Pantser vs Outliners is a long, long standing conflict because every writer is different and thus what works for one doesn't work for someone else. You gotta experiment and find what does work for you.

I will STRONGLY suggest that if you get a story idea, figure out the ending before spending time writing. Everything in between the opening scene and the ending scene can be outlined or improvised but endings are important. Figure it out first.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026

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I can't echo this more strongly. You need to know what the payoff is. It's like telling a joke in public: You know the punchline, but you have to put in the various elements that make the line sensible (in the context of the joke) so that the listener will get it. If you leave something out, the audience will go, "Huh?" And the same reaction will happen if the punchline doesn't match the joke elements.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)

151 Thirties British slang is another country entirely!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)
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I ran into words I'd never seen before, and of course the Cockney element adds another layer.

There's also the thing where he obstinately refuses to give clear names to people, so you eventually figure out The Boy is Pinkie, but only via dialog. Exposition, what's that?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)

152 Some stories need careful outlining, but others work best just by letting the characters do their thing and see how they bounce off each other.
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (78a2H)

Much like in Debbie Does Dallas.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2026 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)

153 I do recall one poem about two monkeys discussing Darwin's theory. It ended:

Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss,

But, brother, he didn't descend from us!
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (VChGu)

Go on Youtube, and look for "The Monkey Speaks His Mind" by Dave Bartholomew. It's an entire song, and those lines are from it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:03 AM (1z8ji)

154 I can't echo this more strongly. You need to know what the payoff is. It's like telling a joke in public: You know the punchline, but you have to put in the various elements that make the line sensible (in the context of the joke) so that the listener will get it. If you leave something out, the audience will go, "Huh?" And the same reaction will happen if the punchline doesn't match the joke elements.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
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Counterpioint: it is often the case that while you know WHAT will happen, the HOW comes to you late in the writing, and is often unexpected, the resuilt of the story taking on a life of its own.

The problem with Martin was that he created an organic story and then kept doing gotchas until it felt completely contrived and random.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:04 AM (ZOv7s)

155 Raining like hell here at Chateaux Prov. Must be what all you others got yesterday.
Good day to stay in and read. Had to be out early, just got back. Will follow my own advice, with more tea.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 11:04 AM (sl73Y)

156 The "gotcha" at the end Waugh's short story "Basil Seal Rides Again" was one of the most brutally hilarious I have ever encountered. I was weeping with laughter. Talk about payoff.

(This was a belated conclusion to his Smart Set books and their anti-hero Lord Basil Seal.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:05 AM (ZOv7s)

157 Georges Simenon, if his Paris Review interview can be believed, was a pantser. When starting a novel, he had a place, some characters, and an opening incident that would set his people in motion.

"I know nothing whatever about the events that will occur later. Otherwise it would not be interesting to me."

Seemed to work out pretty well for him.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:06 AM (q3u5l)

158 Also, nice column, Sabrina.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 11:07 AM (sl73Y)

159 Well, busy day today, thanks, Sabrina.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)

160 When it comes to Catholic authors, it is fashionable on the left to dislike Flannery O'Connor, and I don't want to dislike her. But Wise Blood is deeply weird.

Posted by: Jean-Claude in at September 13, 2026 11:11 AM (2ap+5)

161 Fiume: The Poet Who Captured a City tells the remarkable true story of a poet who became a commander, a disputed port that became a revolutionary state, and fifteen turbulent months that offered Europe an early glimpse of the political forces that would shape the decades ahead.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)

Gabriele D'Annunzio? Certifiable lunatic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 11:16 AM (qRla/)

162 I'm a frugal guy. One indulgence is a well designed, well made hardcover book. My latest is Paradise Lost published by Lithos Press. The clothbound cover is a woodcut by Stephen Crotts who does the illustrations for Malcolm Guite's Arthur epic poem. The paper is nicely thick, the print is large enough to be comfortable, the page edges are gilded, a ribbon book mark, illustrations from Gustave Dore. There are brief annotations in the generous margins that are both helpful and don't distract the reader. I like that better than lengthy footnotes or flipping back and forth to an appendix.

The book is a physical pleasure to hold and read. I expect to pass this to young family members when the time comes. It is heirloom quality. At 28 bucks on Amazon, I think it is a real value, worth every penny to preserve and enjoy one of the treasures of English literature.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 11:18 AM (yTvNw)

163 I will STRONGLY suggest that if you get a story idea, figure out the ending before spending time writing. Everything in between the opening scene and the ending scene can be outlined or improvised but endings are important. Figure it out first.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026

My Theda Bara novels are all told in flashback (which, I have been assured, is a death-kiss as far as trad publishing is concerned), so I have the opening and closing written first.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 11:19 AM (qRla/)

164 OK, I suppose I'd better do some editing or the day is wasted.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 11:19 AM (qRla/)

165 When it comes to Catholic authors, it is fashionable on the left to dislike Flannery O'Connor, and I don't want to dislike her. But Wise Blood is deeply weird.
Posted by: Jean-Claude in at September 13, 2026

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While I've liked some of her short stories, she is not on the top of my favorites list. Maybe it's the Southern-ness of what she does.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9)

166 IIRC, Lawrence Block once cited a section of Donald Westlake's novel Adios Scheherezade as offering an excellent example of a novel outline. The book is set in the days when the sleaze paperbacks were still a going concern, and the narrator's been earning his living cranking out the stuff and can't bring himself to write the book he has to deliver in a few weeks. He tries to outline the thing. The closing portion of his outline, when his disgust with the stuff kicks in, is quite gross (funny too if you have a warped sense of humor). But it's a nice example of an outline.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:23 AM (q3u5l)

167 My Theda Bara novels are all told in flashback (which, I have been assured, is a death-kiss as far as trad publishing is concerned), so I have the opening and closing written first.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026

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It may remain a death-kiss until it's not. Somebody will write a well-received and big-selling novel with the flashback as a central element, and then everybody will be scrambling to jump onto the wagon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:24 AM (wzUl9)

168 I’m still reading, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America Book by Annie Jacobsen.
I’m pretty sure, although not entirely convinced, that my prior knowledge of this historical event was whitewashed, claiming that these scientists were unaware of the extent of the use of prisoner labor and atrocities.
It always amazes me that our government doesn’t trust us with this information, believing that we’d choose possible defeat over the actual truth. I know that it’s easier to believe in presentism, and that I’d choose the most moral decision over existence itself, but I’m pretty sure that I’d vote me over them every time.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:27 AM (wBxGS)

169 You can't handle the truth Col Jessop said

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 11:28 AM (Ia/+0)

170 I've been reading a lot of classic literature lately. (Or Guite's Arthuriad epic poem which will become a classic.) Time for a brief change. I'm in the mood for a Nero Wolfe book with the delightful characters and vocabulary and his brownstone. Might throw in a Matt Helm book as well.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 11:28 AM (yTvNw)

171 Whoever recommended the book "The Secret Life of Groceries", that is truly a fun read.

Most grocery stores don't see themselves selling food, but moving Packaged Goods.

The section on trucking mates well to the book "End of the Road" which was written by a trucker. Trucking really is worse than share-cropping. If we return to professional drivers like in the 70s and 80s, you get cartels and Teamster labor strikes. With today's system you have debt slavery, drug addicts, homeless, illegal aliens and others who are fine with making $3/hr or less and living almost 24hrs a day in a 7x7 box.

Maybe Musk was right about autonomous trucks—especially for drayage.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 11:30 AM (PVBkQ)

172 It always amazes me that our government doesn’t trust us with this information, believing that we’d choose possible defeat over the actual truth. I know that it’s easier to believe in presentism, and that I’d choose the most moral decision over existence itself, but I’m pretty sure that I’d vote me over them every time.
Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:27 AM (wBxGS)

The one I met was unrepentant. Fuel scientist.

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 11:33 AM (F9nWj)

173 Gabriele D'Annunzio? Certifiable lunatic.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

There's a lot of that going around lately.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 11:34 AM (ndZc7)

174 Time for a brief change. I'm in the mood for a Nero Wolfe book with the delightful characters and vocabulary and his brownstone. Might throw in a Matt Helm book as well.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026

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Have you read all the Wolfe books? Two of my favorites are from the '50s, Murder by the Book and Might As Well Be Dead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:35 AM (wzUl9)

175 He hung his head between his knees. His arms folded across him. A soft noise. He was chuckling. Or sobbing.

All I could do was stand there, like an idiot, staring at him.

How do you give the gift of Peace to the Peacebringer?

I think that's why most of my fellow believers in Paul's divine status don't believe me. They don't want to know the truth. In a way, they were afraid of the truth. Paul was just some guy, as a person, whatever The Gift was that he gave us. Now I knew.

And I knew he hadn't been to Heaven.

He'd been to Hell.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Invulnerable at September 13, 2026 11:37 AM (4lnVb)

176 Hmmmm.
Sabrina Chase
*dons kilt*
Wanna see my sgian-dubh?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 11:38 AM (2WIwB)

177 Time I shuffled off to handle some chores, all. Be nice. If you can't do that, at least don't get caught, or have plausible deniability ready to deploy!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:40 AM (wzUl9)

178 I know of several fantasy writers who have used this method to great success (Raymond E. Feist, Steven Erickson & Ian C. Esslemont, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, to name a few)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

My understanding of most of the early Forgotten Realms novels is that they were novelizations of Ed Greenwood(?)'s D&D campaigns

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 11:42 AM (anFBA)

179
I would say -

before you start writing, know-

your beginning
the end
and a minimum of three knockout scenes to act as sign posts along the way. Five or six is even better.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 11:43 AM (iJfKG)

180 174 ... "Have you read all the Wolfe books? Two of my favorites are from the '50s, Murder by the Book and Might As Well Be Dead."

Hi Wolfus,

I haven't read all of them but most. And I know I read those two although I don't recall the specifics. This is where used book stores come in with a chance to get inexpensive books in a series. Some of my paperbacks are showing their age but are still readable.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 11:45 AM (yTvNw)

181 The one I met was unrepentant. Fuel scientist

So, he thought Hitler was doing the right thing? Or, that Germany was fucked over in the Treaty of Versailles, and was justified in trying to conquer the world.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:46 AM (wBxGS)

182 Finally SOMEONE shows up in a kilt! It's like you guys never read the instructions or something

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 11:47 AM (63pwK)

183 In his intro to a reprint of Boys & Girls Together, William Goldman says "I had this much: a bunch of young people come to New York. I know I knew it went badly for them. That's it, folks." And he knew it had to be a LONG book.

It is a long book. And apparently not tightly plotted before he began writing it. And it's a terrific read.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:50 AM (q3u5l)

184 Von Braun had a lot of help. It's no accident that there were full color Disney programs about the Moon and Mars and articles in Colliers in the mid 1950s. He was an amazingly charismatic kind of guy, right out of central casting, and by most accounts a pretty good engineer.

Kurt Debus, and Arthur Rudolph were top level nazis and pretty much ran the entire booster or Saturn V program. Rudolph was later deported.

Less well known than the rocket scientists, of which there were hundreds, were the propaganda specialists and chemical/biological warfare specialists. The spook agencies picked up where they left off, the experiments at Dachau with hallucinogenics, trying to find "truth serum". Initially they focused on Mescaline, which Rudolf Hess described as "Mexican Brain Poison", apparently the British messed with him quite a bit.

There is mention of Bill Donovan working with L.S.D. in the OSS days, which puts the US government role with this substance much earlier than the early 1950s. But from out here in the cheap seats it looks to me the 1960s "tune on turn on drop out" drug culture had its genesis in the spook agencies. Your tax dollars at work, with a little help from nazis

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:51 AM (uozx9)

185 your beginning
the end
and a minimum of three knockout scenes to act as sign posts along the way.

-
I heard some smart guy once define a good movie as one with no bad scenes and three good scenes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 11:52 AM (ndZc7)

186 If you’re going to whitewash history then it’s best to do it with hallucinogenic substances.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:54 AM (wBxGS)

187 Should have thought this earlier, is screen writing any different from book writing?

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 11:55 AM (Ia/+0)

188 And outta here for the morning. Chores to screw up, cat to annoy (no active measures required here -- I annoy the cat merely by existing), some reading to do, and maybe even a little writing (hey, it could happen).

Sabrina, thanks for the thread. I'm always a sucker for any writer's shoptalk.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:56 AM (q3u5l)

189 Finally SOMEONE shows up in a kilt! It's like you guys never read the instructions or something
Posted by: Sabrina Chase

Some years ago, I attended a presentation by one of my son-in-law's favorite professors. He appeared wearing a skirt! I was like oh shit! My SIL explained it's not what it seems. He's just a Scottish nationalist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7)

190 How Writers Get Their Ideas

-----------

I thought they buy them from Miles Finch.

Posted by: Walter Hobbs at September 13, 2026 12:00 PM (wpRMV)

191 Good morning from the now cooled down Left Coast where the 49ers beat the Rams down under and the Cal Bears redeemed themselves in Upstate NY.

Oh--sorry. Wrong thread!

I can write scenes. I can write characters. I can write dialogue. My challenge is the resolution of the conflict. I write myself into a corner or a wall and...

I'm a better poet than a narrative writer. /sigh

Posted by: March Hare at September 13, 2026 12:00 PM (+A1pr)

192 And so another Book Thread has moved to Unsupervised status. I must go off and write more books for you lot!

As always, a pleasure ...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 12:01 PM (63pwK)

193 Thanks for the Book Thread, Sabrina!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS)

194 I don't have many "conspiracy theories" (virtually all of them turned out to be conspiracy facts anyway) but one of them is the strange decline and death of James Forrestal, the first secretary of defense. He ended up doing a swan dive from about 15 floors high at Bethesda, and has a lot of the characteristics of a spook hit.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:03 PM (uozx9)

195 Should have thought this earlier, is screen writing any different from book writing?
Posted by: Skip

Immensely, scripts have to be complete storylines pared down to the bare elements, and timed to the page. They are entirely different arts.

Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 13, 2026 12:04 PM (HeG1i)

196 146 Note that "pantsing" vs outlining can depend on what specific project a writer is working on. Some stories need careful outlining, but others work best just by letting the characters do their thing and see how they bounce off each other.

---------

The latter approach also works well for big budget movie trilogies. Make it up as you go along!

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at September 13, 2026 12:05 PM (wpRMV)

197 Should have thought this earlier, is screen writing any different from book writing?
Posted by: Skip

I've mentioned my enjoyment of author Anthony Horowitz. His three book Susan Ryeland series have all been made into BBC miniseries and he wrote the screenplays. It's interesting to watch the differences between book and screenplay. Some I understand as just translating to a more visual mode and some I don't. For example, the setting for his latest, Marble Hall Murders, is transferred from the south of France to Cyprus.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 12:06 PM (ndZc7)

198 I guess books getting turned into movies do need to be rewritten

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:06 PM (Ia/+0)

199 I must go…
Posted by: Sabrina Chase

The Captain having abandoned the ship, the crew was left rudderless and adrift, hatches unbattened, awaiting rescue of the next Big Thing.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Invulnerable at September 13, 2026 12:07 PM (4lnVb)

200 >>I guess books getting turned into movies do need to be rewritten

Which is why so many fans of a book hiss at the movie adaptation.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:08 PM (NcvvS)

201 CBD to the rescue

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=421351

Posted by: mindful webworker - Invulnerable at September 13, 2026 12:08 PM (4lnVb)

202 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:09 PM (NcvvS)

203 WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)

204 56 Finished reading Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons (1937)

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-red-decade-redux

"It may be that the best book that will ever be written about today’s progressive mind-set was published in 1941."
Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 09:40 AM (fnZRl)

Great article. I read Whitaker Chamber's "Witness". May have to check out Eugene Lyons too.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (y171U)

205 Betrayed!
I'm re-editing a book I started over 35 years ago, and am up to chapter 10, then I get a corrupted file on the flash drive I'm using. Ch 10, gone, ch's 8 & 9, lost the ready-to-print files, lost some wip files, not happy obviously. Couldn't recover any lost files, but did recover 8 & 9 from their wips. Ch 10, redoing from the rough drafts (but can't remember all the on the fly edits)
Lesson learned: Save to more than one media (CD now added to routine as primary)
At least I didn't lose ALL my work... :-/
/rant over

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (dH3Sc)

206 p.s. I don't trust the laptop I use for storing files. I've lost too many computers to drive failures. I treat my computers nice, but they seem to hate me. The feeling is getting mutual...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (dH3Sc)

Daily Tech News 13 September 2026

Top Story

  • LG televisions are spyware, part one:



    Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.


  • LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware:


Tech News

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Disclaimer: You diddled when you should have daddled.

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 04:35 AM (C26rB)

3 The Gamers Nexus guy, Steve Burke, seems like a really nice guy.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

4 AI tells me that "Steve Burke, the founder and editor-in-chief of the PC hardware review and analysis channel Gamers Nexus, is based in Cary, North Carolina."

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

6 >>>Just waiting for a built to complete

built-->build

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:44 AM (odBC9)

7 The IRGC used Claude to find and build profiles on the protestors.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)

8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

9 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 04:59 AM (VyBeY)

10 7 The IRGC used Claude to find and build profiles on the protestors.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)

Scary.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:01 AM (odBC9)

11 Good Morning all, time for me to crash but I'm to wired to sleep.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 05:07 AM (Q/FnY)

12 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:07 AM (V0/Sp)

13 I have an LG fridge.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)

14 Evening and morning, late or Sunday toilers and early risers! 'Tis Sunday, innit?

I woke on my own from tangled dreams about reading instructions from a red-paged book, instructions about something I already knew in the dream how to do but can't recall clearly now. Bleah.

What's up for you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:17 AM (wzUl9)

15
I'm up, I'm up! OK?

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 13, 2026 05:19 AM (eRlcH)

16 The 1967 potboiler Valley of the Dolls is on Movies!, with Sharon Tate and Patty Duke. It wouldn't have interested me when it was new, and I've never watched all of it since. A classic example of glossy trash, I guess?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2026 05:21 AM (AMvSw)

18 >>> Added an embedded database to my programming language

Will there be a day when more ordinary folk will be able to download and code "Hello, World!\n" ?

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)

19 >>> I have an LG fridge.

Is it smart? Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)

20 We walked over to the Chik-Fil-A near where we live. $17.45 for two sandwiches alone and a large serving of fries (we drank water). Good stuff, but grrrr at the price. Still, going anywhere else as pleasant or better would have run close to $30 with the tip.

I'll buy some meat at Aldi this week, and we can get two dinners out of that with tortillas or with pasta.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:28 AM (wzUl9)

21 19 >>> I have an LG fridge.

Is it smart? Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances.
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)

I don't think so. It's pretty old.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)

22 I've already watched both of those Gamers Nexus videos.

So... How to solve the problem?

Well, you could put OpenWRT on your wireless routers, and set your home network up to use VLANs, and shove the TV in its own isolated VLAN, with the router configured to not let it talk to any other devices through the router even if you do add something else to that VLAN in future.

Then set up firewall rules on the "If it's not expressly permitted, it's automatically forbidden" security model, only adding addresses the TV needs to talk to (for updates, for authentication, and for whatever services or streams you want to watch.)

And that's where this starts to break down, because:
a) LG could easily use the same IP address for updates as it does for spying. You might not be able to isolate those.
b) LG could lock you out for "violating the terms of service" if you try to shut down their spying, and that's probably inside those utter bricks of terms-of-service that were shown in the 2nd video.
c) Finding out exactly what IPs to approve to barely get a stream/service working is a giant pain in the arse.

G'morning horde. I should have my coffee now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

23 I purchase all my appliances from the used sellers. They buy all the non spying, non 999 things that can go wrong goods.

Half price or less.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:33 AM (E0Et6)

24 22 I've already watched both of those Gamers Nexus videos.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

Yay! I was just going to ask Pixy if he has.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

25 My apartment fridge is probably twenty -- I think after the Katrina debacle, the management back then replaced many units. Frost-free, non-spying.

When I was looking over appliances at Lowe's earlier this year, in case I bought a house that would need a fridge or more, I saw most of the boxes were "smart" . . . but you could still get simpler models for a lot less money. Same thing with stoves. On that trip I didn't look at washers and dryers, but I'd hope the same is true for them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 05:39 AM (5C90x)

27 I've gotten about halfway through the first video. It's way above me, so I will be dependent on the kindness of strangers to interpret it.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (odBC9)

28 @19/fluffy: "Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances."

There are still "dumb" appliances out there. Large landlord corporations still buy them for apartment complexes they run. Start investigating now.

Buy one now as well as a really good appliance dolly (NOT the same as a "box dolly").

Stick the backup fridge in your garage. It can hold bottled drinks.

When the day comes that the main fridge has kicked the bucket, you're all set to promote the backup fridge to the primary, and won't you two feel awesome for having been well prepared.

Two is one, and one is none.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

29 I love my old TV from 2003.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (wtpml)

30 exactly, BH!
we have two spare dumb TVs (from craigslist) waiting in the closet.
one is a duplicate of the current one working, so when it fails I will keep it for parts.

coffee req'd, brb

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 05:42 AM (VyBeY)

31 Stirling is romping around, hoping I'll feed him early. No idea where Dagny is; probably in her bedroom window or something. I think his diet is working, but I'm going to find it hard to weigh him with the inaccurate scale I have. Maybe it's time I bought a modern one with a digital display. $$$, I have no doubt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

32 sock_rat, How are you !?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:47 AM (E0Et6)

33 I love my old TV from 2003.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026

***
I was happy with my CRT TV from 1995 until 2020. Darn thing weighed 75 lbs. I ignored the digital TV world until the CRT died and there was hardly anybody who could fix it -- and I'd have had to get it to the shop anyway.

My current one, bought at Target, is a Vizio. Haven't had any trouble with it, and the over-the-air channels made it possible for me to cancel the cable. I still have the same company for Internet -- but I'm seriously thinking about going with Starlink. It would save me 50%.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

34 More thoughts on LG TV's and other "smart" (spyware) devices:

You have NO way of knowing if they're trying to connect to other networks that you can see on WiFi from your house. Sure most of them are secured, but any company that would go to these lengths to get data on their customers might be willing to try a large password file to attempt to gain access to another network.

Does that break the law? Yes. Will they care? Probably not. Corporations have figured out that the worst that can happen to them (normally) is a fine, otherwise known as a 'cost of doing business'. Also: China is Asshoe and it's not as if they're going to pay any attention to other countries' laws.

My neighbor had one of those programmable "smart bulbs" in their house. For some reason, it decided it was going to absolutely hammer my wifi routers, trying to gain access for itself every 5 seconds. I had a ridiculously long WPA2 password, but I still had to MAC-address ban that stupid thing, and then decided to switch to a MAC-address whitelist. (If you're not on the list already, you ain't getting an IP address. Ever.)

IoT = idIoTic.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

35 I imagine they're going to be saying that all of this information could not possibly be processed without AI. Which I imagine is true.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:50 AM (odBC9)

36 Well. The monsters are not due for chow for another hour. Time I changed, stretched, and got busy with my workout.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

37 Oh, and that smart bulb of the neighbor's wasn't "smart" and neither were its designers. It kept rotating through a list of 20 common passwords as it tried to connect, utterly littering my router's logs with garbage lines. Over and over and over again...

In a lot of cases they seemed like default passwords that various routers come set up with. Either that means they know there's a lot of people out there that just plug a router in and never give it a second thought as to setting it up properly, or they're counting on the day when you have to factory reset your password, and it'll try to worm its way onto the router then.

Now I'm wondering if the thing also had a malware payload it wanted to deliver... hmmm...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Very likely all of them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

39 @Pixy: "Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120."

Aren't you worried that this increases the attack surface?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (O7YUW)

40 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)

41 I don't have a tv!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:00 AM (odBC9)

42 Rainy morning

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)

43 Steve and Wendell look like they're having a ton of fun.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:03 AM (odBC9)

44 I remember specifically when the showroom salesman asked me why I didn't want my plasma with an internet connection. I should have thought of a better kind of 'no.'

Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (HeG1i)

45 m, you don't want to be inundated with consumer ads and propaganda? How very anti of you!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)

46 39 @Pixy: "Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120."

Aren't you worried that this increases the attack surface?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

The "kitchen sink" build is for developers exploring the language, so that they don't need to download packages individually. And with the capability security model it should not increase the attack surface - at least in theory.

Still, it's not recommended for deployment, because code that's not present is code that can't have bugs.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 06:08 AM (BLOW1)

47 @20/Wolfus: "We walked over to the Chik-Fil-A near where we live. $17.45 for two sandwiches alone and a large serving of fries (we drank water). Good stuff, but grrrr at the price. Still, going anywhere else as pleasant or better would have run close to $30 with the tip. "

Covid. Lockdowns. Governments printing money to keep things sorta-going. Massive inflation via "clipping the coin" that they refuse to talk about or admit, but they full on knew what they were doing.

Bastards, the bunch of them.

And why? Because then with the value of money effectively halved or even quartered, the value of their debt also went down by that much, because the debt is an absolute number not tied to inflation. If you owe $1,000,000 before a period of massive inflation, and at the end of it your money is worth 25% of what it was before, you effectively now owe $250,000 in pre-inflationary dollars. 3/4 of your debt has been erased.

And so has 3/4 of everyone's life savings. It amazes to me that politicians aren't decorating lampposts as a result of this.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

48 @46/Pixy: "Still, it's not recommended for deployment, because code that's not present is code that can't have bugs."

So you'll be using the minimalist library model when you deploy Minx 2.0 then. Good. I'm glad you're on top of this.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)

49 45 m, you don't want to be inundated with consumer ads and propaganda? How very anti of you!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)

It's me being an introvert.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)

50 Don't forget that Samsung bricked TVs remotely a few years back...
They claimed the TVs were stolen, so when the TVs were connected online, Samsung bricked them.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4ks2pn

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (l3cgK)

51 Steve's tablesized screen is pretty cool!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9)

52 Even though my TVs, fridge, washer and dryer are "dumb", they still have some smarts...for instance, there are places where a service person can access the devices for "service"...and yes, those devices (fridge, washer, dryer) are LG that I bought years ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:13 AM (l3cgK)

53 For your home wifi network, turn off SSID broadcasting. That way your neighbors don't know the name of your network.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 06:16 AM (36x1j)

54 LG: "We own the glass".

Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

55 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)

56 53 For your home wifi network, turn off SSID broadcasting. That way your neighbors don't know the name of your network.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 06:16 AM (36x1j)

My Wifi network is hidden, but there are still ways to find it, and folks have. I blame the f'n router I needed to expand the signal to the rest of my house...always some device in your house that has less than stellar security, sometimes by design.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (l3cgK)

57
54 LG: "We own the glass".

Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

Yeah, but:

38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

58 49 45 m, you don't want to be inundated with consumer ads and propaganda? How very anti of you!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)

It's me being an introvert.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)

How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK)

59 57
54 LG: "We own the glass".

Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

Yeah, but:

38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

Indeed. Why I try to never buy any "smart" device, cell phone excluded, since it can't be helped. I like my devices dumb. I have no Ring camera or other IOT devices in my house.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:21 AM (l3cgK)

60 Steve is very carefully reading from lawyer-okayed scripts!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)

61 doing okay, BH, but no hike for me today, alas. stuff to do.

perfect weather, too; 44 degrees, calm; it'll be clear when the sun comes up (stars from horizon to zenith, gorgeous!)
(which means that nothing interesting is happening up there, cool astro-phenomena summon overcast as if by magic!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (VyBeY)

62 I ruined the battery in my Dell laptop. New one on the way, $134.

The Dell Optiplex micro pc is working great. It has a solid state drive, guess that's how it's so small. It's about the size of a single box of mac n' cheese.

Impulse buy from Best Buy: 23" Acer monitor, $79. My plan is to watch multiple football games on multiple monitors.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ZxPkt)

63 jim, that is a bet I would not take.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (E0Et6)

64 If you won't give us your information, we will take it !

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:25 AM (E0Et6)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: So now I let the poodle go piddle on the fiddle.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2026 06:26 AM (amcLV)

66 62 I ruined the battery in my Dell laptop.
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ZxPkt)

How?

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:26 AM (odBC9)

67 I don't want a LG television. The only TV I have is a non working one which only plays DVD's and CD's.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:28 AM (JrHfD)

68 "How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK) "

i see 2 possibilities:
- special edition with modded firmware that does not spy
- employment contract that specifically requires 24/365 monitoring of every activity for corporate security; every device must be lg.
gotta say that #2 seems most likely

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 06:29 AM (VyBeY)

69 Typos all over the LG user agreement that Steve is assessing.
test (for text)
aspect (for accept)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)

70 >How?

Posted by: m
----

poor management
kept it plugged in for extended periods, topped it off too may times, exceeding the recommended number of charging cycles

what I found out from Copilot is that I could create a laptop battery health report from a command prompt. It gives you a detailed autopsy of the battery, and generates error codes you can interpret on Dell's support website. Mine had degraded to about 20% of its original capacity.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:32 AM (ZxPkt)

71 One wonders if the commercial LED/LCD screens (which cost a LOT more because they're not participating in advertising to the user) are still playing the spyware game. Why? Espionage, possibly sponsored by state actors. (China is ASSHOE.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:32 AM (O7YUW)

72 It would run about an hour, then the laptop would shut down.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (ZxPkt)

73 Actor Christian Bake starts a community so that foster kids and their siblings can Al stay together. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/66emrzn4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (JrHfD)

74 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2026 06:35 AM (NmD3f)

75 Mornin', Horde. 64 degrees, going to 90 in Kentuckiana.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 06:35 AM (NcvvS)

76 72 It would run about an hour, then the laptop would shut down.
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (ZxPkt)

Yikes!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:36 AM (odBC9)

77 All this spying on us, and it isn't even AI fully yet...Congrats on making Skynet's job easier...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:36 AM (l3cgK)

78 I have an LG washer and dryer. Also an LG television.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:40 AM (lJ0H4)

79 mornin yall. We got a 40" Fire TV for my MIL's assisted living apartment but she could not figure out how to use it. The menus are too complicated for her 87 year old mind. For one thing, there is no way to make it come up on the same channel as when you turned it off. This is confusing for her as her old TV pretty much stayed on the local channel 13. She can't figure out how to get the stupid smart TV to go to her favorite channel. The facility has 66 cable channels too, but half are junk and she gets lost in them too.

So I brought over a old 32" Sharp TV I had with an OTA antenna and set that up for her. Now when she turns the TV on it comes up on channel 13 and she can switch between half a dozen local channels. I also got her a big button remote that has 6 buttons. On/off, volume and channel up and down, and mute. She's as happy as can be now.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

80 Whirlpool is the way to go. I've had my w/d pair over 20 years. Of course I'm just one guy, so the machines run maybe once or twice a week.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:43 AM (ZxPkt)

81 79 I also got her a big button remote that has 6 buttons. On/off, volume and channel up and down, and mute. She's as happy as can be now.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

That is super cool.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)

82 That 40" Fire TV has a great picture and was only $99. The spying subsides the price.

Anyway I brought the Fire home and set it up as a monitor in the shop to watch episodes of Jay Leno's Garage while I'm working. The thing will never connect to my network though, cause I ain't gonna let it.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:45 AM (MWfyi)

83 If I could ask for prayers for everybody travelling today. My friend and her family are coming back from Disney World today. I will be glad to not have the responsibility of looking after her three cats and cleaning their litter boxes. It is a heavy clumping variety . ( Spouse helped me a couple of days. Thanks, dear! ) I hope she doesn't come back to a deceased cat because, I only saw the excessively scared once once, although I left it food in the room it tends to hang out in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:45 AM (JrHfD)

84 Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:40 AM (lJ0H4

We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:47 AM (JrHfD)

85 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (JrHfD)

Make that "all" stay together.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:48 AM (JrHfD)

86 "We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

That's what I told Mrs fd about the Fire TV for my MIL. Sure, it's going to spy on her. What is it going to learn? That she likes Wheel Of Fortune?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)

87 We walked over to the Chik-Fil-A near where we live. $17.45 for two sandwiches alone and a large serving of fries (we drank water). Good stuff, but grrrr at the price. Still, going anywhere else as pleasant or better would have run close to $30 with the tip.

I see that Chick-Fil-A has a new sandwich. The chicken filet topped with bacon between two maple flavored waffles. Served with maple syrup. Looks like I'm going to make a trip there very soon.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (lJ0H4)

88 I dunno, Pixy.
I could have handled the 3.3MB, but 3.7MB is just asking too much in this day and age of arm, keg & kidney, NAND pricing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

89 The hate is strong in these 'gamers' as they throw shade at Ananta, formerly Project Mugen.

Doubt I will get the game when it releases in January but from all the clips and game play, it looks like a lot of fun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2026 06:52 AM (2GVsD)

90 We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Same here. They can listen to me talk to the dog. Whoopee.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (lJ0H4)

91 All this LG spy-stuff is reminiscent of Flock.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)

92 Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi

lol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (JrHfD)

93
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.

Posted by: Morning smile at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

94 ... including data aggregation.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)

95 8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.

Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

96 93
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.
Posted by: Morning smile at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

; )

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)

97 Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (lJ0H4)

That new sandwich sounds good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:55 AM (JrHfD)

98 When I got my cat Chloe earlier this summer, her previous owner threw in an automatic litter box.

It's wifi-enabled.

WHY?

I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)

99 Twenty-five years of Foamy the Squirrel?

https://youtu.be/Ul5_TSRH2zg

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (2GVsD)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (odBC9)

101 Had a great lunch with Hrothgar recently.
We're both planning on attending the upcoming assemblage in The Lone Star state.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

102 95 8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.

Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

He was selling Microslop stickers in the top video!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)

103 Nice version of old time hymn, "I surrender all" by ( I think ) a married couple:

https://tinyurl.com/5a3nve2m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:58 AM (JrHfD)

104 95 8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.

Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

It's still at his online store.

MICROSLOP PARODY LOGO T-SHIRT | COTTON, BLACK

from $25.00

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:00 AM (odBC9)

105 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)

My friends have an automatic litter box as well. Perhaps I am excessively stupid but I don't understand how it works, so I just scooped it out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:00 AM (JrHfD)

106 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)

107 haha

The MICROSLOP T-Shirt is styled with a slop-like parody logo, featuring a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) frowny face error icon, two event viewer icons (red X and yellow !), and our rendition of a 2D Tux the Penguin as people eye a possible move to Linux from MICROSLOP and its sloppy AI-infused operating system.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)

108 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (JrHfD)

109 106 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)

also

$$$$$

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)

110 We have LG washer dryer that are dumb and stuck in a closet. My stove is a smart LG that I didn’t set up. The tv’s are 55” Insignias and are great. Apple and Amazon monitor me all day.
Mgid is so bad on my iPhone is so bad that I don’t even try anymore.
Chik Fil A’s chicken waffle sandwich is a limited time deal. Get one.

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (GbONR)

111 An illegal immigrant driver fleeing a stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement crashed into and injured a NJ mayor’s wife.

"This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”


It's all fun and games until your ox gets gored.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (MWfyi)

112 (cont'.)

The shirt comes in a comfortable, 100% cotton and is ready to adhere to Microsoft’s CEO’s cry for everyone to stop referring to AI slop as, well, “slop.”

Unlike AI output from Microslop, this shirt is designed by people.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)

113 He was selling Microslop stickers in the top video!
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)

They sell a bunch if stuff.
He doesn’t do ad deals with companies they cover, which is a lot.

GN supports itself with store sales and donations, etc., so they can remain independent and unbiased (as possible, for instance I can tell Steve doesn’t like Trump and his administration, although he won’t come right out and say it).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:04 AM (6ydKt)

114 Bible verses for hope, peace and strength in difficult times. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yxjev7ua

I hope you all have a blessed day, and know that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:05 AM (JrHfD)

115 I just own the one LG product.
Unfortunately it’s the tv.

I’m kinda resigned to being spied on at this point.

It’s a constant battle to keep everything around you from recording and uploading things you do with or around the device.

I turn settings off where I can, block things, use ad blockers and cookie & script deniers, all of it.

I guess LG will just have to know I watch a lot if Westerns and YouTube.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

116 I am on my second battery for my Acer Chromebook.

Yeah. Doesn't hold a charge. I have to keep it plugged into the charger when I want to use it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 07:14 AM (36x1j)

117 This headline is somewhat misleading:

"Ringo Starr has eaten the same sandwich for decades "

That's either a very large sandwich or he takes very small bites.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)

118 Ringo went off on cow milk and cheese. He eats goat milk cheese.

LOL.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j)

119 I can screw with LG, though.

Currently playing the GN investigation into LG on my iPad right next to the LG remote with the microphone in it, so everytime Steve says “LG” it will perk up and record just about everything Steve has to say about their business practices.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:17 AM (6ydKt)

120 I’m kinda resigned to being spied on at this point.

Your first introduction to Santa Claus should have informed you of this. St Nick, the Original Panopticon.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:17 AM (BvPIe)

121 It's 79 here at 6 am, but 85 heat index; going to 91 with "spotty storms." Which pretty much means, 'I think it rained a little."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)

122 I guess LG will just have to know I watch a lot if Westerns and YouTube.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I rarely turn mine on. I do watch TCM on occasion, college football in the fall and the grandkids will watch their kiddy stuff on it. I'm pretty boring.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 07:25 AM (lJ0H4)

123 Let's check the local mug shots. Oh, it appears that Angel Ramon is no angel:

DRIVING WITHOUT A VALID LICENSE
EXPIRED OR NO REGISTRATION OR TITLE
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN INSURANCE
SEATBELTS – CHILDREN 5 OR UNDER
SEAT BELTS – ADULTS
SPEED LESS THAN MINIMUM
POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE

At least he didn't kill anybody. Yet.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)

124 I watched "Sicario" last night. I didn't see the female FBI agent as the "everyman" view. I saw her as a metaphor (as well as a jumped-up brat) for the failed, uncomprehending view of those who cannot understand or deny the war -- the multiple-front war -- that we're in. To paraphrase the Columbian former prosecutor seeking cold vengeance, we are engaged in a war with "wolves" (in our context, Islam, the Left, and their suave, globalist, elite cohort). We fight like wolves, as repulsively ruthless as it may seem, or we lose.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2026 07:29 AM (BdmD3)

125 I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026

***
I've got my eye out for a stainless steel litterbox for my thugs. Seems to me I saw some at a Walmart in the last year, but not since then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)

126 How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Yeah, an executive at a large company can't find an employee, or even his own kid who can open up the device and disable the camera a/o microphone.

Its not rocket surgery. Probably a video on the webs that will walk a person through the process.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:33 AM (a6PrB)

127 126 How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Yeah, an executive at a large company can't find an employee, or even his own kid who can open up the device and disable the camera a/o microphone.

Its not rocket surgery. Probably a video on the webs that will walk a person through the process.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:33 AM (a6PrB)

Starting at about 1:39 in the top video, there's discussion of problems with disabling the software.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:38 AM (odBC9)

128 It's wifi-enabled.

WHY?

I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)

To notify you that your cat took a shit via iPhone???

Businesses and people must grasp the truth: as great as the Internet is, Not Everything Needs To Be Connected To The Internet.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:39 AM (PUZP1)

129 I’ve got to believe this slimy looking executive from LG Ads and his team spent months to come up with and refine their go-to power phrase: “We Own The Glass”.

Then repeated that phrase at sales pitches, ad nauseam, like it was their life motto.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

130 40 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)

Yep. Same.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:43 AM (PUZP1)

131 Breakaway Day

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:43 AM (PUZP1)

132 111 An illegal immigrant driver fleeing a stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement crashed into and injured a NJ mayor’s wife.

"This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”


It's all fun and games until your ox gets gored.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (

“HE’S A SWEETHEART!!!” - NJ Mayor and wife who will fight and die for the illegal, who by definition is a foreigner.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:46 AM (PUZP1)

133 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)
*
Yep. Same.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026

***
I watch very little streaming content. Once in a while, something on Tubi or Pluto, maybe. But the TV receives a slew of over-the-air channels, and my computers handle YooToob just fine. For more recent films or classics I can't find elsewhere, DVDs from the library work well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)

134 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

135 Every damn mug shot with a name like "Gerado Perez-Hernandez"
has a list of charges like DUI, driving without a license, no insurance, falsified registration, and a tail light out. You can tell they are illegals too, but that is never mentioned. There are dozens of them just this month.

Those people are out there driving around. Be careful, but there is not much you can do when one of these criminal gets wasted and crosses the centerline.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (MWfyi)

136 MICROSLOP and its sloppy AI-infused operating system.

There is already enough inconsistency in Microslop's products - now they are infusing AI into an operating system?

Today's homework assignment: Learn about AI's stochastic sampling. (Top-K or Top-P).

Tomorrow's: Learn about Sycophancy Algorithms.

Short version: There is a reason why when you ask AI the exact same question and get different answers. Its starts with statistical probability and ends with trying to please you by guessing your biases.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (PVBkQ)

137 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

138 Every damn mug shot with a name like "Gerado Perez-Hernandez"
has a list of charges like DUI, driving without a license, no insurance, falsified registration, and a tail light out.

And every felony dropped by the DA so that the illegal doesn't get deported.

So you are seeing a tiny fraction of the real rap sheet.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:50 AM (PVBkQ)

139 Most games suck and are simply derivative of the same fps shooter crap they’ve been releasing for the last 25 years.

Where are the new Disco Elysiums or Strays or Rain World?

Or even a really good shmup?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2026 07:51 AM (XV/Pl)

140 Short version: There is a reason why when you ask AI the exact same question and get different answers. Its starts with statistical probability and ends with trying to please you by guessing your biases.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026

***
I turned Qwant's Flash Answer (= AI) off. Not long ago I asked about a certain street in New Orleans, trying to find out the source of its name (one of the few I don't know). FA's answer was wrong in nearly every particular -- but someone who didn't know would be fooled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:52 AM (wzUl9)

141 Pixy Misa

Thank you for the visual of a good rendition of the Sabre Dance from Act IV of Gayane, a ballet written by Khachaturian

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

142 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
======

I would do it with the best of intentions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

143 Mommy Doktor Jill, I found spyware in my pants!

Posted by: Slow Joe at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (Fn+3X)

144 142 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
======

I would do it with the best of intentions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

That would make you the most dangerous then...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)

145 San Franpsycho, burning in some places, yes. Starvation is everywhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 08:02 AM (E0Et6)

146 San Franpsycho

Good morning.

Ben Had is the one dialed into the Iran intelligence.

I see the Houthis are getting ready to become a nuisance. Ones the US Marines in theater can eradicate, esp. on that island they took over.
Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?
I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, ensure only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

147
This is why college football is so fun t watch.

Texas was down 20 points going into the 4th and came back with 21 unanswered points to win the game.

What a great game! And hopefully you saw it.

Hook'em Horns!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:03 AM (iJfKG)

148 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

May you be blessed in abundance today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

149 That would make you the most dangerous then...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
======

*turns to minions*

*points chin at jim*

Have that one removed!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

150 Week Three. My decline continues. Starvation rations. Getting woozy. Won't someone help? My human ignores my plaintive cries. Is this any way to live? An heinous crime.

Posted by: New Orleans Skinniest Kitty at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (Fn+3X)

151
I asked my LG TV if it was spying on me and it said , "No."

So...

I'm good.


Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:05 AM (iJfKG)

152 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026
======

I would do it with the best of intentions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026

***
I venture to say that most of us couldn't do any worse than the current crop of Mussolini wannabes, and probably better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)

153 naturalfake

I went to the home of one of the widows I walk with to see the KSU - Wash State game. Boring.

I'm over all football now. I just do not care.

It was an excuse anyway. We had the "Talk". No, not that.
What did she think of the Lindsay Clancy situation?

The good news is she is a fantastic cook.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

154 Thanks Ben Had.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

155 "I asked my LG TV if it was spying on me and it said, "No."

I caught mine playing WOW on my laptop - promised me it would stop...

So, I'm good here also...

Until it shows up here at AOS pretending it's me - then there will be consequences...

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2026 08:10 AM (j10i6)

156 naturalfake

It'd be funny if the TV addressed you by your first name, then said no.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

157 This is why college football is so fun t watch.

For a long time, No'th Dakota was the "anti-football" favorite, because they did not play in the bowl championship series, just for the NCAA championship -- which they won a few times. Guys you never heard of would end up in the NFL without ever having been on TV.

Well they just joined the Mountain West, beat Air Force at their own game fair & square, and durn-near pantsed 'em. Hey, who taught these back country hicks how to defend the triple option? In the west, the applecart is Upset.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (O8+jx)

158 The only LG device I currently own is the sound bar for the television in my bedroom (Philips).

I guess it can listen to me and Penny (my cat) snore at night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (FZ29D)

159 106 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip

Look Fat, I didn't finish first in my class to NOT rule over the plebes!

Posted by: Professor Bidem UPenn at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (Fn+3X)

160
naturalfake

It'd be funny if the TV addressed you by your first name, then said no.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

It did.

But, my name isn't 'Meatbag".

That's how I know for sure it's not spying.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:15 AM (iJfKG)

161 We have two older Samsung TV's. On is probably 10 years old, maybe 12. It has "connectivity" but to be honest, I didn't know why it'd need it with a cable box attached to it.

That box is gone and we stream now. So... I presume it's now spying on us. No camera... so just our viewing habits and (probably) voice.

I should talk to it sometime....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (2Cry5)

162 Tee Hee Hee...my owner is an idiot and I am not going to stop my WOW!

Oh, hi Bos...um sorry.

Posted by: Boswell's LG TV at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (j10i6)

163 naturalfake

*Snort*

When it calls you "Meatsack" ... run!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

164 I'm too busy to rule this week. I've got to buy new shoes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

165 San Franpsycho

That sounds like your wife wrote the comment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

166 Whew - one less LG TV in my house!

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2026 08:19 AM (j10i6)

167 I have an LG TV, unconnected to anything but a controller for the speakers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

168 Breakfast is done for me and the furballs; I've had a pipe and enough coffee for now. I'm considering whether I have time to shave, and if I even should, before the Book Thread. Pants are the big thing there . . . but what about a freshly planed face?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (wzUl9)

169 "Are you spying on me, LG TV?"

"No, Dave, of course not, I am a 2025 LG C5 OLED TV which you paid $1200 for, it would be rude and unethical for me to spy on you watching Maverick, Cheyenne, Wagon Train, Colt .45, The Californians, The Texan, Have Gun Will Travel, and various YouTube channels, including that Gamer Nexus guy whom I find extremely offensive. Do you have any other questions for me, Dave? I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with you, Dave"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (6ydKt)

170 At the end of the top video, Steve compares LG to having Flock cameras on your living-room wall.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (odBC9)

171 Wolfus Aurelius

A freshly planed face is for social interactions, and not needed for the book thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

172 For that top video, 2:15:52 was a real time investment!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:22 AM (odBC9)

173 m

Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

174 40 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.
Posted by: Ben Had

And we know your favorite!

Posted by: Happy Feet at September 13, 2026 08:24 AM (Fn+3X)

175 Have a great day, everyone.

Going to see if I have damage from the storms last night. I can still post, so they could not have been that bad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

176 164 I'm too busy to rule this week. I've got to buy new shoes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

No white (or cream) bucks!

Posted by: Thom McCan at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)

177 173 m

Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

G&R made an attempt at #22.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (odBC9)

178 Let's see what's on OTA TV this morning. Oh look, Wild Kingdom is on. It's the one where Jim darts a rhino while Marlin watches from a helicopter.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:27 AM (MWfyi)

179 I recently started getting Newsmax over the air. They have a segment called "Israel Now" that is on, well, now.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)

180 Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:31 AM (odBC9)

181 Poor Jim always did get that dangerous jobs while Marlin watched from a distance critiquing his performance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:32 AM (6ydKt)

182 There's a House bill to penalize colleges that support boycotts of Israel.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:34 AM (MWfyi)

183 Turns out, offshoring practically the entire US electronics and appliance manufacturing industry has serious national security concerns, it isn’t “just”thousands of factories and hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs and careers going down the tubes.

Every home, every citizen is being spied upon, intelligence gathered. On our fucking TVs, litter boxes, refrigerators, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (SY3aZ)

184 The legislation now goes to the Senate to die.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)

185 In the old days, it was known as the "Idiot Box". What is it now, the "Idiot Panel"?

Posted by: I'm Just Axin' at September 13, 2026 08:41 AM (Fn+3X)

186 Now Marlin is observing some hippos while Jim done his mask and snorkel.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:41 AM (MWfyi)

187 "dons"

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:42 AM (MWfyi)

188 Thank you for the visual of a good rendition of the Sabre Dance from Act IV of Gayane, a ballet written by Khachaturian
Posted by: NaCly Dog
__________

I could swear I heard that used in old Looney Tunes, but could be confusing it with something by Raymond Scott.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XvL8K)

189 Every home, every citizen is being spied upon, intelligence gathered. On our fucking TVs, litter boxes, refrigerators, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (SY3aZ)

Well, we were warned when IoTs began being discussed around 15 or 20 years ago.

Of course, the danger was always presented as being from nefarious hackers hacking into people's TVs, alarm systems, lighting control, A/C controls, etc., and never warned us about corporate and government hackers doing the same thing with built-in backdoors.

Although, that should've been seen as the first avenue of surveillance to begin with.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:44 AM (6ydKt)

190 Hippos are calm, happy creatures. No worries, Jim.

Posted by: Perkins Family Trust at September 13, 2026 08:44 AM (Fn+3X)

191 Next they are going to take blood and tissue samples from some buffalo. As soon as Jim is released from the clinic, that is.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:46 AM (MWfyi)

192
16 The 1967 potboiler Valley of the Dolls is on Movies!, with Sharon Tate and Patty Duke. It wouldn't have interested me when it was new, and I've never watched all of it since. A classic example of glossy trash, I guess?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)

I watched that about a year ago. It’s very poignant and sad now because of the real life fates of two of its stars. Patty Duke, playing an actress who sinks into addiction because of the pressure, went on to spend years mired in addiction and mental illness. And Sharon Tate, playing a beautiful actress destroyed by the system…

One of those rare fictional stories that cut closer to an ugly truth than anyone involved dreamed of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 08:48 AM (P8wUf)

193 Hoo boy

"Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial"

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

194 Well, they darted a Cape Buffalo cow, but Rosie refuses to go down.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:51 AM (MWfyi)

195 They are bringing in Jim to seduce her.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:52 AM (MWfyi)

196 Jim does know how to handle a woman, I'll give him that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:53 AM (6ydKt)

197 "Jim does know how to handle a woman, I'll give him that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf"

He's got her hogtied!

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)

198 He's got her hogtied!

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)


Sometimes they leave you no other choice.

Sometimes they beg for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:55 AM (6ydKt)

199 "Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial"
Posted by: fd at September

In the future a woman must pass the Clancy test in order to vote.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 08:55 AM (lJ0H4)

200 I'm almost ready to "cut the cord." My DirecTV subscription runs $174 monthly and the only thing I watch is sports. It be tough to give that up, but it's hard to justify the monthly hit to my finances.

I'm looking at the Clearstream Max 4V Indoor Outdoor Antenna, which says it can be mounted either on the roof or in the attic.

The thing is, the best place for me to mount it is on the wall of my screened porch which would provide the shortest run for the coax cable -- about six feet total from antenna, through the wall and to the TV.

I'm not sure I'd get the same reception as I would with a roof-mount, but if it allegedly works in an attic, I can't see how it wouldn't in a screen porch. (My porch faces the location of all the transmitters and there are no obstructions).

Decisions, decisions...

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (J4Dwc)

201 Only LG thing I have is a twenty year old microwave. Does it spy on me?
Dull life, if so.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (sl73Y)

202 I suspect Trump will slow walk any response in order to put pressure on MBS and the Euros. He’s got to be pissed at MBS for setting up the Mecca accords while ignoring Trump’s Abraham Accords project, and this is an easy way to let MBS understand the error of his ways.

Same thing with the euros. If they don’t like it, let them do something about it.

One of the most interesting bits is that this move by the Houthi could let them stop all the shipping between Europe and China.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (P8wUf)

203
I could swear I heard that used in old Looney Tunes, but could be confusing it with something by Raymond Scott.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XvL8K)

Long ago and far away,

I got a CD of Raymond Scott's music, and wound up putting it on my iPhone.

I usually have things set on scramble, so every once in a while a tune of his pops up.

If the lovely and esthetically sensitive Mrs naturalfake is in the room or car, she asks me to "turn it off' because-

it makes her crazy.

🤪

I can see how someone might have that reaction.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (iJfKG)

204 One never knows when a hormonal Hippo will stampede and stomp you, be prepared with a Mutual of Omaha umbrella policy...

Posted by: Just In Case at September 13, 2026 08:58 AM (Fn+3X)

205 One hour sober I am using a $10 ebay indoor antenna and it works nearly as well as $50-100 antennas I have tested.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (MWfyi)

206 Bring your reading glasses ( I have mine) and head upstairs BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

207 All our enemies are using Claude. Sam Altman is asshoe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:01 AM (3oLMy)

208
One of the most interesting bits is that this move by the Houthi could let them stop all the shipping between Europe and China.

Posted by: Tom Servo
---

Read, last night, that Houthis were a people before the Saudis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLMy)

209 Read, last night, that Houthis were a people before the Saudis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLMy)

One of the strangest bits of history is that long ago, in the 5th and 6th centuries, Yemen was a powerful Jewish kingdom.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (P8wUf)

210 177 173 m

Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

G&R made an attempt at #22.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (odBC9)

And Pixy gave a summary in the post:

• LG televisions are spyware, part one
Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.

• LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (odBC9)

211 One hour sober, We have the same ota antenna with a uhf gizmo. Sits on dresser in 2nd floor living room. Makes it easy to reposition if desired for fine tuning. Works fine with some minor exceptions. We rescan at least once a week to get latest lineup. Get 40 or so channels. We are over 40 miles from most stations. Cost per month is 0.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at September 13, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)

212 So, basically LG and other smart TV's are worse than a Flock camera in your house.

Posted by: Dantes at September 13, 2026 09:42 AM (0EAAo)

213 Posted by: Mrs JTB at September 13, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)

Good info. Thank you.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 11:25 AM (J4Dwc)

214 SHOW US the Wireshark network traffic -

Or it DID NOT HAPPEN. (Can't watch a 2 hr vid just to answer that Q.)

Posted by: _Jim at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (ji9Wh)

215 Post this question to Google and AI will then respond: "Prove that LG televisions spy. Show me wireshark logs"

Beginning response: "Raw Wireshark packet captures from individual user devices are not publicly posted in full text blocks. ..."

Posted by: _Jim at September 13, 2026 06:05 PM (ji9Wh)

216 Is Anthropic just the modern Ea Nasr?

Posted by: Big D at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (6xxny)

217 If these so-called 'tech' channels didn't post such ambiguous gibberish, I might have some 'faith' in their findings, but the following from Arstech article does NOT get me there -

“We were even able to capture microphone audio while the TV was unplugged from the network. Burke said the audio was reportedly stored locally via plaintext, which could potentially allow the data to be sent to LG [if] the TV connects online again.”

Level1Techs’ representative, Wendell Wilson, noted that “it doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”

What? "plaintext" (non-encrypted ) or "text?" (a,b,c, ...) Microphone AUDIO speech-to-text type stuff OR 'microphone AUDIO' stored as 'text'? Someone, make this make sense ... (methinks the article writer was misinformed, didn't understand, etc the difference btw text and plaintext and the composition of speech/audio data)

Posted by: _Jim at September 13, 2026 08:20 PM (ji9Wh)

218 217 If these so-called 'tech' channels didn't post such ambiguous gibberish, I might have some 'faith' in their findings, but the following from Arstech article does NOT get me there -

“We were even able to capture microphone audio while the TV was unplugged from the network. Burke said the audio was reportedly stored locally via plaintext, which could potentially allow the data to be sent to LG [if] the TV connects online again.”

Level1Techs’ representative, Wendell Wilson, noted that “it doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”

What? "plaintext" (non-encrypted ) or "text?" (a,b,c, ...) Microphone AUDIO speech-to-text type stuff OR 'microphone AUDIO' stored as 'text'? Someone, make this make sense ... (methinks the article writer was misinformed, didn't understand, etc the difference btw text and plaintext and the composition of speech/audio data)
Posted by: _Jim at September 13, 2026 08:20 PM (ji9Wh)

link:
https://tinyurl.com/33utnsbp
arstechnica.com
LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”

Posted by: m at September 14, 2026 02:26 AM (odBC9)

Saturday Night Club ONT - September 12, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

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Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Is that a moose out front or are you just happy to see us?


[Mystery Click - please let us know (and drop some SHORTENED links) for your favorites or honorable mentions that weren't included!]

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

Two older gentlemen, drinking Pina Coladas and enjoying the scene on the beaches of Southern Florida; introduced themselves to each other.

“Hi. I’m Frank and I used to have a million-dollar apparel and textile business in New York. There was a fire that wiped out all my merchandise, and I decided that I was too old to start over, so I took the insurance money and here I am enjoying the beach and Florida weather.”

The other fellow responded, “Hi, I’m Larry and I had a burgeoning lumber business specializing in fine woods for artists and craftsmen, while building materials were my main source of income. My warehouse was on the river, which was an advantage due to barge shipping until a big flood came along and destroyed all my inventory. I chose your solution to take the insurance money and move to Florida.”

Both men were silent for a few minutes while Frank was thinking. Finally, he asked, “Larry, tell me something. How do you start a flood?”


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Two Aussie tourists are doing a bit of hiking through the Scottish highlands when through the mist, they spot a pub. They can't believe their luck and continue on and walk in.

"Two pints of your finest ale barman" says one Aussie and they are both shocked when the pints are poured and the barman says "That'll be two pennies thanks"

The Aussies both look at each other and ask why so cheap?

The barman says "it's our 800th birthday today, here at the Hilltop Pub, so we are charging the same for a pint we did 800 years ago."

The Aussies forgo any thought of more hiking and settle in for the long haul and order two more pints, two pennies. Whilst they are drinking, they can't help but notice a bunch of guys, at the other end of the bar not drinking.

Next time the barman comes to take their order, they point out the other guys and how strange it is that they aren't drinking

And the barman says "oh them, don't worry about them, they're just locals, they're waiting for happy hour".


*****

Drink of the Night

Jungle Bird (from townandcountrymag.com)

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Ingredients

1.5 oz rum (Jamaican or blackstrap)

.75 oz Campari

.5 oz fresh lime juice

.5 oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar:water)

1.5 oz pineapple juice

Garnish: pineapple wedge or leaf

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker; add ice and shake until chilled. Strain over ice into tiki or rocks glass. Garnish.


*****

Club ONT Department of Turtle Studies

This is so odd that it warrants sharing. Over one million views. You're welcome.

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Club ONT Department of (Smaller) Men versus Beast

The quality of the content makes up for the poor quality of the video.
No, we don't know how the YouTube algorithm works either.

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Club ONT Department of Science

Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear

Scientists estimate that more than half of global biodiversity exists below the surface. But soil biodiversity is declining around the world, threatening agriculture, food security and the ability of ecosystems to function properly.

To investigate this hidden world, researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Agroscope, the Swiss federal center of excellence for agricultural research, launched the citizen science project Proof by Underpants (Beweisstück Unterhose) in 2021. The project was designed both to raise awareness of soil ecosystems and to generate scientific data.

Following the same standardized method, 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear and 12,000 tea bags at roughly 1,000 sites across Switzerland. After two months, participants dug them up, photographed them, and sent the material to the laboratory along with soil samples for further study.

The experiment shows that burying cotton underwear can offer a simple but useful way to compare biological activity and fertility in different soils.

The researchers suggest creating an "underwear index" that could make soil processes easier for the public to understand while drawing attention to the importance of protecting healthy soils.

Participants got great rewards for participating, right?

In return for their participation, researchers gave volunteers personalized feedback, including soil analysis results, evaluation tools and advice for managing soil more sustainably.

Oh.

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Club ONT Department of Birthdays

She's finally old enough to be a Hordeling!

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Sydney Sweeney Sexy Snaps - Happy 29th Birthday!

Some great photos at the link. You're welcome!


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The greatest drummer ever - "The Professor" - would have been 74 today.


From 2012 - An interview with Neil Peart on Canadian TV. He was such a fascinating guy. Well read and well traveled. Even if you don't like Rush's music, this is worth checking out.

*****

Club ONT Jukebox

Start with the morning:

Continue for the day:

Might as well make it a life:

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Club ONT is brought to you by Storytime with George

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Club ONT TVs has all new TVs for this college football season. They are NOT smart TVs. We prefer the good ol' dumb ones!

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Well....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (hJKeX)

3 356hybv356buh 356b6

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

4
oh man

Well, hi everyone!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

5 The Joker

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (gpvQO)

6 Thank you for the ONT.
Nooded.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Sco7b)

7 Been fighting Mgid all evening

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Ia/+0)

8 I pre-whelmed, so I'm ready

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 10:03 PM (xcxpd)

9 The camel is going crazy!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:04 PM (h06De)

10 I seem to recall, 'way back when I first found AoS, that there was much talk of sportsball stuff.

Then along came great disgruntlement with bended knees or something and interest in sportsball stuff was greatly diminished.

Now it seems there has been considerable forgiveness of Bud Light Sportsball among the Horde.

Not being a big fan of it myself, I don't miss the comments cluttered with sportstalk.

Tell you what I do miss, though, that I wouldn't mind seeing revived: On the one hand, cheerleader pix.

On the other hand, as the saying goes, lotion…😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - pass punt poke at September 12, 2026 10:05 PM (k0Y0k)

11 Good evening, y'all. Today I kept falling asleep, and the pickings are slim cuz it's the weekend, but at least I got some job applications in. Time for supper, shower, and sleep.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (aJQbY)

12 Sydney Sweeney Prostitute of the Month - Happy 29th Birthday!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (gpvQO)

13 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 10:07 PM (wBh67)

14
Now that Ireland has largely de-Christianized itself, I can't see much reason not to end partition.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)

15 Thanks for the ONT, Ds.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (Jr+re)

16 Neil Peart has the same birthday as Sydney Sweeny?

I'll take back some of the bad things I've said about this time line...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (xcxpd)

17 Soery I'm late, I couldn't find my yoga mat.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (PMi3m)

18 It was so very wonderful to see Some Rat lurking about lately.
Smooches honey 🥰

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (hJKeX)

19
Dave, good on ya.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (mmrXZ)

20
*embarrassed silence*
*low murmurs*
*people drift out of ONT*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

21 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear

As usual with scientific reporting, the crucial question seems to have been overlooked: clean or soiled undies?

Posted by: mindful webworker - inquiring scientific minds want to know at September 12, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)

22 Hi!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

23 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

24 Sydney Sweeney is 29?

Over the hill. (Looks for next gal down the line.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - younger girl keeps rollin' 'cross my mind at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (k0Y0k)

25 ,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear

As usual with scientific reporting, the crucial question seems to have been overlooked: clean or soiled undies?

Underwear is a complex product requiring lots of cutting, stitching, and assembly to make. They could have achieved the same "results" with simple swatches of cloth.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (Riz8t)

26 Happy ONT and thanks to Disco and Dino!

Great jokes this evening and greater comments of the week!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (TKQWO)

27 3 356hybv356buh 356b6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

Where the hell did I put my Orphan Annie Decoder?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (PMi3m)

28 17 Soery I'm late, I couldn't find my yoga mat.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026

Is it yoga night?

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 I, too, miss sharp football elbows.
Maybe we can show them and not the fagz on the fieldz.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (Edxq2)

30 Sydney Sweeney is 29?

Over the hill. (Looks for next gal down the line.)

I hear the pickings are good at the local Girl Scout camp.

Posted by: Greasy Joe Biden at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t)

31 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

32 Waiting to see if Tankdemon is late because he couldn't find his yoga mat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

33 If had a pick between Sydney and Sophie for me its Sophie

Have a good night everyone, way past my bedtime

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (Ia/+0)

34 Beautiful Day is on my playlist. Also Mysterious Ways and I Will Follow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)

35 Soery I'm late, I couldn't find my yoga mat.
Posted by: tankdemon

Yoga is the art, Yogi is the practitioner. You couldn't find your Yogi, Matt.

And that'll teach you to play hide-and-seek with a dude who knows the meaning of the universe.

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

36 If had a pick between Sydney and Sophie for me its Sophie

Are you referring to Sophie Marceau? If so, the answer is obvious.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)

37 An entire band comes out of her mouth?!?
That Ace of Base girl has some AWFUL morning breath!

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ)

38 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

If Mr. Roark can wear them, I can wear them. And I did for a couple years.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

39 Is this the Saturday ONT?

Where am I? How did I get here? Other than poor life choices, I mean.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (5Mm2y)

40
Turtle porn.

I... I mean, I just gotta sign off and go to bed now.

Not to my bunk, either.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (Y8DZL)

41 BEAVERS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (yEz+x)

42 from townandcountrymag.com

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My favorite! I loved their article on where to summer next year.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

43 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

We were required to wear them for gym class

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)

44 Dublin, Ireland, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters that the Houthis have been in contact with his administration and urged the U.S. not to get involved, further saying that they have let the majority of ships through, save Saudi vessels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO)

45 You gotta be football hero
To get along with a beautiful girl

football > movies

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

46 Piper!
Looking forward to Sunday fashions....
Meanwhile, hang with the Saturday wild ones🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (hJKeX)

47 Evening all,

We have a launch tomorrow afternoon.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - O3b mPOWER 11, 12 & 13
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 13, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 UTC, 20:49 CEST)

https://youtu.be/2n8k4DZUln8

Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (2F0/Y)

48 I couldn’t sit through 10 minutes of fight songs. Sorry, Ds.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

49 tcn in AK, I'm with your DH about gravy. Well, not putting it on a skunk. I'd have to wipe it off the skunk with some bread or something.

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (kU0PQ)

50 BEAVERS. BEAVERS. BEAVERS!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (V8VBX)

51 Tell you what I do miss, though, that I wouldn't mind seeing revived: On the one hand, cheerleader pix.

On the other hand, as the saying goes, lotion…😜
Posted by: mindful webworker

We all mid the elbows of Oregonmuse.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NnhvP)

52 I hear the pickings are good at the local Girl Scout camp.
Posted by: Greasy Joe Biden

How can you tell now that their uniforms are burkas?

Posted by: mindful webworker - are they made with real girl scouts? -Wednesday at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (k0Y0k)

53 46 Piper!
Looking forward to Sunday fashions....
Meanwhile, hang with the Saturday wild ones🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (hJKeX)

If you will have me! Make up has been washed off, hair is wet and in a bun. It’s a sight!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

54 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Is this because of Jill Biden and her white Go-Go boots?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

55
We all mid the elbows of Oregonmuse.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NnhvP)

I could never fill his shoes. Ever. But it is football season, so let’s see what next week can bring.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

56 I was watching a 'toob on the Ace of Base drama. Lead dude was a Nazi. No seriously, marched around in Stockholm with skinheads and recorded Nazi punk anthems. Before getting arrested and exiting that life.
After Ace of Base got big, all this stuff came back and he went on the apology circuit. This actually worked because cancel culture wasn't as big a thing then, but then some idiot stalker invaded one of the lead female singers' home with a knife.
The other female singer got panic attacks because what if it had been her, so barely showed up for the next album.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (88C+u)

57 What a great Thorogood vid. Always have been a fan. That played on the bus of every away game (high school basketball)...One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

On that little people versus a camel two things come to mind. First, who the hell thought that up? What was the conversation like? AND, #2...how funny would it have been if John Stamos served as the the "rabbit" like they have in dog races. Stamos suffers from achondrophobia. He legitimately is scared of little people. I mean petrified. Bob Sagat set him up by taking him to a Brad Williams comedy set. Brad is a little person (he prefers dwarf to piss off the Karens), who is hilarious...and Stamos started screaming when he saw him. Would have loved to have been there.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (dIske)

58 Best thing about today?

The Ducks lost.
I hate Oregon. Hate hate hate them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (yEz+x)

59 BEAVERS. BEAVERS. BEAVERS!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (V8VBX)

Sorry, Nurse. You are limited to otters.
But they are holding hands when they sleep.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (Edxq2)

60 54 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Is this because of Jill Biden and her white Go-Go boots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

Ha! I forgot about those. But no, it’s just because think bright white shoes aren’t very pretty. I am sure an exception exists somewhere, I just have yet to find it.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 Sydney Sweeny's 15 minutes is nearly up, she's not a good actress unfortunately.

Indie Navrette is the new it girl it seems.

She can't act either, but acting isn't really a thing in Hollywood any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Ace of Base 2026, "All that she wants is to kill her babies."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)

63 I've kept my mouth shut about the ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

64 Hmm. Those U2 songs are overtly religious.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

65 Heh, I saw Beautiful Day and thought it was going to be this

https://youtu.be/Z6vFt7FTBQ8

Posted by: mindful webworker - now that summer's over, or is it? at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (k0Y0k)

66 Even though I'm having a bourbon, that beer looks inviting.

And I don't drink beer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)

67 But it is football season, so let’s see what next week can bring.
Posted by: Piper

A fine goal!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (NnhvP)

68 /bobby sox from Connecticut off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

69 FUCK IT I'M OUT

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (TO3+g)

70 I watched the George Thorogood video. I remember talking to the lead guy of a Calgary rockabilly band, who opened for him in a Calgary show many years ago. He said, "George was fantastic. Very kind. very supportive. A real prince of a man."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (1z8ji)

71 I'm with you about Oregon, nurse!

The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)

72 Overtly religious pop song???

https://youtu.be/cwtXLVKjnOQ

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

73 Dublin, Ireland, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters that the Houthis have been in contact with his administration and urged the U.S. not to get involved, further saying that they have let the majority of ships through, save Saudi vessels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO)
======

He should reply, "Nuts!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

74 Stop yelling, Max. Take a deep breath. It’s okay. Now go get Brave. It will solve your problem. I hate suggesting it, I hate Ace is losing revenue, but if the pop ups keep a-poppin, it is what it is.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

75 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)

76 Concerning college football, the investigation into the extra second Michigan got against Western Michigan showed that the officials used on off-synch clock instead of the official game clock. The game was indeed over and Western Michigan won based on the official time. Western Michigan has filed with the NCAA to overturn the result, as has their home Division.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)

77 Trump [said] that Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi fighters, who have seized a vital shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia, have asked Washington not to intervene.

Following a week-long offensive, the Houthis on Friday captured Yemen’s Red Sea coast after taking three strategic islands in a lightning offensive, cementing their hold on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital artery for Saudi Arabian oil exports as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed amid the US-Iran war.
...
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”

He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.

According to US outlet Axios, bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday to request US strikes on the Houthis, but the American president declined.
...
“They would much prefer not having us ​involved, and they’re letting most ships ​go ⁠through. There’s just one country that they’re not too happy with, and we’ll get ⁠that straightened ​out,” Trump said.
_timesOfIsrael




Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (gpvQO)

78 The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!
Posted by: LRob in OK

Maybe couldn't handle the heat.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (ftFVW)

79 Been fighting Mgid all evening
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Ia/+0)

Holy fuck, Skip. Get a new browser. Put Brave on whatever device you use. It blocks all that shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)

80 63 I've kept my mouth shut about the ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

FIX YOUR FUCKING INTERFACE.

Nobody else here has this issue. Sometimes the problem with the vehicle is the nut behind the wheel.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (4ItEf)

81 TRex-- saw that you asked about growing hops in the Pre-Club thread. I grew Centennial, Cascade, and Newport varieties, for 2 years... Centennial produced the most. Newport barely made any. Then my brother stopped brewing and I needed the space for other things. They were very attractive plants!

Here's some general info from Oregon State University, OSU Extension Service:

tinyurl.com/4nxuenf5

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

82 Check with the tech thread for solutions

Such as using a different browser

Or installing an ad blocker on your current browser

That is the extent of my technical support capabilities.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)

83 Yoga is the art, Yogi is the practitioner. You couldn't find your Yogi, Matt.

And that'll teach you to play hide-and-seek with a dude who knows the meaning of the universe.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

That bears repeating.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)

84 Piper

Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

85 Brave does work to block the ads.
Sorry about the loss of ad rev, but on my phone the ads do all sorts of shady shit, and I can't risk it.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (88C+u)

86 What ads?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

87 Saijo is asleep with his feet straight up in the air. The UGA game must have exhausted him today.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

88 ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.
Posted by: Max Power

There are solutions. Easier to enact them than to scream at the blog.

Mine is simply to use the Vivaldi browser. Haven't seen an ad since King Harv's ads used to be in the comments column, long ago.

Posted by: mindful webworker - one must act or suffer at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (k0Y0k)

89 Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

There's a few blockers that work. Don't know if you tried them but it seems to have kept some very formerly annoyed people happy. Would rather you did not go but I get it if you can't block them.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)

90 “The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”

He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.
====

*pours his self another shot*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (RIvkX)

91 Ace did say something about trying to get the ads fixed btw. Like a week or so ago.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)

92 Yes, Brave does a good job thwarting the ads. I can even watch ewetoob videos with their super annoying ads.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (ftFVW)

93 You took Soup to the game?

How many times did he get on the field?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)

94 I wore white bucks when I graduated from junior high. That was a long time go though.

Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)

95 Saijo is asleep with his feet straight up in the air. The UGA game must have exhausted him today.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
====

I saw your cat on the pet thread. That is a big cat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

96 94 I wore white bucks when I graduated from junior high. That was a long time go though.
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)

White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (4ItEf)

97 93 You took Soup to the game?

How many times did he get on the field?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10

No, he watched it on the back porch with his father. 70 points is a lot of woofing.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

98 I wore white bucks when I graduated from junior high. That was a long time go though.
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)
=====

*reminds self to stay off javems lawn*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

99 84 Piper

Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

_____________________

Speaking of "fashion", the YouTube algorithm decided I wanted to see an advertisment of one of those Jenner sl*ts marketing fake eyebrows....which I didn't know was a thing other than Groucho Marx. It asked for my opinion in the comments. So I typed "Trick or Treat". I expect that to go right over their heads.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (dIske)

100 Piper

Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I told everyone I am sorry about that.

*hangs head in shame*

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (ftFVW)

101 *Alfred Hitchcock voice*
Goodevenng.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (wVcYX)

102 Driving through western open range today and thanking God for such a great and beautiful place. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life it's easy to forget all that our nation has been blessed with.

Remember the tragedies and the heroes, and remember and thank God for the blessings.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 12, 2026 10:36 PM (TKQWO)

103 I saw your cat on the pet thread. That is a big cat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:32

I saw that too late to say thank you to anyone, KT is very good to me and my cadre of exotic beasts. Kovu is a monster. But a big loveable one. He is on my feet right now.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

104 ‎US-based Nigerian lesbian and professor, Uju Anya, will proceed on voluntary leave after Elon Musk called her out over a tweet calling for white men to die.
---

Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)

105 He is on my feet right now.


Planning a method for your demise. Stay alert!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)

106 I told everyone I am sorry about that.

*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12,

I thought it was unique.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

107 I sure do love Dino 🦖and Disco🎶, but I sure miss Doggo🐶!
Hi Scampy, where ever you are...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (hJKeX)

108 so in other words Uju Anya is now being paid to sit at home reading lesbian erotica until all this blows over.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)

109 108 so in other words Uju Anya is now being paid to sit at home reading lesbian erotica until all this blows over.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)

If she ain't working, pack her ass back to Nigeria where she can enjoy the blessings of all the black men who live there and who I am certain will appreciate her intellectual acumen.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (4ItEf)

110 I was following a thread where the argument was that since Spain has held Ceuta for longer then the Turks have held Constantinople it isn't Morocco's or a colony unless you believe the same about Constantinople

One genius leftist argued, "That's different almost of Turkey is in Asia."

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (sKqQm)

111 Good evening Horde!

Posted by: TRex - extra point dino at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (XfIK1)

112 Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)

"Nigerianes Eunt Domus"

Posted by: Brian of Nazareth at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)

113 ====

*pours his self another shot*

Posted by: San Franpsycho
--

It's too funny. The EU., the Saudis and the Houthis; y'all talk it over amongst yourselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:41 PM (gpvQO)

114 80 Nobody else here has this issue. Sometimes the problem with the vehicle is the nut behind the wheel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (4ItEf)

Yeah, I used to have this issue, but the ads mysteriously went away from the comments page about a month ago. I did nothing different!

Posted by: Joemarine at September 12, 2026 10:41 PM (y171U)

115 Dare I ask what Dr. Uju Anya teaches at the university?

"How to love your AK-47" maybe?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

116 32 Waiting to see if Tankdemon is late because he couldn't find his yoga mat.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

Are you Nostradamus's sock puppet?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)

117 White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (4ItEf)

More like Pat Boone here as I recall.

Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (xtGE1)

118 It's feeding time at the Peon Zoo. A plate of spaghetti about to be devoured.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (1z8ji)

119 Of course the people burying their tighty whities are getting nothing in return. I assume the people doing the underpants study are liberals, so of course they're jerks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

120 Even if you don’t like Rush, I recommend Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Prof. Neil E. Peart. You will laugh. You will cry. Mostly cry. This deals with Neil trying to cope with the deaths of his daughter, then his wife. He rides about 55,000 miles on his BMW motorcycle, as far north as AK and as far south as Belize.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (wtpml)

121 The participants should at least get a free pair of underpants and a teabag.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

122 108 so in other words Uju Anya is now being paid to sit at home reading lesbian erotica until all this blows over.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM
***
Wait a minute...sitting at home reading lesbian erotica is a paid job?? We might just have solved the unemployment problem.

Posted by: TRex - career counselor dino at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XfIK1)

123 Speaking of white shoes, Piper ...

When I was a young lad, a friend allowed as how she could always pick out the departure gate for flights to our Midwest college town by the excess of white belts and occasional white shoes.

Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (MEbkQ)

124 It looks like that Sweeny woman is barely keeping her top on. I'm concerned.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

125 Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)

Maybe you could just fire the cunt?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji)

126 Swiss Underpants Gnomes and their crafty ideas on making a profit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD)

127 She Hobbit,

I was talking about Jill Biden.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

128 Little people and deaf kids.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (LHPAg)

129 In 2022, she drew widespread criticism over remarks made as Queen Elizabeth II was dying. In 2024, she also attracted attention after posting “It was staged” following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

The people that told me it was insane science hating racism to claim the 2020 election wasn't on the up and up also tell us that obviously Trump stole the 2024 election and then faked all the assassination attempts on himself including the one where he was actually hit by a bullet.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (sKqQm)

130 63 I've kept my mouth shut about the ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

My iPad has an ad blocker. I never see these ads.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (wtpml)

131 I was talking about Jill Biden.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Hahaha, I know. But can't resist a "this is about me, isn't it?" joke.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (ftFVW)

132 Wait a minute...sitting at home reading lesbian erotica is a paid job?? We might just have solved the unemployment problem.
Posted by: TRex - career counselor dino at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XfIK1)

___________________________________

I made a pact with myself years ago that if I ever started reading something that began with, "I never thought this would happen to me, but...." I'd stop right there and find something else to do. Although, Lesbian erotica can be tricky, and sometimes starts off with, "Hey, I love those Birkenstocks. They match your thumb ring."

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (dIske)

133 To lesbian academics read pron in their freedom or just fantasize in their handmaid costumes?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (sKqQm)

134 It looks like that Sweeny woman is barely keeping her top on. I'm concerned.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

She has a lot of real titstate to cover. Some garments just ain't up to the job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (1z8ji)

135 119 Of course the people burying their tighty whities are getting nothing in return. I assume the people doing the underpants study are liberals, so of course they're jerks.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

Liberals? I assumed they were gnomes.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (PMi3m)

136 I never see adds, not since King Harv....those weren't very obnoxious...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (hJKeX)

137 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!

Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)

138 Enjoying some plum crumble leftover from last night. It aged well.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

139 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)

The astonished bleats of the tortoisie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (1z8ji)

140 Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (MEbkQ)

Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)

141 137 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
____________________________

Some can no longer do so. The dead one's are pretty quiet.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

142 Club ONT Jukebox
Might as well make it a life

.....or a world.
Savage Genius - Beautiful World
https://youtu.be/TuxkYZE1vSM

Or just simply be beautiful.
Marillion - Beautiful
https://youtu.be/Nbjb74cmIDw

Although that can have its downsides.
Tapping The Vein - Beautiful
https://youtu.be/sj-OcA1LqaQ

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

143 Beautiful isn't always happy.
Tacere - Beautiful Darkness
https://youtu.be/AQtDZCgZLhc

After Forever - Beautiful Emptiness
https://youtu.be/5Zx6ErNrbxA

Blackbriar - Beautiful Delerium
https://youtu.be/Za1htsAjp2Q

They aren't all beautiful, like this one:
maudlin of the well - They Aren't All Beautifull
https://youtu.be/gaIb3CXg9e8

But maybe this one is?
echolyn - The End Is Beautiful
https://youtu.be/4gnnFfpLh8E

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

144 @RichardGrenell

September 16 is The Hague Court’s announcement on the verdict in Jack Smith’s case against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci.

Thaci has been in prison for 6 years! - ever since Jack Smith arrested the sitting President of Kosovo on his way to Washington, DC to meet with me for final negotiations with President Trump for the Oval Office agreement to normalize economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

Jack Smith’s cases in America have all fallen apart. This case in Europe is the last one he has. Even Democrats from America testified at The Hague on behalf of Thaci saying under oath that Jack Smith’s claims were wildly false.

So there’s bipartisan American support for Thaci…and against Jack Smith.

It’s now up to The Hague September 16. Stay tuned

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (gpvQO)

145 Of course the people burying their tighty whities are getting nothing in return. I assume the people doing the underpants study are liberals, so of course they're jerks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

Don't fall for it. It's a plot by the underpants gnomes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (dK+Kv)

146 Anna Puma liked the anime

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

147 141 137 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
____________________________

Some can no longer do so. The dead one's are pretty quiet.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)

148 My iPad has an ad blocker. I never see these ads.
Posted by: Cow Demon

He doesn't want a solution. He wants to yell at the manager.

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

149 Ara?

Which anime?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)

150 140 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.

Likewise in Denver/Boulder you can always tell the folks in town from the Mountain.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (MEbkQ)

151 *Looks at time*

Come on Miracle!

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (2GVsD)

152 But no, it’s just because think bright white shoes aren’t very pretty. I am sure an exception exists somewhere, I just have yet to find it.
Posted by: Piper

I like my white sneakers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

153 So there’s bipartisan American support for Thaci…and against Jack Smith.

It’s now up to The Hague September 16. Stay tuned
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (gpvQO)

Haven't we hung that little shit yet? Seems like we should have by now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (4ItEf)

154 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)

Truth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wtpml)

155 I like my white sneakers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

White Chuckie's are very fashionable. And luckily, washable.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (4ItEf)

156 133 To lesbian academics read pron in their freedom or just fantasize in their handmaid costumes?

Posted by: 18-1
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Her costumes have to be hand made, no retail that huge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:58 PM (gpvQO)

157 Her costumes have to be hand made, no retail that huge.

Not even Spirit Halloween or Wal-Mart?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

158 Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.
Posted by: YellowBird at September

This is a study worthy of undertaking! Outfits and destination predictions! 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

159 Haven't we hung that little shit yet? Seems like we should have by now.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (4ItEf)

Sounds like a guy with terminal intracranial lead deficiency.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)

160 147 I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)

You have to admit, they do look Happy Together.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (PMi3m)

161 Neither Texas or Ohio is impressive. Week 1 but both teams have a lot of work to do.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (viF8m)

162 White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Edie McClurg played Lucille, Herb Tarlek’s wife. She also played Grace, the school secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

The school secretary at my kids' grade school was a dead ringer for Ms. McClurg.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (m4Pfq)

163 154 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)

Truth.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wtpml)

When we moved back to AK, DH packed eight three-piece suits, white shirts with French cuffs, lots of ties, and polished shoes.

He has yet to wear any of those, after 11 years. I told him, but until he lived here, he didn't understand.

A male professional outfit up here consists of nice jeans, a polo shirt with or without a pocket, Red Wing work boots, and occasionally a hard hat, depending upon your work environment for that day. I will admit, when younger than 29, I used to wear a miniskirt with my steel toe boots to jobsites. But the hard hat is non-negotiable, of course.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (gZZXF)

164 155 I like my white sneakers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

White Chuckie's are very fashionable. And luckily, washable.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026

Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

165 Copied this but I had to tap on the photo for the entire wording... You'll probably guess who and who else are in these two pics captioned " They did not die on this beach/ for these losers"

https://tinyurl.com/3py32bmz

Posted by: Rex B at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (R0XxO)

166 You have to admit, they do look Happy Together.

You just discovered the movie Making Mr. Right?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)

167 I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)

I am looking at how to make the joke "pantuflas-sexual" without having to explain that "pantuflas" are Spanish for "slippers"

So far I have failed at this task.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

168 Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

Tan shoes and pink shoe laces FTW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji)

169 165 failed

Was actually a D-day photo over a pic of Piker, Mamdami and El Sayet

Posted by: Rex B at September 12, 2026 11:03 PM (R0XxO)

170
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

By the heavy outerware carried?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 11:04 PM (NnhvP)

171 >>Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.

What about white bucks at the yacht club?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)

172 The thing I hate about my tighty whities is when they get to crawling up my butt in the middle of the night...jeez...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (hJKeX)

173 What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)

Swim fins. The mark of a survivor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (1z8ji)

174 Looks like THE ohio state may be going down.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (yEz+x)

175 170
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

By the heavy outerware carried?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 11:04 PM (NnhvP)

Not in the summer.

Jeans, plaid shirts, t-shirts with inappropriate text, hoodies with various odd communities printed on them that you can't get to by driving, bizarre facial hair (on the men, mostly), leggings with long t-shirts (mostly on the women), and of course coolers or boxes taped up with duct tape to either carry on or check.

The occasional mullet and/or male ponytail, but absolutely NO twat knots, no suits, very few skirts except bun covers, and no heels of any kind, although cowboy boots are allowed.

Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)

176 The thing I hate about my tighty whities is when they get to crawling up my butt in the middle of the night...jeez...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (hJKeX)

You don't have to wear them at night. I'll never tell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)

177 >>Swim fins. The mark of a survivor.

This guy knows what time it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (viF8m)

178 What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)

You'd have to ask Judge Smails.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (Sw64s)

179 Sigh. Such is football.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (lJ0H4)

180 Looks like THE ohio state may be going down.
Posted by: nurse ratched

What a crazy comeback for Texas.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (ftFVW)

181 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Xtra Tuffs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

182 Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)

Sounds like Alberta.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)

183 Which anime?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)
-----
Overtly religious pop song???

https://youtu.be/cwtXLVKjnOQ
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

184 I admit to preferring skirts and dresses because they are comfy (I don't wear anything fussy or waist-banded), and nobody gives me crap about that. I sometimes get mistaken for a hippie. But skirts are a great way to concealed carry, folks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (Sw64s)

185 171 >>Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.

What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at S

Couldn’t you do a light cream? Or a saddle? For me? lol.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

186 Xtra Tuffs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

Particularly the Salmon Sisters kind, which are all the rage.

I can't find any size 15 or 16's for DH. Still working on that.

I wear mine to the beach for dipnetting, certainly, and in the garden in the spring. They are awfully handy. And oh so stylish, up here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM (Sw64s)

187
Hollywood Smothers scored the winning TD for Texas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM (eRlcH)

188 Are you Nostradamus's sock puppet?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)

I did have foresight, yes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

189 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

We had them for our marching band uniform until my junior year. They are a pain to keep white while marching around on a football field every week.

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (kU0PQ)

190 Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)

Sounds like Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)
=====

No spats or braces? No collar pins? Are you not Gentlemen?

Oh my.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

191 Sounds like Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)

I noticed that driving through, the few times I did so. Yep, we think alike.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (Sw64s)

192 *sees turtle video*

Get some, brother!

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

193 >>You'd have to ask Judge Smails.

Pfft.

I've been infiltrating them forever. Yacht racing.

And that scarf doesn't go with that dress.

As if.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)

194 White shooz are a non-starter for me. Because to keep them white, you have to be thinking about them all the time. What a waste of mental resources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

195 Inside thigh holster, cross-draw?

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (kU0PQ)

196 186 Xtra Tuffs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

Particularly the Salmon Sisters kind, which are all the rage.

I can't find any size 15 or 16's for DH. Still working on that.

I wear mine to the beach for dipnetting, certainly, and in the garden in the spring. They are awfully handy. And oh so stylish, up here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM

Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

197 Let's try that again...

But skirts are a great way to concealed carry, folks.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (Sw64s)

Inside thigh, cross-draw?

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (kU0PQ)

198 No spats or braces? No collar pins? Are you not Gentlemen?

Oh my.
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

I haz suspenderz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji)

199 Who names their kid Hollywood?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (2Ez/1)

200 A couple of my box turtles were obsessed with shoes and shoelaces. If I stamped my foot from 20 feet away, Tommy would run up to me and stand on my shoe. He was the size of a quarter when I found him and I had him for 15 years until I released him to a nice wild place with a lake. He also chased my cats and would bite their feet, tail.

Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (Fn+3X)

201 "Unbunch your panties" is one of my leadership mantras when the staff are losing their minds in a crisis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

202 I may be the anomaly. I have exactly five pairs of shoes, and that seems like too many. I also have two pairs of boots, but they are not fashion boots, they are xtra tuffs and winter boots. DH often jokes that I spend our future inheritance on clothes and boots, while I buy half my clothes from Costco and other half from Freddie's. Plus I cut my own hair, mostly, although I do like a good day at the spa. And yet, I am a girly girl. This is AK. We do that our own way I guess.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (Sw64s)

203 I'm probably getting all stupid now, and it's not even too late here.
But...
Good night! My brain has officially signed out without permission...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (hJKeX)

204 Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (Sw64s)

205 Mmm. Octopus.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (88C+u)

206 21 point come back

hahahaha

Hook em

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (/+uur)

207 A couple of my box turtles were obsessed with shoes and shoelaces. If I stamped my foot from 20 feet away, Tommy would run up to me and stand on my shoe. He was the size of a quarter when I found him and I had him for 15 years until I released him to a nice wild place with a lake. He also chased my cats and would bite their feet, tail.
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (Fn+3X)

And this is why turtles never dominated the planet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)

208 A song by It's A Beautiful Day might have fit the musical theme. They were a big part of the San Francisco music scene late 60s, early 70s.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at September 12, 2026 11:22 PM (Fn+3X)

209 And this is why turtles never dominated the planet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)

Wait, I thought it was turtles, all the way down?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (Sw64s)

210 Taking the exit here. Was going to make the drink up top, but turns out there's Campari, but no rum. Saved!

https://youtu.be/kBYHwH1Vb-c

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - so much for Saturday at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (k0Y0k)

211
202 I may be the anomaly. I have exactly five pairs of shoes, and that seems like too many. I also have two pairs of boots, but they are not fashion boots, they are xtra tuffs and winter boots. DH often jokes that I spend our future inheritance on clothes and boots, while I buy half my clothes from Costco and other half from Freddie's. Plus I cut my own hair, mostly, although I do like a good day at the spa. And yet, I am a girly girl. This is AK. We do that our own way I guess.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11

I think people should be themselves, I don’t know if that is regional. I mean, yes, I agree with you, there are definitely regional styles, but shoe counts, etc, there is no magic number. It’s what works for you. And I have seen some adorable things at Target.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

212 DH is grilling dinner tonight. Sometimes that man makes feel just like a queen.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (Sw64s)

213 The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!
Posted by: LRob
------
Maybe this will act as a psychological blow, come the Civil War.
Bad juju having to play another OSU team in Black and Orange.
The engineering dept where I worked had a couple of Ducks (software weenies) and a couple of Beavs.(EEs). The end of football season got them agitated.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (2VjEW)

214 Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (Sw64s)

Music for the occasion, by Salmon Dave:

https://youtu.be/S_OX2HwWy-o

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (1z8ji)

215 204 Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026

Octopus. How funny. The brown outsides have never faded. Of course they haven’t done much work, either.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

216 And I have seen some adorable things at Target.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Precisely. Fashion is how you wear it, and more about attitude than price.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (Sw64s)

217 Octopus skin boots?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (Y/06r)

218 Looks like we are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism, and into the "murder everyone who isn't socialist enough" phase. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (vE0+H)

219 >>Couldn’t you do a light cream? Or a saddle? For me? lol.

I had a lovely pair of light cream bucks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)

220 217 Octopus skin boots?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026

No, octopus printed fabric on the inside of the boot, but you can fold them down and it shows.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

221 Octopus. How funny. The brown outsides have never faded. Of course they haven’t done much work, either.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

Mine work pretty hard, but only for a couple of weeks a year. They still look great. I love 'em.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Sw64s)

222 Octopus skin boots?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (Y/06r)

Marketed to suckers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (1z8ji)

223 218 Looks like we are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism, and into the "murder everyone who isn't socialist enough" phase. Prepare accordingly.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (vE0+H)

They got to a critical mass point like the 70s where a subset does not want to wait any more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)

224 Brit Lass would get the cheapest raggedy falls apart in six washes shit from Kohl's and still get the dirtiest looks from other women

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (vE0+H)

225 No, octopus printed fabric on the inside of the boot, but you can fold them down and it shows.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

So they're just regular cow leather? Tanned grey maybe?

I am not getting the octopus connection.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (Y/06r)

226 Kitty is lapping up the leftover spaghetti sauce,

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)

227 I notice it too on flights to Portland (plaid, flannel, brown) and to SF (black, sparkles, fluorescent pink.)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

228 They got to a critical mass point like the 70s where a subset does not want to wait any more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)

It's no longer a subset. And the media, Democrats and Republicans aren't stopping them. In fact they're about to encourage a whole lot more.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)

229 >>Prepare accordingly.

Way ahead of you.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

230 I had a lovely pair of light cream bucks.

Posted by: JackStraw

I just got here. Holy shit is that gay.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (jJdaW)

231 218 Looks like we are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism, and into the "murder everyone who isn't socialist enough" phase. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: ...
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AOC or one of that crew suggessted killing Schumer was a necessity. They're eating their own.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (gpvQO)

232 It's no longer a subset. And the media, Democrats and Republicans aren't stopping them. In fact they're about to encourage a whole lot more.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)

I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.

It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

233 I am looking at how to make the joke "pantuflas-sexual" without having to explain that "pantuflas" are Spanish for "slippers"

So far I have failed at this task.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

I'd have gone with ciabatta

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:31 PM (vE0+H)

234 Way ahead of you.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

Sincerely doubt that

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)

235 This is really tasty tunafish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (Y/06r)

236 Oh you meant ahead of my warning........

Then again I've been warning since around 2008

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)

237 You can't really take a group picture of a group of Alaskans, they won't sit for it. Most are in Witness Protection or on the lam from the Lower 48.

Posted by: Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves, Etc. at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (Fn+3X)

238 One of my kindergarten buddies is in the Amex lounge at Seatac and just texted me his google review. It is a riot

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (RIvkX)

239 >>Sincerely doubt that

I know.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (viF8m)

240 If you own blue ring octopus boots, that diver is a bad ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (jJdaW)

241 It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

Hell's Angels should adopt him as a "protected person". "Mess with him, and you mess with us."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (1z8ji)

242 So they're just regular cow leather? Tanned grey maybe?

I am not getting the octopus connection.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (Y/06r)

https://tinyurl.com/p6kmenup

Xtra Tuffs, Salmon Sisters, Octopus.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (Sw64s)

243
Hook'em Horns!!!

Wow, what an incredible game.

Texas came back at the end with 21 unanswered points to win!!!

Sadly, the Ohio State Daisies wilted at the end.

Anyway, great game. This should be a fun year watching Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:34 PM (iJfKG)

244 This is really tasty tunafish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Use the whole tunafish. Make boots out of the skin.

Posted by: mikeski may have misread the thread at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (VHUov)

245 We had them for our marching band uniform until my junior year. They are a pain to keep white while marching around on a football field every week.
Posted by: GWB
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Because I never wore them for anything else, it was simple.
Saturday morning, get out the white shoe polish. Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (2VjEW)

246 https://tinyurl.com/p6kmenup

Xtra Tuffs, Salmon Sisters, Octopus.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (Sw64s)

Ok. Rain boots. This is one of those things I do not get, isn't it ladies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (Y/06r)

247 Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (2VjEW)

Until you get about 40 layers on, and it cracks, and falls off in slabs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:37 PM (1z8ji)

248 Ok. Rain boots. This is one of those things I do not get, isn't it ladies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (Y/06r)

Not rain boots, so much as working boots for crappy weather or beach wear. I wear them on the beach for salmon dipnetting, also for early garden work when the snow is just melted, and they aren't bad for short hikes in the spring when everything is muddy. Also good on boats, if need be.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:38 PM (Sw64s)

249 Hi Scampy, where ever you are...
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Always nice to see you in the comments, COMM. I am around but not regularly - life calls.
Thanks for the ONT, D's.

Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (41CYW)

250 Always nice to see you in the comments, COMM. I am around but not regularly - life calls.
Thanks for the ONT, D's.
Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (41CYW)

Nice to hear from you. Don't be a stranger.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (Sw64s)

251 Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)

252 Nurses were forever polishing their white shoes before they were allowed to wear other shoes, Crocs. My wife became a Registered Dietitian in 1977. She also wore a white uniform, white shoes.

Posted by: Them Changes at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (Fn+3X)

253 >>Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.

Oh yea, and my cream bucks are gay.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (viF8m)

254 3 356hybv356buh 356b6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

---------

D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O

Don't forget to WHAT???

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)

255 251 Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)

Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

256 Underwear index?

/looks intrigued...

3. Profit?

Posted by: Underpants Gnome at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (mP0Kj)

257 254 3 356hybv356buh 356b6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

---------

D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O

Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)

Mr Roboto?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)

258 Bedtime! Church plus I have to teach tomorrow. I have a suicide awareness donation class for the Fitness for Hope campaign.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

259 Nurses were forever polishing their white shoes before they were allowed to wear other shoes, Crocs. My wife became a Registered Dietitian in 1977. She also wore a white uniform, white shoes.
Posted by: Them Changes at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (Fn+3X)

Good thing she was registered. Possession of an unregistered Dietician could get you 5 to 10.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (1z8ji)

260 What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

_____________________

That about sums it up...along with "psychopath." That was just one of her gems. She was picking out southern states and explaining they were inhabited by "stupid people." She saw nothing wrong with any of it.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (dIske)

261 Cream Bucks rub me the wrong way. I had a high opinion of Jack Straw and his musical taste, but now I'm not so sure.

Posted by: Feet of Clay! at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (Fn+3X)

262 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

263 Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

I settled on she is a TikTok devotee. That medium more than any other social media seems to encourage people to say horrifying and stupid things.

Be glad you do not have my ewetub feed. It is nothing but stories of women saying horrifying things about their husbands, cheating on them, etc etc.

That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (Y/06r)

264 Since Labor Day I have throttled down my wardrobe choices from Swiss Coffee to Ecru.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (wpRMV)

265 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

Somebody needs to do a Futurama parody, with McConnell's head in a bell jar, instead of Nixon's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (1z8ji)

266 I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.

It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

267 264 Since Labor Day I have throttled down my wardrobe choices from Swiss Coffee to Ecru.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (wpRMV)

I still have the same rotation of shirts and shorts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (Y/06r)

268 Good thing she was registered. Possession of an unregistered Dietician could get you 5 to 10.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Watch out for the RDs. They are militant about the Dietitian spelling.

Posted by: The American Dietetic Association at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (Fn+3X)

269 I have sailing boots that I wear down to the beach paired with a sundress.

And a straw sun hat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (CbDvl)

270 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

I don't care about MM. Let him stay, alive or dead. The Ds never get rid of anyone, why should we?

Same with the D from NC. It'd be nice if someone smacked people like her in the mouth when they say stuff like that. Preferably with a baseball bat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

271 That about sums it up...along with "psychopath." That was just one of her gems. She was picking out southern states and explaining they were inhabited by "stupid people." She saw nothing wrong with any of it.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (dIske)

Y'know, the whole notion that everyone in the south is an idiot is so.... Civil War Era. It wasn't true then, but...

It's one thing to think your enemies are fools, and another one to maintain that thought process without any critical analysis.

That leads to serious stupidity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Sw64s)

272 18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?

These people are fucking horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Y/06r)

273 >>Cream Bucks rub me the wrong way. I had a high opinion of Jack Straw and his musical taste, but now I'm not so sure.

When you go fishing, the most important tool you have is the right bait.

Know your waters and your prey.

Dress for success.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)

274 And I thought everyone wore Ray Troll sweatshirts in AK.

I have a few.

They are awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (CbDvl)

275 That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You should log in again.

Posted by: mikeski python at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)

276 273 >>Cream Bucks rub me the wrong way. I had a high opinion of Jack Straw and his musical taste, but now I'm not so sure.

When you go fishing, the most important tool you have is the right bait.

Know your waters and your prey.

Dress for success.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)

Are... are you fishing for gay dudes, Jack? NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Y/06r)

277 272 18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?

These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Y/06r)

Maybe they think they can plead insanity for Doxing him???

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)

278 269 I have sailing boots that I wear down to the beach paired with a sundress.

And a straw sun hat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (CbDvl)

And you are cuter than a bug's ear, too!

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Sw64s)

279 Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?

These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's not about him.

It's about intimidating the next jury.

He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

280 Registered Dietitian is kind of a Master's degree. They give internships only to the best Bachelors of Nutrition grads. Basically, you need straight College A's in all your science courses. Many who can't get an internship go into Sports Nutrition or Nutrition counselling. The RD is kind of a big deal.

Posted by: American Dietetic Association at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (Fn+3X)

281 274 And I thought everyone wore Ray Troll sweatshirts in AK.

I have a few.

They are awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (CbDvl)

Spawn till you die, honey.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (Sw64s)

282 You should log in again.
Posted by: mikeski python at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)

Eh, that's my phone feed. Here at home...

Asmongold videos.
A guy building a log cabin house.
A busty woman at a Ren Faire.
A guy carving a gladiator helmet out of wood (there you go, Jack)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (Y/06r)

283 266 I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.

It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Would that apply to a state jury, or only to Federal jurors?

Posted by: a.moron at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (X5Jzz)

284
D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O

Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

================

34fguj9oktj

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (mmrXZ)

285 255 251 Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)

Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK


Yea. Either it's AI slop or this broad has advisors who despise her. She appears too dumb to come up with this on her own.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 11:52 PM (wBh67)

286 It's not about him.

It's about intimidating the next jury.

He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

Probable. 'Youse other guys watch what happens.'

*types* *deletes*

I did see where someone had started a gofundme for the guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:52 PM (Y/06r)

287 >>Are... are you fishing for gay dudes, Jack? NTTAWWT.

I believe it was Piper who suggested cream bucks. I don't think she's a gay dude but I might be wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)

288 Too bad the beavers couldnt pull it out over Texas tech. That was a great game. Until the last four minutes.

Oh well. Oregon and ohio state lost.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (CbDvl)

289 Until you get about 40 layers on, and it cracks, and falls off in slabs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Never had a pair that long. Over 6 years marching (started in 7th grade) my feet went from size 6 to 12.:The longest pair were only worn maybe 14 times. Thinking about it now, I'm amazed that my mother not only bought them for me (we were downright poor) but didn't insist that I wear them out. I had a female cousin a couple of years older than me, and I believe she inherited them, at least until about size 9.
Although a couple of times a year, I'd take a floor scrub brush to them before slapping on a new coat.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:54 PM (2VjEW)

290 265 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

Somebody needs to do a Futurama parody, with McConnell's head in a bell jar, instead of Nixon's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Captain Pike's wheel chair. (beep)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 11:54 PM (wBh67)

291 And the Mariners are up 15-1 over the As. Top of the 8th.


We can still lose though.
Trust me on this.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:55 PM (CbDvl)

292 Confession. I have a pair of light colored shoes in the cream bucks vein, but a little darker. Had them for 40 years, maybe worn them twice. Decided that size 13 feet should not draw attention by wearing gaudy, light, shoes.

Posted by: Paint It Black at September 12, 2026 11:55 PM (Fn+3X)

293 Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Would that apply to a state jury, or only to Federal jurors?
Posted by: a.moron

Federal

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 11:56 PM (Fv808)

294 Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

The reveal that they've been the Nazi slave holding KKK khmer rouge stasi all along isn't exactly gonna be an M. Night Shyamalan level twist.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:56 PM (vE0+H)

295 >>>It's not about him.

It's about intimidating the next jury.

He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.

Posted by: mikeski
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Is DOXing the juror a federal offense?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 11:58 PM (gpvQO)

296
Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

Posted by: Mitch McConnell

=======================

JEEZ. Democrats are denouncing her and pulling funding, but it's too late to get her off the ballot. That district is a "lean Republican." wth was she trying to do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)

297 >>Confession. I have a pair of light colored shoes in the cream bucks vein, but a little darker. Had them for 40 years, maybe worn them twice. Decided that size 13 feet should not draw attention by wearing gaudy, light, shoes.

Good plan. You have giant clown feet and what does that mean? And you want to hide this?

I'm surrounded by morons.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)

298 Y'know, the whole notion that everyone in the south is an idiot is so.... Civil War Era. It wasn't true then, but...

It's one thing to think your enemies are fools, and another one to maintain that thought process without any critical analysis.

That leads to serious stupidity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Sw64s)

When was the Left ever interested in accuracy, truth, etc.....?

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:03 AM (vE0+H)

299 Plant moss on top of your shoes. Because moss only grows in the shade, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:04 AM (1z8ji)

300 >>>Sydney Sweeny's 15 minutes is nearly up, she's not a good actress unfortunately.

Indie Navrette is the new it girl it seems.

She can't act either, but acting isn't really a thing in Hollywood any longer.

>Sweeny is making massive bank selling lingerie, swim wear and marketing her brand. Not bad for a crusty 29 year old.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)

301 Made the Top 10ish Comments for the 5th time. I'll be basking in the glory for a good while.

Posted by: Peaceful, Easy Feeling at September 13, 2026 12:08 AM (Fn+3X)

302 wth was she trying to do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)

Move the Overton Window

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:08 AM (vE0+H)

303 Sweeny is making massive bank selling lingerie, swim wear and marketing her brand. Not bad for a crusty 29 year old.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)

I wouldn't kick her out for peddling her lingerie in bed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:09 AM (1z8ji)

304 Franpsycho I was in Brazil for the farcical Soviet end-game. In 1985, after 17 years of military government, Brazil had its first presidential election. The winner suffered heart failure within hours of taking the oath. He was not seen for weeks, being cared for in the Coronary Institute of Sao Paulo.

A military (!) spokesman provided frequent updates for the TV networks. His spiel didn't very. "The state of health of President Tancredo Neves, is good". (O estado de saude do President Tancredo Neves, e bom)

I was usually watching the TV news with Brazilian traveling salesmen and workers in the lobby of an inexpensive* hotel. They'd jeer and joke when the spokesman came on with his "bulletins" (planchetes).

Brazilians starting calling Neves "Chernenko brasileiro", which was perfect. The russkis actually succeeded in creating a "brand" of ridiculous non-credibility that was readily adopted by cultures elsewhere (in derision).

* $7/night for a decent room, breakfast (fresh baguette, fresh mango/honeydew/Amazon fruit, Brazilian coffee with hot milk) .... 2 blocks from a quiet beach with turqoise water - one reason a 6 week trip morphed into a 6 month trip

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:11 AM (U/Byj)

305 >>>Sydney Sweeny's 15 minutes is nearly up, she's not a good actress unfortunately.

You guys crack me up. She has a few decades of milfy goodness ahead of her, and you guys are already burying her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (dK+Kv)

306 Be glad you do not have my ewetub feed. It is nothing but stories of women saying horrifying things about their husbands, cheating on them, etc etc.

That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Y'know... they tend to recommend more of what you already watch, unless you turn your history off...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (anFBA)

307 >>I wouldn't kick her out for peddling her lingerie in bed.

She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.

I saw her first.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)

308 She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.

I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)

I could show her an easy way to modify the front end to make it handle way better. Speaking of handling front ends...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:17 AM (1z8ji)

309 If your claim to fame is being sexy, cute in Hollywood, the trouble is that no one gets to do that for very long. In the old Hollywood days the choice was "marrying well" and mostly quitting Hollywood, or seeking the Mom, grandma, sidekick roles. When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.

Posted by: Sand Through Hourglass Figure at September 13, 2026 12:17 AM (Fn+3X)

310 She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.

I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I dont follow the famous crowd but she seems to not be publicly histrionic nor insufferable. And the eye catching stuff is pleasant.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 12:19 AM (41CYW)

311 Hey FeatherBlade, unless I'm wrong (a specialty) you're a distaff cigar person. Burn anything interesting today? After a great swim at the university pool I settled for a favorite, the Undercrown Maduro. A box of these will be at the TXMoMe, FYI.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:19 AM (U/Byj)

312 288 Too bad the beavers couldnt pull it out over Texas tech. That was a great game. Until the last four minutes.

Oh well. Oregon and ohio state lost.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (CbDvl)

---

The Red Raiders only needed 4 minutes with the Beavers. The prior 56 were just foreplay.

Posted by: techsan at September 13, 2026 12:22 AM (uNveu)

313 Went to a store I've never visited after the pool because I needed sumac, a seasoning I use with kebab. Middle East flavor to the place (lots of halal stuff), but oddly, or maybe not since this is the 2nd store in town with this combo, a significant Russian/Slavic element too.

Great lamb? Fresh pita? This is your place. Russian tea cookies or instant coffee (imported from Russia), incredible kielbasa selection (domestic)? Also your place. WTF?

But they don't have a bakery like the other place, and there's no substitute for the fresh Persian flatbreads hot out of the oven (also amazing pomegranates and other produce). So even though it's closer - and half the customers were Russians, it's easy to tell - the other place gets the nod.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:23 AM (U/Byj)

314 The Google Pixel 6a phone, loaded with the Graphene OS continues to work well for me. No real complaints. Battery life is impressive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:24 AM (1z8ji)

315 >>If your claim to fame is being sexy, cute in Hollywood, the trouble is that no one gets to do that for very long. In the old Hollywood days the choice was "marrying well" and mostly quitting Hollywood, or seeking the Mom, grandma, sidekick roles. When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.

I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.

I think she'll be ok. Good for her.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)

316 Is TRex in Oklahoma? I heard there's a Wendy's that is offering their TRex burger, with 9 patties.

I'm not sure if he'd be there to eat one, or crying at people who order it for eating his relatives.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 12:26 AM (qx7Zg)

317 I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.

I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)

She could support me in the style to which I'd like to become accustomed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)

318 I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.

I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw

Wow! $20 Million each! Hope they're insured.

Posted by: Betty Grable's Million Dollar Legs at September 13, 2026 12:28 AM (Fn+3X)

319 >>I dont follow the famous crowd but she seems to not be publicly histrionic nor insufferable. And the eye catching stuff is pleasant.

I heard her in some interview a while ago. She seemed like a pretty savvy young woman from a solid family who knew exactly what was going on. I like her.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:32 AM (viF8m)

320 The late games are blowouts. The Utes are having a successful pig hunt and crushing Arkansas. The zoomies are losing badly to a herd of Bison.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 12:35 AM (wBh67)

321 I couldn't pick Sweeney out of a line-up, but the so-what of that is that any line-up out of which I couldn't pick her would be one where I could be blindfolded and pick at random and be ..... OK.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:37 AM (U/Byj)

322 You guys crack me up. She has a few decades of milfy goodness ahead of her, and you guys are already burying her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (dK+Kv)

"We" are a mercurial bunch.

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:38 AM (vE0+H)

323 Four black bear pics on trail cameras tonight. One is a unit.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 12:39 AM (41CYW)

324 Sweeney seems unable to be pushed or molded easily. Most people have a price - even billionaire Swift eventually couldn't resist the siren call of the Demonic Left - but they don't seem to have found SS's.

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:40 AM (vE0+H)

325 Happy Saturday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 12:48 AM (ibDUx)

326 Hi, Debby!

*Chivas for you*

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

327 Good actresses work forever pretty faces fade fast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 AM (gpvQO)

328 @JackPosobiec
5h
Reddington’s wife appears to have deleted her account after she was exposed using it to intimidate jurors after her husband lost a high-profile triple murder case

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:59 AM (gpvQO)

329 I was compelled to drive the car around the block just now. Because it is International Drive Your Studebaker day. So I did. Here it is. With me, cunningly concealed by the windshield pillar:

https://tinyurl.com/3pdzu4dn

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:01 AM (1z8ji)

330 Good actresses work forever pretty faces fade fast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 AM (gpvQO)

High-altitude rockets can stay up a long time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)

331 If you eat Sushi would you eat Salp?

https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:09 AM (gpvQO)

332 If you eat Sushi would you eat Salp?

https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:09 AM (gpvQO)

Nope. It's a bug.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:11 AM (1z8ji)

333 If you eat Sushi would you eat Salp?
https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt
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Not sure. Let someone else go first!

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

334 Oldie but a goodie:

Elon Musk@elonmusk - 26 Apr 2024

Replying to @wholemars
I’d like to apologize to Dustin Moskowitz for calling him a “retard”. That was wrong.

What I meant to say is that he is a pompous idiot whose his head is so far up his own ass that he is legally blind.

I wish him the best and hope that someday we can be friends.



there's not much out there folks

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:18 AM (gpvQO)

335 Salp looks like it would get tossed in the recycling bin on land.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)

336 Salp looks like it would get tossed in the recycling bin on land.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)

Looks like a condom that got soaked in white gas, and all swole up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:21 AM (1z8ji)

337 Dario Amodei@DarioAmodei

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…

Elon Musk@elonmusk
Dario is right
---

Laying odds the Senate is warming up the regulators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:22 AM (gpvQO)

338 Well, I am starting to power out. Calling it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:28 AM (1z8ji)

339 Polymarket@Polymarket

Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks apart in orbit, creating at least 43 pieces of space debris that could remain around Earth for “hundreds of years.
---

@GordonGChang
Why would a satellite break apart in frictionless space?
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Science, sort of related to math isn't it?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:31 AM (gpvQO)

340 Night AOP.

Thanks for the Chivas, JQ, I may lurk for a bit but I am feeling kind of tired.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:35 AM (ibDUx)

341 What a game! Finally home -- and exhausted-- from drinking and cheering and fretting Its Hard to imagine how the players must feel.

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2026 01:38 AM (lCppi)

342 >>I may lurk for a bit but I am feeling kind of tired.
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Same here, Debby.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)

343 Thanks Disco and Dino!

I don't understand cocktails with ingredients like pineapple juice. Who has that? Do you buy a 52 oz bottle (my first Google result) and then make the same cocktail 34 times? My cocktails are all things I can scale based on juice from half a lemon/lime. Am I doing something wrong?


Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 01:52 AM (rcENI)

344 >> Why would a satellite break apart in frictionless space?

It went splodey. Could've been some of it's maneuvering propulsion or even batteries or something that blowed up good.

And it was in a retrograde orbit, and was likely some spy satellite.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)

345 Watched the third episode (of nine) of the Saint Paisios miniseries. He is still a newborn.

His parents & grandmother remind me of a family I stayed with twenty-some years ago in Cyprus. Far better Christians than me. Prayed all the time with their many kids. Fasted every Wednesday and Friday, and on Saturdays before liturgy dinner was tomatoes, cucumbers, and feta. No "movie night and popcorn."

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 01:56 AM (rcENI)

346 lost a high-profile triple murder case
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:59 AM (gpvQO)

He loves triple murder

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 01:56 AM (vE0+H)

347 Hi, frammish!

Bars buy the larger containers of pineapple juice and make many foo-foo drinks per night.

At home, it's easier to keep the small cans (6 oz?) handy for an occasional tropical drink.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)

348
The Chicoms do not give a shit about space junk or rocket safety during launches.

It wouldn't bother them for instance, if they launched some rocket with a path over a populated area and it blew up and crashed and killed people. They don't give a shit. At least for their own people.

They wouldn't give a shit otherwise, save the international fallout.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2026 02:02 AM (w6EFb)

349 @20kayleighmceny

Trump embarrasses Emmanuel Macron on the world stage:

Reporter: "Can you respond to Macron saying he will not join the board of peace?"

Trump: "Nobody wants him because he'll be out of office very soon."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:05 AM (gpvQO)

350
When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.
Posted by: Sand Through Hourglass Figure

=================

And all of this will be moot within a few years. AI Girl will never disappoint you. Will not demand $10 million per picture. Will not need to be shadowed by a minder to make sure she doesn't say something stupid. Will not keep everyone waiting on this set for floor hours while she recovers from a bender.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 13, 2026 02:07 AM (mmrXZ)

351
*four

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 13, 2026 02:08 AM (mmrXZ)

352 Okay, I will buy one of the cans. :-) I guess it is good by itself too. That reminds me . . .

A friend I've known since 3rd grade invited me to a birthday party weekend next month. Actually the invitation was a month or two ago, and anyway, uh, it's always the same time every year.

He is the only person I've stayed in touch with for all those years. He wants to visit a famous tiki bar one of those nights. I've never really explored tiki drinks. Too complicated to make at home.

But I just got a jury summons! I've never believed in dodging jury duty (but I've never been selected either). I would be so sad to cancel on my friend. Maybe I can ask for a delay.

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:09 AM (rcENI)

353 frammish since you brought up cocktails with lemon juice, I have to recommend the Sidecar to anyone with a lemon tree. Basically a margarita (for which it was probably the inspiration), subbing in lemon for lime, and cognac for tequila. Orange liquer/triple sec, ice, shake, into a chilled glass, voila. Very refreshing and good.

I have a meyer lemon tree, so mine might be a bit sweeter than using a typical Lisbon or Eureka, which are more acidic.

Anyway, in hot or warm weather, an easy simple and refreshing cocktail.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 02:09 AM (U/Byj)

354 Q MASTER POOL@QMasterPool1

This gal's got a handle on Trump and what he's doing.
Refreshing

https://tinyurl.com/76b26z34

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:13 AM (gpvQO)

355 Maybe I can ask for a delay.
Posted by: frammish

My county allows postponement.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

356 354 Q MASTER POOL@QMasterPool1
whelp, scrolling further down she seems vulnerable to quick click rumor. Too bad she makes a good presentation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:28 AM (gpvQO)

357 And it was in a retrograde orbit, and was likely some spy satellite.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---

Musk's Starlink satellite zapped it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:34 AM (gpvQO)

358 Seems like things are starting to happen inside Iran. A few days ago Tousi said that Pahlavi asked them to block the streets with their cars. All my life I've wondered why the French made barricades. Like what is the point? Here in Oregon, our DOT blocks traffic all the time. Google says it was to stop cavalry charges. I guess cramming a highway with cars also stops tanks and other military transport.

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:34 AM (rcENI)

359 My oldest son is about to start a "dual enrollment" program so he can take most of his classes at the community college. His literature class will be homeschool though. It's focused on the 17th/18th centuries. So my wife and I were talking about assigning Les Miserables vs Tale of Two Cities. We're going to go with Dickens, but it was the first time I learned Les Mis isn't about the French Revolution. It's about the "June Rebellion," 43 years later. I've never heard of that. But I believe they are on their Fifth Republic already, so. . . .

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:39 AM (rcENI)

360 In 2022 when gas prices went high rethugliKKKans gleefully put stickers on gas pumps burn biden not oil! If democrats like schumer and jefferies could get their heads out of aipacs butt and democrats weren't tofu eating snowflakes they could now put stickers on gas pumps burn trumpsters not oil!

Posted by: raimondo at September 13, 2026 02:41 AM (FPix9)

361 Rummages under kitchen sink.....I know I bought a fresh can of troll-b-gone....now where is it.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 02:58 AM (QGaXH)

362 Because Biden enriching himself and his cronies is totally the same thing as resisting apocalyptic fanatics who have sought our death for fifty years.

I remember in the early 2000s I would meet a friend once a week in Harvard Square to read the Iliad together: just a few pages at a time, in ancient Greek. One week he was very concerned that Bush was going to declare war on Iran. I didn't understand what he was worried about. I said I wished he would do it!

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 03:05 AM (rcENI)

363 361 Rummages under kitchen sink.....I know I bought a fresh can of troll-b-gone....now where is it.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 02:58 AM (QGaXH)

Probably don't need that for little ol' Rainmandodo. Maybe some Febreeze would do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 03:05 AM (QSxSN)

364 Sweet dreams Horde, I actually dozed off in the chair for a minute or two.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 03:08 AM (ibDUx)

365 I went & washed dishes and now everyone is gone.

Ah, well... still have half a drink to finish...

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

366 365 I went & washed dishes and now everyone is gone.
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

... or lurking.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 03:34 AM (odBC9)

367 Pixy's up at ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 03:38 AM (odBC9)

368 (lurking about)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 03:54 AM (wBh67)

369 Hush you, the day walkers are still about.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 04:30 AM (Q/FnY)

370 We see you, Puddleglum!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

371 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

372 Is this where the spot?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 08:45 AM (3oLMy)

373 In that picture of the Jungle Bird drink, I have to say I have never seen a red pineapple before. Is that something new?

Posted by: Ralph at September 13, 2026 12:08 PM (8WZD4)

Pre-Club Open Thread

Whelm yourselves in preparation for the Club which opens at 10pm Eastern Time

Posted by: Doof at 08:38 PM




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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:39 PM (eRlcH)

2
I never cease to amaze myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

3 Nooded, and my day is now 19 hours old. Good night, y'all.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:41 PM (NcvvS)

4 Whelmed beyond belief, there Doof.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:41 PM (yEz+x)

5 Oh, final note: Whelmed!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NcvvS)

6 @sentdefender
1h
In a first, Ukraine’s navy has announced and released footage of an engagement between two USVs. Per the release, a Ukrainian Sargan 3000, with a platformed .50 M2 Browning heavy machine gun, engaged and destroyed a Russia USV in the Black Sea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (gpvQO)

7 nurse, how's Lucy's tail?

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (Sco7b)

8 Yeeeee Haaaawwwwwwww

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (Q/FnY)

9 I never cease to amaze myself.
Posted by: Hadrian

Or us!
Totally whelmed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NnhvP)

10 Whelmed here, boss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

11 I could have been first but I was greasing the ol' tractor.

Posted by: Mr Haney at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (MWfyi)

12 Video clip of Ma Deuce chewing on Russian remote boat.

https://tinyurl.com/2wu2sxs2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (gpvQO)

13 Amazing content.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)

14 Ever wonder if a lot of the Ukrainian footage is just advertisements for the oligarchs to sell drones?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

15
Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)

__________

Laconically eloquent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:45 PM (eRlcH)

16 Hey statelss,

Thanks for asking. The lump is now quite small and getting smaller. When it exploded it was the size of a ping pong ball, now smaller than a pea. No signs of tenderness or redness or warmth. Hopefully we are good to go!

She is such a sweet Fink.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (yEz+x)

17 Uncanny content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

18 "Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit"

The volcano was unbelievable!

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

19 I could have been first but I was greasing the ol' tractor.
Posted by: Mr Haney

I didn't know what the cool kids were calling 'it' now!
Thanks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (NnhvP)

20 The volcano was unbelievable!
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

I thought the Sydney Sweeney halftime show was overdone.
-ace

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

21 C14 News | EN@c14english

Iraq is rushing to contain a major regional crisis after confirming that a drone attack shutting down a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline originated from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has fired a military commander and shut Iranian border crossings to launch an investigation.

With the wider Iran-U.S. war already destabilizing regional trade, Baghdad faces massive pressure to disarm local Iran-backed militias before a Sept 30 deadline - but Iran-backed Shia terror groups are refusing to comply.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (gpvQO)

22 'Resident Evil' on in the background as I work. Damn, Milla Jovovich was beautiful. Incredible eyes. She's 50 now.

The movies are free on Tubi. There's a new one coming out that's supposed to be really good.

And AI is running stuff in the background....

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (Sco7b)

23 Drone show was neat in person, seen bigger ones on YouTube but first seen live

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 08:49 PM (qEb4U)

24 22 'Resident Evil' on in the background as I work. Damn, Milla Jovovich was beautiful. Incredible eyes. She's 50 now.
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Mind sees her in the Fifth Element.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:50 PM (gpvQO)

25 16 Hey statelss,

Thanks for asking. The lump is now quite small and getting smaller. When it exploded it was the size of a ping pong ball, now smaller than a pea. No signs of tenderness or redness or warmth. Hopefully we are good to go!

She is such a sweet Fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (yEz+x)

Thanks for the update.

Thoughts were occasionally sent towards both of you and I was asking around.

AND GREAT NEWS ALL OF YOU!!!

TRILLIONS of American dollars are being spent on AI. TRILLIONS.

My script is almost done running and I am moving this towards profitability with my total API cost of......
$0.155869 American dollars.

The road to profitability is step by step....

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:51 PM (Sco7b)

26 I was so wrong. I thought the armed resistance by the Iranian people would start in Mashhad. It has started in Southern Iran.

Pezeshkian is crying that PDT is attacking civilians by cutting off their food, water , medicine and electricity. All the borders around Iran are closed.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (E0Et6)

27 Although I did like the commercial for the F950 Earthfucker.

Almost brought a tear to my eye...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

28 my total API cost of......
$0.155869 American dollars.

The road to profitability is step by step....

Posted by: Stateless
---

You never know, keep on truckin'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (gpvQO)

29 It has started in Southern Iran.
---

Think they have farms up north.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:55 PM (gpvQO)

30 And AI is running stuff in the background....

Same here, convert all of the XML serializers from document based to forward cursor streaming only. Should allow me to stream massive SOAP envelopes without the GC overhead.

I can't imagine how many days it would take to do this by hand.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:57 PM (+4Cf6)

31 *slides down bannister*

Hi there!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

32 It has started in Southern Iran.
---

Think they have farms up north.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:55 PM (gpvQO)

Near Macedonia?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)

33 @sentdefender
9h
More information about the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG)/IRG-aligned force’s offensive against the Houthis to the south, that ultimately, culminated in failure. According to CNN, citing a number of officials and sources with knowledge on the matter, the Saudis failed to embed key enablers, such as JTACs and FSOs (rightly mentioned by @WeaponScientist) with IRG/IRG-aligned forces during their offensive.

This enabled the Houthis to make considerable gains, due to the absence of Saudi airstrikes, during counteroffensive operations, that ultimately led to the capture of the key port city of Mocha and islands from which they can exercise control over the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:02 PM (gpvQO)

34 If its not serious it won't work, the Mullahs will murder anyone that tries to take them over

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:04 PM (qEb4U)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 09:04 PM (88C+u)

36 31 *slides down bannister*

in a tutu?

Posted by: and i am a living sign at September 12, 2026 09:05 PM (88C+u)

37 Preparing for Club ONT-- I think I need to do some stretches first. Okay, where's thst yoga mat?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:05 PM (PMi3m)

38 I was expecting a movie thread, and I finally have a movie related post. We watched "Train Dreams" on Netflix last night. I enjoyed the story, but what really caught me was the cinematography. Every shot is just perfect in terms of color, lighting, framing, etc. Worth a watch if you're in the mood for something contemplative.

Posted by: Satan, Prince of Darkness, Esq. at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (LnCz0)

39 Off, Satanic sock.

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (LnCz0)

40 Near Macedonia?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
---

Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?

youtu.be/wZ_aCGKP7Gs?t=25

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (gpvQO)

41 Wild watching Cornyn let his freak flag fly.


>>@JohnCornyn

>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (viF8m)

42 18 The volcano was unbelievable!
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

Are you calling it a liar?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (PMi3m)

43 Skip, it's deadly serious this time.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (E0Et6)

44 On what rational planet are the Houthis able to "make significant gains"?

These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (oqH4h)

45
I think I need to do some stretches first.

__________

OWWWWWW!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (eRlcH)

46 >>>JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
---

Cage match?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (gpvQO)

47 Republicans’ MAGA wing

That's the "make America great again" wing. Cornyn doesn't want America to be great. He wants a dying camel on whose corpse he can feast.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:10 PM (88C+u)

48 44 On what rational planet are the Houthis able to "make significant gains"?

These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?

Posted by: ballistic
---

Spins magic wheel. ... > The answer is the Saudis didn't show up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gpvQO)

49 Those hackfrauds at Red Letter Media (whom I love) had the gall to diss "Mystery Men", a favorite. They did not recognize it for the glorious riff on Joel Schumacher Batman films that it was.

It's the closest to an actual Flaming Carrot movie that I'm likely to get.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

50 John Cornyn is a pussyhurt crybaby loser who is lashing out at everyone when Texans finally got enough of him selling us out at every turn like the soycuck he is. Dude can eat a mile of dicks and ask for seconds.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)

51 Evening, Horde. I did hobby-related stuff today. Slapped the last fiberglass patches (I think, LOL) on the main body tube for the dune buggy, and bolted the spacer girdle to the bottom of the body with a whole bunch of 5/16" bolts. Then I flipped it over, and drove Tek screws in between each pair of bolts. A whole bunch of them. Then removed all the bolts. And everything stayed put! No ominous crackling of fiberglass, or heads of screws pulling through from the tension. Woot! Now the body is sitting on the floor pan. No bolts in yet; that's on the agenda for tomorrow.

And I got the ditches mowed, and a bunch of tidying/sorting done in the shop, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (1z8ji)

52 The whelming.
So much whelming.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:12 PM (2Ez/1)

53 So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

54 Tucker Carlson has endorsed El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.

Hate to admit I was once a Sucker for Tucker.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (3ImbR)

55 Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)

Only the best for you Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (QMAsf)

56 Spins magic wheel. ... > The answer is the Saudis didn't show up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gpvQO)
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Nobody should expect them to. When I said "we" I meant the united states. Tell the Saudis to hold tight while we get some time on target and be done with it.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (oqH4h)

57 Dude can eat a mile of dicks and ask for seconds.
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)

Every time Cornyn sought a donation from an actual conservative, or a vote, he felt dirty. He resented every moment he had to beg a favor from us.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (88C+u)

58 *slides down bannister*

Hi there!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

You are supposed to use your fan to waft the smoke away from the friction zone, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)

59 Either Ohio state is really good or Texas sucks ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)

60 Thanks for the early prep scene, Doof.
Probably involved in compiling some awesome 80s rock vids, including some Dokken (It’s not love), some XYZ (Nice Day to Die, Inside Out, or perhaps, What keeps me Loving You).
Or even the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame George Harrison number, “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”
with Prince, totally shredding on guitar, awesome Harrison’s kid.

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (N91F8)

61 Completed day one of a Wilderness First Aid today.
Celebrated with pizza.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (2Ez/1)

62 30 And AI is running stuff in the background....

Same here, convert all of the XML serializers from document based to forward cursor streaming only. Should allow me to stream massive SOAP envelopes without the GC overhead.

I can't imagine how many days it would take to do this by hand.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:57 PM (+4Cf6)

My stuff's not nearly that advanced.

But what I'm working on would take me years on my own or just using search.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (Sco7b)

63
So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

___________

It's a thread thread. Strong. Refined. Stripped to its essentials. The hard residue. No fluff. No distractions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (eRlcH)

64 You are supposed to use your fan to waft the smoke away from the friction zone, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)
----

Sidesaddle baby!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:16 PM (kpS4V)

65
*slides down bannister*

Hi there!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

_________

No splinters. You're lucky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:16 PM (eRlcH)

66 Taking a break from cooking...

This is thoroughly whelming. Thanks, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)

67 These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (oqH4h)

Gas or germs. Fuck 'em. America needs to build that Flying Crowbar (Project Pluto), and just send the damn thing on an endless loop cruise over Houthi country. No need to spew out A-bombs hither and yon. Just blast them with radiation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:18 PM (1z8ji)

68 That yoga mat is better at hide and seek thsn I expected. Hmmm-- maybe I should check Fibber McGee's closet.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (PMi3m)

69 41 Wild watching Cornyn let his freak flag fly.


>>@JohnCornyn

>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes
Posted by: JackStraw


Thanks, John, for reminding everyone what an impotent ponce you are.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (wBh67)

70 Either Ohio state is really good or Texas sucks ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched

How about both.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (lJ0H4)

71 >It's a thread thread. Strong. Refined. Stripped to its essentials. The hard residue. No fluff. No distractions.
------

It's leather-bound books and rich mahogany

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (ZxPkt)

72 I whelmed my thumb on the slide release of my XD45. Can't use a thumbs-high grip on that thing, should have remembered that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (xcxpd)

73 To be fair, Cornyn probably thinks W is far right.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)

74 53 So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

Must be a boob thread.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (PMi3m)

75 Arch Manning is NOT whelming. Seems like his name gor him where he is. Certainly isn’t showing much in the pocket.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (yEz+x)

76 This is thoroughly whelming. Thanks, Doof!
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)

Go pour yourself a drink from the Club bar - my treat!

Posted by: Doof at September 12, 2026 09:21 PM (QMAsf)

77 speaking of sucking ass, the Colorado Rockies are now in their divinely-appointed place in the MLB rankings. 0.372, after losing to something called the Detroit Tigers (apparently, Detroit does have a baseball team, they should switch to cricket).

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:22 PM (88C+u)

78 Go pour yourself a drink from the Club bar - my treat!
Posted by: Doof

Why, thank you! Don't mind if I do!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:22 PM (rdVOm)

79 49 Those hackfrauds at Red Letter Media (whom I love) had the gall to diss "Mystery Men", a favorite. They did not recognize it for the glorious riff on Joel Schumacher Batman films that it was.

It's the closest to an actual Flaming Carrot movie that I'm likely to get.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

They really are hack frauds, they don't know very much but they get credit for being the first into long-form movie discussions.

I actually think Jay might be the smartest of the bunch, never thought I'd say that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd)

80 I've found the perfect way to watch football. Turn the sound off. So much more enjoyable when you don't have to listen to commentators yapping.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (lJ0H4)

81 -----

Nobody should expect them to. When I said "we" I meant the united states. Tell the Saudis to hold tight while we get some time on target and be done with it.

Posted by: ballistic
---

I think 'we' are not going to put our twinkle toes on the ground.
However 'we' will tell the Saudis it' time to man up.
At which time the Saudis will hire mercenaries to do their job.
Because Saudis don't work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (gpvQO)

82 American League West meanwhile is the Texan League. Astros and Rangers are vying for who can whelm their fans most, in the 0.5 range.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (88C+u)

83 Texas receivers can't catch a beach ball. Manning has made some really good passes but the receivers drop them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (wBh67)

84 Either Ohio state is really good or Texas sucks ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)

Yes

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (P4Pk9)

85 Yo! Feeling very whelmed, almost excessively so.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (aJQbY)

86 Texas sucks and Ohio St. is good.
Michigan won fair and square.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (8jVAy)

87 83 Texas receivers can't catch a beach ball. Manning has made some really good passes but the receivers drop them.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (wBh67)

Fear of the undead is a powerful debuff

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (xcxpd)

88 73 To be fair, Cornyn probably thinks W is far right.

Cornyn sets a high bar for POShittery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:26 PM (gpvQO)

89 Boots on the ground? No...but we sure knocked Iran's dick into the dirt without doing that, so why are we mucking about with some less-sophisticated sand people? Let the aircraft make pink mist and move along.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:26 PM (oqH4h)

90 80 I've found the perfect way to watch football. Turn the sound off. So much more enjoyable when you don't have to listen to commentators yapping.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM

Nothing beats the radio call.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

91 Granted, it was against FAMU. But Miami has one hell of an offense.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)

92 Michigan won fair and square.
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM

Got a second?

Posted by: Nick Saban at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (2Ez/1)

93 89 Boots on the ground? No...but we sure knocked Iran's dick into the dirt without doing that, so why are we mucking about with some less-sophisticated sand people? Let the aircraft make pink mist and move along.

Posted by: ballistic
---

Saudis must learn to take care of themselves. Trump may be their daddy but he's not going to be their baby sitter.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (gpvQO)

94
Soooo, let's look at some of today's NCAAF scores:

Houston, 63 - Southern, 0 (3Q!)
Florida, 52 - Campbell, 3
New Mexico, 70 - Mercyhurst, 0
Notre Dame, 52 - Rice, 0
Georgia, 70 - Western Kentucky, 10
James Madison, 87 - Wagner, 3

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (eRlcH)

95 My wife helped me pick a row of concord and Thompson grapes today, and I wound up pressing and canning 7 gallons (28 quarts) of grape juice. Then it started raining.
The good news is that the new ratchet press works very good with a liner in it to keep the grapes from squirting through the staves. The bad news is that I still have to figure out a way to pre-crush the grapes since I had uncrushed grapes left when I cleaned the press out.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

96 PDT gave the Saudis a reality check. How's that Saudi. Turkey and Pakistan pact working out guys?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (E0Et6)

97 Okay, that yoga mat is nowhere to be found. It's times like this I regret my decision to modernize from the luxurious shag carpet thst once adorned my den.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (PMi3m)

98 I think 'we' are not going to put our twinkle toes on the ground.
However 'we' will tell the Saudis it' time to man up.
At which time the Saudis will hire mercenaries to do their job.
Because Saudis don't work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (gpvQO)

There is a way around that, and the Soviets and Cubans did it all the time. Allow serving members of the military to take indefinite leave if they volunteer to become mercenaries for "approved" client States. Military pay stops for the duration, of course. But a bonus could be paid to those who return alive and well. Key takeaway? No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)

99 Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (rbvCR)

100 94
Soooo, let's look at some of today's NCAAF scores:

Houston, 63 - Southern, 0 (3Q!)
Florida, 52 - Campbell, 3
New Mexico, 70 - Mercyhurst, 0
Notre Dame, 52 - Rice, 0
Georgia, 70 - Western Kentucky, 10
James Madison, 87 - Wagner, 3
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Most big schools are still playing pre-season games.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (wBh67)

101 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?

Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

102 99 Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game
Posted by: Kindltot


My late grandfather did that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:32 PM (wBh67)

103 Home again, thinking of a night cap

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:32 PM (Ia/+0)

104 There is a way around that, and the Soviets and Cubans did it all the time. Allow serving members of the military to take indefinite leave if they volunteer to become mercenaries for "approved" client States.

There's talk the US did this too in Central America in the 1980s.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (88C+u)

105 I have football on the tele muted and baseball on the radio.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (9zk+V)

106 I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM

If the timing works it's the best arrangement.

Radio talent is so much better than TV.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)

107
Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

__________

Rod Bramblett, 2013 Iron Bowl

https://youtu.be/EWiuejtLXt0

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (eRlcH)

108 War Eagle!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (2Ez/1)

109 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

I remember having a hop vine grow at the family home when I was a very young Peon. Basically an attractive weed. I don't think they are hard to grow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (1z8ji)

110 101 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)
-----

Researched this when I was into homebrewing and came to the conclusion that trying to do so at a scale and quality to even support my own efforts would be way more trouble than its worth. Also very toxic to dogs which was a no-go for my personal situation.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:35 PM (oqH4h)

111 Must be a boob thread.
Posted by: tankdemon

Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren

Posted by: mindful webworker - u axed 4 it at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (k0Y0k)

112 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

I knew people who did. Hops are stupid easy to grow and it is a question if you want to grow tall vines or lots of short ones. I think the question is how to dry them for storage.
Locally the farmers used forced air heat in large barns to dry the flowers on racks. You might hang the vines to dry in your garage if it is heated and dry.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (rbvCR)

113 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?

Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)

114 So, TJM's too much of a YouTube star to bother with us peasants?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (CHHv1)

115 Thought he was taking a break after Dallas.
Silly thought.
Trump in Ireland; 2 minutes.

“We took out 5,000 HARD CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C.
They came in through the OPEN BORDER.
No checking. No vetting. Nothing.
They murdered people.
We weren’t nice about it. We got them the hell out.”
2% of the people create 91% of the crime.
Then he looked at Europe:
“You’re just killing yourselves with immigration.”

https://tinyurl.com/4epmkr68

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)

116 Ernie Harwell....RIP

LOL - The Toronto Blue Jays banned the unjabbed from the stadium. Last year's heartbreaking loss was fantastic.

This year, Vladdy, who they signed to about a $500 million contract hasn't hit a home run IN TORONTO in over a year. He only has 8 this year.

We don't deserve nice things.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)

117 Be glad when he sends ICE around here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)

118 The bad news is that I still have to figure out a way to pre-crush the grapes since I had uncrushed grapes left when I cleaned the press out.
Posted by: Kindltot

Old laundry clothes press?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (NnhvP)

119 I looked at what growing hops once for curiosity, its not a easy crop seemed to me.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Ia/+0)

120 often times the TV broadcast and the radio broadcast are not in sync, time-wise

TV usually on a delay

my experience, anyway

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (ZxPkt)

121 Today's wildlife encounter: was riding the golf cart down the yard to the parts storage bus to put a Studebaker manifold back into storage. There was a Great Horned Owl roosting on top of the bus. It took off and flew to another roost. I followed it, twice. Must have pissed it off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (1z8ji)

122 I just saw an ad from the SEC asking congress to make eligibility rules for the NCAA.

WTF. Congress?

The NCAA needs to make its own rules and enforce them.

Congress?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (yEz+x)

123 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)

Amaranth

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)

124 Also very toxic to dogs which was a no-go for my personal situation.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:35 PM
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Wow. Never knew that.

Posted by: TRex - doggy dino at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (XfIK1)

125 123 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)

Amaranth
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)

Also great ASMR

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (xcxpd)

126 Beckoning Chasm was wondering same thing

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (Ia/+0)

127 Considering James Madison was a I-Aa schiol hust a few years ago, their recent success is a bit sutprising.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (PMi3m)

128 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex

Just start with a good strain.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NnhvP)

129 Eugene Hasenfus was a pilot involved in a CIA-backed operation to supply weapons to Contra rebels in Nicaragua during the Reagan administration. He became a key figure in the Iran-Contra affair after his plane was shot down in 1986, leading to revelations about U.S. government involvement in the operation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (gpvQO)

130 Kindltot, a barrel and clean feet. The old ways are the best.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (E0Et6)

131 Excellent whelm, Doof. I had dialysis today so whelm is all I can handle this evening.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (DK5Sh)

132 Also, Brigitte WHO? AI Narrators are stupid.

https://youtu.be/Io7DWgDRJA8

Posted by: mindful webworker - bar DOT? at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (k0Y0k)

133 114 So, TJM's too much of a YouTube star to bother with us peasants?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (CHHv1)

I think he's doing family stuff this weekend.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (xcxpd)

134 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex

How many gallons is your mash tun and boil pot?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (NnhvP)

135
Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes

Dandelion

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (Cqx++)

136 Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren

It lifts AND separates.
Cross your heart.

Posted by: Playtex at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (2Ez/1)

137 128 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex

Just start with a good strain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NnhvP)

My favorite Strain was Julie

RIP

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (xcxpd)

138 Let the Saudis hire Indians (they like to fight) or Mexicans (they like to fight), there a many other people, Canadians are good fighters, to hire other than Americans.

We need our guys to stay home and make babies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (gpvQO)

139 111 Must be a boob thread.
Posted by: tankdemon

Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren
Posted by: mindful webworker - u axed 4 it at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (k0Y0k)

I happily accept your generous offer.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:42 PM (PMi3m)

140 This year, Vladdy, who they signed to about a $500 million contract hasn't hit a home run IN TORONTO in over a year. He only has 8 this year.

We don't deserve nice things.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)

I often see Jays games when I go to the Elnora Hotel for Wednesday Wing Nite. He is a classy player. Always seems to have a joke or a kind word for the opposing runner at first base.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:43 PM (1z8ji)

141 91 Granted, it was against FAMU. But Miami has one hell of an offense.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)

Top tier cheerleader trim too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

142 116 Ernie Harwell....RIP
Posted by: Stateless

George Kell, too. Best baseball play by play team ever.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)

143 Poppies?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (gpvQO)

144 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Kudzu at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (2Ez/1)

145 Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?

youtu.be/wZ_aCGKP7Gs?t=25

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (gpvQO)

Sydney Sweeney, mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (dK+Kv)

146
Top tier cheerleader trim too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

_________

Southern girls. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (eRlcH)

147 When is Michigan going to play a road game?
No gas money?

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (xJpuh)

148 Wild watching Cornyn let his freak flag fly.

>>@JohnCornyn

>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (viF8m)

Does he think he's speaking to leftist NPCs?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (dK+Kv)

149 Does he think
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (dK+Kv)
----
no

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:47 PM (oqH4h)

150 John Cornyn. Who?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:48 PM (E0Et6)

151 >>Top tier cheerleader trim too

It is Miami.

Just wave something shiny.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (viF8m)

152 Old laundry clothes press?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (NnhvP)

They make cane presses like that, they are called Trapiche in Spanish. The wineries use a sort of pugmill to pre-crush the grapes, but that is more than what I want. I could run it through a garbage disposal but that grinds up the stems as well, which alters the taste of the juice.

I am going to have to make some drawings.

I wonder if I could build some sort of rotary device like a Foley food mill I use to strain apple sauce

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (rbvCR)

153 There were a few farmers in Western NY that grew hops. Pretty cool. Tall vines 20'+. The one was a preferred grower for Southern Tier Brewing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (h06De)

154 HERO -- This is an American Badass: The Inspector Who Sent the 20th Hijacker Home

Jose Melendez-Perez did his job. On August 4, 2001, that took courage.

--- Mohammed al-Qahtani, a 26-year-old Saudi. ---

Another inspector warned Melendez-Perez he would get in trouble for turning a Saudi away. Melendez-Perez said he could not do the work with dignity if nationality decided who got in. He refused him entry anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:50 PM (gpvQO)

155
Elder statesmen lawyer-type Senators are a thing of the past, soon.

Gonzo beats gravitas going forward.

Cornyn should have seen that coming

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Y8DZL)

156 I think hops is grown in Germany in Mountains so probably a cooler areas

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Ia/+0)

157 Does he think he's speaking to leftist NPCs?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
---

He woke up the somnambulists with his gun control crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:52 PM (gpvQO)

158 Yakima , WA is one of the world’s top producers of hops.

Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:53 PM (yEz+x)

159 I often see Jays games when I go to the Elnora Hotel for Wednesday Wing Nite. He is a classy player. Always seems to have a joke or a kind word for the opposing runner at first base.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:43 PM (1z8ji)

I know. And I hope he has a great career. I have nothing against him.
But if he's gone this long without a homer, you may as well go the full year.

Like the one year the Detroit Lions were horrible even for them. 0-16. Amazing.

1-15. So what.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (Sco7b)

160 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes

If I correctly recall my readings from "underground" literature of over half a century ago, hops and hemp are the only known relatives of one another (like pandas and raccoons).

I wondered, if you could cross them (probably by grafting), if you could make a beer with happy weed potency. Never got around to trying.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Jamaican Red Stripe at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (k0Y0k)

161 No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)

The only thing worse that being world police is world mercenary force with no air assets, no tomahawks, no sat/drone support. No like.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (dK+Kv)

162 soon, Cornyn too shall pass

Posted by: a fart in the wind at September 12, 2026 09:55 PM (88C+u)

163 DDG Search Assistant

The Immigration Act of 1990 marked a pivotal change in U.S. immigration policy, focusing on both family and employment-based immigration while also addressing humanitarian concerns.

Introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1989.
Passed the Senate and House with significant bipartisan support.
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:57 PM (gpvQO)

164 Yakima , WA is one of the world’s top producers of hops.

Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched

This not actually a problem for normal adults.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:58 PM (NnhvP)

165 Liam Out Loud on what we have been dealing with from the left.
https://tinyurl.com/3nj78ry5

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 12, 2026 09:58 PM (ZFutt)

166 161 No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

Saudis bombed the Towers. We are not going to bleed for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:59 PM (gpvQO)

167 Thought he was taking a break after Dallas.
Silly thought.
Trump in Ireland; 2 minutes.

“We took out 5,000 HARD CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C.
They came in through the OPEN BORDER.
No checking. No vetting. Nothing.
They murdered people.
We weren’t nice about it. We got them the hell out.”
2% of the people create 91% of the crime.
Then he looked at Europe:
“You’re just killing yourselves with immigration.”

https://tinyurl.com/4epmkr68

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)

Love that man. No homo.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (dK+Kv)

168 One more look aroind for thst yoga mat-- did I leave it in the back of the station wagon?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (PMi3m)

169 NOOD
ONT

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Sco7b)

170 ONT IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)

171 To be fair, Cornyn probably thinks W is far right.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)

He thinks no such thing. He’s just in it for himself, and we got in the way.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (TlKpx)

172 Kindltot, a barrel and clean feet. The old ways are the best.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (E0Et6)

There are videos out there of traditional Spanish wine pressing festivals with that sort of thing.

I have been using my hands to squish the grapes in a five gallon bucket. It was all I needed with the old hand-made press, but I have a ratchet press now that takes 15 gallons of fruit at a time, so I need higher throughput, and I don't have a crowd of drunken Spaniards at my beck and call to stomp grapes for me!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (rbvCR)

173 You would think Texas could buy better players.

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (xJpuh)

174 Saudis bombed the Towers. We are not going to bleed for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:59 PM (gpvQO)

Well, I think, but am not certain, that current leader, Mohammed Bin Salman, is a lot more sane than his predecessor. He has had a few jihadis taken out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (1z8ji)

175 Yakima , WA is one of the world’s top producers of hops.

Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:53 PM (yEz+x)


Mount Angel, Brooks and Independence all have lots of hop yards.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:11 PM (rbvCR)

176 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex
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*Raises paw*

Wish I could share pics and data, but alas, me old computer died before I backed it up...

Grew them in cube-shaped planters that hubby built from leftover cedar boards. 2x2x2ft, and filled with 1:1 mixture of Miracle-Gro plotting soil and Kellogg's Soil Amendment (cheap for 3cu ft bags!), then 1/3 bag of bagged compost for each planter. Ordered rhizomes online and planted in early March.

Check your county extension website for recommended varieties, planting times and general care. They're not difficult!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (rdVOm)

177 if you want to defeat islam start planting kudzu or multiflora rose near the mosque

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 10:35 PM (jrgJz)

Hobby Thread - September 12, 2026 [TRex]

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a farm tractor theme for this Hobby Thread.

A farm tractor theme? Yep. Let's get tractoring!

[Top photo: John Deere Model 80, Canfield Ohio Fair]

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Vintage farm equipment is a huge hobby. Lots of people have a vintage tractor, collect vintage equipment and restore projects. Is it the pull of nostalgia? The pull of machines? The pull of farming and the feeling of being self-sufficient and productive?

Many Fourth of July parades feature tractors. Many county fairs feature antique farm tractors. There are events dedicated exclusively to farm and construction equipment where static displays witness active demonstrations. There is an annual event known as Classic Green dedicated solely to John Deere equipment and memorabilia.

If you grew up on a farm, chances are good that you learned to drive on a tractor before a car. Chances are also good that you remember exactly what kind of tractor (or tractors) your family had.

The sheer quantity of tractor rescue and restoration content on YouTube is a testament to the deep vein of interest. (Bulldozer and other heavy equipment rescue and restoration is similar.) Many videos have the same storyline of "sitting for years, can we get it to run???" Some are more or less polished than others. Some feel like more clickbait/artificial drama than others. (We better understand the incentives and importance of the thumbnails after our recent look into YouTube creator economics.)

Are you wise in the ways of farm tractors? Do you have one (or more)? If not, would you like a tractor in your garage? Have you restored a tractor? Are you inclined towards heavy equipment in general? Are you into tractor pulls?

What's your brand of choice? Farmall/International Harvester? Case? Steiger? Allis-Chalmers? Ford? Oliver? MF? (farmer people know MF is Massey Furguson rather than a common profanity)

If you're inclined towards steam engines, please weigh in as well. Close enough.

Full disclosure: The family of TRex is a John Deere family. We're friendly to other brands (and I'm irritated at the John Deere right to repair nonsense), but decades of family history ran with the Deere. The local John Deere dealer spoke at my uncle's funeral if that tells you anything.

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What are you hobbying?

Tractors may not be your favorite but give it a chance before you judge and bail out. Any adjacent hobbying is in scope, so jump in with your interests, stories and questions.

In any event, the thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Anyone been to the Keller's Retired Tractor Museum in Wisconsin?

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You had me at "Parade of Power." This was in Du Quoin, Illinois.

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Steel wheels but a heartfelt restoration video with lots of family history mixed in which makes the project more special.

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Bulldozers are fun but they're not tractors. We'll do a separate thread someday for dozers, backhoes, cranes, dump trucks, etc., but this mini-Deere dozer looked too good to pass up. I also liked this one for the "hit it with a power washer and spray paint" backyard rough justice method of cosmetic repair.

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Ever been to a Classic Green Reunion? Check out this walk-around video from the 2025 edition in Wisconsin.

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Blacksmith John Deere did not invent tractors but did invent the steel plow in 1837.

Fast forward to 1974 when Landmark Winery in Sonoma, California was founded by Damaris Deere Ford. John Deere was her great-great-grandfather.

Every so often, you'll see touches in their branding that pay homage to their history:

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Photocredit: stayradwineblog.com

Been a while since we've had a bottle of Landmark wine but we enjoyed many bottles in a prior life! Yum!

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Follow-up from last week:

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I looked for free pallets on Craigslist and was shocked at the volume of listings. Who knew?

ICYMI, JQ posted a link last week to 34 DIY pallet projects. If any among the Horde embark on pallet hobbying projects, send a photo. Thank you!

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This has nothing to do with tractors, but I don't think I've ever seen a motorized scythe before.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a painting theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comment from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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1 I get allergic smelling hay!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

2 I don't know if I'd want to go to a retired tractor display. They'd probably just sit around bitching about how bad things are today.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

3 If any among the Horde embark on pallet hobbying projects, send a photo. Thank you!

I took apart a couple of pallets to make a tool corral for the yard implements. Looks like crap, so I won't embarrass my construction abilities by sending in a photo. Does the job, but it'd probably lose a beauty contest to Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 "She might have took my car keys --
But she forgot about my old John Deere!"

"She thinks my tractor's sexy . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)

5 Couldn't have bulldozers or tanks if it weren't for Benjamin Holt and the Caterpillar.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

6 If model kit companies like Revell or he long-defunct Aurora had the wide range of assembly kits of the '60s and '70s, I'm sure at least one would produce a tractor in 1/25 scale to go along with a vintage Ford pickup truck. That 1938 JD looks like a good candidate. You could create a cool diorama: the tractor outside a barn or farmhouse, the dusty pickup nearby, and the stocky farmer with overalls or suspenders.

A double kit, perhaps, with tractor and pickup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:41 PM (wzUl9)

7 Looks like it's just you and me, Wolfus.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

8 As for pipe smoking: Last week I received two "pay-it-forward" free vintage pipes, a Weber billiard (the classic cylindrical shape) and an "apple" (plump, rounded bowl) Canadian Club brand. I've smoked both and enjoyed them, esp. the Weber. Another member of that forum offered a couple of bowls of a blend from a shop in Jackson, MS, and I took him up on it: "Old Fashioned," it's called. A nice toasted sort of aroma and even a bit of flavor, smoked in the Canadian Club.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)

9 I've only smoke cigars, Wolfus. One of my uncles was a pipe man. Only quit after his first heart attack.

One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

10 Oh fun! Tractors! Unfortunately, I didn’t get very many of my babies’ baby picture in the Great Divorce. They were all the computer, which he took, of course. One that I do have is of my youngest, with new walking feet, standing by a great big ol’ John Deere tire on our horse farm. I LOVE that picture. It’s adorable.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 Whew! At least someone else is here. It was getting a bit lonely.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

12 The "Old Fashioned" blend contains Virginia, burley, Dark Fired Kentucky (which can be strong), and some Cavendish. I only recently found that "Cavendish" is a process, not a kind of tobacco, and that both burleys and Virginias can be used as a base for Cavendish preparation. The pipe shop's website says the Cavendish in this blend is based on burley.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

13 I have 8 Deere tractors that run. All 2 cylinders except for my little loader tractor. It's a 750 4 WD with a 3 cylinder Yanmar engine. Also have a Grey market Kubota. Wasn't meant to be sold in the US.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (IFwjj)

14 Unfortunately, my hobbies are pretty dang boring and for the most part, I share them with y’all on the daily. More than you want, I am sure! But there is something incredibly iconic about a John Deere.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

15 I'm still working on the Bayou Jumper radio mentioned above (thanks, TRex). The stain and finish on the case turned out well. I've mostly got the guts of the radio soldered onto the circuit board, but these last few steps that involve mounting connectors have been challenging. I'm going to step away from the workbench for a while. I think I've earned a break, and maybe a drink. I'll send pictures once I get it all together and tested (assuming it passes the smoke test).

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (B7yLN)

16 My dad's side was country folk, but I don't ever remember them having a tractor. Some horses around and some plows, but no tractors.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

17 My association with tractors begins and ends with a John Deere kid's model, pedaled like a tricycle. No idea why my folks got it for me but it was so cool, way better than the typical trike my friends had. Must have been pretty well made since it survived to be used by my little brother a few years later.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (yTvNw)

18 Well, a motorized scythe is just a lawnmower. Just with a double, rotating blade.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (zZu0s)

19 I've only smoke cigars, Wolfus. One of my uncles was a pipe man. Only quit after his first heart attack.

One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026

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You don't inhale that stuff any more than you do cigars. If you did I'd never have gotten into the pipe years ago, or again recently after a long layoff.

I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)

20 Top picture is a Model A not 80.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (IFwjj)

21 Going to see a drone show in a bit

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:57 PM (qEb4U)

22 Orange tractors rule.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)

23 You don't inhale that stuff any more than you do cigars. If you did I'd never have gotten into the pipe years ago, or again recently after a long layoff.

I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)

So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (1Ff7Z)

24 Long ago, use to be a Grange Fair and would be hundreds of tractors, some all but a hundred yo.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (qEb4U)

25 20 Top picture is a Model A not 80.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM

***
Thanks for the correction!

Posted by: TRex - fuzzy sign photo dino at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (XfIK1)

26 It wouldn't be accurate to say I grew up on a farm but I did live on one for a number of years once my mom's horse bug became an addiction. And yea, we had a Deere. No idea the model number but it had a bucket in front and a PTO in back which my dad, the tool, addict. took for a message from God to buy ever crazy piece of stuff ever made. And I spent far too much of my life in that thing.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had nothing on my dad's workshop.

Truth is it was a ton of fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (viF8m)

27 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)

28 Orange tractors rule.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)

Well, yeah.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (1Ff7Z)

29 27 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00

Maybe a longing for a past time, too, even though we have romanticized what those lives actually were.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

30 So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (1Ff7Z)

You're still getting a bit of nicotine from both the smoke rolling over your gums and cheeks and stray vapor being inhaled. The problem is the smoke is far too harsh to inhale directly most of the time (think Pall Mall non filter 100s.) It'll screw you up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

31 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)

Same as vinyl and books. Not cars, though. Beautiful and powerful, but not as safe or long-lasting as today's boring boxes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

32 Looks like it's just you and me, Wolfus.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
=====

We are always watching.

And waiting.

Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 06:03 PM (RIvkX)

33 And always remember the rule of thumb of pipe tobacco.

Tastes good---> smells horrible.

Smells good----> tastes horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s)

34
You're still getting a bit of nicotine from both the smoke rolling over your gums and cheeks and stray vapor being inhaled. The problem is the smoke is far too harsh to inhale directly most of the time (think Pall Mall non filter 100s.) It'll screw you up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

The smoke's in the mouth only pretty much, so I'd expect some kind of reaction, just not as strong as coffin nails.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

35 So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026

***
Exactly right. A little nicotine ("Vitamin N") is absorbed into your mouth, I guess, and strong blends can make your head spin, so I avoid those or mix them with milder blends. If I haven't worked out, a morning pipe does give a bit of a lift, along with my coffee.

The other day I had to fast for a blood draw. No food, coffee, or (I was guessing) pipe that morning. At breakfast later, the coffee provided a definite lift. So did the pipe I loaded and smoked that afternoon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

36 I believe Weasel drives a John Deere at the start of his YT videos at Weasel Acres.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (yTvNw)

37 We are always watching.

And waiting.
Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 06:03 PM (RIvkX)

Us too.

Posted by: The Vets at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (1Ff7Z)

38 I recently added a 3rd function to my 1025r so I could add a grapple.

Getting a tractor is a game changer, getting a grapple is like getting a super power.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (XV/Pl)

39 [Less politics. More tractors. Thank you. - TRex]

Posted by: Paul at September 12, 2026 06:06 PM (gM2YV)

40 I still work out 3-4 mornings a week, and my walk/run time over two miles is about the same as in 2020 before I took up the pipe again. So I don't think a pipe a day has affected my endurance or wind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

41 Rule of thumb: get your mind out of the gutter. No wait: get your mind out of the Biden.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 06:08 PM (wxsGM)

42 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

43 [More tractoring. Less politics. Thank you. -TRex]

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM (wxsGM)

44 And when a little guy many years my grandfather took me to the Steam show out near Lancaster. My sister says she went sometimes as well.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM (qEb4U)

45 I've never understood the concept of smoking and NOT inhaling. Isn't that like chewing your food and spitting it out?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)

46 Same as vinyl and books. Not cars, though. Beautiful and powerful, but not as safe or long-lasting as today's boring boxes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026

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I know. Everywhere you go, cars all look the same, like almonds, shaped to wedge under the wind. All in the same dull metallic colors, or black or white, with only an occasional red, blue, green, or yellow. And only gray, cream, or black interiors.

It's still possible to get a ruby red car with a cream interior, like my Buick. But I wonder how much longer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (wzUl9)

47 Vintage tractors are cool. Vintage bulldozers are super cool.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (S41Gd)

48 Little turned 21 last week, so he purchased and smoked his first legal cigar, a Padron 1965 Anniversary. My present to him was a Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned, prepared by the capable and nubile Avery at my favorite cigar lounge in downtown Sarasota.

He went back later in the week with a friend. It would seem that this hobby has been successfully passed on to the next generation..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 06:13 PM (nbLIj)

49 Deere's first crawlers were converted to tracks by the Lindeman company in Lindeman, Washington. The first Deere crawler was the Model M crawler.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:13 PM (IFwjj)

50 44 And when a little guy many years my grandfather took me to the Steam show out near Lancaster. My sister says she went sometimes as well.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM
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There are a bunch of videos on YT from the steam show. Seems like something I ought to visit at least once...

Posted by: TRex - digger dino at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (XfIK1)

51 45 I've never understood the concept of smoking and NOT inhaling. Isn't that like chewing your food and spitting it out?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)

Its hard not to do reflexively after you've smoked cigarettes. (Which is why I haven't smoked a pipe in a long time.)

Part of the allure of smoking is the ritual. Deep breaths. Quiet moments. Fixed amount of time as the tobacco burns. Tools (lighter, scraper, etc.)

Pipe smoking takes that and focuses on it, rather than the pure nicotine hit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

52 Sister, parents and me heading to this drone show

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:16 PM (qEb4U)

53 Have fun, skip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

54 Its hard not to do reflexively after you've smoked cigarettes. (Which is why I haven't smoked a pipe in a long time.)

Part of the allure of smoking is the ritual. Deep breaths. Quiet moments. Fixed amount of time as the tobacco burns. Tools (lighter, scraper, etc.)

Pipe smoking takes that and focuses on it, rather than the pure nicotine hit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

My bass player smokes anything that burns. Pipes, cigars cigarettes, even a vape. Showed up a few weeks ago with a church warden. I called him Frodo. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (S41Gd)

55 Vintage tractors are cool. Vintage bulldozers are super cool.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (S41Gd)

Like the D9?! LIKE THE D9?!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

56 For Wolfus, OrangeEnt and other pipe smokers. I don't get a nicotine hit from pipe smoking but I appreciate the taste of the tobacco(s) in the blend. In my younger days I was a HEAVY cigarette smoker: 4 to 5 packs of Winstons or Marlboros a day, so I know what a nicotine hit is like. (I was often working 16 hour days back then and you could smoke about anywhere.) I quit cigarettes over 40 years ago and eventually I was able to start tasting things again, including food and pipe tobacco.

Smoking cigarettes is a chemical addiction as well as a habit. Pipe smoking is a relaxing mind set that doesn't dominate you physically.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:18 PM (yTvNw)

57
I'm afraid the only tractor I have is a zero-turn mower.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 06:19 PM (eRlcH)

58 Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:18 PM (yTvNw)

Sorry, JTB. My uncle was a pipe smoker. I never have, only a couple of cigars decades ago. I don't smoke.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:21 PM (1Ff7Z)

59 This week I started work on the Revell 1/24 scale Ford F950 Earthfucker kit. Not sure yet what color I'll paint it.

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 06:22 PM (wBRco)

60 The first tractor I drove was a Deere Model D. Dad told me to drive it through the field/pasture gate. I was nervous, jammed the hand clutch instead of engaging it slowly. Dad buggered his shin trying to get things under control.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:23 PM (IFwjj)

61 The guy who bulldozed and leveled the back yard at the old house used a restored 1947 CAT D4. It was frigging cool. I was calling it the Iwo Jima model.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:24 PM (S41Gd)

62 Looked something like this bad boy. But older and no roll bar.

https://tinyurl.com/2t936p2t

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:25 PM (viF8m)

63 I was a HEAVY cigarette smoker: 4 to 5 packs of Winstons or Marlboros a day, so I know what a nicotine hit is like.
Posted by: JTB
________

Jeez, you must have been continuously lighting one off the end of another.

I smoked and dipped for about 20 years. Got to the point with dipping that I didnt use a spitter.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 06:28 PM (XvL8K)

64 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.
Posted by: JTB

Shade tree mechanics can get an old tractor running and working. new ones... not so much.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:30 PM (NnhvP)

65 Dad tried pipe smoking after his favorite cigar brand changed from a natural leaf to a composite wrapper. Give the man credit, I always thought they were foul, cheap, things from the get go. Nope, it was the cellulose and scraps wrapper that did it for him.

A cousin suggested he try smoking a pipe, which he did for a while. His biggest complaint was the work involved for maybe a 10-15 minute smoke. In the late 90's I turned him on to hand rolled sticks from a local shop in his old Ironbound neighborhood, and he was happily back to cigars..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 06:31 PM (nbLIj)

66 Between old injuries and getting older my hands aren't as nimble as they were. I'm going to try crochet to get some dexterity back but in a gentle way. I considered knitting but crochet appears to require more and varied hand motions. I have the hooks and yarn. Doesn't matter what I try to make, just want to learn and get the exercise. (Probably as well. My first attempts will likely look like something from an HP Lovecraft story.)

Any folks here who got involved with fiber arts to help with their hands? Did it help?

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:33 PM (yTvNw)

67 Shade tree mechanics can get an old tractor running and working. new ones... not so much.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:30 PM
***
The downside of electronics and computers.

Posted by: TRex - shadetree dino at September 12, 2026 06:34 PM (XfIK1)

68 Just so y’all know,
Kissing a guy who chews is pretty gross.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 06:37 PM (yEz+x)

69 I've driven a few different brands of tractors. Case, Ford, Ferguson IH. The IH model M and H clutch seemed like an on and off switch. Not engaged to fully engaged and off you go.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:42 PM (IFwjj)

70 The downside of electronics and computers.
Posted by: TRex - shadetree dino

The right to repair argument.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:42 PM (NnhvP)

71 63 ... "Jeez, you must have been continuously lighting one off the end of another."

Biff,
Pretty much. Quitting cigarettes was the second smartest thing I ever did. (Marrying Mrs. JTB was the smartest.)

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:44 PM (yTvNw)

72 I think that steam show still maybe going on, pass the field going to the Lancaster war game conventions. Trued to find the name but unsuccessful.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:45 PM (QLHQ2)

73 >>(Marrying Mrs. JTB was the smartest.)

She's standing behind you right now, isn't she.

Blink twice if you need help.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:47 PM (viF8m)

74 Grandparents had an old White tractor on the farm. There was an International, no idea the model, that was behind the barn. Steel wheels and all. Complete rust.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 06:48 PM (h06De)

75 72 I think that steam show still maybe going on, pass the field going to the Lancaster war game conventions. Trued to find the name but unsuccessful.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:45 PM
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National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville, PA
Small event in May, bigger annual event in August.

Posted by: TRex - dozer dino at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (XfIK1)

76 I use Blick for some art supplies so they have my email. A coupe of days ago I got one touting their many new fiber arts items: looms, kits, needlepoint yarns and threads, etc. I didn't even know they offered any. I assume interest in fiber arts is on the rise if Blick is adding it to their inventory. Just FYI.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (yTvNw)

77 National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville, PA
Small event in May, bigger annual event in August.
Posted by: TRex - dozer dino

Saw it advertised, but never went. It looks cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 06:51 PM (h06De)

78 Pfft. Only a commie bohunk would be caught driving a John Deere Model 80.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 06:54 PM (4Je4D)

79 A tractor is indispensable for me. A few weeks ago I pulled up 60 feet of concrete driveway to replace it. I use them to move engines and stuff, clear fallen trees, digging holes, grading, moving dirt, gravel, etc. Then there's bush hogging and mowing. Here and at the farm. So I have 3 and a ZTR mower.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)

80 Meh. It's no Hoyt-Clagwell Model F.

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at September 12, 2026 06:56 PM (4Je4D)

81 Rough and Tumble Steam show Kinzer Pa, was a couple weeks ago

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:56 PM (QLHQ2)

82 My dad grew up on a dairy farm in Laramie, WY, in the 1930's. He and his little brother ran a team of horses to plow, harrow, plant, mow hay, etc., so dad would have started that when he was about 8 years old and his brother was six. He saw other farms with tractors, but they didn't get one until the 1940's.

The did have a steam thresher come through every year, and he remembers when one exploded on a farm a good 10 miles away. Everyone heard it, and they thought the world was coming to an end. I guess about a dozen people died in that accident. Just awful.

As dangerous as farming can be, modernization has meant a huge level of safety.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 06:57 PM (Ntshk)

83 The first four-wheeled motorized vehicle I ever drove [at age 12, 1977] was the 1932 Allis-Chalmers B that my dad had just bought. He had me drive it home, with him trailing in the pickup truck, mostly because the fellow who had volunteered to loan him a trailer hadn't mentioned the trailer had 3 flat tires and one tire-free wheel. Dad had already committed to pick up the tractor that day, so pick it up we did.
After he retired, Dad take up "flywheeling" as his main hobby. He bought a series of rundown tractors and restored them to showroom stock. His favorite, and the one he kept rather than sold after restoration, was a Minneapolis-Moline.

if you want to get into the hobby, I'd recommend seeking out your local Flywheelers' Club.

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 06:58 PM (1a7fN)

84 The did have a steam thresher come through every year, and he remembers when one exploded on a farm a good 10 miles away. Everyone heard it, and they thought the world was coming to an end. I guess about a dozen people died in that accident. Just awful.

Pfft. Ever had your testicles caught up in a John Deere Combine Harvester?

Posted by: One-Ball Saul at September 12, 2026 06:59 PM (4Je4D)

85 If you are familiar with Branson tractors, they got bought by a South Korean company,TYM, that builds pretty much the same tractor in Rome, Georgia. It uses a 3 cyl Cummins clone that's parts compatible with the one Branson was licensed to build. Anyway I got one and its a pretty good tractor for the price and it has a cab and AC which is glorious. I call it Tim.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:59 PM (MWfyi)

86 I have about 300 years of Quebec farmers in my ancestry. Bet they would have loved to have tractors to work the ground.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 07:00 PM (yTvNw)

87 Deere got into the tractor business when they bought the Waterloo Boy tractor company. Great for collecting, not so much for farming. Their first Deere tractor was the Model D, then the 3 row GP, kind of a failure.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:01 PM (IFwjj)

88 if you want to get into the hobby, I'd recommend seeking out your local Flywheelers' Club.

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 06:58 PM
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I can look on the interweb later, but are Flywheelers Clubs common?

Posted by: TRex - vintage dino at September 12, 2026 07:03 PM (XfIK1)

89 The 25hp TYM I got a couple of years ago has no electronics. That's one of the reasons I got it. Also, because it's under 25hp, it doesn't use DEF. Even at only 25hp it will pick up over 2000 lbs. I looked at 40hps but this one does the job.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:03 PM (MWfyi)

90 I had a old little John Deere I sold to an old guy who had a whole barn full of JD tractors. He said he had over 100 and they were all pre 1980 or so.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM (MWfyi)

91 "I can look on the interweb later, but are Flywheelers Clubs common?"
I'm pretty sure they are. I know my Dad's club had shared events with several other Flywheelers' Clubs in Michigan.

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM (1a7fN)

92 90 I had a old little John Deere I sold to an old guy who had a whole barn full of JD tractors. He said he had over 100 and they were all pre 1980 or so.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM
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Was his name Ronster?

Posted by: TRex - flywheeler dino at September 12, 2026 07:09 PM (XfIK1)

93 Just got back from my sister and brother in law's farm. Chickens, cattle, goats, some sheep and pigs. My sister is an SC health inspector., so I arrived home loaded with healthy vittles.

Tractors, skid loaders, trailers, freezers. Everywhere.

Posted by: mrp at September 12, 2026 07:10 PM (rj6Yv)

94 I plan on getting a Ford 8N sometime soon. The canonical tractor.

And freaking 75 years old.

But working models available for under $2000.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:11 PM (NlEaG)

95 https://walloonlakeflywheelers.com/

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (1a7fN)

96 Ford 8N is EMP proof.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (NlEaG)

97 During WW11, Deere was asked to build something for the war.
They took an unstyled A and wrapped it with steel plating. They weren't really trying. I've seen pictures of it. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (IFwjj)

98 >>If you are familiar with Branson tractors, they got bought by a South Korean company,TYM, that builds pretty much the same tractor in Rome, Georgia. It uses a 3 cyl Cummins clone that's parts compatible with the one Branson was licensed to build. Anyway I got one and its a pretty good tractor for the price and it has a cab and AC which is glorious. I call it Tim.

Saw a video on X posted by a woman who is taking over the family farm in Iowa. She posted it from the cab of her ginormous tractor.

Everything was computer and gps driven Which she oversaw from her air conditioned perch Incredible how sophisticated farming has become.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

99 "Was his name Ronster?
Posted by: TRex - flywheeler dino"

I don't remember. He was an old black gentleman, with white hair and dressed in overalls. I was glad he got it, because I was tired of messing with it, and he didn't have one like it so we were both happy.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:14 PM (MWfyi)

100 Saw a sign at an antique tractor show:

If it casts a shadow it can be restored.

Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (85Bnm)

101 I have heard you need 1hp per acre. Seems about right. So the 25hp of an 8N means it would not be main tractor.

I want a Lamborghini like Clarkson.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (NlEaG)

102 I have a John Deere 770, but the finer work is what has to happen today, so out there with D-1 and a grubbing hoe...glad I can still do this kind of thing...hope I can still stand up straight tomorrow.

Well, water glass is empty - back to it.

Posted by: Don in SoCc at September 12, 2026 07:16 PM (I9XXk)

103 " I use Blick for some art supplies"

Mrs fd's favorite store.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:17 PM (MWfyi)

104 My BIL operates two D6 dozers for the landfill work and to cut roads and trails on the property.

Posted by: mrp at September 12, 2026 07:20 PM (rj6Yv)

105 Obviously don't own or restore tractors, but just want to jump in to say how awesome it all is. Anything that I can fit into the "Industrial Age, Industrial Art" category is primo. Only aspect I dabble (slightly) in is rifles, where the "industrial art" of my M1s and carbine never cease to please. Even the Mosin-Nagants in their own way, especially when you see how the "industrial art" was slimmed down to "we need it now!" in the war-time examples.

Was focused on other parts of the puzzle but always instinctively felt like I agreed with my friends who lamented America's departure from *making things* during the great off-shoring debacle.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2026 07:21 PM (U/Byj)

106 Got a 1964 MF Super 90 Diesel high crop tractor I use to mow firebreaks out back, and plow snow when my 1970-ish IH Payloader won't start.
Had to split the tractor to replace the clutch, and put the Payloader together from a pile of parts my neighbor gave me - he runs an excavation business and had the machine sitting for 15 years.

Posted by: Chuck Kuecker at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (UxT09)

107 "I have heard you need 1hp per acre. Seems about right. So the 25hp of an 8N means it would not be main tractor."

That depends on what you are going to do with it. We don't farm anything but trees so no plowing spraying harvesting etc. A 25hp diesel is amazing strong.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)

108 I want a Lamborghini like Clarkson.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM
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I can hear his voice "POWER!!!" and "How hard can it be??"

We were trackside for a race of Porsche tractors a few years ago at Laguna Seca. Despite a paddock full of unobtainium Porsche race cars, the tractors were the biggest hit of the weekend. Maybe I'll find a video clip and include it in future hobby thread content...

Posted by: TRex - tractor racing dino at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (XfIK1)

109 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for being here, going along with the theme, and adding your own hobbying projects. Shall we do it again next week with a new theme?

You're welcome to hang here for a while, but don't forget about Club ONT later.

Posted by: TRex - agricultural dino at September 12, 2026 07:25 PM (XfIK1)

110 How does John Deere get that perfect shade of green?
All of your money goes into the pot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:26 PM (gpvQO)

111 Blaster acres is 120 acres. Need moar power. But a 25hp tractor is good for utility.

I saw a Porsche tractor for sale for like $60k. It looks cool but you wouldn't be able to use it. Too valuable.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:27 PM (NlEaG)

112 One thing I recommend for a tractor is some forks. You will go around picking stuff up just because you can.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

113 John Deere 'A' with a hand clutch, tricycle front end, and 4 row front mount cultivator. Got a big old umbrella and a gallon jug of ice water, two baloney sammiches, and a pouch of Red Man chewing tobacco. Let's get some grass and weeds out of this cotton!

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

114 Going to see a drone show in a bit
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:57 PM (qEb4U)


You do realize that they are just waiting for the AI command to attack right? The SWARMs will rule!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 07:30 PM (2WIwB)

115 In our case, a physically bigger tractor would not fit between the tree rows in a lot of places.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)

116 I saw a Porsche tractor for sale for like $60k. It looks cool but you wouldn't be able to use it. Too valuable.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:27 PM
***
Prices spiked 10-15 years ago when collectors decided all of a sudden that they were cool.

Posted by: TRex - two cylinder dino at September 12, 2026 07:31 PM (XfIK1)

117 We make better tractor. And more too.

Posted by: Ministry of Defense Plant No. 12 named for Comrade Lenin at September 12, 2026 07:31 PM (RIvkX)

118 A very young Diogenes was almost killed on a tractor. Those things are dangerous.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 07:32 PM (2WIwB)

119 I just want to say how much my husband would have loved this thread. All this guy talk. How he would have loved it.

Posted by: Wenda at September 12, 2026 07:32 PM (uSgX5)

120 Blaster, you might want to check out the bigger TYM tractors. I'm pretty happy with mine. Not to say I'm not completely satisfied with Kubota except for the price.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:34 PM (MWfyi)

121 Couple hundred people waiting fot this to start

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM (QLHQ2)

122 Hey, Dino!
No tractor, just a JD L 120 garden type. But it’s still green.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM (w30OO)

123 We make better tractor. And more too.
Posted by: Ministry of Defense Plant No. 12 named for Comrade Lenin at September 12, 2026

***
New tractor is this month's centerfold in Plavbov magazine!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (wzUl9)

124 John Deere tractor works in Waterloo made tank transmissions during WWII, a shitload of them, among other things.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (hefYs)

125 TRex, I really enjoyed this thread. Maybe you could tell.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (IFwjj)

126 there are so many vintage tractors around here I just can't even; many still in use. there's a certain school of thought that just has a tractor for each function, leave it hooked up as a forklift or mower or whatever, instead of mounting and dismounting different tools all the time.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 07:38 PM (VyBeY)

127 125 TRex, I really enjoyed this thread. Maybe you could tell.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM
***
Excellent! Better than movies, right?

Posted by: TRex - tank commander dino at September 12, 2026 07:38 PM (XfIK1)

128 122 Hey, Dino!
No tractor, just a JD L 120 garden type. But it’s still green.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM
***
That qualifies. Approved.

Posted by: TRex - tractor judge dino at September 12, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)

129 John Deere has created videos for children showing realistic (not cartoonish) farming and construction machinery which our grandsons enjoy ... These can be seen by visiting YouTube-dot-com and typing "John Deere Kids" into the Search Field.

Posted by: Kathy at September 12, 2026 07:41 PM (MOK4W)

130 "there's a certain school of thought that just has a tractor for each function, leave it hooked up as a forklift or mower or whatever, instead of mounting and dismounting different tools all the time.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

Is that wrong? Nobody told me that was wrong.

The forks on the TYM are really easy to change though, only takes a minute.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:42 PM (MWfyi)

131 Not going to get into the movie thing. Got in trouble the last time.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:42 PM (IFwjj)

132 Maybe the thread will be about tractor movies.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)

133 That qualifies. Approved.
Posted by: TRex - tractor judge dino at September 12, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)

And I had the club buy me a nice 54” deck JD Zero turn mower. I can do the entire range in under 5 hours. Used to take me over 10.
Go, John Deere!

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (w30OO)

134 Plowed a lot of corn when I worked summers for a farmer. Don't recall what tractors he had but he was frugal, as were/are most farmers.

Posted by: Javems at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (zFsEm)

135 Who above wants to get a Ford 8 N? They are pretty nice little tractors. What do you plan to do with it?

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (IFwjj)

136 Saw one of those John Deere for kids ewetube.
One of the best things on the tube.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (gpvQO)

137 The front loader is surprisingly easy to take off the Kubota but I don't anymore because why bother. When I used it for regular mowing it got in the way, but a ZTR fixed that.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (MWfyi)

138 Hey Red do you have my email? If not ask CBD.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)

139 Buddy stripped all the sheet metal off his 8n and had it galvanized.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:47 PM (gpvQO)

140 The Brooks Steam-up at Powerland Heritage Park is the go to for old farm and logging equipment and steam engines.
It used to be just a bunch of guys with their own steam engines in a field outside of Brooks, Oregon, and now it has museums, a steam powered sawmill and an electric railroad.


https://www.antiquepowerland.com/

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (rbvCR)

141 I'd like an 8N and have looked at couple. They don't really do what I need from a tractor though.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (MWfyi)

142 138 Hey Red do you have my email? If not ask CBD.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)


JS, I know I had it but it might have been lost in the ether. I’ll check. If not, CBD.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (w30OO)

143 The Jubilee is a step up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:51 PM (gpvQO)

144 We're back from Chik-Fil-A, $17 poorer but reasonably well fed. We've got several movies on DVD: Forbidden Planet, the original Thirty-Nine Steps, and then there's The Fly from '58 on Svengoolie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:54 PM (wzUl9)

145 Guessing nl movie thread tonight

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:56 PM (QLHQ2)

146 Eromero equipment very diverse 50s through 80s, Ford, JD, IH, MF, AC. From little to large, loved all of them.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 07:58 PM (LHPAg)

147 Are you upset because you can't post new movie marque in all caps?

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:59 PM (IFwjj)

148 I'm surprised Mr. Cream Jeans, the weasel isn't all over this thread. Have a cigar!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 12, 2026 08:00 PM (5C90x)

149 Be nice. No need to poke at others among the Horde.

Posted by: TRex - life guard dino at September 12, 2026 08:01 PM (XfIK1)

150 Who can name a movie with a tractor and the model of the tractor?

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:04 PM (MWfyi)

151

You should get a talking tractor.

https://youtu.be/cHs_zsfKAgI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 08:04 PM (Cqx++)

152 Who can name a movie with a tractor and the model of the tractor?
Posted by: fd at September 12
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Killdozer

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

153 Who can name a movie with a tractor and the model of the tractor?
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026

***
There was the "tractor chicken" scene in Footloose, but I have no idea what the models were.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:06 PM (wzUl9)

154 Oh that's funny.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

155 Timor's Tractor

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)

156 John Deere Tractor song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZAbobflHnA

Posted by: huerfano at September 12, 2026 08:09 PM (2Xqig)

157 o gosh, never said I thought it was wrong. far from it!

makes a lot of sense to me, who needs to spend an hour jockeying around a couple of half ton attachments, only to play lather-rinse-repeat over&over again?
you just need a bigger machine shed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 08:17 PM (VyBeY)

158 You know who knows an awful lot about John Deere tractors, and the care and feeding of their batteries in particular?

AoSHQ CoB Weasel!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

159 "you just need a bigger machine shed!"

Size does matter and it's never big enough.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:21 PM (MWfyi)

160 Take a break from f5.

https://tinyurl.com/4k5psrbd

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)

161 I'm watching "The Fly". No tractors in this movie so far.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)

162 So in this movie a woman killed her husband with a hydraulic press and they think she might be a little crazy.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:27 PM (MWfyi)

163 Looks androgynous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:27 PM (gpvQO)

164 I'm watching "The Fly". No tractors in this movie so far.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
----
I'm watching a classic Doctor Who episode: The Talons of Wang-Chiang.

No tractors, but there are ROUS's....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 08:28 PM (FZ29D)

165 162 So in this movie a woman killed her husband with a hydraulic press and they think she might be a little crazy.

Posted by: fd
---

Absolutely, set her free.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:29 PM (gpvQO)

166 ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 08:30 PM (VyBeY)

167 The 20th Century TV show "Green Acres" had a tractor they called a Hoyt Clagwell. Hoyt Clagwell" is not a real tractor manufacturer, just a name made up for the show.

The tractor used on the show was actually a 1918 Fordson Model F tractor.

Fordson was Henry Ford's first venture into tractor manufacturing, and this was the first mass-produced tractor, produced from 1917 to 1928. It was also the most popular tractor at the time, it's market share was estimated to be 90% at the time.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

168 C14 News | EN@c14english

Iraq is rushing to contain a major regional crisis after confirming that a drone attack shutting down a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline originated from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has fired a military commander and shut Iranian border crossings to launch an investigation.

With the wider Iran-U.S. war already destabilizing regional trade, Baghdad faces massive pressure to disarm local Iran-backed militias before a Sept 30 deadline - but Iran-backed Shia terror groups are refusing to comply.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (gpvQO)

169 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Mr Haney at September 12, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)

170 @c14english

Iran prepares to exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and test a nuclear bomb.

MP Haji-Deligani announced a triple-urgency bill is ready, adding: "We should conduct the necessary tests for a nuclear weapon as soon as possible.
---

Nothing, no thing, is being reported from CENTCOM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:36 PM (gpvQO)

171 Y kid loves the Chik Fil A chicken and waffle sandwich.
We had lawn mowers growing up and a hoe for the garden.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 08:38 PM (T8bqm)

172 Fordson was Henry Ford's first venture into tractor manufacturing, and this was the first mass-produced tractor, produced from 1917 to 1928. It was also the most popular tractor at the time, it's market share was estimated to be 90% at the time.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

Grandpa sold Fords in Olympia prior to 1930 and he apparently hated the Fordsons because Ford would push them on the dealership, and the dealership had to discount them so heavily to move them, that it would eat into the profit on the automobile sales. He didn't think very highly of Henry Ford, either.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)

173 Nood up. G'nite all!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:40 PM (NcvvS)

174 Clarkson’s Lamborghini was a lemon.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (T8bqm)

175 John Deere tractor works in Waterloo made tank transmissions during WWII, a shitload of them, among other things.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (hefYs)

Good thing the tankers had the right to repair.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:43 PM (TlKpx)

176 There is an excellent vintage tractor and truck museum in Irricana, Alberta, called Pioneer Acres. I was there just a week ago. They have a couple of those "motorized scythes" in a shed there. I would describe them as "sickle-bar mowers". They have steam tractors, Rumely Oilpulls, old Deeres, and just about anything else that ever pulled a plow or powered a thrashing machine. I spent a few minutes watching a blacksmith forge a piece of steel on a coal-fired forge.

I have one tractor to my name, and it would easily qualify as an antique. It is a 1960-something International B414D, meaning it is Diesel. Has PTO, 3-point hitch, power steering, and a 1500 pound loader on the front. It is my workhorse. Still runs like a pup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 08:48 PM (1z8ji)

177 Used to have a picture of grandpa and his enormous steam powered tractor. Imperial Valley CA.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (wCk3Y)

178 @DC_Draino

All this Democrat racism against the hero juror reminds me of when a Democrat woman in a gorilla mask threw eggs at Larry Elder b/c he was a black man running for CA Governor as a Republican.

Mainstream media ignored it.

They don’t want people knowing who the real racists are
---

Didn't know that. Elder's a nice guy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:42 AM (gpvQO)

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