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Saturday Night "Club ONT" December 6, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Drinks of the Night Playing card drinks return. Wow - into the 4s now!
1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 quarts whole milk
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites
4 teaspoons white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 pinch ground nutmeg
1 cup whipped cream, garnish
In a large saucepan, stir together sugar and flour. Gradually stir in the milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat. In a small bowl, whisk egg yolks until smooth. Ladle a small amount of the hot milk into the yolks and quickly whisk in. Pour the tempered yolk mixture back into the hot milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool. In a medium glass or metal bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 4 teaspoons sugar, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. fold whites into eggnog and refrigerate until chilled. Serve garnished with a dollop of whipped cream and a dash of nutmeg.*** The beverage that needs no marketing budget for you to know it exists. The brand is deserving of some Horde slogans and taglines.
What's that - you're not familiar with this combo? We can help!
Club ONT Department of History and Religion
St. Nicholas was a bishop known for his good deeds, especially those that helped children and the needy. He often gave generously and without anyone knowing the gifts were from him. Nicholas was officially recognized as a saint in the 800s, and in the 1200s, Catholics in France began celebrating Bishop Nicholas Day on December 6. Many European countries celebrate the Feast of Sinterklaas - also known as St. Nicholas - starting on the 5th of December, the eve of the day, by sharing candies, chocolate letters, small gifts, and riddles. Children put out their shoes filled with carrots and hay for the saint's horse the evening prior, hoping St. Nicholas will exchange them for small gifts. SourceSt. Nicholas does not operate alone...
In most areas where Krampus is known, the tradition is that St. Nicholas visits children on the night of December 5 (St. Nicholas Eve) or on December 6 (St. Nicholas's Day), leaving presents much like Santa Claus in American tradition. On these visits, St. Nicholas is often accompanied by a Krampus. In his role as St. Nicholas’s companion, Krampus's main duty is to punish or threaten naughty children while the saint rewards good ones. This can be seen as one of the many variations of the "good cop/ bad cop" or "carrot and stick" approach to managing children’s behavior - and Krampus literally wields a stick, or more commonly a bunch of birch twigs, to discipline children. If this isn't sufficient, St. Nicholas's Krampus companion often carries a basket or a sack, into which he is said to stuff naughty children to take them away and punish later at greater length. Source
Club ONT Eye-Pokers The Old State Saloon is at it again (scroll through to see their daily specials). Amusement park of promotions that put liberals on tilt. In September, they ran a follow up on their June Heterosexual Awesomeness Month with the Hetero Fest. Currently, they are offering free beer for a month for anyone who helps ICE identify and deport an illegal from Idaho.
"ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!" When word of the deal spread online, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reacted with a gif of a dinosaur character dropping what appeared to be a beer can while it had a dumbfounded look on its face:
https://t.co/NhEdvnUJ3H pic.twitter.com/moA5zbJXjo
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 29, 2025
A petrol fuel stabilizer is a chemical additive formulated specifically to slow the degradation of gasoline, protect against ethanol-related issues, and keep the fuel system clean during long-term storage. It prevents the two biggest problems in stored gasoline: OxidationHow about diesel? Glad you asked. Similar to the information above, but with the bonus of helping prevent gumming and microbial growth.
Ethanol moisture absorption + phase separation
Without a stabilizer, petrol can become unreliable in 30-60 days.
A diesel fuel stabilizer is a specially formulated chemical additive that slows the degradation of diesel fuel, prevents microbial growth, controls water contamination, improves lubricity, and stabilizes the fuel for long-term storage. Diesel is more complex than petrol, so its stabilizers must address different and more severe degradation mechanisms, especially water contamination and microbial growth.Lubricity? Marking that one to slide into a future sentence.
Did you know that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been using his own custom $2 bills for over 30 years?
— Dr. Lemma (@DoctorLemma) December 4, 2025
He doesn't print the money itself, which would be illegal. Instead, he legally purchases large, uncut sheets of genuine $2 bills directly from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving… pic.twitter.com/9bFbUATZMQ
Top 10ish Comments of the Week
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)I'll have an egg nog with brandy, thanks.
No, no, wait, make it a hot chocolate.
No marshmallows.
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't marsh my mallow at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:01 PM (ZjL9c)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:01 PM (0fIud)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:01 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: GWB
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Milk and cookies finally put Santa on tilt.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (BW4I7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:06 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:06 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2025 10:07 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)
Around the parts I grew up in that was a thing.
Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (lUFok)
Krampus IV: Naughty Is Fatal!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (fveCG)
Related - everyone used to carry jumper cables. If you were thinking ahead anyway. Before electronic ignition, before fuel injection, unless you kept your car in a high state of tune a subzero or below zero engine start was an iffy proposition. I haven’t needed a jump start since forever.
But I still carry jumper cables. I must be the last guy, old habits die hard.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (0fIud)
RC was the AMC of Colas.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (DJUFe)
Being an introvert is a good thing, mostly.
Ah, hell, I'll never go. Never mind.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Heh. I think you and I could do a whole ONT on how time has changed taste buds. Like you, script has flipped here on many, many things too.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Yes - I'm with you with marshmallow. Also, I used to be able to eat damn near anything no matter how spicey. Blow-the-top-of-your-head-off hot was a favorite. No more. I can barely do crushed red pepper flakes on my pasta these days.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)
Surgery is scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 11th) at 2:30 pm. Prayers would be appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (GALGA)
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You need to visit Bell Buckle, TN … every year, this li'l town of 430 people hold the 'RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival'. The waitress at the restaurant where my daughter & I had lunch about 3 weeks ago said they get about 100K people over the course of that week. I have NO idea where they park or eat, 'cos we were there in NON-festival time and, even tho' we saw the entire town in 30 minutes or so, there just ain't that much room 'cos it's all built next to each other … but hey, MOON PIES & R-O-C Cola! Win-win every time …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: moki at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025
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Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 swore that RC Cola was the best soft drink, and that Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter was the best in that department.
As for the Moon Pie, maybe it was better decades ago. I had a freebie mini-pie the other night, and it was chalky and reminded me of sweetened sawdust.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (93/YK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
Current Wumpus status:
✅️ Hunted
Not Hunted
(I would have been here sooner if I had the cheat codes.)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (KDYdw)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (GALGA)
Now that they have lactose free egg I can drink it again.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (kpS4V)
My kids would leave me a beer and some kind of salty snack. They knew who Santa is.
We never had to sit them down and give the The Talk.
My folks didn't either. Kids are not dumb, mostly. Just play along.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025
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I have a set in the Buick. Haven't used 'em in years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: four seasons at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy
Why can't all States be like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon...hell, Red States in general!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)
Can't stand marshmallow. I liked it as a kid. I also used to like coconut. Don't like it now. Anyone elses food tastes change as the get older?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I came around to admitting that there are things I don't like. My mom always offered me maaaarrrrsshhhmalloooows! as if they were something special, so I thought they were. In reality, I didn't like them. Now I don't eat them, even if they're lying around free or an option for my cocoa.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (isqj7)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 06, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:15 PM (wzUl9)
Great Saturday night jokes! (He knows when to stop... heh)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (5Je/N)
Yes, we probably but then we'd sound rather like old grouches😉. There was some poor poster On here recently that can't eat nuts or maybe it was raw nuts. Anyone, I could empathize with his pain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel
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Shakes algorithm machine. Shakes clerical dep't too.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.
Best of everything for you. Prayers and hopes for you and your family.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Cola Wars at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (GALGA)
The really interesting stories are the early days. Hand crank starters, women and children need not apply. It used to be common to drain the oil out and bring it in the house, and reinstall in the morning. Basically either that, or light a fire under the engine, or use charcoal under the pan all night.
Kerosene was often used for antifreeze. It works, but rubber hoses didn’t care for that too much. Alcohol was used too, but it was expensive, and loses potency over time. Glycol coolant/antifreeze aka “permanent” antifreeze was a big deal, as was the electric starter. To say nothing of power steering.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (0fIud)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (DJUFe)
Krampus IV: Naughty Is Fatal!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)
I always thought it was that crazy history group: E Krampus Vitellius.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (BW4I7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: moki at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (wLjpr)
Dino...this you?
Good evening all good and naughty Morons😷!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (3pxDZ)
First person to mention "grape knee high" gets a nut punch.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (3pxDZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (isqj7)
If there are mini-marshmallows hanging around when I make a cup of cocoa, I'll add a few. But only the mini ones. And I won't buy them.
Posted by: RickZ at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Common Tater
Dad used to thank heavens we didn't own anything with a flathead in it.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (ayRl+)
I'd drink the RC, but ewww. Not that mushmelon thing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (uQesX)
Surgery is scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 11th) at 2:30 pm. Prayers would be appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (SRRAx)
May every damned thing come out all right!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)
If you add the heat from a campfire it becomes magic.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
The thing I remember about that band (which made the charts, btw) was that every time I heard something by them I thought to myself, "I could do that. But, I'd have to be really drunk and focused on something else at the time."
They were horrendous, and people paid to see and hear them. For the life of me I don't know why. How am I supposed to make fun of the latest generation's music if at any time they can point to "The Flying Lizards" and blow up my argument?
Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (dIske)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (6p0Jv)
https://tinyurl.com/2xx6z3tr
Link goes to Headline USA - never heard of the place.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:24 PM (04Glf)
Fires are not good on a ship loaded with TNT.
The resulting blast was the largest man-made explosion ever, until the Trinity nuclear test in 1945.
This song tells the story:
https://youtu.be/T_5PHU7vQu4
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:24 PM (KDYdw)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025
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We had one here, a local soft drink called Big Shot. A Coca-Cola wannabe. We also had Rex Root Beer, a competitor to (or maybe a sub-brand of) Barq's. Barq's was a bit tart, Rex was sweeter.
On a road trip to MS in the early '70s, we saw a brand called Sunrise. Someone quipped, "Drink that stuff and you'll never see another sunrise!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)
Dino...this you?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM
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Nope. That's Earl Sinclair.
I would never drop a beer.
Posted by: TRex - beer is our friend at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ITBpd)
Note that there was no Santa Claus, nor even much Christmas at all, in America (at least in the states originally planted by Protestant Religious Dissenters) before the Germans and such came. The Religious Dissenters were all pretty iconoclastic and didn't do "saints" or feast days, except Easter. It was considered idolatry or pretty adjacent thereto.
The Germans (and the Nordic folks) brought "Santa Klaus" and things like the Christmas tree to America. Americans seemed to actually think that was pretty cool, and made it their own.
I think all except the most Grinchy of Christian denominations now accepts that celebrating Jesus' birth is almost as important as celebrating His death and resurrection. Of course, a lot of Americans (including a lot of Christians) have forgotten that's what is being celebrated at Christmas. (And most have forgotten it's supposed to be celebrated from Christmas to Epiphany, with the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas being Advent, when you are celebrating looking forward to Jesus coming, instead of already here.)
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)
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Unless you're of Alpine German descent, you wouldn't have. Back in high school, we learned about Krampusnacht and various other folklore that was annihilated in this country when German language newspapers and culture were banned by Woodrow Wilson.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (BW4I7)
Yeah, if you didn't have enough pocket change for Coke, you got RC. Isn't Fanta a German creation?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
Marshmallows toasted on a stick over an open fire are awesome. Bonus points if you get them nice and brown, without setting them on fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
"Removes water" - and it's a diuretic?!
Sounds like a Moron self-help liquid!
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (ZjL9c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)
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Celebrating Christmas was illegal under the Puritans.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)
If you add the heat from a campfire it becomes magic.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I usually dig your posts, but no thanks to the graham crackers and marshmallows, sir. To each their own.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (6p0Jv)
Enjoy your time in Club ONT, especially if your table is wobbly.
Extra prayers for Teresa!
Posted by: TRex - Das or Der or Die Krampas? at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (ITBpd)
remember "Za-Rex" the syrup?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (DJUFe)
Santa Claus kicking some heretic ass.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (ZOv7s)
Probably since a good lithium battery jump kit is the same price as sturdy jumper cables and takes up far less room in the vehicle.
The Bonus is that you don't need someone friendly nearby who has the time and ability to help.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025
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Oddly, I *am* of German stock (Alpine? Not sure) on my father's side. But he never talked about that or much at all about his family. So I see why I wouldn't have heard of Krampus.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
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When we make s'mores, I'd just eat graham crackers and chocolate. Cooking marshmallows added nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (93/YK)
At this exact moment...84 years ago...
the Germans got the okay from FDR & Henry Ford to bomb Pearl Harbor
Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky WWII ConspiracyTheories at December 06, 2025 10:31 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (DJUFe)
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Ha! Used to love grape Nehi!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:31 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Some Rat
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My man. Off Sprague & Bowdish...I think.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:31 PM (LVaYG)
Proper marshmallow toasting is an art form.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (04Glf)
Especially since according to John's Revelation, our LORD was born on what would be today's calendar equivalent of September 11th, 2BC some where around 6:15 PM Standard Jerusalem Time.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (kB9dk)
...and Joe Kennedy
Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky WWII ConspiracyTheories at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (lUFok)
Rookie move. Shoulda gone with the double decker moon pie!
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (nB1L/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)
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My great-grandparents spoke fluent German, but under cultural pressure, refused to teach it to their children because it was the language of the enemy.
Long about 1943, my grandfather thought: "Gosh, I wished they'd have taught it to me. Would sure be useful guarding all these German PoWs!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)
I am reading a book now for Advent and Christmas which is called "Jesus Listens" with spiritual reflections and Bible quotes. It is by Saran Young who wrote a ton of books ( I haven't read any but this And who died several year ago which also has lovely sweet illustrations mostly of animals in the snow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (7RYym)
Dang if ain't foggy here, pea soup. Temp is 33F, and RH is 100%. However, it isn't cloudy above, and I can see the Moon, Jupiter, Orion, and Sirius, and a couple three or four other bright ones.
The rain gauge on the weather station tripped .01" due to the fog condensation. That's how foggy it is.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (a4flb)
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No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (ZTJjv)
How do you think the rest of us feel?
But, truly, great comment. We're all expecting big things from you in the future.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:34 PM (KDYdw)
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC at December 06, 2025 10:35 PM (oftw2)
I keep a charged up battery jump device in the car at all times. Also has a useful light built in.
Posted by: Semper Paratus
How often do you have to charge it up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 10:35 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: scampydog
Sounds about right...somewhere in the depths of Sainted Mothers domicile, there is a Pop Shop crate. My family throws NOTHING away.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)
Not everyone is gifted with good taste buds.
I will pray for you.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (oftw2)
me too
Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:37 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM
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Gold star. Well done.
Posted by: TRex - working the vanvera rental counter dino at December 06, 2025 10:37 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)
I wonder if it didn't come to America with the other Germanic traditions because of the (mostly Calvinist) Protestant bent of much of America? They would definitely look askance at any celebration involving a demon or other representation of evil.
(Oh, how so much has changed.)
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:37 PM (ZjL9c)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:38 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 10:39 PM (R86kT)
"RC Cola, the red-headed step-child of Colas."
"Pour yourself a Royal Crown mixed with Crown Royal because if that's what you're drinking there's no one else there to pour it for you."
Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)
Proper marshmallow toasting is an art form.
Posted by: JackStraw
Set the marshmallows on fire, they burn out, consume.
That's the way it was, it's the way it will always be.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (04Glf)
My mom had a sad story she was sent down the road to get Orange but she got Grape.
She was about 6 and her mom was quite upset.
Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: vin at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (cC0M+)
Got your orders, Some Rat & BarelyScaryMary... coming up!
And an extra round -- on me, 'cause late!
Happy Caturday, all!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (rdVOm)
The other big treat disappointment of my kidhood was a new flavor of Life Savers. They used to have more than just Pep-O-Mint, Spear-O-Mint, and Wint-O-Green. I was on a (heh) roll, trying them all . . . until I hit Clove. That ended my experiments in candy for a while. I don't recall now what it tasted like, but I know my ten-year-old taste buds Did Not Like It.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)
I suppose that it is the vulgar explanation, but Puritans were committed to the Regulative Principle of Worship and Roman Catholic Tradition, tied to a liturgical calendar and Papal authority was outside explicit commands in Scripture to be part of Worship.
I'm guessing that the Saturnalia tie-in, the Observation of Days (rather than Sabbath) and the usual bacchanalian atmosphere made the 25th of December too pagan for their tastes.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (0fIud)
Nope. I carry them, too. Saved my kid's bacon once or twice, as well as mine. (I did learn the hard way that the amount of electricity flowing through a jumper cable can melt thick rubber. Do NOT cross the wires when jumping!)
However, I am considering tossing them for a jumpstart device. Because it can also serve as an emergency device for pumping up your tires and recharging your phone (if your car itself is broke).
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (ZjL9c)
Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Radar O'Riley at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (ITBpd)
No matter how hard they try to ruin college football this has been a day of really good games.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 06, 2025
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What are these things called, and where can you buy one?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)
Perfection.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (kB9dk)
It used to be that Krampus coming to punish the naughty children was for those parts of Germany where providing a beat-down on your punk-ass nephews was considered a valuable family value.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (S/Y4j)
Or an attack on Gaza with callsign “Torah, Torah, Torah!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC
Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)
That's where we get the 12 Days of Christmas.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (KDYdw)
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JQ, looking like next Saturday for the Club ONT Christmas Party!
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:43 PM (LVaYG)
Perhaps if RC had hit the "Diet RC Cola" with a big ad-spend back in the day, they'd be in a different place.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:43 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025
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Because, like a certain other public figure, He has it locked away?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:43 PM (wzUl9)
tinyurl.com/5n97kfzw
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC
Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate? It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC
Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate?
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Liberals say we can do that for air travel, but not for voting purposes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (a4flb)
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They were so obnoxious that literally no one in Europe could put up with them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)
It's the people. It's always the people who screw it up for everyone else.
Also, great hash, though I can't come up with any fun meanings at the moment.
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (ZjL9c)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (CDX35)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (6p0Jv)
While running around doing things in Kabul during the fun years, I mentioned to my 'terp that I would like a can of Monster and for $20US he returned with a case of it the next day.
You can't even get it in the US for anywhere near that price.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:46 PM (gbOdA)
"In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus."
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 10:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2025 10:46 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)
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Liberals think its perfectly fine to restrict your rights to do anything at all without a shot record, but voter ID is discriminatory.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)
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Liberals say we can do that for air travel, but not for voting purposes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)
Jesus had it easy
All his words were in RED.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2025 10:47 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (6p0Jv)
FIFY.
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:47 PM (ZjL9c)
Rome found pretty much anyone who didn't prostrate themselves before the Pope as worthy of torture and death.
I guess that is that culture's idea of "obnoxious". Now the Pope is in love with the death cult Islam.
Maybe if the Puritans sawed off a few heads and killed scores of people in crowds, they wouldn't have been run off.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (a4flb)
Perfection.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM
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Excellent! Enjoy!
Posted by: TRex - just past full moon dino at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: Orson
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It is a root beer beloved by Maine-iacs? No. I have not partook. But I've liked the Maine-iacs I've known.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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You live at the equator? Negative 12 here tonight.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: JackStraw
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I usually dig your posts, but no thanks to the graham crackers and marshmallows, sir. To each their own.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (6p0Jv)
My campfire smore recipe includes a schmear of peanut butter. Keeps the Hershey bar in place. To that you add one perfectly toasted marshmallow. Press the top graham cracker on to the assembled ingredients and chase it down with a couple fingers of Jack Daniels..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 10:49 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:49 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC at December 06, 2025 10:35 PM (oftw2)
Not sure of the day, but the year seems about right. The monk who determined year zero was off by a few, but he was close, for the time period.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 10:49 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2025 10:50 PM (gbOdA)
(It would, I know, if I made it myself)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: scampydog
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Awesome!!!
I've been decorating the beer garden out back, but only have this "before" pic:
https://tinyurl.com/dexehamt
No worries, I've added colored lights too. Need to keep those big white lights, so our guests can still see where they're going, LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)
Booster packs, or something like that. Commonly look like a yellow lunchbox with a pair of booster cable clamps on short leads attached to the ends. Amazon, Harbor Freight, Walmart, and any auto supply store, and big-box stores. They are everywhere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)
And he probably adjusted it so that leap years were exact multiples of 4, without a vexing offset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 10:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (a4flb)
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They were kicked to the curb by Protestants. Rome had nothing to do with it. The English kicked them out, so they went to the Dutch, who were Calvinists but got tired of their shit and sent them back. The English strongly encouraged them to get on a slow boat to nowhere, which is how they ended up here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (ZOv7s)
had a great appreciation for the love of God and nature and what he wrote about his wife is beautiful
I am for tonight . I hate religious arguments here
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (lQ+/f)
Perfection.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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Sounds like heaven on a clear night!
I need to build a firepit area in my yard...
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)
So, how do you feel about clove cigarettes?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (6p0Jv)
I made Alton Brown's eggnog - a lot of alcohol - delicious!
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (CDX35)
Very nice.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (KDYdw)
Wings blown off light planes, trees down across roads, roofs blown off several places in Wasilla, including Settler's Bay Lodge, which is my go-to fancy dinner place, about 10 miles up the road. Closed until further notice.
Walmart lost some roof too. I don't go there, so no loss.
Ruby paced all night, miserable since it sounds like Armageddon out there when it is over 20 mph. She DOES NOT LIKE. I didn't really notice, but then, I sleep through earthquakes.
So far we are intact and have power, but I have a fire in the wood stove just in case.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Do those have the booze already in them.
I saw an old lady driving one of the grocery store scooters tap into one right out of the cooler... Glug glug glug ..
... and scooter on down the aisle.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (/lPRQ)
I have no idea why Mick Fleetwood was wearing his laundry on his head.
https://tinyurl.com/3yn4ze4c
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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Jack Daniel's is the only thing that would make s'mores tasty.
I've never made them. Would rather skip the preliminaries. Graham Crackers and marshmallows take up pack weight.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (6p0Jv)
Santa Claus kicking some heretic ass.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (ZOv7s)
Thanks for the reminder!
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (ZjL9c)
I'm five states over now and they still cost the same as the other colas.
Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (5Je/N)
All the theories about the birthdate of Jesus are quite interesting. Also just what the Star of Bethlehem could've been. There are theories there. There was a striking, very close conjunction of Jupiter and Venus near Regulus in June of 2BC. That led to one theory of Jesus birth as in spring of 2BC. But that would have been in the western sky at sunset, not in the east.
There are some others and if interested, it's fascinating. But none of them can account for all the properties ascribed to the Star.
Herod's death is widely considered to be 4BC, but that is disputed, could've been as late as 1BC.
Anyway, the consensus is 6 - 4BC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (VCgbV)
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You're not supposed to add them until Epiphany. Set them on the other side of the room and have them creep towards the Nativity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025
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You charge them at home via USB, I guess? Is there any risk of them starting a fire in your car when not in use?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/2rmbd9xf
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (CDX35)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (CDX35)
Why were you wearing women's clothes?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)
That is a stretch. Herod's death plus a few years. It was Josephus who noted that Herod died shortly after a lunar eclipse before Passover. So those who like Josephus' reckoning in March/April BCE.
It is my expert opinion that anyone using BCE is a liar and can't be trusted with any theological or biblical historical questions because their motives are to foster distrust of Scripture rather than to pursue Truth.
But since no one's salvation is contingent on the exact date, I really don't care what people want to believe.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:57 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (VCgbV)
Next you’ll tell me that there wasn’t any snow on the ground. Killjoy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 10:57 PM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (CDX35)
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Lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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So, how do you feel about clove cigarettes?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025
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I dated a hot girl in the Eighties (she looked like the young Janet Jackson) who smoked 'em now and then. Does that count?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
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When we make s'mores, I'd just eat graham crackers and chocolate. Cooking marshmallows added nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
I want to make Christmas s'mores with Gingerbread Peeps. Don't you think that would be cool?
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (W7XSX)
https://tinyurl.com/53hb7uhs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (lQ+/f)
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Streaming series pitch: Outlander but instead of going to Scotland, she goes to New England and is romanced by Jonathan Edwards-type dude. Use actual letters and quotes to make the Christians swoon. Gold, Jerry, pure gold!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (Wmg4n)
Look it up.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025
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No shortage of affordable houses? I guess Blackrock wasn't buying up everything in sight yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
I guess that is that culture's idea of "obnoxious". Now the Pope is in love with the death cult Islam.
Maybe if the Puritans sawed off a few heads and killed scores of people in crowds, they wouldn't have been run off.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (a4flb)
Rome had nothing whatsoever to do with the Puritans. England had been Protestant for years before they showed up.
The Puritans were buzz-kills. No dancing, no booze, no colors, no music, no nothing.
Catholics, on the other hand, brew beer, have plenty of music and art, believe that God is the author of beauty and deserves the best, and party at the drop of a hat.
The Popes come and go, and some of them are quite worthy of a trip to hell. They do stupid stuff, but none of that is particularly Catholic. The only thing the Pope can do infallibly is speak ex-Cathedra, which means he speaks of doctrine and is guided by God to speak the truth AT THAT MOMENT. That hasn't happened since 1950. Otherwise, he is just as much an idiot as any other person.
YMMV.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (6Bc88)
Wasn't the practical aspect of the gift of gold part of the plan to underwrite the family's escape to Egypt because of Herod's desire to kill all the male infants in that area?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (a4flb)
I want to make Christmas s'mores with Gingerbread Peeps. Don't you think that would be cool?
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025
The sugar just burns. We tried it with snowmen.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper
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You missed some Moon Pie blasphemy in the comments.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (LVaYG)
"Removes water" - and it's a diuretic?!
Sounds like a Moron self-help liquid!
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (ZjL9c)
Try looking into Nattokinase instead
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (bOJ2I)
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Our Christmas tradition is bourbon balls. We use Maker's Mark.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)
I think mostly they have their own on-board charger. Many probably have a USB port so you can charge cellphone. Some may have an inverter built in, so you can get 120 volts AC out of them (for a while). Jacks of all trades; depends on how fancy you want. I'm a car guy, and I don't own one. Have several sets of good (heavy copper) jumper cables. And usually one or more spare batteries to jump with.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:03 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Good Times Janet Jackson, Diff-rent Strokes Janet Jackson or Nasty Janet Jackson? Asking for lurkers, I'm guessing
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:03 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Tom Servo
And that drummer-boy nonsense!! I call bs!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:03 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)
Did she always Ham it up?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 11:04 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (Wmg4n)
Do we need to get HR involved?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:04 PM (KDYdw)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (W7XSX)
I had a couple of homeschool kids in my RE classes for First Communion prep. At Christmas, one of the little dudes pointed at a yard decoration and said, full of indignation, "Who IS that WOMAN!!"
Hilarious.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Joseph was a carpenter, he probably built his own.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (KDYdw)
Posted by: Piper
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Disco is a *slave driver!* Didja see the mess of tangled lights he threw on the bar for me, the other night? UGH! Good thing I'd already bought some new ones out of Petty Cash and put them up already...
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Piper
For you folks in SEC land, is the Championship game like a double time day?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Politically they were associated with Oliver Cromwell, and they despised the Church of England for cultural as well as doctrinal reasons. So when the Monarchy was restored and the CofE was given back its primacy in Great Britain, they fell very out of favor.
Their problem with the rest of Europe was that they had taken a very anti-monarchial position, and no monarchy (all of Europe except the Dutch at the time) was going to let them in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Good Times Janet Jackson, Diff-rent Strokes Janet Jackson or Nasty Janet Jackson? Asking for lurkers, I'm guessing
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025
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Circa 1987, so whichever one that was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (6p0Jv)
For you folks in SEC land, is the Championship game like a double time day?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:05
Triple and a 1/2 - holiday pay. Also, GO DAWGS!
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (CDX35)
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Lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (6p0Jv)
My sister's kids were born on December 7 and September 11. We call them the disaster kids.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (pkeXY)
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Played by the same actor who was St. Peter in "Quo Vadis."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (xtYJY)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (KDYdw)
I wonder how readily available lumber was in Bethlehem in those days? I'd have figured adobe to be the most common building material?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 06, 2025 11:08 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Semper Paratus
How often do you have to charge it up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Wire it in to the cars electrical system to keep it charged. Then take it the next step so if your battery died it will already be wired in and will sense automatically to give you a jump.
It will be just carrying a spare battery in case you need a jump but less work...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)
What happens here, *stays* here!
It'll be back in place, on top of the cash register, in the morning.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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Joseph was a carpenter, he probably built his own.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025
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Ah. Buy some land and you're good to start. No need to deal with RealtorNazareth dot com.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (pkeXY)
Catholic tradition means we mark the lintel over the front door with chalk with B+M+C and the year. Balthasar, Melchoir, and Caspar, as if they visit for Epiphany and bless the house. It's a cute tradition but a nice reminder.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (GALGA)
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They are wonderful, and make great gifts. Pack up a half-dozen and people will thank you...a couple of days after they get them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (ZOv7s)
If the Club ONT Christmas party is next week, I'll bring some trays of Christmas cookies. Let me know if you have any favorites I should include...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm)
Wasn't the practical aspect of the gift of gold part of the plan to underwrite the family's escape to Egypt because of Herod's desire to kill all the male infants in that area?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Actually it was all the male children 2 and under.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025
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Cedars from Lebanon, perhaps? In that case, Jesus grew up in a really great-smelling house!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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That was Control album Janet.
"Miss Jackson if you're nasty."
Fun times
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: zombie Louis XVI at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
Oh, how thoughtful! ALL cookies are good cookies, thank you!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (rdVOm)
Just finished a three day fast. Never done it before. Feel great.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (X+xvk)
The Puritans were buzz-kills. No dancing, no booze, no colors, no music, no nothing.
Anglicans have a "via media" identity, somewhere between Rome and Reformed. They liked the episcopal structure, the liturgy and sacraments but didn't consider Papal Authority and Holy Tradition to be equal to Scripture. (there was also the Justification by Faith thing too)
Anglicans, like Rome, liked to torture and persecute non conformists (because that is what Christ would do). England was really getting to suck in general and I think that with news of the New World a Covenant Vision materialized and they felt called to create a "city upon a hill".
That vision turned into the United States, so I believe it was of Divine intervention that the Puritans were driven out, leaving the demonic spirits behind in Europe long enough to establish a foothold and foundation for a God fearing society - something impossible to do in Europe then, now and in the future.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)
I think mostly they have their own on-board charger. Many probably have a USB port so you can charge cellphone. Some may have an inverter built in, so you can get 120 volts AC out of them (for a while). Jacks of all trades; depends on how fancy you want. I'm a car guy, and I don't own one. Have several sets of good (heavy copper) jumper cables. And usually one or more spare batteries to jump with.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I had the "Cat" version...really handy if you have various battery dependent equipment around the place. Lasted about 6 years before it stopped taking a charge.
(had 12dc,120ac out, usb, light)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)
You are probably correct.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:12 PM (KDYdw)
Wasn't the practical aspect of the gift of gold part of the plan to underwrite the family's escape to Egypt because of Herod's desire to kill all the male infants in that area?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
God's provision. Yes.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:12 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky WWII ConspiracyTheories at December 06, 2025 11:13 PM (OsagP)
What happens here, *stays* here!
It'll be back in place, on top of the cash register, in the morning.
Posted by: JQ
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The world is their urinal, JQ. It is the way of the world.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:13 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:13 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Piper
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Disco is a *slave driver!* Didja see the mess of tangled lights he threw on the bar for me, the other night? UGH! Good thing I'd already bought some new ones out of Petty Cash and put them up already...
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:0
Did he complain they were white and not colored lights?
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (a4flb)
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Catholicism was banned in Protestant countries. It went both ways.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Christ is a Libra?
Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (5Je/N)
No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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They believed that married couple should have sex often.
That it was righteous and healthy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (04Glf)
That historic fact I mentioned yesterday is 100% true.
The Colonists started the tradition of candles in the windows so's the neighbors didn't think they were Papists!
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (OsagP)
Given that the area was two thousand years closer to The Flood and subsequent Ice Age that covered Europe and definitely providing a very different climate in Palestine, there is also evidence that the Dead Sea was once connected to the Mediterranean Sea which would have further altered the climate and make far more sense to the Hebrews at the time of the Exodus to enter in to a land "flowing with milk and honey".
It isn't the desert wilderness that we see today.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (a4flb)
Somebody (LOL, wasn't me but I know who did it) pledged $100-- a small fortune in 1983-- for them to play Flying Lizards' Money for AN HOUR.
Yes, they did it. LMAO.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)
Book Thread too! Woo-hoo!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (DqJmd)
Well, I think 100% true. My details might be a bit off on account I caught some senility from being around You People.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (OsagP)
Posted by: JQ
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Did you turn in the receipt? That damned accounting department, they've been on my ass again.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (a4flb)
So, your opinion is that both Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism is of "demonic spirits?" And yet, from whence came the Bible, the Trinity, and the rest of the trappings of Protestantism? Is it all demonic? Just asking, since you seem to think this is the case.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)
You are not supposed to fill it to the brim.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (rbvCR)
Good night pals.
Many prayers to TiFW🙏
"I’ll sleep when I’m rich… or right now, because I’m tired.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (3pxDZ)
For "joyless scolds," those Puritans sure did fornicate a lot. Like, all the time, a lot.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)
That it was righteous and healthy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (04Glf)
That is the Catholic position as well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (QMAsf)
And I don't believe for a minute it was always "missionary."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (OsagP)
I've seen enough to know this kid has the brains and talent to be a good NFL QB. And also the Jets will never draft him.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (viF8m)
No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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They believed that married couple should have sex often.
That it was righteous and healthy.
Posted by: Braenyard
And when they got to the New World, they had many many children. But sure, the Pilgrims hated sex. Whatever.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: scampydog
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I think that goes back to the dragon you requested....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (rbvCR)
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If I did that, I would be incapable of typing. Or conscious.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Doof
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*Adds to agenda item to the Monday D's meeting*
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: Piper
No, because I put colored lights over the Main Bar and the fireplace area.
There are no pictures available of those areas, because photos just can't capture the ambience ya know?
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (rdVOm)
And here I thought it was a concept borrowed from France to act as street lighting.
There is an interesting history of street lighting and candles in the windows were local ordinances due to the darkness and crime that took place without lighting. (circa 1667 Paris and London sometime late 1600s)
The wealthy didn't like the hassle of messing with candles through the night and such helped advance the technology of gas lighting.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (a4flb)
The issue with vegetation around the eastern Med is that a lot of it was chopped down. They didn't have oil or natural gas electricity then. No vegetation then led to erosion, making difficult for new growth.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (gKWVE)
Not to mention some of those so-called Puritans were marrying teenagers.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (OsagP)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)
^^Oh no! The dream dies...
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)
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I forget I'm dealing with Morons, who think the *only* joy is fornication.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)
They did their courting in bed. Called it bundling.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (uQesX)
Somebody (LOL, wasn't me but I know who did it) pledged $100-- a small fortune in 1983-- for them to play Flying Lizards' Money for AN HOUR.
Yes, they did it. LMAO.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)
Epic! I'd buy that person a beverage or 3.
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (QMAsf)
In the late 80s early 90s, the Ford fuel injection was scary. If a GM wouldn't catch and it flooded, if you held the pedal to the floor it would clear. Not with the Fords. You had one shot and then the only way to fix it was plug replacement. Whenever it got really cold the dealer lot would fill up with cars and we had gravy work all day
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (5Je/N)
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The people who like me seem to be Libras. I don't believe in that astrological crap. And if I'm socially awkward, ok. But I pray Jesus thinks I'm loveable .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (6p0Jv)
Our Christmas tradition is bourbon balls. We use Maker's Mark.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Hmmm might have to consider.
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Heh. The dragon, it resides on the dresser. Just biding its time.
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:22 PM (LVaYG)
We know there's other joys in life.
Right, fellows?
There's....ah...um...you know, other stuff. Plenty of stuff.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (OsagP)
Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!
So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.
We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (6p0Jv)
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I have the Dewalt one and like it. I charge it 1x/month and have used every feature on it except the alternator-check.
Posted by: 496 at December 06, 2025 11:24 PM (7MeQV)
Posted by: Doof
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His first name is Alex, active duty sailor at the time. He moonlighted as a punk-rock DJ at the base clubs. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 11:25 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:25 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (zdLoL)
Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!
So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.
We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Put the white lights in the ladies room then. Keep that boring stuff where I don't have to see it!
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (DqJmd)
Just today I started my log splitter without adding gas, no stabilizer, after about a year, started right up. But it did get non-ethanol fuel.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (vbXSk)
What a disappointment. All the Catholics did, the whole program, was talk about how and why the Protestants were wrong and they were right. What a put off it is to hear.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (gKWVE)
I watched a fascinating program a few years back about Alexander’s incursion deep into Asia, and it made the surprising claim was that it was made easier because Alexander’s army could ride on ships most of the way. They backed the theory up with evidence that the Caspian Sea was at least a third larger than we've ever seen in modern times, and that many rivers that have been dry for a millennia were deep flowing rivers in Alexander’s time, not to mention dozens of lakes that are now dry.
They made a very good case that all of Central Asia was far, far wetter than we see today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:27 PM (c7Ygk)
European religions are similar in nature to Islam and other socio-culture-religions, where participation in the religion is mandatory otherwise a person is ostracized and is harmed in various ways.
So there is far more likely a chance of a person in the cultural religion to not be regenerated and thus live as carnal creatures. This is why a Mafioso can gun down some competitor in the street on the way to Mass and there not be a conflict.
Protestant faiths subscribe to the Doctrines of Grace, all of the Elect is regenerated and takes on a spirit made alive. This is not true in State Religions. Though you can have truly saved people like Thomas Aquinas while you have Popes that are burning in Hell.
So yes, demons love infiltrating State Religions and boy howdy is there a lot of evidence to the depraved wicked ness that was State Religion sanctioned.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (6p0Jv)
Ball State
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:29 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:30 PM (04Glf)
Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!
So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.
We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Tell me you put up more than four light? More than five?
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 06, 2025 11:30 PM (S/Y4j)
First time for Hoosiers to win Big 10 since 1945?, if I heard that right. hard to believe.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:31 PM (vbXSk)
We know there's other joys in life.
Right, fellows?
There's....ah...um...you know, other stuff. Plenty of stuff.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (OsagP)
Like model trains?
Posted by: guy with a model train stuck in his rectum at December 06, 2025 11:31 PM (MIvVV)
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Yes it is. Kirk could have just run circles around him until he weakened.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 11:31 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I believe it for the Aral Sea. Central Asia got very, very good at retaining water for the Silk Road cities. Especially during the Islamic era.
All that water going to feed crops wasn't flowing into the big lakes. The Aral, the Urmia, the Van are all drying out now. Probably then too.
Caspian on the other hand I dunno. There weren't major cities around that one.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!
So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.
We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Put the white lights in the ladies room then. Keep that boring stuff where I don't have to see it!
Posted by: Doof
Kids! We all like our Club ONT to be George Bailys Martinis, let's not bicker and turn it into Nicks version....
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (TfUTr)
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(cough)
Hydrophilic refers to its good solubility in water (due to polar nature), while hygroscopic describes its tendency to attract and hold water vapor from the atmosphere, essentially "self-contaminating" by becoming diluted over time if exposed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2025 11:34 PM (CHHv1)
Like model trains?
Posted by: guy with a model train stuck in his rectum
Yeah, I guess.
And ham radios.
Mowing the lawn.
Changing the oil in the car.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:34 PM (OsagP)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (OsagP)
Like model trains?
Posted by: guy with a model train stuck in his rectum
HO, HO, HO.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (TfUTr)
But not during Alexander's time.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (gKWVE)
I'll unplug the white ones, but they're too mixed up with the colored strings to remove.
Besides, they help me at clean-up time. Can you at least grant that?
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM
I had to throw a record I painted at him earlier. He is out of control.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:36 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:36 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)
They did their courting in bed. Called it bundling.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Engaged meant joined at the hips.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: zombie Louis XVI at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (npFr7)
I'll unplug the white ones, but they're too mixed up with the colored strings to remove.
Besides, they help me at clean-up time. Can you at least grant that?
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)
Acceptable option. As long as they are far outnumbered by the colorful ones!
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:38 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:19
I don’t think it’s the ambience so much as it’s a little blinding. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:40 PM (OoFl2)
https://youtu.be/uRo426va26I
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)
Love it - thanks!
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: javems at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025
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With the "winter" dampness here, it might be a good idea if I put 1/4 to 1/2 ethanol gas in my tank along with the E0.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:36 PM (Wmg4n)
I probably deserved it
Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:43 PM (QMAsf)
Wait until you introduce Eastern Orthodox doctrines. In the general realm of "Christianity" you have the wild west of Evangelicals on one side, and Eastern Orthodox on the other, with Rome closer to the Orthodox and Reformed between Rome and Evangelicals.
The Soteriology, doctrines of Justification, Sanctification, Eschatology and what it means to be in the Church are wildly different, with Evangelicals with the Prescient Election views (aka Free Will), Rome and EO looking at variations of synergism; Evangelicals see heaven in purely materialistic terms while EO sees afterlife in terms of Theosis.
There will always be discord because the underlying theological templates, the syncretization of cultures and hermeneutics are wildly different.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:44 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025
Till it evaporates....then all that water in suspension...isn't.
Which is why I don't use wd40.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:45 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 11:46 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:46 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:46 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:47 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 11:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:47 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Department of Schicklegruber Studies at December 06, 2025 11:48 PM (MIvVV)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (vbXSk)
I had to fire up my ancient Coleman generator last night, because power went out. Took the fuel cap off, and there was some nasty-smelling gas at the bottom of the tank. Filled it brim-full with fresh gas, and it started, briefly, on the second pull of the starting rope ( the kind you wrap around the cup, not a recoil). Third pull, no go. Fourth pull, I gave a little shot of go juice in the carb, and it started, and stayed running, and ran well, until the carb screws rattled loose and it began sucking air. Re-tightened them, it started again one one pull, and ran fine for an hour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:50 PM (pkeXY)
https://youtu.be/0aQndRqi3jE
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025
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Wasn't Vanity involved with Prince at one point? I've never been a fan of his music (though he was a good songwriter), but his taste in girlfriends was impeccable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Some Rat
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Something between disco and motown.. electronic dance? I don't know.. but it sounded good at the time, LOL.
Isn't it a bit early for Christmas tunes? Don't want to get burned-out on them YET.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: javems at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (8I4hW)
IBC Cream Soda is the best!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:52 PM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Wolfus
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Yes, I believe she was. (RIP, Vanity and Prince)
Prince definitely had good taste.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:53 PM (rdVOm)
Thanks, very interesting and I'm now going to be reading that geological history of that. Fascinating.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)
The big red drink that'll tickle you pink
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I moved to TX 30 years ago. I love this place. Tried a Big Red. Once. I just couldn't.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:54 PM (6p0Jv)
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Yes it is. Kirk could have just run circles around him until he weakened.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025
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Maybe. But Kirk had no idea how much stamina a Gorn had, or how much water he needed. The planetoid did not not look temperate and didn't seem to have surface water. He himself could have died of thirst before the Gorn did.
I love stories where the hero uses a trick, esp. a fact of nature or science, to defeat his enemy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JQ
Heh, day after Thanksgiving a couple radio station here start playing Christmas music. My radio does not leave those stations till they stop.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:54 PM (TfUTr)
If it was anyone else I would say that they broke the rule of emergency generators, and that they should be the most reliable engines around and should be run frequently to ensure proper function.
There there is you, which could unearth a contraption buried since the early Roman era, in the dark and cold figure out how it works, quickly fashion makeshift parts to replace the original parts that failed, and get it running continuously.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:55 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:58 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 11:58 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mot at December 06, 2025 11:59 PM (fIPNY)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:59 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:02 AM (6p0Jv)
Caspian on the other hand I dunno. There weren't major cities around that one.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
One haunting image especially stayed in my mind; a picture of the ruins of what was once large city, now just extensive piles of rubble and brick, on land in the edge of a 200’ high cliff. Nothing green anywhere, just rubble and dust to the horizon in any direction.
Yet there was no cliff when the city was built; it was built on the banks of a large deep lake, where the spice road came through, and traders could water their camels and rest in luxury.
The past, it was a different place.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 12:03 AM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: illiniwek
I put fuel shut offs on all the yard equipment. Run 'em dry at shut down. It definitely helps.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 07, 2025 12:03 AM (TfUTr)
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We did this as well, but using Latin, Christus mansionem benedicat, which is translated as “Christ, bless this house (mansion)”. And we would write it like: 20 + C+M+B + 25.
This is a nice site that details this custom: https://tinyurl.com/582zmev4
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:04 AM (La8zG)
Yet there was no cliff when the city was built; it was built on the banks of a large deep lake, where the spice road came through, and traders could water their camels and rest in luxury.
The past, it was a different place.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Midnight at the Oasis
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:05 AM (pkeXY)
There there is you, which could unearth a contraption buried since the early Roman era, in the dark and cold figure out how it works, quickly fashion makeshift parts to replace the original parts that failed, and get it running continuously.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:55 PM (a4flb)
You are right, I neglected it. Bad Peon, no donut! But it was stored indoors, in a shop with radiant floor heating. So I had a toasty warm place to work on it, and ample light from an LED hand lantern that kicks out like a hundred-watt light bulb. So I got it going inside, nice and warm, then dragged the running generator two yards out onto the apron after raising the bay door. Once it was running steady, I pulled the pole switch, disconnecting my buildings from the utility line, and kicked in the breaker for the welding outlet that the generator was plugged into. And lights came on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 12:05 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Speaking of: Recently someone posted a clip of a Toyota Land Cruiser that was wrecked then washed out to sea, rolling in the surf was cleaned up and started. Then they really started abusing it. Last scene it was placed atop a building to be demolished, blew up the building, retrieved the Toy and ... yes they got it running. End of clip they set it alight.
clip 2
Oxygen bottles (full) in the back of a Ford Explorer? Shot the bottles w/ 50cal tracers setting off the bottles which blew up and went alight along with the Ford. After they put the fire out, yep, it started.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:06 AM (04Glf)
Did the same thing last year, without running it until carb empty.. no fuel cut-off (I need to remedy that).. but started up no problem this Spring.
Non-ethanol gasoline. No 'sta-bil' or other additive. Of course, it's only parked for about 3 months. First mow will usually be ~mid-March.
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)
And now, some Sydney Sweeney:
https://is.gd/klTpQd
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Favorite Sweeney is her burning down that gotcha' interviewer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:11 AM (04Glf)
You can't keep pouring in gas station gas and not expect your Carb to gum up on things you use infrequently.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:13 AM (OsagP)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2025 12:13 AM (viF8m)
And with a bonus homoerotic subtext to banging the same ho as another dude!
Posted by: SciVo at December 07, 2025 12:14 AM (Sy6m/)
I plan to service the generator. Replace carb and manifold mounting screws, and Loctite them in. Maybe rig a brace to the bottom of the intake elbow to give carb added support. Change oil. Take end bell off generator, and try to find why one leg of the split 240 is flaky. I suspect a bad solder joint on one of the panel fuses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)
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Sorry to hear this. I think it is always more beneficial to talk about truths than to bash other ideologies.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:16 AM (La8zG)
I saw "Chickanic" (youtube channel) say it was better to leave a heavy oil mix in the carb for longer term storage. Keeps it oiled or something. idk ... dry has worked over the last 8 years or so for me.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 07, 2025 12:17 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:18 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:19 AM (OsagP)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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You should come around more often. And for the season there's been a lot of decorating going on.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:22 AM (04Glf)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (tRYqg)
Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (YGRGv)
Ford CEO Jim Farley Says Fuel Economy Standards Were 'Totally Out Of Touch'
Farley said during an appearance on Fox News. "We are forced to sell EVs and other vehicles...we're not going back to gas guzzlers, we have a lot of EVs and a lot of hybrids at Ford. But now customers get a chance to buy what they want, not what we force on them."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:25 AM (pkeXY)
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Thanks Braenyard. How have you been?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:26 AM (La8zG)
Here's the shot, oxygen bottle blowing up the Ford.
youtu.be/2tX06z2h3YY?t=793
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:31 AM (04Glf)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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It's on my playlist now! Thanks!
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Our small engine repair guy told us to never use ethanol in small engines. I've read boat motor mfrs void warranties if you use ethanol gas.
I don't use it for anything but vehicles.
Posted by: MkY at December 07, 2025 12:34 AM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)
Heh, day after Thanksgiving a couple radio station here start playing Christmas music. My radio does not leave those stations till they stop.
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I think I've mentioned before that after Thanksgiving I start listening to Handel's Messiah. I came across this song today, featuring a singer from Trinidad. Beautiful voice! And she is pleased with her performance, beautiful smile at the end.
https://tinyurl.com/296dvahb
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (La8zG)
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That sounds confused.
Customers can buy what they want as long as it's tiny engines or EVs and hybrids. Farley's the same guy that pushed the Lightening isn't he?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (04Glf)
Is it just me, or was anyone else disappointed to realize the "TopPop" and similar shows are fake? They are not live performances. They are like music videos, adding a new visual on top of the separately recorded and mixed production audio. But they don't present themselves that way. What a gyp!
Posted by: SciVo at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:36 AM (04Glf)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (tRYqg)
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TX here. I don't want a f'kin prize. I want the illegals and cartel gone. I am tired of the trash and the crime. It looks like a Mexican trailer park here. No bueno.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:36 AM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Norrin Radd
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It's an Idaho bar what's sponsoring it. That's why.
Tell your local Colorado establishments to Get With The Program!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
1. CEO Farley never said a peep before. Craven.
2. Ford is "out of touch" with the stupid trucks they build.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:41 AM (+J1QL)
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
So, I guess the same thing could happen here, but, well...
I trust in the Lord.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 07, 2025 12:43 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:45 AM (+J1QL)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:48 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:50 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Sep 28, 2010
Jeremy Clarkson puts Toyota's claim that their Hilux pick-up is virtually indestructible to the ultimate test. Top Gear series 3,
youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:52 AM (04Glf)
Ha. But will lithium enable logical thinking?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:53 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:54 AM (04Glf)
Waylon will have a word.
.https://tinyurl.com/yeyr6nhm
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:55 AM (6p0Jv)
Farley said during an appearance on Fox News. "We are forced to sell EVs and other vehicles...we're not going back to gas guzzlers, we have a lot of EVs and a lot of hybrids at Ford. But now customers get a chance to buy what they want, not what we force on them."
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Where was his courage when it counted? He should be fired for admitting he folded when he should have made a stand.
When I was a kid, CEOs were portrayed as macho money lovers. That's actually the type you want in charge of your profit-seeking enterprise. This guy is just one of dozens of top-50 CEOs that weren't concerned enough about their company's profitability.
Posted by: Crusader at December 07, 2025 12:57 AM (Cjcf6)
Online mags are saying that Toyota can't build a $20K HiLux in the US.
What about affordability?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:58 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:01 AM (La8zG)
Done tole ya'll people
Hope all dem kids is happy
Posted by: Miklos is Magyar for Nicholas at December 07, 2025 01:04 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:04 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy
Why can't all States be like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon...hell, Red States in general!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)
They all sound so wonderful - but right now in deep deep blue Southern California it's 55 F outside.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Braenyard
maybe, with some changes to the National Firearms Act
Posted by: Miklos will pay extra the twin Ma Deuce model at December 07, 2025 01:06 AM (N7hqt)
What about affordability?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:58 AM (pkeXY)
412 If I was in the market for a truck, I would want that Toyota.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:01 AM (La8zG)
I want six hard points in the bed as standard, not an option.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 07, 2025 01:07 AM (/lPRQ)
Hey, the big ClubONT Christmas Party is *next* Saturday night... Will you be making those 3-layer Jello Shots for us?
I think I've got all the supplies-- check the storage room & let me know if you need anything else, ok?
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2025 01:09 AM (YGRGv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 01:10 AM (6p0Jv)
*slides Chivas/rocks down the bar*
Doof chewed me out for having some white lights, but phooey-- told him it helps me see during cleanup-- there's plenty of colored lights anyhow... *shrug*
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing
"Lithium is used to treat mania that is part of bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness). It is also used on a daily basis to reduce the frequency and severity of manic episodes. Manic-depressive patients experience severe mood changes, ranging from an excited or manic state (eg, unusual anger or irritability or a false sense of well-being) to depression or sadness."
Posted by: Blue haired pierced communists demand MOAR LITHIUM at December 07, 2025 01:10 AM (N7hqt)
*intercepts*
*replaces with Old Crow*
*let's see if she notices the improvement*
Posted by: Guy at bar stool 6 at December 07, 2025 01:12 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:14 AM (La8zG)
Heh. Col. Klink is on tonight's episode of Lost in Space on MeTV. He's a galactic cop.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 07, 2025 01:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 07, 2025 01:14 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ
https://tinyurl.com/yhc4bp2z
Posted by: Miklos has the inflatable pool and Coomercail quantity Jello ready for the ladies at December 07, 2025 01:16 AM (N7hqt)
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Hey, now... don't EVER mess with a lady's drink!
*side eye* Never seen you here before, friend. You got references?
*hands Debby a fresh Chivas/rocks*
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:17 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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If you're willing to share, please post in the Food Thread tomorrow!
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
I want six hard points in the bed as standard, not an option.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Scrolling from the bottom up it looked as if you were going a bit kinky.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 01:18 AM (04Glf)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 01:21 AM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Miklos
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I picked up a whole case! Oh, they're by the door, not with the other plastic cups... my bad.
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:22 AM (rdVOm)
*side eye* Never seen you here before, friend. You got references?
*hands Debby a fresh Chivas/rocks*
Posted by: JQ
Hey look, Miss - we serve hard drinks in here for ladies who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you a Bacardi 151 with Kahlua and cream for a convincer?
Posted by: Surly bartender Miklos, who was supposed to have the night off at December 07, 2025 01:22 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
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Well well well... wth you doin' *sitting at the bar* and intercepting a drink I served? Get yer butt back here & I'll gladly clock out for the duration.
Yeah, I'd *love* to have that 151 with k&c right about now, thanks!
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
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I don't know if I will be around tomorrow, so I asked grok and got the following recipe. It looks similar to the one I have used in the past.
https://tinyurl.com/yjc9396m
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:31 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:33 AM (La8zG)
Posted by: JQ
I worked at place in new Orleans that was even open during Prohibition.
Nick's Night Train Bar
Mixology was both an art and a condition of employment.
I created a few, and that was one.
Alas, Nick's 1918-katrina
Posted by: Nostalgically less-Surly bartender Miklos at December 07, 2025 01:35 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:37 AM (La8zG)
JQ and Miklos behind the bar together next Saturday night, I think the Christmas party is off to a good start. What can I do or bring to assist in the celebration?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:38 AM (0nHVk)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Rental Family
If he hadn't had his career derailed by a series of mishaps and downright evil, Brendan Fraser would be alongside Tom Hanks in terms of being the modern equivalent of a Golden Age actor like Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda. The difference between the two is that I will go see a movie just because Brendan Fraser is in it, which is not at all true of Hanks.
The excesses of The Whale aside—and its director, Darren Aronofsky, whom Ken Russell calls from the grave to say "Settle down"—Fraser was terrific. A well-earned Oscar. This is probably a double-edged sword in that we probably permit a character played by Fraser to get away with things he really shouldn't. In fact, despite the very strong marks for Rental Family, all I could see as the movie started rolling, was all the many, many ways this movie could go bad.
Gaijin on the train.Fraser plays Phillip Vandarploeg, an American who moved to Japan seven years prior after becoming a sensation as the star of a toothpaste commercial, has fallen on hard times when he's called by his agent to play—well, I'm not going to say what, exactly, because while this movie doesn't have really big twists or surprises, the ones it does have shouldn't be spoiled. Despite not doing very well at the gig (because he's completely unprepared) he's approached by Shinji, the owner of a company called Rental Family. They need a token American.
Philip is obviously used to this, although I can't help but note that he's not a token at all. You see, the business that Shinji has is that he supplies people to act out parts in other people's lives for various reasons. One of their most popular jobs is euphemistically called "Apology Services", where a woman (Aiko, played by Mari Yamamoto) pretends to be a man's mistress and apologizes to his wife for having an affair. This is the important thing about this job: He's lying to someone, and he has considerable issue doing so. The first job he has seems relatively harmless. And he has a kind of nice one where he plays video games and acts friendly toward a shut-in. But the first big job he gets is pretending be a girl's father. The girl's mother is trying to get her into an elite private school, and the school isn't interested in single mothers. The mom doesn't want to force the child to have to lie, so instead has Philip pretend to be her father to her.
Philip's inability to FAKE attachment is very American, and of course why we like him.
This gig, which happens immediately after Philip accepts the job, made me a bit nervous about what might come next.
It's nice to see small businesses thriving in Japan. Even if they're fundamentally very weird.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:31 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:32 PM (asXVI)
The chemistry between him and Rachel Weiss was amazing. (And Rachel Weiss was so hot…wait til you see her in a snug, tight plaid pencil skirt…
Anyways, this was the one and only time I remember seeing Brendan Frasier in a movie.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 07:35 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 07:35 PM (4786I)
Check out Fraser in "Blast from the Past". Hell, he's good in "Encino Man," which is just a goofy, dumb teen comedy.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:37 PM (asXVI)
Forrest Gump was the only thing Hanks was remarkable for in his appearance and he just seemed a natural.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 06, 2025 07:38 PM (w6S0H)
Sort of a variati9n on lost in translation
Hos integral rachel was to rhe plot wss when they replaced here with maria bello for the third film
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:40 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (asXVI)
And I, too, have no idea what the GenPub likes, because I'm a bit of a weirdo.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:44 PM (kpS4V)
Though I think Nothing in Common with Jackie Gleason is an underrated Hanks film.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:45 PM (KDPiq)
Fraser is more like chris pratt to which chsrm comes natural
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (bXbFr)
What does this mean?
Posted by: Lyford at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (gb+vr)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:47 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (KDPiq)
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I had the exact same reaction. You could not derail this bulletin train of bad choices.
I tried to see it first in a theater but the volume was cranked to Monsters of Rock levels and I had to flee, thinking I hated the film. I later saw it at home and liked -- well, admired -- the story.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:47 PM (kpS4V)
PS 2.17.26 there will be a release of a remastered Star Wars.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:48 PM (gbOdA)
It has about 50 layers.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:50 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:50 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:50 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:51 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (Kt19C)
Anyways, the reward tiers for the documentary are a little bit steep, but....considering how often I've watched that movie, I don't have too much hesitation throwing a bit of cash their way.
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)
It's nice to see him have a career resurgence, even if I'm not terribly interested in the new movies he's making.
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (SRRAx)
Yes. Wife and I love that movie.
And the two Mummy movies. As someone mentioned, he and Rachel Weisz had crazy chemistry. A rare thing in cinema.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:55 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (KDPiq)
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It's great, but it's no "Space Mutiny" or "Alien From L.A.". I do love all the hockey hair and Canuck jokes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (kpS4V)
Some what less plausible than the original with dudley moore
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)
a movie she had won tickets to.
So low and behold I am at his house with duct tape hemming up he Gloria Vanderbuilt jeans (she had bought that day) to go see Bee Gees St Peppers.
North Park Mall Dallas Tx must have been summer of 78.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:57 PM (gbOdA)
I'll second that.
If memory serves, Fraser starred with Michael Caine in a remake of The Quiet American. Never saw either version, but heard good things about both -- will get to them Real Soon Now.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: ravenshrike at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (16udA)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (KDPiq)
Me too. Very well done.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: r hennigantx
With the true story of Solo shooting first!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (KDPiq)
Me too. Very well done.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (0aYVJ)
I am taking a lot of rhino penis
please dont call me that in public
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)
I liked The Bee Gees a lot and don't hate the Beatles but that movie was really bad Earth Wind and Fire's Got to Get You Into My Life was the only saving grace.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (z/7Ah)
original
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (KDPiq)
I think the fifth beatle played that one too.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:01 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (bXbFr)
I'm back from the Christmas (Weihnachten) fair at the local German-American Center. No National Socialist night, but lots of outdoor booths with crafts -- mostly for women and children -- and some food and mulled wine. Miss Linda got a pic with Krampus, her favorite Christmas icon.
The good: The city has paved the road in front of the center, and the live band, w/ Xmas music of course, was not ear-shatteringly loud. The bad: the prices! $8 for a cup of mulled wine, $5 for a big pretzel, and one booth wanted $15 for a loaf of Stollen bread. And they wanted $5 to park in their lot. (I dodged the last two.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: ravenshrike at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (16udA)
Vince Vaughn was awesome in Brawl in Cell Block 99.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)
What does this mean?
Posted by: Lyford at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (gb+vr)
He was blacklisted after accusing the head of the HFPA of sexual assault after the guy groped him at a luncheon.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2025 08:03 PM (gUs21)
My favorite has a cute Krampus glowering and saying "You. In the bag".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:04 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:05 PM (gbOdA)
I didn't even think Vaughn was all that bad in the van Sant remake of Psycho. Not up to Perkins maybe, but who would have been?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 08:05 PM (q3u5l)
He's no James Stewart.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025
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No, nor is he a Jack Lemmon. But he has taken the *kind* of roles that JL would have during his career, going from light comedy to drama and back again. I can imagine a 1960 Jack doing a film like Cast Away, for instance, or You've Got Mail, in his case w/ Shirley Maclaine. And Hanks in a film like The Apartment -- though I'm not suggesting he would be as good as Jack was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)
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Also in "Dragged Across Concrete", which is great but a tough film to watch, like "Bone Tomahawk".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:07 PM (kpS4V)
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"George of the Jungle" was bad, but evil? Come on now.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 06, 2025 08:07 PM (kDHiw)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025
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He always surprises me -- in a good way -- when I see him in a film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:08 PM (wzUl9)
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The trouble was, Vaughn seemed quietly psychotic from the get-go. Not like that nice young man Anthony Perkins!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025
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I didn't go to see Just Go With It for him, or Jen Aniston either, but for Nicole Kidman. But both Adam and Jen did well and had nice chemistry.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)
Agree . I think Hanks would have been a good casting choice if they had done a remake.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)
It was a path Hanks could have taken to become a serious actor. He didn't. That said, in spite of its myriad appalling flaws, Joe vs the Volcano is a wonderful flick.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:11 PM (NcvvS)
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I actually didn't think Hanks was that good in Forrest Gump; Gary Sinise was really good in that one. I did think Hanks was great in Apollo 13 though.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (kDHiw)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:14 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)
You reminded me of one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Actually I think it's really good and don't feel guilty.
Blended.
And as you say the chemistry between Sandler and Barrymore is great.
Speaking of Drew Barrymore, if you're looking for a RomCom to watch, I would highly recommend Going the Distance.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:14 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:15 PM (vFG9F)
His mummy film wasnt god awful like hatbours hellboy but it wasnt good
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:17 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:17 PM (Jj1OR)
Kind of like Kevin Costner in 'Mr. Brooks'. He plays a serial killer. He actually does creepy normal very well. Again, not the best serial killer movie but a good one. (Citizen X and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer are the best ones)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:15 PM (vFG9F)
I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025
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His character and Scolari's only wore the female getups when entering or leaving the residential hotel for women they had been forced to live in -- everything else in NYC, even in 1980, was too expensive, was the setup. They didn't dress as The Girls at work, for instance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 06, 2025 08:20 PM (f0sNM)
It's great, but it's no "Space Mutiny" or "Alien From L.A.". I do love all the hockey hair and Canuck jokes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (kpS4V)
"Alien From LA"? There's an episode that doesn't get talked about much...I do enjoy it (how can I not, with Kathy Ireland as the star?!) but it's not on my list of favorites. Ironically, I wanted the miner guy (Gus?) to be a bit more over-the-top and a bit more featured...Basically, I thought the movie/episode would have been better had he been more like Rowsdower!
As for "Space Mutiny," I have nothing bad to say about Space Mutiny! It is easily on my Top-10 list, but I just personally love "The Final Sacrifice" more.
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (Lhaco)
The camp factor was dialed to eleven
Its a whole de laurentis held the studio afloat for so long
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (bXbFr)
I like Bad Monkey tv series, a lot, and I think it got a 2nd season.
But if you don't like Vince Vaughn, you will hate Bad Monkey, because it's Vince Vaugn being Vince Vaughn the whole time -- he never lets up.
(btw, I still hate fucking monkeys, and this show does not change that fact)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (bXbFr)
I thought Road to Perdition could have been much better with someone other than Hanks. I liked it anyway though I could not see Hanks as a tough guy gangster.
Mr Brooks was really really good and Costner nailed the role. Demi Moore is who almost ruined it.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:22 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:19 PM (wzUl
Blended was Drew Barrymore
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:23 PM (KDPiq)
NOBODY looks back at ANY Tom Hanks role and thinks fondly or warmly at that character. He is not, nor will he ever be a "George Bailey."
Not even Forest Gump, which is not a great movie. It's okay. I was original, I'll say that. Forest is not some lovable character -- he's a pathetic dolt in which the audience feels pity, mostly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:24 PM (DJUFe)
Oh yeah sure they were totally not gay.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
https://dire-duplicity.com/
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 06, 2025 08:20 PM (f0sNM)
Well, well, Merry Christmas to everyone who has a YouTube channel devoted to watching/reviewing B-movies!
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 08:24 PM (Lhaco)
Game should be forfeited. A real coach would take them home.
Lousy crooked cheating SOB's.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 08:25 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:26 PM (NcvvS)
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Oh yeah sure they were totally not gay.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025
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Not sure about Scolari's character, but Hanks's was besotted with the tall Marilyn-like blonde. (The actress later married Dan Aykroyd.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:26 PM (wzUl9)
Speaking of "great" actors...
that goofy idiot Gene Simmons is receiving a Kennedy Center award from Our Favorite President, tonight.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:27 PM (DJUFe)
Not even Forest Gump, which is not a great movie. It's okay. I was original, I'll say that. Forest is not some lovable character -- he's a pathetic dolt in which the audience feels pity, mostly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025
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What about the film, can't think of the title, where he plays a young boy cast into adult form? There's a scene or several at F.A.O. Schwarz.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:28 PM (wzUl9)
livestream of Kennedy Center honors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPgHy7hpr1I
rewind 10 minutes for Skillvester Skallone
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:28 PM (DJUFe)
What about the film, can't think of the title, where he plays a young boy cast into adult form? There's a scene or several at F.A.O. Schwarz.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
BIG?
Yeah, it was okay.
Don't know if it stands up today.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:29 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:31 PM (NcvvS)
President keeps saying "tape" instead of film.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:31 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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BIG?
Yeah, it was okay.
Don't know if it stands up today.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025
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That's it. For some reason I was thinking the title was Restless!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:32 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:27 PM (DJUFe)
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LOL I momentarily conflated him with spastic imp Richard Simmons.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:33 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025
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I think I've seen the first (and read King's novel), but not the others.
Hanks has had good luck -- his costar Peter Scolari was as talented when they were on Bosom Buddies, but he hasn't had the big-screen fortune that Hanks has. And since he became a big name, TH has picked good material on the whole.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:35 PM (wzUl9)
Not even Forest Gump, which is not a great movie. It's okay. I was original, I'll say that. Forest is not some lovable character -- he's a pathetic dolt in which the audience feels pity, mostly.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Tom Hanks peaked during Bosom Buddies. I hated Forrest Gump. He was a producer of Band of Brothers which I really like and a worthwhile program.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:35 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:37 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:38 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:38 PM (6p0Jv)
Saving Private Ryan, after the first 20-30 minutes, was meh.
Road to Perdition was pretty good. Hanks was good in a non-Hanks like role. Paul Newman was great. I believe it was his final role before he died.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:39 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:41 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:42 PM (NcvvS)
His roles are all right, but he kind of floats through them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:43 PM (SwYQF)
Chris Pratt could be another young Ford -- but Hollywood has lost its way in the PC Forest and doesn't know how to make movies like Raiders any more. Otherwise CP would have donned the fedora, jacket, gun, and whip years ago for a couple of period-piece Indiana Jones movies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:43 PM (wzUl9)
Back to Brendan Fraser...
Always liked him...until he got weird in the last few years.
Really Low-T guy.
The Mummy is one of favorite movies, which means I re-watch it. Rewatchable movies means they are great. I never had the urge to rewatch Forest Gump, Saving Ryan's Privates, or Lost.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:43 PM (DJUFe)
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I don't understand the phrase "too much cleavage."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:44 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:38 PM (6p0Jv)
Castaway. I saw a ewetub blurb that was trying to intimate that whatshername was already cheating on him before the plane crashed but passed as the movie always annoyed me. Guys plane crashes, everyone in his life moves on. The End. Thanks movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (CwhoI)
There's a couple movies I want to see but I'm lazy and it's cold outside.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (kpS4V)
I even recently downloaded Blast From The Past because I like it -- but that dummy Alicia Silverstone said some dumb things recently and ruined it for me.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (DqJmd)
Well, at the end of Season 1, she isn't gay, yet. I will continue to watch, keeping score of the plot twists that are telegraphed. I'm betting there will be a "Luke and Leia are what!?!?" moment coming up soon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (znQHQ)
The chemistry between him and Rachel Weiss was amazing. (And Rachel Weiss was so hot…wait til you see her in a snug, tight plaid pencil skirt…
Anyways, this was the one and only time I remember seeing Brendan Frasier in a movie.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 07:35 PM (4786I)
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The first time we saw him was at a drive-in theater -- in Santa Cruz with my teenaged step-daughter and her friend -- with Pauly Shore in Encino Man.
I had low expectations, but it was pretty funny ... and I loved The Mummy and its sequel.
I forget what "evil" like him being blackballed for some reason happened to his career (I do remember some controversy) -- and will have to search for the details.
I'll be back ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (My0zW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025
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Not in that order, anyway. "Cleavage too?" "Much" would work fine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:46 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:46 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Skip
Watched it again recently .. they did more stupid shit than I remembered.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - we all were so much older then, I'm younger than that now at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (c7Ygk)
Brendan Fraser's career experienced a significant decline in the late 2000s and early 2010s, following a period of major success in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly with the The Mummy franchise.
His absence from major Hollywood films was attributed to a combination of personal and health-related challenges. Fraser has publicly discussed suffering from severe injuries sustained during stunt work, particularly while filming The Mummy series, which led to multiple surgeries, including a laminectomy and a partial knee replacement, and a vocal cord repair.
He also revealed he was in and out of hospitals for nearly seven years due to these injuries.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (My0zW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025
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Wasn't there one where he plays a young man who grew up with his parents in a well-equipped 1960s bomb shelter, and when he emerges he's gobsmacked by the 1980s?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (CwhoI)
Vanderflug?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)
Hurricane force winds in the valley this weekend, along with serious ice from last week.
We are staying in, thanks.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:48 PM (6Bc88)
In addition to physical health issues, Fraser faced profound personal losses, including the death of his mother from cancer in 2016, and the emotional toll of a difficult divorce from his wife Afton Smith.
He has also spoken about being sexually assaulted in 2003 by Philip Berk, then president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an incident he claims led to a period of depression and a belief that he was blacklisted from Hollywood.
Fraser stated that after making the allegation public in a 2018 GQ interview, his career phone calls stopped, and he questioned whether he had been ostracized.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 06, 2025 08:48 PM (My0zW)
Incidentally, I recently downloaded a 1992 B-movie titled Nemesis. Set in 2027.
I don't remember it, but it has all the greats, such as Tim Thomerson, Brion James, and boobies.
IMDB description:
Alex, a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who's about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war against humans. Is he being played?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:49 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:49 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:50 PM (93/YK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Yes. 'Blast from the Past'. I haven't seen it. Heard it's ok though. (and I'm not 100% on the name of the movie but I know which one you're referring too)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:50 PM (DqJmd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025
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Maybe so. But I can picture Bogart as an Indy Jones-like character in a 1943 thriller set in the Andes or the mountains of Mexico. And Ford did play Bogart's role in the remake of Sabrina, right? A very different interpretation, from what I gather -- I've never seen either film all the way through -- but the same basic role.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:51 PM (wzUl9)
I think what "blacklisted" Fraser is he's emotional, and nobody wanted to work with him. He simply wasn't worth the trouble. It's obvious, isn't it?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:52 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Well, I'll admit to watching Star Trek: First Contact. Had its moments. Wanted to see Zefram Cochran at the end say, That'll do, pig. 🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - make it sew at December 06, 2025 08:54 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:52 PM (DJUFe)
His career did seem to suddenly stop after being in many movies at the same time he claims he got assaulted.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:54 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:55 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)
And if I had to pick a Hanks picture to revisit, it'd be The Money Pit. Not so much for Hanks himself, but the never-ending disaster of trying to fix up that wreck of a house. Joe Mantegna doesn't get a ton of screen time, but is quite funny. Alexander Godunov (sp?) too.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (vFG9F)
Sleepy Joe FORGETS the name of his former Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
BIDEN: "When I took office I promised to have an administration that looked like America... not just for the community, but my Press Secretary 'KAREEM.'"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 08:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 08:59 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025
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His Capt. Queeg was very different from his Sam Spade, or Roy Earle, or Fred Dobbs. But you're right in that I could not see Ford playing any of those roles, except maybe Spade.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 06, 2025 09:00 PM (XQo4F)
Keanu Reeves and Matthew McConnaughey
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:01 PM (KDPiq)
Local theater will be showing Scrooged on the 16th. We first saw it in first-run theater, large audience. The end where Murray breaks the fourth wall and addresses the theater audience works much better with a theater audience.
Posted by: mindful webworker - lives in the Cherokee Nation at December 06, 2025 09:01 PM (yqA/D)
Thanks, moviegique, for the thread!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:02 PM (q3u5l)
He was perfect for his character
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025
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He was in that? The lead was Bruce Willis, wearing a fedora a shade too big for him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 06, 2025 09:03 PM (MIvVV)
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Bogie had the characteristics of a genuine movie star which put limits on what he could do as an actor. But it surely wasn't lack of capability. He's radically different in "Caine", "African Queen", "Sabrina", etc. He has a very fey turn in "Falcon" that makes you cringe but not from being unconvincing.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:03 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:04 PM (KDPiq)
Thanks, moviegique, for the thread!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025
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Excellent point, Nazdar! Willis could certainly do both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:04 PM (wzUl9)
He was in that? The lead was Bruce Willis, wearing a fedora a shade too big for him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Just joking.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)
Elliot Gould had a good turn with "The Long Goodbye" but mostly by NOT being Bogie. Besides being the '70s. I mention it only because the thought of Gould in that role really turned me off so much that I didn't see that movie until the 2010s.
In the past 30 years? Kiefer Sutherland, maybe. Or Tom Hardy.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (asXVI)
Fairly young infant was in tow, young enough that mom kept him on her lap. When she needed to hit the facilities, she got up, and was hesitating to wake the sleeping husband. Another passenger - Tom Hanks - quickly says to her he'd be glad to watch the kid while she's gone. "Oh, I'm in this movie". There was another well known actor, woman, forget her name, she sauntered over and they both entertained the kid while mom was away.
Apparently Hanks was a very nice guy, and unsurprisingly was good at being goofy to entertain a toddler. So there's that.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:06 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:00 PM (wzUl9)
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Thank you for putting it better than I did. Bogie is a favorite. A classic. Perhaps it's because he is of my great grandparents generation. He was in so many classic movies. Some stinkers, but some truly greats.
Hans Solo and Indiana Jones are of my childhood. Those are the only two roles I think of when you say Harrison Ford.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:07 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)
In my top ten films. I'm not a Bogart fan boy but he happens to have 4 of the movies in my top ten .
The other three are Casablanca, Sahara and Caine Mutiny.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025
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His Queeg is the definitive version of the character. Lloyd Nolan (look him up) played Queeg in the Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial w/ Henry Fonda as the defense attorney, and I'll bet Nolan was great. But Bogart is the man.
As for HB's Sam Spade, he makes the line from Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) believable when the latter says that one never knows what Spade will do or say next.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:08 PM (wzUl9)
Have to throw this in, and thank you, Wolfus (looking forward to you joining us in Kentuckiana!):
Ford was told to make Han Solo a buffoon. Only way to explain him in Return of the Jedi.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:08 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:09 PM (KDPiq)
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Well, sure, he had to make up for the bum leg.
I think Fraser's claims of harassment are legit to the extent that the guy doing it said as much. Or, wait, no, he said, "Sure I grabbed his taint. It's a joke!"
I suspect his wife was the bigger problem, tho'.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:09 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:09 PM (6p0Jv)
Desert films shot just east of here in Borrego, I believe. Ironically, not that far from the actual desert training grounds Patton used for armor work.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:10 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Lyford at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (gb+vr)
He was blacklisted after accusing the head of the HFPA of sexual assault after the guy groped him at a luncheon.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer
Thanks very much Lyford for asking that and Jeff Weimer for answering! Was very much wondering too.
Posted by: jocon307 at December 06, 2025 09:11 PM (EuROc)
Touchstone was so sleazy. It was almost like Eisner said, "We're gonna make non-family movies," and that was the equivalent of saying "As sleazy as they can possibly be."
And I love "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House".
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:11 PM (asXVI)
Special Needs Community Demands People Stop Comparing Them To Tim Walz
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:11 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 09:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:12 PM (Q+gd/)
In a Lonely Place ain't too dusty either.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:12 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025
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Sutherland impressed me in his first big role, that of the juvenile delinquent leader in Stand By Me. The moment I saw him on screen, too, I knew whose son he had to be. The same way you know whose son Miguel Ferrer is, and who sired both Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:13 PM (wzUl9)
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Bruce Willis is a good call. He could do the world weary Blaine, and did (demand was high)! But he had the comedy chops, and the right quirkiness to be Allnut, too, I think. It wouldn't have been the same as Bogie, of course, but it would've been watchable.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:13 PM (asXVI)
In the past 30 years? Kiefer Sutherland, maybe. Or Tom Hardy.
moviegique, not up on Tom Hardy's work, so can't respond. Kiefer Sutherland...I'd have to think about; seen a little of his work, and could only say, maybe.
AND THIS IS HOW I STAY ON THE MOVIE THREADS!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:14 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:14 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:15 PM (KDPiq)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - lives in the Cherokee Nation at December 06, 2025
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You know, I've never seen that. I have high hopes for it, as Murray seems to pick good material over some script that will just make him look good. Out of my Ten Movies I Would Change Nothing About, he's in no less than three.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)
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There's talk of rebooting 24. I don't know whether Kiefer will be back or not.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:17 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:17 PM (wzUl9)
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Eris, I'm more comfortable making recommendations for you than I am GenPub. And it's not even close.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:18 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:15 PM (KDPiq)
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The Lost Boys? Off to my bunk.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:18 PM (6p0Jv)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Speaking of Murray which automatically makes you speak of Groundhog Day, anyone else see and like Palm Springs with Andy Samberg.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:19 PM (KDPiq)
I can't imagine how bad Splash, Too must be, with neither Hanks nor Hannah. (Re TJM's latest, he should follow up with sequels we really didn't need.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Disenchanted at December 06, 2025 09:21 PM (yqA/D)
(Yes, I know that Bogart grew up in an upper-class family and often played light comedy playboy roles in his early stage work, and in the Universal flick he did with Bette Davis, Bad Sister, around 1931. But he always seemed more working class in his roles.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:21 PM (wzUl9)
Then you have things like the last atrocity of the Pacific War, Midway (the recent one). A very compact, understandable true story that - if told straight, would be more compelling and dramatic and tension-filled than almost any fictional script. But, no. The sadly mediocre writers and producers cannot comprehend anything apart from dumbed-down dreck following the mediocre formula they usually follow.
Ironically, the best written and acted role in the movie was Nimitz, played by the obnoxious and dumb Woody Harrelson. He nailed it, based on everything known about CinCPac.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:22 PM (U/Byj)
WATCH: Virginia window-washers dangle from broken line before being rescued
https://is.gd/dIvstH
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:22 PM (L/fGl)
ROSE SAYER IS THE ROLE KATHARINE HEPBURN WAS BORN TO PLAY.
Dorothy Parker said of one of her roles that she ran all the gamut of emotions from A to B; here, she covered a few more and found a couple of others.
And all that said, The Philadelphia Story remains my number-one favourite movie.
Ok, trying for a final goodnight; my day has hit the 18-hour mark.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:24 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: mindful webworker - splish splash I was takin' a bath at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (yqA/D)
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By the way, Davis does not play the title role in Bad Sister. She herself hated the film and her performance in it . . . and I lost interest in the movie half an hour after I started it on YooToob. It being her first movie, and the fact that Universal didn't realize what they had in Bogart and Davis and let their contracts lapse, are the historical reasons to know about the flick.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM
Wasn't Jabba a fat Irish guy originally?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:26 PM (6p0Jv)
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Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025
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Dottie was never slow to toss out a meow about a fellow woman.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:27 PM (wzUl9)
I don't think he was upper class, though.
https://moviegique.com/2024/12/november-movie-roundup/
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:28 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)
I liked that Han shot first. Why be at a disadvantage when someone wants to kill you?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)
Way to go, moviegique. I think I'm going to try this one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (KDPiq)
He's good.
'Mmmm, Guy.'
'Something really bad happened here.'
'I'm just a glorified extra, Fred.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (6p0Jv)
His economic theories were much better than his cousin twice removed Karl...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)
Sentry asked him who won the latest World Series. Typical screening question when trying to ferret out imposters.
His reply, according to him but quite plausible - "I haven't the foggiest, but I was in Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers." Sentry had seen the movie, let him pass. Hard to beat that one.
Niven was in some real and interesting s**t during the war, never talked about it.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (U/Byj)
I like that movie a lot, I think it’s one of the better WW2 movies, and I’m always surprised it’s not more well known.
It’s also notable for featuring one of the only film appearances of the M3 Lee tank. It was the main American battle tank at the outset of the war, and the army was shocked when German panzers ripped it apart like it was made out of aluminum foil. By 1943 they had all been taken out of service.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:31 PM (c7Ygk)
He was great in Seven Psychopaths.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:31 PM (KDPiq)
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I remember being shocked. It's kind of a classic anti-save-the-cat moment.
That Bogart doc was from last year, doy.
As for Kate, I grew up with her being in these New England patrician matraiarchal (is that an oxymoron) roles that she kind of got squeezed into after "African Queen".
She had a very good range in the '30s and '40s, though.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (asXVI)
https://moviegique.com/2024/12/november-movie-roundup/
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025
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I believe his mother was an artist or illustrator, which might have meant she was well-paid, or that her husband was high-salaried in *his* job. She, I understood, illustrated the baby on the Gerber baby food labels, leading to the rumor that the model was little Humphrey himself.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)
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And his book 'Harpo Speaks' is much more entertaining.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)
It said a lot about his character at that point. He murders Greedo because he knew it was him or Greedo. And he shoots him before he knows what is happening.
That's characterization.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (zZu0s)
The really odd thing about Woody Harrelson, and I still have troubled wrapping my brain around this, is that he is a great actor and very versatile. Has done pretty much every kind of role and is always very good at it. I forget I'm watching dumb and obnoxious Woody Harrelson.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 09:33 PM (DqJmd)
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JSG, I read the book not too long ago.
By Bloch's description, the perfect guy to play Norman?
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:33 PM (asXVI)
Best part of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Indy shot first there too.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:34 PM (KDPiq)
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That rings a bell. The documentary covers this but it's been a year so mostly what I recall is Bogie & Bacall's relationship and that they started the Rat Pack.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:34 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:35 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025
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My memory from 1977 was that Jabba the Hutt is *mentioned* by the alien (Greedo?) -- we don't actually see him until Return -- and that we are certainly given the impression that Solo shoots first. As he should.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:35 PM (wzUl9)
Okay, I'll confess. We watched My Super Ex-Girlfriend this week. Again. The shark still is about the best part. And the two super girls fighting was actually some of the best superduper action.
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't marsh my mallow at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (yqA/D)
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I have the Vinegar Syndrome DVD. It's classic bad low-budget movie in that it's a mess of slightly off decisions (or very off, like having Ireland speak like that) and limitations of budget and marketing.
There was a pseudo-sequel!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (asXVI)
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That rings a bell. The documentary covers this but it's been a year so mostly what I recall is Bogie & Bacall's relationship and that they started the Rat Pack.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025
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I believe Humphrey was college-educated, not sure where, and that a lot of his early stage roles, he said, consisted of him strolling on stage in whites and with a racket, saying, "Anyone for tennis?" That changed when he was cast as gangster Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (wzUl9)
Been some time since I read Bloch's novel, but you're right re that casting. Hoffman would have been much closer to Bloch's description of Norman Bates than either Perkins or Vaughn.
Bloch did two sequels to Psycho himself, and they had nothing to do with the sequel movies. Out of print, I think, but should be fairly easy to dig up used or on interlibrary loan.
There was a hardcover omnibus years ago with all 3 of Bloch's Psycho novels, but it contained a disastrous printing error which omitted the last page of the first novel.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:38 PM (q3u5l)
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Tarsem's breakout movie. (Tarsem Singh, but at the time just Tarsem.)
He perfected this visually arresting story-telling with "The Fall," which is all done sans CGI. And since then? Oy.
https://moviegique.com/2008/06/pride-before-the-fall/
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:39 PM (asXVI)
Wolfus, you know this: Katharine Hepburn was not admired for her acting chops in her early days.
Saw Sahara several times in my youth (WGN was very fond of old flicks that they could run late at night) and loved it; there was a remake in the '90's(?) with Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi is not Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:39 PM (NcvvS)
Yeah, in the original, no Jabba.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)
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And Hoffman did this kind of role really well. He could look really harmless and then turn on a dime. Alas.
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There was a hardcover omnibus years ago with all 3 of Bloch's Psycho novels, but it contained a disastrous printing error which omitted the last page of the first novel.
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Whoops! Whoopsie!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:40 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (wzUl9)
I first noticed Tom Hanks in Taxi. He played young Jim Ignatowski's roommate at Harvard.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 09:41 PM (0CU3H)
It's a classic Spielberg/Zemeckis joint. Much like "Who Censored Roger Rabbit," it has little to do with the source material.
And in the book? Gump is not mentally handicapped: He's a dumb-ass. The thing is a farce. Gump's best friend is an orangutan named Sue who rides on the shuttle with him.
Steve & Rob realized: Make him genuinely (pseudo) mentally handicapped, and we're in Oscar territory.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:42 PM (asXVI)
Saw Sahara several times in my youth (WGN was very fond of old flicks that they could run late at night) and loved it; there was a remake in the '90's(?) with Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi is not Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025
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Given the right script, Belushi can convince. I'm not sure the tank sergeant would be one of those roles.
As for Kate, she had several movie flops in the Thirties and got labeled "Box Office Poison." So she went back to the stage. The story goes that she had a hit in The Philadelphia Story on Broadway. She *bought the rights,* and Hollywood had to negotiate with her -- and set her as the star -- to do the film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:45 PM (wzUl9)
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Donna Dixon. Possibly THE main attraction of "Bosom Buddies". Although Scolari and Hanks had good chemistry and Hanks' manic comedy reactions to Dixon were pretty good.
Alas, she and Aykroyd separated after 40 years.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:45 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (wzUl9)
He went to prestigious private schools but not college. He enlisted in the Navy in 1918 because he got kicked out of school.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (KDPiq)
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Dying in 2021 hasn't helped his career, either.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (q3u5l)
Yeah, in the original, no Jabba.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025
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So the re-release has Jabba visible -- in that saloon scene, or was it somewhere else? How did they fit that creature into an average room? He needed a *lot* of space.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 06, 2025 09:48 PM (xcxpd)
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I did not know that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 09:49 PM (DJUFe)
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Dying in 2021 hasn't helped his career, either.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025
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He was a regular on Bob Newhart's Vermont series, the one with the surprise ending in the last episode.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:50 PM (q3u5l)
I mean, we have the power, why not wield it?
We can tell obama's Netflix to go shit in their hat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 09:50 PM (DJUFe)
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:51 PM (Q+gd/)
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Bloch is credited with the line, when asked how he can stand to write such horrifying material: "I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:51 PM (wzUl9)
Their blood was probably had such a high alcohol content in their blood that no pathogen could survive there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:52 PM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:52 PM (zZu0s)
He went to prestigious private schools but not college. He enlisted in the Navy in 1918 because he got kicked out of school.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025
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Right -- he'd have been about eighteen or nineteen then, as he was born in 1899 or 1900.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:52 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:53 PM (6p0Jv)
We can tell obama's Netflix to go shit in their hat.
Posted by: Soothsayer
The real question is if a Judge will allow it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (mP0Kj)
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Many such cases! Bates, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill AND Hannibal Lechter.
The demand for serial killers FAR outpaces the supply.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (wzUl9)
An inserted or deleted scene after Solo and Chewie leave the Cantina. In the hangar they find Jabba waiting for them. The CGI is horrible too. He's tiny vs his size in Return.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:55 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:53 PM (6p0Jv)
Netflix has had a couple interesting TV series...
But... wait a year? and you can stream them elsewhere.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (mP0Kj)
It's a classic Spielberg/Zemeckis joint. Much like "Who Censored Roger Rabbit," it has little to do with the source material.
And in the book? Gump is not mentally handicapped: He's a dumb-ass. The thing is a farce. Gump's best friend is an orangutan named Sue who rides on the shuttle with him.
Steve & Rob realized: Make him genuinely (pseudo) mentally handicapped, and we're in Oscar territory.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:42 PM (asXVI)
So....Kurt Lazarus's lecture in "Tropic Thunder" was actually 100% earnest and accurate advice?
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (Lhaco)
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Rosalind Russell. Yes, Kate kind of an acquired taste. I wonder what Bringing Up Baby would have been like with another comic actress playing opposite Cary Grant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (wzUl9)
An inserted or deleted scene after Solo and Chewie leave the Cantina. In the hangar they find Jabba waiting for them. The CGI is horrible too. He's tiny vs his size in Return.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025
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A mistake, dramatically. Part of the interest in the situation is, "What does this 'Jabba the Hutt' look like?" Keeping it a mystery until the third film was the right way to go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Ed Harris doppelganger.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (04Glf)
The demand for serial killers FAR outpaces the supply.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025
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Time for a new, faithful movie adaptation of Ellery Queen's serial killer novel from 1949, Cat of Many Tails.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (7RYym)
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Thing is? Those are BOTH old roles. She's 44 in "African Queen"--which is way long in the tooth in 1951.
Check her out in "Little Women," "Stage Door" and "Bringing Up Baby". Oh, and she plays a pilot in one where she's quite appealing. "Christopher Strong"?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (asXVI)
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YES! Which is why, you'll notice, we haven't HAD a mentally handicapped protagonist in a film since.
It'd just make people laugh and be embarrassed.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:02 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (6p0Jv)
It was a bit faster than your average Thin Man movie. But they seemed to respect the audience more back then.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: mindful webworker - splish splash I was takin' a bath at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (yqA/D)
Hanks is an OK actor... but... Hanks plays Hanks in different situations.
It's like John Wayne.... he is always John Wayne... or Clint Eastwood... same deal.
They are just themselves in different situations.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (mP0Kj)
Thanks everybody for coming by! See you in the New Year!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (asXVI)
I picked those two because they were movies I sort of liked. Hated old Lion in Winter too. Fuck Henry Finda and On Golden Pond.
Young, she is marginally less annoying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:05 PM (04Glf)
Several of us were sitting around today, doing the BS routine. Not about anything important, simply gassing, but it turned out to be totally enjoyable. One of the things was putting bets on tomorrow if anyone would deign to comment on the 84th anniversary of that momentous day at Pearl. I say yes, from the people like me who are steadfast lovers of the most exceptional country on the planet, not so much from the left side.
Any thoughts on the matter? And thank you for letting me change the subject.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (vFbHf)
(Which isn't saying much, of course.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (asXVI)
Boomers and Gen Xers with an interest in history might mention it. If they do Millenials, Gen Z, and 100 million foreigners will just look confused.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 10:36 PM (R86kT)
Hobby Thread - December 6, 2025 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on scavenging and scrounging.
Are you thinking "I'm not into scavenging and scrounging and I really don't know what that means, but I am eager to learn more. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.We did a bargain hunting theme in February, but let's think wider and bigger. This is more of a scavenger hunt idea - do you look for cool things and what cool things have you found (whether a bargain or not)?
I'm a professional scavenger making a living selling curbside garbage. This blog details my finds and sales. It also acts as an archive for things beautiful and historic that would otherwise have been destroyed.Coins, postcards, artwork, military medals, photos, catalogs, jewelry, pottery, trophies, and more. This blog looks like a slice through history and culture.
For years I have wandered around churches on days out, and am always drawn in by the colour and imagery of church kneelers. In amongst the grey stone and deep brown of the pews they sing out. They conjure up fantastical worlds filled with everything from the local swimming club to strange mythological beasts and heraldic crests. Three years ago on a trip to St Breaca Church in Breage, Cornwall, a towering pile of kneelers caught my attention. I snapped a photograph and so an obsession was born. I began The Church Kneeler Archive, where I actively collect and archive images of kneelers. I have travelled everywhere from the depths of West Yorkshire to the tip of Land's End in my pursuit of these tiny tapestries, and along the way I have made extraordinary discoveries.
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).
If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute something from your personal hobbying. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:31 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:32 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:33 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:34 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 06, 2025 05:34 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Did you forget most of us are 29, T?
I'd say most of the macaroni art we made was probably in the 60s and long since gone.
I have one or two from the 60s, but they're all stored where I'm too tired to get to anymore. The wife insists on newer ornaments on the tree. Does a darn good job of decorating it, though.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:38 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip
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I have a bucket of lead scraps behind the shop. Mr. Scary says maybe one day he will cast some bullets. I'm guessing one day will be never.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:38 PM (6p0Jv)
Those things can be frustrating. Hanging them on the eve of a house is not fun either.
Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)
My Dad was Silent Generation, raised by Depression-era parents. One of my chores as a kid was straightening nails he had pulled from various things. We grew up in a frugal family, to say the least. Mom would re-use ziploc bags if they had previously stored something dry.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Missed this as happened on Sunday, the family tradition to make Christmas grave wreaths for passed family members.
4 of us made 16 wreaths.
This is a very long tradition, hope it continues
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:40 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:41 PM (hhkIi)
I find I hold onto things for no reason at all.
Then I go into a wild cleaning phase where I will trash what I have accumulated.
When I finally move from this apartment I want to take as little as possible with me.
So as it stands my hobbies are golf, shooting. Scuba diving is no longer viable.
I do hope to add travel as a hobby in the near future. ;-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (PxkKd)
I did find the Christmas stocking knitted for me by my grandmother.
It has my name and my birth year among other features.
I have a couple of other hand-made Christmas stockings but that one is by far my favorite because it's so personal.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (ESVrU)
Pure lead not from contaminated can be worth a bit
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Yeah. Pale. Unless you have the knowledge of the value of so many things, you can pass up something worth real money. I occasionally watch a scrounger type show on Roku where people have all this expensive stuff in their garages or barns.
At my age, I'm more into getting rid of things instead of acquiring more stuff my family has to get rid of when the time comes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:45 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:46 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:47 PM (uQesX)
Currently it is on a shelf with a golf ball and other knick knacks in it.
Also a small wooden box made in shop class. That too was made in junior high.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (PxkKd)
Both.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (snZF9)
On a different hobby topic; Where Winds Meet is a new (to the US) free to play game on Steam. I have created a guild in game for the Horde, if anyone is interested. It's called AoSHQHorde and, my toon is named Nissanna. Feel free to message me in game or here to join.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 05:50 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (PxkKd)
Oh no! Not a wooden box!!
https://tinyurl.com/yhwam7n6
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:51 PM (uQesX)
(ooh, I got a Notable Comment! First time for everything!)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (CidsT)
I used to do motorcycle swap meets for rare harley parts, and these days its all mostly junk, so I rarely do that anymore.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (snZF9)
Mom would re-use ziploc bags if they had previously stored something dry.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide
My mom washed them out and kept them. So do I.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (pkeXY)
He was a Depression kid and WWII veteran of the China Burma India theater. He saw terrible things and never spoke of them. He was kind and jolly. It made him happy to recycle things to help someone else. He was a great man. I miss you, PaPaw.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:55 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 05:55 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 05:57 PM (LHPAg)
Part of the fun of reloading ammo is to make a game of doing it for the least cost without skimping on safety. Some creative scrounging is standard.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 05:58 PM (yTvNw)
As you pull each day, Hans Gruber falls one more floor. She loved it.
Posted by: Chappyman66 at November 29, 2025 06:01 PM (boKcN)
This is so great!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:59 PM (RuTUS)
https://tinyurl.com/yhwam7n6
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:51 PM
LOL LOL Damn that was funny!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 06:00 PM (PxkKd)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Oh, I couldn't agree more. I can spend hours just wandering among the stalls looking at all the "treasures." Some have even come home with me!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:01 PM (ITBpd)
Missed this as happened on Sunday, the family tradition to make Christmas grave wreaths for passed family members.
4 of us made 16 wreaths.
This is a very long tradition, hope it continues
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Wonderful, Skip!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:03 PM (RuTUS)
I was expecting either i) toy train sets, or ii) bamboo.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 06:04 PM (KJCdi)
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 06:05 PM (Lhaco)
Ya gotta be careful with range brass. If you accidentally pick up a caliber you don't reload, you're now obligated to buy the dies and a rifle and start reloading it.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2025 06:06 PM (3nLb4)
She would have been 50 this year
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
I was expecting either i) toy train sets, or ii) bamboo.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 06:04 PM
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Bamboo?
Posted by: TRex - topic research dino at December 06, 2025 06:09 PM (ITBpd)
ZZZZAP!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 06:09 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:10 PM (sF9Ts)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 06:11 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: TRex - topic research dino at December 06, 2025 06:09 PM (ITBpd)
Pro tip, T: go for the Big Bamboo.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:11 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:12 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:13 PM (yTvNw)
There are other family heirlooms. Nobody cares.
Seriously valuable stuff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 06:13 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I'm searching for a reasonably priced vacuum variable capacitor for 20-10M mag loop project.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 06, 2025 06:14 PM (abIsI)
At a campout guy had euro bike parts. Bought a beautiful streamline headlight nacelle dirt cheap. Resold it cheap within an hour to a welcome buyer.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 06:14 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 06:15 PM (+mUZM)
https://tinyurl.com/yhwam7n6
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:51 PM
LOL LOL Damn that was funny!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 06:00 PM (PxkKd)
hahahahaha good ones
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:15 PM (RuTUS)
Last winter she could barely walk without a cane. Her recovery has been remarkable.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 06, 2025 06:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:17 PM (ITBpd)
I avoided that temptation, sometimes just barely. Since I have to sort the cases anyway, I just put the calibers I don't use aside and offer them to folks who do use them. Met some nice people doing that.
I don't do this myself but some brass can be reformed, especially the case neck, into a different caliber.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:19 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I have an even dozen NIB 811 RCA tubes for my HF amplifier. I purchased the whole set about 15 years ago
from some old guy that listed them on Craigslist. They were cheaply priced.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 06, 2025 06:19 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: UXO at December 06, 2025 06:20 PM (Wnv9h)
Dangerous
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:20 PM (dE3DB)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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*participates by ignoring OrangeEnt*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:23 PM (dE3DB)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 06:24 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:23 PM (dE3DB)
And a fine job you've been doing! (snif)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:19 PM
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Anyone try melting down the brass and re-using the raw material for something else?
Posted by: TRex - brassy dino at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:23 PM (dE3DB)
And a fine job you've been doing! (snif)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM
You guys hear something?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2025 06:28 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:29 PM (ITBpd)
Guy made a massive Christmas Village and Train display.
https://youtu.be/ag3AFwavnMk
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2025 06:31 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: TRex - brassy dino at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM (ITBpd)
I have more brass and lead than I'll ever need. Don't know what to do with it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:33 PM (uQesX)
Is this a Protestant thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)
This is a very long tradition, hope it continues
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM
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Nice tradition Skip. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: TRex - wreaths are circular garland at December 06, 2025 06:36 PM (ITBpd)
A sword would be neat to make, but smaller objects as well.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 06:37 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Beautiful wood (walnut and birch, some cedar), table saw, hand tools.
The only thing I use routinely now is a power supply from an estate sale that runs my slot car track.
Posted by: Chappyman66 at December 06, 2025 06:39 PM (GwqYh)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 06:39 PM (0nHVk)
It's all about having stuff to do when and if I retire.
Posted by: Reforger at December 06, 2025 06:41 PM (03GBw)
Anyway, to the hobby - trying to play a few tunes with a guitar tuned down a whole step like Leon Redbone used to to...makes the strings on this Takamine Santa Fe a little loose and ringy...nice to sing, though. Tunes fit for a baritone.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:42 PM (vd6bO)
The ex was addicted to thrift stores, so now I tend to avoid accumulating stuff. My general rule is, once it's in your house, you'll at some point need to figure how to get it out of your house...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 06:42 PM (nbLIj)
So many possibilities for scrounging and improvising.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:43 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
And you are very good at it!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:43 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:43 PM (z/7Ah)
Sorta slacking at it this week. I've been noticed a couple times.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:46 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2025 06:31 PM
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Wow. That's impressive! Thanks for posting!
Posted by: TRex - All aboard! at December 06, 2025 06:47 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:42 PM (vd6bO)
Welcome to my life. Frigging metalheads never tune to E standard anymore, some do, but now we got E flat, D, C#, C, and some even B. Technically the guitar needs to be set up for the key its tuned to. The string gauge needs to be heavier, the truss rod needs to be adjusted, etc. I have a rack that holds 7 guitars next to me because of all the frigging tunnings, and they're not my good ones because I'm not putting them through that crap.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 06:47 PM (snZF9)
A sword would be neat to make, but smaller objects as well.
Posted by: Skip
BIL, no not that one. A different one! Thi one cast a big brass skull. it is really well done.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:48 PM (z/7Ah)
We had a garage sale, which helped. But I ask, why did we have six TVs? Sons joked that we lived in a sports bar. We now have two, which is less crazy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 06, 2025 06:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Lead for bullets can be melted on a campfire or over a camp stove. Brass melts at around 1,700 degrees F, IIRC. Never heard of a hobbyist reloader melting down brass cases.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:49 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 06:50 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Take heart, I'm sure we'll all start ignoring you again soon!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:50 PM (z/7Ah)
Used to date her
.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 06:50 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 06:51 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Definitely up scaled it!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:53 PM (z/7Ah)
Guy made a massive Christmas Village and Train display.
https://youtu.be/ag3AFwavnMk
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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Thanks for sharing this. What a collection! Love the views from the camera on the front of the train, and the night shots. And yes, my collection started as 3 village pieces back in the day, and then grew - but not anywhere near the size of theirs. And a third was donated when we were moving cross country. Does he really take that down and then reassemble it every year?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:54 PM (ITBpd)
Posted by: Reforger at December 06, 2025 06:55 PM (03GBw)
_-_
Howls! I have a few I keep out...one archtop, a 2000's vintage Recording King, an Epiphone J45, the l'il Takamine, and a banjo.
The Takamine has led a very rough life, so it is the one that gets the de-tune assignments.
Downside to having them all out realized last night. The teenage son who does not realize how big he is tried to wrestle me to the floor yesterday. Landed on the guitar rack and collapsed it. Oddly enough, not a scratch on any of them...only damage seemed to be that the cookie the big boy was holding seemed to be in pieces inside the Epiphone....easier to get out than a pick, though.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (PkCdJ)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Inadvertently repurposed toys into Lincoln logs? That is a win-win.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: JTB
That sounds like a great idea.
Purchase Band-Aids first!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (z/7Ah)
I have reached the stage where I really need to evaluate what to keep and what treasures to bless someone else with. Mostly blessing others with my treasures which are no longer needed or used.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (kB9dk)
I had to search online to get some idea of what scratchboard art went for, the 11x14 size which is what she has seems to be around 400 dollars at the etsy links that came up.
I'm wishing I was farther ahead on my decluttering, I think these are great, but its always "but where would I hang it?"
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 07:02 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:03 PM (sDNVV)
Videos I watch use a kiln and gas fired
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wenda"
I have a box full of springs labeled "Springs". Then I have another box of springs labeled "More Springs".
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Thank you!
I will!
And I thought the same when I saw DDS!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (vd6bO)
Yup, dodged a bullet there. Nothing expensive goes in my rack. The last thing I need is Mrs B knocking them over like a leg lamp. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)
There's a woman here in town that runs a dog walking/sitting business. Her husband works for the local rubbish service. They have a room in their house where the 4 legged visitors stay and its furnished with furniture he finds people throwing away.
Dogs live large in that house.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (nbLIj)
Best find I ever came across was a Dual Reference turntable, perfect condition, in a thrift store for $4.95 . Still use it.
Posted by: The Neon Madman at December 06, 2025 07:09 PM (yNfcm)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)
I got box full of old harley valve springs. I keep meaning to go through them one day and put them on a tester to check them out and make matched sets to weed out the weak ones. In reality, that probably won't get done before colander face mask world happens and they'll be repurposed for other shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 07:10 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)
NO SPRINGS!!! HA HA HA HA!
Posted by: Coily at December 06, 2025 07:10 PM (0aYVJ)
Purchase Band-Aids first!"
Trust me. With my big hands and small whittling projects, band-aids are always nearby. Plus I use a kevlar carving glove to hold the wood and a thumb pad on the knife hand. I haven't cut my knife hand. Yet.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 07:11 PM (yTvNw)
I was new to their family, so I got the job of cleaning it out. Nobody else wanted to, since you never know what kind of stuff that belongs to a family member has memories that matter attached to it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:11 PM (vd6bO)
Keychain Compass
I've been meaning to acquire one, but don't want cheap chinese junk. So I occasionally look at ebay. These things were cheap & plentiful when we were kids, yes?
Didn't Coleman make some?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:13 PM (xTbNp)
Posted by: TRex - bad connection dino at December 06, 2025 07:14 PM (OOGCW)
btw, the chinese can't even make a compass that works
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:14 PM (xTbNp)
Posted by: Coily
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My hobby is MST3K references. The Master would not be pleased.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:14 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:15 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division"
That's kind of my philosophy. I'll sort them if I need them. Life is too short to spend sorting springs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
a jackknife
a compass
a piece of Bazooka gum, or just the wrapper from a piece
When did these things stop being "essential" to us?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:16 PM (xTbNp)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary"
You would love my ringtone. It's Krankor laughing.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:18 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:18 PM (vd6bO)
When did these things stop being "essential" to us?
Posted by: Soothsayer
I know, right!
In corps school we were taught how to use the clear wrapper off a pack of cigarettes on a sucking chest wound!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:19 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary"
You would love my ringtone. It's Krankor laughing.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:18 PM (vFG9F)
MST3k is my version of the 3 Stooges. I never get tired of it. The missus, however, does. A lot of sighing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:21 PM (0aYVJ)
_-_
That's a good woman right there....some get to throwing things after a spell.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)
Sometimes she'll quote something from MST, the Simpsons (the old ones), or Monty Python. And then she'll pause, and say, "what have you and the boys done to me?"
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:27 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (6p0Jv)
There's always a running loop-stream of MST3K episodes on Youtube. I've often piped it through the bluetooth and listen during my commutes.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (DJUFe)
My own personal coup was a Louis Vuitton trunk that a neighbor put out as garbage. Spotted it on my morning run, which turned into a morning sprint home so I could get the car and go back for it!
Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (PkCdJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (DJUFe)
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PlutoTV has an MST3K channel (and a RiffTrax channel as well)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2025 07:30 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 07:31 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:32 PM (0aYVJ)
They held it for 30, maybe 60 days. He'd go every week to make sure it was covered and undamaged. No one claimed it so they released it to him.
He built a nice storage shed with it.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 07:32 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (nbLIj)
~~~~~
Some years ago I was in the hospital for a couple of days and a new night nurse walks in...spiked bright white hair, tattoos up and down both arms and an eyebrow piercing. I groaned internally but she turned out to be the absolute best nurse I've ever had.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2025 07:33 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
When the old lady next to me died (old man nice but passed years before) I had to check out the estate sale. Almost nothing of value. She purged all the man stuff over the few years since he passed, all that was left was a dilapidated house full of china dolls.
Before the estate sale they haul off two construction dumpsters full of the even more worthless garbage. Guy that bought the house as-js hauled off three more.
People running the estate said the good stuff was sold on line weeks ago. But they have to have the home estate sale with the leftovers. After a couple hours they were basically telling everybody. "Make any offer and it is yours."
Yup, all that shit I wasted money on is going to the dump when I die.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 07:34 PM (/lPRQ)
If I scrap something, I try to separate out the valuable metal scrap, and trash the worthless stuff.
BTW, does anybody here know if scrap pot metal, (aka Zamak, or die-cast, or "white metal") can be melted down and cast into ingots, or something useful?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 07:34 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)
She doesn't have to get your taste, so long as she gets you in all the right places, dear.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 07:36 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2025 07:36 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:37 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 07:37 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 07:38 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)
Son and Daughter-in-law moved to rural Wyoming. One of visits i asked them why they save so much stuff, mostly pieces and scraps of stuff.
He told me we live rural and you save everything you can, you never know when you'll need it. We moved here and he is right.
Our landfill is actually fun to visit. They have different places for specific stuff, wood, metal, electronics, etc.
People "shop" there first before going to stores.
It's fun and saves people money.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 06, 2025 07:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (0aYVJ)
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Here is 10 hours of it. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
https://tinyurl.com/485nut25
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (LHPAg)
Good cross bow bolts.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2025 07:36 PM (3ImbR)
Rifftrax does a Yule Log episode, featuring Kevin's fireplace, a little TV and a speaker. the interrupt the fir to play snippets of numerous Christmas themed shorts. You can find that on Pluto TV.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 07:49 PM (pkeXY)
_-_
Never tried, but seems like you could do that and wax-cast it into something...jacks....the legos of the 20th century (for your bare feet).
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (vd6bO)
My brother works at a landfill in NC. He is amazed how much good stuff people bring in. He's a good Ole country boy who will talk to any9ne so he always asks people why they are trashing stuff.
The main reason is people are cleaning out relatives houses and they don't want the hassle of trying to sell the stuff.
One young couple had boxes of antique toys. He loaded them in his truck and auctioned them off for hundreds of dollars.
Wrought iron outside furniture is another frequently dumped item. He has sold a lot of that also.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (sDNVV)
_-_
One of my grandfathers bought by the truckload from a fella who ran the local dump - set up a shop downtown to resell the stuff..Dad always joked that we should get rid of anything we didn't want to see again at a different dump or Mom might buy it back.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (vd6bO)
About an hour ago, I was browning some hamburger in the skillet to make a pot of chili. While that went on, I fired up the Zenith Transoceanic, and was getting good activity on all bands, even 16 meters. (So I have a good 1L6 in there!) I think this radio should have the selenium rectifier replaced. I was thinking full-wave diode bridge, and maybe a choke-input filter, to get real low-ripple DC. From my on-line reading you want 1.4 volts to the 1L6 filament, and no more.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 06, 2025 08:01 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 08:03 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)
No. It was down near Yakutat. About 400 miles east of here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:03 PM (6Bc88)
We are staying in, thanks.
Haven't lost power but I have the wood stove burning just in case.
Supposed to keep doing this through Monday. Ack.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:05 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:06 PM (6Bc88)
We got windy Thursday evening. Supposed to get seriously wet tomorrow through Wednesday.
It’s always nice when the ground gets saturated and the wind kicks up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2025 08:08 PM (mT+6a)
So this one's going to be fun.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 08:10 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at December 06, 2025 08:59 PM (BfTZK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 09:31 PM (npFr7)
Ace of Spaces Pet Thread, December 6
Courtesy Jack Jackson
16 year old Spot from the desk of "THE LORD PROTECTOR" the BIG "T"Spot looks like a lovely, healthy kitty! And still a hunter?
This is Tillie my 14 yr old Dachshund/Mix that went to heaven on Nov 24th. I had rescued her back in 2011 after losing my beloved Chou/Mix Sierra quite unexpectedly. Sierra had been my angel and her sudden loss had left a huge hole in my heart. Tillie was only 10 months old when I adopted her and she quickly healed my heart. She was just a few months shy of her 15th birthday when she passed. Over the years she was quite a handful sometimes but I'd do it all over again just to have her back. She was around 1-2 yrs old in the first two photos and about 2-3 yrs old in the third photo. The second photo is her waiting for the squirrels to come down the trees (she loved chasing squirrels). Wish to remain a lurker. Thank you and keep up the great work.Tillie looks like a wonderful dog. So sorry that you have lost her, and also Sierra. The "waiting for squirrels" photo is endearing. Stay in touch.
You asked about pet shelters. This is a small shed in the backyard I transformed into a stray cat shelter. I looked up instructions and followed them. Raised up off the ground. An ingress large enough for entry, but small enough to keep out the elements. Insulated with straw bales. It is shown with Sakura, who is the current stray yard khet. She isn't sold on it. And my hope is by feeding her near it, she will come to see it as a place to get out of the cold. Victor Tango KiloSakura may be a stray, but she's a pet. A lovely one.
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Parakeets taking a bath this morning on Broadway in Garland Texas! EromeroWere they noisy?
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, November 29 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 03:34 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 03:36 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 03:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 03:43 PM (8CIFn)
It's possible -- I don't remember -- but Timmy may have been shown actually passing Lassie on to ranger Bray when that reboot happened.
And I've read that Timmy was never caught in a well in any episode. Jeff might have been, but somebody else will have to answer that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 03:44 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 03:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 03:45 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 03:47 PM (6p0Jv)
I have updated our cat blog
https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx
I'm sorry to the lurker who lost Tillie.
Sakura is quite a beautiful cat. I hope she stays safe.
Spot is cute and I hope he keeps going for a lot more years. I do feel for that poor squirrel though.
Posted by: Joyenz at December 06, 2025 03:48 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 03:49 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 06, 2025 03:49 PM (ufSfZ)
Today is a bad poo day
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 03:49 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 03:51 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 03:52 PM (q3u5l)
Turns out she's been sitting next to me at my desk this entire time.
She's laying on a black towel, so she sort of blends into the background (she's a black kitty).
I need to get my eyes checked again.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 03:54 PM (ESVrU)
Some sad news. My co-workers cat had to be put down last night. Poor kittuh had a stroke and was blind and couldn't walk. Also, it had diabetes. An older cat. Still, very sad. I can't recall the kittuh's name but kittuh's staff member's name is Geoff. He's pretty shook up, even though he new this was coming at some point.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 06, 2025 03:55 PM (sAmhv)
Poor kitty. Give our condolences to Geoff.
Posted by: Joyenz at December 06, 2025 03:57 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 03:58 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 06, 2025 04:00 PM (ufSfZ)
1 - would sound like a musical instrument if you changed the first vowel sound from long E to long U?
2 - contains somewhere within it the consecutive letters -CHSH-?
3 - is an anagram of SOMEDAY?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 04:01 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 04:03 PM (pS4Fh)
Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 04:03 PM (pS4Fh)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 06, 2025 04:04 PM (w6S0H)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:06 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 04:07 PM (sDNVV)
#2: Dachshund
Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:07 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 04:08 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 04:09 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:09 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:11 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 04:11 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 04:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 04:19 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025
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That's right -- when the acting gigs dried up, as they so often do for child actors, he reinvented himself.
I understand he was very much attached to the Lassie he worked with on the show. I'd like to think he adopted a collie of his own later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:20 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025
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Oh, so Cloris came later? I was confused.
Whitman's series of "TV adventures for young readers" had at least two Jeff & Lassie novels, and two Timmy & Lassie ones. I had and read them all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:22 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025
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Just to see him splash!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:23 PM (wzUl9)
Ha ha!
I had to leave my cat (The World's Most Beautiful Cat) with an uncatted relative once, and as I was explaining cat things face-to-face, and the cat was purring happily on my lap, the relative said, "Ew. Do you let it sit on you?" And my heart sank, and yet we continued, and my cat was rapidly winning over the relative, and within hours the relative said, "Do you think [cat's name] would like some warm milk?"
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:23 PM (RuTUS)
Catching a glimpse of St. Francis at the base of the tree!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:27 PM (RuTUS)
If I were there, I'd tell your co-worker (though maybe not right away) to remember his buddy as he was, to honor him. Any whitewashing of his memory ("He was *always* a good cat! He never did anything wrong!") would be a disservice to him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025
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I'v always said that Marie-Antoinette the smart black cat would have converted a cat hater. Big Arizona or Wolf? Probably not. Little Dagny might manage it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:33 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 04:35 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:35 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 04:35 PM (6p0Jv)
In my case, they were both females of their species, too!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)
The immortal words of June Lockhart are "Who do I have to fuck to get off this show?"
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:44 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:44 PM (W7XSX)
!!!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:47 PM (RuTUS)
Hence, the comment.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:49 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one
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And I thought it was spicy when Barbara Billingsley spoke jive in Airplane! Those TV moms had potty mouths.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 04:51 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:53 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:54 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:00 PM (hhkIi)
http://tiny.cc/hn3w001
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 05:03 PM (nbLIj)
Feral monk parakeets are common.
Posted by: Accomack at December 06, 2025 05:04 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:06 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:09 PM (vd6bO)
Feral monk parakeets are common.
Posted by: Accomack at December 06, 2025 05:04 PM (8jVAy)
Kentucky Fried Chicken > Queens Fried Parakeet..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 05:09 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:12 PM (6p0Jv)
But she went from that to saying, "Water? That's all you give him?" to sneaking him pieces of her world-famous pizza when she thought we weren't looking.
Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 05:12 PM (PkCdJ)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:53 PM (W7XSX)
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Now I'm picturing the von Trapp family singing bawdy sea shanties.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 05:16 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:16 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Yep! A Bloodhound/Treeing Walker coonhound mix. I need to send pics for this thread. I haven't had the heart to yet.
LOL on the Jerry Clower. Dad listened to him a lot. He was funny.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:20 PM (6p0Jv)
City folk really want to live in a diorama.
Posted by: Accomack at December 06, 2025 05:22 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:24 PM (hhkIi)
I had no idea parakeets could survive in the wild, let alone do well enough to become a crop pest.
Posted by: PaleRider
I've never seen one outside of a cage.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 05:36 PM (pkeXY)
But she went from that to saying, "Water? That's all you give him?" to sneaking him pieces of her world-famous pizza when she thought we weren't looking.
Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 05:12 PM (PkCdJ)
; )
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (gDlxJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 05:48 PM (zZu0s)
Thank you, smart Morons!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (gDlxJ)
21 Riddles hubby sent (answers are all breeds of dogs) and I need help with these 3:
1 - would sound like a musical instrument if you changed the first vowel sound from long E to long U?
2 - contains somewhere within it the consecutive letters -CHSH-?
3 - is an anagram of SOMEDAY?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 04:01 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:48 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at December 06, 2025 06:46 PM (S3aD9)
1. The window is the access point. It's a standard ground floor window, not a basement or garden window; it looks lower to the ground than it should be because our patio was added after we bought the house. But it's just our back kitchen window. We just open the window to let the cats out.
2. I don't know if the mesh screen filters out fleas. It's Phifer Pet Screen, which can be purchased at Home Depot. It's like a heavier-duty plastic mesh screen that can be used to repair screen doors and window screens, and is more resistant to pet claws than standard fiberglass mesh. I just got a 8-foot wide roll of it and cut a large piece that fit around the front and sides of the structure. The only reason for the screen is to keep the cats from getting out, as they are indoor cats and cannot be trusted to roam safely outdoors. There are coyotes and cars about.
I'll see if I can get some nice pictures of the kitties to send in for a future thread.
Posted by: Caiwyn at December 06, 2025 11:39 PM (0mzVh)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Dec. 6
Not a lot happening hee in the chilly DMV but I do have two spots of color. My Encore Azalea has not disappointed. Not a lot of blossoms but it's been in the thirties and I am still getting new buds and blossoms.
My Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter cactus is also in blossom. I will literally have flowers til Spring.
Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By More from 58Mikie! (remember our special feature two weeks ago?)
Consumption of Hazelnuts is very healthy....high in folic acid for pregnant women, second highest nut in mono-unsaturated oil. The nut is high in oil but the good oil, (like an avocado or olive oil) which really does help reduce cholesterol. Please see photos attached. The book is really good for Hazelnut recipes...tough to scan the pages on my scanner, but it is available on Amazon and I saw there was a listing for a "very good" used edition for $ 1.99....the Hazelnut salad recipe with broccoli is very good...once roasted Hazelnuts can be made into "butter" with a nut grinder like in stores or I think a Cuisinart type device.
Time-lapse of various species of mushrooms growingpic.twitter.com/j87LmPhC8q
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In addition to other updates, The famous Pat* and her husband have a row of Blue Spruce big enough for Christmas trees. Ahyone else? I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (Ia/+0)
This is a picture of the Christmas grave wreaths a few of us made this year.
It's a yearly tradition in the family to make wreaths for passed family members. It's only 4 of us now but hopefully will continue for years to come.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 01:47 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 02:00 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 06, 2025 02:01 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 06, 2025 02:01 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: KT at December 06, 2025 02:06 PM (7vIsy)
Only the peppers thrived. We have enough ancho, smoked and regular paprika, chipotle, and green chili that we don't need any but fresh peppers next year.
We're deficient in tomato products.
Sweet tates did fine. Butternut did fine. Should be peak asparagus next spring,
Posted by: MkY at December 06, 2025 02:08 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: KT at December 06, 2025 02:17 PM (7vIsy)
Happy to report that my Encore Azalea survived the snow yesterday. The terrace today looks like it never happened. There are pansies everywhere in the planters scattered all over Bethesda covered with snow. I always wonder how they survive an entire winter.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 02:20 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 02:23 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Not quite Nat King Cole at December 06, 2025 02:24 PM (TbWk/)
Also pink celery and black carrots. I like the oddballs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:25 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:28 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:28 PM (kpS4V)
Thank goodness the summer stinkbug swarms and river floods are dependable.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:33 PM (yTvNw)
We bottled a 3rd batch of cider - just four 6-packs per batch, as we're doing many trial batches to see what we like best.
We finished shredding leaves from our huge silver maple. I raked leaves out of the front drainage ditches. We cut the leaves off some of the Siberian Irises.
I went to a ladies' "Favorite Things" exchange last night - bring four of something (under $10), display it all, ladies take numbers - first and third rounds in numerical order, second and fourth rounds in reverse order, one pick per round. Everyone takes home four things. Among my loot is an amaryllis bulb, so I'll be looking forward to watching it grow.
Posted by: Pat* at December 06, 2025 02:34 PM (tiz3J)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:39 PM (yTvNw)
Sweet Meats are grey and pretty tough, so I have developed the technique of taking them down to manageable sizes in the back yard with a machete. Inelegant, but effective. I am always worried about slipping when I am cutting squash apart with a knife, the durned things tend to twist and slither away.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:49 PM (rbvCR)
We'll look again in the RI spring when it comes.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 02:49 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: JTB
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Never done it, myself. Good luck!
"The Spruce" has some info:
tinyurl.com/s85yrx8c
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:49 PM (rdVOm)
Thanks. I figured that would be the case but never tried it with Christmas cacti.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:52 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:56 PM (yTvNw)
What the hell does the root ball look like. Andcould, should anything ever be done. Shoots go out fifteen feet and I just tuck thenm around the curtain rods with the others when they hang to low and start entering the printer.
And why do they always do that?
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 02:58 PM (sl73Y)
My cat would explain, "Because he's a bastard and doesn't want me vomiting all over the house."
Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 03:00 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)
__________________________
Find a stoner and get some tips.
Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 03:02 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 03:05 PM (t/2Uw)
I think you need like 500 of them
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 03:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 03:20 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 03:21 PM (+mUZM)
Meanwhile, the orange and lemon trees I bought are now about 2 feet tall, loving the heat from the TOYO. They didn't do much in the greenhouse this summer. Maybe they are just indoor plants. I consider them a bit of a lark. Doubt I will ever get them to fruit up here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 03:34 PM (6Bc88)
We are varying both yeast and apple mix, plus some other experiments:
Three different yeasts: MA33 (our usual), Windsor, and Nottingham (both usually for ales) using same apples
Two different apple mixes - both using our usual Golden Delicious base but mixing in different tart/sour apples - Jonathan vs. Golden Russet
A few experiments to come, mixing various adjuncts with small batches of our 'original recipe': holiday spice, pear juice, Nelson Sauvin hops, maybe some raspberry syrup.
And a small batch spiked with sugar to get to 11% ABV, and current aging in a small ex-bourbon cask.
There's still four gallons stashed in the freezer, but I'm out of my mixing apples so those may stay there until next year since the trees usually have an off year after bearing so heavily.
Posted by: Pat*'s Hubbie at December 06, 2025 06:18 PM (tiz3J)
Why THIS Story NOW?
Burns’ latest PBS six-episode documentary, The American Revolution, explores the founding of the United States and the subsequent war with the British Empire. It could have been an excellent start to the upcoming celebration of America’s 250th anniversary of the founding, but sadly, it steers away from celebration and emphasizes both explicit and implicit criticism of the Founders. Within the first five minutes of the first episode, we are told that the Founders (specifically Benjamin Franklin) used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.
Franklin frequently commented on the lives of Native Americans, but we have to be careful how we evaluate Franklin’s words on the subject. He was famously satirical, whether he spoke about the British, Americans, or Indians. In a letter to James Parker, dated 20 March 1751, Franklin writes, It would be a very strange Thing, if six Nations of ignorant Savages should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union, and be able to execute it in such a Manner, as that it has subsisted Ages, and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like Union should be impracticable for ten or a Dozen English Colonies, to whom it is more necessary, and must be more advantageous; and who cannot be supposed to want an equal Understanding of their Interests.Concerning Benjamin Franklin and satire, I just read somewhere that the Founders didn't allow Franklin to write the Declaration of Independence because they thought he might include a joke in it somewhere. Concerning Ken Burns, we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time.
Much later, in 1784’s “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” Franklin speaks highly of the “Civility” of Indians in comparison to the Americans. However, he ends up satirically and equally alluding to a hypocrisy of both groups, as well as the human need to praise the group that he or she is part of. But Burns doesn’t seem to be interested in nuance and leaves out certain complexities of political and philosophical thought. The entire series is devised around an oppressor-oppressed dialectic.
After watching the entire series, Burns’ objective is to claim that principles played no role in the founding of the United States. Rather, it was based on low self-interest. But this creates a contradiction for Burns and his co-directors. One does not speak of liberty and yearning for it unless one has experienced tyranny. Tyranny creates destructive conditions for an individual, be it existentially, economically, or politically. As historian Bernard Bailyn says in the documentary, the creation of the United States is about the “struggles between the possibilities of power and liberty.” It still is. It would have behooved the filmmakers to include a few philosophical points about what the American mind truly is. And why the Americans have loved liberty and limited power.Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches? Compare to the principles made clear in Sullivan Ballou's letter from the Ken Burns Civil War epic. There are versions of the letter floating around in which the part of Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife concerning the future growth of their sons into "honorable manhood" has been removed. Could not upset The Left with a reference to "Manhood" once "gender" became an issue. Watch on YouTube
Thank you to the Wall Street Journal for graciously mentioning and quoting from Armin Rosen’s “superb” 7000 word report on the Minneapolis Somali welfare scams — and crediting local journalists.https://t.co/TzDBu4kZSA
— County Highway (@countyhwy) December 4, 2025
Here is a link to Armin’s story:https://t.co/YgTgC2fzHv
So, when and why did this really become a national issue?
And here's the other thing, the third rail of this whole topic isn't immigration or Islamophobia or whatever—it's the, uh, frequency with which major politicians drift in and out of the margins of these schemes. It's not smart to go after an Ellison or an Ilhan or a Tim Walz…
— Armin Rosen (@ArminRosen) December 2, 2025
The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The Democrats chose their latest cause: standing up for Venezuela’s narco-terrorist regime. They advanced a novel “legal” theory, that it is perfectly OK to kill drug dealers in the Caribbean by blowing up their boat, but only if you do it in a single explosion. Makes perfect sense, just like how we fought World War II. But the biggest story of the week was corruption in Minnesota–billions stolen from taxpayers, mostly by Somalis, under the somnolent eye of Governor Tim Walz. Actually, that was the big story of 2022, but better late than never. We welcome the national press to the fray, and have participated enthusiastically in their reprise of the stories we have been writing for years.
Largo, Second Movement
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: alpine_beer at December 06, 2025 11:22 AM (van9r)
Oh, they'll still get all the Righteous and Faithful who will swear that it is Holy Doctrine, and they control the pages of the NYT - but not many people are really paying attention to them, either. Not anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)
I was wondering if he would go all 1619 on us. He did. FOAD.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (Ia/+0)
At the Bicentennial, there were a whole bunch of community cookbooks to celebrate it. I’ll be releasing my own Sestercentennial Cookery (one TexasMoMe attendee got a one-off AOSHQ ashcan in October) in January.
But what about a second AOSHQ cookbook, with not just heritage recipes but also Moronic history lessons and other revolutionary advice? I’m thinking Junior Moron Guidebook; I think we have a lot of historical writers here on the HQ as well as other practical writers that might be able to contribute one-page or one-paragraph essays related to American history.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:34 AM (EXyHK)
Who TF died and made Ken Burns the expert on US history?
When I first heard he was going to 'do' the American Revolution, I could sense his deconstruction of it coming a mile away.
Ken Burns is a sawed-off leftist prick, and we should pay him no mind.
Posted by: Don Black at December 06, 2025 11:35 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:36 AM (GLocS)
"...after close to a century of attacking Islam they’ve never been successful. Their plans to demonize and vilify Islam have never worked. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. --You can never defeat a people who only fear Allah.--"
Pulling them off the gubmint tit won't be pretty...and that's just the politicians. Then comes the millions of newly arrived gimmegrants from sheitholes that hate us.
Posted by: ju at December 06, 2025 11:36 AM (EgpoY)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)
Nag Ace. We are all set and ready to go with a second edition, but would prefer his okay.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:37 AM (GLocS)
Why anyone watches his anti-white, anti-American and anti-truth propaganda nonsense is beyond me.
Posted by: Zombie Leni Riefenstahl at December 06, 2025 11:37 AM (R/m4+)
Yes, Franklin only credits the Iroquois for inspiring the idea of banding together in a confederacy of shared interests. He has no western influences to draw on...like the Greeks or the Swiss. Nope, Indians only! It is to laugh.
Ken Burns luckily has faded in relevancy. Who cares about him anymore? The only threat this documentary has is if it's shown in high schools to young skulls full of mush, who are too uneducated to be critical thinkers yet, and don't realize it's all bogus info. Thats where the danger happens.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:38 AM (gWBY1)
Isn't he the guy that played “Feels So Good” in '77?
LOL - Well, that's who he looks like to me.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:39 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at December 06, 2025 11:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:39 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 11:40 AM (L9Jmf)
Why anyone watches his anti-white, anti-American and anti-truth propaganda nonsense is beyond me.
He kind of restrained himself in The Civil War. That was before he was famous and could let his freak flag fly. Now, it's "I hate whitey". He blends right in at PBS.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)
Actually best wasn't as much as taking apart as what Ken's Propaganda didn't say. The synopsis the video said was it was about the war, not the Revolution. Besides all the Propaganda filled war, was about nothing the Revolution was about. Nothing hardly on the Constitution they fought for, the Bill of Rights they fought for. Just a lot of what Ken wanted it to be for which wasn't historically correct.
I might be able to find that video but can't be sure to find it.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:41 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LizLem
We need the likes of Professor Houseman once again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:41 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:42 AM (cYBz/)
He has felt guilty ever since!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:42 AM (GLocS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:43 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:45 AM (gWBY1)
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy have set off on their trip.
I love my wife, but by the time she leaves I'm ready for her to be gone for three weeks.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 11:46 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 11:47 AM (W7XSX)
We need the likes of Professor Houseman once again.
Posted by: Tonypete
John Houseman reads the phone book:
https://youtu.be/S_LA4gJeCio
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:49 AM (pkeXY)
Bit as said think I did a good quick synopsis on his video
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:49 AM (Ia/+0)
More like $8 billion.
Or more.
And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LizLem
Doesn't dry, old cornbread stick to wooden teef?
Posted by: Affordable Dentures, Inc. at December 06, 2025 11:52 AM (oftw2)
The Dutch navy has been patrolling the Dutch Antilles and waters off Suriname for 20 years, boarding and sinking the drug couriers, and have not been able to make this much of a dent in the supply.
I have heard speculations that if the drug trade out of South America were ended, it might collapse some countries' economies
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:52 AM (rbvCR)
To which the correct response is "when they make one, I will".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Oh, honey chile, that just shows how badly we need reeducation camps in this so-called country.
Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (0sNs1)
I’m making Thomas Jefferson’s beans & rice for tonight, and it’s making the house smell ridiculously good.
I’ll bet that cornbread would be great with it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (W7XSX)
Somalia steal $1B, what the big deal guys?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (wrRTB)
Somalis are all over X explaining how wonderful Somalia is.
It's just that they don't want to live there.
And, of course, you have Minnesota AWFLs on X (who probably live in lily-white small towns) explaining what wonderful neighbors the Somalis are.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 11:54 AM (xTIDn)
I'd say you should try his rye whiskey, but I've had his rye whiskey. Bleccchhhh.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:54 AM (Riz8t)
Ken Burns is the Lloyd Christmas of Moe Howards.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (wrRTB)
Allen Guelzo’s America’s Founding Fathers was quite good. I don’t think it’s ever been aired on TV, though.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (EXyHK)
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As a power lesbian, Ken Burns felt particularly targeted by such engorged speech.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (rbvCR)
Agreed, and I actually saw it, but can't remember where. Possibly Netflix?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Riz8t)
Take out the Cat Ballou letter from his "The Civil War" series and Burns would have had have nothing special.
He's a nullity who is flying above his clearance level.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (f0f+R)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)
He's a nullity who is flying above his clearance level.
No, I don't agree with that. Between the music, Shelby Foote, and what was at the time a revolutionary way of presenting a documentary, it was quite good (IMHO). You could tell, though, that he had to fight the urge to make it all a polemic about the evil white man.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)
And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)
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My guess: this will not be pursued vigorously because nobody wants to know how bad and so widespread it really is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 12:01 PM (tgvbd)
It's actually a pretty stark (if redundant) illustration of how normal, good things and people still exist across the country, even in the worst-run places - but the de facto blackout on information by MSM and the indolence of Congress, supplemented by collaboration by key federal agencies (except during the black swan Trump periods), conceal such mega-scandals from most of the public.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 12:02 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 12:02 PM (wrRTB)
But, he was a very engaging speaker and did point out that the Aztecs were an imperialist power who engaged in a bit of cannibalism to boost the protein content of their food.
It was a fun class if you already read a lot of history and took his words with a bag of salt.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 12:04 PM (kpS4V)
Yes, Franklin only credits the Iroquois for inspiring the idea of banding together in a confederacy of shared interests. He has no western influences to draw on...like the Greeks or the Swiss. Nope, Indians only! It is to laugh.
Posted by: LizLem
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Ben proposed a unified colonial structure to deal with the British Empire during the midst of the French and Indian War in a meeting of colonies.
Here are some original sources directly from the NY Historical Society (meeting occurred in Albany NY 1754)
His later colonial agency to the Crown as a lobbyist for the colonies also played into his interest in the matter later.
https://tinyurl.com/k4mm3a68
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:06 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)
And didn't think Justin liked girls.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 12:06 PM (L9Jmf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2025 12:06 PM (e2cjy)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)
This is not the "suck it, Orlando!" Flex she thinks it is. Apparently her ex was pursuing Sydney Sweeney at the Bezos wedding. Why pine for Perry's two fjords when you could have Sydney's?
She tried to buy a convent in LA and the nuns there were fighting against the sale. Apparently the stress of it killed one of them. I never heard who eventually bought the property. But I hope it's not some satanic worshipper after being such holy ground.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 12:07 PM (gWBY1)
But I’d bet 75% of the class still believes it (assuming they paid attention in class to begin with).
This is how the left wields its power in education.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 12:08 PM (wrRTB)
Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
At the time, the Iroquois didn't have a written language.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 12:11 PM (xTIDn)
I got it from one of those Great Courses catalog sales about a year ago. I used to get them all the time, but haven’t received one in probably over a year now.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (EXyHK)
Ummmmm. . . . pooping in the garden.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (NBPRu)
Minnesota is full of Somalis who are allegedly here because they would be killed in Somalia who periodically return to Somalia on vacation.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (e2cjy)
One would think Somalis could at least pretend to be wonderful neighbors, while they are stealing billions from us. I have no idea what their US neighborhoods are really like ... probably 10X better than Somalia.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Academia got into thing where the latest fad became a contest to see how outrageous one could be in assertions rather than the actual and rather dull accumulation of knowledge. The strange, queer, and atypical was the ticket to getting published and grants so that became what academia favored.
Add in leftist capture of the institution, you basically got a leftist version of Ripley's Believe It or Not where all the villians were of pallor and wealth and all the various imagined oppressed groups were the true heroes of history. Add in conspiracy based crap on no evidence, then you get Cleopatra had to be black as did Jesus, or even the nutty sun people versus whitey promoted by Hakeem Jeffries uncle Leonard.
Denialism of accepted historical explanations backed by documented original sources and derivative secondary ones and archaelogical evidence became the norm.
White guilt is one of the most destructive things promoted by neo marxists to destroy the West.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (WDjG6)
Stay classy Katy.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I would prefer she stays in Canada and keeps up with Justin Trudeau. They deserve each other.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:14 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: KT at December 06, 2025 12:15 PM (7vIsy)
Ummmmm. . . . pooping in the garden.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ecclesiastes nothing new under the sun comes to mind here and mainly sells because Colleges of Education admit some of the lowest performing students on campus and then fill their heads full of rubbish. These students then become teachers spouting rubbish to the students who promptly internalize the rubbish themselves and then proceed to build their own rubbish heaps in their minds.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:17 PM (WDjG6)
We all seemed to have learned that in 5th grade. Probably urban legend. If they had that many fish, they should have eaten the fish rather than the possible ear of corn months later.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 12:18 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 12:19 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: KT
Liberty! The American Revolution by noted historian Thomas Fleming is the far better bet. History Channel when it actually had history used to run that series over and over again. Better yet, actually read many of Thomas Fleming's historical works (or his historical fiction where he doesn't make up key historical events nor facts if that is your cup of tea).
One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book. Unlike Schlaes who tends toward the polemic, Fleming admits he began the project being favorable toward FDR and his legacy but the historical evidence he uncovered of FDR's nasty/vicious personality and his minions ideology over practicality changed his mind when writing the book.
His book on Washington's Fabian tactics to win the Revolutionary War is also quite excellent. Basically his political opponents to his strategy wanted to rerun Bunker Hill over and over again. Washington, after the NYC debacle, declined.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:23 PM (WDjG6)
I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.
Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 12:26 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 12:27 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Heavy rains tend to wash out the key ingredients of biomass. Even in the US, many areas of primeval forests actually had a thin layer of fertile soil over rocky or clay soils that needed biomass to become fertile for crops. That decline in soil fertility from continuous crop cultivation and erosion of the humus was in part drove Western expansion from the Eastern colonies by farmers.
A few wise farmers, like George Washington did crop rotations, allowing animals to graze the stubble and poop, and other practices to keep the soil fertile but most simply sold up back east to buy new fresh land in the West.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 12:30 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2025 12:31 PM (NBPRu)
We all seemed to have learned that in 5th grade. Probably urban legend. If they had that many fish, they should have eaten the fish rather than the possible ear of corn months later.
I always assumed they just picked up dead and rotting fish on the shore.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)
Tim Walz reminds me of that episode where the retarded kid shows Archie Bunker he had the blade in backwards while planing the bathroom door and no little crinkles were coming out.
Posted by: Meathead at December 06, 2025 12:35 PM (R/m4+)
Actually best wasn't as much as taking apart as what Ken's Propaganda didn't say. The synopsis the video said was it was about the war, not the Revolution. Besides all the Propaganda filled war, was about nothing the Revolution was about. Nothing hardly on the Constitution they fought for, the Bill of Rights they fought for. Just a lot of what Ken wanted it to be for which wasn't historically correct.
I might be able to find that video but can't be sure to find it.
Posted by: Skip
If you are interested in real history, one of the more interesting collections of Revolutionary War original documents is one of ministerial sermons that were recorded and passed around.
Here is a link to a general discussion of Revolution as seen from the pulpit.
https://tinyurl.com/yw77cncr
Link goes to Academia website. Article is about 46 pages.
Online Library of Liberty from the Liberty Fund has a two volume compliation of ministerial sermons about the Revolution and precursor events to it.
https://tinyurl.com/2vfpwzww
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:36 PM (WDjG6)
I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.
Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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I suppose it would be rude to suggest that Canada has a solution for that issue.
Being direct, I would probably just mention that bigotry is pernicious even if you think badly of yourself. Actions matter more than color.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)
What do I think - not that you care ? We've hit critical mass here. Regardless of what IronGrampa says - we collectively are going to give this country away. Partly as a rejection of nationalism, partly as a pursuit of the quarterly-profit capitalism that prevails here, but mostly as a rejection of anything remotely resembling a collective treatment of groups - commonly called racism or stereotyping.
That thought process, before certain folks start howling, didn't begin with Gen Z. It was taught in public schools to all ages in the 80s. Gen Z wasn't doing the teaching 40 years ago. No more than Millennials made their own participation trophies.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 12:39 PM (k2Vk4)
I read that one recently and it was excellent. I'm currently reading "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" by David T. Beito. As if I needed another reason to hate FDR.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)
Or just read anything - pretty much anything - late by Morgenthau.
FDR doesn't reside on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks for nothing.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 12:44 PM (k2Vk4)
and yet here we are.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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They do it for power and to raise their social status over others. I call it bullshit. And most normal people of any race don't try to pull that shit. It is almost wholly the conceit of overeducated and maleducated twits that are trying to compete among other perceived opponents in their social class for personal benefit.
History periodically records such idiotic enthusiasms among the perceived elite classes such as iconoclasm, witchcraft, or traditional economic based Marxism. All bullshit and designed to make the bien pensants think they are better than others in society because their shit doesn't stink.
1776's line in the song about the triangular trade comes to mind, "who stinketh the most!" illustrating hypocrisy.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)
Liked Burns Civil War largely because of Shelby Foote. Also because Ashokan Farewell is written by people from my county and the Ashokan Resovoir is about 12 m from my house.
His Baseball series kind of sucked.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2025 12:45 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren at December 06, 2025 12:45 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2025 12:47 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 06, 2025 12:47 PM (H12NW)
In all fairness to Ken Burns - any series about a sport that sucks is gonna' suck just because.
Ken Burns does Manual Bowling Pin Placement Through The Ages could be incredibly insightful and factual. Yet suck by default.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 12:47 PM (k2Vk4)
Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren at December 06, 2025 12:48 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 06, 2025 12:49 PM (H12NW)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 12:49 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 12:50 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 06, 2025 12:50 PM (H12NW)
Probably Ukraine.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
FDR doesn't reside on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks for nothing.
Posted by: The Slow Decline
What I think was unique about Fleming is in the foreword where he admits that he was a FDR fan in part due to the FDR saved Democracy trope. Fleming spent much of his career investigating the Revolutionary War and its aftermath but not much on more recent history. So he kind of just went with the flow of his generation (he died in his 90's fairly recently (1927-2017) and so did not seriously consider FDR as a historical figure until quite late in his career. That Man, by confidant and later Scotus Justice Robert Jackson is also not a flattering portrayal of the man whether Jackson realized it or not.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:52 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:52 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 12:54 PM (wrRTB)
The comment below clearly outlines what we have lost. (Thanks whig)
"Denialism of accepted historical explanations backed by documented original sources and derivative secondary ones and archaeological evidence became the norm."
Now, how do we return to any accepted historical explanations? Trust in any historical claims has been destroyed. Wasn't there a quote that came out of communist Russia along the lines of "the present we know, it is the past that keeps changing"?
Our country's history should be a shared heritage, but is now fractured by competing views. It is difficult for me not to be discouraged when trying to see a way forward.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 06, 2025 12:55 PM (La8zG)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 06, 2025 12:56 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 12:56 PM (tyDOg)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2025 12:57 PM (NBPRu)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aren't you that faggot nagger from Mt. Vernon? at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)
Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.
In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (EXyHK)
AI:
While
Shelby Foote himself wasn't accused of plagiarism, his letters and personal life were central to a major plagiarism controversy involving Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-winning novel Angle of Repose (1971), where Stegner heavily used Foote's (and his wife Mary Hallock Foote's) unpublished letters without full attribution, sparking debates on fair use, appropriation, and literary ethics that continue today, with critics calling it literary theft while others defended it as creating authentic depth
I think you can read Shelby Foote in peace.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Heroes and Villians bullshit, most documentaries are actually propaganda disguised as information. Using tricks of the trade, a documentarian can easily omit conflicting stories and evidence, manipulate emotions at the lizard brain level through images and music, and choose which features to highlight and which to downplay.
So Burns made Ty Cobb a monster which was a gross overstatement for example while making other not so nice players into saints.
Documentaries that feature panels of experts can be a bit better but often books and original sources are far better in information presentment, more recognizant of nuance, and more dense in actual information than what is put into a documentary.
Harder to manipulate emotions through printed matter than by storytelling with music and images. Easier for most to spot tricks in printed matter by going back to the specific page than rewinding to 32:17 on the tape to replay something unfair, distorted, or downright a lie.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Ralph at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)
FDR should have been dug up and placed in the docket at Nuremberg alongside Goering and Dr. Gurgles.
Posted by: FDR was a communist and War Criminal at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (R/m4+)
Interesting.
I've done - like I always do - my own reading on FDR. And Lincoln. And Nixon. And on and on.
I decided, at least by my 30s, that FDR was much more Communist than Hitler. Morgenthau's writings told the tail. Good ol' FDR wanted to convert the entire war effort to everyone collecting their paycheck from the Fed. FDR had to be talked down from simply Nationalizing entire "critical corporations". Even Hitler never considered these things.
On these simple number-lines of how to look at WW II ? We were to the Right of the Soviets but Left of the Nazis when it came to Economic Freedom.
So, of course, two generations deified the guy and statues and schools were built in his name. FDR was a tyrant.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:00 PM (k2Vk4)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:00 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: George Faggington at December 06, 2025 01:01 PM (TbWk/)
Stay classy Katy.
Meh. The veteran sold the property to Perry and then tried to back out of the deal. His defense was that he didn't know what he was signing.
This was probably the correct legal result, although Perry might wonder whether the hit to her reputation was worth the money.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 01:01 PM (8DR9B)
In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Yep. And opposite the truth, increasingly academic presentations as a discussant meant that any criticism became politically charged as whitey putting POC down or some other stupid bullshit. Simple epistemology observations of shoddy research became verboten. Even when it was kindly packaged as "what make you think this 'finding' is generalizable beyond your classroom".
Millennials ruined academia. And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Thanks for including the Voices of Music video using period correct instruments and original score. Bach and Vivaldi played like that is different, so much better and richer than modern versions. The other video is a talented burlesque with the foot stomping.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 01:05 PM (yTvNw)
But you could exceed orders - by quite a bit - and if you didn't start the French and Indian war by yourself ? Well, you at least got in the Team Photo.
Ol' George was politically ambitious right out the gate. It really is amazing that he didn't try to hold onto power more than two terms. Because George liked power.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:06 PM (k2Vk4)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Charlie Brown was a Roundhead.
No, on second thought, he was a Blockhead.
Posted by: Lucy Van Pelt at December 06, 2025 01:06 PM (oftw2)
On these simple number-lines of how to look at WW II ? We were to the Right of the Soviets but Left of the Nazis when it came to Economic Freedom.
So, of course, two generations deified the guy and statues and schools were built in his name. FDR was a tyrant.
Posted by: The Slow Decline
Not much to disagree. FDR was a collectivist/bureaucrat enabler just like Woodrow Wilson who FDR served in his cabinet.
Al Smith, FDR's predecessor as NY governor came to recognize that in FDR and his apparatchiks.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)
The takeover of the educational system is complete.
Homeschool your children.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 06, 2025 01:08 PM (La8zG)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar
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I agree. It also helped that Royko was at the Sun Times which was the scrappy underdog at the time to the Chicago Tribune. Royko was given much more latitude to go after the business is business sorts in City Hall.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:11 PM (WDjG6)
“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)
Whig, what Eris is talking about is Terra Preta, which is a carbon rich soil that the Amazonian cultures made through creating middens in their farm lands. They make them to this day. It is a combination of charcoal and food prep waste, as well as left overs and whatever else. These were not slash and burn farmers
The laetrite soils of the jungle have high recycling of minerals and nutrients, what the micro-life doesn't take the roots of the trees will take and the remainder is washed off, like you say. The charcoal appears to absorb the nutrients, and hold it for the plants and micro-life to utilize at need. Some dark earths are "meters" thick, and still fertile in spite of the cultures that made them dying off in the 1500's.
The current organic fad of creating Terra Preta in your home garden is getting a lot of attention, and seems to have a serious value. It is a step up from crop rotation
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (rbvCR)
He had to begin legal proceedings to make it happen.
It's not her fault. He signed a contract.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Homeschool your children.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination. It require careful curation of curriculum because a lot of that is infected wokist tripe as well. If one is inclined to do that, reaching out to networks that have already resolved some of these issues among parent educators is very useful.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (WDjG6)
Why does this series seem different from, say, his Civil War epic?
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It seems different because people have only been taught one narrative on the Civil War. Burns 'epic' on the Civil War is as big a crock of shit as his 'epic' on the Revolution.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:14 PM (04Glf)
My ancestors sold out in SC when the soil was depleted and moved west for free land in Alabama.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (W7XSX)
“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (EXyHK)
Even in the early stone ages, when Boomers were going to college, radicalism was overtly taking over the academy, and the education majors were full-on retards. We've been on this downward trajectory for some time.
Posted by: The seeds were planted even earlier at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (TbWk/)
His stories about learning to be a reporter at Chicago’s City News Bureau make it sound almost like a Chinese Opera training school but for journalists.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (EXyHK)
Which is ironic. At least as far as I've read - FDR was one of the first wave of Industrial Candidates. Big funding from J.P. Morgan, J.D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
Its odd how it always works like this, ain't it ? Wall Street loved Obama.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (k2Vk4)
Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 12:26 PM (xG4kz
Did you tell her that she should kill herself to relieve her anguish? I often offer helpful advice to poor misguided souls such as herself. With age comes an absence of mouth filters.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:16 PM (W7XSX)
Everyone can keep their G.K. Chesterston. Seriously. C.S. Lewis understood how things work. G.K. loudly told you how he wished it did.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (k2Vk4)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (R86kT)
At this point, I disagree. Even the most incapable parent is going to provide a better education than most schools do. Paraphrasing what Jefferson said about newspapers, if the only thing a parent does is teach nothing to their children, their kids will still be more informed than public school kids who are taught lies.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (EXyHK)
Glad I didn't waste too much time with the whole series.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (yTvNw)
it is both from the background of the different farmers, and the crops and economics of the regions. You farm wheat and corn differently from tobacco, in part because wheat and corn allowed smaller plots, and not requiring a latifundia to be economically viable
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip
I would include fascism under that monicker. Progressivism was essentially fascism with better pr in combining and managing industry and society by groups rather than individualism. The later pluralism movement (government is the arena and referee where interest groups duke it out) can be shown as derivative of fascist emphasis on the fasces (different strands of society) being welded together by the state in order to promote and enforce whatever the top honcho/ruling counsel felt was in the interest of the state.
In reality, the managerial class because of information control often ran the place on a day to day basis whether in corporations, government, or ngos. Burns, the Managerial Revolution, was written at the height of WWII with its insights over institutions like the OPM.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (WDjG6)
And you have to be of the right temperament. If you are impatient or snap easily, don't do it. Or you'll find yourself screaming and hitting your kids for not understanding Algebra II fast enough. Or at a less extreme end burning out.
Posted by: You have to be very self-controlled and self-aware at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (xqL5c)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (04Glf)
“He says, ‘Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education.’ This, clearly expressed, means, ‘We cannot decide what is good, but let us give it to our children.’”—G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (xqL5c)
He was also known as Squatto because he taught them how to build latrines.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (uWKK8)
Ken Burns outta do a series.
Posted by: And Yet at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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You would be right that he started at the Daily News which folded about 1970 and then to the allied Sun Times until Rupert Murdoch purchased it in the 80's and then to Tribune.
Daily News was before my time really and I read Royko's syndicated columns before I read his books.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 01:21 PM (hW+ut)
George refused the kingship which was suggested because he had no legitimate children. Don't know if he had illegitimate children, but neither they nor his stepchildren would have been acceptable successors. He retired, albeit temporarily, to private life after the war and served as President for a *limited* period to try to model how that should work.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:22 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:23 PM (rbvCR)
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Sounds like the guy who wrote a biography of LBJ. Caro?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 01:23 PM (0cOaq)
Well, its another facet in the never-ending trolling by the Left. Continuously calling Conservatives racists, H8tr's, Fascists, Nazis, then introduce a bullsh*t series on the founding fathers and suddenly its seems much more OK to revolt against authority. How can you not when armed with the righteous cause of "democratic socialism"?
Well, bring it assholes. Come to my little town and let's dance.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 01:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Paco at December 06, 2025 01:25 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:26 PM (W7XSX)
Ken Burns, Revolution, epic
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias where people recognize inaccuracies in media reports about topics they know well but still trust the media on subjects they are less familiar with.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:26 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: You have to be very self-controlled and self-aware
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Good points. Same criteria as those planning on teaching as a career.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (W7XSX)
WW II was guaranteed when the Treaty of Versailles was signed to send both teams to the locker-room at the end of WW I. A twenty year armistice. A long half-time.
No country would have lived under those terms without force to make them do so. No sane victor without the means to muster such force, long term, would have considered it.
So, of course, Wilson waded our asses in to tip the balance and then sign such a moronic plan.
Wilson is also on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks. FDR, Lincoln, and Wilson. Spot Number Four is still up for grabs.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (k2Vk4)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (W7XSX)
In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (EXyHK)
Ah the "Baculum theory". It argues that parts of Genesis is a "just so" story that has no parallel that anyone has presented, based on the observation that Humans are the only mammal without a baculum, however it misses that ungulates like horses, cattle and sheep also lack them.
Possibly one of the more exciting unprovable thesis to come out of modern maundering.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (rbvCR)
Maybe he'd like to start with contemporary history in the Minneapolis area. No? Well, just an idea...
Posted by: Paco at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (mADJX)
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Both of Buddy's fore-parents came to the rebuilding of Jamestown as indentured servants.
They've got stories.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Yes. Caro took a turn when he documented LBJ's rise to power in his first volume. Believe by his second volume research, LBJ's family and supporters were upset by the first one and tried to hinder his ability to access LBJ's donated papers and his presidential library.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (WDjG6)
Haven't read comments yet, so I'm sure others have said this earlier and better.
Trump needs to get a real American to do a quick revolution series telling the background of the whole idea. Someone who doesn't use this platform to denigrate the country and founders, but celebrates what they did. Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery. We need to know why, not that the founders were imperfect.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (W7XSX)
Fish emulsion is the last stop for fish that aren't good enough to use for lutefisk.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (8DR9B)
whig, before that, he was at the Daily News, which was the Field family's afternoon paper, and the one Dad brought home. Was reading him before hitting double-digit age; didn't get some things, but sure got a lot. He moved to the Sun-Times when the Daily News shut down ('74?) and the S-T did a morning & afternoon edition.
Both the Sun-Times & the Tribune killed their afternoon editions a few years later; hell, the Trib bought the Chicago American and made it the Chicago Today, for a while.
The real grin is that Royko moved to the Tribune when Rupert Murdoch bought the Field publications, because, while he had sworn that he would never work for the Trib, he loathed Murdoch more. There's a story (too lazy to look up) that Royko rode an elevator in the S-T building with one of the Field heirs right after the sale was announced and blasted him practically out of the elevator.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:32 PM (NcvvS)
As I've said before (and I trust others have said as well), there should never have been a J6 rally - especially if the J5 pipe bombs were discovered when they should have been. The whole Capitol complex should have been shut down due to a bomb investigation, instead of allowing any group of people to congregate around discovered and undiscovered explosive devices.
The government let the bombs be planted, allowed the demonstrations to take place in spite of those bombs being planted, and conspired to railroad innocent protestors and derail the possibility of a second Trump term - either in 2021 or today.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 01:34 PM (0CU3H)
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Both of Buddy's fore-parents came to the rebuilding of Jamestown as indentured servants.
They've got stories. - Braenyard
Cherish them and pass them on. I have few details, unfortunately, about the First Paco in America. Great Aunt Murdy commissioned a genuine genealogical history probably before I was born, and she never let anybody read it. Some of the basic info got out, though, such as that indentured servant business. I take it that my people were not exactly in line for the throne.
Posted by: Paco at December 06, 2025 01:34 PM (mADJX)
I've got 3-4 of Royko's books and love them for the stories of learning his trade.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:35 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (W7XSX)
No. Honestly ? No.
Because there's a reason the Left - under Obama - systematically erased every Civil War name and monument. Why did they do that ?
Because they wanted to erase the idea of organized disobedience. Because they had the idea that they had a lock on authority. And now ? They love the idea of disobedience.
There is no message that will work - unless you teach the idea of whites vs. whites vs. natives. Which will not play with the young 'uns. Or we can go State's Rights. North-East Republicans will hate that.
Or we can get into the real lives of the "Founders". They were not Saints or Deities. That'll work well.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (k2Vk4)
Haven't read comments yet, so I'm sure others have said this earlier and better.
Trump needs to get a real American to do a quick revolution series telling the background of the whole idea. Someone who doesn't use this platform to denigrate the country and founders, but celebrates what they did. Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery. We need to know why, not that the founders were imperfect.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (uQesX)
The White House has put out a series of videos on YouTube highlighting individual Revolutionary figures - both well-known and unknown. It's pretty good, and it's short as well.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (0CU3H)
!!!!!GUNS UP!!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 01:37 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:37 PM (Ia/+0)
There’s not a dud in the bunch. One of his most memorable essays is getting carried away watching True Grit. I think it’s from Sez Who? Sez Me.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:38 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 06, 2025 01:38 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Paco
That is too bad. We were the Kings, but then we abdicated the Throne.
Posted by: The Schmenge Brothers at December 06, 2025 01:40 PM (oftw2)
Ted, Daily News shut down in '78, and I think Field stopped producing an afternoon paper then. Tribune killed Chicago Today and produced an afternoon edition for a few years - remember because delivered afternoon Chicago papers from 1973-1975 before turned 29.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:41 PM (NcvvS)
He was old man Ghio. Portugese. They used the mackerel to make fish stock at the Anthony's restaurants in San Diego.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (W7XSX)
Good Grief.
Prisoners kept in cages (the Brits did that in Boston). Buildings "fired" - which meant those inside burnt alive.
Do you understand that, in that Revolution, men lined up against other men to kill them ? And if they missed at close range, there was always the bayonet or the hatchet ?
War IS savagery. By definition.
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (k2Vk4)
They can do this but they can't find a killer? They can't trace back on the Trump shooter or Las Vegas or two hundred other things that are strung together much better than a piece of pipe here and a piece of pipe there. He may have placed the bombs but the whole story is a crock.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (04Glf)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (W7XSX)
Lutefisk has too much lye in it for fertilizer
You can make you own fish emulsion by dumping those hagfish, bullheads, fish guts and heads in a barrel, topping with water and letting it rot down for a summer. That is what it is, basically. Some people advise stirring it from time to time, and others say it is best to strain the bones out before use.
By the way, if you were to put in lots of salt, you could make fish sauce or garum instead, but you probably want to clean the barrel well, first.
"Makes your plants grow tall - either from the fertilizer, or because they are trying to get away from the stink"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:44 PM (rbvCR)
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Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)
Heh. The Coal Mining sketch by Monty Python really does hit the nail.
'Coal minings a wonderful thing, Father!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 01:48 PM (RE5em)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Lex at December 06, 2025 01:54 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Nazdar
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Thanks for the true story. Mine was garbled because I read his syndicated column in the local rag, not the original papers where they were first published.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (WDjG6)
Yeah. And the worldview of the right is mostly "I forgive you, Dad".
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (k2Vk4)
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Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 02:00 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Not hardly. It's a struggle every day. A regular Mine Kampf!
Posted by: Ned From Newcastle at December 06, 2025 02:01 PM (oftw2)
Yeah. And the worldview of the right is mostly "I forgive you, Dad".
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (k2Vk4)
The worldview of the TradCon right is mostly "Dad beat me and I turned out fine so I'm going to beat you so you'll turn out fine. Also, because God."
Posted by: Ah the good old days at December 06, 2025 02:03 PM (TbWk/)
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Posted by: Bryan at December 06, 2025 02:42 PM (SCSMo)
Make a move on the Constitution and you will have one about the Revolution.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 02:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Mike Benz pointed out this morning that in the actual aftermath of J5/J6 the FBI released a statement pointing out the rare fancy Nikes the bomber was wearing and then did nothing to track them down. I would assume that was a signal to the bomber to stop wearing them.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2025 03:04 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 03:13 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 03:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 03:24 PM (VCgbV)
Mike Benz pointed out this morning that in the actual aftermath of J5/J6 the FBI released a statement pointing out the rare fancy Nikes the bomber was wearing and then did nothing to track them down. I would assume that was a signal to the bomber to stop wearing them.
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Yes. And once upon a time "independent journalists" would have seized on that tip and raced to identify the perp. It would have been quite the prize to have beat the FBI to the punch, and comparatively easy too since the Biden-era FBI wanted no part of solving this case.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 03:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:37 PM (W7XSX)
Yes, but he also liked pussy, and decided to work on becoming more the literal Father of His Country as he grew older. I mean, nobody's gonna shoot the First President just because he tapped your old lady! Many would have seen it as an honor!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 06, 2025 05:14 PM (FpP3s)
I'm sure the Iroquois could figure out that same thing: plants like fish biomass. They don't understand the scientific WHY, nitrogen and all that, but they saw it works.
Also the three sisters thing, plant beans corn and squash together, does work. They have a symbiotic relationship. Agriculture in general is delayed gratification: I plant these seeds now, later I see a harvest. I plant a fish under my corn instead of just eating the fish now, my corn grows taller and bigger. And then I can use the corn to survive the winter.
It does scholars absolutely no credit to be honest about the Iriquois' planting prowess, and then go a step too far and say "the native Americans inspired the concept of democracy." It negates everything historically true, and makes them look like lazy woke fools. (Which they are, but for Pete's sake, don't PROVE it beyond all doubt!)
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 05:38 PM (gWBY1)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
They told us that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack. So are you going to believe them when it comes to coffee consumption? I think not.
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Since it is the Christmas Season, classical tunes will be shelved until 2026 or whenever it happens. Before entering the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Minneapolis)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) Running with sharp objects will not be tolerated unless you have a note from a responsible adult.
4) Have a great weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 10/22 – Pennsyltucky requested prayers for his dad, who underwent cancer surgery on 10/21. Everything seems to have gone well (they’re confident they got it all!) but due to his age, his hospital stay and convalescence will be longer than usual. Dad is doing well, is awake and alert. A full recovery is anticipated but it will take a while. Thank you so much.
11/6 Update – Pennsyltucky’s dad is out of the hospital and is now convalescing at home with the aid of home care nurse visits. He’s not able to walk very well, having spent so long in a hospital bed, but he’s in good spirits and improving daily. Thanks for your prayers! 10/27 – Polliwog the ‘Ette asked for prayers for her youngest daughter, "LK", who needs prayers for safety and peace, and her best friend "C" for health and that stress not cause a flare up of psoriatic arthritis as they and another roommate work with the police and the landlord to have the 4th roommate "M" evicted because she is threatening them and making the living situation a nightmare. “M” is bipolar and medicating with alcohol. Prayers for her healing and that she find salvation from the self-destructive path she's on would also be appreciated.
11/8 Update – The situation still needs lots of prayer. LK sand C have been staying at a hotel to avoid M, who wants to fight whenever she sees them. M is supposed to move out the end of Dec. but that seems like a very long time when C still needs to attend class and keep her arthritis in check. 11/5 – Mary Poppins’ Practically Perfect Piercing said he could use a prayer or two. He has a pain in his head which, it seems, is occipital neuralgia. It’s not fatal, thank heavens, but is painful until a proper treatment course is settled upon. Many thanks.
11/12 Update – Pronouns corrected above. 11/6 - D sent an update on his wife Susan, and her battle with cancer. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan had an infection which is being treated, but her sodium levels are bad again. She will be sent home soon, but is on restrictive fluids until this is cleared up. The good news is that she has gained some weight back and her voice is much stronger now. Thank you, and please keep up the prayers. They appreciate everyone!
11/20 Update – Susan is out of the hospital, after 2 weeks. For the first time in months, she doesn’t have any drainage tubes. Chemo is on hold for the next 2 weeks, to give her time to rest, recover, and gain some weight back. Thank you, everyone, for your prayers – please continue them! 11/7 – BarelyScaryMary requested prayers for a friend, RJ, who is having heart issues. She will likely get stents or a bypass soon. Prayers are needed for RJ’s recovery, and also that she is able and willing to make the lifestyle changes necessary for her health.
11/13 Update – Stents were not an option for RJ, so she needs a bypass. She is waiting for the surgery to be scheduled. She is apprehensive about the surgery and recovery. Prayers are also needed for BarelyScaryMary’s dad, who is also having heart problems. Her mom could use prayers, too, as she is watching her husband of 60 years decline. 11/8 – Dash my lace wings had an urgent request for prayers for a co-worker and friend who is hospitalized with sepsis. It is extremely resistant to antibiotics and has attached to the artificial heart valve she got less than a year ago. Her situation is tenuous.
11/15 Update – The co-worker is healing. She was released from the hospital and is on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. Thank you for your prayers. We nearly lost her. 11/8 – Farmer Bob asked for prayers for his Uncle Richard’s MIL who passed away on 11/7, and for Richard’s wife Linda. Linda’s putting on a brave face and it was not unexpected, but it’s hard to lose your mother. 11/14 – Halfhand requested prayers for a sister whose husband recently passed away unexpectedly in his sleep. They had just upended their lives to move from California to Tennessee; now she is all alone. 11/15 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 81 year-old aunt who has colon cancer. She is stopping chemo, since it’s not working and it’s tiring her out. Doctors will determine if any other treatment is proper.
11/29 Update – Thank you all for the prayers. The good Lord had another plan and the aunt passed away. She had taught at a Catholic school for over 20 years, raised 3 daughters and had 8 grandchildren. She also babysat Smell the Glove the first couple of years of life. 11/15 – Sponge posted an update on the “First lady”. She is doing OK from the surgery pain-wise, however it appears her compromised immune system from chemo is susceptible to viruses. She has been spiking a fever all weekend. 11/20 - Bluebell sent an update on grammie winger - good news! At her appointment, the doctor said her bloodwork is nearly perfect and her cancer cell count is dropping. She is in minimal pain. The chemo is working, thanks be to God! She will go back in 3 weeks for another round of chemo and then they will do a CT scan to see if she can have surgery to clean out the rest of the tumors. She is convinced – CONVINCED – that this is due in no small part to the treasured prayers of friends and family! They gave her weeks, and now she is looking at possible remission. 11/22 – Duke Lowell posted an update. He said that he is gradually starting to feel normal again, two months after his surgery. The main problem is that the effects of anesthesia are still suppressing his appetite. 11/22 – Commissar Hrothgar posted prayers for President Trump, to keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught. 11/22 – Oddbob requested prayers. He found out that his job is going away the end of December. They are a one-income family. He also requested prayers for another co-worker, who is in the same situation. 11/22 – Cosda sent an update on his wife’s condition. She started a year of immunotherapy in June for cancer. She is doing well with her treatments every three weeks, but her follow up dermatology scan found another mole with melanoma and 2 other abnormal and suspicious spots. She will be having more tissue removed from those areas for lab tests. Prayers are appreciated. 11/22 – The Walking Dude sent an update. We prayed for his mom in August, when she fell and broke her hip. She is 90 years old. She is still in the hospital but has been transferred to a better rehab run by the Masons. They are unsure if she will ever get out. Please pray for her recovery and return home. 11/24 – Bulg requested prayers for a neighbor who has cancer, and also prayers for his son and two of his friends, who are moving into a rental house in Arlington, VA on 11/28. Prayers for the 3 of them, that they may live together contentedly, and prayers for Bulg and his wife as they adjust to their son’s absence.
11/26 Update – The neighbor passed away on 11/24. Prayers are needed for the neighbor’s husband, Steve, as he grieves. They had no children. 11/29 – From about That Time asked for prayers after a lymphoma diagnosis. From about That Time has already begun chemo, and the kids and granddaughter had fun cutting off a ponytail and shaving hair in preparation. 12/1 – P received news that her 24 year old daughter has changed her name to a male name and had “top surgery”. P needs wisdom as to how to speak to her, and also how to speak with P’s other children, in a loving but honest way. Also, that God will use this to turn all their hearts back to Him. 12/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She had an MRI on 12/3, and will meet with the oncologist on 12/4, the surgeon on 12/8, and the surgery on 12/11. This is a good thing, because it looks like more tumors are starting to crop up in her liver. It doesn’t appear to have spread beyond there yet, thank goodness. 12/4 – E asked for prayers as she will be having surgery in two weeks. She is nervous, but everyone she has spoken with has nothing but good things to say about the surgeon, and she is looking forward to being on the other side of it. Please pray that all will go according to God’s will and that His name will be glorified. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (kOluj)
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Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (Ia/+0)
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I'm guessing that leaves out notes from the Horde...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (ESVrU)
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:07 AM (NwnyJ)
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*wrestles PA mic away from grouch nurse*
"Paging Dr. Muldoon... please bring your scrip pad"
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 08:09 AM (t/66j)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:09 AM (Npcdm)
As you may recall, my wife lost her Mom a few years back to brain cancer, which makes this even more difficult for her to bear during the holidays.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:09 AM (dK+Kv)
{grammie}
{TiFW}
Hiya JT
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:10 AM (LbMjz)
Their latest update has a new mission called "Eminem v. Slim Shady."
And yes, Eminem himself is a part of this mission. He's trying to track down his evil twin, "Slim Shady," and put him down for good.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (ESVrU)
Received a fresh shipment of green coffee beans to roast and deciding will be next up in the queue. Couple interesting wet hulled samples (1 pound each) from Sumatra.
My supplier is once again offering a vintage (five year old Sumata) that is definitely an acquired taste for very rustic tasting coffee. $10 a pound. Don't know whether I want to do that again. Most certainly a change from the usual - NOT a crowd pleaser.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)
Ben Had
No joy in contacting OMB. I have asked for help from the staff of my local Congressman.
They answered on the first ring, had clear American voices, and seemed very willing to help. I'll see what they can do.
We have put up with so much poor customer service that it was stunning to get good, American service. Not outsourced to a foreign country.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:13 AM (u82oZ)
Thought my phone was done and all because I had a night message so put on Do not disturb, that turned off all media playing.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:13 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 06, 2025 08:14 AM (cxFcK)
You know that AI has gotten a lot better at telephone service than most Americans these days.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)
How do you make Americano coffee?
Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (jrgJz)
Received a fresh shipment of green coffee beans to roast and deciding will be next up in the queue. Couple interesting wet hulled samples (1 pound each) from Sumatra.
My supplier is once again offering a vintage (five year ol5thd Sumata) that is definitely an acquired taste for very rustic tasting coffee. $10 a pound. Don't know whether I want to do that again. Most certainly a change from the usual - NOT a crowd pleaser.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)
That is the worst, having had been up since 3 am.
The rest now makes your nic make more sense.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Pants Free In NC at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:17 AM (ZOv7s)
wait-where-are-we/
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 06, 2025 08:17 AM (jrgJz)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.
St. Nicholas, bishop and confessor, pray for us.
I have prayed Rosaries for the intentions, both stated and unstated, of the members of the Horde.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:17 AM (pJWtt)
*off to make some stealth coffee*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:18 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:18 AM (DoBxX)
I am grateful for the Horde, Misanthropic Humanitarian and Annie’s Stew.
Prayers ascending for those in need and those with unstated needs in our community. I credit Annie's Stew with helping turn us from just a smart military blog into a caring, thriving, incredible community.
{{{grammie}}}
{{{TiFW}}}. You looked marvelous in Corsicana.
That Billy Crystal video haunts me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)
It will always be Twitter.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (dK+Kv)
Total donation to the university was $401M and the dude isn't even and alum.
I hate what has become of college sports.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (Y1sOo)
There is just enough "Hawaiian" in that blend so as not to be sued for false advertising.
You mentioned Kuerig, which guarantees that your coffee will have those delightful plastic flavor undertones in each cup.
BUT if you are looking for that Hawaiian taste without the Hawaiian premium pricing, Costa Rica, particularly the Tarrazu region is your Huckleberry.
I would recommend Panama, but their pricing is like Hawaii for almost the same reasons. But if you could ever get a Geisha variety from Panama - definitely go for it. (though no one in their right mind would put that been into a plastic K-cup)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)
Please pray for Tim, an acquaintance through church. He has prostate cancer and begins 28 days straight of radiation beginning next week. We've seen miracles through prayer and Tim may need one.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (LbMjz)
I loath A/I phone answering.
My requests usually can not be handled by the pre-scripted prompts. A person does much better. Unless they are in India or the Philippines with a phony name and a vile accent.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:21 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:21 AM (DoBxX)
As long as editors are looking for volume over quality of content.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2025 08:22 AM (wVcYX)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 06, 2025 08:22 AM (tljrc)
Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (pJWtt)
I have to start some mundane tasks called chores.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)
Anyway, moar covfefe.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 08:25 AM (J5UAN)
Miserable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:25 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 06, 2025 08:25 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (sl73Y)
X = an unknown in maths equation
Pert = a drip under pressure
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)
I don't have a capsule coffee maker at home, but I always try the hotel room machines. They range from excellent to abysmal.
This week was pretty awful. So bad I didn't bother after the first try.
One floor down in the lounge they had some interesting coffee. A commercial machine that used concentrate. I was suspicious, but it was drinkable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (GLocS)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:27 AM (Ia/+0)
I hate what has become of college sports.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (Y1sOo)
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It's always been about money. The notion that there was some innocent and pure age is just nostalgia. From its foundation, college sports was tainted with scandal. The filthy and totally amoral University of Michigan has more "wins" in part because during its early years, it employed non-students on the team, many of whose names aren't even known. Players switched teams in mid-season, often defecting to a team they just played.
I am tickled that this athletic Death Star is being funded by a Michigan grad. I guess he hated Ann Arbor.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are off this morning to Orlando for the AKC National Championship show next Saturday.
It's the only big show we've never taken Best of Breed at (we won at Westminster, Morris and Essex and our National Specialty), though Dutch and Delilah gave it a good shot. We hope The Big Dummy can do just a bit better.
There are all-breed shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as well as a Hound show the Sunday after. Plus HM has AKC delegate meetings Thursday and Friday. A busy week for them both. Wish them safe travel and good luck.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:27 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)
The way covfefe was intended.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:28 AM (dK+Kv)
Due to the nature of my work, I have gotten rather used to the accents.
Though with the increasing use of AI, I suspect that we are going to have to learn to communicate differently, where we think in terms of clarifying AI tokens rather than colorful metaphors and idioms.
Leftists hardest hit since they can only communicate in vague euphemisms and incendiary trigger words.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:30 AM (2VfHu)
Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (pJWtt)
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Sadly, no. Last week was something of a blur due to cars rotating in and out of the shop, and a stream of tradesmen moving in and out of the house. Speaking of which...
God be praised! The ceiling repairs are complete, and Home Improvement 2025 is finished at long last! I'm pausing frequently to look up and see no sign of the hole through which water infiltrated this room for several years with growing intensity, from intermittent droplets to a full stream this time last year.
We did have the grandkids set out their shoes and St. Nicholas left them gifts. I got an early wakeup as a result.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)
My sis went in this week for an atrial valve replacement due to stenosis.
Everything went fine.
The interesting thing is that instead of using a pig valve for replacement, they upgraded her to the latest and greatest replacement using bovine valve material.
The Downside?
The threat of marriage to a muslim is now back on the table!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)
Ny stereotypes would have put Turkey & Vietnam higher
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:33 AM (znREB)
Indeed. Stay strong. Stay focused on the goal, and pray. God will carry you through it.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 08:33 AM (Viiux)
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned.
Isaiah 9:2
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (Viiux)
Was there in 2019 with the late Missus when our bitch finished in the top ten in owner-handler and thus got the auto-invite.
The Orlando convention center is HUGE.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (W7XSX)
On layover in Dubai, rather than camp out in the airport lobby like unwashed heathen, I spent a short night in whatever hotel I could find nearby and put on an expense report without hassle - they had a full blown espresso machine and grinder in the room.
Staying at a pricy hotel room in The Woodlands, they offered some K-cup garbage and a cheap machine. I ignore it these days, use it only to heat water to run through an Aeropress.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)
The threat of marriage to a muslim is now back on the table!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)
Her stock went up with the Hindus, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:35 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (W7XSX)
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Monday is a Holy Day of Obligation.
It's interesting that celebrities are getting into Advent. Chris Pratt and Gwen Stephani are both doing audio on Hallow. Pratt isn't Catholic, but I believe Stephani is a revert. She co-hosting with an Eastern Rite Sister.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (sl73Y)
Godspeed.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (dK+Kv)
I’ve mentioned this before, but I was looking at the Lewis and Clark loadout for 1804 and in addition to all the tons of equipment and trade goods they put together, there was 50 pounds of green Coffee beans. After roasting this makes about 40 pounds or so.. Not enough coffee for a crowd. It must have been the stash for the captains. Lasted longer than the Whiskey, it did.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (2VfHu)
Was there in 2019 with the late Missus when our bitch finished in the top ten in owner-handler and thus got the auto-invite.
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Dutch got a Group 1 in Owner-Handled the first year they had it.
https://tinyurl.com/m3yevt5y
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:39 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 08:39 AM (rsCxw)
Southern Methodist University sports program has entered the chat
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:39 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Rob at December 06, 2025 08:42 AM (zhWvq)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 08:42 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:42 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2025 08:44 AM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Caffiend at December 06, 2025 08:45 AM (oftw2)
Anybody needing a note for sharp object running let me know. Every time something goes wrong around here they say I'm responsible.
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 08:46 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (AN2gy)
saw the Leftist women learn about marriage meme along with their complaint that American men step up.
This always makes me want to tell them-
Gals, if you want to get married:
1) Don't Be a Ho - guys have a literal million years evolutionary background in spotting which ladies are and are not good Genetic Investments for their Progeny. If you're chasing every wang in town, or dating five guys at a time, you are not a good investment for pair-bonding. A quick pump and dump, yes. Marriage/ No.
2) You need to bring something else to the table besides your Pink Thang and gaggle of girlfriends.
For me, being able to cook is a big deal. It shows you can take care of yourself and want good things which means you can take basic care of the kiddos.
But, you know, a pleasant and positive personality is great.
So, is patience. No one wants to live with a highly emotional lunatic.
presenting yourself well is nice. No one's proud to be escorting a slob about town.
Etc.
I know, I know - guys can improve too.
It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)
When in Guanajuato, Mexico that is the only way. The city is built literally on top of a huge silver mine from centuries ago and the whole city is a "walking city" where the driving thoroughfares are old tunnels below the surface.
You want coffee? Just walk a few minutes to the nearest shop. Want something to eat, walk a little bit and find a street taco cart or some other literal hole in the wall. (most buildings are centuries old stone structures)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:48 AM (a4flb)
Ny stereotypes would have put Turkey & Vietnam higher
Posted by: vmom
Turkish coffee is about four times stronger than what even Europeans drink. You don't need to drink a lot of it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm)
Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
I have seen medieval illustrations of Mary beating the devil, and Monday is her feast day (Immaculate Conception of Mary)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:49 AM (eZ5tL)
Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (pJWtt)
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Sadly, no. Last week was something of a blur ...
We did have the grandkids set out their shoes and St. Nicholas left them gifts. I got an early wakeup as a result.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)
I did a quick search of the Inter-tubes and found an image that I like. The image is in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Here's the site I found (tny url is beyond me):
https://www.threads.com/@shieldofiron33/
post/C0j_-K2vy3K/media
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:50 AM (pJWtt)
I used a Nescafe unit in the cruise ship whilst waiting for room service to bring me coffee. It wasn't bad, although that may have just been me Jonesing for caffeine after waking up.
Sad to say, I reheated whatever was in last night's cup of coffee. (waiting for the household to wake up before making an Americano from the espresso machine)
Which machine do you have? I'm considering a purchase.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)
It works. TPTB have studied history, have studied psychology, and they are running the playback to the letter. Manipulate the emotional to whatever your ends.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (dK+Kv)
I don't think either does much of that anymore. But years ago it was quite something.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (NwnyJ)
Oh, yeah. I love that stuff. If you're especially aggressive, you can swill down the grounds in the bottom of the cup.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:52 AM (Riz8t)
Good luck and Godspeed. My girls sire was a Sieger Champion and her Dam was another SCHH3 who always placed top 3. I’m still an SV member, but don’t have the time for it these days. One day…
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (Viiux)
The antithesis of 'prairie coffee'.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (AN2gy)
This has become one of my favorite Christmas songs, thought I'd share it with you all:
https://youtu.be/09azEfx71rc
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (t/66j)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (NwnyJ)
Probably discovered where you store your crop.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (GLocS)
Nespresso, not Nescafe.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:54 AM (Riz8t)
Being of common clay and never having seen coffee as a sacramental rite, I'm perfectly happy with my Kirkland dark roast made in a Keurig.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:54 AM (tgvbd)
It's interesting that celebrities are getting into Advent. Chris Pratt and Gwen Stephani are both doing audio on Hallow. Pratt isn't Catholic, but I believe Stephani is a revert. She co-hosting with an Eastern Rite Sister.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
I think more-and-more people are seeing the open embrace of evil by the Neo-Pagans and "nice Christianity", and are seeking the stability of traditionalist Christianity.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:55 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:49 AM (eZ5tL)
Meanwhile back at the ranch, Grandma is beating off the Indians!
I wonder if should ask Grok for an illustration.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 08:55 AM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Okay everyone, this guy's next on the stone altar. Prepare the obsidian knife!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:56 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:56 AM (2VfHu)
Tea. Vietnamese drink lots of tea.
Posted by: Zombie Nguyen Cao Ky, commie killer at December 06, 2025 08:57 AM (R/m4+)
***********
That will last until long after it is dead.
Posted by: The artist formerly known as Prince at December 06, 2025 08:57 AM (/iMjX)
I think more-and-more people are seeing the open embrace of evil by the Neo-Pagans and "nice Christianity", and are seeking the stability of traditionalist Christianity.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer
____________
Stern gods are feared and worshipped. Nice gods get melted down.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:57 AM (tgvbd)
Anyone who says otherwise will immediately be arrested.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 06, 2025 08:58 AM (cxFcK)
It's behind a paywall, but looks like an article on quitting caffeine or finding alternative, lower concentration sources?
In the Army, coffee consumption is on the decline, both with younger soldiers and many of the older ones. Energy drinks are consumed at an alarming rate by both, and Zyns (little nicotine pouches) are incredibly common with younger troops.
I've found, as I get older, I'm getting what I assume are caffeine related headaches more often. Drank too much at work, now my head hurts and I'm crashing when I get home. It's the weekend and I don't have the easy office access, and I'm hurting by the afternoon. Try to cut back or stop, but...it's so tasty and convenient. Damn you coffee!!!!
Posted by: Military Moron at December 06, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)
I can’t hate these anti American commies enough.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:00 AM (KDPiq)
Not bad, can’t complain
That’s good.
Well no, I mean I can’t complain or I’ll get arrested.”
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:01 AM (2VfHu)
IIRC, the latest research shows that those who drink 2-3 cups of coffee per day have a lower risk for Alzheimer's.
Which is nice if true.
Chug your favorite beverage and don't become Joe Biden!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:01 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)
And their douche bag radar is broken.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (KDPiq)
Diana loves going on trips. Diana is excited because she can tell Mommy is going on a trip. But Diana is not going on a trip.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (tgvbd)
I think those energy drinks taste like cough syrup.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (Viiux)
Dan Rather shakes his head and says “come on, at least show some dignity while you destroy your careers!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (gm9Sb)
It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)
__________
Today's feminism advocates behaviors that run completely against women's natural instincts. That's why so many are unhappy nowadays.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (tgvbd)
I'm pretty sure that God did not intend for civilized human beings to drink French Roast coffee, or whatever that over roasted dreck is they foist upon the unsophisticated American palate.
Unless you are buying beans by the FEU, civilized people buy according to the farm lots or plantations and then roast to City or Full City - very near first crack and before the smoke, based on how bright and how much body they want their. (body is pointless when using a paper filter)
If people enjoy the taste of bitter charcoal then, yeah, the local franchise coffee joint for those who want to bury the taste of that vile abomination called "coffee" with a myriad of syrups, spices and dairy additives.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (tgvbd)
Having seen it on my own dogs many times, I can imagine the heartbreaking body language when Diana realizes she is not going on a trip.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 06, 2025 09:06 AM (h7ZuX)
de-brided. It didn't start well. I had him in a sit in my front yard while a lade was walking a small
shitz-tsu on the sidewalk. Buckley got very excited and right as she walked about 10 feet in front of us, he took off to greet her. I wasn't prepared and he almost pulled me to the ground. We have practiced this many times and he usually holds. It's been a while so my fault since he was out of practice but I have a spot on my ring finger where the leash took some skin off, ouch. I'm afraid he's going to seriously hurt me one day, my right shoulder is still not right because of him. He is a good dog but I don't think we are active enough for him. When I got him as a puppy I thought he'd be about 20lbs smaller full grown. I will stick with pure breed dogs from now on, at least I can make an informed decision on what I'm getting into.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:06 AM (VCgbV)
I've seen on U Toob that Redbull deliberately tastes bad as marketing strategy.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:07 AM (AN2gy)
You put oatmeal and fruit in your coffee??
Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Oy/m2)
Look for "SWP" (Swiss Water Process) its a chemical free, pure water osmosis method that preserves all of the things you enjoy in a proper coffee sans the caffeine.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (a4flb)
Having seen it on my own dogs many times, I can imagine the heartbreaking body language when Diana realizes she is not going on a trip.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 06, 2025 09:06 AM (h7ZuX)
__________
When the great Lacey was finally retired and Diva went instead for the first time, the look of astonishment on Lacey's face was something to behold.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)
——
“Coffee that doesn’t do what coffee does” I just can’t.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (gm9Sb)
Anyone who says otherwise will immediately be arrested.
Posted by: Blutarski
In case anyone missed it, yesterday in Parliament, an MP introduced an amendment to take every British pension dollar and invest them in green energy and public housing. I knew that stash of dollars was too tempting. Guess what happens if the democrats take control here?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (0U5gm)
Julia has an incredible mind and drive that lead her to become a Naval officer, a college professor a competitive sailor and Mom.
She went into the hospital with pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and left with a terminal diagnosis.
She is incredibly strong willed and never learned to let go of any problem she encountered and shared her strength with endless loving support to her family and friends.
Please pray to God to give her the strength she needs in these last few days.
And the peace that comes from acceptance.
Posted by: pawn at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (70YV/)
BREAKING: Family of January 6th Pipe Bomb suspect say he is not a Trump supporter, contradicting claims made by many in legacy media.
His family says he's an autistic, recluse, computer nerd. (Insty)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Riz8t)
When we got our fourth dog, we bought a VW Atlas which, after laying down the second and third rows of seating, provided adequate room for them on trips.
When we got our fifth dog, we bought a Itasca Sunova. lol
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 09:09 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Oy/m2)
No if you read it again it seems I put coffee in my oatmeal😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:10 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 09:11 AM (Viiux)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fluffy
Way back in the 60's, when Coca Cola was formulating their new diet soda Tab, they found in testing that people did not believe the artificially sweetened beverage was actually a diet drink. They had to add a bittering agent in order for it to be accepted in the market.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)
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Yeah, what would they know?? I Trust NBC and their cohort of brain dead newsreaders way more than primary sources.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:13 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)
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Today's feminism advocates behaviors that run completely against women's natural instincts. That's why so many are unhappy nowadays.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (tgvbd)
I've seen a graph that shows that births by women 25 years or younger are now FEWER than births by women 40 years or older. No wonder that something like 25% of these women are on anti-depressant medications.
Congratulations ladies, you're working for companies that will gladly pay for your abortions in exchange for having little children that will love you ... all for a career.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 09:14 AM (pJWtt)
I generally make a fresh pot every week – even if there’s some left over.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 09:14 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 09:15 AM (Viiux)
They will empty the SS fund of cash and put it all in government bonds?
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:16 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 09:17 AM (XQo4F)
Five or six years ago Bezos was giving away Calphalon espresso machines. Mine has a built in burr grinder and steam wand; the pump is way over spec for espresso pressures.
Apparently the model has been long discontinued, and this thing runs without fault. I'm going to be in a bit of a quandary if/when this thing fails before I die or otherwise don't drink coffee anymore.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:17 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (0nHVk)
What nic does he go by here?
Ummmmm....ALL of them?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (Ia/+0)
Do you notice that we always seem to be just moments away from running out of Social Security money but NEVER run out of foreign aid or gifts, in the billions if not trillions to foreigners living on entitlements?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:20 AM (a4flb)
all for a career.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer
__________
All for a career that is likely to be a disappointment when you've found out you're not go-getter girlboss material.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Pants Free In NC at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM
1990s Kmart commercials about knickers.
"1990s Kmart commercials were out of control!"
Instagram: https://bit.ly/4pyoCiM
"Wait a minute, what'd he say? Awww, knickers, please!"
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (0U5gm)
The tragic yet hilarious part is the reason he’s proposing this. All of the “green energy” investments are collapsing as private funding pulls out, and even the government can’t afford to keep building housing for immigrants. (62% of public housing in the UK is filled by recent immigrants)
So he wants to seize the pension and put it all into ventures he knows will fail.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (c7Ygk)
This morning she sprang out of bed, no pain, hungry and raring to go. Downed a fried egg, half a piece of toast, half a banana, half a cup of coffee (home roasted Brazilian) a small slice of ham and a small Christmas cookie. Amazing bounceback!
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (/iMjX)
You should be more concerned about the plastics used within the Monster energy drink cans, as the microplastics are linked to contaminants crossing the blood-brain barrier and leading to dementia and other brain-fog ailments.
Energy drinks are of the Devil. If you absolutely insist on amping up performance I recommend Re-Lyte and high servings of Creatine (though don't use Creatine if you are treating kidney issues since it will throw off kidney function tests)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:24 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Marcus T
God an family, and friends. Counting on it Marcus. Might make a bit of an effort myself.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 09:25 AM (sl73Y)
But some will become millionaires
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Where are they now? at December 06, 2025 09:26 AM (XQo4F)
Take a guess …. who gets thrown under the bus first?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (2VfHu)
Because it's becoming increasingly rare, I feel compelled to give praise when a company actually has very good customer service. I bought a Delta kitchen faucet over 16 years ago; all Delta faucets come with a lifetime original owner guarantee. I've had to have the cartridge replaced a couple of time. In each case, called their 1-800 number given on the package, answered within minutes (if not seconds), talked to a very polite rep speaking American English, parts ordered immediately, shipped within days, and arriving a within a week. No hassles, no weaseling, no if-and-or-buts, just excellent service.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (VCgbV)
They said the same thing about Ephedrine. The banning took place as soon as the DEA discovered ephedra was a much sought after ingredient for cooking meth.
Because of the high linkage between the two, I suspect the "heart damage" line was part of the typical lies and bullshit propaganda we have come to expect from our sorry excuse for government.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (a4flb)
Delta and Brizo (their high-end brand) are the only plumbing fixtures I will buy, specifically because of their customer service.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 09:30 AM (GLocS)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:32 AM (GALGA)
saw the Leftist women learn about marriage meme along with their complaint that American men step up.
This always makes me want to tell them-
Gals, if you want to get married:
1) Don't Be a Ho
2) You need to bring something else to the table besides your Pink Thang and gaggle of girlfriends.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM
Hoe_math has an entire YouTube channel dedicated to explaining that "modern" women think they ARE the table. Meaning they do not have to bring anything to the table at all. But expect men to bring everything to the table.
SELF-MAXIMIZE: [What do you bring to] THE TABLE?
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4iH5ZGZ
Bonus - hoe_math Bird Hands video: https://bit.ly/4pY4Ptb
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (P5BPp)
I also have some Kona beans arriving soon- so I can see what that fuss is all about
always exploring new ways to get my caffeine on
Posted by: Don Black at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: pawn at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (70YV/)
Take a guess …. who gets thrown under the bus first?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:27
Social Security payments are required by law.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (OoFl2)
This morning she sprang out of bed, no pain, hungry and raring to go. Downed a fried egg, half a piece of toast, half a banana, half a cup of coffee (home roasted Brazilian) a small slice of ham and a small Christmas cookie. Amazing bounceback!
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (/iMjX)
Sounds like she's fit and spry enough to move your spare weight set into the attic for storage. 👍
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2025 09:34 AM (0sNs1)
Just wondering if mom took tylenol while pregnant.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:35 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:35 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (LIvrk)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)
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I don't generally judge a group by the acts of a minority, but for 1,400 years , they've been bent on conquest and domination. I hope the threat comes to nothing.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (3I53N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:37 AM (LIvrk)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (VCgbV)
Hang in there. It will all become worthwhile when one day, out of the blue, one of those kids will call or write to thank you and appreciate the lessons you taught them. BTDT.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:39 AM (GALGA)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)
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I don't generally judge a group by the acts of a minority, but for 1,400 years , they've been bent on conquest and domination. I hope the threat comes to nothing.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (3I53N)
It was a joke, a jape, a bit of frippery as it were. 🤪
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:39 AM (iJfKG)
And SNAP and EBT and disability payments to anyone and everyone and somali feed the children and oh forget it.
It's all a swindle, a swindle. A rock n roll swindle.
Posted by: Zombie Malcolm McLaren at December 06, 2025 09:41 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:37 AM (LIvrk)
I will pray that Fenelon Son gets the job...I can attest first hand his professionalism, patience with complex tasks, and his ability to push a task to its completion.
Should anyone desire a recommendation, that is.
Good Luck!
Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2025 09:42 AM (BGfwC)
Posted by: Count de Monet
********
As soon as she finishes staining the deck...
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:39 AM
Is that allowed here? I was under the understanding that such was only allowed, in very moderate quantities, on the ONT.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2025 09:43 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (1Vo6X)
LOL
I believe that is how Billy Jeff Clinton (D-Little St James Island) "balanced the budget"
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (AN2gy)
Please pray to God to give her the strength she needs in these last few days.
And the peace that comes from acceptance.
Posted by: pawn at December 06,
I am praying for you and Julia. May the love of God
Surround you.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (OoFl2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December
Why not a suit and tie? It presents professionalism.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:45 AM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:46 AM (2VfHu)
...Stuart Somali.
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:46 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:47 AM (GALGA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (1Vo6X)
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Nice pants and shirt. Maybe a sweater or jacket.
Simply showing up for the interview will amaze the interviewer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 09:47 AM (sF9Ts)
I would recommend a jacket and tie over nice pants.
How does he look? Is he semi-comfortable in a jacket or does he look like it is wearing him.
I personally prefer a pocket square to a tie as they add something extra without the fuss of getting a proper knot.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:48 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:48 AM (GALGA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December
Why not a suit and tie? It presents professionalism.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:45 AM (OoFl2)
I believe a suit and tie is always good, however-
if you know what the boss and people actually wear to work, say...a polo shirt and khakis with nice shoes, then wear that as it shows you're already one of them psychologically and behaviorally.
Just my two cents.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:49 AM (W7XSX)
Amen. I can't imagine a more godless dating pool for both sexes than the petri dish we have today.
Then again, there are a number of LeTourneau men attending our church, they seem pretty much tuned and switched on with a plan.
OTOH, the women out here seem to be in deep loving relationships with the buffet table of food, drugs and low-lifes - or have the personality of life-long shut-in spinsters.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:49 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025
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In my first year at my former employer, I drank coffee Mon-Sat., and for some reason skipped the stuff on Sunday. Then I'd wake up with a crashing headache on Monday morning. I liked my job, so it wasn't a reaction to that. Eventually I figured out it was a coffee withdrawal headache.
If a hurricane or other storm is coming that might knock out the power, I brew up some coffee and stick it in a jar in the fridge.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (wzUl9)
A positive attitude and excitement over the opportunity. You'd be surprised how far that goes when applying for any job.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06
It’s called The Social Security Act. If I didn’t withhold and do my match in payroll, it ends badly for me.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (OoFl2)
A sweater over a nice shirt is a good compromise if he doesn't wear a jacket well.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (AN2gy)
Not sure what Slick Willie did, but they had already raped Social Security long before. They also took liberties with Fannie Mae about the same time. The 2008 debacle was actually “sloppy seconds”.
The general theme seems to be privately held entities loot the system, and then drop it back into the lap of the taxpayer. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:51 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:51 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:52 AM (wzUl9)
Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 09:54 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)
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...well, that and mRNA COVID vaccine spike protein, but mostly spike protein.
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)
and I personally think that energy drinks will someday be the asbestos of the early 21st century
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 09:56 AM (Cjt/F)
I never liked my mother fussing over my clothes and he might not either, but just approach it in businesslike manner.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (AN2gy)
Do you ever give your cats a real bath? I know cats groom themselves but big, long haired cats, can't always do this very well. I hear their coat can get very oily. I brush Eddie and he seems to enjoy it, so no mats but he looks oily. I read up on it and saw that you should give Maine Coons regular baths.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (VCgbV)
Prayers up for all of God's children today.
And may God continue to bless the USA and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (kB9dk)
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I don’t care what they call it. The courts ruled long ago, there is no “right” to social security payments per se. Trust Me. They are termed an “entitlement”, but they can renege on payments. Governments have a long history of default, it’s the norm not the exception.
But making interest payments on the debt. They HAVE to pay those, assuming they want to be able to continue to borrow money, or at favorable rates. They MUST do this.
When the music stops, when phony baloney funny money is no longer acceptable, particularly for imports, when it’s cash on the barrelhead, then governments have to make hard choices. There is no money for sex change operations for illegal aliens on death row. They have to Triage payments.
Mu point is they will throw Americans under the bus first. Guaranteed. Sort of like it is now, only a lot worse.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (2VfHu)
@peterbakernyt
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:53 AM
What's the issue? I'm reliably informed by leftists everywhere that black people don't frequent national parks and the outdoors generally. Because racism or something.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2025 09:58 AM (Wnv9h)
I have been paying 12% of my income (well, the part that falls under the ceiling) for forty years.
It is NOT OK for them to say that SS is "running out of money" while importing 50 million illegal aliens for the specific purpose of draining the treasury.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:58 AM (a4flb)
Trump's birthday is June 14th. So is Flag Day. Admission is free on June 14th because of Flag Day not Trump's birthday.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 09:59 AM (viF8m)
Oh yeah, gotta work today. *sigh*
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 09:59 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: muldoon
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Muldoon,
Glad to see someone who actually knows about this subject say it out loud!!! So glad I did NOT get my kids shot up despite the immense pressure.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:59 AM (VCgbV)
I have been paying 12% of my income (well, the part that falls under the ceiling) for forty years.
It is NOT OK for them to say that SS is "running out of money" while importing 50 million illegal aliens for the specific purpose of draining the treasury.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09
Those are 2 separate things, what you said first and what you said here.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (OoFl2)
HHS updated the nameplate on Admiral Levine's portrait to properly reflect reality
https://is.gd/Id1SHR
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Always in fashion at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (XQo4F)
"cash", LOL!
as someone noted above, it's all
just an enormous heap of IOUs
(like the rest of the gummint's financing ... )
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (tqvfY)
Flag Day makes more sense than MLK Day. Why not Juneteenth? Someone vacationing in June would certainly welcome it.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:02 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2025 10:02 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)
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I noticed a product called "Ultimate Spike Detox" claiming to help rid the body of this nasty bit of biochemical detritus. I'd be grateful to know your professional opinion on whether this may be worth trying or if it's likely just more snake oil....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 10:02 AM (t/66j)
Heh -- beach wedding?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:03 AM (GbwPZ)
Maybe it is a really nice venue but was booked solid through Thanksgiving?
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 10:03 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025
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No, I really don't bathe them. Linda's Marie-Antoinette was fine with it, but she was much smarter than the average cat. We pretty much brush these two and comb them, and cut out any knots we find. In his whole life, longhaired part-Coon Arizona had, I think, only one bath that was not related to flea-killing, and only had to be shaved (the "lion cut") once. The same with the late Chekov D. Siberian, though he got the topical flea killer regularly.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)
Some crank kept pestering them “Where’s the money?” so they printed up a bunch of them in lieu of the ledgerbook entries, they are kept in a manila folder in a locked metal file cabinet in an office at the Bureau of Public Debt in Parkersburg, West Virgina. So we’re good!
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ)
They have been more than telegraphing that message for decades.
I'm expected to forgo any return on the hundreds of thousands extracted from me because some Zoomer can't afford a high rise condo and a new SUV fresh out of six years of a four year college program bearing only the skillset of a horny Wallmart door greeter.
That money in the "social contract" made generations ago is to flow directly to pagan savages to free up their daily schedule from work-like activities so they can focus on the important events like fraud, rape, burglary and murder.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (a4flb)
Afghan Watchdog Reveals Billions in U.S.-Abandoned Weapons Now Form the “Core” of Taliban Military
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
@peterbakernyt
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.
Sounds like the man has a pen and a phone and he's not afraid to use it! Call it 'the Obama precedent'!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:07 AM (ASw1o)
You'd be surprised how many wacky things happen on islands in the North Atlantic in early December.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:07 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 10:08 AM (pZEOD)
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Are the bride and groom arriving by Nantucket sleyride?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:08 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (2VfHu)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ
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I generally have a lot of respect for your views Lizzy, but here we differ
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (ASw1o)
Will do, Fen!
Suggest he write individual thank you notes to those he interviews with, if he doesn't do that already.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:10 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Limerick lover at December 06, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)
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I believe giving credit where credit is due. So let's include her predecessor (s) who made it "a thing", and kept it going for a number of years prior to Annie taking over.
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025
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I suspect that when I move North, I'm going to need a gym for workouts on cold mornings, near and below freezing, or I'll have to buy a treadmill. The wind chill really gets to you. And I'd hate to slip on ice while walking or running.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM (wzUl9)
Too funny what they did to Dick
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
Yes. Free SAWs for afghan child diddlers but not for American citizens.
Seems backasswards....or not.
Posted by: Abolish The Federal Government Already at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (R/m4+)
Understood. Had my dog during my MA years, so I learned to love it. So beautiful and peaceful, except when it was wicked windy.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (g47mK)
I'm relieved to know that they have hard-copy receipts on file in an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia because I was afraid that a District Judge would free up the twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter from prison so that they can erase yet another government database.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (a4flb)
. . . just don't ask for a Nantucket sleigh ride!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (GbwPZ)
June 19th is not a real holiday, so nothing should be done to commemorate it.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025
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That little move alone will make him stand out. Way back in '95, I interviewed with the guy who would be my future boss at my first computer job. As I'd been taught, I sent him a thank-you note. After I started working for him later that year, he mentioned I had been *the only one* of his interviewees to do that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 10:14 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (2VfHu)
A vibra slap? Ozzie used one on Crazy Train.
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 06, 2025 10:14 AM (van9r)
Posted by: Joe B. from Scranton at December 06, 2025 10:14 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:15 AM (ASw1o)
Good grief, get a set of kettle bells and watch some Youtube videos.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:15 AM (a4flb)
Just finished getting caught up with all of you. Took a while.Finishing second cup of coffee and trying to decide if I'm hungry enough to make breakfast.
My life very unexciting right now.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 10:15 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 06, 2025 10:16 AM (Py+sj)
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And Jake Tapper is a "Smart Man."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)
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Good grief, get a set of kettle bells and watch some Youtube videos.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025
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Sure, I can do some weight work. But I'm a long-time cardio boy as well. Even something like a Planet Fitness (urgh) would be better than doing nothing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:17 AM (wzUl9)
I'd have to kick that governor's ass every day and twice on Sunday for taking my act.
Posted by: The ghost of Don Rickles at December 06, 2025 10:18 AM (XQo4F)
Just do a brisk walk of 20 minutes or so. That'll get your heart rate up.
Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 10:19 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)
No wind today. Cloudy and overcast. Elvis and I are headed to the beach soon and then we have to go welcome Santa.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:20 AM (viF8m)
WSJ print version has a letter to the editor from someone who moved to OH after a lifetime in MN over the fraud, but goes to great length to explain that it's the fault of the government officials who allowed it. You see, all the Somalis she knew were disgusted by the fraud, and so very sad it persisted in MN after having so much of it in their homeland.
Amazing how some people are so committed to not being 'racist' they cannot blame the most obvious bad actors in the scenario.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:20 AM (GbwPZ)
NYC: Running of the Homeless
Socialist Mamdani Vows to Let Homeless Run Wild in New York City
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (8CIFn)
Posted by: The Finns at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)
U.S. Military Strike Kills Four Narco‑Terrorists, Destroys Drug Vessel in Caribbean
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 10:24 AM (8CIFn)
"F.U. War!!"
-- Ghost of Anfrew Breitbart
It's nice to finally see the military lethality unleashed to directly protect American citizens.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:24 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Local media at December 06, 2025 10:24 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 10:25 AM (8CIFn)
Lizzy, I hate to break it to you, but NE doesn't have any beaches!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 10:25 AM (GLocS)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 10:27 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Your grandmother at December 06, 2025 10:27 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 10:28 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:29 AM (6jy2V)
I'd have to kick that governor's ass every day and twice on Sunday for taking my act.
Posted by: The ghost of Don Rickles
I don't get no respect.
Posted by: Twinkle Toes "Rodney Dangerfield" Walz at December 06, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 06, 2025 10:30 AM (cxFcK)
Having grown up in NE,I didn't realize you could actually swim in the ocean until I went to Florida for,the first,time.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
The East River is always available.
https://youtu.be/rdQXtmGuQUY
Posted by: Kramer at December 06, 2025 10:30 AM (XQo4F)
Morning Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:31 AM (2WIwB)
There is a group of certified old farts that live in town and they swim pretty much every single day, year round.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:31 AM (viF8m)
Heh, confusing New England with Nebraska. Must be from NY. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)
U.S. Military Strike Kills Four Narco‑Terrorists, Destroys Drug Vessel in Caribbean
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)
I deeply love that answer to all of the “you killed poor innocent fishermen!” bullshit. The cartels probably thought they were good to go again.
Best part - each strike costs the cartels $50 -$100 million in lost revenue.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 10:32 AM (c7Ygk)
Believe me or your lying eyes
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (Ia/+0)
She's autistic, and I'd suspected her new "friends" were encouraging her in this once she'd moved out. I hadn't realized it had progressed this far, since all communication is by text and computer not voice, and Inspector is completely blindsided.
We are both very angry at my M-I-L and other kids for saying nothing when they knew about this, her therapist and "friends" who encouraged her to try to erase the femininity she was uncomfortable with, and her for spending her inheritance on something that would have broken her Daddy's heart. Inspector is depressed because he blames himself, even though she carefully hid this, and can't relieve his feelings by hunting down and ending those who did this to her.
As you can see, there is a lot that needs prayed about. Wisdom, peace, reconciliation to reality, for a start.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Tom Servo
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at December 06, 2025 10:34 AM (XQo4F)
I have to give the cartels credit for more stamina than I expected. I figured after three or four boats sunk just to prove that the first two weren't flukes, they'd stop sending them until they figured out something else. Instead, they just keep loading up inventory and soldiers and sending them out to keep getting splashed. Do they think we're going to run out of missiles any day now?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2025 10:34 AM (3nLb4)
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I guess we're eliminating the middle man. With extreme prejudice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater
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ummm, a spur spinning and a rattle snake shaking it's rattle...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:35 AM (VCgbV)
Best part - each strike costs the cartels $50 -$100 million in lost revenue.
Anyone mention this yet? Because it certainly explains why we haven't been so warlike in the past with our decades-long 'war on drugs.' How many others are compromised?
@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - The DEA’s chief financial director under Obama, Paul Campo, who resigned in 2016 ahead of Trump’s administration, had his Virginia home raided and has been charged for agreeing to launder $12 million for the CJNG, a Mexican cartel, while acting in his role at the DEA.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (GbwPZ)
So I watched that video. There were a lot of take-aways.
The various bimbos that claimed "I am the table" are basically saying "my childish mindset and and fine rack".
They expect abs and a thick wallet.
OK, fine. The rack is diminishing, while the wallet, in a career oriented man, is increasing over time. So she needs to provide some sort of risk mitigation where his assets are appreciating while hers are depreciating in the form of something that can be improved (without plastic surgery) and a sincere will to improve.
The quick short-cut is, anyone who says "I am the table" is basically saying "I'm perfect the way I am and see no need for improvement" when the reality is that this person has no self-awareness, thus unable to process the abstraction of time over their worth as a human being in a relationship with another.
Definitely a No Go.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Oddbob
Kamikrazy Navy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2025 10:37 AM (dLRVC)
As you can see, there is a lot that needs prayed about. Wisdom, peace, reconciliation to reality, for a start.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (lFFaq)
Prayers for you and your family
Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2025 10:37 AM (VE6XX)
https://tinyurl.com/ma2tdux4
For years we were told it was impossible to seal the southern border and we should accept some level of illegals pouring into the country. Trump sealed the border in a long weekend.
We are going to see the same thing with the cartels. They could have been stopped years ago but it was not in the interests of our deep state to do it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)
Also knowing that you are part of a team blowing shit up is definitely a morale booster.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:38 AM (a4flb)
Words fail, Polliwog the 'Ette
Will pray for you and your daughter.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:39 AM (GbwPZ)
BREAKING - The DEA’s chief financial director under Obama, Paul Campo, who resigned in 2016 ahead of Trump’s administration, had his Virginia home raided and has been charged for agreeing to launder $12 million for the CJNG, a Mexican cartel, while acting in his role at the DEA.
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Public service works best when you know how to monetize it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 10:39 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM***
MBiC, that's the least of your problems
how are you going to go for weeks on end ( months, even) without washing your Buick because it's too cold?
Posted by: heywood the third at December 06, 2025 10:39 AM (YHzoo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Oddbob*
A single zap from a high energy laser costs about a dollar.
Call us.
Posted by: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, or General Atomics at December 06, 2025 10:40 AM (XQo4F)
In case it hasn't been posted yet, JD had a funny anecdote about Trump and shoes. Marco wears 11.5. JD wears 13. I wonder who the unnamed politician is that wears a 7.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/
1997132492747227450
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:41 AM (gWBY1)
Trick Question!
Psychopaths never admit to mistakes because in their mind, they never make any.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:42 AM (a4flb)
You've called my bluff I'm not so hot
Now is that love
My assets froze while yours have dropped
Now is that, is that --
It's the cupid cupid cupid disguise
That more or less survived
Now that is love
Posted by: SQUEEZE at December 06, 2025 10:42 AM (GbwPZ)
Do you know if she's taking any hormones?
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:43 AM (VCgbV)
If you are using a six ft lead, try a longer lead with him. I use a 30 footer on Jake and coil it up when he is walking. I find I have better control, as I can let the lead out as needed.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 10:43 AM (+mUZM)
The average IQ in Somalia is 68, which is below the line for mental retardation. 7 out of 10 Somalians live in poverty. Their per capita GDP is 1,000 dollars (USA is 90,000). Somalia does not have a functional waste management system. The tallest fully constructed building in the country is 10 stories. So where is this Somali excellence exactly?
Aaboom16🇸🇴 @aaboom16
Whites are jealous coz they can’t compete with Somali excellence
X: https://bit.ly/44NjsXR
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 10:44 AM (P5BPp)
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Yeah, WTF?
They look like some bizarre offshoot from the main line of hominids. But I'm sure one of them will cure cancer any day now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 10:44 AM (JkO4W)
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/
1997132492747227450
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:41 AM (gWBY1)
Saw that.
Hilarious!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:44 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2025 10:45 AM (dLRVC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:46 AM (1Vo6X)
That's why Trump is so focused on removing Maduro. Venezuela has become ground zero for foreign meddling in the US by countries such as China and Iran and of course Hezbollah. Time to take away their sanctuary in our backyard.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:47 AM (viF8m)
I don't think the military has provided location data. The Caribbean is pretty big and those boats have limited range. Just curious... if they're sailing from Venezuelan waters or elsewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 10:49 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:41 AM
Anna Scott: You know what they say about men with big feet.
William Thatcher: No, I don't, actually. What's that?
Anna Scott: Big feet... large... shoes.
Posted by: Notting Hill at December 06, 2025 10:49 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:49 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)
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I would think that ilhan's incredible talent for wealth acquisition skews the average up by several hundred dollars at least.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 10:50 AM (JkO4W)
Gross! Good to know.
My husband loves zero sugar energy drinks and Mountain Dew. But lately he's been buying G-Fuel online, powdered instead of the cans of Monster or Reign or whatever.
Well, his birthday I bought him a soda stream and the Mountain Dew syrups. Soda is so expensive in the stores. I mostly bought it to save money in the long run (I got the machine half off on prime day!) and because I hated doing late night soda runs if he ran out. Glad he loves the gift! He mixing up his soda in the morning and taking it to work.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:52 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: 496 at December 06, 2025 10:52 AM (oOhQ4)
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And add to this their "religion" which tells them it's ok to lie and steal from nonbelievers.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:52 AM (2WIwB)
Thanks; I so appreciate that. I would like to praise dear and departed Oregon Muse who came up with the idea , for Annie's Stew in receiving the prayer requests after I left the role , and for MisHum for continuing to post it It is so important, I feel.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:53 AM (1Vo6X)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:54 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: One of those people who says Nothing Will Happen at December 06, 2025 10:54 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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Sending prayers. I learned recently that a young woman I used to babysit *mumble* years ago has changed her name and probably is living as a "man." Her father just passed after a long hard fought battle with cancer. It is heartbreaking. And enraging.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 06, 2025 10:56 AM (UONii)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (hhkIi)
She's 24. Don't know about hormones. She is calling herself non-binary, so hopefully won't take that step. The thing is, I *understand* a lot of what drove her to this because I went through it myself when much younger. If she'd said *anything* we may have been able to help.
It doesn't help that she was an absolutely stunningly beautiful child (and it wasn't just me saying that) and a very pretty young woman. Being autistic, she found the attention it drew anywhere from uncomfortable to downright creepy and frightening. It made her easy prey for those who get off on destroying beauty.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (lFFaq)
"Armed federal agents swarmed the Oakton home of Paul Campo, a former top DEA official accused of planning to launder over $12 million."
When you get to stealing $8 billion, call us. *laughs in Somalian*
Posted by: Somalis in Minnesota at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (gWBY1)
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Silence may be violence but so is speech. His duty was to bleed quietly.
https://is.gd/N00Vrj
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:01 AM (Ia/+0)
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Regarding Doctor Levine, the NPR piece referred to him as an Admiral in the Public Health Service, a medical leader and a woman. When in fact:
1. He was born a male, socially transitioned in his 50s after being married with two children. He is not a woman. And I don't care what pronouns he prefers, the grammatically correct pronouns are he/him/his.
2. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Sec'y of HHS he never served in the Public Health Service, wore the uniform or attained any prior rank. His immediate appointment and elevation to the rank of Admiral was purely political and ceremonial, and not earned. It should have been offensive to career officers of the Health Service.
3. He is not now and never was a leader in the field of medicine. In the years I knew him in medical school he was at best a dullard. As a physician he parroted the party line of the AAP and WPATH, pushing the so-called transitioning of minors. His medical practice focused on affirming the gender delusions of teens and preadolescents.
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 11:01 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 11:02 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:02 AM (GLocS)
Hopefully she doesn’t/didn't take hormones. It's awful that she mutilated herself but she can recover otherwise down the road if no hormones were taken. Many of these kids wind up changing their minds as they mature and realize they made a very bad mistake. Praying for her and your family!🙏
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:03 AM (VCgbV)
NYC: Running of the Homeless
Socialist Mamdani Vows to Let Homeless Run Wild in New York City
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)
Second go at our rickshaw service idea?
Posted by: Kramer & Newman at December 06, 2025 11:03 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 11:05 AM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Because that's what matters at December 06, 2025 11:05 AM (XQo4F)
The suburban county to the west of Portland, with a substantial Hispanic population, refuses to use the category "Hispanic" in its arrest records.
So, when they arrest Jose Maria Lyons-Santos Garcia, he gets classified as "white".
"Look at all the white people committing crimes in suburban Portland!"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 11:05 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Because that's what matters
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No, his was a "social transition".
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:06 AM (VCgbV)
Thank for that. We need constant reminders of the lunacy of the left and their desire to subvert even the most non-political institutions.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:06 AM (GLocS)
Laters!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:07 AM (VCgbV)
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Innocent seabirds?
https://is.gd/9qQ5n6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
https://x.com/Phoenix2A_1980s/
status/1995873684503015836
I am 100% for shelter dogs and finding loving homes for them all. They deserve it. But we had to get a hypoallergenic dog because of allergies. Our doodle pup has blessed our lives and made it richer. If we hadn't gotten him, it wouldn't have saved a shelter dog's life. We would just have no dog. And that would be a tragedy.
Karens need to stop Karen-ing and get a life. That woman clearly has a hole in her soul. But scolding others won't fill it.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:10 AM (gWBY1)
Europe needs to decide whether it’s America’s friend or America’s foe. Europe can’t have it both ways.
the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and security—including censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, support for Communist Cuba, etc etc. This inconsistency cannot continue. Either the great nations of Europe are our partners in protecting the Western civilization that we inherited from them or they are not. But we cannot pretend that we are partners while those nations allow the EU’s unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels to pursue policies of civilizational suicide.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (E7tow)
Is it OK to blow up the boats if they were bringing in mustard gas or nukes? Or no boeno?
Fentanyl killed over a 100k last year - so it definitely clears the hurdle of being deemed toxic.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (a4flb)
Phrenology makes a comeback!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (GLocS)
"Armed federal agents swarmed the Oakton home of Paul Campo, a former top DEA official accused of planning to launder over $12 million."
When you get to stealing $8 billion, call us. *laughs in Somalian*
Posted by: Somalis in Minnesota at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (gWBY1)
This is actually a very significant story - he was the former CFO for the DEA, under Obama. I strongly believe, and I think this is evidence, that large parts of the DEA (as well as other agencies, both Federal and State) have been working as allies with the Cartels for a long time. I think this guy was a Cartel asset the entire time he was working for the DEA.
This is why the attacks on the drug boats terrify so much of "Polite Society". It threatens to end the game that has enriched so many of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:12 AM (uWKK8)
UDUP, how do you roast your coffee? Curious if a dedicated roaster is needed to make the whole effort worth it, and what those might run in $.
Per the busted DEA executive. Seems fairly likely this could be big, in that such an arrest normally leads to unraveling a much wider corruption situation. Campo is fairly highly placed, and presumably a plea deal could yield a lot of stuff implicating many others.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 11:12 AM (U/Byj)
Please use a URL shortening app. You are blowing the margins for some phone users.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:13 AM (GLocS)
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Check the crawlspace at his previous homes. He’s a kiddie fucker, guaranteed
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 11:13 AM (IY3/h)
Every time I rewatch this, I find something new to love. The pained look on his face. The constant chewing but not swallowing because he isn’t sure he can keep it down if he does. The frenetic pointless rearranging of the slop in the bowl to give the appearance of engaging with the meal while doing everything possible to not eat it.
johnny maga @_johnnymaga
Lmfaooo. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holding on for dear life as he dines in a Somali restaurant to stick it to Trump.
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.
X video: https://bit.ly/3KM2tP1
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 11:14 AM (P5BPp)
Pollliwog, my heart goes out to you. I hope your family and especially your Daughter (no matter what she calls herself) heals from this hellscape.
Posted by: Moki at December 06, 2025 11:14 AM (wLjpr)
its like Uncle Sam is dating Eve†
† of the Three Faces of Eve movie
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:15 AM (a4flb)
Our government paid for it.
This was alluded to early in Trump's current term by at least two cabinet members. No specifics were given at the time.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:16 AM (NwnyJ)
Hadrian, in case you haven't seen, pray you never meet this woman on a walking trail.
https://tinyurl.com/2zdmsvjn
I am 100% for shelter dogs and finding loving homes for them all. They deserve it. But we had to get a hypoallergenic dog because of allergies. Our doodle pup has blessed our lives and made it richer. If we hadn't gotten him, it wouldn't have saved a shelter dog's life. We would just have no dog. And that would be a tragedy.
Karens need to stop Karen-ing and get a life. That woman clearly has a hole in her soul. But scolding others won't fill it.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:16 AM (gWBY1)
The Old Europeans = Friends
The "New" Europeans = Not Friends
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (sl73Y)
What you probably want is a drum roaster. The tech goes back centuries. Can use on about anything. Makes copious smoke. Even a cast iron skillet and wooden spoon works excellent. That’s how they probably do it in the wilds of Brazil.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (IY3/h)
This was discussed - loudly and angrily - immediately after the Soviet collapse, within actual foreign policy circles, though mostly in private. The expansionists never won an argument (or even really made much sense) but won the war, along with inertia.
It's almost amusing that the current administration's approach just ignores the fundamental question, and focuses on burden-sharing and budget %s, neither of which are really the point. The wry way of putting it would be "the 1960s called and they want their Mansfield Amendment back."
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 11:19 AM (U/Byj)
The "New" Europeans = Not Friends
Is that backwards? I thought the "New" Euros were the former Soviet bloc countries.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (sl73Y)
this is certainly not meant to denigrate Muldoon; but I would loathe anyone I ran across who *was* fond of that louse Levine.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 11:21 AM (Kt19C)
For the first year, I was perfectly happy doing small batches (3-4oz) using an air popcorn popper I picked up at Goodwill for $5
Now using a Behmor for ½ pound at a time roasts (smaller usually means better consistency per roast). Though the Behmor, due to its design is sort of a Roast-n-Coast since it takes forever to cool the beans, so right at first crack I'll pop open the door and hit it for 30-40seconds with a small leaf blower to cool the chamber and the beans.
With both the air popper and the open-door cooling method of the Behmor - it will make a tremendous mess of silverskin from the bean. Do it outdoors or in the garage near the door. Normal Behmor operations discharge only a pleasant roasted bean smell to the environs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:21 AM (a4flb)
For the first year, I was perfectly happy doing small batches (3-4oz) using an air popcorn popper I picked up at Goodwill for $5
Now using a Behmor for ½ pound at a time roasts (smaller usually means better consistency per roast). Though the Behmor, due to its design is sort of a Roast-n-Coast since it takes forever to cool the beans, so right at first crack I'll pop open the door and hit it for 30-40seconds with a small leaf blower to cool the chamber and the beans.
With both the air popper and the open-door cooling method of the Behmor - it will make a tremendous mess of silverskin from the bean. Do it outdoors or in the garage near the door. Normal Behmor operations discharge only a pleasant roasted bean smell to the environs.
This sounds more like a job than what I want.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
No worries! I edited your original comment. The margins are slim and happy!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:22 AM (GLocS)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (GLocS)
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Knot gonna happen...
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 11:23 AM (/iMjX)
We've been living in a sort of Matrix like world where we focus on the next shiny object in the public sphere while a lot of the real action is taking place behind the scene. Another example, there is no way that the Biden crime family was scooping on foreign cash by the truck load in places like Ukraine without the knowledge and blessing of the intel community. The place was basically being run by the CIA, they knew everything that was going on and did nothing.
Fast forward to the Biden fake presidency and he helps start a war in Ukraine where nearly $200 billion of our tax dollars disappeared into the ether. Much of that money went straight back to politicians in DC and the intel community.
If the intel community is not brought to heel we will never get out of this cycle. The CIA should be closed. It is beyond reform.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:23 AM (viF8m)
You realize that some AI engine is scooping up this advice and will appear some day in ChatGPT.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:23 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 06, 2025 11:24 AM (UONii)
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:24 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: pookysgirl needs Monday to get here at December 06, 2025 11:24 AM (Wt5PA)
Normal operations means you pour a half pound of green beans (at $7/lb) into the cage, push two buttons and come back to a fresh batch of beans in 20 minutes.
Its easier than toasting a bagel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:25 AM (a4flb)
"Now using a Behmor for ½ pound at a time roasts (smaller usually means better consistency per roast). Though the Behmor, due to its design is sort of a Roast-n-Coast since it takes forever to cool the beans, so right at first crack I'll pop open the door and hit it for 30-40seconds with a small leaf blower to cool the chamber and the beans.
With both the air popper and the open-door cooling method of the Behmor - it will make a tremendous mess of silverskin from the bean. Do it outdoors or in the garage near the door."
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You know we sell ground coffee ready to brew, right?
Posted by: The grocery store at December 06, 2025 11:25 AM (XQo4F)
The "New" Europeans = Not Friends
Is that backwards? I thought the "New" Euros were the former Soviet bloc countries.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
I should of been more clear.
New Europeans = All the Mohammedians moving in.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: The grocery store at December 06, 2025 11:25 AM (XQo4F)
Freshly roasted and ground coffee is simply better.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:27 AM (GLocS)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 11:28 AM (U/Byj)
I bought silicone molds to make bagels at home, since they can get pricey buying them all the time. But I realized I'd rather just buy them at the store. I'm too lazy to make bagels from scratch.
Bread on the other hand... love my bread maker! We are saving so much money baking bread at home.
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:29 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 11:29 AM (hhkIi)
I assure you that not a single person has griped or complained about the quality of the output.
Roasters allow you to manage the heat and cooling profiles. While the Behmor has a tendancy to under-roast beans, and the lawyers put in a baby-sitting mode where you physically have to be around the thing right before it kicks into cooling mode, I like the ability to roast different beans and empirically evaluate the smoke, the crack and the color during the process becaues each batch is slightly different.
FWIW, decaf beans are difficult to roast because there are none of the traditional signals like crack, smoke and color. You have to actually use those infra-red heat probes to measure the external bean temperature if you are particular about the result.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:31 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 11:31 AM (hhkIi)
Let's make a cup of coffee!
Posted by: Because it tastes better at December 06, 2025 11:31 AM (XQo4F)
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The CIA is self supporting. They've got so many fronts making money for their ops they don't need federal funding. Like you said; the Agency is beyond reform, but it's also ungovernable and totally self sufficient.
How do you deal with that? I've no clue.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (NwnyJ)
If someone opens a brothel I might sell my house and by and RV and live in the parking lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)
I roast several pounds in one session of different varieties. I find that the high elevation Central American beans don't profit from that one-two week maturation.
Kenyans and Ethiopian beans, yeah. Especially the dry processed Indonesians prefer some outgassing time.
The rule is: start a new session a week before the existing inventory is exhausted. No planning necessary. If I have any beans extra, I bag them up and give them to the pastor or my barber.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:34 AM (a4flb)
Let's make a cup of coffee!
Wasn't that a MacGyver episode?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:35 AM (a4flb)
Rule Of Fifteen:
• fifteen months from harvest before beans go stale.
• fifteen days after roasting before beans go stale
• fifteen minutes after grinding before beans go stale.
And I doubt your grocery store keeps roasted or ground beans in the refrigerator before you pick them up. And yes, those beans sit in multiple warehouses and truck trailers before sitting on your grocery shelf.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:38 AM (a4flb)
https://archive.is/WGxve
(archived site for the article linked in the post)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 11:43 AM (RuTUS)
If someone opens a brothel I might sell my house and by and RV and live in the parking lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)
It's a shame this got willowed!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 11:46 AM (RuTUS)
The interplay of water with the coffee beans at high heat means that often people prefer whatever they got used to because that is 'normal' which is the combination of their coffee beans and whatever passes for water in their specific locality.
I think the big coffee store merchants all used filtered water to get the same consistency in taste between stores.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: PaleRid
I just use a Mr Coffee machine but I also buy whole bean coffee. I buy Trader Joe's medium roast and French roast, mis the beans to get just the right strength that I like. Use light cream. Perfect.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Mick at December 06, 2025 01:19 PM (HFx9z)
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What an exercise in futility! Good Lord, save us from the fucking hipsters.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 01:48 PM (skqM3)
Daily Tech News 6 December 2025
Top Story
- I bought myself a mini-PC for Christmas. Minisforum X1-255.
Not because I particularly need a new system, though this one is a lot better than my two existing Beelink units (twice the speed, memory*, and storage).
Mostly because it comes with 64GB of RAM and only costs $50 more than the RAM alone.
Looks like it's completely sold out in the US already.
Update: Placed the order just four hours ago and it's already shipped. Should have it by Friday.
* The existing units only came with 8GB of RAM, so as shipped the new one has eight times as much. But I already had RAM for those left over from upgrading my laptops, back when that was cheap to do.
- AI gadget makers are chasing problems that don't exist, says the CEO of AI gadget maker Logitech. (Tom's Hardware)
That's a little unfair. Logitech's webcams use discriminative AI to keep you centered in the frame, for example, and to mute background noise. Other companies, though:Faber argued that the wave of AI-first gadgets released over the past year remains untethered from a clear purpose. Products such as the Humane AI Pin - acquired by HP in February - and Rabbit R1 launched with the promise of replacing parts of the smartphone experience, only to draw criticism for slow performance, limited features, and subscription-driven pricing.
The upcoming unnamed product from OpenAI looks to be another screenless phone piece of overpriced junk.Their reception has shaped the debate around whether a general-purpose assistant belongs in a dedicated device at all. According to Faber, these early efforts solve little that a phone or PC cannot already handle, which is a view that has gained traction as both devices incorporate larger on-device models and tighter integrations with cloud assistants.
As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.
Tech News
- AMD's upcoming "Gorgon" family Ryzen 470 CPU is basically just a Ryzen 370. (WCCFTech)
I was comparing specs earlier. The Ryzen 370 has 12 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores, where the Ryzen 255 I just bought has 8 CPU cores and 12 GPU cores.
But the 370 is just 20% faster than the 255 while the relevant Minisforum model is 60% more expensive.
- Intel chips could power iPhones in 2028. (WCCFTech)
That's Intel as a manufacturer, not Intel as a designer. They'll still be "Apple Silicon", but Apple has booked space on Intel's 18A production line to start fabricating chips now that TSMC is 100% sold out.
- Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US because it is, well, 100% sold out. (WCCFTech)
This of for chips like modern AMD and Intel CPUs, where multiple small dies are packaged together on a larger silicon substrate.
- Nimony is a compiler from the Nim team. (Nim-lang)
It will become Nim 3.0 in time, but it is already a useful compiler if you're interested in high-performance code with built-in memory management.
- Two government contractors who were sentenced to prison in 2015 after being caught hacking government computers have been indicted for hacking government computers again after being rehired after their prison sentences ended. (Bleeping Computer)
According to court documents, Muneeb Akhter deleted roughly 96 databases containing U.S. government information in February 2025, including Freedom of Information Act records and sensitive investigative documents from multiple federal agencies.
Fill the cell in with cement. Then go after whoever hired these people.
One minute after deleting a Department of Homeland Security database, Muneeb Akhter also allegedly asked an artificial intelligence tool for instructions on clearing system logs after deleting a database.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Saturday morning?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (WKHVO)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 06, 2025 04:04 AM (pIfcn)
Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 04:10 AM (YoT4f)
>>>Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US
TSMC = Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)
That video seems very life-affirming. The first half ... especially.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:21 AM (RuTUS)
Polymarket
@Polymarket
Dec 4
BREAKING: Within the past 72 hours:
- Apple's AI Chief steps down
- Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta
- Apple's Policy Chief steps down
- Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)
_-_
Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition. And the stuff that actually is AI, well, not THAT useful yet.
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Colin at December 06, 2025 04:51 AM (wlQdF)
Dec 5
Tesla buys Apple & the fun begins.
... and prompted some engaging comments, like:
Totally Legitimate Person
@selfstyldpundit
9h
Tesla’s market cap is 1.4 trillion. Apple’s is 4.1 trillion. You can keep fantasizing but if there’s a sale it’s going the other way.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:51 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 06, 2025 04:52 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)
high-fiber
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:55 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:55 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)
high-fiber
Lite, Low Fat, non GMO
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:58 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)
It seems that C-suite techies (higher than these, I think) come and go.
(talking of Michelangelo)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:07 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 06, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 05:14 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:20 AM (AN2gy)
I had finished with most bird feeder task and gone in the house, but I came back out with a little dog.
Bun Bun slowly retreated, but when I looked from the kitchen window it was back, munching away at cracked corn and millet.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:25 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)
49.
That's like a half a century ago.
Or more.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)
There needs to be firings through several layers of management.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)
49.
That's like a half a century ago.
Or more.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)
In a world of 30-year generations, that's, like, gettin' on to two generations.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)
Was looking up my issue of no.media sounds and does say not restarted ( a few weeks now) could be the problem.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:31 AM (zMLZ6)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:33 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:36 AM (Nx5jP)
_-_
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (vd6bO)
Good morning, good people. Winter is finally here, next Wednesday before it breaks out of the teens.
With snow.
Please enjoy the usual max benefit from your effort, while giggling at the leftwit fungi squirming under their utter wretchedness.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (vFbHf)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin covered it about 20 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjQhkdqMUI
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)
So, not a big fan of cell phones, eh?😉 Me either.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:38 AM (Nx5jP)
But this one still mostly works and is fine ither than it has no media sound
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:42 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/56xn2dy2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:42 AM (ix8EF)
_-_
Actually did that to mine once...kinda therapeutic, really....Dropped it on the ground and it started freaking out like it was possessed....screen was spiderwebbed, and it was like the screen was pushing buttons, but my sledgehammer handled the job nicely, put it out of its misery....wife insisted I buy a new phone, though, dagnabit.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 05:44 AM (Cjt/F)
'Homeland Security'. 'Muneeb Akhter'...
I already see the problem, and it isn't the 34-year-old "Virginia Man", as the DOJ describes him.
Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2025 05:45 AM (f4tQo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:46 AM (ix8EF)
_-_
Actually did that to mine once...kinda therapeutic, really....Dropped it on the ground and it started freaking out like it was possessed....screen was spiderwebbed, and it was like the screen was pushing buttons, but my sledgehammer handled the job nicely, put it out of its misery....
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)
hahahahaha great story
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:47 AM (RuTUS)
And decide that a "Department of Homeland Security" was a bad fucking idea from the get-go and get rid of it.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 05:49 AM (1JufS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:49 AM (ix8EF)
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.Harry
Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 05:50 AM (SXn5K)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:51 AM (XQo4F)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin covered it about 20 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjQhkdqMUI
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)
Tons of fun!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:51 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:59 AM (XQo4F)
>>As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.
Cloud assistants mean SaaS and subscription pricing for crap you don't need and likely don't want for myriad reasons.
Kill them all. Let God sort them out.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:00 AM (dK+Kv)
Evening and morning, Tech Folken. I'm up, a bit earlier than I planned (thanks, Stirling, you flying meatloaf!), and am having coffee before feeding the thugs and then myself. Whassup this day?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025
***
I hear it's all right for fighting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sir Elton at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)
What's their secret?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.
My grandchildren should be singing W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! That should be a difficult lyric. Hopefully AI will help them out?
Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 06:04 AM (SXn5K)
Posted by: Idiocracy at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (QAQdw)
Posted by: Sir Elton at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)
A couple of the sounds that you really like?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)
The ones that I bought are used as servers within my home network. gateway/ntp/dhcp/dns for one, the other a cacti server (https://docs.cacti.net). I've got Slackware 15.0 on the first one and Obarun on the second. (Both are Linux distributions.)
I won't claim the devices are cheap or cost-effective (that wasn't in my decision matrix), but they have been solid performers and simple to load different Linux distributions upon themselves. There's a 1U rack mount shelf you can get that works just fine (for those who have rack mounts).
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 06:07 AM (1JufS)
That's why I don't dust.
It might be someone I know.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)
"We're the United States of Ameragottit!”
https://tinyurl.com/m7s7zpxk
(Greg Price on X)
He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (bQ4nt)
Sometimes I’ll brush the phone with my thumb or grab it wrong and it goes into ultra magnification mode. That’s fun to fix without rebooting.
The only time i was worried a little bit I was messing around in Settings. Oops.
I saw all the different languages it supports. Cool! I wonder what everything looks like in a different language?
Hm, let’s find something really exotic looking. Cambodian should do, I think. It worked! And …. You’ll never guess what happened! I couldn’t find the language part in Settings to get out of Cambodian, took me about 15 minutes.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (4eslj)
https://tinyurl.com/5n62zvbs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:10 AM (IEV/x)
Posted by: Creepy Joe at December 06, 2025 06:10 AM (XQo4F)
https://tinyurl.com/43yry6pc
(Carscoops.com)
Made famous by James Bond in a few of the movies, especially For Your Eyes Only.
I thought they were the coolest looking cars on the planet when I was like 10.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (6ydKt)
Minnesota is raping itself
A Somalian is on a raping spree and hasn't served a very light sentence. They are doing what England did
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)
"We're the United States of Ameragottit!”
https://tinyurl.com/m7s7zpxk
(Greg Price on X)
He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)
Another transliteration:
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
12h
Joe Biden at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute cannot pronounce the "United States of America."
"We're the United Statz Aadfsoihiopuefhqwnjklavds"
That's the phonetic pronunciation. h/t @RyanSaavedra
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (RuTUS)
Rebooting often works.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:13 AM (wzUl9)
Lite, Low Fat, non GMO
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:58 AM (vd6bO)
Green, sustainable, carbon-neutral.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:13 AM (dK+Kv)
He's taking extended-release stupid/evil pills. His normal state is zombie mutter but, occasionally, a micro-dose of evil will be administered and he starts screaming... unless a little girl in nearby.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 06, 2025 06:15 AM (ExV1e)
Kevin Joseph
@ShiloZafun
10h
I'm hearing "United States of Merrick Garland" some times and other times I hear "United States of Olive Garden."
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:16 AM (RuTUS)
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs let out, coffee made, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian. Getting Her Majesty and The Big Dummy on the road to Florida this morning, going out for dog food for the beasts, plus some other shopping, then going to Confession.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:17 AM (tgvbd)
>>> I thought they were the coolest looking cars on the planet when I was like 10.
When I was slightly younger, I had a Lotus Europa in my Matchbox collection and thought it was one of the coolest looking cars I had.
It was only in adult years did I realize how small they are. Apparently they are popular for DIY mods and you can get quite a lot of speed out of a decent four banger.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
That's just it. They use models and datasets to train the systems to recognize the problems and perform some sort of correction, which is pretty standard machine learning stuff. Hardly "AI" or even "I." But marketers don't care.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (dK+Kv)
And this afternoon Linda wants to go to this Christmas fair, indoors at least, at the German-American Center in the city proper. Gah. Not the center itself, or the fair, or the people -- but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole.
I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Not A Doctor Jill at December 06, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)
I have noticed a variety of chicom-modded AMI-style BIOSes in boxes lately; got to regard them with a degree of suspicion.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:20 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (0cOaq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
I vaguely remember some satirical headline like "Boyfriends Fear Free Concert in the Park Season". This must be the winter version.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:22 AM (tgvbd)
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Looks like a Hawaiian-Scandinavian hybrid language.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:22 AM (0cOaq)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (0cOaq)
I have broken out a newish Lipton Forest Fruits Frutti Rossi Black Tea with Strawberries - From France
and the whole room reeks of strawberries.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)
###
Download our apps.
Posted by: The good people of Uber and Lyft at December 06, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)
The ones that I bought are used as servers within my home network. gateway/ntp/dhcp/dns for one, the other a cacti server (https://docs.cacti.net). I've got Slackware 15.0 on the first one and Obarun on the second. (Both are Linux distributions.)
I won't claim the devices are cheap or cost-effective (that wasn't in my decision matrix), but they have been solid performers and simple to load different Linux distributions upon themselves. There's a 1U rack mount shelf you can get that works just fine (for those who have rack mounts).
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 06:07 AM (1JufS)
I have one set up as an opensense router/gateway that has been rock solid. Very impressive.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (dK+Kv)
I am the time-pendulum.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
Rejoinder: Monday, Monday.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025
***
"From this time forward, you will service . . . us."
Posted by: Locutus of the Borg at December 06, 2025 06:25 AM (wzUl9)
I am the time-pendulum.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
We've kept it all warm and cozy for you.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)
You don't remind me much of Claudius from "Hamlet". I hope that the day is better anticipated .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (IEV/x)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM
Stay in your lane.
Posted by: The grandfather clock in the foyer at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (XQo4F)
###
Download our apps.
Posted by: The good people of Uber and Lyft at December 06, 2025
***
I'd sooner trust the Borg.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:27 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:28 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:28 AM (RuTUS)
*
You don't remind me much of Claudius from "Hamlet". I hope that the day is better anticipated .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025
***
Fen, the event itself is fine. For a time the German Center used to be in the suburbs, off a major Federal highway, and visiting there was great. For that matter, for a big part of my life the city itself was exciting and magnetic. Not no mo'.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (wzUl9)
...
Feb 23, 2014 — The Time Lords are the rulers of Gallifreyan society as well as their military leaders, selected from early childhood (age
, shown the untempered schism.Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (RuTUS)
It was only in adult years did I realize how small they are. Apparently they are popular for DIY mods and you can get quite a lot of speed out of a decent four banger.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)
I had a few Matchbox, but several dozen Hot Wheels (they ran smoother and faster ).
My favorite was a silver Ferrari Tesstarosa.
I gave away most of my collection when I was a teenager but I still have eight or ten that I kept and the Ferrari is one of them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.
My grandchildren should be singing W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! That should be a difficult lyric. Hopefully AI will help them out?
Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 06:04 AM (SXn5K)
----
In addition to the "no math rule" maybe we should have a "no spelling rule."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 06:30 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:31 AM (RuTUS)
happy to observe that the uber/lyft business model does not extend into cows&corn country, lol, nor does doordash ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:31 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:34 AM (AN2gy)
happy to observe that the uber/lyft business model does not extend into cows&corn country, lol, nor does doordash ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025
***
I suppose if I *needed* a car ride, say, back from my mechanic or something, and had no other choice, I could do Lyft or Uber. But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)
I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (m6HS6)
Thanks for the helpful advice. I gave it to FenSpouse and he fixed it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (uA11f)
"A Tennessee man and his three-month-old granddaughter were found dead after being mauled by seven pit bulls inside their family home.
DA's office said authorities are still investigating whether the victims died before or after being attacked by the dogs"
Having been in the middle of a dog fight, I can attest it is a melee that you do not want to be in without a weapon.
Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)
I gave away most of my collection when I was a teenager but I still have eight or ten that I kept and the Ferrari is one of them.
I have none of my mine, but I do pause to look when I pass them in store aisles.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)
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My friend recently took a Lyft and the driver was quite based and a Trump fan! In the Portland metro area!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (0cOaq)
I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (m6HS6)
Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Autocucumber at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:39 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (0cOaq)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)
*** gimlet eye ***
Posted by: Autocucumber at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (AN2gy)
Is that g-i-m-l-e-t?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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My friend recently took a Lyft and the driver was quite based and a Trump fan! In the Portland metro area!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025
***
Then I guess it's just the luck of the draw.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)
Haven’t been down a toy aisle in forever.
Do the toy cats even look the same?
Same size, materials, and all?
I recall Hot Wheels was getting into the fantasy style for while; crazy designs with bright colors, etc.
That turned me off of them.
I like my fake toy miniature cars looking exactly like the real thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:41 AM (6ydKt)
That must be something like the drop detector pendants for old folks I see advertised nowadays.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/2p5cdndw
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:45 AM (IeCgc)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:46 AM (dK+Kv)
That turned me off of them.
I like my fake toy miniature cars looking exactly like the real thing.
They had fantastic designs in the early 70s, though I think some were based on famous custom cars. Pretty sure my Red Baron mobile was not ;--)
They did do track and track friendly wheels a few years before Matchbox did.
I shall do some inspecting later this AM as I wander the supermarket.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:47 AM (AN2gy)
That must be something like the drop detector pendants for old folks I see advertised nowadays.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)
super cool
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:47 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:48 AM (Cjt/F)
I think Rolls Royce’s & Bentleys had a good reputation but who can drive a Rolls these days?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:48 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
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It is mostly being installed in memory care neighborhoods.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (m6HS6)
Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)
A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
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It is mostly being installed in memory care neighborhoods.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (m6HS6)
Really great!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)
"Honey, I know a promised we would take a cruise around the world when we retired, but I decided to lent a Rolls Royce for a weekend, instead."
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:51 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025
*
A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025
***
I'll stick with my mini-tigers, thanks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)
Mrs. So-and-So is sleeping longer than usual, let's check if she still needs her Trazadone.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (m6HS6)
I have learned something. I can let my brain rest for the day.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)
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There is a beautiful pittie in our neighborhood that whenever we walk by, she flops over and demands belly scritches.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:55 AM (m6HS6)
I did an image search. What a beautiful car, esp. in "drophead coupe" (= convertible?) form.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (wzUl9)
Lucas Electric is the Prince of Sudden and Unexpected Darkness.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (Cjt/F)
"While the original model featured a 1914 Mercedes-Benz inline 6-cylinder engine, the full-size car received an OHC Pontiac 6-cylinder"
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: MG and Triumph owners everywhere at December 06, 2025 06:57 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (tgvbd)
A commercial that had sticking power:
(Wikipedia) "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" is a line spoken in television commercials for LifeCall, a now defunct medical alarm and protection company.
The line was spoken by actress Dorothy McHugh in a 1987 LifeCall television commercial. LifeCall subscribers, mostly seniors and disabled people, would receive a pendant which, when activated, would allow the user to speak into an audio receiving device and talk directly with a dispatch service, without the need to reach a telephone.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (WYStd)
Found on the interwebz.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025
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I just don't find pitbulls and their mixes to be attractive dogs. German shepherds, collies, mini-collies, Corgis, even Schipperkes are good-looking or cute. Pitbulls, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)
Have 3 empty spaces and only 8 cards hidden, 6 are doubles
533 moves and trapped
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (WYStd
*raging eye twitch*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:00 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:01 AM (m6HS6)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)
I had one guy come up while I was pumping gas who said "I didn't know that Triumph made cars".
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)
After several years, the family's insurance agent intervened and insisted that sponsored rifle matches on a farm were just too dangerous to cover. Nobody said a damn word about the pumas.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025
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And my mechanic warned me that, while Jags are great cars, the parts are no cheaper than Mercedes parts. He works on both and loves 'em, but acknowledges their drawbacks.
His father had a modern aluminum-bodied Jag saloon for a time, before he stopped driving.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)
Looks like the Red Baron got its start as a plastic scale model kit.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (AN2gy)
She’s a sweet dog most of the time, and she does listen if you’re using a firm voice with her.
But they are built so strong, and are so impulsive and fast, it’s scary because you never know when the aggression will turn up.
She already bit one person out of nowhere.
Thankfully it was minor, but bro and his wife don’t take her out of the house/yard anymore because of it.
And this dog has never been trained to be aggressive. She’s been loved, given attention, and treated like any other dog they’ve had.
There’s just something in pit bulls that can cause them to snap unexpectedly as far as I can tell.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025
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They seem to be more placid. The little ones are more yappy and excitable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 07:07 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025
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Apparently they have been bred for it. You might as well expect a collie not to herd as a pitbull not to be aggressive, methinks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:00 AM (dK+Kv)
I know the horde doesn't like it, but the utility I get from these little devices is something that I now cannot live without. Had a smart home ever since I bought this place ten years ago, and it's awesome
I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)
Wikkid cool. I wouldn't say anything but would be noticeably gawking.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:09 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)
I would welcome a list of those.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)
I won't take this 1150 cc beast on the freeway. It's so low and little it's just too scary and at 80mph the engine is turning about 5000 rpm.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Sir Spiesalot at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)
Individual cats are another box of litter entirely.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (4eslj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sir Spiesalot at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)
also dogs
156 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)
Matthew 21:9
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (E24OL)
I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.
I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:14 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:14 AM (4eslj)
Are you kidding? Squeeze the package a few times. Tear the top back one inch at either top corner. Microwave on high for 90 seconds.
Boom. You've got perfectly cooked rice!
Thanks patriarchy!
Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 06, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F)
Over a decade ago decided that a desktop was too big, noisy, hot and power hungry and moved to notebook computers which could be stored in a vault when not in use or when leaving.
Due to the nature of my work, I'm running 3 4k monitors (43", 2 x 36"). I want the mini PC to be the future since with USB4 and modern docking stations throwing a cube half the size of a Kleenex box in the vault is really easy.
The mini-pc gives me all the stuff a notebook does except the screen, keyboard, and the ruggedness for travel - which I need only a few times a year.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)
We had a ragdoll, can confirm. I think he was home brew, not a registered cat.
Mrs fluffy has noticed that tabbies tend to be extroverted and friendly. My puppycat is a tabby.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (4eslj)
;-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)
"New ... York ... CITY?"
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (RuTUS)
I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)
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Have you seen Demon Seed?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:18 AM (m6HS6)
Posted by: Pace salsa at December 06, 2025 07:19 AM (XQo4F)
Matthew 21:9
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (E24OL)
Thank you, Marcus T!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)
The mental retards that live around here love their pit bulls and let them go charge people simply walking down the street (admittedly, I'm the only one walking down the street - people here are so lazy they drive to the mailbox)
That is why bullwhips are lovely stand-off weapons.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)
My observation is you can tell a LOT about people, by the nature or disposition and health of their pets.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:21 AM (4eslj)
I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.
I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)
Now do toilets.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"
If they get inside the range of the whip you better have a pistol or large knife.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (4eslj)
Maybe it says, on the package?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS)
Why would you give a product a name that most everyone will mis-read as misinform?
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 07:24 AM (sl73Y)
I saw the discussion yesterday, or earlier this week.
It brought to mind a parody I saw years back about the Google toilet. IIRC correctly, it blackmailed a guy into buying stuff because of his shameful browsing habits.
"Google: We're way up your ass"
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (4eslj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (sDNVV)
I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.
• Don't be the signal, be the noise.
• If you don't even make noise, you become the signal. (the dog that didn't bark)
• Don't do such evil shit that Leviathan decides to make you a cat toy.
Yeah, your refrigerator might not be reporting on you, but thousands of other things do. (e.g. neighborhood Ring door cameras, ALPR, traffic signal crossings, your phone, your power meter...)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:27 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 07:28 AM (W7XSX)
Its a pure Chinese product. Their marketing teams open a can of alphabet soup and discover their product name and company name in the first scoop.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
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There is a lot of good health data to be gathered from the toilet.
Please Google "poop chart"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (m6HS6)
. . .
I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)
Do what pleases you, group preferences be dawned. I was just going for the funny.
"[ M] ost of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense . . ."
I read that as, "not proven right or justified just yet."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (RuTUS)
I know that I am constantly observed , albeit passively. I feel like I have yielded too much ground already.
Not sure what you mean by 'be the noise'. Be statistically anomolous?
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (sDNVV)
yikes
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
If I was going for a nice evening walk in a neighborhood I don't know, then I suppose, but it would look weird a kitted up for CQB.
Doing summer work as a teen, when canvasing a neighborhood occasionally people would greet me with a GSD or Doberman (the cool attack dogs at that time).
Having a BB Nidan in martial arts, providing the dog with a concussion or cracked ribs was effective (I had a very high risk threshold at the time).
Worst case, years later attacked by a GSD out in the alley at night - provided a sacrificial arm while the other jammed an automatic SOG knife in its chest and vigorously swirled the knife around in the cavity until the threat ended.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:38 AM (a4flb)
Me too now. If I see one in the yard I am not going to wait around to see what it does.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)
Problem isn't me, it is Leviathan.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:40 AM (dK+Kv)
FIAT
"Fix it again, Tony."
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (RuTUS)
Quoting my dad, here.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:43 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 07:43 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (bocsn)
One thing I've learned (yes, even I can learn) is that a bad temperament is always intolerable. Always.
We had a Borzoi boy we bred who had aggressiveness problems. We tried everything, including having him neutered. But he still snapped at the others. We had to have him put down. We cried, but we did it because we had to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
This will wake you up, & in a good way. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/fqwIpH6phJs
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:46 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 07:46 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
It was the right and brave thing to do.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:47 AM (dK+Kv)
One thing I've learned (yes, even I can learn) is that a bad temperament is always intolerable. Always.
We had a Borzoi boy we bred who had aggressiveness problems. We tried everything, including having him neutered. But he still snapped at the others. We had to have him put down. We cried, but we did it because we had to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
You're a good source for these things. We're lucky to have you here.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:48 AM (RuTUS)
Short Answer: Yes.
There are two very different strategies for that, one is to be indistinguishable from your neighbors. In the case of power meters (I'm just picking one) with the gains made in AI, they can detect when and what types of high draw equipment you are using (electric oven, hot water heater, A/C, etc.) Not sure most utilities are using low granularity or just collecting 15 minute KW/h segments, but you can pretty well establish pattern of life from just that data.
Second strategy is to be random each day so that no pattern of life can be determined. That is hard to do on a consistent basis but does keep you out of the pattern analysis made by a lot of algorithms.
As for the frig: Watch what people buy at the store. Only your health/life insurance company cares what you put in and out of it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:48 AM (vFG9F)
Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor
Your card arrived yesterday. Thank you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (2NHgQ)
You are doing the adulting for us all, in taking care of needed tasks.
Hope the rest of life for you, Her Majesty, and all your furry companions is a saga of golden times.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (AN2gy)
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Both of my tabbies (Jasmine and Hexie) are very friendly, but only one (Hexie) is extroverted.
Jasmine takes her sweet time getting to know a stranger, but eventually she'll be friendly.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 07:53 AM (ESVrU)
Love me, take my vaccine, rub my generous mammary glands. Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 06, 2025 07:53 AM (R/m4+)
I take the goldi-locks approach. Buy reasonably good ones and replace every year. The “Lifetime Heavy Duty” type do last a long time but they don’t work nearly as well, and tend to scratch the glass. A good wiper in the rain (that’s what they are for) is not an inherently durable thing is the problem.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:54 AM (Npcdm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:55 AM (sDNVV)
I like to bicycle ride in the back roads. There is one house in particular where the asshole has FIVE unrestrained pits running on the property. Yes they will always come out and "greet" me as I go by. Yes that is also the fastest segment of my ride. Yes I fantasize about a midnight visit with a shotgun or a suppressed subsonic .300 Blackout.
The pits in my AO though respect the bullwhip. I suspect that they are bored senseless by the drug addict ne're do wells in their hovels, and a passerby is simply something to chase.
These mental retards around here are low-energy people yet they insist on having high-energy dogs and refuse to walk, play, or otherwise engage their dogs so there is ALOT of pent up energy and sense of discovery in those poor animals.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:55 AM (a4flb)
I take the goldi-locks approach. Buy reasonably good ones and replace every year. The “Lifetime Heavy Duty” type do last a long time but they don’t work nearly as well, and tend to scratch the glass. A good wiper in the rain (that’s what they are for) is not an inherently durable thing is the problem.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:54 AM (Npcdm)
New blades are almost always better than old, sun-baked, road grime encrusted ones, regardless of quality. I go higher quality like Bosch, and I extend their wipeyness by cleaning them off with an alcohol or 409 soaked paper towel from time to time. After a few cleanings, it is time for replacement, typically about two years or so.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (dK+Kv)
I chose to explain the Horde to my last remaining liberal friend. We've been friends for 21 years, and she still ignores my responses to her insanity. But not a Karen, so we can have differing views. She wanted to know. The good news is she is 92, nd will forget it tomorrow.
It brought home to me how special and wonderful this entire community is, and especially you for organizing legal fun. I burbled with happiness the entire time I was there.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)
The Irrational Analysis substack (written by an anonymous Silicon Valley chip designer to explain what's really going on to a more general audience) says this is because one thing Intel unquestionably is good at is advanced packaging, and that's the impetus behind both the Apple deal and this move by TSMC.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (ciXcx)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (Npcdm)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (2NHgQ)
"Youth is wasted on the young."
I didn't understand that one until I became not-young.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:00 AM (Ia/+0)
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Wow, that sounds like she has it listed for an excellent price. I doubt it will last long.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:01 AM (Npcdm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:02 AM (dK+Kv)
Windshield wipers on my vehicles are 4 different sizes. Longer on the driver's side, shorter on the passenger side. Quite noticeable on the Explorer.
Weird.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:02 AM (NwnyJ)
They answered on the first ring, had clear American voices, and seemed very willing to help. I'll see what they can do.
We have put up with so much poor customer service that it was stunning to get good, American service. Not outsourced to a foreign country.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
That would be a tough one. Of all our Bullmastiffs, we never had one that showed even an ounce of aggression toward humans.
Other dogs? Yes. We had to retire two from the show dog circuit because of dog aggression.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:03 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:04 AM (Npcdm)
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Oh, yay, Skip!
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Joe Ghetto at December 06, 2025 08:18 AM (R/m4+)
Someone with a name like that needs extreme vetting followed by circular file for the job application.
Fill the cell with concrete?
Sure
After stuffing their mouths full of bacon and scrapple and taping them shut
Posted by: Coelacanth at December 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Mz0Jz)
Trico standard blades have always seemed to me like best performance / value for money; ymmv
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True story.
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The lesson tonight is: Daughters are horrible. Have boys.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:04 PM (1lXzG)
Another reason to prefer the sequel [which brought in Abraham Lincoln trauma]
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what about the rest of us? especially those from Canada ?
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Posted by: Soothsayer
It was my privilege to have five sons before I was blessed with a 14 year old daughter by marriage.
Even though I had, by that time, numerous aunts, sisters, and female cousins, I quickly learned I knew absolutely nothing about daughters.
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Then there's a 4th kind, me. A protester. No haircut until somebody goes to jail for the VOVID-1984 bullshit. Needless to say, my hair's the longest it's ever been. On the plus side, living in Queens behind enemy lines, like Mona Lisa Vito said, 'I blend'.
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Those poor poor bleachers. Won't anybody care for the bleachers?
Was this a fast 1/4 mile dirt track? Looked like a lot of where I grew up. May have dated her granny back in the 70s.
*rednecks are awesome
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Thinks of a Nancy Pelosi joke.
Types.
Deletes.
It wasn't that funny.
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Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 10:14 PM (rbvCR)
I did not see that one coming. Mind blown.
One difference, sleight of hand if you will, is that the Ottomans did not end slavery. There was a ban on the trade in 1857 but by then, Constantinople/ Istanbul was too weak to enforce any real ban on slavery outside Thrace and west Anatolia. The Kurds were still on it, the Balkans were the Balkans, and Arabia and Africa were like LOL glwt.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:14 PM (gKWVE)
My mom's name was Patience
Posted by: Kindltot
Was it Patience or Prudence in Support Your Local Gun Fighter?
*looks at imdb*
Suzanne Pleshette as Patience. I'll be in my bunk.
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Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 10:20 PM (xqL5c)
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: pookysgirl has yet to be arrested at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Tucker Melloncamp at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (pkeXY)
The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:22 PM (y171U)
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
I was in Istanbul a few weeks ago. I went to the Blue Mosque, which is adjacent to Hagia Sophia. I've always wanted to see the latter, but it's restricted now for non-Muslims. Some friends got inside and took pictures.
The Blue Mosque is much superior.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:22 PM (Riz8t)
What's funny is that Joe Biden when he was in his alleged "prime" was such a mean and vicious person that had THAT version of Joe Biden been present tonight he would have denounced them all as a bunch of perverts.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (SZI4T)
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Blitzen had a girlfriend named Prudence.
Deer Prudence.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 05, 2025 10:24 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
I donno. Get some wave action going and your off to paradise!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)
Did anybody ever answer Ace's question on the Cafe of "What is this thing?" Seems to me I'd seen a pic of one like it at some time, and read the name, but now I can't recall it. It looks like a relative of the llama and alpaca. Guanaco?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:25 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:26 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2025 10:26 PM (lUFok)
The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Did poobertty hit her hard?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (QVmho)
the kids today say "rizz"
it's short for charisma
but they really don't know what "charisma" means
So "rizz" to them is, like, cool.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (1lXzG)
Grew up with the kids TV show and didn't know it was originally a movie made in the late 1940s.
Now it is my top 5 movie favorite. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney wow, what a beautiful couple. And what a moving story.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (L/fGl)
356 Last year's concert from the Tabernacle Choir just got broadcast on PBS a week ago and it was quite good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obZDWSUxwVo
Posted by: pkudude99 at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (ODCB/)
I got sick and missed the final rehearsals for that concert, so I wasn't able to participate. Instead, I got to attend the concert with my little granddaughter. Great memories.
The 2025 Christmas Concert will be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this coming week. Our regular broadcast on that Sunday morning will be a much shorter recap of parts of the concert. You can watch that one live at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dqzv8khQmQ
Official video of this concert will be released around December 1 next year.
Posted by: Half Dozen at December 05, 2025 10:28 PM (EYvpB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:28 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:29 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (dyewR)
We saw what you did there.
Posted by: The Beatles at December 05, 2025 10:29 PM (QZzSm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (L/fGl)
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They used to have a dumbwaiter but he went on disability.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (dyewR)
Was it wrong to laugh at the fat lady falling down?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Only of you didn't channel Eddie Murphy's Aunt Bunny routine.
I'm not going to hell, because I was all...
Hep me lord, bommboomboom, oh lord, help me, boomboomboom.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (3pxDZ)
RIP Bob, you will definitely be missed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (xqL5c)
There is a small area made up of very south Jersey, a piece of Delaware, and a bit of Maryland that pronounces merry, Mary, and marry individually. And, yes, I do come from that small area and after nearly 60 years in Nebraska I still pronounce each word differently. And one of these days I am going to smack the XO for asking for a "pin" when he actually wants a "pen".
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (IC093)
I have to figure out how to give Mrs. F. the slip tomorrow and get over to McD's for a McRib.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Her car has a funneh sound and you need to test drive it. Duh.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:32 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025
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Cordelia. Also a regular on Angel for part of the series' run.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:33 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:34 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I got hungry mid-week, and decided the McD's was the closest place.
Ordered McRib. Determined McRib was not a mobile sandwich. Had forgotten that somewhere along the way.
Posted by: MkY at December 05, 2025 10:36 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025
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Grew up with the kids TV show and didn't know it was originally a movie made in the late 1940s.
Now it is my top 5 movie favorite. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney wow, what a beautiful couple. And what a moving story.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025
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There was a kids' TV show? I know there was a prime-time series with Edward Mulhare as the Captain and Hope Lange as the woman who buys his house, but it only lasted a year. I don't know if it was more comedy or drama with humor like the film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)
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May his memory be a blessing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:38 PM (c7Ygk)
It's got to be fake but it's true. Middle finger to EU
From all I could find out, it's real.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 05, 2025 10:39 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025
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I suggest there is a third type: the man who gets his hair cut on a schedule whether the hair needs it or not. (Yes, that's me. This summer I tried extending the three-week interval to four, and it was too much for me. I'm back to three.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)
Ordered McRib. Determined McRib was not a mobile sandwich. Had forgotten that somewhere along the way.
Posted by: MkY at December 05, 2025 10:36 PM (q6tQZ)
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I'll have to go the ghetto but it's worth the risk. They had one at the mall but it closed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:40 PM (IC093)
Pilot Is Asleep.
Passengers Invoking Allah.
Parachute Is Advisable.
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:41 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:42 PM (1lXzG)
Thanks WD!
"Sleep: nature’s way of saying ‘you’re done for today.’”
Good night pals👋💤💤💤
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 10:42 PM (3pxDZ)
What's the TV Show with "picadilly" in the theme song?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:42 PM (1lXzG)
I'm not going to hell, because I was all...
Hep me lord, bommboomboom, oh lord, help me, boomboomboom.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (QVmho)
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I didn't but I will now LOL
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (IC093)
British lady, Janet Mills? She's shows up as a Nanny...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:44 PM (1lXzG)
That's the show with the "Prudence" girl, not Ghost & Mrs Muir.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:44 PM (1lXzG)
Pilot Is Asleep.
Passengers Invoking Allah.
Parachute Is Advisable.
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025
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Peeing In Air
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:45 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (1lXzG)
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Juliet Mills.
Nanny and the Professor.
Which incidentally, would make a fine title for a sitcom about a muslim weapons instructor who lives with a goat,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (YoT4f)
I had to cut his hair myself until he was about 6 because there was no way he was going to still for a barber.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025
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Juliet Mills, daughter of John and sister of Hayley. I always thought she was much lovelier than her sister, who got all the attention back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
I like the Egg McMuffin, but the post-McMuffin breath is enough to knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:47 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:47 PM (RdmzP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:33 PM (wzUl9)
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Joss Whedon reportedly pressured her to sleep with him, as many of the actresses he employed did, but she refused, so he wrote her character in a deliberately humiliating way before killing her off.
Other cast members subsequently denounced him (including Michelle Gellar, who he had the sense never to try to score with), and he's been sidelined.
Never trust "male feminists."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (GALGA)
McDonald’s is best for an Egg McMuffin on the way up to the ski slopes.
Posted by: nur
there's a bunch to work with there but I am going to leave everything as is.
for now
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (RdmzP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, I called it a kid's TV show because I was a kid when I watched it...no confusion intended.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (y171U)
Apparently Ben Stiller thinks his opinions should carry weight. Which is weird, because he made a living out of being a 100% full time wimp.
Alec Baldwin supports the alleged actor "Paul Dano" as well. Alec is in the habit of shooting people he works with that he doesn't like, so I guess this endorsement is genuine.
What would we do without the Film Actors Guild?
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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Tough girl, good to see you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (1lXzG)
it is technically crypto cuisine, it is the bigfoot of foods, yeah it exists but it is probably not really food.
The good news is you cannot say it is artificial
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (RdmzP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (SZI4T)
I joined a club, extracurricular
For those who love all things testicular,
We decked all the halls
With pictures of balls
And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025
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Ah. It might have been dumbed down for TV anyway, unlike the subtle humor and character interplay of the film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (y171U)
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (IC093)
It had Charles Nelson Reilly in it -- it was a kids & adult kids show.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (RdmzP)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (1lXzG)
Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:53 PM (y171U)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (IC093)
Real talk: If you think you might like a McRib, go buy a pulled pork sammish from a BBQ place. Only buy the McRib if you are unable to find a BBQ joint in your AOO
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:53 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)
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It's flat out wrong. I used to get my hair cut to remain in regulation. Now I do it whenever I damn well feel like it.
Being a civilian rocks.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 10:53 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (RdmzP)
Smoked meat is wonderful and proof that God wants us to be happy with Hickory smoke.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (RdmzP)
Depends how one barbecues...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (RdmzP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (mT+6a)
Juliet Mills, daughter of John and sister of Hayley. I always thought she was much lovelier than her sister, who got all the attention back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I concur, ol' chum. Juliet was lovelier than Hayley.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (1lXzG)
Joss Whedon reportedly pressured her to sleep with him, as many of the actresses he employed did, but she refused, so he wrote her character in a deliberately humiliating way before killing her off.
Never trust "male feminists."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
If I remember correctly, she was also pregnant during filming of Angel, and he told her to have an abortion so she could continue to be "sexy". She refused and that contributed to his disgusting treatment of her.
Posted by: moki at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (SZI4T)
It had Charles Nelson Reilly in it -- it was a kids & adult kids show.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (1lXzG)
Match Game?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Helmet #9 at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (jc0TO)
Smoked meat is wonderful and proof that God wants us to be happy with Hickory smoke.
Posted by: Mar
it is great tasting, but unecessary with good meats and definitely not healthy to eat, tough its better than smokinh cigarettes and eating the butts
however if you smoked and bbqed the butts they would taste good
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (RdmzP)
Juliet Mills
Status: Not Mort
turned 81 two weeks ago
Hayley Mills, sister
Status: Not Mort
79.5 yrs of age
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (1lXzG)
Soft & sweet...
Phoebe Figalilly...
is a silly name...
and so many silly things keep happening
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (1lXzG)
The Addrisi Brothers...love that theme song.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (y171U)
It’s blowing stink out here in the beach! You got wind?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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You know there's a fart joke in there.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
It’s blowing stink out here in the beach! You got wind?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (mT+6a)
It's very mild and pleasant in Monroe, though very misty and moist. Moist.
I'm bringing a .22 for you try out vs George tomorrow.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (xcxpd)
You cantankerous bastard. How are you?
Posted by: nur
Everything's very good. How have you been, good holiday?
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:57 PM (RdmzP)
Smoked meat is wonderful and proof that God wants us to be happy with Hickory smoke.
Posted by: Mar
it is great tasting, but unecessary with good meats and definitely not healthy to eat, tough its better than smokinh cigarettes and eating the butts
however if you smoked and bbqed the butts they would taste good
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (RdmzP)
I like big butts and I cannot lie!
Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:57 PM (mT+6a)
however if you smoked and bbqed the butts they would taste good
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (RdmzP)
Well...fair, you don't want to use the best cuts of beef (or pork) with smoked BBQ.
But I dearly love smoke and sauce on meat.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025
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Looking it up, I see it was on for two seasons, not just one. Kenneth Mars, our old friend from The Producers ("Der Fuhrer vas an egg-zellent painter!") and Young Frankenstein, was in two episodes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)
I joined a club, extracurricular
For those who love all things testicular,
We decked all the halls
With pictures of balls
And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (t/66j)
I'd say that's a Muldoon 7.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Freakwent Flyer at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (oftw2)
Some day. Some day....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (GALGA)
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (WRA0V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: n
All good. Busy. Too many damn people for Thanksgiving.
It’s really windy tonight. I suspect the power will go out at some point.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Helmet #9 at December 05, 2025
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When your mental image of yourself is "young Robert Vaughn" and your mirror says "Charles Manson follower wannabe," it's time for a haircut.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025
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Juliet Mills, daughter of John and sister of Hayley. I always thought she was much lovelier than her sister, who got all the attention back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (wzUl9)
I remember seeing Juliet in that movie with Jack Lemmon, Avanti! If I remember, there may have been a little Northern Exposure from Juliet in that movie.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (0CU3H)
Some day. Some day....
Posted by: Mar
If ever youre in a must have need for bucees holler and I will send you a care pkg, it travels nicely
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (RdmzP)
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Was it the Monroe golf course that used to have a periscope?
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (hBtiT)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (xcxpd)
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No. I'm sorry, you're mistaken.
The best barbecue on earth is served at the original Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City. You will want to be there for the lunch or early afternoon menu. Its not (or wasn't 5 years ago) in a part of town you'd want to be in after dark.
But...my goodness...the sliced brisket and smoked sausage are out of this world! The smoked sausage is sliced length-wise, rather than into tiny circles. And the fries are perfect. But the barbecue sauce....there aren't words to explain how good it is.
If you don't appreciate barbecue done right, you might as well just go vegan and give up sex too.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (Cjcf6)
Just completed assembling a cheap chinese stainless steel cart. A "food prep" cart, some call it. A work table, other might say.
It's on wheels. I like wheels.
For $85, it's not too bad. Supported me when I jumped on it, and the stainless steel top looks nice. I like stainless steel.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (1lXzG)
I joined a club, extracurricular
For those who love all things testicular,
We decked all the halls
With pictures of balls
And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (t/66j)
I'd say that's a Muldoon 7.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (0CU3H)
On second thought, a Muldoon 8.5. The Truck Nutz is worth 1.5 all by itself.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (0CU3H)
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Was it the Monroe golf course that used to have a periscope?
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (hBtiT)
*checking map*
This is not the golf portion of WA state....
Echo Falls is the nearest golf course. So far as I know, they don't have flooding problems. My FFL is right near the course, so I go by it a lot.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Freakwent Flyer at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (oftw2)
He was available to cover when someone cancelled. Carlin did some that, too.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (pIfcn)
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No. I'm sorry, you're mistaken.
The best barbecue on earth is served at the original Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City. You will want to be there for the lunch or early afternoon menu. Its not (or wasn't 5 years ago) in a part of town you'd want to be in after dark.
But...my goodness...the sliced brisket and smoked sausage are out of this world! The smoked sausage is sliced length-wise, rather than into tiny circles. And the fries are perfect. But the barbecue sauce....there aren't words to explain how good it is.
If you don't appreciate barbecue done right, you might as well just go vegan and give up sex too.
Posted by: Crusader
it is not much more than flavoring, nobody goes to a great steak house and slather's sauce over some great steak, bbq tastes good but its not necessary unless you are trying to convert boots to food
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (RdmzP)
Why thank you, Mr. Harris - you're too kind
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I prefer the Cave Man look. People give you a wide berth in public. Also learn some facial tics.
Posted by: The Missing Link at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (RdmzP)
You are very kind. May take you up on that man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mar
if i did not mean it I would not say it
there's a bucees not too far from where we are
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:05 PM (RdmzP)
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 11:06 PM (GALGA)
That was the foster kid's name.
She hated it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (lUFok)
Knew an atheist who's given name was Christian...
Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: pookysgirl, Iowan at December 05, 2025 11:09 PM (Wt5PA)
Just completed assembling a cheap chinese stainless steel cart. A "food prep" cart, some call it. A work table, other might say.
It's on wheels. I like wheels.
For $85, it's not too bad. Supported me when I jumped on it, and the stainless steel top looks nice. I like stainless steel.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (1lXzG)
Chinese stainless...will rust pretty easily...
Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
Scrota Vehicular were produced behind the Iron Curtain 1947-90. Two-stroke diesel that would run on paint thinner. Smoked like all get out.
Posted by: Leutonians at December 05, 2025 11:10 PM (oftw2)
Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (RdmzP)
Ah, there's your problem...you not supposed to BBQ boots...
Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (1OIAD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:12 PM (2WIwB)
Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:12 PM
Announcer: Beer not included. Tax and fees may apply.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)
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Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (1OIAD)
Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
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I last saw a barber in 2000.
I got a clipper and use it when required. Which is now entirely up to me.
Haven't shaved since December, 2022, though I do trim things from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM
I've grown a bit of forehead over the years but no balding.
Low-T FTW!
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (jc0TO)
Suzanne Pleshette as Patience. I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:17 PM (QVmho)
And I remember Dub Taylor as Doc Schultz telling her 'have some patience, Patience'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (snZF9)
Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
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I last saw a barber in 2000.
I got a clipper and use it when required. Which is now entirely up to me.
Haven't shaved since December, 2022, though I do trim things from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)
I remember when my Dad got a Flowbee...he stopped using it after the first time when he realized he had suddenly become even MORE bald afterwards...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
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I disdained haircuts upon leaving the military, but one day last September, realized I was developing a natural tonsure and buzzed all of it.
Back in the 70s I resolved I would never be one of those guys who was going bald, and grew out the rest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM
I've grown a bit of forehead over the years but no balding.
Low-T FTW!
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (jc0TO)
My hair started to thin a little a few years back. After the wife passed, it quickly thinned...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh)
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This is where the *types* of barbecue battles begin.
Kansas City barbecue and Texas barbecue are "rub" dependent, and the sauce serves as an accent.
Memphis and Carolina barbecue are sauce-dependent. They both should just give it up, because the rub is the thing, and a great sauce (not that garbage Carolina sauce) just takes it over the top.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
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"Try to take the grant money from my hand, grasshopper."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
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I disdained haircuts upon leaving the military, but one day last September, realized I was developing a natural tonsure and buzzed all of it.
Back in the 70s I resolved I would never be one of those guys who was going bald, and grew out the rest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)
I've basically decided the same thing. Once a certain threshold is reached, I'm going Yul Brenner.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:12 PM
Announcer: Beer not included. Tax and fees may apply.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)
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Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (1OIAD)
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Well...Hell.
*switches to scotch*
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (2WIwB)
Haven't shaved since December, 2022, though I do trim things from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025
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I sport a "Commander Riker"-style beard (though I grew mine some months before he appeared on the show with his). It just grows that way. I keep it neat with clippers. The facial real estate that doesn't have dark beard gets shaved every day or two with a double-edged safety razor employed with brush and cream/soap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (QZzSm)
Posted by: raimondo at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (aRMT2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 11:20 PM (XWuHt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:20 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (1OIAD)
Heh!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (QZzSm)
Not until longbows, crossbows, .45 and 9mm have their say...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:21 PM (jc0TO)
Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (tld9k)
Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM (dyewR)
He's also of a mind that we should be dehumanized and put into concentration camps, apparently. Fits with the Leftist ideologies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (SZI4T)
Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM
It's not really him though, is it. I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
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I've razored it a few times over the years, always in the summer.
About 15 year ago, I was on orders to provide photo support for a military-sponsored youth came and I shaved my head - and so did the other two photographers.
We all showed up, looked at each other and laughed, and everyone at the camp thought we had coordinated it.
Now I just trim it to stubble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (tld9k)
That's soup, dude, not BBQ.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)
Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
Last time I got anything resembling a haircut was in highschool for the year book pictures. Mom said if I didn't do it years later I would look at the picture and regret it. I look at the picture today and I still regret it. You were wrong mom. Since then its been very slight trims of no more than 1/4 " to remove any dead ends and to keep any layers. Basically, no hair cut since Reagan was president.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
Went the Yul Brenner route years ago. The top was gone, the upper sides brown, and the lower sides white. I looked like I was wearing a friggin' horseshoe on my head. So now its as smooth as a baby's butt, and add a nice tan, it looks OK.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (2WIwB)
She wants to go to "Christmas things." I tell her, not in the city proper. Every time I go there now it's unpleasant and scary. I'm always worried about our getting carjacked or shot, and if not that, I worry that I'm going to hit a bad pothole in the dark.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Auto Hijinks at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (KDPiq)
*Slaps joint out of rainmandodo's mouth*
We don't allow that crap indoors, dumbass. Get out!
*Steps on joint*
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)
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Cloggenstein is usually pretty clever. I don't get why some of the Horde hate her.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:26 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
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I've razored it a few times over the years, always in the summer.
About 15 year ago, I was on orders to provide photo support for a military-sponsored youth came and I shaved my head - and so did the other two photographers.
We all showed up, looked at each other and laughed, and everyone at the camp thought we had coordinated it.
Now I just trim it to stubble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)
I've gone clean a few times or more. Shaved it smoooth. The first time I did, a couple of days later, while drying my hair, the towel got stuck like velcro...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:26 PM (ynpvh)
Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Since starting here he now can write in complete sentences.
Astonishing improvement. He keeps visiting, critical judgement may creep into his mind.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (jc0TO)
The had some smoked bbqed turkey for Thanksgiving, it was getting gassed for a day and a half,
the entire time we could smell it and it smelled good, however, I could not help thinking they were going to a bunch of work to infuse something with the same things we pay somebody to remove from our chimney.
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (tld9k)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)
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The whole "When we get power we will kill you all" schtick is self-limiting, because it begs the question: If you will harm us, why would you ever be allowed to gain power?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NCKate at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
He better bring a lot of fucking guns, or else the left will be fertilizer in those camps.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Auto Hijinks at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (oftw2)
Yeah, the physics is quite unkind. Even if the car isn't mangled, the deceleration of the passengers will be quite larger for the occupants of the smaller car than the larger car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 05, 2025 11:28 PM (SnVNy)
Yes, chinese "stainless steel" is quite magnetic, or ferritic, because china sucks at everything they produce. They are an inferior people in every way.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)
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The whole "When we get power we will kill you all" schtick is self-limiting, because it begs the question: If you will harm us, why would you ever be allowed to gain power?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Also assumes passive or non-resistance.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)
*Slaps joint out of rainmandodo's mouth*
We don't allow that crap indoors, dumbass. Get out!
*Steps on joint*
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)
Yeah, only the good stuff, no horse shit and splinters.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:26 PM (ynpvh)
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Pat it dry. You'll give yourself whiplash if you try to move the towel too fast.
Not gonna lie. When it is really, really hot, that is the secret sauce to staying cool. Feel the breeze on that scalp skin!
Because of my thinning hair, I'll probably clip it before spring, but not super-close. The beard will mitigate the heat loss.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:30 PM (ZOv7s)
I was looking a head-on car crash tests from 1972 on Youtube.
Posted by: Auto Hijinks
Heh. That video popped up on my Youtube today, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:31 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: raimondo at December 05, 2025 11:31 PM (aRMT2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:32 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
Please greet the Bund for me!
Posted by: Franz Liebkind! at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Exactly!
(and no alfalfa. sheesh)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
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Sincerely, just take a simple test drive by ignoring "barbecue" and instead putting some sort of meat into something as simple as a crock pot. If you leave it in there on low and wait 8 hours to retrieve it, it will *crumble* in tenderness to a simple fork. Smoking does the same thing, but you get to add a "rub" of whatever spices you might want to add.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (Cjcf6)
Wow, that EXACTLY what that little Austrian dictator guy said about the Jews too! Birds of a feather!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Timothy McVeigh at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Exactly!
(and no alfalfa. sheesh)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (1lXzG)
Their metallurgy is crap. I see it in the garbage aftermarket harley engine parts that no harley wrench worth his salt would ever use. The shit is comical, they could fuck up tin foil. The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves, and then flood the world with the lesser garbage. I'm pretty sure they could be assholes like that. Especially with all the technology they steal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)
I've quoted him before. There was quite the "White Army in Being" between the world wars and afterwards. It doesn't get a lot of attention in the Western press because they're all pink or red, but it was a thing. A bunch of Finns came to Spain to stop the Reds, but it gets scant attention.
I mean, it's in my book...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (1lXzG)
Their metallurgy is crap. I see it in the garbage aftermarket harley engine parts that no harley wrench worth his salt would ever use. The shit is comical, they could fuck up tin foil. The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves, and then flood the world with the lesser garbage. I'm pretty sure they could be assholes like that. Especially with all the technology they steal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)
The proof is in the pudding. We'll see when their warships get into a real war...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ynpvh)
(and no alfalfa. sheesh)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Shitty Jamaican brown frown.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Naw, hemp is "Kansas Killer" -- the headache maker!
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ynpvh)
Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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This teeny car is the safest. No. That teeny car is the safest in its class. Head on the safest teeny car into a Chevy 1/2 ton and see who walks away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (SZI4T)
Intertubes say Rafał Gan-Ganowicz
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)
Didn't they have a newly-launched naval vessel sink right at the pier?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bers
We have too, the cunt that was in charge of testing the hy steel we use for subs was passing the quality tests without doing the testing of the steel she was given
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (tld9k)
Oh, also we'll make you turn in your guns just by asking, because we're retarded."
Posted by: Current Day leftists at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ynpvh)
Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (snZF9)
If there is, it would be a Titanic mistake on their part.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (tld9k)
Posted by: Bers
We have too, the cunt that was in charge of testing the hy steel we use for subs was passing the quality tests without doing the testing of the steel she was given
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (tld9k)
There were also cases where the bolts, which were supposed to be made with a SPECIFIC strength of steel, were allowed to be used, only to find out later those bolts did not meet spec even though they were marked as meeting spec...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (ynpvh)
Cops were walking around with two bags, one to pick up pieces of the vette the other to pick up pieces of the driver.
Driver of the pickup was walking around dazed holding a cloth to his banged forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (SZI4T)
The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves
Posted by: Berserker
I have a theory: the chinese have no idea what they're making and what it's used for, because they are uneducated peasants communist slaves who own nothing.
That's why all their electronics are junk. For instance, they make "jumper cables" out of 10 gauge aluminum wire because they don't know what jumper cables are for -- they just know how to copy stuff and make it as cheap as possible.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (tld9k)
Cause of death? High speed dirt.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (tld9k)
Cause of death? High speed dirt.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (snZF9)
excessive deceleration...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (snZF9)
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China has a bunch of problems. The first is that military service is traditionally regarded as socially undesirable. In the old Confucian system, soldiers weren't even ranked. Bandits in uniforms.
Communism tried to change that, but ChiComs could never make up their minds: are we elite professionals or peasants with guns? So they went back and forth.
Right now it's a racket. The PLA is also a business. The generals expect to get rich. Conformity is the rule, and that goes back thousands of years.
So you have a combination of zero warrior culture, historic and current pressures to cover up problems rather than solve them, and the endemic corruption of Communism.
And yes, I have a book...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:43 PM (tld9k)
The Elvis kid is hereby awarded a full scholarship.
Posted by: the University of Miklos at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (tld9k)
Oh, also we'll make you turn in your guns just by asking, because we're retarded."
Posted by: Current Day leftists at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Well, the first part sorta worked, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (ynpvh)
That's why all their electronics are junk. For instance, they make "jumper cables" out of 10 gauge aluminum wire because they don't know what jumper cables are for -- they just know how to copy stuff and make it as cheap as possible.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (1lXzG)
You know, it almost seems like that. Nothing ever seems to be engineered right, it almost always looks like a facsimile, as if they made it from a picture. Kinda like if you sent a picture of a boat back to 1,000,000 BC and see with the primitives come up with.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (ynpvh)
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They've had multiple large bridges fall down in just the last few weeks.
QC is not their strength.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (tld9k)
My computer refuses to show that image, says it's a potential security risk...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Miklos, volunteer Elvis Santa at December 05, 2025 11:46 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:47 PM (SZI4T)
it was a picture of christi brinkley having sex with her daughters of a smiley face
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:47 PM (tld9k)
QC is not their strength.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)
I have...stories.
One of my favorites: They had a process in place that all Ethernet cables at the factory had to be inspected, so when bad cables started to get out, they went and checked what went wrong. Sure enough, the cables HAD been inspected, but not being told what to do with failing cables, they were passed along with the passing cables...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (tld9k)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
QC is not their strength.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)
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Rumor has it their brand new carrier Fujian is a mess. It's got electromagnetic catapults with steam turbine propulsion that probably won't be able to supply the massive electrical requirements while powering the rest of the ship. (This is what nuclear reactors are for.)
But electromagnetic catapults were insisted on by the political bosses, so in they went.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:50 PM (rdVOm)
Surgery is a go for next Thursday 🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (SRRAx)
Well howdy! Mine is Monday after next!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)
Yeah, NOTHING could POSSIBLY
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)
Vast banks of lithium batteries down in the bilges, to run the catapults. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
--
Cargo culture
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (SZI4T)
Oh, also we'll make you turn in your guns just by asking, because we're retarded."
Posted by: Current Day leftists at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)
*applauds*
Yes. That's where we're at.
If you don't believe that's where we're at, review what was "our" response to Covid. We complied. We willingly walked to the train. We stayed away from family because they told us to. We stayed away from church because they told us to. We didn't get our hair cut because they told us to.
The weed shops stayed open, but family gatherings and church was completely *out*.
The left now believes we won't fight.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (Cjcf6)
Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM
It's not really him though, is it. I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 05, 2025 11:53 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (ynpvh)
I think Trump recently commented that the electromagnetic catapult is inferior to the steam powered catapult. I don’t know why he came to that conclusion but I assume he had conversations with knowledgeable people who have that opinion.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (KDPiq)
But electromagnetic catapults were insisted on by the political bosses, so in they went.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)
Now we just need them to launch Zumwalt knockoffs because espionage can also be hilarious.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 11:55 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:55 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)
Beef tongue is $9 a lb. It used to be something you got for the dog.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 11:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NCKate at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
Ja! You are scum! If you are a good boy, you may lick my boots!
Posted by: Mistress Ilsa, She-Wolf of the ONT at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (QZzSm)
is excessive deceleration the splats?
I mean, it's ED either way...
Posted by: Piercello at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (NRGJj)
The left now believes we won't fight.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (Cjc
Um, they never have. And it didn’t take the coof.
But where would you? Remember the switch is easy to turn on and hard to turn off.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (6KcYW)
I don’t know where you live but I didn’t do any of those things you listed.,
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (KDPiq)
(and no alfalfa. sheesh)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Shitty Jamaican brown frown.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)
We called it "Kansas Killer" back in the day.
Posted by: a.moron at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (KDPiq)
Well, steam catapults have proven satisfactory for 70 years or more, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
Yay. It worked. So glad someone took up the challenge. Well done.
Among tonight's "wandered off to watch" was Pearl Harbor December 5. 1941 with the History Guy. How the ships ended up in Pearl, or not, that fateful Sunday.
Did not yet watch that movie guy, but it's on my TBW list. John Carter and King Arthur, The Sequels that Never Were. Interested in Carter, not so much in Arthur. Maybe that will save me half the 28 minutes.
Enjoyable Friday ONT as always, WeirdDave. Imagine I made a bunch of comments on all the bits. I'll just say, beer girl was a suspenseful video with a happy ending. Bleachers Beluga, also suspenseful. Not so happy, but satisfying funny schadenfreudeally.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Back to lurking and surfing. at December 05, 2025 11:59 PM (pv4q5)
Posted by: Piercello at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (NRGJj)
Bob Dole has a blue pill for that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER
https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 12:00 AM (pkeXY)
Memphis and Carolina barbecue are sauce-dependent. They both should just give it up, because the rub is the thing, and a great sauce (not that garbage Carolina sauce) just takes it over the top.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)
Ah....there's the rub.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:01 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (ynpvh)
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They've had multiple large bridges fall down in just the last few weeks.
QC is not their strength.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)
A dude brought in a set of lifters for his harley engine one day. I looked them over quick and said they're probably chinese junk. You can tell, completely unrefined. Harleys have roller cams, had them since christ was a child. The rollers are held into the lifter body with a steel pin that are staked in. Good lifters have a serious stake, you can tell they were done in a press under 1000s of pounds of pressure. The ones on the chinese pieces of shit had the pins protruding to where the lifters wouldn't even slide into the lifter bores. Its like they copied the lifter, but had no clue what it did, and that it actually had to fit in a bore. I told the dude to throw them out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:01 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:55 PM (6KcYW)
Yeah that doomsaying text left out a lot of historic facts. Mainly the USA has had similar periods before only worse.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:01 AM (KDPiq)
Yeah, Lithium
The World runs on Oil, but Lithium sure is catching up fast. So much of the Stuff we use every day is powered by lithium batteries and we're screwed without it.
We allowed china to control the World's Lithium, pretty much. Smart.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:02 AM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Kindltot
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A year or two ago there was a drought in the mid-west all the way up to Idaho. At the same time governments were regulating water away from ranchers and farmers. There was a big sell off of beef.
Remember when Bidenomics eggs were going through the roof beef was not.
Well that law of supply and demand is back at us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:02 AM (SZI4T)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
Oh, come on BC, you're certainly not everything...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:03 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 12:05 AM (dIske)
Just love it.
Fun gals.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:05 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (ZdaMQ)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER
https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 12:00 AM (pkeXY)
O....M...G.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (KDPiq)
Doesn't the Ford use EM catapult?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (rbvCR)
The World runs on Oil, but Lithium sure is catching up fast. So much of the Stuff we use every day is powered by lithium batteries and we're screwed without it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:02 AM (1lXzG)
Oil is a source of energy. Lithium is used to make batteries which can store energy. Lithium is not a source of energy and cannot and will not replace oil.
Posted by: a.moron at December 06, 2025 12:07 AM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 12:07 AM (dyewR)
Most often I think of us as a slightly pre-Sulla Rome.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 12:10 AM (c7Ygk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 12:07 AM (dyewR)
Did they get it to work, finally?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (rbvCR)
Yes. , they replaced the steam catapults.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (KDPiq)
It's going to be a feature of the entire class.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Thought Trump nixed that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (SZI4T)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (W7XSX)
* I have never mud wrestled a pig. There was a girl named Marlene? Doreen? Irene?...I think she fell down some bleachers...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:12 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:13 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 12:14 AM (GALGA)
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (W7XSX)
Yep, about 1,900 years or so.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:14 AM (rbvCR)
Most often I think of us as a slightly pre-Sulla Rome.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 12:10 AM (c7Ygk)
As great as the Ottomans may have been, they were begging for mercy after encountering one fat, naked man.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:14 AM (0CU3H)
Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
You got this, bruh.
Chin up. Chest out. Act like you got, and people will treat you like you got it. It becomes habit, then you start believing it yourself when others treat as such.
You got this shit.
*bro hug*
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 06, 2025 12:15 AM (QVmho)
*Goes looking for mop, bucket....grumbling to self the whole way....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:17 AM (QGaXH)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER
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https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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O....M...G.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
As a service connected disabled veteran with ibs.... i've had less painfull shits than what it took to read that.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 06, 2025 12:19 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:19 AM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (ZdaMQ)
I'm on the last string of lights, I had to get more since a few strings were dead. That concludes day 1. I think there is about 1400 lights on it. Tomorrow is most of the ornaments, and sunday is the rest of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Piper
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Christmas trees are like doggos-- every single one is *The Best Ever*
Congratulations on having successfully drinkorated!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)
I am thinking "apple sausage" since I still have some apples from the tree.
once I bought a brisket on impulse, and corned it, It turned out very nice.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (rbvCR)
*Goes looking for mop, bucket....grumbling to self the whole way....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:17 AM (QGaXH)
Reminded me of my favorite walks into a bar joke.
A skeleton walks into a bar. The bartender say ‘ what can I get you’
The skeleton replies ‘ I’ll take a beer and a mop’
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:32 PM (npFr7)
I believe the supremes just decided to hear arguments.
I can go to my in-laws for that!
Saw your post t'other night about space for RV/camper at Stately Peon Manner. Will keep it in mind if ever up that way.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:21 AM (3/XaG)
When it works as intended the EC has a few advantages , mainly less wear on the air frames and less maintenance. They need to work out the bugs .
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:23 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:25 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
Oh, come on BC, you're certainly not everything...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:03 AM (0CU3H)
I'm joking, of course, but I don't want to leave this at that.
I've had a very, very challenging year. I lost my job in August of last year, and I haven't had a steady job since. At my age (29+..), I realized that getting a regular job again was not going to be in the cards for me. That really sucked, because I like working and I don't like having my wife's consulting income as the primary source, but that's reality. A few months ago, I decided to take the bull by the horns and understand that God has given me an opportunity to completely reinvent myself. A few months - and one local election - later, my life is opening up big-time. I've always liked politics, and I now have the freedom to volunteer. That has opened up amazing opportunities for me that I'm just beginning to walk through now.
I don't know what you're going through, but I will tell you that if you keep walking, some very, very interesting things happen.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:26 AM (0CU3H)
Dependence on Electrical Systems: Electrical components, particularly in a saltwater environment, face risks of corrosion and failure, which could compromise operations.
Saltwater Impact: Despite advancements in material science, continuous exposure to saltwater could lead to degradation over time, affecting the long-term viability of electrical system
While EMALS offers several advantages, your concerns emphasize the need for careful consideration of its application in real-world situations, especially where reliability is paramount. ...
_DDG AI
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:26 AM (SZI4T)
Posted by: NCKate at December 06, 2025 12:27 AM (uQzkA)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
BC - if you are still here - You are most definitely NOT worthless. You are valued.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:27 AM (QGaXH)
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Raise the food dish above the ground (like on a small box) Bending over too far when eating means they swallow more air (which of course comes out the other end)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 06, 2025 12:28 AM (aRKFD)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:21 AM (3/XaG)
Listen, and understand. Customer service is there, on the phone. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. It will not provide answers or resolve problems. It will route you to different "desks" in different "units" for "advanced resolution" and go on every hour in every day, and you will be in the call-tree loop of hell until you are dead!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:30 AM (rbvCR)
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^^^^This!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:30 AM (rdVOm)
https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Thank you
I used to use this, but lost the link in a computer canoe fire
Another Fine Hogmartin Product, based on an Original Concept by *insert sock here*
Posted by: On Tap is BACK at December 06, 2025 12:31 AM (N7hqt)
"I must not be safe.
safety is the fun-killer.
safety is for children, customers and the help.
I will face safety.
I will permit safety directives to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn to see its fruits.
Where safety directives have passed, nothing will have been achieved.
Only I will remain."
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (rbvCR)
I pray for those here and myself that deal with it. I pray for those who toss out prayer requests. I pray for everyone here because I may never meet you, I still believe you are my "friend". I think we get that even if our family and friends do not fully understand. LOL
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (Q0yOR)
Most often I think of us as a slightly pre-Sulla Rome.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 12:10 AM (c7Ygk)
That's it. Keep saying 'Otto....' - next thing you know a picture of a nekkid fat dude sitting on one's gonna appear...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (QGaXH)
It's now 55F outside. Much warmer than the 40 degrees we had at noon, LOL. But it won't be long before temp drops & stays low again.
Can maybe do some yard stuff if it's not pouring rain this weekend.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:21 AM (3/XaG)
I've always considered the scariest part of AI to be the decisions that we'll let it make for us.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 06, 2025 12:36 AM (NZPfR)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
What you do, is buy a busted up one for cheap a few miles down the road.
AOP will either fix it, or let you park it there until it becomes parts.
Posted by: The Wtertched Museum of First Peoples Panhards at December 06, 2025 12:37 AM (N7hqt)
If some of the references seem dated, remember I wrote it 12 years ago.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 12:38 AM (GjvfC)
Posted by: raimondo at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (aRMT2)
Congratulations on having successfully drinkorated!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)
Not sure I could do mine any better. 1400 lights, probably close to 300 frigging ornaments. There is no more real estate for improvement, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)
I agree with all you wrote. Thanks for posting it!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
Imagine having the last name Fish...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:40 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 06, 2025 12:41 AM (NZPfR)
FUN FACT
The name "Pamela" was unknown in Hungary until they started showing the TV show Dallas.
The gypsies in particular started naming their girl babies after the character.
Now many Pa-me-lahs in Hungary, none of whom resemble Victoria Principal
Posted by: Friday Fun Fact Miklos at December 06, 2025 12:42 AM (N7hqt)
Miklos....of course....I shoulda known....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (QGaXH)
Yes, I lurk but read every single day and night and have for a long time. This place is a home from the crazy out there in the weird wide web.
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Soothsayer
And the first name Stanley
What has the culture gone to...
Posted by: Miklos is surprised that Duke ever hired him at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (N7hqt)
I have a total of 375 lights. Includes 100 minis on the tree, 25 C6s around one window, and 50 C9s plus 200 minis across the deck.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
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I'm glad you're here. Nobody is worthless. You're going thru a hard time, and there's nothing fun about that. But you're here. And tomorrow could bring a change to your circumstances.
Because of that, get some sleep and then tomorrow "accidentally" bump into as many people as you can. They might have a suggestion, or a solution. Just smile, even though you might not feel like smiling. Engage in some some small talk. See what happens.
I'm not a great Man of God, but I believe in him. I will pray for you tonight.
I hope your Saturday is amazing!
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 12:44 AM (Cjcf6)
I pray for those here and myself that deal with it. I pray for those who toss out prayer requests. I pray for everyone here because I may never meet you, I still believe you are my "friend". I think we get that even if our family and friends do not fully understand. LOL
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (Q0yOR)
People will touch other's lives and have no clue they did it, no matter who they are. That alone brings value.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:45 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
*uncertain whether to read that in a Curley or Moe voice*
Posted by: why Miklos oughtta at December 06, 2025 12:45 AM (N7hqt)
I agree with all you wrote. Thanks for posting it!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm
And I agree with what JQ Johnson wrote about turambar Johbson....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:45 AM (QGaXH)
Imagine having the last name Fish...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (1lXzG)
Tell me about it...Abe Vigoda
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:48 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (Q0yOR)
As you may find upthread, I've been going through this myself. I'm finding myself now in the most interesting period of my life. My relationship with God has never been more real. My wife and son are true partners in my life. I've been going through this in their full view - both good and bad - and I've found that I'm teaching my son more in how I act in adversity than anything that I could tell him. If I have one regret, it's that I wish I had gone through this epiphany two decades ago.
I'm praying right now for your situation, and I approach the Prayer Thread in the same way you do.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:49 AM (L5wrM)
I have a total of 375 lights. Includes 100 minis on the tree, 25 C6s around one window, and 50 C9s plus 200 minis across the deck.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
I want it to be seen from space. lol
Seriously, its 7 1/2 feet tall, and 4 1/2 foot wide at the bottom. At the bottom 1 string of lights will only make around 1 lap. I run the lights up and down the branches as I go around. Its a light eater, but I tried doing it with less lights one year and it just didn't look right. It takes around 7 strings of white, and 7 strings of colored lights.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:52 AM (snZF9)
Congratulations on having successfully drinkorated!
Posted by: JQ
*drinks*
*sets Best Doggie Ever to tree decorating*
*GOOD DOGGIE!*
*gives Miss Dixie some Bourbon and a treat*
This will be THE BEST EVER
Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at December 06, 2025 12:53 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:58 AM (QGaXH)
>>I want it to be seen from space.
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LOL!!! That oughta do it....
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)
For it is written-There is no yard work in winter. Seriously, its written. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 01:05 AM (Q0yOR)
A most fascinating discussion! Most fascinating! Most fascinating!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
I am learn so much from your excellent commentings.
I am also make 11740$ each month as work from home
Posted by: click HERE at December 06, 2025 01:05 AM (N7hqt)
>>I want it to be seen from space.
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LOL!!! That oughta do it....
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
its really not that obscene. Ok, it can throw shadows, but.. its christmas. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:05 AM (snZF9)
Holiday colored three layer Jell shots can be done.
But I need some stuff.
Also short on these 2 ounce "souffle cups" as they are called if and when you remember to order
Posted by: Miklos does not do inventory at December 06, 2025 01:09 AM (N7hqt)
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White lights are great, when you need basic illumination. Colored lights are for FUN.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 01:11 AM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I *need to* move the riding mower & sweeper to a different area, and cover them with a tarp for winter!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:13 AM (snZF9)
But I need some stuff.
Also short on these 2 ounce "souffle cups" as they are called if and when you remember to order
Posted by: Miklos does not do inventory
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No problemo, Miklos! On the list-- I'll pick 'em up when I go to restaurant supply in the morning.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)
But I want pie
Like with Darleen
But that was Natty Daddys
Also, I put bacon bits and peanut butter all over the tree.
Miss Dixie is a happy doggie
Posted by: Miklos already got a Waffle House gift card from Arleen at December 06, 2025 01:15 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
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Horse shit. You are welcomed here with people who value you. Whoever put that notion in your head cast it and them out.
Come sit wit us by the fire and be comforted by the care of your brothers and sisters.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:18 AM (SZI4T)
In Hungary, December 5th is "Saint Miklos Day", when Saint Miklos brings the kiddies their gifts.
They might get, traditionally, an orange or such on Christmas Eve or Day, but mainly they are waiting now for Szent Miklos.
Posted by: Miklos is into the Christmas Spirits at December 06, 2025 01:21 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)
If you aren't Christian, I guess this doesn't apply to you, but those who are, who do you think is closer to Christ's vision for this world: Someone who wants all war to stop, or someone who thinks a little more war might just fix the problems they perceive this world has.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:41 AM (/2KcO)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:45 AM (rdVOm)
Came back and fired up the generator. Computer room has pretty steady power, lights in main part of basement are flickering badly. One leg of the split 240 has a flaky connection, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 01:46 AM (npFr7)
The Revelation lays it out in detail.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:47 AM (rdVOm)
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"The Revelation of Jesus Christ"
might shed some light on the topic.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:48 AM (vSvIl)
Went to Silverton today, it's such a lovely town, but everything is closed! Too early for ski season, I was told.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:48 AM (WeJ8p)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)
The Revelation lays it out in detail.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:47 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, I'm well aware there are many who believe they are doing God's work, by forcing war on the planet.
I think that is not God, who is commanding them to be so fully invested on the basis of thinking they are going to bring Christ back to the planet by killing people.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:51 AM (lGyAR)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)
The funny thing is in *this* house I can go with a super tall tree in this room, but hell no. Yeah I really need to be running another 800 lights. Years ago when I renovated my inlaw's family room I converted it to a full cathedral ceiling with skylights. They thought they would be cute and get a 10 foot tree for a couple years. That didn't last, go figure. When I moved to this house my MIL, the "ham fairy" sees the family room here and says Ooooh you need to do a really tall tree. I said right, how come you don't do that anymore? She looks at me and says "you're still young", lol. It would be cool, but screw that. I have enough ornaments to do it, but I don't need a tree that takes 2500 lights, a ladder, and 5 days to decorate.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:53 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 01:55 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:51 AM (lGyAR)
No one actually thinks that.
This is just an evil smear you have asserted against people who don't share your cowardice fetish.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:57 AM (vSvIl)
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Yeah. My parents did that, too. High ceiling? Great! We'll get a bigger tree!!! The kids can climb the ladder for us!!!
It really *was* grand, when we were done. Mom was the happiest I'd ever seen her, in those days.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah. I don't know what caused the blackout. Strictly local. I suppose I should call it in, but I thought the utility had placed radio transmitters on selected poles to auto-report outages. They put some damned thing, with a cell antenna on it, on a pole down along my hedge line, this summer.
I should go outside and see if I can fix the loose connection on the other side of neutral. If power is restored, I can tell by the yard light coming on at the neighbor's place a mile south; it's very bright. And I did pull the main switch at my pole, so I am not energizing the line.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 01:58 AM (npFr7)
This is just an evil smear you have asserted against people who don't share your cowardice fetish.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:57 AM (vSvIl)
Yes they do. You're delusional if you think they don't.
Cowards are those who go on the internet and lie for their masters. Grow some balls, dude.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 02:01 AM (RkrlD)
Cowards are those who go on the internet and lie for their masters. Grow some balls, dude.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 02:01 AM (RkrlD)
You've asserted it. Prove it. Maybe start with me and Mike Huckabee, since you've claimed it's true of us.
I'm sure you're familiar with the rules, the testimony of two witnesses will do.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 02:06 AM (vSvIl)
The Four Horseman are not coming to give out candy and teddy bears. They each have a defined mission. Jesus Crist has a defined mission.
Bottom line, you have a choice. Jesus Crist or lucifer. Choose wisely.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 06, 2025 02:08 AM (iAcMN)
Sure, there may be a few megalomaniacs who believe they can "bring about" The Return, but who are they and what shall we do about them?
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
youtube.com/watch?v=wQA59IkCF5I
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (SZI4T)
All this time, I had no idea that the Siouxie & The Banshees version was a Beatles cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rrTROoZIw
Posted by: SciVo at December 06, 2025 02:09 AM (Sy6m/)
Jesus just called. He said to me, "I'm not coming back until the Buffalo Bills win the Super Bowl."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:16 AM (FBdDh)
Posted by: pjungwir at December 06, 2025 02:21 AM (noE7F)
Jesus just called again and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, I'm not returning before they get rid of Daylight Savings. I ain't dealing with that shit."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:21 AM (FBdDh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 02:22 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
As long as the generator runs, my furnace will put out. I have another, smaller gas genset, and the aforementioned Diesel job, which I know will run if it has fuel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 02:36 AM (npFr7)
Jesus just called. He said to me, "I'm not coming back until the Buffalo Bills win the Super Bowl."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:16 AM (FBdDh)
No one should miss that party.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 06, 2025 02:41 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:41 AM (rdVOm)
🎅👞🍬🍎
https://youtu.be/-xRkRMIwPOA
G'nite, y'all. Maybe meet for coffee & prayers mañana.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Long Time Gone at December 06, 2025 02:42 AM (pv4q5)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:41 AM (rdVOm)
Cozy enough for now. If the genset quits again, I will see if I can scare up some Diesel fuel, and try the Diesel job. It would not be impossible to siphon fuel out of the tractor. The tank is up high, so I could set a can on the ground, stick clear hose in the the tank, and suck on it until I see fuel appear around the bend, and drop the hose into the can.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 02:46 AM (npFr7)
Can finally turn down the pellet feed-rate again, yay.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)
{{{BC}}}}, consider yourself hugged and hang in there.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 03:03 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:21 AM (FBdDh)
For that I might convert!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:07 AM (VqWjn)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
And I am going to close up here, too, since it's 1:15 A.M. And all's well. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 03:15 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:16 AM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:41 AM (/2KcO)
I don't for a minute think Christ thought we would ever have peace on earth. Peace be with you is not so much a wish for no war but rather an inner peace that one can have by belief. He knows we are a bunch of fuckups, but he came to forgive that, if we at least try.
Those who think starting wars in the Holy Land will bring Armageddon apparently didn't read the part about how you will not know the day or hour. He will come when He's damned good and ready, and there's not a thing anyone can do to change that.
What is more important: The end of the World, or Your end? Get right with God, and then do it again, because you will fuck up again, and He is there to make it right.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 03:19 AM (6Bc88)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
On a plane to go home...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:36 AM (VqWjn)
Or just ignore him because he is contentious and combative and will tolerate no other opinions.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:39 AM (VqWjn)
If you aren't Christian, I guess this doesn't apply to you, but those who are, who do you think is closer to Christ's vision for this world: Someone who wants all war to stop, or someone who thinks a little more war might just fix the problems they perceive this world has.
What do you think is more along the lines of Christ's vision, luxuriating in a 5 star hotel, with hot and cold running hookers on tap, plus great whiskey and millions of dollars in your pocket, or spouting the filth of the goat fuckers, and supporting his father's people against Satan's minions?
War? War is the default condition of man since the snake offered an apple. The only question is what are you going to fight for:
Good?
Or Evil?
Now, as a Christian, look me in the eye and tell me that Tucker sucking up to those who demand submission to Allah (not God), are the ones who are the problem.
You may want to be a dhimmi in service of an imagined "peace", but I don't.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:40 AM (df/te)
"We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you can have it in the next second - surrender."
Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:41 AM (df/te)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:44 AM (df/te)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:41 AM (df/te)
This should be axiomatic, yet the last few generations in the West have been so spoiled that they have lost sight of the reality of the human condition.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:50 AM (VqWjn)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:44 AM (df/te)
Pretty much. The way I see it, muslims are killing Christians and Jews around the world like it was free. Sooo...I either follow the example of a dude that walked around in a sheet and sandals and got his ass nailed to a tree, or I follow the school of John Moses Browning and cure the motherfuckers of their lead deficiency. Christ's teachings are nice, but sometimes turning the other cheek is suicide. It isn't helping the christians in Africa, thats for sure.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 03:54 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
No one actually thinks that.
This is just an evil smear you have asserted against people who don't share your cowardice fetish.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:57 AM (vSvIl)
Ultimately, nothing means shit to BurtTC. He just wants to listen to “Imagine” 25/8 and believes the one true path to peace is simply being a whiny little pussy. Nothing could be further from the truth. You MUST prepare for war to ensure peace, and it sucks, but there it is.
BurtTC wants to live in fantasy land and put people on blast who do not share his delusions.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 04:14 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: heywood the third at December 06, 2025 10:28 AM (tljrc)
Unconscious Body Surfing Cafe
Sunset photographed from under water, by Dan Legend
Tiger gives some tourists a story to tell their families once they've recovered from their heart attacks. Re-post: horse racing through sea caves. Hula Baloo. What is this thing? Lazy horse doesn't want to give rides. So any time you approach him to get on him, he flops over and pretends he just died. Life with huge dogs who still think they're little puppies. Soulful dog. Baby and dog play. A torrid affair that scandalized the barnyard. Weekend plans. Steve Inman: Old pervert gets Instant Justice. If only this guy were around during Biden's political career. This has to be the sloppiest public brawl ever. Purse-snatcher learns that not only does crime not pay, but it results in serious and possibly permanent physical injury. Season's beatings. Would be carjacker gets jacked by a car. This better not be AI.
What in the Disney is going on here? pic.twitter.com/FwXWmwHLwa
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Tiger cub pestering his mom. pic.twitter.com/pWnJjxJnGZ
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Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)
So...
are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?
Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (LjSYW)
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Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:32 PM (zZu0s)
So...
are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?
Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (cPNKV)
Nobody puts Thomas the Tank Engine in the corner.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:32 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)
Not gay really, just a subculture. Kind of like model builders (or a lot like model builders.)*
*gentle dig at Anna Puma
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Me, Ilam, and all Somali friends all cheer loudly !!!!
Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (J9q9v)
You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (1wjle)
RV is almost loaded for Her Majesty and The Big Dummy's trip to Orlando for the AKC National Championship show next Saturday. Plus all-breed shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and a Hound Group show the Sunday after. And AKC delegate meetings.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (tgvbd)
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*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:40 PM (eZ5tL)
I'm the best non-reader of posts.
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Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
How do you put up with that? My thermostat is always on 72 during the winter. 64 is like having the air conditioner on to me.
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 07:44 PM (lJ0H4)
Beautiful sunset happening. So many folks taking pictures…. We live here and still can’t get enough.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 07:45 PM (VTZ1R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:46 PM (npFr7)
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:40 PM
As it says in the good book, "Many are cold, but few are frozen."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)
"I don't care what da white man say ...
Brian Cole is a black man."
[h/t Fake Tapper]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 07:47 PM (My0zW)
Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (cPNKV)
You know whose attic was given over entirely to a model railway layout?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:48 PM (npFr7)
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Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 07:50 PM (0CU3H)
Put on a knit hate.
hat.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Wanna feel 8 degrees warmer in half an hour?
Turn up the damned thermostat!
Posted by: MkY at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (q6tQZ)
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Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)
You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (1wjle)
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Christmas bonuses for everyone! Yay!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)
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Amen!
Got a warm kitty sitting in my lap right now!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:52 PM (ESVrU)
Cover photograph is a excellent shot
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Timmy Walz
If Minnesota's welfare programs are this fraudulent, imagine how fraudulent their elections are.
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Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)
I bought me an electric blanket about a week ago. Very cozy. No more cold feets.
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Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM
Does this mean we are or aren't supposed to read the posts?
Asking for The Commentariat.
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Posted by: Ben Had
Nice soft flannel sheets and an electric blanket for me.
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I hear Sydney might be on the market.
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C'mon, Perfessor, man up! Sit back, look at the ceiling, and think of Dostoevsky.
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Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt
That's the Christmas spirit, Mary!
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For some reason the rest of the world does not suffer from thus disaster created by Trump ....
Posted by: Jackson at December 05, 2025 08:00 PM (J9q9v)
54 48 This be yeer Holyday display in a tr e city center will without a black baby Jesus. Instead it will be replced with a sine that be says...Ice was here... This whey we can show the world we be hate Trump two !!!
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I keep mine on 69 . Summer it's on 74.
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Winter is 70
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You can count on us, Boss!
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Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:54 PM
When I used to live in colder climes, an electric blanket was the snizzle. Down here it is overkill.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 08:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:08 PM (KDPiq)
Wellness check -- anyone seen halfhourshower lately? He was at he MoMe in October but none of the 3 D's have seen him around in the past month or so.
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:10 PM (QMAsf)
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Posted by: Doof
Stateless has been absent for quite a while also. Hope he's ok.
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
Because you want them to be found by the dogs?
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (E0p3T)
I'm seeing writers talk about how their actual written work is getting flagged as AI. Like, it's so good it had to be synthetic. It's causing some problems as people try to clear their names and reputations, especially at colleges.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 08:14 PM (Eng1Z)
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Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (E0p3T)
Makes sense. Another reason I thought it was one of the alphabets that planted them to further the plan to frame the J6ers.
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Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8
Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (ynpvh)
When hubby first got sick (and lost too much weight), I couldn't get this house warm enough for him, poor guy. Bought him an electric blanket & he snuggled under for about 2 weeks; I swear he only got out of bed to use the bathroom!
I use it to pre-heat the bed before I turn in on coldest nights, then switch it off or I'll get too warm.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (rdVOm)
The people who don't know what a woman is- but DO know what a white bomber looks like- tell me that those are mostly peaceful fishing boats.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (XFXIk)
I read them! But sometimes what you or other cobs/commenters have written on it is so spot on, it's like well how can I top that? Do I just put "Mega dittos, Ace?"
So instead I post about other random crap in the news that has intrigued or enraged me. Or try to add a funny.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: nurse ratched
---------
Thanks for the warning, nurse. We'll get it here in a couple hours. Ugh.
*hot toddies all 'round!*
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (rdVOm)
The people who don't know what a woman is- but DO know what a white bomber looks like- tell me that those are mostly peaceful fishing boats.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (XFXIk)
The Spice must flow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wenda at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (PQHCc)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:21 PM (sDNVV)
FLOTUS at a children's hospital for Christmas visit:
https://is.gd/8acp6s
She lights up with kids around. It's cute. I hope Barron finds a nice girl that gives her a bunch of rugrats to love on! She'll be a fab grandma.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 08:21 PM (Eng1Z)
'Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...'
It chokes the engines.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)
There was a jetliner that, during it's long flight, started having engine troubles. A faint aura surrounded the engines and the front window became opaque. Yeah, the flew through the ash of a huge eruption and didn't realize it. Their landing was...exciting.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh)
I was a Sgt Major in the Minnesota Salvation Army and what was Hegseth ????
You know I was one of the guys ringing the bells at Christmas to help Somali children of color in Minnesota...
Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)
I was a Sgt Major in the Minnesota Salvation Army and what was Hegseth ????
You know I was one of the guys ringing the bells at Christmas to help Somali children of color in Minnesota...
Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (J9q9v)
I thought you helped yourself to the little boys...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)
I'm not checking out but I've always just followed the Serenity prayer.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference,"
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
My ***** is always warm!!
Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Slocombe at December 05, 2025 08:24 PM (cYBz/)
are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?
Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM
Dunno. But they're like bewbs. Meant for the kids, but somehow dad spends the most time playing with them.
It's now a bewb thread. You're welcome.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:24 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:21 PM
Rated 110% true fact.
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)
'Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...'
It chokes the engines.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)
And not in a good way.
Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (ynpvh)
Winter is 70
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:03 PM (sDNVV)
That’s just about what we do. I should say, what the wife insists on. She’s a Louisiana girl, the more hot and humid it is, the more it feels like home to her.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (c7Ygk)
Whether or not you get eaten at the end.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM
Single digit cold out here. And in New England fashion, having vodka straight from the freezer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM
Single digit cold out here. And in New England fashion, having vodka straight from the freezer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)
Got into the low 40s here this morning. The heater turned on! At least it warmed up into the low 70s...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (sDNVV)
I have not seen alteria around either.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (sDNVV)
Thanks for trying!!
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (QMAsf)
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:40 PM (eZ5tL)
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So you're saying he's lowering overall heating costs by using a space heater where he spends most of his time.
And this is a bad thing?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)
Cold and a little bit of snow on the ground here. Margaritas and chillin with the TV and Christmas tree for me and my lady tonight
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:31 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (ynpvh)
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Single digits this morning, negative with wind chill. A month early for this sort of thing, but its warming up. In the mid-20s now.
That opens the path for snow. Michigan never gets serious snow when it's single digits.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 08:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM
Y'all can keep that down there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)
9
What makes a horse race through a cave?
Courage!
Posted by: Cowardly lion at December 05, 2025 07:29 PM (pkeXY)
------
Why do federal employees just sit on their butts?
Why is every GOPe a putz?
What makes the Newsome crush his nuts?
Curridge -- that they ain't got.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8
Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...
I kinda thought it might be AI, for that very reason. I can't imagine why an airliner would fly that close to an eruption.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:31 PM
*raises glass*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (sDNVV)
Thank you, my friend!
*raises glass toward Texas*
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:34 PM (QMAsf)
It chokes the engines.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)
---
Some years ago a big eruption in Iceland caused major disruption for airlines and the rotator aircraft out of Dover.
Subsequently, that's now a planning factor - the air link can be severed without warning.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)
tinyurl.com/3fa4sxsb
I've gotten *this far* with that project:
tinyurl.com/2p9f5wk
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Riz8t)
Probably no big deal if you are well upwind of the ash plume.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 08:36 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:36 PM (sDNVV)
Had me a Newfoundland once...awesome dog!
As long as you didn't mind slobber all over the walls🤪!
Loved that boy...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 08:36 PM (3pxDZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 08:37 PM (YoT4f)
tinyurl.com/3fa4sxsb
I've gotten *this far* with that project:
tinyurl.com/2p9f5wk
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:35 PM (rdVOm)
Hahaha! Keep going!
Fortunately for you, we have an uncomplicated Drink of the Night for Saturday this week.
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:40 PM (QMAsf)
Now back South I just converted two of my bedrooms to a movie theater and an art studio.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:42 PM (KDPiq)
Fortunately for you, we have an uncomplicated Drink of the Night for Saturday this week.
Posted by: Doof
--------
*smiles, with gritted teeth*
Thanks, buddy!
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:43 PM (rdVOm)
The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect”
(A list of 13 European countries follows in which X is the top source of news.)
https://is.gd/1Qq41X
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
tinyurl.com/ms2mymv4
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:48 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 08:51 PM (ZTJjv)
See you guys upstairs...I'll be, as usual, sitting over there at my favorite wobbly table...🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (3pxDZ)
(A list of 13 European countries follows in which X is the top source of news.)
https://is.gd/1Qq41X
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:44 PM (Riz8t)
Kind of scary, ain't it, when a website that was initially founded as an online version of CB Channel 19 becomes regarded as a legitimate source of news.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (P1Kdk)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (P1Kdk)
This outrage cannot stand!
Posted by: Swiss Miss at December 05, 2025 08:54 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
And George Orwell.
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:57 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)
NASA has finally issued a response after Russia's space operations came to a catastrophic halt last week, as the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport was 'blown up' – albeit accidentally – following the launch of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft last week.
https://tinyurl.com/msayyvwd
The only working orbital system at the moment is SpaceX
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 08:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tuna
------
I won't use an electric blanket. We have a mattress cover that has electric heating elements that we turn on a half hour before we go to bed so we don't climb into cold sheets, but it gets turned off when I'm in bed.
I've found that I feel very tired and listless in the morning if I sleep.with an electric blanket. It is probably due to the heat making it difficult for my body to regulate my temperature, but I have an alternative theory.
Each one of those wires next to your body is creating a small magnetic field at 60 HZ. Red blood cells are hemoglobin, which contains iron. Are the red blood cells on the surface of your body vibrating at 60 HZ if you're under an electric blanket? Can't be good.
I'll remove my tinfoil hat and leave now.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 05, 2025 09:00 PM (E2vqx)
Now back South I just converted two of my bedrooms to a movie theater and an art studio.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:42 PM (KDPiq)
When I miss Florida I play Florida Room by Donald Fagan.
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 09:02 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
And George Orwell.
Posted by: Eromero
And Neil Postman.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:03 PM (YoT4f)
I'll remove my tinfoil hat and leave now.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 05, 2025 09:00 PM (E2vqx)
Probably not. Depends upon the oxidation state of the iron atom in the hemoglobin molecule. Does blood get attracted to a magnet?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 09:03 PM (npFr7)
Remember Dole/Kemp '96?
Remember how, after losing, Jack Kemp couldn't keep his mouth shut in 1997 and he'd say stupid things as if the Voters didn't reject him in the last election?
You don't remember that because it never happened. Why can't retard walz be like Jack Kemp?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:04 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
except she really needed an editor. She was dead wrong, there.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 09:07 PM (rbvCR)
Not as warm as a wool sweater. Fucking hell, I want this:
https://www.norskwear.com/
product-page/sbwc-g
My sister got one for my dad a few Christmas ago. So warm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)
tell her of the waters of my home world...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)
Indeed. Real dems prove that real "intelligence" is dumber than "artificial" intelligence...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (ynpvh)
Serious face on here.
Please be very careful with heated blankets and heating pads.
Deep tissue burns are awful. And they don’t develop like surface burns. They are nefarious. You don’t know you’re damaging your tissue until it is too late.
Use a timer. Use the lowest setting.
DO NOT LEAVE IT ON ALL NIGHT.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (mT+6a)
tell her of the waters of my home world...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (XuXeR)
Doesn't work if your home world is Arrakis...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (ynpvh)
That's right!
-Col Mustard
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (XuXeR)
10 Windows Settings You MUST Disable NOW (2025 UPDATE) [uploaded 2 weeks ago]
https://youtu.be/MMtJXs3rbjs
I didn't need to do all of these, but there were a couple.
Win11 sucks much less when you turn off all the spyware and automatic BS. Yeah, it's still Gatesware, but like our Daisy the half-feral Malinois, it can behave if you use the leash and shock collar. Mostly.
Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent at December 05, 2025 09:15 PM (pv4q5)
No. Variety of reasons...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (XuXeR) ;
Although, if in a strong enough magnetic field, polar molecules do fun things...I mean like Magnetar-level magnetic fields...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Warm For Life at December 05, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Warm For Life at December 05, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)
One keeps you warm for the night; the other for the rest of your life...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:19 PM (ynpvh)
Like when Rebecca Romijn nails you some iron?
Heh
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:20 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:21 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:22 PM (cPNKV)
Fridge magnet: about 100 gauss.
MRI machine up to 10,000 gauss.
Standard neutron star: about 10¹² gauss.
Magnetar: 10¹⁴ to > 10¹⁵ gauss (stongest magnetic field in the known universe)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:23 PM (QVmho)
Funny how retard walz doesn't go "hunting" anymore. Or wear plaid shirts.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:22 PM (cPNKV)
Only if he's playing lumberjack with the boys...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Eyewitless News at December 05, 2025 09:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Eyewitless News at December 05, 2025 09:24 PM (oftw2)
So lifting himself up by his own bootstraps?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov at December 05, 2025 09:25 PM (gKWVE)
Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood
_The Wrap
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:26 PM (SZI4T)
Very cunning, these "Paquistas". Quite an extraordinary conspiracy yarn; I believe the only participants you left out were the KKK, the Trilateral Commission and the Rosicrucians.
Libelous, of course. You'll be hearing from my Rechtsanwalt. Er, lawyer, that is to say.
Huffs on monocle, wipes it with bat-wing handkerchief and pops it back over his right eye
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 09:29 PM (mADJX)
_The Wrap
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:26 PM (SZI4T)
If she's agin' it, I'm for it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (Q+gd/)
-company’s latest tender offer could value SpaceX at as much as $800 billion (speculation)
SpaceX could pursue an initial public offering as soon as late next year, one person said.
_Bloomberg
---
If he goes public the Board of Directors will manage SpaceX.
He can't live with that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:33 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (Q+gd/)
That is true...but there are some real retards:
Jasmine Crockett
Sheila Jackson Lee
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:33 PM (ynpvh)
Lam Leung Tim, better known as LT Lam, who has died aged 101, was a Hong Kong industrialist Who created the little yellow duck.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)
Lefties really do use Constitutional/Unconstitutional and Democratic/Fascist as mindless synonyms for "Stuff I like / Stuff I Don't Like."
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 09:38 PM (3nLb4)
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
@cb_doge . 5h
𝕏 is now the #1 news app in:
UK Germany Italy Spain Switzerland Netherlands Greece Austria Poland Ireland Hungary Finland Romania
People across Europe trust 𝕏 as the best source of truth
Elon Musk@elonmusk . 3h
The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:39 PM (SZI4T)
No. Variety of reasons...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (XuXeR) ----------
Although, if in a strong enough magnetic field, polar molecules do fun things...I mean like Magnetar-level magnetic fields...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:17 PM (ynpvh)
~~~~~
Whoa. Stay away from MRI machines!
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 09:40 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)
I say they are in the same position as the Buggy Whip and Kerosene Lamp Consortium would have been. "Hollywood" is dead, it just doesn't know it yet.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 09:41 PM (TR4+2)
Posted by: Diogenes
Hey, brother. We got MG Gibson (cdr for gold dome execution) to be our guest speaker at our St. Barbara dinner in March. I already have 330 registered guests, and may have to shut down registration when I max out the venue at 400 heads. 83 total awardees, 8 of them are Ancients. ADA has 63, FA has 20. 3 of the ancients are FA.
It's scary. LTG Lozano knows my first name, and LTG Karbler is ragging on me to get his good side in the photos this year. My buddy, told Karbler he didn't have a good side. Fucker laughed, and bought us all three a beer.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:45 PM (QVmho)
NEW NAME ALERT:
Biden renames the USA to the “United States of Ameragottit."
https://is.gd/cYl49j
-
God Bless Ameragottit
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Through the night with the light from above.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 09:46 PM (L/fGl)
-
She didn't shoot planes over Hanoi for this!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 09:48 PM (L/fGl)
Natalie Wood or Natalie Portman. Basically brunette bombshells.
Posted by: Hut
The one that can swim, obviously.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:50 PM (QVmho)
Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood
_The Wrap
Posted by: Braenyard
Oh. Well, I love it then!! LOL!!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:51 PM (YoT4f)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)
But he's wrong:
x.com/DanReich/status/1997074429948711170
The small movie theatre is dead. Alamo-Drafthouse dine-in theatres might still work, and IMAX; but the old 1930s model does not work for the 2020s.
What might work better is to disassociate movie release from movie display.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 09:51 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (TR4+2)
Sounds like a great event coming together. I wish I could be there!
But I gotta say, all my bosses had a good side. For some of them it was their backsides.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB)
"BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms that a large portion of Nick Fuentes’ audience and engagement is coming from the Middle East and Pakistan.
No surprise. Who the fuck in the US of A would care what a fagghy dork from Berwyn (the jokes write themselves) has to say ?
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)
Lefties really do use Constitutional/Unconstitutional and Democratic/Fascist as mindless synonyms for "Stuff I like / Stuff I Don't Like."
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 09:38 PM (3nLb4)
Only time I agree with her. It is a monopoly. #1 streamer buying the #3 streamer.
Netflix doesn’t release its content into theaters, and the goal is to kill the entire movie theater business in favor of streaming.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 09:55 PM (y171U)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:55 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Diogenes
You get to Austin, I'll keep you posted on future events. Love to meet you in people space.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:57 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:57 PM (QVmho)
Count on it!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)
Make Arabia Great Again, not Make Israel Great Again!
Posted by: Concerned Conservative Pakistani at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (sf4IA)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner
I read he's heading over to Qatar for some conference soon. FYI.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (YoT4f)
And that's a problem. Why not? I'd be happy to watch a good movie in a nice environment (read: with food, or IMAX) for a modest premium. I don't care what logo plays before it starts.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 09:59 PM (gKWVE)
Hair Fuentes
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:59 PM (1lXzG)
It is underwater but the perspective makes it look above water.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Starbucks Türkiye at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (TR4+2)
Youtube comments on "our side" videos (content we would watch) were inundated with "release the files" from mostly new accounts.
It was obvious it was total astroturf because Our Side didn't give a shit about "the files" being "released."
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (1lXzG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (YoT4f)
He is headlining a slew of American "influencers" there. The list will shock you.
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (1lXzG)
"BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms that a large portion of Nick Fuentes’ audience and engagement is coming from the Middle East and Pakistan.
No surprise. Who the fuck in the US of A would care what a fagghy dork from Berwyn (the jokes write themselves) has to say ?
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)
I do wonder if Fuentes is suffering from Audience Capture, where he started getting so many likes for specific stances on specific topics that he started bending to them to get more likes, and so on.
In short, he flew up his own butt for likes.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 10:05 PM (rbvCR)
Here We Go Again: Leftwing Propaganda Media Claims the Anti-Trump, Anti-ICE BLM Supporter Is Akshually MAGA
CNN published the same story. See the link for that. Noted Fusion Slut and RussiaGate Hoaxer Natasha Bertrand is pushing this story too:
The Daily Wire reported Thursday evening that Cole comes from a family deeply entrenched in left-wing activism. Weeks before the alleged bombings, Cole worked for his father's bail bond company, which specialized in freeing illegal immigrants and even sued the Trump administration's DHS over immigration enforcement.... Later in 2021, the company held a press conference bemoaning anti-black racism with a left-wing attorney. Cole Sr. and Benjamin Crump, who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, attempted to sic the Biden Department of Justice on a local Tennessee prosecutor who had raised questions about the bail bond company.Cole and his father ran multiple bail bond companies specializing in helping illegal immigrants avoid jail. Public records show the father relocated to Knoxville, Tenn., around 2017. One company even sued the Trump administration's DHS over immigration policies, claiming its clients were unfairly penalized when they missed court dates, but the D.C. Court of Appeals rejected all their claims just weeks before Cole allegedly planted pipe bombs. In fact, Cole Jr. had already been buying bomb-making parts as early as May 2019 -- long before any disputes over election results.
But on Friday morning, the mainstream media started pushing the narrative that Cole is a Trump supporter who "believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election." "The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter," NBC News reported.
Natasha Bertrand of Dirty 51 fame enters the chat pic.twitter.com/zE6UDFpD9W
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 5, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (XuXeR)
Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Ann at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (w9jrX)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM
A Larry Elder style white supremacist.
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (GbONR)
Ewok just can't quit us.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (98kQX)
Doesn't really fit the prototypical Bernie Bro leftist wishing they were back in 1969.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM
I liked the idea of Miami and Vandy playing an unsanctioned game tomorrow. Too bad it won't happen.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (jc0TO)
I'd wager they do not exist, or have anything to do with interrogating the suspect.
Flat out cur dog lie.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (mP0Kj)
This "white" black man, the builders of the gallows, and whoever "tipped off" or "found" the pipe bombs are ALL involved the Conspiracy to FRAME President Trump, and they all have connections to the US govt.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (cPNKV)
Ewok just can't quit us.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (eZ5tL)
he could have queued them all up before 2:30 when he said that. Or Elon gave him an AI trained ACE-BOT 3000
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)
He was gloating that the 2020 election was successfully stolen.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)
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Scheduling things to post to the blog so that you can go guzzle Val-U-Rite in peace....how does that work?
Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 06:38 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: Cheri at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (cPNKV)
Ace is on Automatic.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)
What's that song that goes Au-To-Maaa Tic, with the woman singing it?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (cPNKV)
Released at 5 pm Friday for maximum impact.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Cheri at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (oiNtH)
What cookies?
Posted by: Facially becrumbed 5 year old Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (pDt9x)
Remember he's white so Talcum X
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (YwEeS)
This is EXACTLY what the muslim-world does -- they blame Israel for THEIR terror attacks.
They take credit for the bombing. Celebrate it.
Then they blame Israel for doing it.
Fucking Gaslighting. They think it's funny. They're laughing at us while they Mindfuck us.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: White Hipanic Zimmerman at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (Q+gd/)
I know him well and we go bowling every Saturday.
Al is a great shot !!!!
Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: That's the really terrifying part at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)
33
is it a woman?
what's the song?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (cPNKV)
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Pointer Sisters, with some kind of voice modulation effect.
Kind of weird that I know this.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (VE6XX)
BLMinem?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:44 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (VE6XX)
He's a Soul Man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:44 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Breathy Elizabeth Taylor voice at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (YWi3q)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)
There's a Pointer Sisters one.
I also seem to recall one by the Motels or some other New Wave band.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (J9q9v)
Trump was talking about stolen elections and rigged ballot boxes best back in 2016 I read about right here
The bail company was making bank. Because if Trump arresting so many, of course he supported Trump The company was floundering under Biden business boonmed under Trump
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (uCqBP)
Jake is only interested in racking up the credits.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (w6S0H)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)
Automatic Commenter:
"Boobs. Slap a hot iron on the MSM while I make booze for dinner and my dog does the darnest thing while opening for gubs at the Corn Palace. Boobs."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (QZzSm)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (oOhQ4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hamitchell62 at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (tWkg3)
More blubbering on tonight's CBS News show about the poor, innocent drug dealers and the war crime against them. I hope we never - repeat, never - pass up the chance to blow them all to hell and not spare the means by which it's done.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (tgvbd)
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (uCqBP)
Never not funny.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (v0R5T)
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The media always likes to show these criminals in the best light, which is why we see their yearbook photo.
We should see their selfies where they are posing all gangsta, trying to establish their street cred.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (06Hmj)
Ewok just can't quit us.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (eZ5tL)
he could have queued them all up before 2:30 when he said that. Or Elon gave him an AI trained ACE-BOT 3000
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)
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Can ACE-BOT 3000 come up with pitches for box office winners?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (36PRH)
Marilyn Cole >>>>> Brian Cole
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:49 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (06Hmj)
Heh. I tried out the new dlc for fallout 76. Servers were crashed first day. Second day I could log in and the main quest immediately bugged out. I am moving towards Besthesda is dead to me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (tgvbd)
"Them" is unclear. CBS News? Drug dealers? Both?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (QZzSm)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (36PRH)
Them" is unclear. CBS News? Drug dealers? Both?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (QZzSm)
_________
First, business. Then pleasure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (36PRH)
People *ever* played that game?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Homey at December 05, 2025 06:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (36PRH)
I got it for like $9 a couple months ago. Got through 7 years of content in a month and then got really bored.
I can't imagine player counts are particularly high.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)
I'm so angry waiting to see them fork over millions for lawyers
I could eat a pumpkin pie, a pumpkin pie and a quart of milk.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 06:52 PM (SZI4T)
Trump was talking about stolen elections and rigged ballot boxes best back in 2016 I read about right here
The bail company was making bank. Because if Trump arresting so many, of course he supported Trump The company was floundering under Biden business boonmed under Trump"
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I'm just wondering if the above text was altered.
If not, it's incoherent. I don't generally read this clown's posts, but for some reason I did this time.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (tXY4l)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:49 PM
Concur.
Posted by: Peter North, Proud Canadian and occasional commenter at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (I/fAz)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (QVmho)
I am couthless.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (tXY4l)
Seems pretty normal to me. Attempt at a sick burn using a phrase from 10 years ago. The usual bullshit. Seems pretty standard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (zZu0s)
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This, exactly. They've gone completely psychotic, and have built their own lefty Bizzarro World. It's basically a secular Islam, with the almighty State standing in for Allah. Submit or die.
The problem is that the otherwise disengaged LIVs absorb some of this, subliminally. All they hear is Trump....Epstein....war crime...blah blah blah. Even my mother, who voted for Trump but doesn't really pay attention, thinks that there has to be some validity given all the smoke the left has been putting out there for 10 years.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (xverI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (9vfnu)
Remember, We "don't know" the "motive" of biden's afgan "refugee."
But he was probably stressed about Trump's lousy economy.
FUCK YOU.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (cPNKV)
"The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican."
If the election was stolen, stolen from...who exactly? Why bomb both? I suspect he'll say the election was stolen from "the Rent is too Damn High" guy.
Look at how poorly designed the bombs were. How he wandered around and around after planting them. He's a kook. I don't expect his ideology makes any sense.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I guess everybody is different and God bless you, but I would have let them keep the five bucks. That would be like having to get on the phone to explain that you're sending back the condoms because they were too big.
Posted by: Delicate Disposition at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 06:57 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (zZu0s)
It's gibberish. Weird grammar.
Could be AI generated.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:57 PM (EWlvz)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:57 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I guess everybody is different and God bless you, but I would have let them keep the five bucks. That would be like having to get on the phone to explain that you're sending back the condoms because they were too big.
Posted by: Delicate Disposition at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)
it would be worth keeping one to sneak into bookshelves and take portraits of serious people with that book out front and center.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (2GVsD)
Look at how poorly designed the bombs were. How he wandered around and around after planting them. He's a kook. I don't expect his ideology makes any sense.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (gDhA9)
I still say the evidence we've seen so far, it looks more likely this guy didn't do it.
Or if he WAS involved, he was participating with the help of a three letter agency.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (v2PU4)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (vFG9F)
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Of course. That's what Natasha Bertrand does.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2025 07:00 PM (s0JqF)
Cole is Maga. He tried to hang me while I was getting a subway sandwich.
Posted by: Jussie Smollet at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (Q+gd/)
https://tinyurl.com/y4r63ptm
(thereaderapp)
I_am_Hot_4_Cock appears to have been his username associated to his email colebrian****@gmail.com that was involved in the 2016 hacking of the Adult Friend Finder sex and swingers hook-up site.
He has some other "patriotic" usernames, etc.
Was into anime, and played a lot of video games.
Liked to use the name "Delta" a lot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (6ydKt)
Remember the pine scented druid's agency was very good at giving 'lone wolf' terror cells all they needed to make the bombs and then arrest them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (2GVsD)
Of course he was. And the corrupt Biden FBI hid the fact so that Donald Trump could win his third election.
Or something.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 07:02 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 07:02 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 07:03 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 07:04 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:04 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Now you tell us
Posted by: El Mikloso, Abogado por Cesar Sayoc at December 05, 2025 07:05 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 07:05 PM (2v2r4)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 07:06 PM (XFXIk)
Or if he WAS involved, he was participating with the help of a three letter agency.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (v2PU4)
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yeah, chances are pretty good there are some DMs out there where he's chatting with someone providing "encouragement" that he'd be doing the country a favor.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:06 PM (ESVrU)
Fallout as a franchise was pretty damn awesome .
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 07:08 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:08 PM (zZu0s)
Look at all the trends that started magically around "2009" when the media managed to convince everyone, women included, that politics was personal.
Targeted psy ops are the issue.
From Obama, Trayvon and RACISM through the phony Hillary Rise of Women and hashtag MeToo bs, through covid... all were targeted planned psychological operations designed to mush the brains of the susceptible. And we are living the result.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 07:08 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (2GVsD)
It had some interesting ideas, but the latest thing which is supposed to be New Vegas themed is set in... Ohio? Wtf?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Eliza Doolittle, pre-Professor Higgins at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)
Well, she may be a slut, but she's fairly easy on the eyes
https://shorturl.at/gv4C9
https://shorturl.at/jNwu5
Have to admit, though...that last photo has crazy/sanpaku eyes.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:06 PM (ESVrU)
That's possibly the least of it.
My thing is, this is 2025. Don't show me a grainy photo, wearing a unique pair of shoes, and tell me you have the guy.
In other news, I saw a video the other day where Santa Claus was wrassling Stephen Hawking.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 07:10 PM (PFg0D)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)
Strictly speaking, it's his wife who's hot for cock.
Please make a note of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:11 PM (2GVsD)
The only chains she ever wore were gold chains around her neck. The stupid, stupid lies these people tell to get their way is sickening bullshit. Anyone who believes it is a retard.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 07:11 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: West Virginia code miners at December 05, 2025 07:12 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 07:12 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:12 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 07:13 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Miklos has enough pennies for many more two cent's worths at December 05, 2025 07:13 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: frankly at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (pvBJS)
https://youtu.be/Mu12X2cu6Y0
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:16 PM (jc0TO)
The louder someone proclaims Cole is MAGA, the more likely that person is in ass protection mode. The premise is so outlandish, that this seems like a Hail Mary to avoid repercussions.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 07:17 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:04 PM (2GVsD)
If you have an actual head cannon you might be in an anime.
Posted by: Just saying at December 05, 2025 07:18 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:18 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 07:18 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Will it accept an M-2 in the bed? I know some Afghans would be interested.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:19 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:21 PM (jc0TO)
yeah, chances are pretty good there are some DMs out there where he's chatting with someone providing "encouragement" that he'd be doing the country a favor.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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we'll just look the other way on that oz in your glove box
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:19 PM
I'd be interested! Don't know if Weasel will allow it on the range, however.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
Because you want them to be real, but you don't want them to go off. Maybe? I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:31 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
Because you want them to be real, but you don't want them to go off. Maybe? I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (zZu0s)
because he's a fucking idiot/lunatic.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 07:34 PM (gDhA9)
Remember the pine scented druid's agency was very good at giving 'lone wolf' terror cells all they needed to make the bombs and then arrest them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (2GVsD)
If this guy (or some other people) planted these bombs on J5, the rally that happened on J6 should never have taken place. Someone should have discovered the EDs, then notified Capitol Police, and then the whole site would have been declared off limits to the public as there would have been an active investigation taking place on J6.
Why were those devices even allowed to stay there? That area is probably some of the most remotely monitored real estate in the world.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 08:06 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 05, 2025 08:50 PM (aKxxZ)
Posted by: Socratease at December 05, 2025 08:50 PM (YgfoU)
Posted by: Socratease at December 05, 2025 08:51 PM (YgfoU)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 08:06 PM (0CU3H)
And I seem to remember that there were reports of a police car or two sitting within the danger area/blast radius, seemingly unconcerned and the drift of the story I recall is that they knew the bombs were fake which is why they weren't reacting. Maybe my memory is bad but I distinctly recall something like that.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 05, 2025 08:54 PM (aKxxZ)
The 'republican' party is either complicit or plain stupid.
Pam Bondi is friends with Ben Crump and allowed a fake witness(Jeantel) in the Trayvon Martin bullshit.
Sodom on Potomac is a screenplay distraction laundering our money.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 06, 2025 08:01 AM (mNOhh)
The Week In Woke
How many trillions does the Racism, Inc. grift cost us?
[T]here's one aspect of this industrial-scale robbery of the American people that feels especially chilling: It's this: When officials raised concerns about one of the Somali scams, the scammers threatened to publicly brand them as "racist." You will be tarred with the brush of "racism," the fraudsters warned, and it will be "sprawled all over the news."Forget the trillions of dollars stolen -- how many needless deaths does the Racism, Inc. scam cost us?
And here's the thing: it worked. The officials crumbled in the face of the scammers' shameless playing of the "racism" card. They carried on funding what they suspected was a sketchy outfit, so desperate were they to avoid being called "racist.". This reveals a chilling truth not only about Minnesota but about the West more broadly. It speaks to the lethal power of the racism grift. It confirms that accusations of "racism" have become a key weapon in the armory of the duplicitous. Even the state itself can now be cowed by mere whispers of the r-word. It was Feeding Our Future that aroused the suspicion of state officials. The Minnesota Department of Education was alarmed by the number of "feeding sites" that were popping up. Yet the Somali scammers knew how to silence their doubters -- just cry "racism." You will be in trouble if you fail to fund "minority-owned businesses," they said, and the Department of Education buckled. "The money kept flowing," as one report says. It was blackmail. Minnesota officials essentially handed wads of cash to the scammers to buy their silence, to shush their talk of "racism." They gave away the taxes of working-class Americans in order to save their own bureaucratic skin -- such is the hypnotic power of the "racism" panic. And it's not just in the United States; throughout the Western world, state officials are so scared of being called racist that they'll even turn a blind eye to criminal behavior. Here in the UK, the "grooming gang" scandal was underpinned by the same moral cowardice. White working-class girls in towns across England were raped by gangs of men from mostly Pakistani backgrounds, and everyone from cops to politicians looked the other way. Why? Because, as one inquiry found, they feared "being thought of as racist."
A new book about George and Alexander Soros' project to elect leftwing anti-justice prosecutors notes their success, as they define it.
As Soros spokesman Michael Vachon admitted, "We started a movement . . . the knee-jerk, so-called tough-on-crime philosophy has been discredited in many communities." He is right, and the results are catastrophic. The foundational belief these progressive DAs share is that systemic social change, not aggressive prosecution, is the answer to crime. ... It meant the effective elimination of criminal justice, putting more criminals -- even repeat offenders -- back on the streets. This week an NYU student was assaulted in Greenwich Village by James Rizzo, a recidivist criminal with 16 arrests and a lengthy record of assaulting women. Last week in Chicago Lawrence Reed, a man with a 72-arrest record and eight felony convictions, set a young woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line. In Denver last month, repeat offender Charles Cooley broke into the home of Kevin and Sarah Root. After posting a $500 surety bond, Cooley is back on the street ("awaiting trial"). And these harrowing stories aren't one-offs; they reflect the data showing how Soros-backed prosecutors worsened crime. In 2021 Philadelphia, under Soros DA Larry Krasner, broke its all-time murder record -- as did 12 other cities with progressive DAs. In Chicago under DA Kim Foxx, overall reported crime skyrocketed by 369% between 2019 and 2023, driven largely by huge jumps in property crimes like motor vehicle theft. Other major cities saw similar spikes. In Oregon, under the direction of Soros-funded DA Mike Schmidt, drug decriminalization policies coincided with a huge spike in drug overdose fatalities, which more than tripled from 280 in 2019 to 956 in 2022.
I have never seen a man crush his testicles harder than this dude. pic.twitter.com/rey7LBeSOa
— BORED (@BoredElonMusk) December 4, 2025
JUST IN: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is now whining that people are driving by his house yelling “retard” and pouting that Republicans won’t rush to defend him.
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) December 4, 2025
Did he not forget he was calling Trump and his supporters fascists and equating them to Hitler? This guy is a joke! pic.twitter.com/GEdcNjU4yK
He is claiming that calling him a retard is "dangerous" and incites violence. And he still hasn't apologized for wishing for Trump's murder.
BREAKING: Governor Tim Walz asks you to stop calling him "retarded", saying it might "incite vioIence" pic.twitter.com/EFX2HXaNM8
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 4, 2025
CamusVideo here. Work hard. Remember, there are foreign layabouts on food stamps and Somali pirates depending on you!
@newstart_2024 Bret Weinstein just said something that won't leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented -- sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18--35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing... but with zero actual children. That energy didn't disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying's observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is -- it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as "free" as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution's primary carrots -- mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein's ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life... and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate...What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting. Watch it all the way through, then tell me -- honestly -- does this explain the absolute intensity we're seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?
“Some days I want to give up but there’s people on benefits depending on me.”
— Benonwine (@benonwine) December 2, 2025
People who graft and work in all conditions to help fund Migrant benefits.
I mean you would laugh if it wasn’t so sad and true. pic.twitter.com/h8PuZgRBM7
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)What Are The Odds You & Your Wife/Girlfriend would have FOUR Z's in your names??
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (cPNKV)
The odds of someone with two Z's in his name hooking up with an unrelated woman also with two Z's in her name are, like, what, 0.001?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (cPNKV)
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-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (+OGAU)
You don't see Big Mike sitting like that, Little Mike would complain...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (RbgyB)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 05:41 PM (3uBP9)
I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 05, 2025 05:42 PM (RbgyB)
And seriously, people only got stupid and fanatic *after* birth control? The Tulip Craze would like a word.
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (CidsT)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (TN0g+)
Well, one of the things. Not the only. There are others I want violence to visit.
Yea.... I'm getting a lump of coal for Christmas, but you know what?
I do not give a fuck.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (NwnyJ)
Surprised they are not pirating boats in the Great Lakes
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)
things are going to suck when he's President
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (ZxPkt)
The issue is that the "cradle to grave" money stream attracts grifters who will yell anything as an excuse to grab with both hands and make a stash...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (9ZILp)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (cPNKV)
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How many points is that worth in Scrabble if I use a Triple Word Score?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 05:47 PM (ESVrU)
Even with being retired the wife and I can't escape the tax man. We worked a combined 100 years between the both of us and we are still paying $15,000 in federal taxes each and every year.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 05:47 PM (0N4FZ)
Hey... what happened to those great "Caribbean" drinks? Anyone have a blue hawaiian lately?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:48 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 05:47 PM (0N4FZ)
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Which the government doesn't even need since they just print however much money they want.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (ESVrU)
Feels great being a sucker, huh?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (cPNKV)
Lots of lining up in elementary schools by alphabet can do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (8avO+)
Wait , what? Weren't we just bracing for this ungodly pairing?
Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine’s short-lived West Coast editor, extricating itself from a storm of controversy over her past romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (WE5Gl)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (osKUJ)
We are are a couple of steps down this path.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (sDNVV)
And here's the thing: it worked.
The officials crumbled in the face of the scammers' shameless playing of the "racism" card.
They carried on funding what they suspected was a sketchy outfit, so desperate were they to avoid being called "racist...."
I don't understand.
The word "racit" had already lodt all its power TWO DECADES ago.
I wrote this definition in 2005:
racist - A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says "Racist!" has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying "Resign" during a chess game, or "Uncle" during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of "indicating one's own concession of defeat."
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (oraVG)
Eventually it will devolve to the elimination of the other. I suspect that the muzzies have a head start on that one.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (ExV1e)
I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Considering Walz ordered police to lock up Minnesotans in Covid time, he can certainly enjoy the fruits of his rule of error.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (WDjG6)
The youngest in the groups are the ones sending the ones that even get me saying "whoa thats... thats pretty bad".
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2025 05:51 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (XuXeR)
Looks more like a yoga position.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw
Ndat nhguy ees uh wetahd!
Posted by: Marlee Matlin at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (TR2dy)
Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine’s short-lived West Coast editor, extricating itself from a storm of controversy over her past romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
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MSNOW could use a woman like Nuzzi. Pair her with Ken "Fusion" Dilanian and you gotta a dynamic duo of misinformation and propaganda.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)
unless they are speaking of their Republican countrymen. Then its death camps all the way.
They don't mean any of that shit. They hate everyone, including themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
Wait , what? Weren't we just bracing for this ungodly pairing?
Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine’s short-lived West Coast editor, extricating itself from a storm of controversy over her past romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (WE5Gl)
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So it was RFKJ who VF could not bare? I guess VF was okay with the army of guys this Nuzzi whore fucked to get ahead. But that RFKJ, no way!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:53 PM (osKUJ)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 05, 2025 05:42 PM (RbgyB)
If someone said "the R word" to me, I would just start listing words which begin with R in a questioning tone. Random? Regional? Risotto?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 05:53 PM (ExV1e)
Sounds like it's 1450 again...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:53 PM (XuXeR)
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This idea is so utterly fascist it begs belief.
Get back to work, slave.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (m6HS6)
And most folks figured it out and the race card lost a lot of its power. The Soros DAs and judges putting criminals on the streets are not doing it because they think it evens the racial scales, the thugs are mostly attacking their own race. But crime and anarchy makes people willing to give up their freedom for a promise of safety. Maybe some of the dumb bunny FNM newsreaders think that putting black thugs back on the streets is less racicst than locking them up so that ordinary blacks or brown people whatever can be more safe.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (hhkIi)
The youngest in the groups are the ones sending the ones that even get me saying "whoa thats... thats pretty bad".
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2025 05:51 PM (WYStd)
I liked it when people started calling things racist that even an idiot knew it didn't apply. "The grasshoppers are eating the crops, the pests" "That's racist!"
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (jc0TO)
I tried, because I'm a risk-taker, and X simply won't cooperate.
All I'm getting right now is an endless loading loop.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (6ydKt)
Surprised they are not pirating boats in the Great Lakes
Posted by: Skip
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International Falls and Lake Superior is too cold even for Somalian pirates to operate.
I guess they could pirate barges on the Mississippi but would have the problem of selling the grain on them.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (WDjG6)
He looks younger on the big screen
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (m6HS6)
This. Times 10,000
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:48 PM (XuXeR)
With the American judiciary, you don't need alcohol to get fucked by a blue Hawaiian.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (ExV1e)
I mentioned it yesterday, and it's still going on today: 100% of the Left's Internet Hate-Rage is directed at the 6 Justices on the Court.
They are intentionally trying to get Justices assassinated.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (cPNKV)
Not to mention the input from all the zampolits in the HR departments of just about any corporate employer.
We have a long way to go and I doubt we will be free of this bullshit without some serious unpleasantness.
Posted by: heya at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (TkJMd)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Agree and Amplify and the idiots will lap it up until the epithet has no sting anymore.
Upper class twits slow on the uptake and criminals going to jail are about the only ones that engage in that trash anymore.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (WDjG6)
Pretty good observation.
It does explain AWFLs quite well.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (6ydKt)
They will pound you down. Comply, worker!
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (XuXeR)
I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.
Posted by: JackStraw
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This one is worth a click:
https://tinyurl.com/suruy3cn
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (1ZMNP)
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Speaking for myself. I'm less likely to throw down on a retard for a couple reasons. First, beating up retards is like beating up women. There is no up side. No sense of accomplishment.
Also, there are a select few retards that possess "retard strength"...which is not explainable by our current understanding of biology or physics.
(I'm pretty sure I offended everyone with this post. Mission accomplished.)
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (dIske)
I mentioned it yesterday, and it's still going on today: 100% of the Left's Internet Hate-Rage is directed at the 6 Justices on the Court.
They are intentionally trying to get Justices assassinated.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Federal marshals are still one of the least corrupted forces and they protect the justices. Plus you don't have asshole Bidenites around to manipulate security force coverage anymore.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (WDjG6)
They are intentionally trying to get Justices assassinated.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (cPNKV)
kinda stupid since Trump can appoint a younger one. And a meaner one. Like his assistant Miller. He'd tear the liberal judges a new one every dissent.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (XuXeR)
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Mebbe he prefers groomer or pedo instead.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)
Elon is a dreamer.
I like him, but he's dreaming.
AI is likely to put a lot of white-collar workers out of a job.
How this creates abundance is beyond me unless Universal Basic Income is about to become a thing, and that won't be making people abundant, it will make them more dependent with a lower standard of living for most, while the wealthy will be even wealthier.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (6ydKt)
Yeah, good luck getting a Trump-nominated Justice out of Senate committee. Never gonna happen.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:00 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 06:00 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:01 PM (cPNKV)
This is a fascinating incite and so true.
Or alternatively....
We're f**ked, proper f**ked.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)
*********
They crumbled like a...
...cheerleader pyramid with the fat kid on top.
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (/iMjX)
.......
So only people of color committed these crimes?
Interesting.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (v0R5T)
I like him, but he's dreaming.
AI is likely to put a lot of white-collar workers out of a job.
How this creates abundance is beyond me unless Universal Basic Income is about to become a thing, and that won't be making people abundant, it will make them more dependent with a lower standard of living for most, while the wealthy will be even wealthier.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (6ydKt)
Someone has to clean the shit off the robots.
As for white collars losing jobs, huge chunks of administration people have a negative value to the company, impeding the work of the others or making it impossible at worst. Every company outside mom and pop shops have em.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:03 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 06:03 PM (hhkIi)
Yeah, good luck getting a Trump-nominated Justice out of Senate committee. Never gonna happen.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Blue slip does not apply to Scotus appointees. As long as GOP has the majority, Trump would likely get his pick even leaving Collins and Murcow off.
In part, killing Roe means that it is no longer a big criteria in senate races proposing to save the ruling anymore. The issue has returned to the states.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6)
So on the 85" he's what, 12?
Posted by: man
To me, he looks like the 8th grader running for GO president promising the kids cheerleaders and soda machines.
Posted by: Ancient Hippie at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (oftw2)
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So only people of color committed these crimes?
Interesting.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (v0R5T)
They sometimes plug in a new term - homophobia, trans genocide....the only one with power is 'racist'.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (8avO+)
And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as "free" as sex became in the 1970s.
Powered by perpetual motion machines.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (vFG9F)
All of them
If Republicans would put on their big boy panties and point out the Ass Slapper had 16 arrest. The boy killer in Charlotte was involved in 3 murders.
Just call them out and NOTHING will happen.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (gbOdA)
"Here is a video of you feeding 206 children breakfast every day for a week. Apparently, they all eat breakfast in the bathroom because they never set foot in the 'feeding facility' for the entire week we filmed." Minnesota official with the balls to actually investigate. (Theoretical, apparently)
If they threaten you, GET PROOF and then call them out! If they did not investigate, they did not want to REALLY find out!
Posted by: JB1000 at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (HJAV5)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Nice insight and I agree.
Somalian fraud also upsets the other ethnic groups as they think of government cheese as their birthright and giving new grifters part of their stash is simply not on.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)
This. HR is usually at the heart of this. It is necessary, but in many cases takes the company over and remakes it in whomever image.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (zZu0s)
'Tard of the week was ginger Harry going on a late night show nobody watches trying to provoke Our President and getting boos from the leftist live audience. Then begging publicly for some kind of acting job.
Life has to be difficult when you're universally despised.
Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (Y8DZL)
This is a fascinating incite and so true.
Or alternatively....
We're f**ked, proper f**ked.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)
ironic that the proverbial woman with 10 cats is more sane than the girlbosses of today. At least the cats will love them until naptime.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Sounds like it's 1450 again...
Posted by: man
So
You read my book about Christopher Columbus
Posted by: Samuel Eliot Miklos-Morrison, noting that the Drinking Lamp has been lit for hours already at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)
Just call them out and NOTHING will happen.
Posted by: r hennigantx
Actually NC state leg did something. Irnya's law pretty much puts judges in a cage now regarding sentencing and bail. Forced the D governor to reluctantly sign the bill or his veto would have probably been overridden.
Saw that a recent violent murderous asshole with a lengthy record in Charlotte ended up having to stay in jail because under the new provisions, he could not be bailed out. Judge's discretion to do stupid home detention etc. no longer could be done.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: muldoon
" I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit people pay me"
Posted by: Mullah Miklos at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (N7hqt)
Stuart Somali
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (/iMjX)
Holy cow! Ha!
I say again: HA!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (0aYVJ)
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Mebbe he prefers groomer or pedo instead.
Posted by: whig
......
How about 'Fatty'?
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (jc0TO)
That's several years away, but it's coming, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (vFG9F)
desires are infinite, resources are finite.
Not everyone can have that house on the beach in peak season.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)
In many cases, they have far more power than anyone else in the company. I put most of the wokification of companies down to zealous HR folks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: wth
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Meh, would matter for a women but there is a weird subculture of gay men that consider them as bears and thus desirable.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (WDjG6)
Mocking Walz is like beating up a retard. Though, be mindful of his retard strength.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (w6S0H)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)
No Human Resource Department ever dug one up in a mine somewhere.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)
Robo-Rooter
Posted by: Miklos eyes decreasing employment prospects at December 05, 2025 06:12 PM (N7hqt)
Maybe, but it makes you a shoo-in if you apply to Harvard.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 06:12 PM (XFXIk)
And a baby's arm holding an apple.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Miklos eyes decreasing employment prospects at December 05, 2025 06:12 PM (N7hqt)
Roomba
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
The other purpose is to have gals to drink the wine on tap in the office and go out to 'team building' meetings after hours with the dudes there.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)
*snort*
What do you want a babys arm holding an apple for, Jack?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (zZu0s)
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The SCOTUS ruling that's about to come regarding minority-majority districts is going to gut that grift.
Because it'll cut out the only leg of the racism scam: That the cry must be accepted as true.
That's what they said yesterday in the TX ruling:
You can't claim racism just because minority races are negatively impacted.
Oh, and having a DOJ that don't give a F about cries of racism for at least the next 3 years ...
And a President they inoculated against such because of the egregious accusations for the last 8 years.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (wBaIH)
I got news for Elon and anyone else who believes this pipe dream: it ain't gonna happen that way. There won't be any Star Trek dream world where everyone has everything they want just because they want it. Nope.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (uWKK8)
I'm still laughing at my own joke from yesterday:
What do you call a hot 16 year old Vulcan girl?
...
T'Rap
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (cPNKV)
'Inciting violence on Walz is all I want for Christmas.
Well, one of the things. Not the only. There are others I want violence to visit.'
I agree. I want these bastards to finally get what they deserve.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)
Case in point: HR gal and that CEO. Both cheating on their spouses. He lost everything, she kept everything.
Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)
Funny how he didn't think that cheering on Trump's assassination was fine and dandy.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)
It's Critical Everything Theory. Every single damn thing you can think of, and some things they just flat out made up, are now Isms you can crush your enemies with and bring them to heel with the full force of the state. (Bludgeonspeak.... such a timely neologism, that....) The racism aspect is really irrelevant. It's a coat of paint on a nation-scale personality disorder.
"We're Good. Anything that even hints at being against us is Bad." And everything is the moral equivalent of War except for war, which is ... i don't know... Zionist, or Colonialist, or something, whatever.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (06Hmj)
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Children of Men.
People stopped having children because they just ... didn't want real children.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (cPNKV)
Wouldn't that be a Vulcan ladyboy?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Only when the voice controls involve Spanish or perhaps Nahuatl.
A more authentic human-like interaction.
Posted by: El Mikloso, actual Charter Member of the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (N7hqt)
The youngest in the groups are the ones sending the ones that even get me saying "whoa thats... thats pretty bad".
Posted by: Defenestratus
My kid and middle school friends were mocking it eight years ago.
When driving them somewhere they a dead raccoon on the side of the road,
OMG, that is sooo racist!
Howells of laughter from them.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)
Case in point: HR gal and that CEO. Both cheating on their spouses. He lost everything, she kept everything.
Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)
That's evolution in action. Men have to recognize a high threat environment and act like it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (cPNKV)
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What's the problem? She is much revered.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (WGeqj)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (jc0TO)
well she needs to feed her kids
he sells drugs
well black kids need spending money
he shot at a teacher
our community has different conflict rules
he killed a fellow student
sometimes neighborhood issue are brought to school
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (gbOdA)
When driving them somewhere they a dead raccoon on the side of the road,
OMG, that is sooo racist!
Howells of laughter from them.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Anything a society makes Taboo is automatically going to the thing that the next generation thinks is the coolest and funniest thing in the world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (WGeqj)
She's not even the third Hottest chick in star trek history.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:19 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx at December 05, 2025 06:19 PM (Dh8nQ)
Add a ZERO and 4 X
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)
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Children of Men.
People stopped having children because they just ... didn't want real children.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (HXT0k)
One interesting thing even in ancient times is city folk just don't have kids, even the rich ones. Especially the rich ones, rather. You can read about Caesar Augustus railing about people not having enough kids in 0 AD. Once the farm areas stopped having free farmers with large families to replace them things got dicey and the action moved to the provinces.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (hhkIi)
Add a ZERO and 4 X
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)
A couple of counties here in LA area struck a million or so off the rolls a few years back.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (uWKK
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My replicator says otherwise.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (WGeqj)
Eagle Cam
10 yr old video of some european jerkoff putting a camera on his trained Eagle:
https://is.gd/AzKSG9
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s)
Only if the shoe fits...
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: Tim Walz at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK
Also, our "Taboos" are laughably weak. Some tut tutting by ugly chicks on television or at your school... getting fired from a job you bitterly despise and were going to quit anyway... BFD.
Actual Taboo is more along the lines of "oh shit one of the Emperor's henchmen is disembowling the entire village now because of some shit I said last week". Actual Taboo makes people physically kick the crap out of you for even suggesting you might go against it, lest they have to suffer for your bullshit.
Those are the Taboos that have sticking power.
And i'm like 55% sure that Taboos is not the correct plural of Taboo, but I also don't really care.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (06Hmj)
Retard is certainly better than the other names I was thinking of....
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: Octavian Augustus at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (jc0TO)
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There's the usual R response: I have black friends/I supported a black/ etc.
And Trump: Black people love me, I have the best numbers of any Republican.
And watching the left sputter:
The first is an admission you might be racist.
The second is calling the accuser a racist and a liar.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (HXT0k)
Having kids was the best thing I ever did.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:24 PM (gDhA9)
I AM NOT A RETARD
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Jackson at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (J9q9v)
Fucking mosquitos jacked his brain.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (w6S0H)
Posted by: Tim Walz at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (J9q9v)
There's a YT trend of having foreign girls (and men) rate US stuff. It has spread to movies and one group of Vietnamese girls watched Tropic Thunder and they all cheered when 'their side' attacked the good guys. It was pretty funny.
When they watched 'Its a Wonderful Life' they were super weepy. Very cute in their Santa Suits.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Octavian Augustus at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (jc0TO)
And that was after she had something like 6 kids with Agrippa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)
Doctors have admitted to performing 'non-standard' gender-affirming procedures on youngsters and sometimes base treatment purely on cosmetic goals — as they see a spike in patients seeking out 'nonbinary' surgeries.
... One social worker from Oregon once described how an 18-year-old high school graduate wanted to look like 'a Barbie down there.'
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (DoBxX)
Having kids was the best thing I ever did.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:24 PM (gDhA9)
Well Elon isn't being a laggard in that department.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (gbOdA)
The Indian says, "We were once many now we are few."
The Muslim says, " We were once few but now are many."
The Cowboy says "Yea. We haven't played Cowboys and Muslims yet."
I'll show myself out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:27 PM (VE6XX)
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That and the kickbacks.
I think, when this all gets unraveled, that we're going to be un-surprised at just how much was knowingly--on both sides-- sent to Democrats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:27 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at December 05, 2025 06:28 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:29 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:29 PM (cPNKV)
And then, "let's import labor"!
Worked out well, no?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:29 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:30 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (cPNKV)
I AM NOT A RETARD
Posted by: wth
Letting a bunch of illiterate Somalis take him/his state for 8 billion kind of confirms he is.
Posted by: old chick at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: r hennigantx"
If they admit 8 then it's at least twice that.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Octavian Augustus at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (jc0TO)
And that was after she had something like 6 kids with Agrippa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)
Five children. Germanicus had 9 children in the next generation.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (UONii)
You just hire a bunch of black assholes to do the job.
Is it kinda sorta racist to say that no one is more willing to beat down a black man than a well-paid black man?
Not really; wasn't that a quote of Malcolm X?
Anyway, there's always a solution.
There's just a lack of will to solve the problem.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: It's me donna
.....
it would be fun to borrow one of those Mexican guys car with the loudspeaker on the roof and drive by his house playing that on a loop.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: r hennigantx
Like Mr. Smooth in "Happy".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK
Also, our "Taboos" are laughably weak. Some tut tutting by ugly chicks on television or at your school... getting fired from a job you bitterly despise and were going to quit anyway... BFD.
Actual Taboo is more along the lines of "oh shit one of the Emperor's henchmen is disembowling the entire village now because of some shit I said last week". Actual Taboo makes people physically kick the crap out of you for even suggesting you might go against it, lest they have to suffer for your bullshit.
Those are the Taboos that have sticking power.
And i'm like 55% sure that Taboos is not the correct plural of Taboo, but I also don't really care.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (06Hmj)
Let's ask Emmanuelle. She's on Taboo Island (1976)
Boom Chicka Wow-Wow!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (fd80v)
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I'd park about a dozen remote loudspeaker around his property.
Set to go off at random intervals so they'd be harder to locate.
"retard" "fucking retard" "retard" 24X7
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Joker of Clubs at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (JmRgc)
From the Planet Retardia
With Powers and Abilities
Far Below those of Mortal Men!
(I stole that from a moron here - don't remember who and I don't care, 'cause I'm a retard)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (Vpqw1)
I don't know. Nor do I know where I will be buy then but I won't smell too good, that's for sure.
Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: blkemoji at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (7a4RG)
Quick Hits
A liberal grand jury has refused to indict Big Tish James for her obvious, blatant mortgage fraud.
A leftwing judge dismissed the first indictment, claiming that the prosecutor was illegally appointed. Another prosecutor brought the charges to a new grand jury. Now that the left has made Big Tish a cause celebré, they're determined that she should go unpunished.A federal grand jury in Virginia refused Thursday to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, shutting down -- at least for now -- the Justice Department's revived attempt to prosecute her over mortgage fraud allegations. According to sources familiar with the closed-door proceedings, prosecutors empaneled a new jury to review revised charges, only to have them tossed a second time. James, 67, had previously been hit with two felony counts for alleged bank fraud and submitting false statements tied to a six-figure loan she secured in 2020 to buy a second home in Norfolk. She has repeatedly dismissed the accusations as political and baseless. In a Thursday statement, James thanked the jurors, adding she was "humbled by the support I have received from across the country" and would continue "standing up for the rule of law and the people of New York." The first indictment -- returned Oct. 9 in Alexandria -- never got off the ground. On Nov. 24, U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie threw it out entirely, ruling that acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed and had "no lawful authority" to bring charges in the first place. The decision blindsided DOJ leadership, prompting Attorney General Pam Bondi to announce that the department would pursue "all available legal action, including an immediate appeal." Bondi also vowed to challenge separate lying-to-Congress and obstruction counts against former FBI Director James Comey, which prosecutors have six months to revise or refile. That six-month window applies here as well. Because the judge dismissed James's case without prejudice, prosecutors could return with yet another indictment -- though Thursday's outcome makes that path steeper. Abbe Lowell, the high-profile Democrat attorney representing James, told CNN the decision "should be the end of this case," claiming that continued pursuit after a judge's ruling and a grand jury's rejection would be a "shocking assault on the rule of law and a devastating blow to the integrity of our justice system."Note that no one is reporting the grand jury is liberal. I make this assertion based on the fact that it sits in one of the most liberal areas of the country -- northern coastal Virginia, where all the leftwing federal bureaucrats live, the reason that former Confederate state Virginia is now as blue as Brian Stelter's withered balls -- and that they rejected a slam-dunk indictment. Only a political jury nullification can explain this. In better legal news, an appeals court has reversed a Lowly Lawless District Court judge who blocked Trump's firing of an "independent" board member, claiming the Executive cannot fire Executive branch employees. By 2-1, the three judge appeals panel asserted that yes, the Executive, get this, has power over the employees of the Executive Branch. The Supreme Court will probably finally overrule the bad decision in the Humprhey's Executor case that claimed the President cannot fire his subordinates. The Supreme Court has largely hollowed that ruling out by finding exceptions her and exceptions there; they may now take the necessary step of just wiping this bad precedent off the books. Warner Bros. has been up for sale for a while. Skydance/Paramount tried to buy it, but their offer was rejected. Now Netflix has bought Warner Bros., further consolodating the media into a few left-wing hands.
NetflixOn Black Friday, there was an offer for 12 months of HBO Max for $3/month. I said "what the heck" and signed up, mostly for the very big library of older movies that HBO offers. Those are all (or mostly) Warner Bros. movies. I wonder if this deal will wind up taking those older movies off of HBO's servers to save them for Netflix.
@netflix 4h Today, Netflix announced our acquisition of Warner Bros. Together, we'll define the next century of storytelling, creating an extraordinary entertainment offering for audiences everywhere.
The move follows years of controversy, much of it fueled by revelations that AT&T's internal training materials pushed the notion that racism was a "uniquely white trait" and urged white employees to accept blame as part of a broader critical-race-theory framework. Those claims first surfaced in 2021 through documents obtained by researcher Christopher Rufo, who reported that the company's curriculum told white staffers they "are the problem." The backlash never fully subsided -- and with Carr signaling that companies seeking key FCC licenses would need to demonstrate they are not running discriminatory programs, the pressure point became impossible for AT&T to ignore. In a letter sent Monday to Carr, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel David McAtee said the company has overhauled its employment and business practices "to ensure compliance with all applicable laws," emphasizing that the changes would be substantive, not cosmetic. According to AT&T, that means no hiring quotas, no supplier-contract quotas, no race-based training, and no positions devoted to policing identity-based metrics. DEI courses have been stripped from employee requirements, and the company says it will not resurrect them.We'll see if they just continue the illegal race and sex discrimination under a different name.
Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet I'm coining a term today: "bludgeonspeak". Bludgeonspeak is the use of invented terminology, or historical terminology that has been hijacked and corrupted, and then emptied of all meaning except as an attempt at moral blackmail. Here are some notable bludgeonspeak items in 2025: "racist", "fascist", "homophobe", "transphobe", "islamophobe", "far-right". Also, the term "genocide" might not be quite there yet, but it's being pushed in that direction pretty hard. Some bludgeonspeak terms, like "fascist" and "racist" and "genocide", used to have substantive meanings which have been destroyed by persistent abuse. It may be appropriate to recognize and use those meanings if you are reading or writing or speaking about history. Others, like "homophobe", "transphobe", and "islamophobe", were bludgeonspeak from birth. There are no circumstances in which these have substantive meaning, and it is unwise to treat them as though they do. The only way to win is not to play. When somebody throws bludgeonspeak at you, call it out. State that you will not be controlled by their language, and you refuse to be assigned to a category you reject. The key thing that people who employ bludgeonspeak don't want you to grasp is that these words only have the power over you that you allow them. Once a term has been generally recognized as bludgeonspeak, it not only loses its power as direct moral blackmail, it can no longer be used as a social attack. So: learn to recognize bludgeonspeak. Shut down the people who use it by refusing to give it power. And educate other people about this manipulation tactic, so that they too can reject it. You can prevent semantic manipulation. All it takes is the will to do so.
This must hurt: Because Trump pardoned a pair of J6 non-insurrectionists, they're entitled to have the money they paid for restitution and fines given back to them. The judge forced to order their restoration of funds is the corrupt, highly-impeachable rogue Judge Boasberg.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered that a couple pardoned by President Trump for their convictions regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot be refunded their restitution payments and fines, reversing his earlier decision. On Wednesday, Boasberg ruled that because of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Cynthia Ballenger and her husband, Christopher Price, are to be refunded the $570 each in restitution payments and other fees paid as a part of their convictions, Fox News reported.
Gavin Newsom is shielding the killer of an 11-year-old boy from deportation.
ICE announced Tuesday that it lodged an immigration detainer with the San Diego Sheriff's Office for 44-year-old criminal Mexican national Hector Balderas-Aheelor after he was arrested for a felony hit-and-run that killed 11-year-old Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz a day before Thanksgiving. The DHS' press release said the arrest detainer would not be honored because California is a sanctuary state.The left has new book out about the sacrament of killing an unborn child: Abortion is Everything. The book isn't intended for 21 year old women already on their third abortion. It's intended for 5-to-8 year olds. Get 'em while they're young.
The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard Newsom's press office responded in a post calling the allegation a "complete lie." "As we have repeatedly said: The state coordinates with ICE on the deportation of convicted criminals. California honors federal criminal warrants. Nothing prohibits the federal government from doing its job in this case," the post states. Just over an hour later, DHS responded in a follow-up tweet claiming the governor's office was "playing word games to keep an illegal alien murderer in America." "California REJECTED the ICE detainer for an illegal alien charged with killing an 11-year-old boy. Gavin Newsom says he'll only cooperate with ICE if the criminal illegal alien is CONVICTED, meaning California will let him roam free even though he's been arrested for FELONY hit-and-run," the department wrote. Along with its criticism, DHS included a cropped picture of an immigration detainer's rejection on Sunday, with a note reading, "No qualifying criminal history, however current charge would qualify upon conviction with a new 1247 from ICE." Following publication, the department provided the Daily Caller News Foundation with the full filing, with Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin issuing a statement calling out Newsom and the state's politicians. "The sanctuary politicians of California and Governor Newsom once again REFUSED to protect the safety and security of American families," McLaughlin told the DCNF. "It's despicable that our ICE arrest detainer of a criminal illegal alien who killed an 11-year-old boy would be rejected. When will Governor Newsom and his fellow sanctuary politicians stop releasing criminals into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk?"
The Shout Your Abortion IG post celebrates this book as a way to “normalize” abortion for children in kindergarten through 2nd grade.
— Jenna Ellis 🐊 (@realJennaEllis) December 3, 2025
But why even introduce such a violent, adult topic to kids who still sleep with stuffed animals and ask for night lights?
Because reshaping… pic.twitter.com/8MZ5WcSM9g
The official book description proudly states: "Abortion Is Everything speaks directly to five to eight-year-olds about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions. With accessible, inclusive language, Abortion Is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision. Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us."
She has mostly been spared the embarrassment of this performance by mainstream coverage. But it should be clowned on bc it’s very dumb that she put on a Nudie Suit and sang Dolly on the last night of the campaign after being caught on tape saying she hates country music. And you… https://t.co/NSYRsI9rNS
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 4, 2025
America First or something. https://t.co/d7TenzFW0e
— Chris Loesch 𝕏 (@ChrisLoesch) December 4, 2025
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:35 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)
"I would have liked this if it had another name," is never, ever persuasive to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)
I wouldn't have liked it anyway.
As I said before, it's an incoherent mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.
"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)
I wouldn't have liked it anyway.
As I said before, it's an incoherent mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.
"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)
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Then the inaccuracies to the legend are immaterial to your critique. Focus on the actual reasons you dislike it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?
Netflix has a new adaptation of Beowulf. I got excited until I saw the picture accompanying the description. It, of course, had a black warrior. Now, I have nothing against a black warrior in an appropriate setting, but I'm gonna guess that they were not exactly common in the Beowulf setting, and that tells me what I need to know about the show.
Next.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (iK7NX)
The book isn't intended for 21 year old women already on their third abortion.
It's intended for 5-to-8 year olds.
They make trans, fag, and drag books for ages 2 and up, so I am about as unsurprised as can be.
Posted by: The ones they don't kill they'll neuter at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)
Mace Nightstick batted second, after Waddy Staff's single, and hammered a triple over the head of Beetle Whangee in right field.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (GHIyr)
Next.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)
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No one will top Zemeckis' version anyway.
But original Netflix content largely doesn't interest me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (thvln)
how do I get one of them email jerbs where I just hang out emailing and going on zoom all day
instead I fight with Adobe and Figma
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (emBoF)
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is Boasberg em-peached yet ??
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (vbdXu)
Has an Arthurian adaptation ever been done where Arthur actually fights the Anglo-Saxons and defeats them at the Battle of Badon? Because that might be the closest to a historical Arthur, assuming he existed (and I think he did in some form following the Roman withdrawal from Britain).
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)
I foresee much pain in their future.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (thvln)
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I remember when Rowling went on Twitter to say that Hermione could have been black. She'd never described Hermione as white.
And someone screenshoted a description of Hermione from one of the books calling her skin white.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
Ah, Angelina Jolie in early CGI.
for real that one was really good tho
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (emBoF)
.....
I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:41 PM (v0R5T)
Has an Arthurian adaptation ever been done where Arthur actually fights the Anglo-Saxons and defeats them at the Battle of Badon? Because that might be the closest to a historical Arthur, assuming he existed (and I think he did in some form following the Roman withdrawal from Britain).
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)
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The mid-2000s one was close to that, but it was set around Hadrian's Wall not near Birmingham and Badon Hill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (NFGTZ)
Ah, Angelina Jolie in early CGI.
for real that one was really good tho
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (emBoF)
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It keeps growing on me. Plus the animation is significantly better than Polar Express.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)
That guy was in on the fix since the very start, back during operation Arctic Frost...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (vbdXu)
Laura Loomer (on X)
"One of the people who @TuckerCarlson invited to his Alp Christmas party last night is @ThugnastyMMA Bryce Mitchell.
Earlier this year, Bryce said, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research…. he fought for his country and wanted to purify it by kicking out all the greedy Jews.”
This prompted @danawhite to disavow Mitchell, even though he said Mitchell has a right to free speech.
Tucker continues to tell us that he’s “just asking questions” and he doesn’t hate Jews.
Interesting guest list…"
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)
Thanks Ace for bringing it to our attention, but what a disgusting and horrible time we live in.
>>Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us."
It is a way for morally weak to play god. It is evil. Can it be any clearer than that statement?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (1ZMNP)
Do You Like gay Toy Trains?
I cued it up to the end.
Here's some Big Loser setting up his stupid Toy Trains in a giant Christmassy scene:
https://is.gd/3Jw02K
Posted by: Soothsayer goes "Choo! Choo!" at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (1ZMNP)
__________
It's worth $3/month for the older series alone. Deadwood, Sopranos, Rome, Larry Sanders. I've tried The Wire a couple of times, but never made it past a few episodes.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Sol Wachtler, Deli Owner at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (R/m4+)
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This book will never, ever show up as a "guilty pleasure" on the Sunday Morning Book Thread so long as I have a say in the matter.
It's evil.
The Necronomicon is Dr. Seuss by comparison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (4/TSN)
Posted by: The Wine Mom at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (BaF3z)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (Ia/+0)
There is something wrong with Carlson, and others like him, who will sell their consciences.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (0U5gm)
Someone say Polar Express?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes "Choo! Choo!" at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (mJELX)
Laura Loomer (on X)
"One of the people who @TuckerCarlson invited to his Alp Christmas party last night is @ThugnastyMMA Bryce Mitchell.
Earlier this year, Bryce said, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research…. he fought for his country and wanted to purify it by kicking out all the greedy Jews.”
This prompted @danawhite to disavow Mitchell, even though he said Mitchell has a right to free speech.
Tucker continues to tell us that he’s “just asking questions” and he doesn’t hate Jews.
Interesting guest list…"
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)
Well, yes, that happens when you try to kill ALL of them...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (zZu0s)
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)
https://is.gd/3Jw02K
I dunno. I'm not a train guy but that is a pretty spectacular setup.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
Didn't that literally just happen in one of the Medicare fraud cases this week?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:47 PM (jc0TO)
Wtf do they find these people. It is like they called down to central casting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Moss-covered, three-handled family abattoir
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (mJELX)
Cute Toy Trains & Christmas Music
Here is an elaborate Toy Train set in a lovely Wintry scene, accompanied by relaxing Christmas music:
https://is.gd/VS7CXM
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (cPNKV)
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)
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*cumming just so hard*
-Mrs. Walz
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (g47mK)
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Oh my word no!
We have to show we can govern!
Posted by: Becky Cuthbertson-Klein, Locust Valley Republicans at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (sF9Ts)
There is something wrong with Carlson, and others like him, who will sell their consciences.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (/iMjX)
Forget case somewhat but a Leftist Judge dismissed a jury case after they convinced the criminal, judge let that person off anyway
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
Didn't that literally just happen in one of the Medicare fraud cases this week?
Posted by: toby928(c)
This place...
it's like being in an Alzheimers Ward...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)
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"tree-fitty."
-da lock ness monsta
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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The Leftist cancer in America is not going to be solved through voting harder.
Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (vSvIl)
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)
Well, their governor is retarded, so there is that.
Posted by: American Association Of Retardism at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Should Be Amusing at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c)
30 pieces of silver
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)
Wtf do they find these people. It is like they called down to central casting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (zZu0s)
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His twitter is filled with much worse.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (sF9Ts)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)
So is using birth control, dummy. Get snipped if you don't want children.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)
Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (zZu0s)
But we love you very much, now go clean your room.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
I suspect they specifically did not try to find an impartial grand jury and the voir dire for that particular grand jury was severly lacking.
It's just like everyone clamoring for Trump's DOJ to indict democrats for all sorts of crimes that occurred in DC. It simply ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: pookysgirl misses her grandma at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)
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Harry Potter is set in the 80s and 90s, and yeah, there were some black characters and Indian characters.
Harry Potter set today would be fun, especially if you had to include devout Muslims as characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)
What exactly is happening with SCOTUS and birthright citizenship? They're going to determine whether Trump's EO is legal, or whether the whole concept is ready for the ash-heap of history?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (isqj7)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c)
It doesn't matter. I walked away from a job with no backup plan because I refused to lie on a document. You just don't sell some things.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (0U5gm)
The abortion book was written in order to be "banned" from school libraries in red America in order to goose sales to childless cat ladies in San Francisco.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928(c)
You can only sell me out if you agree, in a contract signed with your own blood, to do it after you've slept with Trigglypuff first.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)
Forget case somewhat but a Leftist Judge dismissed a jury case after they convinced the criminal, judge let that person off anyway
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM
Didn't that literally just happen in one of the Medicare fraud cases this week?
Posted by: toby928(c)
This place...
it's like being in an Alzheimers Ward...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (cPNKV)
Well, this group still thinks their 29 years old...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: toby928(c)
30 pieces of silver
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)
Troy ounces or what?
Posted by: There's pieces and then there's PIECES at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (0N4FZ)
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In which case I will be forced to reconsider my opinion on overthrowing the United States.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (sF9Ts)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x)
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All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
Thanks Ace, after that Behn link I now need some "ear bleach"!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (8CIFn)
She was charged in state court, and pled guilty to second degree arson.
Ten days in jail.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x)
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All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (wrRTB)
Imagine living in a toy train world. Sounds nice, right? Idyllic, even.
The train...constantly on the move, going around the town, never stopping...driving you out of your ever-living mind.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (cPNKV)
All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
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We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
She was charged in state court, and pled guilty to second degree arson.
Ten days in jail.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (xTIDn)
If she tried that at a PP abattoir, you can be sure she'd end up in the Fed for a very long time.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (/iMjX)
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)
Well, their governor is retarded, so there is that.
Posted by: American Association Of Retardism at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (R/m4+)
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Remember when they elected Jessie Ventura as Gov. Wacky state.
Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (sF9Ts)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (NFGTZ)
All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
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We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
I prefer the car...oh, we're not talking Monopoly?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (ynpvh)
The abortion book was written in order to be "banned" from school libraries in red America in order to goose sales to childless cat ladies in San Francisco.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM
Childless cat lady: "I need to preserve my right to have an abortion."
Moron: "Have you ever had sex with a human male?"
Childless cat lady: "I don't get your point. Why is that relevant?"
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: There's something very wrong about this at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (TbWk/)
All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
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We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
I will play Snape, another hero in the book.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal
Can we talk for a moment about how Neville was an utter dweeb through most of the saga...but then he (or at least his actor) turned into an absolute Chad at the end...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)
Trump's defense is that he didn't break the law.
Leticia James' defense is that someone like her should not be prosecuted, not that she didn't break the law.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (azNOR)
Forget the pillars of salt, this time, Lord, just burn it all and keep burning until there's nothing left to burn.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (sF9Ts)
The Reddit faggot is back with more Reddit nuggets of cucka.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (sF9Ts)
So an MMA guy?
Are we supposed to give credence to social commentary from guys with CTE?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: muldoon
What I saw, from other commenters here, was that some anti-Canada comments folks were posting here got under his skin, and he left.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)
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This is a big reason I identify with him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Soothsayer
********
I imagine that signal man's arm gets tired holding that lantern up around the clock.
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (sF9Ts)
There's also that kid from a Star Trek series that couldn't get into Starfleet Academy for the longest time, and when he did, should've been booted for being involved in a dangerous, banned stunt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM
With federal interest in abortion policy outlawed by the Supreme Court, how is the FACE act not .. err .. facially unconstitutional?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected
Funny how the money only makes its appearance in the first world, never in the third world. How did the colonialists find that secret stash, hidden in the wastelands?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
I have that. It's a lot of fun.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)
"A Child's Garden of Murder".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (sF9Ts)
Last time someone asked, I saw someone make a snippy comment about his 'stale links'. Jeez, are we this fucking high school?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (sF9Ts)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
They actually both were the folks from the prophecy...Harry and Neville.
I have said that the tv show should have spent the 7 years of the books following Neville. It would have been amazing, and I'd offer to fill in the missing details. Going from the weenie bullied kid to the main hero by book 7 and all due to grit and bravery...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (tOcjL)
Arabella Stanton is the actress and she looks Indian/Pakistani/Bangledeshi, somewhere from the subcontinent.
She’s not quite black but certainly not a fuzzy-gingerish-haired, white, English lass, either.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04
Snape is an utterly terrible person. Just because I helped Harry out doesn't excuse his abuse and nastiness throughout the entire series.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (MGB5H)
We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
I will play Snape, another hero in the book.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (pDt9x)
Snape is, but he was never intended to be one til the 1st movie was shown to the public and Alan Rickman's portrayal was so amazing...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
I have that. It's a lot of fun.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (MGB5H)
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It is. I've had it on my list of "to-do's" to come up with my own set of rules to allow for deck building between years, adding on the expansions, and having one, long game that goes on for like 12 hours.
I've read a couple of fan made rule, and I've never liked them.
Coming up with that would be a good Christmas present for Dolley...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (zZu0s)
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Come back andy! We forgive you for poutine.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (sF9Ts)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (/iMjX)
This too is the story of lawn jockeys.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)
Yup. Sometimes homely kids make the best looking adults.
I went the other way: Cute kid, now current me. Alas.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)
They do this because he was dangerous and they wanted to neutralize him. This is the Treglia Pew speech I always harp on about.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (1ZMNP)
But this blackwashing stuff is offensive.
I went to watch a show about Cleopatra and as soon as they introduced the actress as black...click.
Why not make a miniseries about the Queen of Sheeba. Or hell how about the life of Haile Selassie?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x)
I really hope the DOJ will persist in indicting this corrupt piece of shit.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (WsJuq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM
With federal interest in abortion policy outlawed by the Supreme Court, how is the FACE act not .. err .. facially unconstitutional?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)
"It's a tax!"--Justice John Roberts
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (cPNKV)
I've read a couple of fan made rule, and I've never liked them.
Coming up with that would be a good Christmas present for Dolley...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (GBKbO)
Feel free to send my way if you do!
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (MGB5H)
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Yeah...gonna do it. Tomorrow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: muldoon
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My take: Andy got disgruntled after Trump won and Trump started making comments/insults/trolling about Canada in terms of trade agreements. Think the loss by Canadian right in the elections might have added to the anguish because a fair number of Canadians on the right blame Trump's comments for that.
Then lots of comments about Snow Mexicans, etc. in response from some folks here arose. May be around under some of the new floating nics that seem to not be very happy about this or that under the new regime. Maybe not. Dunno.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
His character growth was amazing. And the casting people lucked out that this pudgy little kid from the first movie wound up being tall and handsome enough to pull off slicing Naigini in half in an epic fashion in the last movie.
Posted by: pookysgirl's librarian grandma gave her the first 3 HP books at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (Wt5PA)
But this blackwashing stuff is offensive.
I went to watch a show about Cleopatra and as soon as they introduced the actress as black...click.
Why not make a miniseries about the Queen of Sheeba. Or hell how about the life of Haile Selassie?
Posted by: 18-1
My understanding is that hollywood writers and producers are so racist that they won't write new material for black actors, so they only get retread roles.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)
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I've been meaning to mention all the anti-San Francisco comments. Why, in this very thread....
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (sF9Ts)
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (NFGTZ)
We're looking out for you, buddy. Wouldn't want you to starve.
Much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (sF9Ts)
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All I know is that I hate all penguins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
Agreed.
Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (ycr1e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)
*takes notes*
-Big Penguin
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (sKqQm)
Hilarious!!!
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: toby928(c)
More likely they will get arrested by UK police just for writing comments here.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)
*takes notes*
-Big Penguin
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (MGB5H)
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As long as they like and subscribe, they can scribble with their little flippers all they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (GBKbO)
-Joey B.
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (i+bC1)
The nerve of this bitch.
When there is no rule of law, people will make their own law.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (P8IKm)
-Joey B.
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (i+bC1)
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"The most eloquent pronouncement by a president in my lifetime."
-DU, 100% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:08 PM (GBKbO)
When there is no rule of law, people will make their own law.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation
"I AM THE LAW
-Judge Dredd"
-Tish James
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:09 PM (MGB5H)
When there is no rule of law, people will make their own law.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (P8IKm)
There's something delightfully thudding about explicitly thanking the jurors who nullified your case for their "support".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:09 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
That tears it! Gonna unsubscribe!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (oftw2)
It is one of the least disgusting countries in the world.
If I lived in Singapore I would be arrested and caned for something I'm not aware of.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
That tears it! Gonna unsubscribe!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (oftw2)
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There's no such thing as bad press!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)
FFS. Grow a thicker skin.
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (Q0yOR)
How many stereotypes did I get?
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (SZI4T)
I would gladly take a good horsewhipping out of left field now and again if it meant all the scumbags who pretend to rule us face a real and inevitable promise of Finding Out any time they so much as smell like they want to Fuck Around.
No one knows how to create such a precious unicorn of a system, though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: NCKate at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)
FFS. Grow a thicker skin.
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
THAT Guy!!
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Eh, to last online you need a tough skin--I've been called a lot of names online over the 30 years or so in discussion boards (starting with Usenet forums) and dealt professionally with shitty comments on peer review for articles, discussants at conferences, editors, and student reviews.
Best to have "I Don't Care Margaret" attitude and carry on. As I told one critic, if what you say is true, then it is true--if not then I really don't have to care about it.
Never take online insults from randos seriously---in some cases it may be literally business for the ten cent posters or some delusional troll living in their parent's basement that haven't bathed since Kamala lost.
As usual, YMMV but that is my take.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (GBKbO)
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
THAT Guy!!
Posted by: tubal
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I don't get it.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (YwEeS)
Some idiot(s) here also drove away "Mister Ghost."
Some people need to keep their stupid fucking mouths shut and stop complaining about other people's comments.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (GBKbO)
We know, man. We know.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (/iMjX)
He seems to be taking a sabbatical. Apparently some commenters constant swipes at Canada, rankled him. Me, I know they are deserved, and I regard them as applying to the Evil Liberals, and the damfools who vote for them, not me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (vFG9F)
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Pretty sure I heard it first from Carlos Mencia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (sKqQm)
Ahhh, before Lindsey lost her mind and vanished from the face of the Earth.
She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)
As if, planting bombs at the capitol on J6, was no biggie.
I wanted it solved solely because I wanted the person who planted bombs at the Dem headquarters behind bars, whoever the fuck it is. We were "fixated" because this seems like an easily solvable case, yet no progress was happening. We also didn't know who it was - we had no idea it was a black leftist. Could have been a maga guy. Either way I wanted the guy found and punished.
The only explanation I can summon to understand why lefties weren't also fixated is the FBI knew when they caught the guy it wouldn't look good.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)
Much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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He should find a nice hog farm so he can satisfy his cravings. Conveyor waste belts would take the product right to his gaping mouth.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (zZu0s)
I can't believe she'll be 40 next year...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (ynpvh)
She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt) =
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Paul Schrader got naked with her and pornstar James Dean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)
Why the delay?
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Because it gives the rubes that assert "He's one of us guys, and just likes to ask questions" plausible deniability.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (Ia/+0)
I think that's the worst thing anyone's ever said about him.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (Q0yOR)
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Standing right here, bro.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (CTokg)
And yet I remain, like a floater you can't flush.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (jc0TO)
Quatari Money spends just as well as our.
Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (IifOV)
She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December
She's back now. Got some ill-advised plastic surgery.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (YwEeS)
61 I'm just going to assume there is a porn video titled Hairy Pooter. No need for confirmation please.
Posted by: muldoon
I asked ai, knowing it wouldn't give me a list. Then i went down a rabit hole about censorship acus___ it of being popgrammed to do so.
It responded that it had safety guidlines. What safety guidlines. No response.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (YwEeS)
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The conservative candidate was promising to continue to import 500,000 Indians a year.
He was conservative like Mitt Romney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (GBKbO)
It’s insane to me that abortions are even necessary, let alone a billion-dollar industry. Ladies, keep your legs closed if a dick comes at you bare.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (osKUJ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)
All true, but none of that is revealed until the final few books.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (pDt9x)
As I said before, it's an incoherent mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.
"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)
Then the inaccuracies to the legend are immaterial to your critique. Focus on the actual reasons you dislike it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
Oh, good grief.
That doesn't make sense. There can be more than one reason for disliking a movie. Number One reason is it wasn't very good, but regardless of my dislike of playing fast and loose with Arthurian stuff I would have liked it if it were good. It's not.
It shouldn''t be hard though to understand that using a well-known Character carries expectations.
Suppose Kubrick had instead of calling "2001: A Space Odyssey" had titled it:
"The Enigmatic Slab: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery"
Well...why not? Why can't Sherlock Holmes be a pre-hominid creature running around the African Savannah clubbing tapirs with leg bones?
This is the argument you're making in regards to this.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Disney has a wretched long record on screwing up young people that were child stars at that machine. Even a few in Walt's day like Tommie Kirk. Kurt Russell is one of the rare exceptions.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (sF9Ts)
Good poutine is yummy. You can feel your arteries clog with every bite.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Is she still so, after all her drug/alcohol consumption?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: toby928(c)
There's one in every septic tank.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (oftw2)
Or, We Hate Life.
It would be simpler for them to just go off and kill themselves.
Then they would be at peace.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (SZI4T)
Well...why not? Why can't Sherlock Holmes be a pre-hominid creature running around the African Savannah clubbing tapirs with leg bones?
Posted by: naturalfake
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That would actually be a hoot to see. Can we see the whole pitch?
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)
The Canyons.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
I live in the Ozarks, Jack.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum
I think Stranger Things may have had a similar twist.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)
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I have to believe that Jodie Foster was everyone's favorite Disney child star.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Soothsayer
As I recall, he was kinda asshoe.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (77rzZ)
Who was that other cute chick who totally lost her mind and lost her career around the same time-
She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)
One little monkey all doodling around with a driver's cap and a meerschaum.... making clearly condescending "ook ook" noises at the other monkeys....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (06Hmj)
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Mister Ghost deserved it, and was little more than a Fuentes fanboi.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
I live in the Ozarks, Jack.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM
I live with my cousin-wife in Alabama.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)
She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)
Amanda Bynes. She has face tats now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (MGB5H)
She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt) =
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Paul Schrader got naked with her and pornstar James Dean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)
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In one of the most ridiculous sexual assault cases ever, Deen was sued for sexual abuse during …wait for it … the shooting of a scene for a hardcore porn movie. The whore claimed something like he was supposed to pound her like this, but instead he pounded her like that. Sex assault!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (osKUJ)
Problem is I have like 100 subscriptions on there and YT doesn't think TJM is important enough to put on my home page.
I'd go looking down the list, but that's some serious scrolling.
I guess I could hit the Bell and be notified but I'm not sure if I'm ready for that kind of commitment. I haven't hit the bell for notifications for anybody on YT yet, I just figure I see 'em when I see 'em.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
Oh cram it Mr. I Live On An Island That Only Has A Southern Coast and Doesn't Even Actually Exist.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:22 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 05:22 PM (QVmho)
Speakin' o' which, have we identified the other bikini hottie in the Karoline Leavitt beach pic?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:23 PM (viF8m)
Anyone seen the Star Trek 90210 trash coming out soon?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 05:23 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:23 PM (CTokg)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (YwEeS)
It's a train wreck in slow motion
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: toby928(c)
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There was a recent short video of kids now grown up discussing being on Walt's last supervised picture. It was Fred McMurray leading in "Follow Me Boys" (love letter to the Boy Scouts when the organization deserved it).
The boys noted that Kurt was already the professional actor on the set at something like 10 or 11 years old and was passing along how to do it to the other kid actors.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)
Here is something that bothers me. The piece above about the DEI training material teaching that all whites are racists.
Maybe I am lucky, but I never had a job that was worth putting up with that shit. I don't understand why any white person does.
I really don't understand why the first person AT&T pushed that on did not push back and tell them that they are not racist, they are offended by the hostile work environment that they have created, and they can expect a 7 figure settlement demand.
Is the country so far gone that a company can systemically call an entire race "racist" and get away with it for years?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (1ZMNP)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6)
______________________________________
If that's the case, he's really going to be upset in about six months when they dissolve the USMCA agreement. Carney has been sitting on his entitled ass while Bessent has been updating trade agreements across the globe...many of which are making a point to include good trade deals on products Canada held a "monopoly" on with the US. Canada (and Mexico for that matter) will have minimal leverage in the negotiations, and there will be a bi-lateral agreement instead of a tri-lateral agreement. I'm not embellishing when I say that two years from now a Canadian dollar will be worth half of what it is now.
Short version: Canadians are truly screwed.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)
The Canyons.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (MGB5H)
I haven't seen that one.
I recall some scandal/lawsuit but following Lindsey wasn't on my To-Do List back then, I'd just read about a DUI every now and then and thank my lucky stars I was never a Hollywood Brat.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
Well...why not? Why can't Sherlock Holmes be a pre-hominid creature running around the African Savannah clubbing tapirs with leg bones?
Posted by: naturalfake
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That would actually be a hoot to see. Can we see the whole pitch?
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)
Yeah, I wanted to see it even as I wrote it.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)
All self inflicted.
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)"
Well, yeah.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Even if it's imaginary? Like Hogwarts? Or Rhode Island?
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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It would save a lot on dialogue and I don't think monkeys get residuals or profit sharing without a damn good agent.
Then again, Quest for Fire did that and that was so bad that I walked out of the theater in the first five minutes.
Even possibly seeing Darrah Hannah nekkid was not worth the pain of watching that POS.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (YwEeS)
So the Canuck military has taken on a new tranche of very stupid people? They'll be fighting over whose turn it is to tote the platoon's only .303
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
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I live in the Ozarks, Jack.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM
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No sympathy for youse guys. Try living at the Jersey Shore.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (0U5gm)
I hope not.
I hope I find out
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)
She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)
Amanda Bynes. She has face tats now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (MGB5H)
Wholley Kau!!!
She's never coming back from Pluto, is she?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: naturalfake
Heck, even Psych is a basic retread of Sherlock Holmes, albeit entertaining. But monkeys and monoliths and murder--oh my.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: toby928(c)
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There was a recent short video of kids now grown up discussing being on Walt's last supervised picture. It was Fred McMurray leading in "Follow Me Boys" (love letter to the Boy Scouts when the organization deserved it).
The boys noted that Kurt was already the professional actor on the set at something like 10 or 11 years old and was passing along how to do it to the other kid actors.
Posted by: whig
The director of Tombstone was way over his head, and Kurt Russell essentially sidled in and directed the movie himself. One of the best westerns in the past 40 years.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)
She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)
Maybe you don't ,mean her, but Britney Spears was losing it along the same time frame as Lindsey.
I believe that's when Britney shaved her head and started going out on the town sans panties.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (6ydKt)
The soon to be US Alberta
The soon to be FN portions
The froggy part
Or the commie part?
I left out the fish eaters, but I don't think any of them can read so he is probably not from there.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (1ZMNP)
Posted by: runner
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Plus ditching about 800 years of Magna Carta tradition in eliminating jury trials for all but the most serious offenses.
Rumpole and the Non-Existent Jury story would not be very interesting.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (WDjG6)
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
Correct. You wanna hang with the big dogs, you gotta take the diaper off. You can cry, but you gotta lose the diaper.
Posted by: Dick Vermeil at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Even if it's imaginary? Like Hogwarts? Or Rhode Island?
Posted by: muldoon
Just a reminder; Rhode Island is not actually an island. False advertising.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:31 PM (0U5gm)
Check in to get loaded.
Go to door 6.
Door 6 is presently occupied.
Go back to driver check in and talk to someone else. "Who did you talk to?" Didn't get a name. "Was he black?" .....uuuuhhhhhh.....
I'm not seeing anyone but black dudes, man, that's not going to narrow things down.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 05:31 PM (uP08n)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Kurt's pretty circumspect about it but others in the movie weren't.
One of the last of his kind in Hollywood I'm afraid.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:31 PM (WDjG6)
They do this because he was dangerous and they wanted to neutralize him. This is the Treglia Pew speech I always harp on about.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (1ZMNP)
I don't think an adult with Tucker's resources has any claim to have been faked or fooled. His actions are his, not some cabal he didn't join willingly.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (uP08n)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)
_____________________________
It's almost amusing how obviously the Brits are being played. Here's a little something that media hasn't even discovered yet:
Last year, the UK made all organ donations "Opt Out." This means you are donating your organs unless you take the steps to remove yourself. They made this ruling without debate, publicity, or Parliament involvement.
A year later they introduced Euthanasia into the UK (where it was previously illegal). And keep in mind the influence of their "nationalized health program" ...The NHS.
Now, why do you suppose they proceeded very quietly on the former, and then introduced the latter. What do you think their goal is?
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Elric the Blade
Wrong hole! Wrong hole!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: IrishEi
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Seems like good trashy fun goes on there. I don't recall any of the yutes involved marrying brothers or sisters or their uncle or something though.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December
Shoulda been a series. But Disney completely screwed the pooch on the name and marketing.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (1ZMNP)
Yes.
Posted by: The NFL at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (wrRTB)
Dunno. West Edmonton Mall has more operable submarines than the Canadian Navy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (npFr7)
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)
Correct. You wanna hang with the big dogs, you gotta take the diaper off. You can cry, but you gotta lose the diaper.
Posted by: Dick Vermeil at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (R/m4+)
Plus at the time I saw tons of Canadians make statement after statement threatening death and destruction on red states because we were tired of them ripping us off for decades with 300 pct tariffs on cheese and dairy. Excuse us for wanting to make milk and cheese cheaper for you guys. That nation needs to be broken up to save the sane parts.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)
He wore a fat suit, and possibly a buck teeth prosthetic, for the first two movies, I think.... the fat suit for sure, but it may have been that they tried the buck teeth on Emma Watson, but opted not to.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 05, 2025 05:35 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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The legal points in this case would have to be handled delicately. Difficult, indeed HARD, to make a case while the judge and/or jury were sniggering with every bit of evidence presentment.
The highlight of slo mo and using a pointer stick to illustrate the critical moments on the video screen would not help matters.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:35 PM (WDjG6)
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I doubt that Conservatives in Canada were ever "leading bigly"--Canada is the same nation that was relentless in shutting down free speech, shutting down bank accounts and wire transfers, and mandating state-approved speech during the last 4-5 years.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (wrRTB)
Dunno. West Edmonton Mall has more operable submarines than the Canadian Navy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (npFr7)
That stat was for the UK. I have no idea about the Canadian navy, but its likely. Even the US Navy has massive admiral bloat.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)
Canada's different though.
They consume our media more than any other nation due to most of the population being within 100 miles of the border.
You could see in the polls when Trump started trolling, Pierre's numbers went down, and Carney's went up.
A lot of Canadian conservatives were angry because their basic pitch is to be more like the U.S., and less like the U.K., and most of them admired Trump for bringing us back from the brink. When Trump started talking about the '51st state' even they were getting pissed off at him.
So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
Even possibly seeing Darrah Hannah nekkid was not worth the pain of watching that POS.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM
*cough*Rae Dawn Chong*cough*
unless you meant Clan of the Cave Bear.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (jc0TO)
The dude had his "sounds good in memes" momentum going strong, but then starting talking all kinds of weird shit. I don't even remember what, I just remember thinking "wow this guy is actually kind of nuts, isn't he?"
I think he talked some shit about Trump, but A) that was probably some last minute tactical shit and B) who the fuck cares, the world does not actually revolve around Donald Trump's mouth, no matter what all the professional newsface idiots believe. He lost because he didn't have enough cultural momentum to be The New Guy and still win. The scalpweasel was just noise in that race.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (TN0g+)
Plus they added mass election fraud to the mix as well.
Well, they got the government they wanted, and its biting them hard.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)
The soon to be FN portions
The froggy part
Or the commie part?
I left out the fish eaters, but I don't think any of them can read so he is probably not from there.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (1ZMNP)
Greater Toronto area, which did send a number of Conservative MP's to the House in the last election. Nevertheless, Toronto is an urban shithole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (+OGAU)
Posted by: Crusader
Hence the pushback against the government that did that.
You have to remember in parliamentary elections the winner gets like 40% of the vote.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Elric the Blade
Either way, she didn't feel anything. Holes like a Skippy peanut butter jar. She could read a book while he was doing his thing.
Posted by: Hos Gotta Ho at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (MGB5H)
A one sheet that was an homage to the famous Frazetta cover would have been nice.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (uP08n)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Pretty much yes on that. Personally I never like bowtie boy from his time on Crossfire. Seemed to be a political whitebread commentator that was fake through and through. Course, I find most tv news and political personalities loathsome.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (WDjG6)
There's a reason a pretty princes is introduced at the very beginning of Star Wars, not halfway through.
The director Andrew Stanton is talented, I felt bad it flopped. It's no worse than Cameron's Avatar.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (Eng1Z)
So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
This.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)
Yes and no. Voting for party, rather than individuals, plays a huge part in this. All the fringe parties can absolutely affect elections in a way they can't here.
But euro weenies are more leftist as a rule, and Trump won't sway sway all of them.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 05:41 PM (W2Pud)
The dude had his "sounds good in memes" momentum going strong, but then starting talking all kinds of weird shit. I don't even remember what, I just remember thinking "wow this guy is actually kind of nuts, isn't he?"
I think he talked some shit about Trump, but A) that was probably some last minute tactical shit and B) who the fuck cares, the world does not actually revolve around Donald Trump's mouth, no matter what all the professional newsface idiots believe. He lost because he didn't have enough cultural momentum to be The New Guy and still win. The scalpweasel was just noise in that race.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (06Hmj)
You spelled perfectly. No accent. Mostly agree with your assessment. What really queered the election was the massive collapse of the NDP, and most of those votes went to the Liberals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)
So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
This.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (wrRTB)
If Pierre was a Trump, or a Ted Cruz even, he likely would have won. But he's too much Clark Kent, even for Canada.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)
So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
This.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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I am too bored to look up the actual data but I suspect you are correct. Then again, Canada has had open borders for a long time and it might simply be that in the end, the newcomers voted for the party that would pay them benefits.
Canada, like most of the West, is being looted by today's version of Goths, Vandals, and such.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (WDjG6)
Think of it like a brother that pisses you off and you’re mad at. Then your neighbors says yeah your brother is a real asshole. You’re gonna be like whoa dude, that’s family. Fuck off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (npFr7)
Funny how in UK, France, Germany and now Canada parties that have hung around for generations just melt away when convenient for the Deep State.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (2ap+5
Annette Funicello
Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
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The "Island" part or the "Plantations" part?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (CTokg)
Posted by: Skip
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Comcast killed TCM on my cable and thence I cut the cord. TCM movies sometimes appear on Prime hit or miss.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (WDjG6)
I have a theory about these woke kid's books. Sure, they are packaged and sold for kids. But they are REALLY for the adults who write them, as the books they WISHED they had as kids. They never got over traumatic childhoods where they felt oppressed.
There's a movement called re-regulation where you talk to your childhood self to heal your past trauma and childhood PTSD. Whisper to it in baby talk. These books are a subconscious extension of that. Shouting your abortion whispers to your PTSD inner child you are ok. Or something.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 05:48 PM (Eng1Z)
Trudeau only got 33% of the vote.
That’s the fucked up nature of parliamentary systems.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 05:51 PM (w6S0H)
We get Netflix free through my phone plan. I wonder if they become the head streaming group if that deal will end.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
Go on....
Posted by: Eve Ensler at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)
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Well, true. I guess there's that.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (2ap+5
Annette Funicello
Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM
You're not really 29, are you?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM
also, you might be wanting to pick up your teeth.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Steve at December 05, 2025 07:43 PM (9vT7g)
DOJ Sues Six Democrat-Controlled States to Force Them to Clean Up Their Dirty Fraudulent Voting Rolls
Gee I wonder why they're refusing. I was informed, for example, that 2020 featured the most secure and honest vote in history.John Solomon says the actual number of Democrat states being forced to clean up their voter rolls is 26. I suppose that twenty agreed to do so when demanded, and six refused, necessitating the suit. He says this will have big implications for 2026.
The Justice Department has sued six Democrat-led states for refusing to provide their voter registration rolls. The department announced Tuesday that it filed all six lawsuits against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. "Accurate voter rolls are the cornerstone of fair and free elections, and too many states have fallen into a pattern of noncompliance with basic voter roll maintenance," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. "The Department of Justice will continue filing proactive election integrity litigation until states comply with basic election safeguards."
... "Our federal elections laws ensure every American citizen may vote freely and fairly," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division said. "States that continue to defy federal voting laws interfere with our mission of ensuring that Americans have accurate voter lists as they go to the polls, that every vote counts equally, and that all voters have confidence in election results. At this Department of Justice, we will not stand for this open defiance of federal civil rights laws."
JOHN SOLOMON: 26 states are about to be forced to clean up their voter rolls, taking off non-citizens, dead people, the triple registrars, all of it.
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) December 4, 2025
The '26 election could be fundamentally different for the Democrats, because they won't have their dirty voter rolls!… pic.twitter.com/oEJUqgdeE3
"As of right now, I'd say there is a modest bias in the overall House map" in favor of the GOP retaining control of the House, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan organization that analyzes House races. At the independent Cook Political Report, Erin Covey, U.S. House editor, had the same edge for the GOP. "The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said. All this could change as state after state tries to redraw congressional maps to favor the party in power.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (W2Pud)
If there was "nothing there" it would be an easy opportunity for them to "own Trump"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Let's get it over with early at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (dK+Kv)
I understand you can get trapped in your own ideological bubble - if I just the response to news articles here at AoS for example it is going to skew strongly rightwards but these are things that should be skewing left and they are not.
How does one then square that when there is supposedly an energized left that didn't lose the 2024 elections by that much and has done very well in the 2025 off year elections?
Shouldn't the "Evil Trump deported a nice undocumented worker" stories have a bunch of people commiserating and not a bunch of responses of "I voted for this?!?"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (sKqQm)
Great. A situation where the weakest of weak Rinos determine our national policy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)
1. Is there a law forcing States to comply with Federal bookkeeping requests?
2. If not, why isn't this Republican Congress passing this law now?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Wnv9h)
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MA *might* (slight possibility) be among the twenty that agreed to turn over data.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (ESVrU)
Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."
It's amusing that a tranny who claims to be a woman cites "empirical evidence" as a reason to downgrade her.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (pTQH2)
The department announced Tuesday that it filed all six lawsuits against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
Lame. Just tell those states that NO federal election will be recognized until they comply.
And that any "supposed" winner will be arrested should they show up to office as an impersonator.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (9bIJg)
They could make bank like I did!
Posted by: Morris Dees, Con Artist and Race Baiter at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (8uzBS)
Forget about 2026.
Why aren't Republicans passing fucking bills NOW while they have the Majority?
Get to work, fucksticks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Kurtz at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (Fez1U)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (RgYBC)
Great. A situation where the weakest of weak Rinos determine our national policy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)
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This isn't getting fixed until the census is done again in 2030.
If 2020 had been done right, the GOP would probably have a majority 12 seats bigger.
And 2030 is going to have the further migrations, the corrections from 2020, and, maybe, the discounting of all illegals. At least, the deportations will have an effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)
Lose federal funding?
A federal Hawaiian Judge will just restore it (somehow).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (/iMjX)
Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."
It's amusing that a tranny who claims to be a woman cites "empirical evidence" as a reason to downgrade her.
Posted by: Archimedes
Double willowed:
The course didn't require empirical evidence. It was more of a "feels".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (9bIJg)
What with the heavy gerrymandering I suspect that MA results are sort of honest.
But... then again... I remember Mayor Wu was elected on a platform of clot shot tyranny and had to immediately drop it after the city of Boston threatened to revolt against her.
So either voters in Boston are clueless, or the fraud machine is controlling the MA offices (or I guess both)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Wg6v7)
The DOJ sued Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. So, if Solomon is correct, then the much bigger and more nationally influential blue states -- eg, CA and NY -- all agreed to turn over the rolls? That seems ... odd.
I think more likely these are test cases, or maybe the six best examples for the DOJ to build a case.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
Surrrreeeee....
And when these states don't follow through? I'm sure their votes will be invalidated and the various reps and senators will not be seated come January, 2027.
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Iwv3U)
To paraphrase Son of Silvercon on X (Wombat-socho of The Other McCain blog), as long as states have same-day registration with no ID, it won't matter what the voter registration lists look like.
Which is not to say that it isn’t necessary. Just that it isn’t sufficient.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (EXyHK)
Republicans will LOSE in 2026 if R voters don't turn out and vote. It's that simple.
And they won't turn out for Republicans in '26 if the Republicans sit on their thumbs now until then.
Get to fucking work, shitbums.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (CWTWj)
Lose federal funding?
A federal Hawaiian Judge will just restore it (somehow).
The administration's been pretty quick on the appeals that get the Hawaiian judges overruled. There aren't really many rulings of that nature that are still in force, and meanwhile it's draining money from liberal billionaires.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (RgYBC)
Some of the complaints the US government and the left as a whole had with the Donbass vote for independence was that the vote counters were allowing non-citizens to vote and people to be bussed from voting location after voting locations to vote multiple times.
You'll note they tell us here in the US worrying about that is racist.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
The blue states are fighting tooth and nail on both.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (Eng1Z)
I don’t know about bookkeeping requests in general, but there is a law requiring states to provide voter registration bookkeeping requests; Judicial Watch uses this law extensively.
The National Voter Registration Act Of 1993, sometimes called NVRA.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)
The blue states are fighting tooth and nail on both.
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Dems aren't too good at maff.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:40 PM (Wg6v7)
I don’t know about bookkeeping requests in general, but there is a law requiring states to provide voter registration bookkeeping requests; Judicial Watch uses this law extensively.
The National Voter Registration Act Of 1993, sometimes called NVRA.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (EXyHK)
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There are also provisions in HAVA that require states to go through active cleanup of their voter rolls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
I think more likely these are test cases, or maybe the six best examples for the DOJ to build a case.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
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That has to be it. I can't imagine CA, IL, and NY willingly turning over, well, anything to Trump.
Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (EES2L)
Posted by: Newsom at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (KtOUo)
I find this hysterical. Walz, a man I despise for many reasons, mostly because he's ugly and I hate his mouth, is deeply offended by being called the r word...from people yelling it as they drive by his house. Note: not concerned about billions of dollars defrauded, but the retard word. I would say pound sand, but doubt he has the stamina.
https://tinyurl.com/54wx4sfx
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (WONhk)
Isn't it peculiar that the Fake News can find the voting record of every single white man who commits a crime, and will immediately report their findings if he voted Republican?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (cPNKV)
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Losing to the North Vietnamese Army is bad. But losing to their Reserves really sucks.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Im just sayin at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (v0R5T)
I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...
A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Some of them also mysteriously seemed to have money issues when certain pockets of funding like USAID dried up. Is there something deeper going on I'm missing?
But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (CWTWj)
I kept saying Biden was polling ahead of Trump in
MA, IL, IN, FR, AU and D
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (/iMjX)
Fake News has no problem finding and disseminating the voting records of the FAMILY of criminals.
Right? We knew immediately the voting records of the entire Crooks family.
But all of a sudden, Voting Records are supposed to be Private??
FUCK YOU.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Toby wan Kenobe at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)
Do it now.
Posted by: Czech Chick at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (vK/Ja)
RRRRRRDDDDDD
Nothing good could ever come of that. Nothing.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (RgYBC)
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C'mon man, lets cut Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont from the herd. No way these things are states.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (Wg6v7)
The left is run entirely by wine-guzzling AWFLs now, and those women believe being called names is worse than rape or murder.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (/iMjX)
Those are some rolls that will never get cleaned.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: toby928(c)
.......
That is why we still have a governor with no testicles and tardive dyskinesia.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (pkeXY)
A federal Hawaiian Judge will just restore it (somehow).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
That workaround is old-school democrat vote fraud. On
election day judges issue a ruling for polling places to stay open in select districts for any number of reasons.
Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)
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"Yes, I would rather be raped than called a racist, so we must let all the criminals out of jail and import the entire nation of Guatemala, especially their criminals."
-Karen McAwfl, of the St. Paul McAwfls
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
A lot of them are kind of boring if you watch regularly, so I stopped watching regularly. I imagine that's not an uncommon thing.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (2ocoG)
A Brazilian Harvard Law School professor who pleaded guilty last month to illegally firing an air rifle outside a Boston-area synagogue — and told police he was “hunting rats” — has agreed to leave the US following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.
Gouvea, a visiting law professor at the Ivy League institution, was in the US on a so-called J-1 (temporary non-immigrant) visa, which was revoked by the State Department two weeks after the shooting incident.
https://tinyurl.com/4t3cpkrj
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah, remember how they wondered what happened to the 12 million that just disappeared for Kumswala?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
But all of a sudden, Voting Records are supposed to be Private??
FUCK YOU.
I'm reminded of HIPAA and the nominal criminal nature of sharing medical records without permission and how with the clot shot that information was freely shared with anyone and everyone with no concerns about privacy
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (cGjQu)
She's go it goin' on.
Posted by: Fountains of Wayne at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: How far and fast we have fallen at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (TbWk/)
I said it a year ago: I have big expectations (and hopes) for Harmeet Dhillon.
I think she knows her task, and she's willing to do it.
(btw, I think she just had to fire, like, a hundred DOJ employees because they were all Democrat-party Shitbums refusing to do their assignments.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (cGjQu)
Great. A situation where the weakest of weak Rinos determine our national policy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)
This static house and senate party split is not typical of history. Given the lengths the Dems have had to go and the derangement of supposed Republicans to help them I would not bet on it continuing forever.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)
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But they will all let George Clooney grab them by their pussies.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (CWTWj)
Stacy Abrams is still Preznit of the Federation of Planets, so y'all better be nice to her.
Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Y8DZL)
Yes! Fake News is all about "privacy" for medical records. Until it comes to a Republican, or Trump.
FUCKING DICKS.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)
-Karen McAwfl, of the St. Paul McAwfls
==
Indeed raped and raped.
==
You said raped twice....
Posted by: Minnesota cuck at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: Im just sayin at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM
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She wasn't too crazy for Keith (I don't think that's possible). He dumped her when he realized she was a manipulative gold digger.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM (0bjKf)
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The "or else" should be blocking all interstate traffic into and out of your state until the state complies.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)
Can't see what possible use a Brazilian banana republic lawyer is at Hah-vaad. What good is snobbery if you don't use it?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)
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A lot of this is the 2020 census and apportionment.
At least 6 seats (a 12 seat swing) were misappropriated.
Plus, you know, illegal immigrants.
I don't care that much about 2026. If D's get the House, there will be a lot of noise, but it won't amount to much. If D's win the WH in 2028, they control the census again, and all the "mistakes" happen again, but harder.
2028 is probably the most important election since 2016.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (/iMjX)
Ace already said he was doing that last past.
This is an AOSHQ Shambling Zombie Post already created, lined up and set free upon unsuspecting morons.
By now, Ace is riding his Vespa to Central Park, an ice cold White Claw in hand.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iJfKG)
Well, of course she is. Don't planet's deserve a representative who looks like them?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (n5tGW)
I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...
A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Some of them also mysteriously seemed to have money issues when certain pockets of funding like USAID dried up. Is there something deeper going on I'm missing?
But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
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I think it's mostly audience fatigue. How many of these kinds of guys can you watch? Shapiro is especially annoying and boring, Crowder is a creep, and Tim Poole is a Pick-me Guy. I think audiences are voting with their eyeballs, and gravitating to the more popular shows.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...
A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Some of them also mysteriously seemed to have money issues when certain pockets of funding like USAID dried up. Is there something deeper going on I'm missing?
But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
Jeremy Hambly (Quartering) basically got exposed as a Drunken Buffoon constantly crying about being broke and e-begging for money while also showing off all the luxury purchases he makes. He also was creeping on Sydney Watson doing the whole "The Publica" project, and now he treats his new co-host, Hannah Claire Brimelow (formerly of Timcast) like garbage.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Phobes and isms at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (TbWk/)
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Why expel someone that can shoot rats?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (IBoKF)
These are the dudes that are always constantly on the verge of seeing the light and "getting it". You are sure they will after the next commercial break but magically they're never quite there.
Hmm. Maybe I should start calling them Cock Cage Conservatives.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: gnats local 678
......
Finally an honest politician.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)
Signs say that the ship has sailed and these schemes will be allowed. And probably race based gerrymandering will be banned as against anti-discrimination laws.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)
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All of the R attempts have been cleared by judges.
NC's came and went without a whimper.
TX's just got approval from SCOTUS on a long enough basis that 2026 is covered.
Looks like the IN issue is being forced, so I suspect it'll pass, and there won't be any challenge that survives.
MO happened, and everyone forgot.
FL will happen, and it'll probably be aggressive.
All while Gingles is definitely getting gutting at SCOTUS, and Section 2 of the VRA may get struck out as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Minnesota cuck at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM
She likes rape.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)
Apparently so, considering who and what they keep supporting politically.
Posted by: Take me hard you swarthy smelly Somali! at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (2ocoG)
Oh for sure! I have a rotation. Even the wonderful Larry Elder, I love his thoughts, but the rhythm of his show throws me off for some reason.
The only conservative podcaster I could stand to listen to every day was Rush (AM not FM.) Even though he had different musicals and cultural tastes and was my dad's age. His historical knowledge, take on American Exceptionalism, and his singular views on the political issues never got old. Whereas I get tired of all the modern podcasters at times, even the ones my age with all my same cultural references!
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
Tim has been trying to attach himself to Nick Fuentes' teat ever since Charlie Kirk died.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (UnA8+)
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Why expel someone that can shoot rats?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (Wg6v7)
they may have feared he would start on them, with good reason.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)
I think it's mostly audience fatigue. How many of these kinds of guys can you watch? Shapiro is especially annoying and boring, Crowder is a creep, and Tim Poole is a Pick-me Guy. I think audiences are voting with their eyeballs, and gravitating to the more popular shows.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
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Plus, opposition radio only works when actually in the opposition.
Pro-regime media tends to falter rather than rise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)
Does this factor in the Texas redistricting? That's 5 extra GOP seats right there.
Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
Tim has been trying to attach himself to Nick Fuentes' teat ever since Charlie Kirk died.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (UnA8+)
That's strange, Tim is bigger than Fuentes as far as I know.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Take me hard you swarthy smelly Somali!"
That explains the search results of giant black chickens...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:54 PM (cGjQu)
NYT has the dads over that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (wrRTB)
Washington State Here. Washington state is just the worst in withholding voter records. Sec of State Wash. Steve Hobbs is as crooked as Clinton's weiner. This is the most regressive state in which I have ever lived. Democrat lawmakers in Olympia Wa. are killing us. Gas prices currently avg. $4.19 a gallon.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (Wz42I)
NYT has the dads over that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (wrRTB)
"All your dads are belong to us."
- - - The NYT
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Does this factor in the Texas redistricting? That's 5 extra GOP seats right there.
Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
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There are so few actual swing seats since 2020. The biggest effect of the redistricting there (aside from the fraud at the Census Bureau) was to minimize swing seats.
Outside a complete collapse of a party right now, wave elections will probably mean something like 15-20 seats, tops, for a few cycles.
This is making this redistricting battle more important. If D's were heading towards a wave of 20 seats, but the GOP can undo 10 of those, well, that's a much small majority for D's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (2ocoG)
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yeah, it's pretty easy to get tired of their "schtick." But that's how they attract new eyeballs. Unfortunately, they rarely have much interesting to say over the long term. Lots of repetitive content.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)
Depends how accurate the data is accounting for bots. But Fuentes has more subscribers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected
He finally ran out of people to piss off.
Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (qUkBO)
Oh! Mitt Romney! I can't stand that magic underwear wearing faggot!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (cGjQu)
It's a feature, not a bug...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
They did prior to 2020 (or earlier) to create safe districts for both sides. Then they steal a few close ones by ballot fraud, hence the 2 month or whatever post election day games. R are about 40 pct of the electorate but have way less representation.
That's why I wonder if trying to steal even more districts might boomerang if the voting patterns shift even a little.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (ESVrU)
Not to mention, Tim Pool puts out TOO MUCH content, and he has a bad habit of talking over his guest and co-hosts, because he can't stand not being the smartest guy in the room.
The longer you watch anyone, the more you see the cracks in their facade and in their armor.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:58 PM (UnA8+)
The really dumb part was him saying the far right should join with the left. Because they all agree on the Epstein files. And crowder was like you think the left is giving up abortion and guns? To which Fuentes just mumbled some nonsense and then pivoted to Jews. It’s kind of comical.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (wrRTB)
I tend to agree.
If the economy is doing well in 2026 and the fraud isn't too overwhelming CA's redistricting might COST the Dems seats
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:58 PM (UnA8+)
I blame THE BEES!
Posted by: Candace! at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
They did prior to 2020 (or earlier) to create safe districts for both sides. Then they steal a few close ones by ballot fraud, hence the 2 month or whatever post election day games. R are about 40 pct of the electorate but have way less representation.
That's why I wonder if trying to steal even more districts might boomerang if the voting patterns shift even a little.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)
That's what the Jungle Primary is used for...get rid of Reps from ballots. More than once I've had a choice for Senator of nasty Dem and nastier Dem. Sorta like choosing between brain cancer and ass cancer...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (PsX7R)
Seemingly innocuous statement by the former mayor of a major Washington city during the 2000 election.
And sure as hell, after three recounts, they did!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
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I'm really hoping the DOJ strikes down the deal on anti-trust issues.
They did strike down the AT&T/T-Mobile merger 15 years ago. It can happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
Not the Bee:
Tim Walz Says People Are Driving By His House To Call Him Retarded: "This Creates Danger!"
https://tinyurl.com/33dfbm4j
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: Phobes and isms at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (TbWk/)
Zombies have to get out of the graves and go vote like the rest of us. No absentee ballots.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
There's only one Warner Sister...Dot. Her brothers are Yakko and Wakko.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (ynpvh)
I remember back in '04 that there was a close governor election where they kept finding ballots for the dem candidate until she had enough.
And then...of course...no more ballots were found and it was done.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Baldy at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (4/qdm)
Maybe it's the Dead Shark Effect.
A lot of these guys are remoras who live off the crumbs left by the Big Daddy Shark.
Remember when Rush died?
Suddenly, everyone in conservative media seemed lost, becuz...yes...their show prep was primarily listening to Rush.
Maybe something similar is going on now that Charlie Kirk died.
Ace is his own kind of thing and funny, so he's probably pretty constant. But, most of these guys just aren't.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (viF8m)
Not the Bee:
Tim Walz Says People Are Driving By His House To Call Him Retarded: "This Creates Danger!"
https://tinyurl.com/33dfbm4j
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)
Only if you're retarded, Tim...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)
They did strike down the AT&T/T-Mobile merger 15 years ago. It can happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
I'd prefer the DOJ spend its antitrust time and energy kicking the shit out of the health care industry but too many billions of dollars of grift, influence, and personal enrichment are at stake for that.
Posted by: Market forces? Don't make me laugh. at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
Washington State Here. Washington state is just the worst in withholding voter records. Sec of State Wash. Steve Hobbs is as crooked as Clinton's weiner. This is the most regressive state in which I have ever lived. Democrat lawmakers in Olympia Wa. are killing us. Gas prices currently avg. $4.19 a gallon.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (Wz42I)
And after passing a record setting tax increase, the dems have already begun filing Bills for new taxes. But trust them...most secure elections EVAH!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: High tech at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (37cEZ)
Sorry if already posted.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)
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But like a bamboo tree -- she will keep bending over without breaking.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (1/S7B)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)
All of it. It's my island.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (viF8m)
When is an island not an island...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM
The Almighty tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: If the merkin fits at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (wrRTB)
yeah I think Fuentes is the media's pet pseudo supremacist. He's glib enough to get some hits on an unwary opponent, but just doesn't have the juice.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)
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Imagine if 100% voted in a jungle primary election and got Republicans in the top two spots of every statewide race...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
We're dealing with people who will MURDER Us because we disagree with them.
Of Fucking Course they are going to steal elections.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (cPNKV)
......
Even the Somalis, and that's saying something.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (v0R5T)
Crowder can't stand not being the funniest in the room...with the exception of Nick DiPaulo, who he rightfully idolizes. The way he treated Dave Landau, who IMO was funnier than him a lot of the time, was terrible. I like Josh, he's great, but he wisely knows NOT to upstage Crowder.
It looks like Blaze Media cut the Normal World crew (Landau and Garrett) loose, as well as Alex Stein. I hope they find somewhere else to land!
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)
It's only 40% if you count the dead, imaginary, and multi-voters.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
When it identifies as a continent.
-- Australia
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)
Well I did, in 1996. It was called California.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: If the merkin fits at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)
Must be tough being a fag and having a pussy...imagine the self-hate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (ynpvh)
All of it. It's my island.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (viF8m)
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I just figured out that Rhode Island is not an actual island!
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (1/S7B)
The "far right" wants to be left alone
Since the free shit has to come from other people working those two things are not compatible.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (sKqQm)
Hell, you don't think Washington State voters sent Cantwell and Murry to the senate for their intellect do you?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: If the merkin fits at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)
Must be tough being a fag and having a pussy...imagine the self-hate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (ynpvh)
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Of course it makes it much easier for him to go fuck himself..
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (1/S7B)
Small-budget indie content > Monopoly megabudget content. Often, not always. Anyway, I never trusted either of them much. Not like I trust Lifetime Channel to deliver reliable women-in-peril drama.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Not a real place at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (TbWk/)
When it's many islands.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (viF8m)
Archipelago?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM
It's not even a real place. It's a fake Hollywood state like East Dakota and Maryland.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)
Garrett is in the orbit of Gary at Nerdrotic and is on some of their shows talking movies.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+)
Ace is his own kind of thing and funny, so he's probably pretty constant. But, most of these guys just aren't.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (iJfKG)
It's starting to look like Charlie might have been the most valuable piece the Right had on the board, culturally.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (UnA8+)
Small-budget indie content > Monopoly megabudget content. Often, not always. Anyway, I never trusted either of them much. Not like I trust Lifetime Channel to deliver reliable women-in-peril drama.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (GHIyr)
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No indie can hit the same as King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which should have gotten a sequel.
(like and subscribe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)
Yep.
Oh, you said "potholes"...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
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There's only one Warner Sister. Her name is Dot.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)
Alex Stein is also a member of Tim Pool's crew.
And good lord, I recently started watching "Worst Cooks in America", his obnoxious ass was making trouble in Season 4.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I wonder what that word means. Guess I'll Goolag it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)
2024: 15M
2020: 17M
2016: 13M
2012: 12M
2008: 13M
...spot the result that seems out of the pattern...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (AfPgx)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
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There's only one Warner Sister. Her name is Dot.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (ESVrU)
Yes. See #149...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (cGjQu)
Geez, ever statement Griswold makes just absolutely screams "AUDIT ME!"
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (bufu1)
2024: 15M
2020: 17M
2016: 13M
2012: 12M
2008: 13M
...spot the result that seems out of the pattern...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm)
That 12M in 2012 doesn't fit...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (ynpvh)
In the South Park episode about Charlie Kirk, Clyde Donovan becomes a rising rightwing podcast star...and admits at the end he didn't believe anything he was saying, it was just for fame and money.
Clyde and Nick Fuentes look suspiciously similar...
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I wonder what that word means. Guess I'll Goolag it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)
bunch of islands in one area. Think Hawaii, Indonesia.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (8avO+)
Hell, you don't think Washington State voters sent Cantwell and Murry to the senate for their intellect do you?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (2WIwB)
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We've got The Soros, Cartel, and ChiComm Butt-Bitchezzz Hobbs, Kelly, and Gallego frauds.
I am disgust.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (1/S7B)
Archipelawent
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (cGjQu)
ArchipelaCAME...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (AfPgx)
Start shelling their capitals.
Posted by: 155mm of persuasion at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)
bunch of islands in one area. Think Hawaii, Indonesia.
Posted by: Oldcat
Yes, I know. It was a pun, Dude.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (AfPgx)
Start shelling their capitals.
Posted by: 155mm of persuasion at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)
Shell them like the bunch of nuts they are?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (GHIyr)
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Guy Ritchie gangster film + King Arthur + 1982 Conan the Barbarian + $175 million = fun, in my book
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (GHIyr)
You forgot Plucky-woman-meets-Prince-from-vaguely-European country at Xmas....or is that Hallmark?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)
I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
This is anecdotal, but with me it's all of their co-hosts/producers/hangers-on (Except Quartering who's just a Youtube dunce). Carolla, Rogan, Poole, Crowder - I generally tune in to each every once in a while but then the "news reader" for Carolla chimes in, or that mental midget Ian with Time Poole, or Gerald the CEO of Crowder's show pipes up - and I end up yelling at my monitor and shutting them off. I've been a follower of Carolla's since Ace here turned me onto his podcast 10 years ago, but I only catch him if he has an interesting guest on and avoid his funnier news bit commentary because of this.
Maybe just me, I dunno.
Posted by: Croaker at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (+BcZI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
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You can leave out the rest of it and just give me $175 million and I'll create my own fun.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (ESVrU)
____________________
That's the one on the list of 6 that interests me most. I'm convinced that the fraud in states along the border is massive. A state like New Mexico is ((IMO) a fence sitter. As a result, it always votes to the left via fraud. A state like Arizona leans right, so it becomes a toss up each election due to fraud.
And, more importantly, I think the motivating parties behind a lot of the fraud isn't necessarily the democrats (although they facilitate it). I believe the primary fingers in the pie are drug cartel related, and it's another reason why Trump is so focused on Venezuela.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (krQz2)
Si. And Great American channel...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:15 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Croaker at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (+BcZI)
They are tossing away the low overhead advantage of the medium.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)
Maybe just me, I dunno.
Posted by: Croaker at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (+BcZI)
Ian's worth it because he pisses Tim off so much.
But Phil Labonte is the actual brains on Timcast IRL.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:16 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (ESVrU)
Gigantic all-wood mansion/cabin at the foot of a mountain, that's the first thing I'm doing with $175 Million (aside from putting at least 20 Million aside as an untouchable interest/dividend-generating stream)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:17 PM (UnA8+)
100%. I could and did listen to El Rushbo as often as I could for almost 30 years. He was the grand exception to all of the rules that afflict most other political media.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
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Might be your classic flood of the market to oversupply. Yeah, it was marketable to have 1 or 2 alternative conservative commentators, but they can't all grow into where it's really profitable, perhaps.
There's a market for it, but it's not as big as needed to support all those people.
Plus, there has been a growing amount of in-fighting, and perhaps that's turning people off to even that.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)
Ace - I beg you as I assume you are closer to the Machine: tell them to get on the Trump train(which is the Reagan train) or go away. We need Ken Paxton's, not John Cornyn's.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (mNOhh)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
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De gustibus and all that, but-
I tried watching that one on streaming a year or two ago and had to turn it off, it was such a dog's breakfast.
Also, being pretty familiar with the Arthurian legends/myths, I had a a hard time buying in to begin with.
I mmmaaaaaayyy give it another chance if it's on for free.
But, I think you're trying to make fetch happen here.
It's like Prometheus' Little Stoner Brother.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (iJfKG)
>>HOLY CRAP! Fox News drops a bombshell--the Minnesota fraud scheme stole up to $8 billion from taxpayers. That's 8 times more than what was originally reported.
>>"Several whistleblowers in Minnesota have state lawmaker's believing once these investigations are through, they believe the actual size of this fraud, the amount of taxpayer dollars has been stolen could be over and $8 billion."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)
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I think one of the reasons I like RedLetterMedia on YouTube so much is that they don't do any YouTube drama stuff. At all.
They have their schtick. They've done it for like 15 years. That's all I need.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 04:20 PM (n5tGW)
Archipelawent
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (cGjQu)
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But it's in the past.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM (krQz2)
There's a market for it, but it's not as big as needed to support all those people.
Plus, there has been a growing amount of in-fighting, and perhaps that's turning people off to even that.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)
The bloom is coming off the rose for a lot of their personality flaws too (Crowder's repressed homosexuality and abrasive behavior, Quartering's Drunken e-begging and talking about how he shits his pants, Tim's gambling obsession...)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM (pIfcn)
This. When Landau and Garrett left Crowder and started Normal World I was initially interested but then found out they had some annoying-voiced chick on with them who monopolized the air time.
This is a problem with a *lot* of podcasts, not just political ones. Joe Rogan's mega-popular because it's 99.5% just him and the guest talking.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (2ocoG)
I tried watching that one on streaming a year or two ago and had to turn it off, it was such a dog's breakfast.
Also, being pretty familiar with the Arthurian legends/myths, I had a a hard time buying in to begin with.
I mmmaaaaaayyy give it another chance if it's on for free.
But, I think you're trying to make fetch happen here.
It's like Prometheus' Little Stoner Brother.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (iJfKG)
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If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.
I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM
I'm back, Baby!
Posted by: Leprechaun 4: In Space at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (jc0TO)
What They Took From Us
Remember we did this last week?
Nobody mentioned the Boy Scouts.
FUCKING PERVERTS.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Leprechaun 4: In Space at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (jc0TO)
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"$450 million budget. Released without fanfare and lost in the algorithm after 3 hours."
-Netflix
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)
I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
"What if Arthur was a 14 year old little twink being groomed by Merlin to Troon out?"
...oh wait, that was Disney's Sword in the Stone...
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (UnA8+)
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$2.28 here in Oklahoma City.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (jc0TO)
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It's kind of interesting how for a good period of time Wreck-It Ralph was developed with Fix-it Felix being the main character.
They just decided it wasn't going to work. So, his frustration with fixing everything was just left in as a joke.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (jc0TO)
Who is the content-making guy with the least personality flaws? Prolly an AI.
Personality flaws seem to be a mandatory requirement for entry into American politics generally.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't remember that episode of Family Ties.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)
California isn't being sued because they steal elections in plain sight.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (azNOR)
Remember we did this last week?
Nobody mentioned the Boy Scouts.
FUCKING PERVERTS.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Buddy...you don't know the half of it.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (OUMaO)
This is literally just checking death records, and addresses, and removing people who have died or left the state.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)
I tried watching that one on streaming a year or two ago and had to turn it off, it was such a dog's breakfast.
Also, being pretty familiar with the Arthurian legends/myths, I had a a hard time buying in to begin with.
I mmmaaaaaayyy give it another chance if it's on for free.
But, I think you're trying to make fetch happen here.
It's like Prometheus' Little Stoner Brother.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (iJfKG)
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If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.
I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
That's not quite what I'm saying.
I mean, if you want to make a gay furry Camelot, knock yourself out but don't expect everyone to buy in.
If you use the name/legend/etc, then that binds you to certain expectations. Hell even a YUGE comic deconstruction of Arthur in "MPatHG" did that.
Smarter to call it Swordfighting Joe or some suc
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)
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Like the supple yet rigid bamboo rod, that stridently and rythmically tattoos the flesh of my buttocks until I resemble a baboon in estrus, and then I act like one. Texting selfies of my butthole to random old men, asking them to sign up for my only fans.
Posted by: Nuzzi at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (h+S+G)
This is literally just checking death records, and addresses, and removing people who have died or left the state.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (gDhA9)
They created a fantasy in their heads that Trump will personally remove every name that doesn't sound "White enough".
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't remember that episode of Family Ties.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)
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The very special episode where Merlin asked Gary Coleman to jump a shark in the General Lee while trying to get back to the Jupiter 2 after having broken Mr. Wilson's fence again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (oftw2)
I mean, if you want to make a gay furry Camelot, knock yourself out but don't expect everyone to buy in.
If you use the name/legend/etc, then that binds you to certain expectations. Hell even a YUGE comic deconstruction of Arthur in "MPatHG" did that.
Smarter to call it Swordfighting Joe or some suc
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)
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"I would have liked this if it had another name," is never, ever persuasive to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)
Look, large marketing companies have all this data. They have the name and age of every person in the state. Because it pays them to know this stuff. You could just buy the information off of them for a few bucks., cross reference with voter rolls, and remove anyone that isn't on the marketing company list.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:31 PM (gDhA9)
I mean, if you want to make a gay furry Camelot, knock yourself out but don't expect everyone to buy in.
If you use the name/legend/etc, then that binds you to certain expectations. Hell even a YUGE comic deconstruction of Arthur in "MPatHG" did that.
Smarter to call it Swordfighting Joe or some suc
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)
Reminded that there was some cartoon in the 90s where the Knights of the Round Table were defeated and taken prisoner, so Merlin summoned a Football Team to take their places until they could free them.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:31 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM
It's not even a real place. It's a fake Hollywood state like East Dakota and Maryland.
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Yep, a collection of fake storefronts with a couple of hotels , a stable, a jail, and a saloon, just like in the old westerns. The saloon is the only "building" that actually has anything inside it--the rest are just fronts.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
"Prometheus, by any other name..."
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)
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You still having banned problems?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)
I gave that to deepai.org to paint some images of it. It quickly revealed very serious flaws in deepai's funnybone imagination module. Is there an image-generating AI out there that's equal to this task?
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Trump can't legally remove a single name from the list. All he can do in ensure the list is accurate. There is literally zero danger. But I guess lib fantasy scenarios is what we all have to live with.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)
I wouldn't have liked it anyway.
As I said before, it's a mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.
"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (iJfKG)
Netflix has a new adaptation of Beowulf. I got excited until I saw the picture accompanying the description. It, of course, had a black warrior. Now, I have nothing against a black warrior in an appropriate setting, but I'm gonna guess that they were not exactly common in the Beowulf setting, and that tells me what I need to know about the show.
Next.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (0U5gm)
What's the deal with SCOTUS hearing the birthright citizenship case? Is it just whether or not Trump can issue the executive order, or whether it should be obliterated regardless of who wants to interpret it how?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (isqj7)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (isqj7)
Decades ago, the supreme court ruled that anyone born in the U.S. is a us citizen. But that ruling is a bit debatable. It concerned a man born int he U.S., to non-American parents, HOWEVER the parents were here legally. This conforms to the constitution, which says that the children of legal residents (with a few exceptions) are Americans. Trumps' executive order says, well, the court never said a thing about the children of ILLEGAL residents. That is what is in doubt. And in that case the constitution actually says, the children of certain non-Americans are in fact not Americans at birth.
It is not as cut and dried as it seems, and the executive order was designed to test that.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (wGqjj)
We Absolutely Must Defund the "Universities"
A trans professor -- we're already off to a great start -- failed a student for disagreeing with him that trans women are women (snap!)
90% of college dummies believe that "words can be violence." Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."
A freshman at the University of Oklahoma says she was punished in the classroom not for poor writing or missed instructions, but for quoting Scripture -- and now the school is scrambling to contain the fallout. On Sunday, officials in Norman confirmed they had placed a graduate instructor on administrative leave after 19-year-old Samantha Fulnecky filed a complaint alleging she was failed on an essay because she cited the Bible to defend traditional gender roles. The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points on a psychology assignment that asked students to respond to an article about how society perceives gender. Fulnecky told The Oklahoman that she argued gender isn't a social invention at all, but part of God's design. She quoted Genesis directly: "God says that it is not good for man to be alone, so He created a helper for man (which is a woman)." She even went deeper into the Hebrew, explaining that ezer kenegdo doesn't mean a subordinate assistant but "helper equal to," a description the Bible also uses for God Himself. In her view, rejecting the concept of gender erases moral truth: "Eliminating gender in our society would be detrimental, as it pulls us farther from God's original plan for humans." Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression. "To be what I think is clearly discriminated against for my beliefs and using freedom of speech, and especially for my religious beliefs, I think that's just absurd," she told the paper. The university appeared to sense the legal danger immediately. In a Sunday post on X, OU said it "takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms," and stressed that once Fulnecky complained, the school "acted swiftly to address the matter." Officials said she was contacted the same day they received her letter and that a formal grade-appeal process "resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student." The school also confirmed that its discrimination review process -- the one specifically designed for cases involving alleged violations of religious liberty -- "has been activated." Most notably, OU announced that Curth had been pulled from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation and replaced by a full-time professor to "ensure fairness."
Nine out of ten undergraduate students think that "words can be violence" at least "somewhat," according to a new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey. The poll also showed that ideological gaps between left-leaning and right-leaning students are widening. When respondents were asked how much the statement "words can be violence" describes their thoughts, 47 percent answered with "completely" or "mostly." Twenty-eight percent said it describes their thoughts "somewhat," and 15 percent said "slightly." Additionally, around 59 percent of students said "silence is violence" describes their views at least "somewhat," though only 28 percent said it describes their thoughts "completely" or "mostly." "When people start thinking that words can be violence, violence becomes an acceptable response to words," FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens said in a news release following the poll. "Even after the murder of Charlie Kirk at a speaking event, college students think that someone's words can be a threat. This is antithetical to a free and open society, where words are the best alternative to political violence," Stevens said. The poll also showed that moderate and conservative students have grown less supportive of disruptive or violent tactics to stop campus speakers, while liberal students' support for those tactics has stayed the same or risen slightly compared to the spring. At the same time, moderate and conservative students have become more open to allowing controversial speakers, while liberal students have maintained or increased their opposition to those speakers.Not coincidentally, Americans now understand that paying for a four year degree in Transgender Studies -- and all colleges now teach is Transgender Studies of various flavors, like Science Transgender Studies, Law Transgender Studies, Math Transgender Studies, etc. -- is an "expensive scam."
More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people. A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn't worth it, since many students graduate with "a large amount of debt" but no "specific job skills." That's up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree "worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime." That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: "Upwardly mobile" was almost entirely synonymous with "college-educated." But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing ... except onerous debt. Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased "help" such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans. But in return for 70 grand or more a year, students today too often don't get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career. Countless colleges have transformed into woke indoctrination factories that churn out grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills. A report last year found that two-thirds of colleges require DEI-related courses to graduate, offering classes like "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society" and "Abolition of Whiteness." Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics? Meanwhile, grade inflation and faculties increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduce the return even on "real" classes. Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white-collar jobs an increasingly unsafe bet. Prospective students once could safely bet that a hard science or math degree was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors, including tech. Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians. Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.This is the "science" that we are now paying universities to produce.
🚨BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, “feminist queer crip theory” leads the pack in terms of derangement.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 1, 2025
But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about “crip guts,” “queer stoma pride,” the… pic.twitter.com/MdprVLEMzR
Colin WrightBTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off. Best time of the week!!!!
@SwipeWright BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, "feminist queer crip theory" leads the pack in terms of derangement. But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about "crip guts," "queer stoma pride," the "intergenerational trauma" inflicted upon the author's guts by "British colonialism in Ireland," and how crip guts bestow people with "situated ways of knowing" that undermines "Western biomedical models of knowledge production." A real quote from the paper: "I was processing some memories around my gut condition and became overwhelmed with sadness and grief. It felt ridiculous explaining to the (English) therapist what had come up because the only way I could describe it was famine grief. The Irish Famine of the 1800s is of course before my time, but in that therapy session I felt overwhelmed with a grief that felt larger than my own. I made sense of this feeling through the framework of intergenerational trauma and described it as feeling the pain of the famine lingering in my guts." The author calls for "queer stoma pride," which celebrates "the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries" and "requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location." It further "focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness." She hopes that the concept of "crip guts" will "disrupt epistemic injustice and challenge Western biomedical models of knowledge production," though she gives no concrete instructions about how that looks in practice. Ultimately, she says "queer stoma pride" is "about talking about poop at conferences and in journal articles," and "revelling in not being normal, being unexpected or disruptive, and rejecting colonial, queerphobic and ableist discourses around returning to normal, passing as normal, and aiming for normal, as if normal was ever a good thing."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)
The modern University is nothing more than indoctrination camps that you pay big $$$ to participate in.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (ynBxV)
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Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (JwNbV)
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And that burning, looting, murdering, and raping is protected speech.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (zbgwO)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (0cOaq)
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Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (UnA8+)
Old: Sticks & Stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
New: OMG! The Words they BURN!!!
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (IifOV)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (ynBxV)
Mike Rowe is a VISIONARY, and we need to be directing our children into CAREER enhancing education!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (pDt9x)
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Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (0cOaq)
This is the same as when Dan Savage started the whole "You're not really gay if you don't intentionally contract AIDS" shit.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
41.
That's the funny Troon Suicide number.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:40 PM (UnA8+)
Higher ed is just farther along than many other institutions though I think the mass media is in a virtual tie with academia for employing bat shit crazy moonbats that reject objective reality as the rest of us know it.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:40 PM (WDjG6)
Reminder: for a very brief 5 days, the Left pretended it was for "free speech." During the jimmy kimmel bullshit, it was all about "free speech." Remember?
And I said, at the time: This would be a great time for students to go to school wearing "trannies are freaks" t-shirts.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (O2XQw)
I did ask my students to identify one famous person they have met. Answers were as about you'd expect...mom, dad, a senator, etc. I then told mine, who was Charles Lindberg. Not a single student (and these were mainly juniors, knew who that was.
Sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)
We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)
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Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (zbgwO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)
We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Dream on, white boy.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (UnA8+)
BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Best time of the week!!!!
Posted by: Ace
Must be nice.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (O2XQw)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
Stop subsidizing. Entirely.
No more grants for student tuition
No more student loan subsidies
No more bankruptcy carve-outs for student loans
No more "development grants" of any kind to any institution
No more research grants unless they are for a stated government objective in energy, defense, ballistics/rocketry, physics, astronomy, chemistry or other objective-outcome subject. No grants for *any* social science, economics, biology or medicine.
Let the beast simply starve. It requires about three or four times as many calories as it can produce on its own.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (yjAVs)
Posted by: Grouchy Dino at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (CHt+W)
Songfestival Azerbaijan
@songfestivalaze
Palestine should be brought to Eurovision 2026!
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome
@TheMossaidIL
No thanks. We all saw what they do at music festivals.
Currently the original post has 246 likes and The Mossad has 7200. Don't tell Candace Owens.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (ycr1e)
The GOPe's wives will leave them if they move against trannies.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)
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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste
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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)
By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (Vh9CX)
(Sorry, but germane to the post; my daughter the ER nurse once shared a brain-bleach worthy story once, about the ostitute with VD in her stoma. Can. Not. Unsee.)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (enw9G)
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When you elimate things, sometimes there are unintended consequences. That doesnt mean the thing that was eliminated was good. However, it persisted because it served some utility. And once it is gone you have to figure how to replace that utility. Teaching the virtues used to be a nice way of doing that. But thats not ok anymore. Doesnt make me a vile gash for pointing it out.
Posted by: Or does it at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Intestinal Flora at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)
Seriously:
Am I the only one who thought of Lorem Ipsum when trying that crap [the fake "study"]?
It's fucking gibberish.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (O2XQw)
Off topic, but it's 10:45 and the sun is just coming up here. We haven't seen it for about a week, so it's nice to see it finally showed up. Perfectly clear sky. Maybe see some northern lights tonight.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (6Bc88)
Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.
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Sort of. These two paragraphs are about men. *Male* enrollment is collapsing in real time. Female enrollment will soon, but so far female enrollment declines have been less severe. They won't stay that way. When a school (other than a girls school, of course) goes more 55% female, the school begins to die. Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (yjAVs)
"Hey! Are you laughing at us??!!"
ME: Nope. Private joke. A question though...has your hair always been green or did you lose a bet?
"Hey! I'm offended."
ME: Tough shit. Take my class and learn what a real offense is.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (2WIwB)
(Sorry, but germane to the post; my daughter the ER nurse once shared a brain-bleach worthy story once, about the ostitute with VD in her stoma. Can. Not. Unsee.)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (enw9G)
"F*** my Tracheotomy Hole harder, Daddy!" (said with an electronic voicebox)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
Retarded is the politically correct term, now.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (EES2L)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)
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Those random word generators must be running at full speed.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (xEX9H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (yjAVs)
Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
It's no more scientific than Mad Libs.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: I Stand With No One at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (cUrpM)
It's like someone asked A.I. to write an essay filled with Lorem Ipsum and tranny buzzwords.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (O2XQw)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
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No.
A large percentage - and yeah, approaching half in some schools - *claim* a disability, and many disabilities cannot be disproven. "Disability" means an easier time, and you cannot create an incentive like that without expecting people to figure it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (yjAVs)
This cannot be ignored. In the words of Sam Elliot (as Sgt Plumely), "Gentleman, prepare to defend yourselves"
Buy ammo.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
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It's a weird fact of life that Republican legislatures love giving piles of cash to those that hate them.
Just imagine a world where Democrat legislatures gave millions or billions to pro-life groups, 2A groups, etc.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
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Heh.
That fad is fading out, thankfully.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (yjAVs)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
It also shows that conservatives can't live and let live anymore. It's high time conservatives try to cancel and ostracize anyone with these thoughts.
Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ycr1e)
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OK, probably the reddest of all red states. Curth is lucky that OK is kind of mid-west friendly.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (SZI4T)
THIS is why they are shoving in so many foreign students (that they can charge expensive international tuition rates for.) Because colleges can't shrink, they can only expand! Like the government. Also why they want illegals and anchor babies. The top group increasing their percentages of going to college is Hispanics. Universities looking for other avenues.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Intestinal Flora at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)
I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, and Sigourney Weaver hunting it down with an arc welder....
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)
It's afraid. IT'S AFRAID!!
(It's great that universities are now viewing the legal threat from normal Americans as greater than than that from Lefties, queers, and other assorted weirdos)
Posted by: Neil Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (JCZqz)
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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste
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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)
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Campuses across the country are becoming aware of a new terrorist group, Al-Gebrah. The Feds believe they are working a weapons of maths instruction.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (2WIwB)
This cannot be ignored. In the words of Sam Elliot (as Sgt Plumely), "Gentleman, prepare to defend yourselves"
Buy ammo.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (XuXeR)
Endorsed
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (xcxpd)
Right. The girls who actually believe in feminism can't "find themselves" riding the carousel if there's no carousel.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)
In addition, I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. Wouldn't want a generation of strong men standing up for their own self interests, now would we? (government)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (EES2L)
Posted by: Martin Tell at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (sFNX2)
And will, as the number of births has generally declined since 2008...
Gotta import students!
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (XuXeR)
I'm here to help.
"Trooning out" is an offensive and derogatory anti-LGBTQ+ slang term and slur
. It is primarily used online by anti-trans groups and individuals as a transphobic insult.
Meaning
As a verb: The term is intransitive and used to mean "to undergo gender transition" in a highly offensive and demeaning way.
As a noun: The base word "troon" is a slur used to refer to and dehumanize transgender women specifically
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
+++++
It still pretty common to see statements like, "Surely School X is okay, it's in a very 'red' area!"
No. Never. A school can be in a conservative township in a conservative county in a conservative district in a conservative state and the university there will be shot through with glass-eyed communist groomers, with every part of its operational policy geared toward producing more of the same.
It does not matter where a university is. Its milieu is irrelevant. It's a university, therefore it's an administrative outpost of Big Prog.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (yjAVs)
Best time of the week!!!!
Posted by: Ace
So, Ace has decamped.
Say...um...does Ace ever count the silverware before he leaves? Just curious...
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (ZtAny)
Best time of the week!!!!
Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM
Gotta get those Crocs cleaned up and polished before you hit the town!
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (ynBxV)
More accurately, every school's milieu is every other school. There's a limited supply of education majors, and they can't all hire DOCTOR JILL.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)
In addition, I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. Wouldn't want a generation of strong men standing up for their own self interests, now would we? (government)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (EES2L)
And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (UnA8+)
Somebody did a survey of women who identified themselves as "bixsexual" at liberal arts colleges, and the vast majority of them had only had sex with men in the prior year.
It's a fashion statement.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (ZtAny)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)
***
*looks at clock*
11:53.
Close enough!!!
Cheers!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (2WIwB)
I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (2ocoG)
And then pay me the mid 6 figure salary with benefits per year with 5 digit speaking engagement for the next 10 years...
I mean, I diagnosed myself as an X Man since one of my genetic changes was not even identifiable in the test, and isn't X the truest of the non-gendered, non-identified, and always mistreated folks (comics says so about the last one)...
And X-Man is way easier to market...well, maybe X-Woman...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (tOcjL)
"Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)
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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste
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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)
And inverse operations.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (dK+Kv)
_______
OK, enjoy the pron.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (s0JqF)
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Dec 4, 2025
@JDVance
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Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
Preston Byrne
@prestonjbyrne
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I hear the House of Representatives has a bill, the GRANITE Act, that'll fix this and allow X to sue the Commission for 3x the threatened fine.
America can stop foreign censors for good. You should get on the horn with some folks and ask them to push it through!
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)
++++
That is all Millennials. That era was the tail end of GenX and the first part of what should have been the Millennial wave. The Millennial wave didn't materialize, and now never will (the Millennials are too old now).
I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. Yeah, the economy sucks for young people and has for a long time, but poor people have kids all the time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (yjAVs)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2UnvF)
*raises hand* I'm the nerdy kid who broke the bully's nose in 8th grade. Also a valuable lesson for both of us.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (ynBxV)
240k for 4 years at 60k each.
400k not realized by not working those 4 years.
In the ‘70’s and 80’s when tuition was reasonable it made sense.
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (cvzXT)
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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste
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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)
And inverse operations.
And non-Euclidean geometry.
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (mADJX)
"Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)
Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)
++++
Within the walls, yes. I was referring to where the school is, not what happens within it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (yjAVs)
I did ask my students to identify one famous person they have met. Answers were as about you'd expect...mom, dad, a senator, etc. I then told mine, who was Charles Lindberg. Not a single student (and these were mainly juniors, knew who that was.
Sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)
Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries? Or how blaming unhappy customers in a service industry is kinda dumb?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (WPL6O)
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The only difference between kindergartens and universities now is the age of the kinder.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (pTQH2)
I'm sure oral sex with the ostitute will be covered in the next scholarly study.
(NEW brain bleach item)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (enw9G)
This. X 10,000. It's only about "respect mu authority "
Anti bullying campaigns are crap.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)
The grand children of Diogenes know that the best solution to bullying is a solid right hook (except for lefty grandson) and/or a swift kick to the nads. I will support them in any fallout from said action.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)
This was mumble-mumble years ago. I can't imagine it has gotten any better over the years.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (6Bc88)
Best time of the week!!!!
Posted by: Ace
Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)
*raises hand* I'm the nerdy kid who broke the bully's nose in 8th grade. Also a valuable lesson for both of us.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)
None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.
It was always the jocks and the rich kids. And weirdly enough, some of the stoners.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (ycr1e)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
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No.
A large percentage - and yeah, approaching half in some schools - *claim* a disability, and many disabilities cannot be disproven. "Disability" means an easier time, and you cannot create an incentive like that without expecting people to figure it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (yjAVs)
Yes, it's the way white and Asian kids on the 2nd level of intellect compete with the top level, b/c they'd have no other way in.
I am against all of that for my kids b/c while you may get in to the "better" college, you still have to eventually get a job. And 22 with little experience AND a claimed disability is asking to never get hired. B/c you're not just a little problem (which all 22 year olds are), but now a bigger problem.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)
Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.
I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
Also, relatively few people had graduated college in the '70s and '80s, so you were part of a small group, even if you had majored in an esoteric subject.
Now, that we have successfully encouraged many more people to graduate from "college", albeit generally in useless majors, being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)
I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.
Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc88)
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Dec 4, 2025
@JDVance
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Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
Preston Byrne
X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)
I don't go publishing autoethnographic studies about it in academic journals, though.
Maybe I should.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (ESVrU)
How refreshingly honest in a scientific paper, nowadays.
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (ILu3z)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (enw9G)
@libsoftiktok
INBOX: The African-Centered College Preparatory Academy (
@kcpublicschools
) in Missouri was captured apparently hanging the American flag upside down outside their campus.
Extremely disturbing and disrespectful.
We contacted the school for an explanation but they declined to comment.
You can contact them here: askthesupt@kcpublicschools.org
https://tinyurl.com/22ys4zvt
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (NpAcC)
>>You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.
I never went in for those all-in-one jammies.
Nope just a top loading Magnavox for me.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XV/Pl)
A generation going thru "kids is hard" training in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy paid off...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XuXeR)
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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste
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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)
And inverse operations.
And non-Euclidean geometry.
Pfffffft.
Posted by: The Reciprocal Lattice aka k-space at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (YwEeS)
This. X 10,000. It's only about "respect mu authority "
Anti bullying campaigns are crap.
==
The adminstration has a monopoly on authorah ta! We decide what is good. We decide what is bad. You peons will wait to hear from us before you do or say anything.
----- Principle Skinner
Posted by: Training starts early at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (h+S+G)
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That sounds....terrible. And about as relevant as Spinal Tap 2. If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (3nLb4)
an ethny of one.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (JwNbV)
A generation going thru "kids is hard" training in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy paid off...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XuXeR)
They just didn't want to stop drinking and smoking weed.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc8
Ha!
Excellent!
But all the 'rons on this thread just crossed their legs.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (ILu3z)
==
It was cultural before that, but he basically turned it into anyone can get money easily.
Posted by: Clenis at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (h+S+G)
They dropped surveying to a single class, no drafting after I left. I wonder what it's like now.
Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (8uzBS)
It was always the jocks and the rich kids. And weirdly enough, some of the stoners.
In my case the bully was a completely average looking kid who just was wired wrong. I actually got along with the jocks because I could speak fluent baseball.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (2ocoG)
My mom passed away in 2017 at 77 yrs of age.
Do you know the one thing she NEVER had to have checked?
Yeah. Her prostate. F that cross dressing faggot.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (9bIJg)
Posted by: Crusader
It's been longer than that. Spaceballs came out in the 80s when I was in college.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM
While simultaneously adding a Tor based VPN on the page, like Brave does on their browser, or even offering their own VPNed app.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (jc0TO)
Once upon a time that was High School. Not everyone graduated...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (XuXeR)
In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)
I think Piker has dodged a legal attack at this point, which is why Ethan has gone for the orbiters who proudly proclaimed they were trying to steal his content to hurt his income . But these orbiters are getting crushed, and perhaps some of his closer associates may get it in the crossfire after that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)
We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Dream on, white boy.
Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)
Backed, in turn, by the full force of city and county government.
...
But I repeat myself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Jake T. at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (0sNs1)
Engineering? Well, there was this bridge in Florida...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (XuXeR)
Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc8
That's my purse! I don't know you!!
Posted by: Bobby Hill at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)
He said business, not adulting.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)
2 . Make student loan discharges the burden of the unis
3 . Investigate & prosecute Student Life programs for discrimination and civil rights violations.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)
We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Dream on, white boy.
Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)
Someone out there ain't gonna like it
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (enw9G)
Yes, bullying and shame worked. The gay gestapo also didn't want people talking about the truth of the gay lifestyle, they only were supposed to talk about love.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (vZUXb)
>>While simultaneously adding a Tor based VPN on the page, like Brave does on their browser, or even offering their own VPNed app.
Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (ynBxV)
Or does he have minions for that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
Australia is going to ban kids under 16 from using "social media".
X will be banned, but Bluesky won't be.
Of course, the real purpose of imposing age restrictions on the internet is to eliminate anonymity - since you'll have to identify yourself to prove that you are over the minimum required age.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (xTIDn)
Was Quasar actually advertised that way? They were actually made by Panasonic.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)
We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Dream on, white boy.
Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)
Someone out there ain't gonna like it
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)
It's the one thing...
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)
We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Dream on, white boy.
Guns in the sky...?
Don't Change for you...
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: tjpruett at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (BqMly)
Or does he have minions for that?
Autopen
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (Riz8t)
Once upon a time that was High School. Not everyone graduated...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM
Average BA degree today is probably worth less than a HS diploma from the '40s or earlier.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)
Had one in 9th grade. He was an ass, but it turned out he and I were the best players in PE dodgeball. Always on different teams. There developed a grudging admiration, and he never messed with me throughout high school.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)
Or does he have minions for that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
He probably has posts written and then queued up to publish every couple of hours. I know Wordpress can do that, I expect Pixy can too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM
I think it is fine for this. If Britain or the EU proves that they are hacking Tor by prosecuting someone, that would be a good thing to know.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (jc0TO)
It worked great for Twitter until it didn't.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (GHIyr)
Dude came to my architecture school and gave a lecture about how great he was. Didn't want to answer questions, of course. Figured he was above all that.
In my experience, most of these big shot architects don't bother doing any actual design work, and certainly no production work. They are glory hounds, is all.
I worked for a guy in Chicago who was second banana to Helmut Jahn for a time. Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it. John finally figured he could do better on his own, so he left. Was one of my best bosses ever.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
They're animals anyway. Let them lose their souls.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)
So is Ghidra, but it's still incredibly useful.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.
I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)
Was Quasar actually advertised that way? They were actually made by Panasonic.
Posted by: Ian S.
The iconic quasi-jingle said Motorola.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (O2XQw)
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That sounds....terrible. And about as relevant as Spinal Tap 2. If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (TN0g+)
We already have web critics who ruthlessly mock Star Wars drivel - with more content by far than the entire original movie. Affectionate mocking is really off the table.
An the crisis behind the whole thing is that movie studios have nearly forgotten how to sustain a big movie or long running television product and satisfy fans.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)
Can't become a registered architect without a professional degree, which means a BS or MArch. BA means nothing.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (ynBxV)
Electrical Engineering major, some,...umm, "few"...years ago and drafting was required regardless of engineering major. I'm wondering why....???? Ten years later, I'm designing a data center in AutoCAD. Oh, now I know!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (e/Osv)
The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.
Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.
Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)
Even if they were in the session for being bullied about their weight, or their skin, or .....
Because only gay kids are bullied, right?
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (RHGPo)
They should put Cuellar and Santos in charge of the investigations
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (rbvCR)
The awful "Brady Reunion" was, when, in 1980?
Mr. Brady shows up with a fucking perm. What a fag.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (O2XQw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (SZI4T)
Best Architect?
Mr. Brady
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (O2XQw)
He was a fag, so I guess his shit was all retarded.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)
I think Piker has dodged a legal attack at this point, which is why Ethan has gone for the orbiters who proudly proclaimed they were trying to steal his content to hurt his income . But these orbiters are getting crushed, and perhaps some of his closer associates may get it in the crossfire after that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)
I just want to see him take down that nasty Islamic Land Whale, Frogun.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)
I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)
They'll just toss you out and keep your money.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)
Unless my memory is bad I think you and I compared notes in these gray boxes a few years ago and decided we might’ve been contemporaries at ISU in Ames in the 80s? I was there then….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (+kWhq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (pkeXY)
I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.
I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)
I also plan on doing that if I make it that long b/c it's free for seniors here...so why not stay up to date on what the kids are learning and "help" the prof...I was planning on law classes - had con law and business law in school, so figure I could refresh all that and help other understand the law
...Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (tOcjL)
There's a doc about Gehry. He did an hour of 'work' pasting together a rando paper construction, then handed it off to henchmen to finish the crime for him.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)
Word on the street is she's the next to settle and read out her prepared statement and turn evidence on the thugs.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
(Actually we do...William Buckley expelled the Birchers, IIRC.)
Then Crowder said, since Jillian is still new to being on the right, she needs to sit down, shut up, and let the men talk, and in a few years she can express her feelings about things. (He even quoted the biblical scripture about women not speaking in the NT, totally not understanding the context for WHY the NT says that, based on the pagan female worship in that area at the time.)
And right after blasting her, HE platformed Nick Fuentes on his show this week.
I LIKE a bunch of the new crop of moderate dems that found in the Trump era, there's no place for them in the democrat party anymore: Tulsi, Dave Rubin, Jillian, etc. Time will tell if they are true believers or grifters, sure. But who is Crowder to be the thought police?
I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (n5tGW)
I don’t see how anyone can say that paper is scientifically significant unless it address that affect that them talking like a fag also has on the data.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (5T6VE)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (xcxpd)
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Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (ESVrU)
I view it like the medical community does.
When you present to an ob/gyn about ovary issues and the doctor sees your dick...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (9bIJg)
I was told that same company designed the second span of the Harris County Toll Road over the Houston Ship Channel. Toll Road Authority was so impressed by the design they declared they would replace the first bridge to match the newer design once it was completed.
About halfway into the new bridge that Florida mayhap occurred. HCTRA cancelled the construction immediately. I believe they went back to the drawing board.
Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (8uzBS)
I have a theory.
The writer is obsessed with telling a stupid story and including bamboo.
Don't panda's eat bamboo? They secretly want to have sex with a panda.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Mr. Brady
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He had to be a great architect--his company flew him and his family to that amusement park where the kids lost his plans. And I think his company flew the entire gang to Hawaii as well.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
_______________________
They'd have to show cause. And, I have nothing to lose. If I comply with their policies, they're going to have a hard time tossing me. And, to be honest, that might be my goal in the first place. Easier to make a lot more noise that way.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (dIske)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)
The Issue is never the issue.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (JwNbV)
Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.
Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.
There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way. She is. She really, really is.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (8avO+)
They have largely forgotten the art of film-making, of character development, of set-building and cinematography, of story-telling. They have been replaced by cookie-cutter woke, DEI, CGI.
Getting it back now is like finding the Atochia or the Ark.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (SZI4T)
Nature has been bad for a long time, like a generation. And we don't mention Unscientific Unamerican.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (8avO+)
Had one in 9th grade. He was an ass, but it turned out he and I were the best players in PE dodgeball. Always on different teams. There developed a grudging admiration, and he never messed with me throughout high school.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)
One of the stoner bullies in my high school ultimately ended up robbing a bank, getting caught because he went on some TV show while he was still on the run, and hung himself in prison.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (UnA8+)
gets dustoff to emergency vet
survives
https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/
1996778957199249792
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)
People say that a lot but I don't know what they mean by that. He did manage to persuade people, by speech, that they were not a good element in the Conservative movement.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: The cycle continues at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (D+nng)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
99% of these student use the opportunity to concoct some woke garbage about anal sex and Barbie dolls, or whatever, but I'd like to device a class titled,
"Why are you so ugly? Why transgender morlocks will never "pass" in a nation of hot chicks."
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (oraVG)
Quick, best ad agency executive?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (O2XQw)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (5T6VE)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)
What he did is idiotic… I heard the name Crowder but I’ve never watched/listened to him. He needs to read how to win friends and influence people
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (+kWhq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (ESVrU)
Tentatively scheduled for Minx 0.9 beta. Swearsies.
Posted by: The Hampsters at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I have had to, more than once, reach out to fellow COBs and ask them to post my thread when I was unavailable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (JwNbV)
Tor and all VPNs are honeypots for illicit posts. They're useful for getting to websites you might not be able to access otherwise, but it's really stupid to try to post illegal crap or do illegal business with them. Those are the very first places that the authorities look for bad stuff.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (GHIyr)
survives
https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/
1996778957199249792
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)
Ugh....why did they have to accompany the video with one of the worst songs ever recorded?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
There's a doc about Gehry. He did an hour of 'work' pasting together a rando paper construction, then handed it off to henchmen to finish the crime for him.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (GHIyr)
There are real architects, who not only do the designs people want but also produce the documents and do the field work to be sure what gets built was what was designed.
Then there are the "design-y guys" who think they are God's gift to the world and toss off impossible sketches, and then hog the glory because they are so esoterically elite.
But dudes, it isn't a building without a toilet. And if the roof collapses, it isn't a building, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (6Bc88)
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century than previous estimates had suggested...
On Wednesday, Nature retracted it."
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It was pure Demoshit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (5T6VE)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)
Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.
He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (5T6VE)
Confucius say, woman who do too much deepthroaty get Fulnecky.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Corona_Exile at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (UqsCH)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
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I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.
She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
_______________________
They'd have to show cause. And, I have nothing to lose. If I comply with their policies, they're going to have a hard time tossing me. And, to be honest, that might be my goal in the first place. Easier to make a lot more noise that way.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (dIske)
Republican speakers have been repeatedly driven out for a decade. Just saying.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (8avO+)
‘ But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.’
More than that it’s foolish. Who the hell want s to be talked to like that? I hope she finds another venue if that’s the shit Crowder is pulling.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM
I thought that kind of hard-hitting Commentator journalism was reserved for the ONT?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM
Darrin was an ideas man.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (I1wnM)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
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I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.
She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)
One of my cats has managed to rename a desktop icon by walking on the keyboard. More than I can do.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (9bIJg)
She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)
Put some tape over the "delete" button.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (rJ48h)
You know what you need to know to teach 3rd grade math? 4th grade math.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM
I'd trust Don to move my cigarette brand.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)
Same here. One of the cats has found some very arcane keyboard shortcuts I had no idea existed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (6Bc8
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I teach a class in a computer lab that's also used by architectural engineering students. There's a poster showing the design of some sort of sustainable apartment. But it's missing at least a couple of key features: 1) A kitchen area where food can be prepared and 2) A utility closet for the water heater and HVAC system.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM
Glue her paw to the enter key.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)
Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)
Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.
I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog.
From Wikipedia:
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD credits Frog's original singing vocals to Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s who had also done voice work for the 1948 MGM cartoon Little 'Tinker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_J._Frog
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (X5qGl)
I forgot to mention this in the Somalia thread...they redid the MN state flag, and it looks almost EXACTLY like the Somalia flag.
Coincidence? That state?
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (6Bc8
Woo Hoo!
Posted by: Jethro Bodine, future math teacher at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (PiwSw)
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I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".
There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.
However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.
"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (+kWhq)
I was at ISU in Ames in the early 90s. I should've bought one of the "Ames in Flames" T-shirts from the VEISHEA riots before they were banned.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)
Um, I'm pretty sure Darren Stephens and his secretary were the only two employees at McMahon & Tate.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (bfwj/)
Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.
Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.
There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way. She is. She really, really is.
Posted by: Archimedes
For the curious:
Samantha Fulnecky:
https://x.com/IrishStarUS/status/1996014011041665035
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ samantha-fulnecky-claims-university-oklahoma-only-responded -her-zero-grade-essay-complaint-due-1759807
Scorching.
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (oraVG)
______________________
I was a big kid in school. 6'6" about 200lb. I developed a reputation for being the kid someone talked to when someone was getting a little out of line. I might have stuffed a trouble maker (who had a reputation for being a real dick) in a locker after he smacked someone in front o me. I, also, might have turned around and been surprised by the Superintendent of Schools standing behind me when I turned around from that endeavor....who very calmly looked at me, the kid half in the locker and said, "Everything alright here?" before continuing down the hall. He knew the kid in the locker was a problem, and figured this was a good learning experience for him. I got no punishment from that.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (GD2xa)
And this is in ... Oklahoma. Reddest of red states.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)
Darrin won all the big accounts with the help of his wife’s twitchy nose. He claimed to hate the Magic but it always seemed to end up helping him
BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (OW907)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (ESVrU)
Design in school is flights of fancy, but hopefully the work makes the students know how to think.
Real design doesn't happen until OTJ training. That's where the reality of building science enters.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (6Bc88)
I was blown away when I was in college when I learned that professors, Ph.D's in the their subjects, could not teach that subject in the public school system. Why, you've got to have Edu degrees and all sorts of psycho-socio crap to do that. Totally blew me away, then a light bulb went off on what that really says about the educational system. It ain't about teaching kids knowledge.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM
Played by Leon Ames.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)
I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)
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I'm convinced he's from Delhi or something.
Nothing animates him more than stories about immigrants, especially those from the subcontinent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.
However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.
"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)
Even I got away with not doing an assignment, as assigned, once, by writing a note explaining why, the same length as the assignment had to be.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (wGerL)
Samantha Fulnecky:
https://x.com/IrishStarUS/status/1996014011041665035
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ samantha-fulnecky-claims-university-oklahoma-only-responded -her-zero-grade-essay-complaint-due-1759807
Scorching.
Posted by: zombie
I think we have finally resolved the "Is zombie a dude or a chick?" question.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Riz8t)
man's original riff at #108 stands.
Posted by: AoSHQ Unofficial Referee at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (PiwSw)
She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)
Put some tape over the "delete" button.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (dK+Kv)
You need something firmer. I used to have a computer with a flush power button on the top and my cat jumped up there a time or so and powered down. I got an old DVD case and put it over the button. My new one has a button on a diagonal bit of plastic the cats don't walk on yet.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)
When I broke the 8th grade bully's nose the principal and faculty put on a public display of "of course he'll be punished" and then ran into the office, closed the door, and laughed their asses off.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)
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Christian and Jewish multimillionaires should fund an educational advertising campaign along those lines.
From billboards to web ads ... and a within the first hour of those appearing, a District Clown Court Judge would likely ban it as "hate speech."
Win-Win?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (pTQH2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)
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I'm convinced he's from Delhi or something.
Nothing animates him more than stories about immigrants, especially those from the subcontinent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
______
Who?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (n5tGW)
Just say you are a nonperforming pussy.
We get it. We all get it. Sometimes i feel like a pussy.
But i don't change earth science and history.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)
I was a student at ISU for the original VEISHA riot in 88. Years later after several similar “disturbances” when they eliminated VEISHA it made me sad…. So glad it was still around when I was there… 2-3 extra days in spring semester with no class!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (OW907)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)
We've got bush!
Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Oh Hair pie! Hair pie!
Posted by: Takashi at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (dK+Kv)
From billboards to web ads ... and a within the first hour of those appearing, a District Clown Court Judge would likely ban it as "hate speech."
Win-Win?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (pTQH2)
The Quran is just the start. There's even nastier shit in the Hadiths.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (UnA8+)
I pry the power-off and hibernate keys off all my keyboards. No more hitting them by accident.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GHIyr)
https://___-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/ tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RHBbn.___? w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg
(remove spaces.)
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (oraVG)
Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
Well, his initials are ASS, so......
Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.
He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM
Crowder has always pinged the gaydar
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (bfwj/)
The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points
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His name was Curse, but he changed the spelling to incorporate his lisp.
This gratuitous drama was instigated by this weirdo for its own sake. He'd rather be the center of attention than have a paycheck.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
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Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh that perverted loser. I don't bother to look at any of his comments.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)
More Samantha:
https://im g-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/ tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RHBbn.im g?w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg
(remove spaces.)
Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)
Darrin won all the big accounts with the help of his wife’s twitchy nose. He claimed to hate the Magic but it always seemed to end up helping him
BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (OW907)
So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)
Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh that perverted loser. I don't bother to look at any of his comments.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)
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He does tend to fixate on one thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)
Speaking of the gaslighting idiots at Reddit...
Did you see this?
Supposed "air traffic controllers" on a reddit group are plotting "revenge?" Openly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)
Yes! LoL
And he found a HOT witch to marry
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (OW907)
Did you see this?
Supposed "air traffic controllers" on a reddit group are plotting "revenge?" Openly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (cPNKV)
Revenge on who for what?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)
Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.
He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
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This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)
Yes! LoL
And he found a HOT witch to marry
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Except, he didn't know she was a witch until after they were married. Samantha revealed it on their wedding night.
However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (WPL6O)
Oh, I saw the new Guillermo del Toro version of Frankenstein and loved it! It hits home the themes so well, of the egotistical prometheus Frankenstein flying too close to the sun and failing, and was visually gorgeous and disturbing.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)
there's some dude who used to show up on YT who is the son of a Hamas higher up and can do that chapter and verse to dumb sympathizer kids here. Not sure if he's been shadowbanned by the algorithm tho.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
He did come off as a dick but if you record your spouse in an argument and you're the only one who knows you're recording you're gonna come out smelling like a rose so it was a shitty thing to do.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (RgYBC)
He feared being turned into a dung beetle?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)
Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.
He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
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This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
So, what you're saying is, he now also needs the money, and is probably falling into full grifter land for the Uniparty...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (tOcjL)
2) Orifice is the word they should be clinging to as they bang them open in evil methods.
3) Trans are evil and therefore demonic along with furries. It all started with the gheys and LBGQT recognition as a protected class.
I want to start a factory for millstones for pedos, trans, furries and now gheys of all stripe. I think there is a need for this.The millstones will be made of solid concrete and dipped in liquid manure, then secured to femurs with titanium. If they live they can drag them around until the better use in the lake of fire.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
That was him, yeah. Quite a few of his on-screen staffers left around the same time ("Not Gay" Jared, Quarter-Black Garrett, and Dave Landau).
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (UnA8+)
However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)
suuuuuuuuuure he didn't know. Her ability to hide the odd things happening was pretty low in the show.
I'm telling you, he spotted her a mile off.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (8avO+)
youtube.com/watch?v=oGJoQsBDQ58
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
He did come off as a dick but if you record your spouse in an argument and you're the only one who knows you're recording you're gonna come out smelling like a rose so it was a shitty thing to do.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (RgYBC)
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It was his own surveillance camera pointed right into the area of the backyard where the two of them were
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (cPNKV)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)
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I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".
There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.
However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.
"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman
Here's where the faggot fucked up:
Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression.
The class didn't require it. It was more of a "feels" instead of empirical data with footnotes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (9bIJg)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)
https://youtu.be/otJ2rXMuLno
Posted by: AoSHQ Unofficial Referee at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (0bjKf)
Posted by: toby928(c)
There was an episode that sort of addressed Samantha's age. Endora, as usual, was trying to stir up trouble between them, and told Darrin how Samantha would age much more slowly than he, and would outlive him by a long time. When Darrin confronted Sam, she said that she would simply use her witchcraft to make herself look the same age as he as time went on. (Though what the problem would have been with her remaining her young and beautiful self eludes me.)
There was never any suggestion that Samantha had been married before, only that she had had prior warlock beaus, a few of whom turned up in the course of the series (egged on by Endora, of course).
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)
I have many questions.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)
Not that I saw, more of a social stigma than anything else even the mother in law just calls him by the wrong name on purpose. Once a baby came even she was mollified.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)
I think there was some allusion to her (Samantha) being alive at the time of the Salem witch trials.
her mother's name implies that she is the biblical Witch of Endor from the old Testament.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)
I like Dave Rubin, but I distrust him on the grounds of "gay couple adopting boys". I want him to be the exception to that pattern, but pattern recognition kept people alive for thousands of years.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)
Not sure which side is being a dick in that confrontation. DW has its own history.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)
I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quaretering, Crowder...
A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Or something deeper?
But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)
Rumble is usually resorted to because YT is already shadowbanning them out of profitability.
Not sure about Crowder but the Wire kinda repeated the mistake the MSM made. Bad side projects like movies, large staff not involved in making content, expensive studios.
I also think Gen Z was never getting its news from there.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (8avO+)
The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.
By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (Vh9CX)
Student loans are mostly spent in the beer garden at the student union, cannabis dispensaries and liquor stores selling kegs just outside of the university grounds.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (y9nCu)
The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.
By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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I'm way late to the thread, but have you visited a college campus lately? I went to 4 about 3 weeks ago (during the term) and they were practically graveyards. It was ridiculously easy to park. I think "distance learning" is still in effect in many places, and the happy, busy thing called "campus life" that many of us enjoyed is gone. For people entering college during the COVID era, the campus experience is walking across mostly-empty courtyards and wandering down empty hallways where all the doors are locked. Whole suites of offices locked off for security, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (vPhiR)
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)
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He actually had his points. DW was going to pay him based on his engagement on platforms like Youtube.
Crowder's point is that youtube had gone out of its way on numerous times to demonstrate that they don't want *honest conversation* unless all the words are approved.
It's funny watching all the people who have adapted to the "New Rules" of Youtube saying "self-delete" for suicide and "grape" because they can't say "rape".
It's like watching Die Hard on broadcast TV and hearing "Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-father".
Which the hip crowd for decades thought was so ridiculous. But decades later, you can't say a rape was a "rape" on Youtube. You can't say somebody "committed suicide". Because Youtube has become like the old censors arguing that you can't tell the difference between reference and promotion, apparently.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (krQz2)
OK then
Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)
Do NOT look up what a Philadelphia Sidecar is.
Don't and thank me now.
Posted by: Blanco at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (q83gU)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (wGqjj)
Ilhan "Omar" Nur, Immigration Fraudster and America's Sweetheart, Just So Happeened to Have Ties with the Somali Pirates Behind the Biggest Theft of Taxpayer Funds in American History
Throw her in jail, then deport her.
Plot twist. Are you as surprised as I am? Select your answer below: "After Obama's staffer blame criticism of the Somali pirates and raiders on racism, I am... A) "less surprised than Ace" B) "more surprised than Ace" C) "equally surprised as Ace" D) "The Joe Bloggs Answer"
US Rep. Ilhan Omar's close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered. Omar (D-Minn.) held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted -- both for stealing millions. Ilhan Omar, the far-left "Squad" congresswoman, has been eerily silent on the billion-dollar welfare fraud scheme that was centered in her Minnesota district.
Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it. "[Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program," claimed Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, to The Post.
"She had been inside the [Safari] facility on numerous occasions and couldn't put 2 and 2 together? Either she's terminally naive, or knew and didn't care," Glahn added. Around $250 million was handed out by the Minnesota government to provide meals to schoolchildren during the pandemic from 2020 onward. Instead, it was pocketed by corrupt business owners, including Salim Ahmed Said. He's the co-owner of Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. Said was found guilty in August of stealing over $12 million for serving 3.9 million "phantom" meals during the COVID-19 pandemic. He blew much of the money on a $2 million Minneapolis mansion and a $9,000-a-month shopping habit at Nordstrom, according to prosecutors. Said ran a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day -- and pocketed $3.2 million from the food program. Omar has not been directly linked to the scandal, according to prosecutorial documents. Her office did not respond to a request for comment from The Post. The free meals were made possible by the 2020 MEALS Act, which was introduced by Omar and passed with bipartisan support. Most of the money in Minneapolis was funneled through the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future. It allowed both nonprofits and for-profit businesses to be reimbursed with taxpayer money for feeding kids by dramatically loosening oversight, waiving site inspections, and allowing bulk take-home food, with almost no verification. ... In 2021, when Minnesota's Department of Education (MDE) flagged that organization for irregularities and "serious deficiencies" such as incomplete audits, a top aide to Omar, deputy district director Ali Isse, came rushing to their defense, in a newly resurfaced video. He spoke at a gala praising the "vital work" of Feeding Our Families and blasted state agencies for asking too many questions.
"I'm tired of the MDE thing. How many more do we have to fight against?" the top Omar associate, who has not been indicted or directly linked to the fraud, said during the impassioned speech. He also blamed the unwanted attention from authorities on racism and rallied the "community" to stick together. Isse did not immediately return The Post's request for comment.
It's almost as if killers, rapists, and thieves use the "Muh Racism" accusation to continue committing heinous crimes without punishment.
Whistleblowers have claimed the fear of being called racist meant government officials were reluctant to prosecute the scheme to its full extent early on.
... A different Omar campaign official, a Democratic activist named Guhaad Hashi Said, pleaded guilty in August to running a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the food program. Said worked on Omar's 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an "enforcer" who oversaw aggressive voter mobilization in the Somali community, according to local Alphanews.org. Somali immigrant Mukhtar Shariff was one of the 78 people to be convicted to date. ... Omar and Said frequently attended events together. Numerous Facebook photos apparently shared by Said show him with Omar, including a smiling selfie together. "This is a clan-based society, everybody knows everybody else and it's only open to those folks in that clan," Gaither said of the Somali immigrants. Others receiving fraudulent money from the charity scam were donors to Omar's campaign.A few months ago we learned that Ilhan "Omar" Nur's net worth had absolutely skyrocketed in the past few years.
C3She claims her wealth came from her "husband's" company or investments or some obvious bullshit like that. Given the timing of her explosion in wealth, let's just say I suspect a different source. This isn't just an idle speculation. Somali pirates have "donated" -- paid in bribery -- $50,000+ to Democrat politicians for protection, and that's just the money reported in FEC filings.
@C_3C_3 Dec 2 Ilhan Omar's net worth... 1995: Arrives in America in with 0 wealth.
2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million Evil America and the white man must not be that bad. 29 years in America and Ilhan is now worth $30 million dollars. What a scam.
Minnesota Democratic lawmakers, including the Attorney General, were handed over $53,000 in campaign contributions by fraudsters who ripped off taxpayer cash meant to feed children. AG Keith Ellison, his councilman son, mayor Jacob Frey, Representative Ilhan Omar and others received cash from the scammers who siphoned off some $250 million, largely through nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Many did so after meeting the crooks, raising questions about how much they knew. "I'm not here because I think it's going to help my re-election," Ellison said during an encounter with Somali business leaders, two of whom later became criminal defendants linked to the scandal, according to audio obtained by the Center of the American Experiment.Related: Trump tells Somali pirates to get the hell out of our country.
However, days after the December 11, 2021 meeting, Ellison's campaign took in $10,000 from the businessmen. Gandi Mohamed made a maximum $2,500 donation to Ellison's re-election campaign. He was indicted on federal bribery and fraud charges last year. Three more $2,500 donations linked to Feeding Our Future were also accepted by Ellison's campaign on the same day.
President Trump delivered a blistering rebuke of Minnesota's Somali migrant community during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, arguing that those who "come from hell" should return home and rebuild their own country rather than "complain" about the United States. His remarks cut sharply against years of Democrat-backed refugee policies that brought nearly 100,000 Somali migrants to the state despite persistent concerns about crime, fraud, and cultural assimilation. "They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch," Trump said, declaring, "We don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it." He described Somalia as a nation that "stinks" and has remained broken for decades, adding that its dysfunction is no accident: "Their country is no good for a reason."
.@POTUS tells it like it is about ungrateful Somali refugees amid the Minnesota fraud scandal:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 2, 2025
"When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch — we don't want them in our country. Let 'em go back to where they came from and fix it." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/fuaAKP8VsW
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara knows exactly what he’s doing and he should be held accountable for it. pic.twitter.com/dea0Gl0dwF
— Todd Pryll (@ttpryll) December 2, 2025
BREAKING: MPD Police Chief O’Hara asks for forgiveness for exposing the reality of Somali criminal activity in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/SFkWW2ZSXy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 21, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (5IH8V)
Somalia was easily colonized by the same Italians who got their asses handed to them by Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Another Anon at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (4h45B)
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (vFG9F)
Somalia was easily colonized by the same Italians who got their asses handed to them by Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)
Even other Black Africans hate them.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (UnA8+)
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million
Those first few years are quite a turn around but it looks like Nancy Pelosi start sharing stock tips with her in 2023
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (sKqQm)
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I used to listen to a lot of public radio (I'm a fan of classical music and opera). The Twin Cities is ground zero for the NPR mentality. They deserve to have Somalis in their midst. We wouldn't want to cut their suffering short with nukes. They should have to put up with the Somalis until they all get deported.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (W2Pud)
Chief O’Hara, back to Dublin!!!
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (vSl8l)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (Riz8t)
Why? It shows we right wing raycists are wrong...the Somalis are smart and entrepreneurial.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (pDt9x)
A billion dollars disappeared in this scheme. Raise your hand if you think a bunch of that was kicked back to these officials in the form of campaign donations and outright bribes.
[The Blade raises both hands]
This is the old mafia play: payoff all the right people, and you can get away with anything including murder.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah, that may not go the way he thinks it will.
Posted by: Ranik and file Minneapolis police at December 05, 2025 01:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (RWHIh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (n5tGW)
For example they showed that the 80K Somali were generating $500M in income
Big bucks right?
Well...that's just over $6K a person.
The MN average is almost 10 times that.
So how the hell are these people living off of $6/year? Welfare and crime. It is almost certainly one person working a normal job for every 10 that are criminals/welfare leeches
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (98kQX)
And what do they do with thieves who steal from the "government" in Somalia?
Posted by: Abu Hassan at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (TezPK)
Why? It shows we right wing raycists are wrong...the Somalis are smart and entrepreneurial.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (sKqQm)
Scamming is perfectly legitimate, unless you're an old white man like Kenneth Lay or Bernie Madoff.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (UnA8+)
Its easy to turn campaign dollars into take home money in uncontested blue shitholes.
Hire your spouse for political consulting, your brother for GOTV, and on and on.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)
Nah. he sais it because he is a racist bigot to the core. He'd say that shit whether he was having a bad run politically or not.
He knows he’s sick (probably dying). The minute he mentioned going to heaven it was obvious. Trump functions at the level of a third grader and he's just as easy to read/manipulate.
This is the "they're eating cats and dogs" guy. The only shocking part is we invited him back into the White House instead of doing what the French and Brazilians did to their despots.
Nothing against Somalis, but hijabs are a tool of oppression and even people who wear them willingly only do so because of mental conditioning.
The left were traditionally against mass immigration because it was understood it benefits the megarich at the expense of everyone else. Lower wages, lower living standards, less housing availability. Not sure when that changed or who approved it.
(No responses to those last two...)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (SZI4T)
How did nobody check those numbers?
They are, literally, beyond belief, yet he got away with it for years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
*shifty eyes*
Beats us. We've never even heard of the guy.
-- Cayman Islands
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (TN0g+)
When you get down to it, almost everything is some type of weasel. Except Weasel. Wait, now I've confused myself again.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (3nLb4)
I should clarify that these were white Somali pirates
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
Somalia was easily colonized by the same Italians who got their asses handed to them by Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)
Even other Black Africans hate them.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (UnA8+)
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They are the Palestinians of Africa. Unadulterated cask-strength scum of the Earth. They're also ugly people too. Of all the Somalis I've ever seen, most are almost comically ugly (that Omar guy who ran for mayor) and only a few were attractive.
Which is a bit odd given that it borders on Kenya, and Kenyans are overall very attractive. Some real smokeshows in Nairobi. And yea, Kenyans openly and unapologetically despise Somalis. The most racist KKK grand dragon never spoke of blacks the way Kenyans talk about Somalis.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
Uh oh. Banhammer incoming.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)
One does have to admire the cunning deviousness of the left's long game. They started laying the groundwork for this decades ago to excuse all of their constituents' antisocial and/or violent behavior with cries of racism, and all the other isms and phobias, and dismissing any resistance to their agenda as one or more of said isms or phobias. This is what political correctness was largely about and it just got bigger and more entrenched, with more and more subgroups added.
Posted by: They are on a long march at December 05, 2025 01:33 PM (TbWk/)
I feel like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Oh, you're tired? Then STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!
They fed their bank accounts instead of children. Like how Newsome's NGO gave itself the fire relief money instead of giving it to actual fire victims.
I am grateful I believe in God, and that he is just, and that all this fraud and nonsense gets sorted out up there. Because if I was an atheist and believed this life is as pure and good as it gets, I'dve had a stroke by now!
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:33 PM (Eng1Z)
She's a garbage person doing garbage things in a garbage city. They should have paved a road over her years ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (NwnyJ)
They are, literally, beyond belief, yet he got away with it for years.
People were checking the numbers. A group of Minnesota DHS workers have their on X account and they claim they have been warning the Walz administration repeatedly for years and instead of doing any follow up they were ignored or retaliated against.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Max Power at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Hucnr)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (vFG9F)
Bernie Sanders gave a great speech on this back in the 90s. (not kidding)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (k92WJ)
Remember when Mohamed Noor, policeman, fired his weapon across his partner's body, killing a blonde woman who had called in a possible rape and served a full 18 months for doing it?
Posted by: huerfano
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Braenyard
In this case, I'd prefer Ozzy Man's (D)estination Fucked. 😜
Posted by: Ilhan Omar's Brother at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (rLL5x)
Ethiopia is Christian and Somalia Muslim. They were at war with each other from the rise of Islam until relatively recently.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
Then there's that Somali sheriff in Minnesota who told an audience of Somalis, in Somalian, that he worked for the benefit of Somalis and no-one else.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I actually think Noor is attractive, on the outside. And wasn't Bowie's model wife a Somali? And that Somali chick who worked with Theo Van Gogh isn't bad, either.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
......
Makes me so happy to be paying federal income tax.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese. The ignorance of leftist westerners who think Africans or Asians are somehow a) monolithic and b) completely non-racist is astounding.
Posted by: You should hear west Africans talk about American blacks at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
They are, literally, beyond belief, yet he got away with it for years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I'm guessing there were no systems in place to check any of it. Anarcho-tyranny 101.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (mlg/3)
Oh, they checked them, all right. To make sure the correct kickbacks were paid in a timely fashion.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (hhkIi)
Inbreeding doesn't typically lend itself to attractiveness.
Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (DeNdk)
Nah. Pirates are cool. Somalis are vile loathsome mole rats.
Disney had some show about little kid pirates for little kids.
One of their lessons on the show was "a real pirate doesn't take other people's things!"
And that's a great message to give a little kid but uh...not very pirate-y
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM
and with the FGM, you don't have to worry about satisfying her.
Posted by: toby928(c) says eww before you do at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (jc0TO)
Now do the Balkan peoples.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LizLem
I think a lot of Reddit is just like what Elon revealed on X, foreign accounts and bots where they don't give a shit about Americans as long as they get paid.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (WDjG6)
It should not be a surprise their neighbors hate them
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (v0R5T)
And if you want me to look the other way while you steal $250 million, don't try to hand me $53k.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (4DY5T)
>Now do the Balkan peoples.
Or, the Italians.
Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: Harry at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (qnV6d)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (qZdIZ)
well...a mess.
But Southern Italy has less in common with Northern Italy then Ukraine does with Russia or Austria with Germany.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (V362x)
Yeah, that may not go the way he thinks it will.
Posted by: Ranik and file Minneapolis police
The Federales could lite up the locals because they are cops.
Then feds can arrest the whole chain of command for felony murder.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (/lPRQ)
She is marvelous. All these political grifter Somalis that hate America, not so much.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: LizLem
Surprisingly, if you go to the r/Minnesota, r/Minneapolis, r/twincities subreddits, there is an unexpectedly high amount of pushback. Usually state and city subreddits are just swamped with rabid Lefties, and while these certainly are, too, there are many commenters saying these levels of fraud are ridiculous, unacceptable, deliberately coordinated with state and local governed, etc.
Considering how Blue the cities are, it's kind of surprising, so I wonder if it's people from outside the state like me checking due to the increased national attention. Or Russian bots, as the Lefties always accuse...
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"Some people did some things."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (XWkVH)
Grandpa had a word for those 'italians' from South of Naples.
Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (Q0yOR)
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Hegseth can't fix this. It's in the Britain Formerly Known As Great.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (DeNdk)
>Now do the Balkan peoples.
Or, the Italians.
Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (DeNdk)
Or how much the other Arabs hate the “Palestinians”. They’re very happy to watch them die, especially when they get the added fun of blaming the Jews for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (rbvCR)
Considering how Blue the cities are, it's kind of surprising, so I wonder if it's people from outside the state like me checking due to the increased national attention. Or Russian bots, as the Lefties always accuse...
My experience with blue staters is they will complain about this for a few days then go right back to voting for the same people. And when it happens again in a few years they'll repeat the cycle.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (WDjG6)
So like Congress.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: wth
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The correct word is servitude. We pay tribute to our ruling class so we can live.
DC would howl if tariffs replaced income tax because it would mean diminished control over the peasants.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:43 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (n5tGW)
Trump should assign Pete Buttigeig to do an anal probe on him.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:43 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: mr tmz
I live in Iowa, and can confirm the Blue Metro Lefties in Minnesota still do.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (JCZqz)
Grandpa had a word for those 'italians' from South of Naples.
Also, see the famous scene from True Romance where Dennis Hopper gives his views on Sicilians to Christopher Walken
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
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24m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Epstein documents in Florida UNSEALED thanks to President Trump signing the new law and demanding they be released.
>>This has backfired MASSIVELY on the Left.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: LizLem
Had relatives in St Paul and visited over the years.. Last time we were there settling an estate friends of my relative there were not too fond of the Somali's and that was about 10 years ago
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ...
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To be fair, some Congress critters get wealthy by insider trading instead of the fake and gay ngos that accept foreign bribes on behalf of Congress critters like John McCain's.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:45 PM (WDjG6)
But...I wouldn't want to try and live there is a tax paying productive member of society.
Their corruption blows away CA/MA/IL lives of corruption...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: You should hear west Africans talk about American blacks at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
Same with Hispanics. Mexicans hate Puerto Ricans hate Cubans etc. etc. etc.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (UnA8+)
What a coincidence.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (hs4ik)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (UnA8+)
They scammed actual politicians and, you know, IMPORTANT people. If they had stuck to defrauding pension holders or ETFs then they could have gotten off with a slap on the wrist.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (rbvCR)
>>This has backfired MASSIVELY on the Left.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (viF8m)
Saw that.. The way the media put out the story it was despite Trump that they're gonna be released
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (VE6XX)
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Or, maybe, she cared a lot that the program she created turned into a massive Somali funding source.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (xz8OS)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (Q0yOR)
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There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
For living with a fat one, trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and Scooby-Dooby-Doo
- Sly Stone
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (YlWIZ)
Now do the Balkan peoples.
Posted by: Bulg
The Balkans are a special combination of disliking most other ethnic groups than your own, REALLY hating one or two specific groups (probably the Serbs), feeling you're the misunderstood, pure, oppressed good guys of the region. The only thing that mostly unites the region is most of them dislike the Turks immensely (except Albanians and Bosnians), and everyone loves rakia.
Posted by: Military Moron at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (JCZqz)
I love what President Trump said. Every word.
Have never liked the turnip head who married her brother and sneers like a cobra. Billons of dollars, MN. Do they think this is ok.
Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (RVftD)
well...a mess.
But Southern Italy has less in common with Northern Italy then Ukraine does with Russia or Austria with Germany.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
Tyrol basically IS Germany.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (UnA8+)
1995: Arrives in America in with 0 wealth.
2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million
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Only took six years in Congress.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (xz8OS)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (rbvCR)
I forgot about how Jon Corzine got away with making a BILLION dollars disappear...
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Now he's crying because people are driving by his house and shouting retard.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Crockett has a similar rise to fortune. And those are just two examples of the new fastest way to become a millionaire by getting elected to Congress.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen comment at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (kz78D)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)
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No almost about it; he called Walz retarded.
Which is correct, but hardly enough criticism.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (xz8OS)
Posted by: clarence at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (hqrXU)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)
That much being stolen under his administration and he still lives somewhere that he can hear people yelling from the sidewalk? There must be something wrong with him.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: XTC
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Well, it disappeared for the hedge fund investors, probably reappeared somewhere overseas in anonymous accounts.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (rJ48h)
well...a mess.
But Southern Italy has less in common with Northern Italy then Ukraine does with Russia or Austria with Germany.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
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My wife's parents are both first-generation Italian Americans (My wife's grandparents were all from the old country). One is from Venice, the other from Sicily. It was quite the thing, I'm told, at the time for the two of them to date, much less get married.
Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: 18-1
Ana Kasparian complained about being groped and assaulted by a homeless man not too long ago, and fellow Lefties attacked her for "punching down" and supporting Trump and Right-wing efforts to increase police power and criminal convictions. It was wild.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (JCZqz)
Rose Lake Capital LLC is one of those companies that doesn't actually really do anything.
So...this is about as transparent as a payoff gets.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (sKqQm)
Nah, she's telling the truth. What she isn't saying, though, is the husband's "investments" are funded by kickbacks from the fraud (and from other frauds). Oldest trick in the book. Set up a company or investment firm to launder dirty money. All looks legit from the outside.
It's like all those THOTs with half-assed cosmetics or lifestyle companies that look legit -- until you realize the company's "investors" are just rich guys she's fucking. They funnel money into the company rather than par her outright. Like that THOT who overdosed naked on the boat of her main "investor" a few months back in long island.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)
It's like other inbred populations. Some are stunningly beautiful, and some are stunningly ugly. Long tails to the distribution curve, and the peak around "normal" is flatter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (npFr7)
2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million
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Only took six years in Congress.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (xz8OS)
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Rich people get rich by all their hard work and smarts. I’m told repeatedly that is the case by the morons here.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (rLL5x)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)
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Even Ayanna Pressley, who never had real work in her life, is now a multi-millionaire. Paying off Pressley is definite overkill.
Letitia James wants to get rich. She should run for Congress.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (xz8OS)
Which is correct, but hardly enough criticism.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Retarded grooming lying corrupt Piece of Shit was too long for Trump to include in the speech. That man has things to do. Retard is obvious when you see pictures of Timmy. Takes a more complicated explanation of the other things that Timmy does.
Lassie should have left Timmy alone in the well.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (WDjG6)
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"Just like they can't be racists -- POS POCs can't be criminals, oppressor white devil h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (XWkVH)
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (vFG9F)
No almost about it. He flat out called him seriously retarded.
Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It is our right and imperative! To spread the word of Allah to the non-believers, and kill/enslave/rape those that refuse to convert. Allah is truly wise, most merciful.
Posted by: Prophet Muhammad at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
You can get quite wealthy stealing from state and local government or being bribed indirectly. Lot of corporations to browbeat in NYC into forking over cash. That was Sharpton's racket for a very long time.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (WDjG6)
Besides, he can't be a real chief, only has 4 stars.
Posted by: Chief Cook And Bottle Washer at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (oftw2)
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@CrimeWatchMpls
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Grab the popcorn.
You will recall, earlier this week Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara held a press conference about ICE activity and Somalis where he urged people to call 911 if they see masked agents because they could be "kidnapping" someone. Here: https://x.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1996060467794501710
Yesterday morning, community activist and former cop Lisa Clemons made a big post on her FB page questioning the chief's comment and suggesting it not only puts cops in danger, but seems to be preferential treatment for Somalis, when the same ramped up actions weren't suggested in the recent past when ICE was in town for Hispanics (truncated below).
THEN, late last night, the wife of police chief Brian O'Hara, Wafiyyah (who doesn't even live in this state) jumped on Lisa's post and told her to "grow up" and that she was spreading "lies" about O'Hara and that Lisa was "part of the problem," when we all saw what he said in the video.
Stay tuned, there's going to be more...
Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (krQz2)
You have to look at the individual cases.
There certainly are plenty of people getting rich of graft.
But..."the rich" that we usually talk about are small business owners and upper level corporate people.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (Q0yOR)
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Court in Washington DC is currently ALLOWING a squatter to occupy a woman's property for MONTHS after squatter overstayed an Airbnb rental.
Shadija Romero, the alleged squatter, also reportedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder, tampered with cameras, and took the owner's name off the utilities.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Life is a lot easier and peaceful if you don't take the ticket.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (WDjG6)
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"Nice goat you've been sleeping with there ... be a shame if you woke up with it severed head in your bed."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (XWkVH)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (npFr7)
I watched an old interview where Iman said she got pitted against the other black models. People said because of her facial features she looked like a "white woman dipped in chocolate." But she stressed that she was 0% white, she was 100% Somalian and 100% black.
If she ever did a 23 and Me test, I bet it shows a heavy dose of Arab descent in her genes, as you say AOP. Which is...white.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)
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Right-wing violence.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (krQz2)
No almost about it. He flat out called him seriously retarded.
Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)
What a maroon.
Posted by: Corky at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: BruceWayne
I remember when the Left said to get in the faces of those they disagreed with, and not give them a moment of peace...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: E Buzz at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (fnOOv)
Brett Weinstein made an unusual statement about where we are as a country with regard to name-calling "retards". It's okay if somebody does something stupid, but not okay if someone is clearly disabled, like Tim Walz. Something to that effect.
Anyway, one interesting thing that came out is that Minnesota government employee whistleblowers tried to warn Kamala Harris about Tim Walz. They didn't have enough credibility with elite Democrats to be believed.
Posted by: KT at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)
That much being stolen under his administration and he still lives somewhere that he can hear people yelling from the sidewalk? There must be something wrong with him.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)
Don't they have a ... Governor's Mansion in Minnesota?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (8avO+)
That's outrageous. They should be calling him a faggot retard.
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (61TgR)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (npFr7)
I watched an old interview where Iman said she got pitted against the other black models. People said because of her facial features she looked like a "white woman dipped in chocolate." But she stressed that she was 0% white, she was 100% Somalian and 100% black.
If she ever did a 23 and Me test, I bet it shows a heavy dose of Arab descent in her genes, as you say AOP. Which is...white.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (Eng1Z)
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She was also born to a rich and influential family, which I'm sure was also a source of hating on her.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (MGB5H)
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You know how his wife likes to keep the windows open.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (krQz2)
No, he lets boy mayor do that, as well as enjoy native Minnesotan hot dishes:
https://tinyurl.com/4cb2b8jw
Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: ShainS
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Not sure about that, killing the goat would mean one less Democrat voter. They'd probably only steal it, especially if it was an attractive one.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: KT at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (7vIsy)
A battleship anchor doesn't need warnings about a dead weight being added to it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (8avO+)
Nickolodeon had a successful show with two leads - Ariana Grande and Jennette McCurdy.
The latter complained publicly the show's producer pressured her for sex and she refused. Ariana said...nothing.
You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (wBaIH)
This is why if you are “I back the blue” guy or gal, or you are like Michael Berry demanding that we ALL must respect police offices no matter what, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
Call me a cop hater all you want. I just acknowledge they put on their pants the same way I do every day.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: ShainS
If you behead my she-goat, do I lose two orifices to penetrate, or gain some new ones...
Posted by: Optimistic, Necrophiliac, Beastiality-Loving Muslim at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (JCZqz)
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Court in Washington DC is currently ALLOWING a squatter to occupy a woman's property for MONTHS after squatter overstayed an Airbnb rental.
Shadija Romero, the alleged squatter, also reportedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder, tampered with cameras, and took the owner's name off the utilities.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)
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One word:
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (XWkVH)
So...this is about as transparent as a payoff gets.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (sKqQm)
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Hey! We make money!
Posted by: CEO Frank "The Warthog" Reynolds at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: LizLem
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All celebutards of note have big pr teams to manage press for them. That, in part, is why a lot of dirt comes out after the celebutards end up dying.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)
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And those people are his State Police protection unit. Imagine what everyone else says about him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (xz8OS)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)
Oopsie! I mean darnit! I am such a knucklehead. Guess I will have to try harder, right?
-- standard response by elected officials standing over the smoking remains of the program / project / state they were supposed to be running
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (i0Hi3)
Nickolodeon had a successful show with two leads - Ariana Grande and Jennette McCurdy.
The latter complained publicly the show's producer pressured her for sex and she refused. Ariana said...nothing.
You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
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I'm convinced that 99% of entertainers sucked a lot of dick to get where they are. Not only the ladies, the men too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: brak at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (jGJov)
https://tinyurl.com/4cb2b8jw
Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (I7J9
LMAO
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (xz8OS)
Posted by: 18-1
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I think you can tell the same tale if swapped to Disney. Walt's spirit should become the headless Horseman of Disney and stalk those pedo groomers at night with pumpkin heads.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (6KcYW)
Full of fraudulently obtained Somali dollars?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
I know a girl that was almost cast on the Mickey Mouse Club back in the 90s. Would have been there during the Spears/Timberlake/Aguilera/Gosling/Russell era.
I felt so bad for her as a kid, missing out on her shot at fame. Now as an adult, knowing the abuse and trauma all those child stars went through? I think she dodged a bullet! I hope she went on to have an amazing but completely normal, abuse-free life.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)
Oopsie! I mean darnit! I am such a knucklehead. Guess I will have to try harder, right?
-- standard response by elected officials standing over the smoking remains of the program / project / state they were supposed to be running
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (rbvCR)
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The entire MN budget is about $60B
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: 18-1
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SEE: Lucille Ball on reference to the casting couch and success.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Lots of wilted ficus trees in executive offices I guess.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
Pretty accurate portrayal of public "servants" in retrospect.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 05, 2025 02:05 PM (bNf8H)
Anyway, one interesting thing that came out is that Minnesota government employee whistleblowers tried to warn Kamala Harris about Tim Walz. They didn't have enough credibility with elite Democrats to be believed.
Posted by: KT at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (7vIsy)
I suspect part of this could be they just didn't care and thought they were going to win so it really doesn't matter. Everything is corrupt and graft- laden.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 02:05 PM (ajCaF)
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Court in Washington DC is currently ALLOWING a squatter to occupy a woman's property for MONTHS after squatter overstayed an Airbnb rental.
Shadija Romero, the alleged squatter, also reportedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder, tampered with cameras, and took the owner's name off the utilities.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)
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One word: Plastics Inferno.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (XWkVH)
I've never understood how these people just don't go ... missing.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: Harvey Weinstein's Ficus at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin.
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But that stylish red phone that illuminated when in use is the ultimate office accessory. I'd like one like that for my home office.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (TN0g+)
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And they just announced the upcoming budget is $3B in the red.
Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (UQXxb)
Posted by: It's me donna "
He's buckin' for a pardon.
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 02:08 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Or the top-tier Dems knew Kamala was a retard destined to lose, and didn't want to destroy their future presidential opportunities. So Harris had to pick from 2nd and 3rd tier losers that all have skeletons in their closets.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:08 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Ariana is also turning into a drugged-up Skeleton...
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:09 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Are we really going to be seeing shootouts between ICE and local police department personnel soon?
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (mADJX)
It looks like they were unbelievably stupid for not realizing who Bruce Wayne was, but they actually knew the secret and were just playing dumb.
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (RVftD)
Because all the "I'd love to get a chance to make someone go missing!" dudes are all 60+ and no longer have the lung capacity to actually make it happen anymore.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Or the top-tier Dems knew Kamala was a retard destined to lose, and didn't want to destroy their future presidential opportunities. So Harris had to pick from 2nd and 3rd tier losers that all have skeletons in their closets.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:08 PM (JCZqz)
A third option is that K's team did not competently vet him. She doesn't scream competence.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (RVftD)
I read that as Swineheart...must be tired. I didn't think they took THAT much blood in phlebotomy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (ynpvh)
Are we really going to be seeing shootouts between ICE and local police department personnel soon?
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Newark. And his wife is a sergeant there.
Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (TN0g+)
Trump calls for Dulles rebuild as new concourse rises
https://is.gd/MiWYCU
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: XTC
Posted by: Rick James at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Ariana was willing to accept the molestations as a career move. McCurdy did not.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (RVftD)
Judges are protected under federal law.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (qUkBO)
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SEE: Lucille Ball on reference to the casting couch and success. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (SZI4T)
It was ever thus. Shirley Temple has recounted that both she and her mom were taken to separate rooms by Hollywood execs and propositioned by them! Arthur Freed exposed himself to her, and Louis B Mayer went after her mom. The only reason Freed stopped was she laughed to hard at him he got furious and kicked her out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn4Ye74fZQk
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Ariana is also turning into a drugged-up Skeleton...
Posted by: XTC
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She bought a ticket to ride, she bought a ticket to ri..iiide, She bought a ticket to ride and I don't care.
Posted by: The Rutles at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
Good, let's put this to rest.
Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: XTC
Posted by: Rick James at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (JCZqz)
She should lick lots more donuts completely...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)
How many licks does it take to get to the center?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)
How many licks does it take to get to the center?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)
It's a mystery every time!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)
How many licks does it take to get to the center?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)
You want that she should lick the hole?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (WDjG6)
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I concede the point, counselor!
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (zbgwO)
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (vFG9F)
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Plausible deniability since they knew Bruce "Batman" Wayne was not acting within the law in his role as a vigilante.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (ESVrU)
If the Chinese invaded California or Minnesota, Democrats would be the new Vichy Americans and imprison their wrong-think neighbors.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (4v5BO)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (4v5BO)
Posted by: It bears repeating at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (PsX7R)
Either launch an investigation and get her deported or just admit they won't do anything about it. I get fed up hearing it as a cheap piece of rhetorical point scoring.
It shouldn't matter what her position is if she broke the law.
There really is no reason for Somalians to be in the West, they lack the educational standards and they are culturally incompatible, they offer nothing. 74% of Somalians in the UK are in social housing and they represent some of the highest numbers of foreign offenders in prisons. Send them home.
Posted by: STV at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (XMeSM)
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (qUkBO)
There is no way Maine doesn't have this exact same problem.
None.
Posted by: garrett
How about Columbus, OH?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: The Rutles
That reminds me of this classic:
Meghan McCain Poses for Playboy: 'I'm Strictly Dickly' America's blondest beer heiress reveals that she "almost overdosed on Xanax" the day before the 2008 election because "I had gained a lot of weight" and "Obamamania was at its height." Also, she is "strictly dickly":
I've been considering getting his (Hunter S. Thompson's) quote "Buy the ticket, take the ride" tattooed on my body, but I haven't decided. I told my friend, and she said it sounds really sexual, so we'll see...
My friends from home came over to support me, and we got in my parents' big bed. They have this huge California king and we just stayed up eating ice cream. I'm not a lesbian, if that's what you're asking. I'd be the first person to tell the world I was gay. I'm not private about anything. I think you should live how you should live. But I'm strictly dickly. I can't help it. I love sex and I love men.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (vFG9F)
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Plausible deniability since they knew Bruce "Batman" Wayne was not acting within the law in his role as a vigilante.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (ESVrU)
https://youtu.be/VMmOBiVCdzg
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (4v5BO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: A Moron at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (h+S+G)
Locally, likely. But I don't recall Ohio having anything but 'R' Governorships for quite some time...sure, they are RiNO Govs...but not Dem.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (DeNdk)
I doubt she got her start via the casting couch.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (4v5BO)
Supermax? Never heard of that particular rope company.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)
Yeah, no warning from you is required...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (ynpvh)
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Lesley Stahl sits down with outspoken Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in the Georgia congresswoman’s first interview since abruptly announcing her resignation from Congress. 60 Minutes, Sunday. http://60Min
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (NpAcC)
How about Columbus, OH?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (pkeXY)
Ohio State is in the CFP. No one there gives a shit about anything else.
And Day finally beat Michigan, so he gets to keep his job.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (4v5BO)
Get a load of this Retard.
I mean...he could be Governor of MN.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (DeNdk)
"I must not be safe.
safety is the fun-killer.
safety is for children, customers and the help.
I will face safety.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn to see its fruits.
Where safety directives have passed, nothing will have been achieved.
Only I will remain.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (rbvCR)
Lesley Stahl sits down with outspoken Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in the Georgia congresswoman’s first interview since abruptly announcing her resignation from Congress. 60 Minutes, Sunday. http://60Min
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (NpAcC)
Target rich environment for a golden shower.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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We have so much in common!!!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Dave at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (mADJX)
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"Hostiltality" also seemed to be Basil Fawlty's default setting. He wanted guests in his hotel, but then he went out of his way to antagonize them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (ESVrU)
"...In continuing to address Melania Trump, the drag queen jeered, “I’m sure that, not only you are gonna love these organizations, but your husband is too, because he personally slashed the grants that these organizations normally receive.”
I think Melania is FINE that your "eight diverse-led outdoor non-profits" got their federal tax money grant slashed. Get Patagonia to take the amount they give you and give it to the non-profits, then.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (ynBxV)
THEN WHO BUILT GALLOWS
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (O2XQw)
Problems fixed.
Posted by: torabora at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (KtOUo)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (O2XQw)
Thanks for the warning.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)
Wait. Which direction is Mega Mac-n-Cheese transitioning in?
Were Xey/Xem born with a penis, or are Xey/Xem getting a fake one made?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (RgYBC)
Yvon Chouinard is a murderer. Guy is responsible for the deaths of many climbers.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (O2XQw)
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John Gault?
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (ynBxV)
Were Xey/Xem born with a penis, or are Xey/Xem getting a fake one made?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)
I can't say. I've always just imagined her with going around all the time with dildos sticking out of every orifice and fold. It makes taking her serious more easy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (I2y5H)
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She's like a lot of women in Congress--they more or less follow the game plan, but about one week or so a month they seem to lose the plot and it erodes their respect.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (TN0g+)
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The feeling is not mutual.
Posted by: ...
Apparently not...for post 269. You and Meg. To (or two) 69.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (Eng1Z)
At least the commissioner and the police chief didn't consider the Joker et al to be their principal constituents (on the other hand...maybe it wasn't mere incompetence. Hmmm...)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (ynBxV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (ESVrU)
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Now, now. He went out of his way for him and his staff not to mention The War to the Germans.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (krQz2)
Be safer buying your shit off Amazon. At least then, there's a chance.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)
Were Xey/Xem born with a penis, or are Xey/Xem getting a fake one made?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)
I can't say. I've always just imagined her with going around all the time with dildos sticking out of every orifice and fold. It makes taking her serious more easy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)
Gives a whole new meaning to folding...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (I2y5H)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (bXbFr)
At least the commissioner and the police chief didn't consider the Joker et al to be their principal constituents (on the other hand...maybe it wasn't mere incompetence. Hmmm...)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (mADJX)
Wasn't the point that every cop except Gordon was paid off by the mob, until all the super-villains rolled up during "The Long Halloween"?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (UnA8+)
"...In continuing to address Melania Trump, the drag queen jeered, “I’m sure that, not only you are gonna love these organizations, but your husband is too, because he personally slashed the grants that these organizations normally receive.”
I, for one, am crestfallen that the gay burlesque circus theme will not be reprised in the White House this year for Christmas.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (Riz8t)
We're back to the fucking bamboo. Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations.
Lol. This guy. What a weirdo.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (RVftD)
>>>We're back to the fucking bamboo.
I hate fucking bamboo.
>>>Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations.
$20 is it?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (ynBxV)
I'm reminded of a scene in Mandy were this turns out much much worse for the victim....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm)
Exactly so. Kind of like me and relatives who just happen to "drop in".
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)
Gives a whole new meaning to folding...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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The things I learn here. I live a sheltered life apparently.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (WDjG6)
Hordemind gets thread-bored at the same time, goes looking in the same place for new content, grabs same pull quote to comment on.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Be safer buying your shit off Amazon. At least then, there's a chance.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)
The very best mountain climbing gear comes from Bell Helicopter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Warai Otokoman-Schultz at December 05, 2025 02:30 PM (JwNbV)
It sounds like she had a meeting with Trump, she wanted to run for governor or senator and get his support. Trump told her she had no chance, according to his polling, and he wouldn't endorse her. Wouldn't back a losing race.
You know what they say about a woman scorned...she couldn't handle it. Is burning the whole thing down behind her as she leaves. Which shows she was never actually MAGA.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: PG at December 05, 2025 02:30 PM (7B6QP)
Posted by: Charlie Foxtrot at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (I2y5H)
https://shorturl.at/sDdlv
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (ynBxV)
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Can you imagine what a life insurance premium would cost for a helicopter pilot who likes to climb mountains as a hobby?
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)
Eyes all cattywampus. Nose and mouth off doing their own thing. It's unsettling.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (JwNbV)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (bXbFr)
https://shorturl.at/sDdlv
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
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I'M NOT CLICKING ON THAT!!!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (h+S+G)
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My life won't be complete if I don't get to yell that at least once in a public setting.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (PsX7R)
Ace's autism shines, again.
Once Ace sinks his hooks into something, he doesn't let go. Olivia Nuzzo has no idea what she's in for, now.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (O2XQw)
Posted by: LizLem
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Any new movement attracts solid folks and those that want to ride the wave to fame and fortune. She was the latter.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (O2XQw)
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John Gault?
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Remember "prince" harry's "heroic" deeds in Afghanistan? Remember how some of them were video recorded?
Yeah, I said it years ago, and I'll say it again: staged.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (O2XQw)
None of you asked for the Meghan McCain Playboy pics?!??! Well, I'm here to help regardless. You're in luck...none of her photos were nudes. Weird for classic Playboy, but good for modern Playboy (and your lunch)
https://shorturl.at/sDdlv
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
Who are you and why are you socking the Admiral? I look out of morbid curiosity, and that photo is definitely not from his stable of 'models'.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (QVmho)
Be safer buying your shit off Amazon. At least then, there's a chance.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)
Before Patagonia there was Chouinard. Dude changed the company name to escape liability.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (FhXTo)
Remember "prince" harry's "mates" on his "team," like he was some sort of super soldier?
Those weren't his fucking mates. They were his bodyguards. This kid has been a fraud since the day he was born.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (O2XQw)
noood
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (O2XQw)
What might offer a boost would be a far more proactive and personal (remember Alinsky) campaign against the media, and an aggressive public information/civics education campaign about the mutation of the democrat party into an out-and-out enemy of America. If we can't put them in jail, we can try to degrade and stigmatize them.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: BifBewalski
I'm the OG Ackbar, and my gals aren't all cave trolls. I like to mix things up
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (JCZqz)
Forget Venezuela. Send the Navy to the horn of Africa and shell Somalia back to the singularity event that created the Universe.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)
My immigrant family would faint at those numbers - nobody, ever, was unemployed. We took every job we could find.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (wGqjj)
The Media Doesn't Know the Politics of the J5 Bomber, But They Can Say Defnitively That Brian Cole, Jr. is "A White Man"
As you know, credit card receipts first started being kept by banks and vendors earlier this year -- I think it was late August -- so obviously Christopher Wray's Straight Shooters couldn't have taken this very obvious investigatory step.
The FBI carefully analyzed the Jan. 6 pipe bomber suspect's credit card purchases to isolate the components allegedly used to manufacture the two bombs, the newly filed criminal complaint obtained by Just the News shows. The complaint, filed secretly on Wednesday, provides a detailed account of how the FBI identified and tracked the prime suspect in the case. It shows the FBI relied on a bank checking account and six different credit cards associated with suspect Brian Cole Jr. to the break in the case. Notably, Cole appears to have compiled some of the materials the FBI alleges he used to construct the bombs long before the 2020 presidential election, the results of which preceded the Capitol riot which took place on Jan. 6, 2021, the same day the pipe bombs were discovered at the Democratic and Republican National Committees. The pipe bombs allegedly place the night before. "During 2019 and 2020, COLE purchased multiple items consistent with the components that were used to manufacture the pipe bombs placed at the RNC and DNC. COLE used the Accounts to purchase these items from physical retail locations in northern Virginia," wrote an FBI special agent in the affidavit submitted to the court. According to the charging document, Cole appears to have purchased "six galvanized pipes" matching those used in the pipe bombs on or about June 1, June 8, and November 16, 2020 at two different Home Depot locations in Northern Virginia. Cole also allegedly purchased "a mix of both black and galvanized end caps" on or about October 22, 2019, and March 10, June 20, July 8, and November 16, 2020. The timers identified in the FBI laboratory analysis of the pipe bombs were allegedly purchased by Cole in June 2020 from a Walmart in northern Virginia.Who could have imagined that a case about timer-detonated pipe bombs would be cracked by searching credit card purchases of pipes and timers? I award Christopher Wray the Straight Shooter Hypercompetent Professional Medal. I don't like jumping on a conspiracy theory but I'm beginning to actually wonder if Biden and Wray deliberately tanked this investigation. People on X are making claims about the bomber that I don't see being reported by the media yet. But given the media's credibility, I'm provisionally trusting X posters.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson 14h The January 6th pipe bomber terrorist was... - a young black guy
- radical anti-Trump activist
- sued Trump & ICE & DHS
- extreme racial justice advocate
- works at his family bail bonds company that frees criminal aliens from ICE custody Yeah, this explains exactly why the FBI & DOJ could not "find" this guy for 4 years. The Biden FBI had mountains of evidence against Brian Cole. Receipts, cell data, license plate, photos and videos of the crime. They knew exactly who did it! But Brian's profile destroys their entire 'MAGA white supremacist insurrection bomber' narrative in one blow. The FBI didn't "fail" to catch him. Leftists protected their own. This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare...
@C_3Julie Kelly points out that the bomber bought the pipes for the pipe bombs, surprise, during the peak of the George Floyd Mostly Peaceful Riots. Months and months before he planted them in January. Suggesting he might have wanted to bomb targets during the riots. Jake Tapper immediately pronounced Brian Cole, Jr., known for playing "Urkel" on Family Matters, guilty of the worst crime: Tapper claimed Cole was "a white man."
C_3 The J6 Pipe Bomber Brian Cole Jr comes from a far Left BLM family whose father sued the Trump Administration and wanted the Biden Administration to address "racism". He had the same attorney as Trayvon Martin. Does Chris Wray not arresting him make sense now?
CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as "a white man." Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on "The Lead." His "white man" comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole's face that originated from the suspect's mother's Instagram account.
Cole's father is also black and once enlisted the services of Ben Crump, an attorney best known for his racial discrimination cases. Viewers were stunned by Tapper's misrepresentation of the alleged pipe bomber. "You can't make this stuff up," conservative pundit Benny Johnson wrote on X. "Jake is sharp as a tack. Nothing gets past him. Dude's elite!" another deadpanned. "Its impossible that he does not know what he is doing," one user speculated. Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing "anti-white rhetoric."
But others were more understanding. "Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked. "Clearly he never looked at the graphics. Probably just read a script," another suggested.
Jake Tapper identified the J6 pipe bomb suspect as a “30-Year-old white man.”
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 5, 2025
Idk about you but this guy does not look white to me. pic.twitter.com/Pcexq2OGlm
He is not even joking!
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 5, 2025
Jake Tapper labels the J6 pipe bomb suspect a “30-year-old white man.”
Does Brian Cole Jr. really look white to you? pic.twitter.com/MzJKKQRDev
What kind of extremist, WaPo? WHAT KIND? pic.twitter.com/Vh6Rh3gkD5
— Disinformation Expert Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) December 4, 2025
MAJOR BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel says Biden’s FBI will be completely exposed in court for covering up the truth about the J6 pipe bomber:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 4, 2025
"You're going to see where we were able to collect the evidence and make this case. Journalists will be able to look at it and say… pic.twitter.com/Kn4PRDzrZE
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (UhUim)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (UnA8+)
ESPONJA!!1!!1!11
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (tljrc)
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Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (UNCeV)
Posted by: Ace
It's snowing here in NoVa, but not enough to close the schools.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (erxM3)
Ace loves him some Jake Tapper.
Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (O7YUW)
But there is a new sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium. Her name is Ruby and she’s our first southern sea otter.
Squeeeee!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (UNCeV)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (QRv6r)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)
A - If he said it, he's lying, and doing so to try to help his future court case.
B - "Anonymous sources" have claimed he said this - we all know how truthful they are.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (tOcjL)
Jake Tapper never fails to disappoint.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (IifOV)
It works. Only 20% of voters know that Charlie Kirk was murdered by a crazed leftist. Just as many think the murderer was right wing.
The media has a new strategy. They can't win the battle of suppressing the truth like they did for 40 years so now they do everything they can to confuse people.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (zjgNU)
Is someone going to tell him?
Posted by: Max Power at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (Be17s)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (QRv6r)
Because it's always white supremacist's that's why !
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (QRv6r)
Racism present at CNN.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (tOcjL)
If Obama had a son...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (vPhiR)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (IifOV)
Then why not say Christian Era since it’s replacing Christ in previously used BC?
Posted by: the way I see it
When they use BCE it pisses me off...
That's why.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Bo9Yf)
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Shaun King at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (PiwSw)
What's for lunch?
Jake Tapper flambé smothered in cringe sauce.
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (mADJX)
The guy at Radio Shack was visibly relieved when I ‘splained why I wanted a metric crapload of batteries. Must have something to do with bad stuff, I dunno. But he kinda gave me the side eye at the register at first.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (+tKFt)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Be17s)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (1wjle)
Oh man, this ain't nuttin'.
No snow day. But it was in the low teens outside this morning. The boys had to run the car for ten minutes before driving to school.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (7RdcP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
@YouTube
Wherein Jake Tapper notes Jesse Jackson was a Jim Crow White Supremacist
Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (MUJd1)
But snow jobs like the pipe bomber business, those are pretty much day-ending-in-'y'.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (OUMaO)
@JakeTapper
so Jake not only did you not notice Biden was a dementia case, but you and
@ErinBurnett
imagine every violent human is white until proven otherwise? Might I suggest an optometrist?
Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Don Black
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He's retarded?
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)
@JakeTapper
@OutFrontCNN
@cnnbrk
have a defacto internal style guide that says "violent criminal default is white trash" unless and until proven otherwise. "Trash" defined of course as "non-democrat" right Jake? This official or informal?
Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (MUJd1)
That's good to know, going forward. It also explains that ridiculous attempt for agents to imbed themselves at conservative rallies during the FJB regime.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (erxM3)
That's why.
Posted by: Archimedes
What do you have against the British Clarinet Ensemble?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (MUJd1)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)
I'm sure they're told where to allocate resources. They aren't free agents (so to speak).
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (Riz8t)
That's good to know, going forward. It also explains that ridiculous attempt for agents to imbed themselves at conservative rallies during the FJB regime.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (5yDGQ)
In good news for that, there was obvious quiet rebellion b/c they sure didn't try that hard to fit in...quite the opposite actually...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)
This is a conspiracy theory? It's exactly what happened. They had a mountain of evidence on this guy from the jump -- including minutes of security cam footage of him with his odd body shape in distinctive shoes. They had the bombs and thus could track back where the components were bought.
The FBI can track grandmas across the country like alien bloodhounds if the old ladies were maybe possibly in DC on J6. But they can't find a guy practically posing for cameras on J5? Come on. The investigation was deliberately tanked. 100%.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
Cash is king.
Posted by: no one
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Was just thinking the same thing. Use gift cards. Buy them with cash at CVS.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (8WZD4)
"Planes piloted by the Amish crashed into the World Trade Center buildings today."
Sept 11, 2001
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (IifOV)
"CNN, and All Decent Americans, demand the administration drop a Nuclear Bomb on Lancaster, PA immediately."
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: doug at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (Hy+R4)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (2NfTM)
Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (8WZD4)
He was doing a race-swap with Shaun "Talcum X" King.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (UnA8+)
Crazy weather for December but I don't hate it.
May have to go up into the mountains to get my snow.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (xcxpd)
"Rosa Parks was a Filipino man"
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (IifOV)
This means my day of not having to,do anything is over.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (8WZD4)
That would be as true as his supposed claim 2020 was stolen.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (tOcjL)
So that makes him MAGA for sure ... or that is what they are implying. They leave out all the other facts that he was clearly Not MAGA.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (2NfTM)
TIME magazine wrote an article about why it was necessary to "Save Our Democracy".
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)
There is danger here: Pam Bondi pandered to Crump during the George Martin trial for the death of Trayvon Martin. BIG TIME PROBLEM.
Posted by: jb at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (FY8KO)
They were right in the middle of selling this thing.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (W7XSX)
Don't they watch any of the multitude of police investigative reality shows to know what not to do?
Even so not leaving a trail is an obvious goal.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (KDPiq)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign
Fine..... He resigns from Secretary of Defense to be the Secretary of War
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (1Nv0l)
I don't care if King Barry, First of his F**kstick's white half doesn't count, as long as mine does.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
...just not at Walmart.
https://is.gd/q1ra3k
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (bHjkq)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (My0zW)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)
Estrogen makes dudes gain weight.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (UnA8+)
Don't they watch any of the multitude of police investigative reality shows to know what not to do?
Even so not leaving a trail is an obvious goal.
Why, it's almost as if this guy isn't particularly bright.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (KDPiq)
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Maybe he studied in high school, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (krQz2)
>>Fine..... He resigns from Secretary of Defense to be the Secretary of War
We literally had a SECDEF who went AWOL for large stretches of his. tenure, but that was totes OK.
These people.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (XV/Pl)
"Who could have imagined that a case about timer-detonated pipe bombs would be cracked by searching credit card purchases of pipes and timers?"
That's really the way they do it too.
I know, I watch CSI and that's the way they do it.
Posted by: Speller at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (pSotA)
I was wondering that. As a commenter said, he's quick to claim black criminals are white, but I bet you he will never say a black criminal is black. I bet now that he's known to be black, his race just doesn't matter at all and isn't worth reporting on.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (3lCQj)
We should wait to find out what Andy McCarthy thinks. On second thought , naaah
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (XV/Pl)
Don't they watch any of the multitude of police investigative reality shows to know what not to do?
Even so not leaving a trail is an obvious goal.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (KDPiq)
Even dumber thing I recently saw :
A guy who murdered his wife paid for all the implements with Prepaid Gift Cards...
...BUT he paid for those cards with his credit card.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (UnA8+)
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Wearing glasses == Inherently white
/Next you'll be telling us he once went on a hike ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (My0zW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)
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I bet journalists won't though.
It might even be, "Why are they dragging up this from 5 years ago?"
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (krQz2)
The FBI can track grandmas across the country like alien bloodhounds if the old ladies were maybe possibly in DC on J6. But they can't find a guy practically posing for cameras on J5? Come on. The investigation was deliberately tanked. 100%.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
The Joke
You
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM
Afternoon, Ace.
Snow? No, but it's gonna be a bit chilly up here for a few days. But I did take a day off to burn some excess leave.
How you doin'?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
I mean, why not go all out?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (1Nv0l)
Doh!
I do miss the days when we could buy ammonium nitrate for our lawns.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (xT8gx)
OT - Little Marco announces new "model" for foreign assistance, sans NGOs. Haven't looked at the details, but oh boy. Apparently talks about direct aid to foreign governments. Super-simplified, NGOs involved in foreign aid came about largely due to several reasons, one of which was ..... the need to *not* give direct aid to foreign govts., due to lack of accountability. "Budget support" - direct $ aid to foreign govts., had become a rarity by the 90s, for the same reason.
Fascinating in a pathetic way that the first most people had heard of many of these NGOs was from their current, deformed and corrupted version. Which in some cases bore no resemblance - stunning really - to their long-term form, with the big transformation (surprise!) coming during ..... the Obama years.
Of course the Universal Degradation that has afflicted every part of society for about 30 years also clearly played a part. So you had dumbed-down/brainwashed people staffing corrupted/deformed organizations. Amazing, really.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (KDPiq)
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Stored would be all out if you didn't buy your bombing supplies during early bombing season.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (3uBP9)
Im getting paid!!!! Full membership baby
Posted by: Woot at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (h+S+G)
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"There are THREE Co-Ordinate Axes!"
/obligatory Picard
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (My0zW)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)
/Types
/Deletes
Not today, Satan
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (+PfCm)
Cash is king.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (W7XSX)
Pfff, nah. I gleefully await the day the cops come rolling in hot only to discover that, yes, indeed, I actually am just growing oregano indoors.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (QRv6r)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (ph+d0)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (1gF6W)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (QRv6r)
Demons hate the Latin, especially the Ave Maria.
I think BC vs BCE is in the running to achieve Ginger vs Maryanne and Longbow vs Crossbow territory.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
I mean, why not go all out?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)
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Ed Krassenstein predicted we'd find ways to keep from admitting this guy was MAGA.
Looks like we've found quite a few ways.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (krQz2)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.
On what grounds? Or, he hurt your butt.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (KDPiq)
Who was his handler, Ray Epps?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (My0zW)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one
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By the ton!
Posted by: Timothy McVeigh at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha
The Paolo, how you say, is tanned, rested, and ready!
Posted by: The Paolo at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)
Saw a post by Whale Psychiatrist who is a pretty eliable X account that said someone had come up to Trump at the FIFA event and said something t o himand Trump got up and left. Then some other admin members also left. Like something was happening. Now post has disappeared.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
@mazemoore
One of the worst takes you will ever see.
2022. Mehdi Hasan and another race-baiter claim that the January 6th pipe bomber has not been caught because the person is white.
According to Hasan, if the bomber had been black or muslim, he would have already been caught.
https://tinyurl.com/a6hf7pac
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: sigmadog at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (/OiGE)
Looks like we've found quite a few ways.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (krQz2)
Not so fast
Posted by: THE Media tying Cole to MAGA at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Archimedes
Except I seem to be the only one on my side of the argument.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (77rzZ)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.
On what grounds? Or, he hurt your butt.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Schumer knows about as much as Elizabeth Warren about how to run the military.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (JwNbV)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign
Our troops will never get better, sooo, you can go fuck yourself, then you can go fuck yourself again, then take a break, and go fuck yourself some more. Then reward yourself with a nice volcano tan.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (snZF9)
You have to understand how these people think - they wanted J6 to be ALL ABOUT right wing "violence" and prosecute/persecute MAGA heads. This bombing made it much more of a "both sides" narrative, which would be intolerable. So, slow down the investigation of that. All they had to do was de-resource it.
They knew up front, since the bombs were at both party headquarters, the suspect was likely some sort of anarchist.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gDhA9)
How do I know this? Because of the deliberate reference to the guy's color. It was clearly intentional to signal to the oozing crudes that make up CNN's audience that the bomber is an Other. There's no way they ever would have mentioned his race like that if he was black or hispanic. No way.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
Shades of the DC sniper...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (sKqQm)
I think it will die a soon, natural death.
Ginger vs. Mary Ann will burn within us until we die.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (/HDaX)
For the record, the Paolo has assured me that he has no official position on the AD/CE question.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (77rzZ)
He must resign
That last guy was fat, looked like a third world dictator with his fake medals, and made the troops take what he knew was a poison shot.
F*ck you Schumer. Go back to eating cheeseburger tartare
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)
You've got to understand. Jake Tapper... is colorblind. That's right. When he sees a man, he doesn't see Black or white. He just see a man. And defaults to white because he's blind.
In related news, Jack Tapper needs to be executed. There's no such thing as color blindness, as several highly-respected religious people for racial justice have stated (source: a quarter-dozen folks who call themselves several highly-respected religious people for racial justice). Either you are Black, you are racist, or you say you're color blind which means you're double-secret public racist. Per the HRRPFRJ (pronouced "Herpuffurge").
Posted by: Another Anon at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4h45B)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (/HDaX
He planted the bombs on Jan 5th
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)
It's the 1% cash back from Discover Card that got me caught.
Posted by: Brian Cole, Jr. at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)
That may explain the Patriot Front.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gDhA9)
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Yup. They were selling "right-wing violence" and "right-wing domestic terrorism".
Any other variety of bomber would just give people "the wrong idea". This is the time when Democrats do NOT want to be in a "both sides" discussion.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (0RGA5)
He was in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. He played the only teacher in high school the heroes respect.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (p9rFX)
Because it appears to me that is exactly what happened.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (NwnyJ)
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Just wait and hour or two and another will pop up.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (npFr7)
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Splitters!
Posted by: Peoples' Front of Patriotism at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (krQz2)
I have it on good authority that following illegal orders is...illegal.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (bfwj/)
He was in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. He played the only teacher in high school the heroes respect.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (p9rFX)
He was also in the horrible Direct-to-Video garbage fire "Who Made the Potatoe Salad?" (yes, spelled with that extra e)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)
In cross-examination during trial "Did I do that?"
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (Vpqw1)
The FBI was tooting its horn about finding the Unibomber.
It was the Unibombers brother that turned him in. The FBI would still be spinning its wheels if he hadn't been turned it.
The FBI was SURE they had the Olympic bomber and said it was Richard Jewell. They were wrong.
The FBI is Keystones cops with a huge budget.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (IifOV)
More recent: You know it is racist to talk about the race of people committing crime
A little while back: We have to talk about all these angry young white men committing acts of violence
Just the other day: In the news, more actions by multi-racial white supremacists
Now: The criminal is white. Don't believe your lying eyes.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)
Got it, thanks!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: It's me donna
He planted both bombs, right? At the DNC and the RNC?
WTH was the purpose of targeting both sides? Just to sow general FUD and chaos?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign
Fine..... He resigns from Secretary of Defense to be the Secretary of War
Posted by: It's me donna
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Well, Schumer is not qualified to be a fry cook as seen by his photo documented grilling technique so his credibility is right up there with Jake Tapper declaring black as white. Tapper is not even qualified to be a news reader on a backwoods AM radio station morning show.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)
He also indicated to FBI investigators that he believed Donald Trump should have won that White House race, not Joe Biden. "
Yeah right. Is he trying to get PDT to pardon him?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (0RGA5)
I'm sensing a comment of the week. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (snZF9)
==
Well, shame, after all, is part of the kink.
*buzzing sound, lights dim*
Posted by: Margaret Brennan at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (QRv6r)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM
An important point when his mysteriously top notch pro bono lawyers claim that Trump already pardoned him, which they will.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (jc0TO)
The FBI is Keystones cops with a huge budget.
Don't forget the anthrax mailer.
They blamed at scientist at Fort Detrick and libeled him repeatedly even though they had no evidence.
After years of screwing this guy over they picked someone else at his work who conveniently committed suicide.
Note it almost certainly wasn't that guy either.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Sorry, Chris has a plane to Brazil to catch so he doesn't have the time to talk to investigators.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)
Now...
Why didn't either bomb go off if the picture is now of a motivated anarchist?
Myself, I think "kitchen timer" has something to do with it.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (krQz2)
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Well, his daddy is in the bail bond business and is against black people having to make bail. Seems kind of retarded, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (Wg6v7)
well, he planted them on January fifth. They were discovered on the sixth.
I know Julie Kelly had a theory that the guy seen visiting the RNC and DNC on the night of Jan 5 wasn't actually the bomber, and the bombs were planted on Jan 6 to make the J6 riots seem worse, but that theory now seems disproven.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)
Now it'll be the "whitest day in history".
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (RgYBC)
I mean...no one actually believes 81M votes was honest. No one.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (sKqQm)
A random flyer posted on a college campus - “It’s OK to be White” will be denounced as “hate speech”. That’s pretty bizarre, and I’d like to see every democrat grilled on this during interviews.
“Is it in fact, Ok to be White? Yes or no. If no, please explain. Use additional time after the next commercial if necessary.”
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (2NfTM)
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (och2J)
Posted by: CTHillary
I remember Monty sharing a meme on one of his DOOM! posts that showed Obama as Urkel looking at a graph showing the economy tanking, with the caption "Did I do that?"
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black
'Cause Trapper is a douchenozzle, imbecile, retard and a liar.
Always go with the most obvious facts first.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)
Was the previous team tired, lazy...or paid off?
Apparently there is a lot of shakeup at the FBI resulting in wins and cases solves, and so the many of the FBI people against Patel/Bongino at first are getting on board now there is results coming in, and trust being built.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Eng1Z)
Let them lose their natural life and rot in jail while they knew the J6ers were not guilty; but they went on with their happy lives pulling fat paychecks.
Is that the FBI we're reading about. And they've still got a job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
"Sources" say I assume...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Wg6v7)
It took 4 years and one of the largest FBI investigations in history (supposedly) to find him.
Its hard to argue he was dumb if that's what it actually took to find him
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)
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But nothing grew from it.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (jc0TO)
So they're gonna admit he's guilty? A bold move cotton.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: Vengeance
Full of truth.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)
==
Trust Wray
Feb 18 2018
And
April 10 2018
(Larf)
Posted by: Q at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Products of our Hate Whitey and Hate Murica educators.
Abolish Colleges of Education and return to normal schools for K-6 (2 yr degree requirement) that actually focus on academics in those two years would be a vast improvement.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)
You could argue the FBI at that time was just dumber . But it's a better bet they knew who it was and just covered it up.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (W7XSX)
Police work is more like...
The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime
or
The suspect uploaded a video of him assaulting the victim to Tik Tok and bragged about how good it felt to abuse said victim while zooming in on his own face. Note the victim shared the Tik Tok video with us.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (6gKW0)
So a lone dingbat did this on his own, and they didn't want to expose the politically incorrect truth about him, but now they've got him, the end.
But it still looks like it was directed and coordinated by the federal government. It absolutely looks that way. The weird indifferent behavior of the cops at the scene, etc. All that just goes away now?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (VWtfl)
They have their narrative. They're stuck on the stupid. Even when it's being shown live and disproven right then and there.
There's earlier cases, but go back to that NASCAR race back in 2021. The FJB chant was going strong. It ended up being on live TV during an interview with a racer after the race. And there, on live TV, the reporter said instead it was "Let's Go Brandon!". When you could hear the chant yourself. Trying to remake history, 1984-style, in the middle of it actually happening.
Posted by: Another Anon at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (4h45B)
Posted by: Don Black
Because it's a script and the job of the "media" is to extract every bit of leftard value out of every story while burying anything else until they can move everyone to the next fake headline.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Vengeance
Full of truth.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)
He probably has to pay someone for it, though.
A whole lot more than the $20 in town.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (UnA8+)
The two bombs made more sense when the thinking was the bombs were intentionally fake and meant solely to try to make J6 look much more dangerous than it was.
But if the guy was leftwing tripe and a real bomber -- who was hoping to cause real destruction -- why would he target DNC? Antifa is fire-bombing ICE because they hate ICE. They're not fire-bombing DNC.
There's still much oddness to this story, IMO.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Barack Obama, Kenyan at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (R/m4+)
Who told her who the bomber was?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: fd
"Better looking than a white man, but just as crazy!"
-- Chief Dan George
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)
Police work is more like...
The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime
or
The suspect uploaded a video of him assaulting the victim to Tik Tok and bragged about how good it felt to abuse said victim while zooming in on his own face. Note the victim shared the Tik Tok video with us.
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or
A simple geo location of cell phones in the area at the time of the crime. Its not hard. CSI shows are full of shit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Wg6v7)
.
https://is.gd/a5sf31
https://is.gd/aGQx1a
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
And what sort of directions they received from management.
Not that anything will come of it....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (NwnyJ)
While I don't know any leftist street thugs, the leftists I do know post everything crazy leftwing thing they do and coordinate over social media and text/discord/etc with their friends about it.
I assume the same is true in most of these cases but you note you rarely hear any police org discussing reviewing the social media/online presence of leftwing thugs and then arrresting people for providing material support do you?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (sKqQm)
When the J6 pipe bomber turned out to NOT be a crazed, right-wing MAGA Trump supporter, Fake Tapper was hauled out to lie about it to continue the narrative.
That is not a "gaffe," which implies an honest mistake. This was intentional, flat-out LYING.
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (xNHSX)
To still be All Cranked Up about it, you must have the roughest, toughest, rootin-tootinest Sunday School men's group that meets on Wednesday nights. Could you try to be any pettier?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Ordinary American
While in her bikini.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
A functioning media would have already solved who planted the pipe bombs during the 4 years the FBI was sitting this one out.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: It's me donna
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The bomb story is a distraction from their failure to cut the heads off the snakes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (SZI4T)
Abolish Colleges of Education and return to normal schools for K-6 (2 yr degree requirement) that actually focus on academics in those two years would be a vast improvement.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (WDjG6)
If you want a Hate Whitey book, look no further than Dr. Rev. James Cone's A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone was a respected ( ! ) professor at Union Theological Seminary for years.
Posted by: Shaun King at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (REL1l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (7rldP)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (Dv3i1)
I want proof, and the kind which the FBI didn't have time to cook up. I mean, I sort of thought I saw pictures of the guy and the guy was white. Am I misremembering something?
How soon before they produce a "manifesto" this guy supposedly wrote that expresses his love for antifa and hates all things MAGA?
He used a permanent marker to write "im gay haha i love antifa and also fuck trump. Also I'm black ans Trans and also Biden is old."
So let me guess, this person will be convicted and painted as a radical ANTIFA person, and the 1100+ J6ers who were tried and imprisoned were all pardoned. It’s just so blatant
Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (RgYBC)
But if the guy was leftwing tripe and a real bomber -- who was hoping to cause real destruction -- why would he target DNC? Antifa is fire-bombing ICE because they hate ICE. They're not fire-bombing DNC.
There's still much oddness to this story, IMO.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
And who plants devices that don't work and then does nothing for five years? What has he been doing since then and who was he speaking to on his phone.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (jPh2t)
Police work is more like...
The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime
90% of police work is them accidentally stumbling on a crime and the perp confessing to other crimes and ratting out his friends in a plea deal.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Vengeance at December
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Is that a fondler of dishonest ass, or a dishonest attempt at ass-fondling?
Posted by: Timothy McVeigh at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gDhA9)
Or that's what the bomber wanted you to believe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ace
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We are swimming in a sea of Deep State Democrat and Uniparty ops which often makes distinguishing the individual trees in the forest difficult for even the best informed reporters.
That is part of the intention and reason of teh ops as well. Winston Churchill called deception plans for D-Day to be protected by a "Bodyguard of Lies"
That practice has been continued by our Deep State since WWII.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
Honestly I would have to turn on the View to watch the left's reaction to that.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
Retard
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)
Dat's retardit, suh.
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (xNHSX)
They didn't want to screw up their narrative since the January 6 bomber was a black democrat.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (SZI4T)
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Steve Friend, a FIB specialist in child-trafficking, first got into trouble by complaining about being reassigned to a J6 protester case. He said that the FIB wanted to crow about a > 1000 cases on J6 protestors. The FIB wanted every available agent working on J6 protestor cases, even the simplest ones, even dividing up cases that would normally take a single agent, according to Friend.
It's suspicious that it might actually be the case that they did not have the resources to investigate the "J6 bomber" because everybody in the FIB was tracking down grannies who stood on Capital grass or the steps, and ignoring Ray Epps with both fingers in their ears.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Aside from just being malicious suckers of cock at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ...
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Who went out hunting poor Trayvon becuz racist.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)
Schumer pines for the intellectual and physical powerhouses represented by Lloyd Austin and "Pricilla" Miley
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (E21pe)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (RgYBC)
Wait...you mean...no! I mean he killed that little 8 year old boy Trayvon who was playing in the parking lot of his mammy's house.
Posted by: Smooth Brained democrat voter at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (R/m4+)
That is not a "gaffe," which implies an honest mistake. This was intentional, flat-out LYING.
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Put Tapper and Wray in adjoining cells so that they may fuck each other through the bars.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (SZI4T)
======================
This idiot Reddit poster may have stumbled onto the truth without realizing it. Yes, my twirpy dude, prosecuting innocents was indeed a blatant act of tyranny.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (7UBWW)
Has anyone other than us Extremist MAGA Fascists said anything about this or are we the only ones left who watch CNN?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (3nLb4)
There's still much oddness to this story, IMO.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
And who plants devices that don't work and then does nothing for five years? What has he been doing since then and who was he speaking to on his phone.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (jPh2t)
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Yea. I'm still not sure how to square the current belief that the guy was an actual bomber with potentially working bombs with the older belief that the bombs were clearly toys. Didn't we see pics of the bombs and have descriptions of them? They did seem like toys. And certainly, nobody in law enforcement acted at the time like they were real bombs. But now, the guy is getting charged as if they were real. I don't know one way or the other.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)
How soon before they produce a "manifesto" this guy supposedly wrote that expresses his love for antifa and hates all things MAGA?
I'm reminded that the left still argues The Cock Curious Avenger is a MAGA guy even though he killed Charlie Kirk because....uh...he's white, he used a gun, and his father was a sheriff.
Ignore him having sexual relations with a squirrel boy and having gone off the deep left end of the pool once he went to college though...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)
35 000 employees
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (bHjkq)
I want proof, and the kind which the FBI didn't have time to cook up. I mean, I sort of thought I saw pictures of the guy and the guy was white. Am I misremembering something?
How soon before they produce a "manifesto" this guy supposedly wrote that expresses his love for antifa and hates all things MAGA?
He used a permanent marker to write "im gay haha i love antifa and also fuck trump. Also I'm black ans Trans and also Biden is old."
So let me guess, this person will be convicted and painted as a radical ANTIFA person, and the 1100+ J6ers who were tried and imprisoned were all pardoned. It’s just so blatant
Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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So they want to preemptively dismiss any state's evidence?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (36PRH)
The best part of the Trayvon circus that didn't get much press coverage was Trayvon supposedly telling his "friend" over the phone that he was going to assault Zimmerman because he thought the guy was gay...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (6U1c2)
You don't remember when he tried to recruit Mexico in WWI? Dude. Read a book.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)
What the name Zimmerman usually implies and the media let people run with it before showing a single photo, even though the story was months old when it went national.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RgYBC)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RWHIh)
Posted by: ...
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Your talking about the communists; right?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (SZI4T)
Pathological liar Jake Tapper needs to be subjected to having a shepherd's crook placed around his neck and then be unceremoniously and violently yanked off the air in real time. Followed by an announcement from CNN that his contract has been terminated for cause.
Enough of his lying bullshit!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (xG4kz)
It would greatly energize the left, "see the lengths our team goes to in order to win!" It would greatly drive their turn out. On our side it would even further neuter the Republican party. The Rs only react to fear. Many would just quit. Any resulting court cases would be drug out until the left seizes control again and it would all be put down.
The left means to win.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (RgYBC)
Even the ones who hate the DNC still "Vote Blue No Matter Who", so does it really matter in the end?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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How dumb is this guy?
"Dictator Donny delayed it" for WHAT?! TWO WEEKS he had LEFT?!
And then WHAT was done for FOUR YEARS??!!
But "Dictator Donny" gets another chance to dely it for 11 months!!
So, Delay
Biden: 4 WHOLE YEARS, 48 Months
Trump: ~11 Months (Two weeks + .5, but -.6 for only getting the keys Jan 20)
It's obvious the culprit of delay is the 11 months, not the 48 months!!!
You just have to ignore simple math!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
His performance of "If I Were a Rich Man" at his trial really wowed the jury.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)
Love Devine, but she was definitely played for a patsy on this one. What are the chances that these insiders didn't know that something was coming this week re: J5?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (abIsI)
We have narrative media.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: Ray Epps at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Another Anon
Kelli Stavast was the NBC Sports 'reporter'.
Name her and shame her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)
This is an understatement.
The left means to kill.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
I believe he or the fat girl called him a "Creepy Ass Cracka".
Which is ghetto lingo for a violent homosexual looking to bust cheeks.
Posted by: Joe Ghetto at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (R/m4+)
I like the local news clips where they show an police artist rendering of a perp and it looks like the talking head.
Never not funny.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Another Anon
Kelli Stavast was the NBC Sports 'reporter'.
Name her and shame her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
And it ruined Brandon Brown's career.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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That's what grandpa always said.
Anno Domini
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (SZI4T)
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One of my clients, a meth addict who specialized in burglarizing storage lockers, left the bolt cutter he had just bought to cut the locks off at the scene of the crime with his fingerprints all over it. And the proceeds of his theft were less than the cost of the bolt cutter.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
Identity politics really are a pox. SNL actually does an ongoing skit called "News Team" where the black and white anchor compete to see if a suspect is white or black based on their name. It's actually one of the more funny offerings they do, and reflects the reality in actual news shows like Tapper's.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 12:59 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Wg6v7)
All Clock Boy did was re-box the guts of a cheap Radio Shack digital clock. I doubt he would have been able to find a usable contact closure on the board if you put a gun to his head.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:59 PM (npFr7)
Anno Domini
Posted by: Braenyard
Did he put it before or after the year?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)
- Jake Tapper
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: 18-1
I don't know about Squirrel Boy, but Squirrel Girl is a joke Marvel character lesbians and ugly women supposedly like, because she's ugly, brutish and annoying, just like them.
https://shorturl.at/4OShc
There is plenty of fan art, cosplay, and even the Marvel Rivals computer game where they try and make her attractive, but the core, OG character is a deliberate uggo.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (JCZqz)
...fake bombs, wearing unique Nikes and a totally camo white sweat suit, unmistakably in view of cameras, for which he bought parts in 2019, entirely on his own, and then went home and resumed his life. Which evidence the FBI had for four years, and our side had for eleven months.
We know it's false, because the news reported on it.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
Never not funny.
I've seen several of those recently. I'm starting to suspect they're AI.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZKRzZPWTTc
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vfqtpLLhNLY?feature=share
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
But others were more understanding.
"Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked.
"Clearly he never looked at the graphics. Probably just read a script," another suggested.
Fuck that damned nonsense. I grew up with a white guy friend named Leon. Does that mean since Leon is/was a predominently common name among the black community that my friend should be assumed as such. Fucking asshole lefty racist shitheads.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (QVmho)
- Candace Tapper
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (n5tGW)
I've read several reputable sources saying the picture was shown later on CNN. So, the pic up top is seemingly not an actual screen grab.
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Kurtz at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (Fez1U)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VDxLY)
Posted by: Don Black
Sorry, you flunked. You are hereby declared ineligible to comment at AoSHQ.
Don't forget to pay the test fee at the receptionist's desk on your way out, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 18-1
I don't know about Squirrel Boy, but Squirrel Girl is a joke Marvel character lesbians and ugly women supposedly like, because she's ugly, brutish and annoying, just like them.
https://shorturl.at/4OShc
There is plenty of fan art, cosplay, and even the Marvel Rivals computer game where they try and make her attractive, but the core, OG character is a deliberate uggo.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (JCZqz)
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The Marvel Rivals game version of Squirrel Girl was made to look attractive, which is what most of the cosplay is based on.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)
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They wrote books about how the Republican party would never win another major national election and they would slide into the ash heap of history.
Never once worrying about whether America would become 1 party and whether or not 1 party would have a vast majority of Supreme Court justices.
This is how you see them as the partisans they are.
Myself, I don't want to be left alone in the room with Republicans, because besides some rhetoric I share with them, I don't think they are that much better human beings--especially the politician.
I believe the Democrat party is the result of FDRs near dictatorship and subsequent 40 year dominance of Congress. Where they became DC.
Republicans wouldn't resist the effect of that much dominance either. It's dynamic, it's not static.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (krQz2)
I think there was a drive to get her played by Milana Vayntrub who is pretty on the outside (and pure evil on the inside...)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
unexpectedly.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (7UBWW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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About a third to 40 percent or so are also mentally ill in many urban areas plus probably over 50 percent have substance abuse problems nowadays.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (WDjG6)
But others were more understanding.
"Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked.
"Clearly he never looked at the graphics. Probably just read a script," another suggested.
Fuck that damned nonsense. I grew up with a white guy friend named Leon. Does that mean since Leon is/was a predominently common name among the black community that my friend should be assumed as such. Fucking asshole lefty racist shitheads.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (QVmho)
The 'fact' that Tapper was reading off a script makes it even more damning. The producers knew that the guy was black and deliberately tried to malinform the public.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
That "potentially" is doing a lot of lifting. The ATF has been known to take obviously inoperable firearms and replace/repair parts to make it minimally "functional" in order to prosecute someone for prohibited possession. In this case, I'd bet my milk money that "potentially" means that it was a pipe with some kind of explosive material inside of it. The "timer" is a one-hour kitchen timer on a device left 24 hours earlier. No sign of any kind of ignition device that I've seen. So yeah, "potentially" a bomb like a bottle of Karo syrup is "potentially" a pecan pie.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
One of the attorneys I used to work for told me that she once got a client off by telling the judge, "Your Honor, my client is an idiot." The judge accepted that explanation and let the guy walk.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (nAS9C)
Posted by: Joe Ghetto
What if I want my cheeks busted, violently? It's consensual!!!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VDxLY)
Because it doesn't fit their narrative... That's why the headline out there right now says Cole told the FBI he thought the 2020 election was stolen...MAGA !
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (VE6XX)
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or
A simple geo location of cell phones in the area at the time of the crime. Its not hard. CSI shows are full of shit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Wg6
You don't watch the First 48 do you?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (KDPiq)
@LeadingReport 41s
BREAKING: Epstein transcripts from Florida grand jury case to be released.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Wg6v7)
also, five hours of correlating databases and checking CCTV recordings doesn't sell pills
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (rbvCR)
I'd take it a step farther.
The left has achieved just about everything they said they wanted 30 years ago but...there is no stopping or even slowing down in the move to the left.
But...that's because they don't actually believe in anything except power. And the best way to get and keep power is permanent revolution
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
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So is the WH press briefing room.
Posted by: Ben Rhodes and Karoline Leavitt, in a singular moment of agreement at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (ETIdo)
I think there was a drive to get her played by Milana Vayntrub who is pretty on the outside (and pure evil on the inside...)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
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Her sperm donor/boyfriend lives a cuck existence (neither seen nor heard) in her media presence.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (36PRH)
They’ll be “exposed”. Wonderful. Will it mean anything except higher standing among their peers for having done the tough job of protecting the United States from proving the right right?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (VDxLY)
One of his screen names was something brony. If the investigator on X is on target, kid's a mo, and potentially a furry.
Posted by: Q at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (h+S+G)
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (ZxPkt)
The left has achieved just about everything they said they wanted 30 years ago but...there is no stopping or even slowing down in the move to the left.
But...that's because they don't actually believe in anything except power. And the best way to get and keep power is permanent revolution
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
Without Permanent Revolution, you can't keep recruiting Activists.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)
Did he call them mostly-peaceful bombs and say he was "motivated by lack of green hot sauce at Taco Bell and hatred, but mostly hatred." too?
Posted by: Veeshir at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (WjSgq)
@_johnnymaga
After being snubbed by the Nobel Committee for the last decade, Trump just received the FIFA Peace Prize in front of an audience of a billion people.
Checkmate.
https://tinyurl.com/4pju5jk8
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (NpAcC)
Cop I know arrested 2 guys who robbed a bodega, for $>50, with a sawed off shotgun.
They stole the shotgun from a house they robbed earlier in the week.
It was a Purdey Shotgun.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (UnA8+)
Somebody has been paying attention!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (Zv8bq)
I believe the Democrat party is the result of FDRs near dictatorship and subsequent 40 year dominance of Congress. Where they became DC.
Republicans wouldn't resist the effect of that much dominance either. It's dynamic, it's not static.
Posted by: Axeman
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GOPe is King Log. They use their powers for generating wealth for them and their families.
Democrats are King Stork and will gobble up every bit of freedom, wealth, and everything they can steal from the rest of us. It is a criminal conspiracy masking as a political party. Same as the communist party as the eternal dictatorship of the proletariat (while allowing no real proletarians anywhere around power which is reserved for the nomenklatura) or Islam where you get the traditional despot marriage to state religion for control and plunder society.
You can vote out King Log aka GOPe; not so much for any of the other three because they see control as their destiny over their lessers.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
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The pro-Martin crowd constantly ignored a lot during its media lifetime.
I can't recall how many times I had to correct pro-Travon people on the 9-11 timeline. We should BOTH be able to see it written down.
I tell you, people who want to just peek their head over the transom just to get outraged is a strange development.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (krQz2)
We do have norovirus in the area and struck my family last night, so I could have gainzz soonish. However I am mostly immune to this stuff since 1976 when I infected my brothers. Nothing our sons brought home touched me. A simple cold, oh, yes, the germs of my choice that I will catch every time.
Poor Jake, hoping for the Great White Hope of terrorism that failed again. I find this hilariously pitiful.
Helen Keller could figure this out with the MSM.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (WONhk)
Cop I know arrested 2 guys who robbed a bodega, for $>50, with a sawed off shotgun.
They stole the shotgun from a house they robbed earlier in the week.
It was a Purdey Shotgun.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (DeNdk)
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Dayum.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (36PRH)
Maybe we can get blowhard GOPer with a nice haircut to excoriate them in a house speech. That always produces results right?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal
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Long suffering voter choosing the lesser of evils.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (WDjG6)
I'm sure they're trembling in their shoes.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (WHfpM)
You'll never find even the most obvious criminals if you don't look.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (pDt9x)
*******
A smart patriot.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
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So is the WH press briefing room.
Posted by: Ben Rhodes and Karoline Leavitt, in a singular moment of agreement at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (ETIdo)
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Mere coincidence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (0cOaq)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (Zv8bq)
I may be a Genetic Criminal, but I've got an IQ over 85.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)
That puts you well ahead of Jake Tapper.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bishop Pickering at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (VDxLY)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:12 PM (DeNdk)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Dan Blather at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (PsX7R)
Of course these same people won't just carry their phones...they'll take video of whatever crime they are committing and upload it to social media/sent it to their friends as well...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (Zv8bq)
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Hey CBD, thanks for the help last night (and ditto for Doof)!
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (VDxLY)
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The really stupid criminals video their crimes and send them to their friends.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (EyfuW)
Who predicted the J5 bomber was a white MAGA guy? Who predicted it was an angry black lefty?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)
The best part of the Trayvon circus that didn't get much press coverage was Trayvon supposedly telling his "friend" over the phone that he was going to assault Zimmerman because he thought the guy was gay...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
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Best part was the testimony of the fat retarded "girlfriend."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (VDxLY)
Some people think all criminals have to be masterminds, or at least attempt to be masterminds.
No. Most are retards.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (w6EFb)
Of course these same people won't just carry their phones...they'll take video of whatever crime they are committing and upload it to social media/sent it to their friends as well...
Exactly. He was just that stupid.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (VDxLY)
The anti-white shit coming from the left, even from white leftists, is beyond tiresome.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
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So is the WH press briefing room.
Posted by: Ben Rhodes and Karoline Leavitt, in a singular moment of agreement at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (ETIdo)
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Mere coincidence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (0cOaq)
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The best part about Karoline Leavitt is when she walks into talk to the Press Corps, everyone there knows she is the smartest person in the room.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (VDxLY)
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I wonder if he was insulted when the "gait analysis expert" said he walked like a girl?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (VDxLY)
_____
Well, Urkel was played by Jaleel White
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Diogenes
The hottest, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (pDt9x)
·
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PEACE PRESIDENT. 🕊️
@FIFAWorldCup
President Gianni Infantino awards President Donald J. Trump the inaugural 2025 FIFA Peace Prize, dedicated to an individual who achieved exceptional and extraordinary action to promote peace and unity around the world. 🇺🇸
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Pictures surfaced of the bomb last night. Galvanized pipe, caps, wiring with gator clips, and batteries. The kitchen timer had a paper clip around the handle which was designed to make contact with the gator clip. From the actual FBI picture of the bomb, you see a wire going under the clock apparatus and a lump under the clock timer. That could have been a battery or not.
Link with pictures goes to the FBI dot gov wanted person page for the DC almost bomber
https://tinyurl.com/54anjaup You can see a picture of the time with the paper clip attached, the bomb in situ, and pix of the whole bomb.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)
Ignition device is probably the steel wool.
Not optimal, but it is easier to source than the Estees igniters.
Iffy though.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:18 PM (rbvCR)
Did they? Possibly more than this lets on.
Remember, these are the fedsurrectionists. These are the same stand-up straight shooters who ran the muh Russia operation. These are the same Patriots who ran the Whitmer fednapping.
Highly likely that he was put up to it by the FBI.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (dK+Kv)
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It's B'Rian.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)
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"Fuck you!"
-- Brian McKnight
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (iFTx/)
They stole the shotgun from a house they robbed earlier in the week.
It was a Purdey Shotgun.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (DeNdk)
If the lawful owner got the shotgun back, could he have it re-barreled?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: tubal
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Pretty much concluded that impulse/short term thinking is actually genetically passed on. Low iq makes it worse as does substance abuse which affect how the brain works.
Aging and beginnings of dementia can do it as well.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (WDjG6)
Link with pictures goes to the FBI dot gov wanted person page for the DC almost bomber
https://tinyurl.com/54anjaup You can see a picture of the time with the paper clip attached, the bomb in situ, and pix of the whole bomb.
What was the explosive?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)
It could happen.
*stares longingly at Karo syrup bottle*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (dK+Kv)
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I have pissed off many cops by saying to their face; "You only catch the stupid ones."
Posted by: clarence at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (hqrXU)
Posted by: bearski at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (Bhsk7)
During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter previously told CNN.
The FBI arrested Cole, 30, at home, where he lives with his parents, on Thursday.
Cole spent hours with FBI investigators and made multiple statements, the sources said. Dan Bongino, deputy FBI director, told Fox News on Thursday that the FBI had interviewed the suspect at length, but didn’t elaborate.
The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment for this story./i]
https://tinyurl.com/44zrerbp
So he planned for months to buy components of his pipe bombs because he wanted to blow up the DNC and RNC after the election was stolen from Trump in the future?
Uh huh. Right.
Something's not adding up there, CNN.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)
B'Rizzigizzi'an
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (6ydKt)
Why doesn't the NFL or the WWE do likewise?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (jc0TO)
They had a war or two result from soccer games. Makes them touchy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boomer at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (+abK1)
Not optimal, but it is easier to source than the Estees igniters.
I will defer judgement to those with more information.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (3nLb4)
No. Most are retards.
Posted by: XTC
Same assumption is often made about Deep State operatives and media types. Again, most are about as deep as a mud puddle often because they disdain doing the dirty work themselves relying on staff to cover their pampered asses.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)
Ignition device is probably the steel wool.
Not optimal, but it is easier to source than the Estees igniters.
Iffy though.
I was thinking the same. What was it packed with? Black powder? Who knows? Tell us what was your best worst experience with Estes rockets?
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (VDxLY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (pkeXY)
Potentially.
But it would never be worth what it was with the original barrel.
Cop buddy, who I used to hunt upland with, said he never wanted to beat two perps more than those guys.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (DeNdk)
Even bigger than Comey trying to 8647 ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (/lPRQ)
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Got the timer from Bed, Bomb, and Beyond.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)
https://tinyurl.com/2c73np34
WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Brian Cole Jr., 30, is cooperating with the FBI, NBC News has reported, citing a separate person familiar with the matter. Cole is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday. He was charged Thursday with leaving pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee in the hours before Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Trump has falsely claimed the 2020 election was "rigged."
Trump said something again,... 'without evidence'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Archimedes
IIRC, black powder. Dunno if home made, bought or smokeless (which would not have worked as an explosive) etc. and I would suspect that the Feebs are being vague to some extent to prevent copy cats from having a blueprint.
Plans for that crap have been floating around the internet for forever and before that in samizdat books like the Anarchist Cookbook or even old military field manuals about improvised explosives.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)
Means and Methods!
National Secrets !!!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Heh. Target was out of stock.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (WDjG6)
lol. I think they traced the timers to Wally World.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (VDxLY)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 02:03 PM (kxFzr)
, then came the Slaughter of the Innocents in Bethlehem ordered by Herod the Great, who then died in 4 BC (or BCE). Joseph was warned in a dream by God and so had hightailed it to Egypt with Mary and Jesus before the massacre of all the male babies and toddlers in Bethlehem. Thank God!Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (X5qGl)
THE MORNING RANT: I’m Missing Classic Christmas Hymns at Church Christmas Concerts
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Of course I may have swung Methodist, but I still love some of the old ways...
https://youtu.be/Qrct9jiWPVE?si=U84W9E98VwM5EgVM
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (OUMaO)
I could hazard a guess.
Posted by: Rick C at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (1zWbY)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (yghV0)
Kent State a cappella group bans white students from solo auditions
Link goes to Campus Reform:
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ane44
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (van9r)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)
Yet.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)
"Jauchzet, frohlocket" from the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach
https://youtu.be/MVewzMm1uts
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
I say the best Christmas hymn / sing is O Holy Night. It's the "How Great Thou Art" of Christmas songs
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (3CwIS)
Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (RWHIh)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (van9r)
Of course, I still love me some old standards done by Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, etc.
Oh, and MoTab doing the Hallelujah Chorus and the Boston Pops doing their thing with 'Sleigh Ride'.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (Pw4Cm)
We don't only do the old carols and hymns, but they aren't forgotten.
I'd love a service with just the old carols, though.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (zjgNU)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Jingle Ballz at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (oftw2)
Yet.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)
Go to the store where I work and you will hear 100,000 covers of that song. Worse, they only use the chorus, 50 times per song.
I’m sorry your Boxing Day sucked but that doesn’t give you the right to torture the rest of us!
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (XFXIk)
There's an infinite supply of music of any possible style, type, genre, tempo, artist or flavor on demand anytime pretty much anywhere you can get to Al Gore's Amazing Internet available via a multitude of platforms for a mere pittance.
You're welcome.
Posted by: The Patriarchy at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (XQo4F)
Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Strike a match and watch it gleam
Watch the schoolhouse burn to ashes
Aren’t you glad to play with matches?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (6KcYW)
Netflix won the streaming wars. From Breitbart:
“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO."
Got to beat the antitrust laws first. But I thought Paramount had it in the bag. (Paramount did too, they are TICKED.)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Eng1Z)
There's an infinite supply of music of any possible style, type, genre, tempo, artist or flavor on demand anytime pretty much anywhere you can get to Al Gore's Amazing Internet available via a multitude of platforms for a mere pittance.
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"Not if we can stop it." - EU bureaucrats and regulators
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (tgvbd)
Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?
Although I guess that might qualify as lefty pop music.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (van9r)
“I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas-“
“THEN DO IT AND SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!!!”
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (6KcYW)
Took me a while to figure out that Bruce Springsteen has TWO Christmas songs.
I lived through multiple Christmas toy sold out Armageddons. Furby, Tickle Me Elmo, PS2, Pokemon Game Boy games ....ooof.
Posted by: GigantorX at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (Wkueo)
You will get a sentimental feelin'
When you hear
Voices singin', "Let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly"
Rockin' around the Christmas tree, have a happy holiday
Everyone dancin' merrily in the new old-fashioned way 🎶
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (yhwo5)
Seriously, his crimes against music post-Beatles are too many to list.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (yghV0)
Posted by: Lou Monte Trust, Inc. at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (oftw2)
https://is.gd/u2D0SA
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (RgYBC)
Or see that damn Corona ad with the palm trees lit up with lights.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
IMAX CEO excited for Netflix's Narnia film because it has "contemporary" music like Pink Floyd and The Doors 😭
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (XFXIk)
Posted by: Archimedes
Depends on what kind of lot. Some overgrown vacant lot in inner-city Detroit? Hard pass.
But a sandlot where Swedish babes are playing bikini volleyball? Yes, please!
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Christmas concerts should include the largest possible number of singers and instruments and should exclusively be O Fortuna in its full length...
Posted by: Elderly Git at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (mNUMm)
Netflix won the streaming wars. From Breitbart:
“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO."
Got to beat the antitrust laws first. But I thought Paramount had it in the bag. (Paramount did too, they are TICKED.)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Eng1Z)
There was no way they were going to let the perceived "Trump Ally" company get it instead of the one opposed to him.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (UnA8+)
“He knows when you’ve been ungood or good so be doubleplusgood for goodness’ sake”
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (6KcYW)
I also remember some of the high school girls made me feel very funny.
Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (PTDkx)
Posted by: GigantorX
Working retail during Christmas season turned me toxic on secular "Christmas" music for life. Now it's traditional or GTFO.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
What about an UPRIGHT bass player?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: t-bird
Right after "Christmas Shoes."
Posted by: Make it stop! at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (tgvbd)
Are torchlights and swastikas included?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (yhwo5)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (KDPiq)
I can't STAND the whiny Christmas songs.
Yeah, great, make the greatest gift the world has ever received be all about your love life.
Who wants to hear these songs? (One disclaimer, Blue Christmas is acceptable, but mainly because I think it's funny.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Who sings that? I don’t recognize the title.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (KDPiq)
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[From the Somali Pirate hip-hop artist "K'Naan":]
"Christmas Rapping"
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (My0zW)
Go to a small middle-of-the-country town church and you'll get the simple Christmas celebration you're missing.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)
If you are learning Hallelujah Chorus, MoTab has BRILLIANT sing along practice vids that break out every part. Made them during the pandemic for a worldwide Hallelujah streaming concert they were doing. I would sing along to my part in the car when I was running my errands as practice.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: doug at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (Hy+R4)
“Silent Night” is depressing. Hate it. And I sang it in school in English. AND the original German.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
What about an UPRIGHT bass player?
Posted by: Bulg
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Only if he twirls it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (0U5gm)
"The Little Drummer Boy" has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (yhwo5)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
LOL, the beginning whistles in that ad make my dog cock her head in the most adorable manner!
Give me Handel's Messiah. I love all of the old hymns (Hark the Herald Angels Sing brought me back to Christ after a long departure), but the Messiah really encapsulates the season for me.
I'd swear God was dictating to Handel when he wrote the Messiah.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (k9OZB)
Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (8uzBS)
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Posted by: Archimedes
Christmas lights on palm trees.
https://is.gd/Gsa1BO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (yhwo5)
Netflix is politically neutral, and is interested only in quality entertain...entertain...bwahahahahaha, I can't do it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
‘ Kent State a cappella group bans white students from solo auditions’
Fuckers. That should be an automatic civil rights case.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (KDPiq)
Small school, small choir... and there were some familiar Christmas songs in there that the audience was invited to sing along with.
Which I did. Felt really good.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (6qf1m)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Old Fossil at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Wow. That's a take.
How do you feel about Kate Upton?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Who sings that? I don’t recognize the title.
Mariah Carey, who, for some reason, still thinks she's a big star and relevant.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)
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Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (PSFnA)
Oh, and all true Dream Theater fans will awaken early on Christmas and play the Awake CD starting at exactly 05:59:15.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Paisley at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (7l8Bj)
360 Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . .Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)
Interestingly, he also kept buying materials to make bombs AFTER the attempted bombing for a few weeks and then stopped. So, he obviously was pissed it wasn't getting noticed and wanted to try again...and then someone figured him out (dad? mom? feds?) and told him to stop...at least, how else do you describe someone committed to more who just...stops...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (tOcjL)
So, someone made him Silent the Night...okay, it's under 100, so I had to connect...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (tOcjL)
I minimize any shopping during the Christmas season because of that auditory butt-rape. Such garbage.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (PSEDc)
I may have told this story before. About a hundred years or so ago, I was at a show headlined by Merle Haggard. After waiting through about 2 hours of "up and coming" acts, Merle took the stage. After a few songs, he played the opening bars of one of his many hits. As soon as the audience recognized the song and applauded, he stopped abruptly and smirked. After 30 seconds or so of awkward silence, he would start another recognizable hit. Again, the audience applauded and he stopped. After the third or fourth time, I realized that he was basically mocking the audience for being fans. I still like a lot of his music but since that moment, I've considered him a sh*tbird personally.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (3nLb4)
Apple News ping: CDC has decided to end the recommendation that babies get Hep B shots within 24 hours of birth.
Normies: wait, babies were getting HEP B SHOTS?
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: David Seville at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had
Is that the one with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic? Because that is truly awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (6KcYW)
Netflix is politically neutral, and is interested only in quality entertain...entertain...bwahahahahaha, I can't do it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
As I said in the morning thread, I want to see Netflix combine the WWE and CNN.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (sDNVV)
Attending a Robert Earl Keen Christmas show where he ends it with 'Merry Christmas from the Fam-o-lee and then rips into Feliz Navidad to finish while the entire audience is on their feet singing and dancing along, man, that's the good stuff right there.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (yghV0)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the way I see it
Same here. I regularly dress up to go to the ballet to attend the Nutcracker, and sit there with my eyes closed. I'm just there for the music.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:18 AM (tOcjL)
‘ To be honest there is not a Christmas song I ‘hate’. Maybe the lefty pop ones but just the words not the music.’
“So this Christmas and what have you done?”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
"America will not survive if its rituals do not survive"
foxnews.com/opinion/passover-
rituals-vital-dennis-prager
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:18 AM (My0zW)
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Yes, well, Latin is a dead language. No one speaks it anymore.No one knows how the words were pronounced. Or sung.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 11:19 AM (PSFnA)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (XFXIk)
Dunno which one that was, but the 2009 Kings College Cambridge version is my personal favorite. Ignore the lousy resolution and extra length added on to apparently defeat some copyright stuff (the piece ends at about 5:07):
https://youtu.be/3btsUcd1Xks?list=RD3btsUcd1Xks
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 11:19 AM (/HDaX)
Wonderful Christmastime is even worse. And that one to make us feel guilty about starving Ethiopians or wherever Do They Know It's Christmas?
Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2025 11:19 AM (PTDkx)
I'm looking at Keith and Kristyn Getty tour schedule and not the group performing a couple Christmas concerts in the Islamic Caliphate of the UK (Useless Kingdom).
I pray that there won't be any beheadings as a finalé.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:20 AM (pawvM)
1. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen";
2. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!";
3. "O Come, All Ye Faithful";
4. "Silent Night."
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (XFXIk)
I'm partial to Josh Groban and Clay Aiken's takes...a male with huge range and power is my preference always for that song...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:21 AM (tOcjL)
Another family favorite was the Cheiftans Bells of Ireland. Can’t listen without thinking of my beloved Mom always have to give it a go once a season.
Posted by: Paisley at December 05, 2025 11:21 AM (7l8Bj)
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He's a corrupt twinkle toes commie rat bastard retard.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
It's CHRISTMAS! I've heard enough of the show tunes you mention to know that they have no where near the musicality of the classic carols.
And don't get me started on that drivel "Mary, Did you Know".
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (+OGAU)
Wonderful Christmastime is even worse. And that one to make us feel guilty about starving Ethiopians or wherever Do They Know It's Christmas?
Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2025 11:19 AM (PTDkx)
I love Do They Know It's Christmas b/c every year, it reminds me how utterly out of touch celebrities and the rich have been and always will be. I find the song wildly funny...and catchy (so they do know how to do that)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: JM i
Not even priests officiating at a Traditional Latin Mass?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
I think we've got about 100 songs that I ripped with Winamp from compressed files on some Internet bootleg site decades ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 11:23 AM (NwnyJ)
“Silent Night” is depressing. Hate it. And I sang it in school in English. AND the original German.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (6KcYW)
*Pelts with rotten tomatoes*
That is one of my favorites! Can sing it in German and English. But I think the story behind the song adds to my love of it.
There was a movie made about the making of Silent Night. Apparently it's available for free!
https://tinyurl.com/SilentNightMovie
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:23 AM (Eng1Z)
So, the Tabernacle Choir will be singing The First Noel (with the descant) during our broadcast this Sunday morning. You can watch us live at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CGvakW-ZZc
(Maybe I'll get some camera time this week.)
Posted by: Half Dozen at December 05, 2025 11:23 AM (EYvpB)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
Nope don’t hate it. Even the lyrics seem okay to me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:24 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Christmas Shoes at December 05, 2025 11:25 AM (DNP8c)
At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time
But say a prayer, Pray for the other ones
At Christmas time it's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing
Is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring
There are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
I mean, how can you not love that they literally sang a song about thanking God that someone else had a crappy life instead of them? And all the words sh&tting on Africa after...it's hilarious how awful those celebs are...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:25 AM (tOcjL)
Wasn't the villain in Die Hard named Gruber?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (+OGAU)
Okay you found one I really dislike.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (KDPiq)
Sheesh.
Never went back.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
I much prefer Bob River's versions.
The benchmark standard for parody lyrics though is Mad Magazine's #188 (January 1977) "Carols for the 1976 Holiday Season": including "Sam and Roz are Coming To Town", "It Hangs Down From the Chandelier" and my favorite "We Three Clods From Omaha Are" (this one should be a Moron favorite)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (pawvM)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (Pw4Cm)
Oh, and we'll be doing For Unto Us a Child Is Born during this Sunday's broadcast also.
Posted by: Half Dozen at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (EYvpB)
I discovered all this by accident, this is some people’s hobby or something. They’d say “Happy Holidays” and I’d reply “Merry Christmas!” and then start steaming. Maybe it’s a kind of Rorschach test, I dunno.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (p9bn0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
Should settle once and for all, Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 11:27 AM (go8bP)
Posted by: Ramones 4 Ever! at December 05, 2025 11:27 AM (oftw2)
Of course, all right-thinking people know that it's the Alistair Sim version, but it's still fun to argue about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Nova Local"
I'm surprised out of touch celebrities have not somehow merged Do They Know Its Christmas and Wonderful Christmastime to make people feel guilty and envious at the same time.
Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2025 11:27 AM (PTDkx)
In 2023, I attended a lovely Christmas hymn service in GA and, for the 1st time heard the singing of this 3rd verse in Oh, Holy Night:
"Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother;
And in His name all oppression shall cease."
An abolitionist's interpretation of a song by a French village's commissionaire of wines.
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The following contains an explanation more succinct than I could provide:
Military dot com: The Little-Known War Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs, Published December 04, 2024
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 05, 2025 11:28 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
Should settle once and for all, Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 11:27 AM (go8bP)
Well, since this week, I was told by homeschooling Catholic moms that Godfather Part 1 and 2 are Thanksgiving movies since they are all about family (I did ask if Fast and Furious would also apply, and they said yes, and they were gonna try to get their family watching that next year), I can accept Die Hard as a family movie - they also told me it was...although I think making spouse and granddad happy was high on the list for them...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:28 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:28 AM (PFs9e)
Christmas season
I don't recommend it
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (QRv6r)
I still like a lot of his music but since that moment, I've considered him a sh*tbird personally.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (3nLb4)
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Interesting story.
I remember as a kid growing up in the 60s & 70s liking a lot of Bob Dylan's stuff -- especially his poetic ballads -- despite his awful nasal singing voice (unlike some of you, I'm a 95% lyrics guy and a 5% music guy).
Anywho, there was some concert of his I was looking forward to seeing on TV (I think in the late 80s or early 90s), and had to turn it off after a couple of minutes because he was just mumbling through the unrecognizable words.
At first I thought he was drunk, but then deduced that he was -- similar to what you described above about Merle -- mocking his audience for daring to want to listen and sing along with his famous hits. I was disappoint.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (My0zW)
Minnesota's Lt. Governor: Somali Fraud Is Part of the “Fabric” of Her State
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m)
Much of it is miserable to listen to. Ok... all of it is miserable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (NwnyJ)
A Christmas event should be traditional. It is celebrating an event from over 2,000 years ago, and has been celebrated for something like 1,600 of those years. If your goal is to make it shiny and new, then you're not really celebrating what happened 2,000+ years ago - you're celebrating yourself. If you want to introduce something new (or old but forgotten), then ensure it points to the Reason For the Season and not to itself.
BTW, I also think some of the "best-loved" songs are trite and not deserving of the time often given them in concerts. But I'm a curmudgeon in that.
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (ocFtC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:30 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 11:30 AM (9fJpT)
I discovered all this by accident, this is some people’s hobby or something. They’d say “Happy Holidays” and I’d reply “Merry Christmas!” and then start steaming. Maybe it’s a kind of Rorschach test, I dunno.
Don't even get me started on BCE.
(j/k Bulg)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
I know, I know, i'm not saying i'm awesome for sucking. I know it's a personal failing. I suppose it's because i've never much liked Christmas as a holiday because of seeing what it does to people, turning an opportunity for joy and being together and maybe thinking about religion if that's your thing... turning that into a giant pain in the ass cage match of bitching and pissing and arguing about who got what present and who's going to whom's place for dinner and why isn't so-and-so coming I guess they just have better things to do well screw those assholes right and they didn't have the right thing at the store for that one dessert we make so Christmas Is Ruined Forever... and... bleh.
So the more authentic the music for The Season is, the more it rubs me the wrong way. Maybe that's it. I don't know.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 11:31 AM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:31 AM (QRv6r)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 11:31 AM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:32 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:32 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 11:32 AM (jbnUc)
I suppose it's because i've never much liked Christmas as a holiday because of seeing what it does to people, turning an opportunity for joy and being together and maybe thinking about religion if that's your thing... turning that into a giant pain in the ass cage match of bitching and pissing and arguing about who got what present and who's going to whom's place for dinner and why isn't so-and-so coming
__________
I like Christmas
I hate the holiday season
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:32 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (PSEDc)
I loathe her and all her works. She thinks every song needs to have some hysterical scales thrown in the middle.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JM i
Not even priests officiating at a Traditional Latin Mass?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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Nopr. My favorite teacher told this story on himself. When he was a student in latin class, everyone had to recite passages. Some students read so badly that other students laughed. A teacher cautioned the students,"No laughing, no one knows how it really sounded." When my teacher read, even the teacher laughed.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (tsJhI)
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (+OGAU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1f81j6iuk
Posted by: one hour sober at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (Y1sOo)
I'm prepared to make the case
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:31 AM (QRv6r)
I know when The Godfather was supposedly born.
December 7th.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: David Seville at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)
Shouldn't they at least be in their 80s, if not 90s?
Listening to Alvin sing must be worse than Rod Stewart.
And I bet they don't have any of the original Chipmunks backing him anymore.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 11:34 AM (iU+ep)
Posted by: JackStraw
He put on an extra special performance because they told him he was at Carnegie Hall.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:34 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
I blame Whitney Houston.
At least Mariah Carey can actually.. do it. As awful and grating as the it in question may be.
Man, i'm just Grouchy Smurf in a Rudolph the Red Nosed Bastard costume today, aren't I?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 11:34 AM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
All of it, including the religious classics, have been beaten into the ground over my entire lifetime because every artist with a record deal has to crap out a Christmas album, and who can even be bothered to care which idiot is singing one of these same 30 or so songs this time?
Miss me with that shit, unless it's a really good instrumental version of a classic, which I will abide.
Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (5aZAZ)
I'm sorry. That does make if difficult. I've never had an argument over presents or anything else because my family is in England or they're no longer alive and my husband's brother whom he is closest to always works on Christmas.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (PFs9e)
If "C" represents "Common", common to whom? Because we are in the middle of 1447 Anno Hegirae and Islam is getting quite common.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (nAS9C)
I'm prepared to make the case
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:31 AM (QRv6r)
I know when The Godfather was supposedly born.
December 7th.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:33 AM (KDPiq)
Nope, apparently Thanksgiving, b/c if you're all about family, apparently that is enough for that holiday with the lack of good on point movies...
Spouse was trying to tell me Miracle on 34th Street could go Thanksgiving b/c it starts with the Macy's Parade. I said maybe that would be an Advent movie, instead.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Offbeat, but good at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (X1yDi)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:36 AM (QRv6r)
I discovered all this by accident, this is some people’s hobby or something. They’d say “Happy Holidays” and I’d reply “Merry Christmas!” and then start steaming. Maybe it’s a kind of Rorschach test, I dunno.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 11:26 AM (p9bn0)
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Not to beat a dead horse (SWIDT?) but the Happy Holidays is another of the death of Western Civilization in general and America in particular by 1000 cuts a la the BC/AD vs. BCE/CE discussion in the prior thread.
* runs away to take a shower *
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (My0zW)
Also, TSO concert this Saturday. Going.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (9fJpT)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (QRv6r)
Drunk on Christmas, plastered on egg nog . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (gKWVE)
Did Judas Priest and Ozzy Ozbourne cut such albums?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: There, I said it at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
The Lord will dawn on you in radiant beauty.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 11:38 AM (gDlxJ)
Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 11:35 AM (5aZAZ)
I have a CD at home, using the instruments available at the time the songs were written, most of which I'd never heard before.
But they sound like Christmas anyway.
Much preferred over pop schmaltz of the past few decades.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 11:38 AM (hBtiT)
I got to attend the huge Christmas concert they do a few times, with the dancers and the guest artists. So magical in person. Sometimes I won the lottery system, other times I did the standby line out on the cold. Always worth it!
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:38 AM (Eng1Z)
Nat King Cole for the " it's Christmas " music
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:38 AM (sDNVV)
The thing is, she was born with a disorder where her stomach doesn't work -- i.e., it won't empty into her small intestine. She has "eaten" exclusively via a feeding tube since she was nine months old.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)
" I think a great question to ask would be "why were those songs chosen at the expense of traditional ones?"
Because the performers are sick and tired of playing the same shit over and over. "Hey! Play Take the A Train.". Hey! Do you know "When the Saints go Marching in" ? etc...
There is a lot of great music in all categories the public is completely unexposed to.
Sadly people glom onto what they are comfortable with and exposed to at a certain period in their life. This isn't that case with most musicians and creative performers.
Setting up a program or a set list that is going to go over requires balancing expectations with new material.
And of course, you can never please everybody.
Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (70YV/)
Posted by: Spoiler: she knew at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (XQo4F)
But you're still my sworn enemy.
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (3CwIS)
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Can't we be frenemies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (QRv6r)
Let's see:
1) Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes.
2) Clemenza makes pasta while going to the mattresses
3) They take the cannoli.
What am I missing?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:39 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 11:40 AM (lFFaq)
FWIW, I'm pretty sure Merle was drunk but that was SOP for CW stars at the time.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 11:40 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 11:31 AM (JwNbV)
Man, I feel like you need to be invited to my house for Christmas. Morning cinnamon rolls and coffee, unwrapped presents with the fake Netflix fire for 2 hours, then a charcuterie tray and fruit tray (I don't count this as cooking b/c nothing is heated) and everyone bails to play/put away presents while spouse puts on the Christmas Story (that I hate) and NFL football now til take in Chinese when we sit and enjoy each other for another hour or two and then have the Christmas cookies baked on prior days. Church is always Christmas Eve late.
No stress...if Chinese is closed or out of duck (which it was one year) swapping to Thai ordered duck was fine. Everyone lived. And if every place is closed, I always have the ingredients for spaghetti.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:40 AM (tOcjL)
I love whenever you can read stuff about super-duper antiquity in works from regular-ass antiquity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 11:40 AM (JwNbV)
“He knows when you’ve been ungood or good so be doubleplusgood for goodness’ sake”
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Alice Cooper did a wonderful homage to "cover" of this familiar tune. It truly portrays the creepy horror lurking within the original.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 11:40 AM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 11:41 AM (v3I63)
Posted by: Archimedes
Christmas lights on palm trees.
https://is.gd/Gsa1BO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
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Right. But if could you go back two or three generations, before our sex-saturated environment, the display wouldn't have been suggestive.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 11:41 AM (S+bfZ)
Think I read that Alvin and the Chipmunks are coming out with a new album this year.
Posted by: David Seville at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM
unpossible, what with the helium shortage and all
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 11:41 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Archimedes
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when Tessio shows up with the Don's birthday cake
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:41 AM (QRv6r)
Imagine the kids being allowed to stay up late and their hearts leaping when their location is called.
I'm not crying, you're crying
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 11:41 AM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (+OGAU)
Every time I hear that while out, I say an Ave for that sweet man, who knew not what he did...
Three wonderful Advent and Christmas CD's-
Advent at Ephesus
Christmas at Ephesus
Caroling at Ephesus
Collections of hymns, carols and chants recorded by the Benedictines of Ephesus, available from their site.
Posted by: sal at December 05, 2025 11:42 AM (f+FmA)
I'll admit, her song's production makes any other heavily produced version pale in comparison. But I think the best version of it I've heard was stripped down and acoustic with a ukulele by a young lady, no bells and whistles, earnest and sincere.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:42 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:42 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Martin Tell at December 05, 2025 11:42 AM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:42 AM (QRv6r)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:42 AM (QRv6r)
https://christmas.stolaf.edu/
Featuring the world class St Olaf Choir, the St Olaf Orchestra, and three other student choirs. And yes, they perform several traditional musical pieces, some with audience sing-along.
Highly recommended.
Posted by: Ddad at December 05, 2025 11:43 AM (dOLLq)
Let's leave the A.D. vs. C.E. stuff in the past.
I wholeheartedly agree Buck.
Back in the day, in a public Elementary school, we learned tons of religious Christmas music.
Happy memories. The older I get the more I love the old hymns, preferably in the original Klingon.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 11:43 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 11:43 AM (3uBP9)
New Carols Adjacent:
so...the lovely and tolerant Mrs naturalfake and I suffered through a new """"""adaptation""""""" of "A Christmas Carol", titled-
titled, "Spirited", streaming on Apple.
It's a Will Ferrel musical dealio starring him and Ryan Reynolds, and basically exists to undermine the whole idea and concept of both Christmas and the story "A Christmas Carol".
It's subversive, yo!
It's present as a comedy but Holy Cow, "Spirited" is a comedy desert where you go starving except for the rare dead dehydrated cockroach of a joke that occasionally shows up to give you a small, microscopic grin.
Awful crap. Awful songs that sounds like the fake Broadway songs they used to sing on SNL. Very strenuous acting by all involved- Great way to exercise those acting muscles, chumps! And neither Ferrel nor Reynolds can sing particularly well.
Where's an Autotune when you need one?
Yes, they really own The Normies(TM) with this.
Tell a nice version of "A Christmas Carol"?
No....no....not so much.
Avoid.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (sDNVV)
I've been a professional (paid to perform) and amateur musician for...a really long time, and I respect the audience. Playing what I like with no concern for the listeners? Not.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (IifOV)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (bfwj/)
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Give him a Train Set.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (Wg6v7)
The Sinema pattern is emerging again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
https://is.gd/Q5nmAL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 0
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Interesting and news to me. I'm watching it.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (S+bfZ)
-Spinal Tap
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Was that on their Intravenus DeMilo album?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
What am I missing?
The oranges. In the scene where the Godfather gets shot, they spill, and in the scene where he finally dies, he makes an orange smile while playing with a grandkid in the vegetable garden.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (Eng1Z)
https://is.gd/OQgc4Z
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (+mUZM)
Lucy Thomas >>>Emma Kok
I hate the song Hallelujha, but Lucky Thomas absolutely kills it.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 05, 2025 11:45 AM (Y1sOo)
Yes; Saint Olaf does have a very nice program.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (PFs9e)
A lot
The wedding
The birthday dinner
The spaghetti making
The Italian restaurant with the cop
The dinner with movie producer
There are a few more scenes I can’t recall off the top of my head.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (g8Ew8)
Very nice hymn . You don't hear it very often
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (PFs9e)
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Appalonian breasts for the win.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Martin Tell at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (sFNX2)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 11:47 AM (XuXeR)
so...the lovely and tolerant Mrs naturalfake and I suffered through a new """"""adaptation""""""" of "A Christmas Carol", titled-
titled, "Spirited", streaming on Apple.
It's a Will Ferrel
I stopped reading there.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martin Tell at December 05, 2025 11:46 AM (sFNX2)
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Dolley's average listening age is 80.
She's 38.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 11:48 AM (JwNbV)
I've been a professional (paid to perform) and amateur musician for...a really long time, and I respect the audience. Playing what I like with no concern for the listeners? Not.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 11:44 AM (XuXeR)
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That makes you most atypical, from what I've seen. I read a classical music blog and all the commenters seem to hate their jobs, hate their colleagues, hate their audiences and are angry society doesn't think as highly of them as they do of themselves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:48 AM (tgvbd)
Ooooh, lucky you! I thought about buying tickets to his recent concert at Wolftrap until I read the ticket prices.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
1. Traditional carols about the Nativity of Christ (including Advent carols and the sole [as far as I know] Epiphany carol, "We Three Kings").
2. Songs about celebrating Christmas (e.g., "Deck the Halls");
3. Santa-Claus songs;
4. General winter songs, celebrating snow (which everyone promptly goes back to hating once the holidays are over), sleigh rides, etc.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m)
I prefer the Grateful Dead version
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:48 AM (van9r)
Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 11:22 AM (+OGAU)
I think the song is lovely. But the lyrics are ignorant to some extent. She knew. That's what the Magnificat is about, is her knowing. Simeon tells her "and a sword will pierce your own soul."
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 11:49 AM (ocFtC)
The food tossing scene with Carlos
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:49 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)
Dolley's average listening age is 80.
She's 38.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
She's a big fan of Bing Crosby?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 11:49 AM (iJfKG)
‘ Rumors (RUMORS) that Fetterman won't even run for re-election.
The Sinema pattern is emerging again.’
The leftism in DC wears down everyone that wants to be a real person and not kowtow.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
https://tinyurl.com/599vu536
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
And she thinks WE'RE old and weird!
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
When the 6th grade became part of middle school, they had to drop 'The Night Before Christmas in Texas, You All" and give the fifth grade "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree", because it was a crowd favorite.
It was literally the same program every year.
When the 2nd grade sang and signed "Silent Night", dads cried like little girls.
Posted by: sal at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (f+FmA)
It is absolutely uplifting to attend and participate.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (6qf1m)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (0OORa)
If you want to have fun, just let the "C" be "Christian", the Christian Era. In fact, that's what "common" really meant when it first came into usage way back in the days of Kepler, I think. Don't hold me to the exact timeline.
Common was oft dubbed "vulgar", meaning common, and it didn't have the negative connotation it has today. So they spoke of the "vulgar/common" era, vulgar in the sense of not some regal year number (ie the Year of King Chuckles III such-and-such), which is what the common people were using.
For all practical purposes, common era means Christian era. Those who use it today aren't too aware of that fact.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 11:50 AM (w6EFb)
We've been up here a hundred days
Somebody call an ambulance
I've got a hundred roach burns on my pants.
Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (70YV/)
Most importantly, CNN will stay out of Bari Weiss' hands, and they're now the tip of the spear for the anti-Trump color revolution. (You know how far out in front they are when Martha Radditz on ABC reported that CNN is lying).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Rob Halford did his needs release a Christmas album. I actually enjoyed his take on "O Come O Come Emmanuel".
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (5yDGQ)
https://youtu.be/kU-E46o0sp0
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (UONii)
I don't pay for Sirius/XM in my own car but when I get a rental car with it, I set buttons for the Bluegrass channel and the '40s channel.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (3nLb4)
That's great!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 11:52 AM (PFs9e)
Yeah, dumb lyrics but a beautiful song in the right hands (vocal cords?)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 11:52 AM (2ocoG)
Mrs B sings in a church choir. They got a new choir director a year or 2 ago. The guy carries on like he's a Broadway director on Broadway working with professionals, and constantly pushing for new songs at a quantity and rate that only professionals could deal with when it's their only job. Sorry dude, you're not going to be the next big thing. Enough with your bullshit musical experiments.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:52 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (sDNVV)
Oh yes, Ben Had, that is my favorite Christmas CD, unfortunately I can't find my copy.
The Silent Night song is just beautiful. I must replace it right away!
Posted by: Pony Tail at December 05, 2025 11:53 AM (HcbZb)
https://tinyurl.com/599vu536
Oh yeah, that's a beautiful song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHl0NiIAy4
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:54 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 05, 2025 11:54 AM (ky7/T)
Canada Moves To Ban Public Religious Expression
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Back to the catacombs, m*th*rf*ck*rs!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (sDNVV)
I'd swear God was dictating to Handel when he wrote the Messiah.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (k9OZB)
If we're talking about the Messiah, it's only fair to give a yuge shout-out to Charles Jennens-- he wrote the libretto ( taken from the KJV ) , before Handel wrote the music.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (PiwSw)
Of course, all right-thinking people know that it's the Alistair Sim version, but it's still fun to argue about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
Nah. The Patton version is the best. Hands down.
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (ocFtC)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (FMtrg)
Beowolf and current English is a little over 1000 years.
Deep South US, Boston and Wisconsin accents are Right Now.
It silly to perseverate on pronunciation given that there wasn't a Radio/Movie Standard English in Rome, yet even in the US ghetto "English" and Chinatown "Engrish" from UK English is very different.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (WCaCG)
https://youtu.be/kU-E46o0sp0
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 11:51 AM (UONii)
That is one of my favorites; I think it's actually much better with just a single soprano and single tenor, because the tenor part is actually a descant to the melody in places.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (PiwSw)
Well I'd give Isaiah at least part of the credit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Megthered at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (kmh+J)
It retells the Nativity story using imagery that the Indians would've been familiar with, e.g.,:
Within a lodge of broken bark
The tender Babe was found,
A ragged robe of rabbit skin
Enwrapp'd His beauty round;
But as the hunter braves drew nigh,
The angel song rang loud and high...
"Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born,
In excelsis gloria."
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 05, 2025 11:54 AM (ky7/T)
Did they give a rendition of the islamic call to prayer? If not the concert was not diverse.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 11:58 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Old Fossil at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (oftw2)
Word.
Our album had Robert Goulet, Julie Andrews, Bing, and a very young Barbra Striesand ("I Wonder As I Wander") and others.
Posted by: sal at December 05, 2025 11:58 AM (f+FmA)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 11:58 AM (kxFzr)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:58 AM (c3sdc)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 11:59 AM (YobFY)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 11:58 AM (kxFzr)
They're not celebrating Kwanzaa? What bigots do you work for?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 05, 2025 11:59 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)
Behold a silly tender Babe, in freezing winter night;
In homely manger trembling lies, alas a piteous sight:
The inns are full, no man will yield this little Pilgrim bed,
But forced He is with silly beasts, in crib to shroud His head.
Despise Him not for lying there, first what He is enquire:
An orient pearl is often found, in depth of dirty mire;
Weigh not His crib, His wooden dish, nor beasts that by Him feed:
Weigh not His mother's poor attire, nor Joseph's simple weed.
This stable is a Prince's court, the crib His chair of state:
The beasts are parcel of His pomp, the wooden dish His plate.
The persons in that poor attire, His royal liveries wear,
The Prince Himself is come from heaven, this pomp is prizèd there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (QRv6r)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Kareem
Find somewhere else to work.
Quickly!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (AsaWd)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (lJ0H4)
YES! I love this version! They do such a nice job. It's a cool song.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (FMtrg)
Canada Moves To Ban Public Religious Expression
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All religions? Or, you know, just certain one(s)?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
"Christmastime for the Jews"
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 12:01 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 11:59 AM (YobFY)
No shame in that imo. I think Christmas should be a joyous time and not a sobering time.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 11:37 AM (a3CJ+)
Not a traditional song. Here's Ozzy and Jessica Simpson singing "Winter Wonderland".
https://youtu.be/XKpldY-OIbY
Give it a listen if you hate your life.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (QRv6r)
Canada Moves To Ban Public Religious Expression
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Back to the catacombs, m*th*rf*ck*rs!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)
This is in Quebec, not a nationwide thing. I am not surprised at all that it is happening there. Although give it few years and it could be nationwide.
On the carol front, I'll add the Huron Carol (Twas in the Moon of Wintertime), written in 1643 by a missionary to the Hurons:
https://tinyurl.com/mrxm2k4v
Posted by: Vendette at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (DNP8c)
Fa la la...
Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (70YV/)
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That's why God gave us Egg Nog.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (Wg6v7)
This Christmas Eve we are singing Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, and one of the associate priests has deigned to join us so we have a second deep voice just for this piece.
People just aren't learning how to sing any more, which is one of the reason the old complex pieces have fallen out of favor. The postmodern "challenge" the music directors bring is more owing to culture shock than musical complexity.
And I have no problem with proclaiming Christ in the music and languages of different cultures, since his Gospel is universal. But I don't know why it has to be at Christmas.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (GD2xa)
JetBlue Jet Nearly Knocked From Sky by Radiation From Exploding Star
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (bfwj/)
It's dark but I kinda love it
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 12:03 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 11:58 AM (kxFzr)
I am happily Jewish and that sort of stuff infuriates me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 12:03 PM (Zv8bq)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:03 PM (KDPiq)
Why do I have the feeling that certain religions will be less banned than others?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:03 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:03 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: For modern audiences at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (TbWk/)
But even though it can be hectic I do love it; the music (I probably have close to 100 albums and CDs of various Christmas music), the food, the gifts (though increasingly we are focusing on the kids in the extended family and less on the adults), and family and friends.
We have a whole week of stuff, with a pre-Christmas Christmas party that finishes off putting on the ornaments on the big tree that just devolves into a party of food and drink by the end; a Christmas Eve gathering with family favs, then Midnight Mass where I am in the choir, then gifts Christmas morning, with a more elaborate meal that day and then the weekend following an extended family gathering with more food and gifts and a family band concert of non-Christmas music. Love it all.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK
Absolutely.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: publius,
Thank you for this info.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:03 PM (KDPiq)
Someone should do a female duet version. It'd be number one on the charts immediately.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 05, 2025 12:05 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (sDNVV)
Eartha Kitt singing it isn't too bad but Madonna's version sucks...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:06 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Good twisted fun at December 05, 2025 12:06 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: publius,
Thank you for this info.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)
Then why not say Christian Era since it’s replacing Christ in previously used BC?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:06 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:06 PM (VE6XX)
Rumor has it, based on her coffee table book, that Madonna sucked a lot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: For modern audiences at December 05, 2025 12:04 PM (TbWk/)
I saw Achmed killing Santa Claus
--proper Islamic version
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Old Yeller at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (UONii)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: the way I see it
That's what I was saying on the last thread.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)
I knew when I wrote that I'd get that response... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: the way I see it
When they use BCE it pisses me off...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxm2k4v
Posted by: Vendette
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I didn't know this one. I really enjoyed it!
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (UONii)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (UONii)
I'll go one worse.
The Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping".
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (UnA8+)
Mary Did you know? is sort of blasphemous if you read the gospel story of the Annunciation. Mary definitely knew. The Angel Gabriel told her all about it. "Blessed is the fruit of thy womb."
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)
It's probably not correct. There is a fair amount of scholarship that suggests that vulgar/common was to differentiate from counting the year based on the king's reign.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (Zv8bq)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)
I couldn't leave you hangin'.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (UONii)
"Bing, bong, bing, bo----"
"SHADDDDAAAAAAAP!!!!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko being involuntarily subjected to that song in a public place at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)
I don’t think you were saying it should be officially called Christian Era but that Christians should just say it themselves.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I thought that was mentioned in the post.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (lJ0H4)
I love that movie
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (UONii)
‘ The Christmas song I absolutely cannot abide…’
But the choir of children practiced all year long.
‘Ding dong!
Ding dong!
Ding dong!
Ding dong!
Ding dong!..’
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)
>>Least favorite Christmas movie: Love Actually. I hate flick . My sister loves it. Watches every year.
It might be one of the greatest rom-coms and Christmas movies ever.
Well, Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie, but Love Actually top 5 for sure.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (lJ0H4)
You don't appreciate the "I found true love as a lighting stand-in for a porn studio" storyline?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
The Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping".
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (UnA8+)
Love that one. Again joyous music to me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (KDPiq)
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Posted by: the way I see it
Yes, that's why I was saying. Not sure how it differs from what you were saying.
Their just letters. You can make them stand for whatever you want.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)
el jefe es nood
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Bulgy bulg, bulgity bulg at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
It's a great film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (lJ0H4)
I highly recommend Neal Stephenson's novel REAMDE, in which the protagonist disables one of her enemies by slashing him in the femoral artery with the broken shard of a Love Actually DVD. For once, the movie came in useful.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
THE LION IN WINTER.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (GD2xa)
But did he do it MATHEMATICALLY?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:13 PM (UnA8+)
(Basically the 12 Days of Christmas adapted to H.P. Lovecraft)
https://youtu.be/lqGbZ2z7T7s
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 05, 2025 12:13 PM (O7YUW)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent and Once in Royal David's City were my previous favorites, now one and two. Other than overseas, the only churches that seem to sing these type of hymns now are the Presbyterian Church of American churches, so if there is one in your area, definitely go to their Christmas eve service. It is usually a Carols service that include these types of hymns.
Posted by: moki at December 05, 2025 12:13 PM (wLjpr)
Mary Did you know? is sort of blasphemous if you read the gospel story of the Annunciation. Mary definitely knew. The Angel Gabriel told her all about it. "Blessed is the fruit of thy womb."
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (wGerL)
__________
V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
R. And she conceived of the Holy Ghost.
V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
R. Be it done unto me according to Thy word.
V. And the Word was made flesh.
R. And dwelt among us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 12:13 PM (tgvbd)
And then following your logic you don’t have a problem with Christmas being renamed Winter Holiday.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:13 PM (KDPiq)
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.
-
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:13 PM (UnA8+)
There's no math when defending yourself against attempted r@pe.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Bulg
The dysfunctional family Christmas. Yep, it's a great movie. Love it.
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (lJ0H4)
Snood
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 05, 2025 12:09 PM (wGerL)
Thats what I was getting at with my comment at #250. Mrs B's choir director is insane. He thinks he's running a broadway show, and spends money like it. All new outfits, a new organ...a frigging new pipe organ. I can't even imagine what that cost.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: the way I see it
Oh, for crying out loud. I've had it with you people on this topic.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GD2xa)
It's not Neal Stephenson if there's no math.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
==
It is not a Christmas Movie. It's an action movie that takes place at Christmas but the sentiments of Christmas are non-existent in any of the plot lines.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Random PJ at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (RRCAT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obZDWSUxwVo
Posted by: pkudude99 at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (ODCB/)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (GZYu7)
Duh. Opening the secure vault is a Christmas gift from the FBI to Hanz and Theo. Theo even says "Merry Christmas."
Also Christmas sentiment includes candy, and Al Leong takes candy just before shooting up the SWAT team.
Winning back your family by killing terrorists is a time honored Christmas sentiment.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (GD2xa)
https://is.gd/Q5nmAL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 0
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Thanks, it looks like scholars have been able to make deductions based on clues and good research, so some measure of understanding of how it's pronounced. Would our pronunciation be closer to french or italian or portuguese, all .romance languages derived from latin? Anyway, American english is pronounced in different ways in West Virginia, Maine, the South and C.alifornia.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (bHjkq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (SZI4T)
Posted by: Megthered at December 05, 2025 11:57 AM (kmh+J)
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My god, no.
Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (5aZAZ)
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One of my favorites. Especially when sung to the tune of the old Welsh hymn, 'Hyfrydol'.
Posted by: Dagwood at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (CC0N1)
Just wait until AI is really set loose on songwriting and music making, including sacred music. My daughter, who is studying music at a small Christian college, told me about some "worship song" that was completely AI. For the record, she LOATHES the use of AI in music, and appreciates the variation and "humanness" of people actually singing and playing instruments.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (uY1j2)
Posted by: RonF at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (NAyZt)
To be fair:
What we now call the Internet was at one point Arpanet and was pretty much limited to Department of Defense facilities and research universities. Al Gore pushed a bill that established (what was then) high-speed switching centers and relatively large bandwidth links among major urban centers that helped open the network up to commercial and consumer interests and started us on the road to the Internet as we know it today. Heck, the ".com" top level domain was added to the net long after .mil, .edu, etc. When it first started out commercial entities were BANNED from using it.
Posted by: RonF at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (NAyZt)
Posted by: JM i
Not even priests officiating at a Traditional Latin Mass?
The RCC pronounces Latin as if it were Italian. This is authentic as the pronunciation changed along with the Vulgar Latin that became Italian. At one time, every country whose students learned Latin pronounced as if it were their own language. Thus English-speaking Latin students would pronounce the “c” in “excelsis” the same way they would pronounce the “c” in “France”. Then circa 1905 the attempt was made to reproduce the way the ancient Romans pronounced Latin: “exkelsis”. This IMHO killed Latin as a living scholarly language. By the way, “excelsis” is pronounced as “exchelsis” by the RCC because that’s how Italian handles “c” followed by “e”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (X5qGl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (6KcYW)
They're almost always the ones that test the best.
So, at least in my case, I give the listeners what they tell me they want, whether that's Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, or even Do They Know It's Christmas (which I loathe).
And if you don't listen to radio...then why should I care, as a programmer, what you think.
There's your brutal honesty for the day.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (nBNUK)
I've loved that for years. Even the version Skillet released this year.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (nBNUK)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 05, 2025 08:14 PM (7kSOl)
Posted by: Marooned at December 05, 2025 09:17 PM (kt8QE)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Anton Mauve
Comments
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:31 AM (tgvbd)
But you can hold their heads under until the bubbles stop.
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I thought of you yesterday. The art was Samson and Delilah, and, IIRC, Delilah was the name of your late champion showdog.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
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Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)
IIRC, Delilah was the name of your late champion showdog.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
You recall correctly. We see so much of her in her daughter Diana.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:36 AM (tgvbd)
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Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
Boobs and Cupid would be a good name for a chick band.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (pDt9x)
>>>Boob Week ended early.
Posted by: Cicero
The one without a saddle is a mare (and maybe preggo? Idk), so technically a naked female
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)
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If Pelosi was in it you could call it Boobs and Asphalt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Person who checks out titles at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 09:41 AM (i+bC1)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
That's nice.
Do people in the dog-breeding biz use the terms "son" and "daughter," or do they have special technical terms for canine offspring?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Is He Retarded? at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)
Doctor says it'll kill ya, but he don't say when.
Posted by: Jackson Browne at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (XQo4F)
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A lot of good it did her.
Posted by: V.I. Lenin at December 05, 2025 09:44 AM (JkO4W)
CBD, thanks. This is a lovely scene to end the week with. I'm watching a gentle snowfall at the moment which goes with this mood.
Posted by: JTB at December 05, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 09:45 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 09:45 AM (pDt9x)
Doctor says it'll kill ya, but he don't say when.
Posted by: Jackson Browne at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (XQo4F)
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Don't ride the white horse.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (36PRH)
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A lot of good it did her.
Posted by: V.I. Lenin
At least I wasn't turned into a cheesy replica made of Bondo and spit.
Posted by: Russian Empress Alexandra at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (Riz8t)
Do people in the dog-breeding biz use the terms "son" and "daughter," or do they have special technical terms for canine offspring?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
The parents have sons and daughters, the offspring have sires and dams.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 09:47 AM (ioiMK)
Posted by: Well-rendered Art at December 05, 2025 09:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 09:48 AM (jQ9Yk)
That he's not doing so indicates he lives in a culture where the quality of picante sauce isn't taken seriously.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (0sNs1)
Sometimes with these muddier pictures, I like to copy them to my paint program and adjust the brightness and contrast. With today's, I had to boost the b & c by 60 & 40, considerably more than yesterday's, before I got something close to normal-looking. Could see the details much better, like the boy's face or the hair of the horses' manes. Don't know how alike or different it is from the original, but it was altogether cheerier.
Posted by: mindful webworker - horsies! must be art at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (pv4q5)
Great piece for a hectic week. Thanks!
Posted by: red speck at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Interesting, thanks. "Sire" and "dam" are also used of horses (though not "son" or "daughter").
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
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But did she have great jeans?
Posted by: Sydney at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 09:50 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:50 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 09:50 AM (XFXIk)
I like it.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Well-rendered Art
Um, there are only two horses in this painting.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Get a load of the tail on the white one.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM
One of the 'ettes' favorite hues, along with ecru, fawn, taupe, and seafoam.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: King Richard IV at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (0OIwA)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (VE6XX)
"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
Posted by: The ghost of Dorothy Parker at December 05, 2025 09:53 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (lFFaq)
Yes , others were of cattle and sheep iirc.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 09:53 AM (KDPiq)
Doctor says it'll kill ya, but he don't say when.
Beer for our horses!
Posted by: Willie & Tobie at December 05, 2025 09:53 AM (GbwPZ)
I could not for the life of me tell whether the darker horse had a saddle of if the kid was just exceptionally dumpy below the waist. Need new glasses (and brighter phone), lol
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I'm partial to Gulfstream Aqua, a nice Ford color from 1968-69.
Posted by: Mustang, Mustang, '68! at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
"Seafoam?" WTH?
I think there's some uber chick in some underground lair somewhere (Piper?) who thinks up these bogus color names, and sends out the directive to world chickery to use them. Just to eff with us guys.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (KDPiq)
I simply CANNOT work like this! Did YOU go to art school? Did YOU starve in a Parisian garret learning the craft? No, no you did not!
Posted by: Anton Mauve at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (Riz8t)
"Chetwick Reminds His Horses, Blackie and Sugarfoot, That They Cannot Own The Water But Only Rent It For a While And In Due Course Must Return It to Mother Gaia"
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (JkO4W)
That' a very canter-esting picture up there, CBD.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (Zv8bq)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (jQ9Yk)
At least the art snobs aren't making such a big stirrup about it
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: BifBewalski
Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM
Next time you're in a department store with cosmetics counters, peruse the lipstick color names. There has to be more than one über chick at work.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM
One of the 'ettes' favorite hues, along with ecru, fawn, taupe, and seafoam.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM
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"Harvest Wheat"
https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4
Posted by: Obligatory Kelsey Grammar clip at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)
I’m learning a lot about horses lately. They are characters. Some are aholes, some are very sweet, they are all sneaky as can be.
Posted by: banana Dream
When you're riding, remember to rein in your enthusiasm
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (QVmho)
Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
Her knots disordered, and her wholesome fruits
Swarming with caterpillars...
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (GbwPZ)
Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.
Posted by: Bulg
I'm really trying to dressage up my vocabulary
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)
"Chetwick Reminds His Horses, Blackie and Sugarfoot, That They Cannot Own The Water But Only Rent It For a While And In Due Course Must Return It to Mother Gaia"
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)
That's after he gives proper recognition that they're on stolen indigenous land.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Cicero
What?!?!?
-- the Japanese
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)
Took a long time after they started riding before they came up with stirrups too.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (KDPiq)
I'm saddle-y disappointed in the horde's lack of puns today.
At least they're not fish puns
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (QVmho)
You are baiting us, are you not?
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (pDt9x)
>>I'm really trying to dressage up my vocabulary
If we don't behave ourselves, CBD will pommel us!!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: BifBewalski
Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)
In the mane, they are simple puns.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (2WIwB)
But you can hold their heads under until the bubbles stop.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025
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I'd never heard that before! Even better than:
"Use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence."
"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (wzUl9)
We still eat them, but only in small amounts. Surely you've heard of horse d'oeurves.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: BifBewalski
I'm too busy looking at the art. See -- horses!
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)
That's remarkably precise, and almost certainly nonsense.
800 years from what point to what point
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (Zv8bq)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM
The stirrup is arguably the biggest advance in weaponry humans have ever made.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)
At least they're not fish puns
Y'all are probably taking the high road—it's the vaulting thing to do.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025
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Does the boy even have a saddle?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Archimedes
*golf clap*
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)
Diane: "Red beats blue, blue beats yellow, yellow beats mauve."
Sam [looking clueless]: "Mauve?"
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Cicero
What?!?!?
-- the Japanese
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)
Us too.
But, we pair it with a really nice Beaujolais!
Posted by: The French at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (pDt9x)
"I tell you, this steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it."
Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)
At least they're not fish puns
Y'all are probably taking the high road—it's the vaulting thing to do.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (QVmho)
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Neigh!
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (JkO4W)
A lisping young cowboy named Billy
Took a ride on his favorite filly
"It theems I'm thore!" he cried
To which the horse replied,
"It's 'cause you forgot your thaddle, thilly!"
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)
That he's not doing so indicates he lives in a culture where the quality of picante sauce isn't taken seriously.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025
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NOO YAWK CITY!!??
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
Cicero, huh?
Man (homo sapien) has been hunting horses for 30k years, and only domesticated them 1,500 years or so before Christ.
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)
And apparently ancient native Americans ate them at a rate that precluded learning to ride. South American's excuse for never using the wheel is that the largest animal was a jaguar and the jungle grew too fast to maintain roads.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (lFFaq)
I ate what amounted to horse sashimi in Japan.
Very tasty. Surprisingly, well-marbled.
Maybe the Kobe Beef of horse flesh!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (iJfKG)
Yep, but not clearly, with the skies so graze.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: imp
Christ domesticated horses???
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)
That's remarkably precise, and almost certainly nonsense.
800 years from what point to what point
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (Zv8bq)
Trust the science H8er!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Groan at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)
And the whippletree arguably the biggest advance in agriculture .
Horses go hand and hand with civilization advancement leaps.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (KDPiq)
And hominids probably have eaten horses since heidelbergensis, if they could find a lame one or a fresh predator kill
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM
Get a rope.
Posted by: J. Random Moron at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (Dfw6Y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (JkO4W)
My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (GbwPZ)
My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
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They also built lumber mills. There's that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025
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I can just imagine the scene with the local village fool/crazy man accepting a dare to climb onto the back of one of the horses in the corral . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (bfwj/)
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You're lucky; it's always -300° in F. Joe Mugabe's cryogenic freezer chamber.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Cicero
Makes sense. You aren't gonna just jump on a wild horse and yell, "Giddyap!"
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Norwegian bachelor farmers at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (g6TN6)
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Did they scam billions from the govt too?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025
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Dawn horse on the hoof
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)
My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
No. They quickly organized bikini volleyball teams, and all was overlooked.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM
Always a conundrum, to be sure.
Posted by: Pointillists at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025
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His early (1960s) novel Flying Finish is especially good -- flying airplanes is a central part of the story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (wzUl9)
Adam Purple was an NYC fixture for decades. Grew a Guerrilla Garden in Manhattan on the site where the city tore down some old tenements. He rode a tricycle with a wagon on back to Central Park to collect horseshit on the Bridle Path. For about 15 years he was accompanied by his girl, who was Eve Purple, naturally.
Posted by: Spreading The Wealth at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)
Jesus rode donkeys
Posted by: imp
It was just a lame joke.
But, for all you "BCE" haters out there, you could always just say that it stands for "Before the Christian Era."
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)
I guess it was 3,500 BC for chariots, not BP (before present). Misread that. Why can't we just stick to BC/AD
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (g6TN6)
I thought I was your friend.
Posted by: Flicka at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
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Imma gonna go out on a limb and guess those great-grandparents weren't Anti-Western Islamists and more-than-likely Western Civilization Christians.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)
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And his murderer was allowed to roam free for decades in Vienna!
Until he turned himself in to the Catholic Church and became the Patron Saint of Mediocrities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (g6TN6)
Americans generally freak out when your community regularly engages in violent crime - rape, beating, throwing their kid off the balcony at the local mall, that kind of stuff. Did your Swedish family engage in any of that?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (GbwPZ)
CNN: Is there any truth to the idea that the pipe bomb case was ignored?
McCabe: “It''s really hard for me to believe that that it was ignored over the last many years."
“These are tough cases and sometimes take a long time."
Ok, Andy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (My0zW)
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Who build lumber mills.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (pDt9x)
I thought I was your friend.
Posted by: Flicka
Keep your mouth shut and don't say anything.
Posted by: Mr. Ed at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM
Ask not for whom the calendar rolls over. It no longer rolls over for thee.
Posted by: Beethoven at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025
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Miss Linda dragged me into Ulta so she could pick some lipstick for her birthday. Russian Red, Captive Audience, You Wouldn't Understand It (?!), and Siberian Nights were just some of the names.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (JkO4W)
Was that when they were used for chariots? I've heard that the original strains of horse were too weak-backed for riders and that's why chariots were used for a long time.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (JkO4W)
And about 1800 years after that before it became wide spread from just the small area in the Stepps.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (RHGPo)
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"That bitch earned nothing. Did she build the roads? Or the Internet? No, good for you, but no. You didn't build anything. I built it all by being part of government."
-Elizabeth Warren
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)
>>>AD/BC, failed Rock band name.
Posted by: tubal
That's because they played everything backwards
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)
He was a great composer, then-
in an ironic move Mozart decomposed over the next century or so.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025
They’re amateurs compared to the paint color people.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (kz78D)
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Americans generally freak out when your community regularly engages in violent crime - rape, beating, throwing their kid off the balcony at the local mall, that kind of stuff. Did your Swedish family engage in any of that?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025
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I suspect the worst was serial lutefisk-making.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (KDPiq)
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Along with proto-Indo-European based languages. Odd coincidence, isn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (W7XSX)
WOWT reported that Melgar-Ayala was involved in a shooting earlier in the day, and Omaha police were able to track him to the gas station.
Once officers were positioned inside the business, Melgar-Ayala exited the restroom and allegedly began shooting at officers. At least three officers were injured in the shooting, and Melgar-Ayala was returned to room temperature by the return fire.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
How dare you compare me to a dog!
Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (GbwPZ)
I thought I was your friend.
Posted by: Flicka
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Keep your mouth shut and don't say anything.
Posted by: Mr. Ed at December 05, 2025
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My name lives on.
Posted by: Trigger at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
Sorry, but no. It stands for "Before the COMMON Era". Some claim "Before the Christian Era", but as has been pointed out, that is the same thing as BC.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Jian Brohnson at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (IvCzq)
Posted by: SMOD
Damn it. Now we won’t have the cure for cancer. He was soooo close.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025
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I understood there had been, long before -- until the peaceful Native Americans (aka Injuns) slaughtered them all.
Posted by: Trigger at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (kz78D)
No truer statement has been made.
Posted by: Goose Turd Green at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (JWsMn)
Posted by: no one
Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (iJfKG)
Oh, yes. We did.
Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (XQo4F)
That aspiring young rapper had Grammy potential written all over him, too. . .
Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (GbwPZ)
>>>Along with proto-Indo-European based languages. Odd coincidence, isn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
And the R1b haplotype
Yamnaya solidarity!
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: no one
Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.
It's remarkable that the Comanches were widely viewed as the best horsemen in the world, yet had no horses until after the Spanish arrived.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (sDNVV)
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Heh.
You're more than likely familiar with this anecdote that I learned from reading the great biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow:
Grant -- known for his exceptional equestrian skills and deep affection for horses -- reacted with intense anger when he witnessed a teamster brutally beating a horse. He then ordered an officer to take the man in charge and have him tied to a tree for six hours as punishment for his brutality. (My memory is that he had him whipped as well, but that's not confirmed when searching for the details of this incident.)
[BTW, I find it most fascinating that both Washington and Grant were considered the greatest horsemen of their generations. Anybody seen Trump on a horse?]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (My0zW)
On Wednesday, Nature retracted it."
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Problem is easily solved. Just change the name from Nature to Bullshit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Archimedes
Just add the "E" for "Era."
Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025
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In Africa, not in suburban Los Angeles.
On second thought . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (P4eqW)
>>>I understood there had been, long before -- until the peaceful Native Americans (aka Injuns) slaughtered them all.
Posted by: Trigger
Along with smilodons, short faced bears, and American lions
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (W7XSX)
There were. They just didn't survive the paeliolithic ( lol, autocucumber never did figure out what I was trying to type) era.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 10:19 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025
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ARSH, but fair.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (P4eqW)
My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Did they have sex with 9 yr olds?
Because that's a pretty bright demarcation line.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (XuXeR)
I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: The music group America at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (XQo4F)
Been through the swamp with two horses with no names, perhaps. The other rider fell off?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (ynpvh)
>>>Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.
Posted by: Bulg
You don't understand why people get upset at the dismantling of Western Civilization?
"Common" to what, exactly? The entire world uses our calendar for business, because Western Europeans, i.e., Christians, conquered the entire fucking globe
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (g6TN6)
Because the Left wants us to forget our heritage.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (pDt9x)
Riding bears just wasn't working out.
Posted by: Indians at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (XFXIk)
I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ynpvh)
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Common.
Common to what? I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)
Everything before that would just be "before present" or "x years ago."
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)
Riding bears just wasn't working out.
Posted by: Indians at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (XFXIk)
Buffalo ain't too friendly to ride either...that ridge on their back gets into your butt crack...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ynpvh)
Joy Reid: Republican grandmas are gleeful as Trump conducts “ethnic cleansing.”
She says she knows this is true, because she once attended the RNC and the vibe she got from senior citizens there was that they want a 1930’s Germany in America.
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Neo Nazism and milk and cookies?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (GbwPZ)
My grandmother (on my father's side) used to be fixated on those.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (UnA8+)
Paleolithic
Auotcucumber's ability to fix spelling is limited to things that are reasonably close, lol (just kidding ya)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: no one
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Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.
It's remarkable that the Comanches were widely viewed as the best horsemen in the world, yet had no horses until after the Spanish arrived.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025
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I believe the "Comanch" (as Ethan Edwards would have it) were nomadic hunters. When they encountered horses brought by the Spanish, they revamped their culture and became the swift horseback raiders the Texans feared.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ynpvh)
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Common.
Common to what? I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)
Yes, what IS the common denominator here?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ynpvh)
I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?
See my #188. It isn't really Christian Era, it's really Common Era.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Riz8t)
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I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
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I’m not religious but I loathe BCE. Because while on its own it’s not a big deal, it’s a part of the wider anti-Western Civilization jihad the left is fighting. Death by 1000 cuts and all that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (kz78D)
Joy Reid: Republican grandmas are gleeful as Trump conducts “ethnic cleansing.”
She says she knows this is true, because she once attended the RNC and the vibe she got from senior citizens there was that they want a 1930’s Germany in America.
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Neo Nazism and milk and cookies?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)
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Is it a commonly accepted definition of "ethnic cleansing" to mean "deportation of illegal immigrants of all ethnicities"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ynpvh)
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John Carter.
or
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
I think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pedantic Person at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (XQo4F)
You mean like work, run businesses, educate children, worship regularly, build self supporting communities?
Yeah, just like Somalia...
And you never heard of "dumb Swede"?
*head, meet desk*
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: tubal
And no 5G!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Turn Off the Bubble Machine! at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (RHGPo)
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What's she selling (and yes, she's a "1")?
Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.
https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
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I’m not religious but I loathe BCE. Because while on its own it’s not a big deal, it’s a part of the wider anti-Western Civilization jihad the left is fighting. Death by 1000 cuts and all that.
You said it better than I did.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (Riz8t)
I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?
See my #188. It isn't really Christian Era, it's really Common Era.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Riz8t)
Yes, I know. Just making fun of it, since, what is the common fact that makes it the so-called "Common Era"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (ynpvh)
If Joy Reid herself constitutes a singular ethnicity, I'm ok with "cleansing" our society of her (peacefully, mind you, like to Liberia)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
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You a answered the question. It’s a prediction market. Like Polymarket. You can bet on just about anything there from politics to sports to who will win Oscars.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025
***
He published his first novel in 1962. That word was frowned on in literary novels then, let alone genre fiction.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (wzUl9)
https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS
The lack of understanding grammar is amazing.
You can't do something entirely "on your own" if you cofounded something.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: no one
Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)
Half assed Bing search gets this.
https://tinyurl.com/3vnhj3xx
Interesting. Very interesting.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (ioiMK)
Posted by: tubal
And no 5G!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)
Englishmen were digging a site and found copper wiring 1m down; they estimated the English had wired communications 100 years ago.
The Scots, not to be undone, dug down 2m and found copper wiring, so estimated they had wired communications 200 years ago.
Finally, a farmer in Minnesota dug down 3m and found nothing; he figured they had wireless 300 years ago...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (pDt9x)
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Cats have never forgiven us for that...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: House of Bread at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (oftw2)
Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.
https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (My0zW)
Another site to bet on shit.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (UnA8+)
https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS
The lack of understanding grammar is amazing.
You can't do something entirely "on your own" if you cofounded something.
And that coming from the supposedly "educated" mefia.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)
Were? You mean, are. And yes, that seems a bit freakish.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (g6TN6)
There’s a great dispute about that - why almost total extinction in North America, but so little in Africa and Southern Asia, where there were even more humans? Why was the upper northern hemisphere the one mostly affected?
The evidence for a massive comet (mostly ice) strike on the Laurentide ice sheet gets stronger and stronger with each new discovery. Big enough to have caused an obliteration of most of what is now the northern half of the United States.
No crater because it landed on a mile thick glacier.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (L/fGl)
Whereas the Franks and their descendants went on to rule the world, and the Byzantines went on to become fishing boat captains, commies, or Muslims
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: House of Bread
That's my beef with "BC/AD." It's unhistorical. Dionysius Exiguus miscalculated.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ynpvh)
Wouldn’t that work better as a Polish farmer?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Bulg
Thank George Syncellus for that. Theophanes Confessor used his scheme and finished his chronicle.
The Syrians stayed with the Seleucid system. When they heard of these other "Biblical" systems (the AM and the AD) they thought those systems insisted on themselves.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (gKWVE)
Bookie. Makes coin on the vig. Taps your accounts instead of sending Rocky and Moose to find your wallet...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (XuXeR)
Modern day woman reading a book by electric light: Everything was so much better in the past.
Victorian era woman reading a book by candlelight: Everything was so much better in the past.
Cave woman wearing an animal skin sitting in front of a fire: This is awful.
Posted by: Fantasy fallacy at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (g6TN6)
There’s a great dispute about that - why almost total extinction in North America, but so little in Africa and Southern Asia, where there were even more humans? Why was the upper northern hemisphere the one mostly affected?
The evidence for a massive comet (mostly ice) strike on the Laurentide ice sheet gets stronger and stronger with each new discovery. Big enough to have caused an obliteration of most of what is now the northern half of the United States.
No crater because it landed on a mile thick glacier.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (P4eqW)
Yeah, modern paleontologists want to blame man for the extinctions, but why would man hunt skunks and various trees to extinction?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: imp
And I'm sure it was all to do with how they numbered their years. Sheesh.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal
We haven't got enough AWFLs?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (L/fGl)
Talk to the bird hands...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:30 AM (ynpvh)
Confounding a company counts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:31 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:31 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:31 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (wzUl9)
Before the horse, they were the prey of all the tribes around them. Once they mastered mounted raiding, they became the terror of the plains.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)
You're mistaken. "She" must always be celebrated as "the one", dotchaknow..
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 10:33 AM (mADJX)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:33 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:33 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 10:34 AM (XFXIk)
Posted by: Ben Had
I thought that's why they invented the dromedary.
Ride in between the humps.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:35 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:35 AM (XuXeR)
Merry Commonness.
Posted by: t-bird
It's not a religious issue. Stop trying to make it one.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (kz78D)
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Ditto.
I was extremely disappointed that Dennis Prager caved to this convention in writing his "Rational Bible" Torah series -- justifying as some neo-standard accepted by academics (whom he claims to loathe in general).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (My0zW)
Ride in between the humps.
Posted by: rickb223
You're thinking of Bactrian camels.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (XFXIk)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:37 AM (W7XSX)
Compared to dogs, or even horses, camels are grouchy assholes and not much more worth domesticating than a bison.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg
I knew as soon as I typed it I was going to be wrong.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (9bIJg)
BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
Will YOU be watching?
-
See the poster here.
https://is.gd/kPrVh9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ocFtC)
I don't use it myself, because it's not what I grew up with.
And, really, as long as you're not spelling out the words, so that the words "Christ" and "Christian" never appear, who cares?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)
Doesn't have one. Years later, someone would write a song about it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ExV1e)
They'd be models for Frank Frazetta?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (XuXeR)
Ride in between the humps.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:35 AM (9bIJg)
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There's an Asian Frankenstein novel in there somewhere:
Bactrianstein?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:40 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot, school teacher and mass murderer at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (m8zKa)
Compared to dogs, or even horses, camels are grouchy assholes and not much more worth domesticating than a bison.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (gKWVE)
Without camels there'd be no cameltoes.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)
Were there plants and birds and rocks and things?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gayla Peevey at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (XQo4F)
Bulg, Western Civilization is based on a shared Greco-Roman-Christian heritage. Our systems of calendaring, although the sources of dispute over the centuries, are symbols of that unified culture. America is the apotheosis of Western Civilization, arising both in a new land and bringing together an amalgam of nationalities (primarily Western European, certainly at first). Our Hebraic brothers have foundational beliefs, but little impact on the concrete workings of our society (i.e., Sunday was the recognized day off, the Sabbath, for 2,000 years). So when nerd wankers decide THEY are going to change our systems, without election, conquest, or plebiscite, they can FUCK RIGHT OFF. I'm not changing my society because someone doesn't want to think the word Christ. Chiist is King, baby!
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:43 AM (kz78D)
Paint manufacturer Pantone has named "Cloud Dancer" the color of the year
it's basically white
the NYTimes has already sounded the 'racism' alarm
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/
1996927477889843398
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 10:44 AM (yhwo5)
Posted by: Young wives tale at December 05, 2025 10:44 AM (XQo4F)
BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
Will YOU be watching?
-
See the poster here.
https://is.gd/kPrVh9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
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Best retort [with juxtapositioned images]:
The pitch: "FRIENDS...but in space"
https://x.com/mynerdyhome/
status/1996791061818298449
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:44 AM (My0zW)
2022. Mehdi Hasan and another race-baiter claim that the January 6th pipe bomber has not been caught because the person is white.
According to Hasan, if the bomber had been black or muslim, he would have already been caught.
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I guess Mehdi was right. Fake Jake says he's white.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:45 AM (sDNVV)
A year ago, President Autopen would not have done this. So Minnesota not being London is predicated on the Democrats eternally nominating a ticket as obviously club-footed and repellent as Vice President Cackles and Governor Jazz Hands.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (RHGPo)
@CAgovernor
·
Follow
In January, @realDonaldTrump looked me in the eye on the tarmac, promising Angelenos that he'd help rebuild after the firestorms.
11 months later, he still hasn't delivered.
That's why I'm headed to D.C. to push for a long-overdue federal aid package for survivors.
Governor Newsom meets President Trump on the LAX tarmac during Trump's January 2025 visit to survey the damage left by the Los Angeles area firestorms.
11 months later, Trump has yet to actually transmit the formal request to Congress for critical disaster funding to help Southern California communities recover from the Palisades and Eaton fires — despite California's urgent pressure and bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
8:29 AM · Dec 4, 2025
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The "Who Me?" governor
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (9ipOP)
Whatever. I think it's a trivial complaint, but it's your right to get spun up about it if you want to.
Like I said above, I still use "BC" and "AD," too. But it's purely out of habit. For me, there are no deep cultural implications (or any theological ones) to it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
The seven day sabbath seems to be Babylonian. There are hints from the Elephantine Jewish settlement that the sabbath of 1-4 Reigns (Samuel-Kings) was monthly.
Where da Jooz really helped was in giving us Deuteronomy. Separation of judiciary from the King. There's a line from that to Montesquieu and our courts.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (p9rFX)
it's basically white
the NYTimes has already sounded the 'racism' alarm
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"What, Black Cloud Dancer wasn't available? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (6qf1m)
Everything is an op and a lie. Every fucking thing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (g6TN6)
The pitch: "FRIENDS...but in space"
https://x.com/mynerdyhome/
status/1996791061818298449
Can you believe it was only 20-30 years ago when there was an actual, all-white, ensemble cast? Chances of that happening now are zero point zero.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 10:48 AM (VE6XX)
“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO,” Netflix said. “The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.”
Earlier in the week, Paramount called the sales process unfair and bias toward Netflix, claiming that the “sales process has been tainted by management conflicts, including certain members of management’s potential personal interests in post-transaction roles and compensation as a result of the economic incentives embedded in recent amendments to employment arrangements.”
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (Eng1Z)
brill.com/view/journals/jaj/16/1/article-p29_2.xml
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
We'd be left with nothing but moose knuckles.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (yhwo5)
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Everything is trivial on its own. It’s when you get 1000 trivial things together that a society ceases to exist.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (kz78D)
I liked this impression of him.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RIxDRumPGHA
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 10:50 AM (R11M+)
or
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
I think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
Alright ya filthy animal - you showed up on my ONT last night so I held up my end of the bargain. I'm your most recent subscriber and I liked your latest video.
But you're still my sworn enemy.
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (3CwIS)
Posted by: It's me donna
Except, that storyline is a nightmare for Democrats. For years, the Biden team presided over a Justice Department that had endless resources to track down grandmas in MAGA hats using cell phone data, yet somehow could not close in on the one figure whose actions were used to paint January 6 as an organized terror plot. It’s almost as if they figured out who it was and deliberately chose not to pursue him.
Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . .Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot, school teacher and mass murderer at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (m8zKa)
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This guy gets it.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (My0zW)
Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
>>>Everything is trivial on its own. It’s when you get 1000 trivial things together that a society ceases to exist.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Forget the rest of the series/movies/universe of Star Trek, the Picard speech on the borg, "this far and no farther!", was top notch. That is how a civilization atomizes, bit by bit.
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:53 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)
Of course we know that.. It's just a media headline.. Maybe the perp is hoping for a pardon ....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 10:53 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
Forget the GOP beating him in 2028. If other Democrat candidates can't bloody his nose in the primaries just for his handling of the wildfires, they've all been bought off. He should be easy to punch down if they try.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:54 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Doof
So Sponge is friends with TJM, and you're friends with Sponge. How does that work?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
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[Wifey retorts:] "He just rides The Beast."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (My0zW)
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
I nominate him as the new biggest Democrat retard.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (kz78D)
Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
This from a guy whose party has done it's level best to nationalize health care and every other thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: It's me donna
You would be surprised how many don't. I've got my Fartbook feed lit up right now.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:56 AM (9bIJg)
The problem is that soon we won't have Jerry Nadler to roll around any more.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:56 AM (Riz8t)
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
How is it funded fat ass?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ShainS
Not only does he ride The Beast, he performs dzhigitovka on it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
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[Wifey retorts:] "He just rides The Beast."
Posted by: ShainS
The beast with the hunched back?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (9bIJg)
Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
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Then you can do all that with State -- AND NO FEDERAL -- money, toots.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (9bIJg)
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Everything generally comes full circle here.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (vFG9F)
My grandparents immigrated here with nothing and were hard core into their home customs, language, food. But they learned English, never took a dime of welfare, and were a positive force for good in the community. I learned to love the 4th of July because my grandpa was super into it. They loved this country.
I bet your relatives were the same way. It's NOT the same as the current crop of immigrants.
Also, our relatives never came here and raped people, or the system.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (JwNbV)
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run,
and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
But it keeps them in state run databases? LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (9bIJg)
@PecanC8
Ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta says Trump should be impeached for making “hateful comments” about the Somali community.
“In no normal world should the President of the United States EVER, EVER say something like that to the American people… That was an impeachable moment.”
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Thou shalt not criticize child raping money stealing Somalis!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
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It's just Jerry shitting his drawers again.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 10:59 AM (g8Ew8)
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
Because they were in on it.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (XFXIk)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (Eng1Z)
“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO,” Netflix said. “The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.”
Earlier in the week, Paramount called the sales process unfair and bias toward Netflix, claiming that the “sales process has been tainted by management conflicts, including certain members of management’s potential personal interests in post-transaction roles and compensation as a result of the economic incentives embedded in recent amendments to employment arrangements.”
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (Eng1Z)
Well, we all knew the streaming wars would end in consolidation. I just didn't think Netflix would end up on top.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
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Nice (and we come full-circle again back to the U.S. Grant performing this maneuver in the Mexican-American War)!
kittylevin.wixsite.com/dzhigitovka/history
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)
Interestingly, he also kept buying materials to make bombs AFTER the attempted bombing for a few weeks and then stopped. So, he obviously was pissed it wasn't getting noticed and wanted to try again...and then someone figured him out (dad? mom? feds?) and told him to stop...at least, how else do you describe someone committed to more who just...stops...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (tOcjL)
@PecanC8
Ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta says Trump should be impeached for making “hateful comments” about the Somali community.
“In no normal world should the President of the United States EVER, EVER say something like that to the American people… That was an impeachable moment.”
Yeah they’re not like the icky Conservative Christians clinging to their bibles and guns.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:02 AM (KDPiq)
Normies: wait, babies were getting HEP B SHOTS?
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (KDPiq)
Sorry, but no. It stands for "Before the COMMON Era". Some claim "Before the Christian Era", but as has been pointed out, that is the same thing as BC.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (Riz8t)
As much as I hate the ever increasing use of “provider”, as much as I hate other terms and words today, I despise “CE” and “BCE”. I never have used that fucking bullshit and never will.
BC and AD for me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (6KcYW)
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He wasn't saying it to the American people, but to the Somali Pirate (Technically not Illegal -- but Illegal -- Alien) and rest of the Turd-World's Illegal Alien Invaders.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (My0zW)
Carlos Portugal Gouvea, 43, copped Nov. 13 to a single charge of illegal use of the air rifle in connection with the Oct. 2 incident outside of Brookline’s Temple Beth Zion, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.
The scholar was arrested by ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Wednesday and agreed to return to Brazil voluntarily to avoid deportation, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (sDNVV)
You might want to through a Judeo in there Imp.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 05, 2025 11:19 AM (leQbC)
>>You might want to through a Judeo in there Imp.
Posted by: From about That Time
That was intentional. It's not that there is no influence, but as a matter of civilization, the nuts and bolts of living life, aside from authoring what we call the Old Testament, and you probably call the Torah, the way life was conducted in Europe for 2,800 years was not heavily influenced by Judaic cultural or religious day-to-day practices (during the Temple Eras, or post Temple).
That's why I mentioned them as foundational, but not the same level is Greek or Roman. Someone made an interesting point about how the separation between the king and the priests carried on to what we consider the Judiciary now, and that's fair, but our Western Civilization is Christian civilization.
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 11:29 AM (g6TN6)
Anton Mauve
Very nice. Would certainly consider hanging.
Thanks for the lovely lead-in to the weekend.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 05, 2025 11:32 AM (NFX2v)
@mazemoore
One of the worst takes you will ever see.
2022. Mehdi Hasan and another race-baiter claim that the January 6th pipe bomber has not been caught because the person is white.
According to Hasan, if the bomber had been black or muslim, he would have already been caught.
https://tinyurl.com/a6hf7pac
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (R11M+)
Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (R11M+)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 07:00 PM (wGqjj)
The Morning Report — 12/5/25
The arrest of Brian Cole Jr. on Thursday in connection with the J6 pipe bombing incident is a huge story. But make no mistake, this story is about to be memory-holed by the mainstream media… and fast. . . “Today's arrest happened because the Trump Administration has made this case a priority. The total lack of movement on this case in our nation's capital undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday. “This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI. The FBI, along with US Attorney Pirro and all of our prosecutors, have worked tirelessly for months sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden Junta for four long years. That storyline is a nightmare for Democrats. For years, the Biden team presided over a Justice Department that had endless resources to track down grandmas in MAGA hats using cell phone data, yet somehow could not close in on the one figure whose actions were used to paint January 6 as an organized terror plot. It’s almost as if they figured out who it was and deliberately chose not to pursue him. But, here’s the big reason that this case will be memory-holed faster than you can say 1984: Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . . Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration. . .Later in 2021, Cole’s father appeared at a press event with left-wing attorney Benjamin Crump, angrily criticizing anti-black racism and urging the Biden Justice Department to investigate a Tennessee prosecutor who had expressed concerns about bail bonding practices. They portrayed themselves as victims of systemic bias while also working to weaken enforcement against illegal immigrants, using all the usual leftist buzzwords. This is the environment the alleged bomber emerged from—and the media really wished you never knew that, and will do everything they can to make this story go away.Funny, just as the Biden-imported Afghan terrorist shooter story as well as the Tim Walz Somali immigrant community billion dollar-plus fraud story is breaking as well as the ongoing illegal alien crime wave as well as the ongoing indigenous American inner city crime wave at the behest and intentional malfeasance of primarily Soros-backed pro crime DAs and politicians continues to decimate and terrorize the citizenry, ironically enough of blue cities and states and Democrat constituencies. Whatever one thinks about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, the events of 1/6/21 in and around the Capitol were completely staged and or distorted by the Democrats with the aiding and abetting of local law enforcement and elements, including top leadership of our national intelligence and law enforcement agencies. We know for a fact that there were numerous, perhaps at least a couple of dozen FBI plants among the "violent protesters" that roamed the halls of the Capitol as Congress was convening to vote on the Electoral College results. And lest we forget that none of them forced their way in, but were allowed into the building by Capitol PD and in most instances were even escorted around the building by them. There was no rioting or violent except for the brutal murder of two unarmed women, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland by the hands of Capitol PD officers, Michael Byrd gunning down Babbitt in cold blood, and others as yet to the best of my knowledge unidentified who beat and stomped Boyland to death. And all this was used by Malig-Nancy Pelosi who as Speaker of the House had direct control over the Capitol PD and who prior to 1/6 refused President Trump's request to reinforce them iwht National Guard troops to prevent the violence that she fomented while now shedding crocodile tears over.
Elsewhere, there are a couple of other things happening that I think are worthy of mention that breaking events such as the aforementioned are overtaking. The other day President Trump and the Lee Zeldin directed EPA ditched Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants disastrous luddite CAFE standards
As the White House correctly put it, “The Biden standards would have compelled widespread shifts to EVs that American consumers did not ask for, accompanied by significant cost-of-living increases. Since EVs are so expensive to build, automakers must sell them at a loss and make up the difference by significantly raising the sticker price of gas cars.” As a refresher, the CAFE standards came into being during the 1970s energy crisis – a crisis itself caused by inept government regulations. The standards require the fleet of cars sold by a manufacturer to meet government-dictated average fuel-economy targets, or face hefty annual fines. . . . . . From the beginning, these standards were a disaster, forcing automakers to radically downsize their fleet, which research showed cost thousands of lives because, all things being equal, smaller, lighter cars are less safe than larger ones.BINGO that last sentence. It's all about the freedom to choose. Beyond the insanity of EVs, the enviro commies were making war on SUV's for the same bullshit reasons of saving the planet because fossil fuels were evil. Forgetting all that, what the communists want is to take away your freedom of movement period, regardless of what kind of vehicle you may or may not be allowed to drive, or what they will or will not allow to be manufactured. Freedom of movement as where and when you want is freedom of choice. Bravo President Trump. Of course should God-Forbid another Democrat let alone possibly a hardcore Maoist ever assume power again, all this could and likely will go away and once again
They also resulted in cars being stripped of anything that added weight – including spare tires –dreary designs that only a socialist could love, and stuffed with hated features such as the “start-stop” system.
But the administration’s move, while welcome, isn’t as big a deal as it might seem. After all, the best solution would be to jettison CAFE standards entirely, not ratchet them up more slowly. The justification for these standards – an energy crisis – is long gone, and the government simply has no business dictating what kind of cars, or how many of each kind, automakers must sell.
again we'd be subject to the whims of DIck Nixon's worst crime — creating the EPA. Funny I seem to remember way back when when Obama crowed that Bin Laden is dead and that GM is alive. But in order to supposedly resuscitate GM he committed an act of robbery so brazen as to beggar the imagination: Robbing GM's stockholders!
Correction, per commenter r hennigantx, he robbed the first-in-line bondholders!! Meh, he did it to bail out the UAW right before the 2012 election. On that note, we had this story that broke the other day which although has a happy ending, falls way short in what the Left crows about "restorative Justice!" And I use that term sarcastically, but justice is still a long way off:
The Obama administration introduced many Americans to the character of his Chicago-style politics -- cronyism, favoritism, and corruption. And though there's been a political change of course, the awful consequences of that for some workers linger.And of course, the Left is gunning for Hegseth because he's effective as a military leader, restoring sanity to our military, the last bastion of Americanism that the Left has tried to tear down, and declare him a war criminal in order to protect their Communist drug running allies in central and South America. If Hegseth can weather these storms and continue to succeed in helping smash Narco and perhaps Islamo-terrorists while restoring pride in our military as the massive gains in recruitment have indicated, then he burnishes his credentials as a potential GOP presidential candidate if not in 2028 then perhaps '32 or '36! We should live so long (and see it happen!) Have a great weekend. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
One of them is elderly Vietnam War veteran Ed Bambas, who's now 88, working at the Meijer grocery chain in Brighton, Michigan, trying to get by without a pension, having lost his in Barack Obama's multi-billion-dollar GM and Chrysler bailouts, which were all about favoritism for union members at the expense of everyone else. He was recently seen on social media answering questions from an 'influencer' about his dire condition -- a very old man forced to work retail without any retirement benefits despite years of work for Delphi, a GM-affiliated company that went down in the automobile-industry meltdown around the start of Obama's first term.
He got his pension pulled as the taxpayers shelled out $80 billion for GM and Chrysler. He also lost medical coverage and most of his life insurance, at a time when his wife was in the hospital. He sold his house to pay her medical bills and was left with nothing. He may be in for a happier ending, now that the influencer, Samuel Weidenhofer, has raised a $1.5 million pension for him, from small-dollar donations, mostly little guys who see this problem resonating. (Bill Ackman, who may be the well-regarded hedge fund manager, is listed as the top donor at $10,000.) . . .
. . . It's good for him, given that he had an unusual run of cruelly bad luck. . . But the obvious question is how many more out there are like him?
Based on what I found, there were about 20,000 of them, and treated just as badly as Bambas was.
In a stunning example of favoritism, the United Auto Workers union members got their pensions topped up to the max by the taxpayers based on the Obama administration's illegal interference -- and anyone who wasn't in the union, such as the workers at Delphi, got stiffed, despite all of them working for the same automobile behemoth.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Trump's move could result in the rebirth of the once great American car.
By Gutting CAFE, Trump Can Make Autos Beautiful Again
- Pete Hegseth is facing a calculated smear campaign because he threatens the entrenched establishment reshaping America’s military into something weaker and more political.
The War on Pete Hegseth
- Victor Davis Hanson: If Gen Z is not found soon, the result for everyone will not be pretty.
Can the ‘Lost Generation’ Be Found?
- J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,
- The moment the public sees that the alleged bomber comes out of the world of immigration activism and race-driven grievance politics, the story loses its usefulness for the corporate media gatekeepers. . . Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.
The J6 Pipe Bomber Story Is About to Get Memory-Holed. Here’s Why - Brian Cole, a bail bondsman for illegal immigrants, hired Trayvon Martin’s attorney in 2021.
Alleged D.C. Pipe Bomber Sued Trump DHS Over Illegal Immigration, Asked Biden DOJ To Address Racism
- An individual who is either Brian Cole Jr. himself or his father, Brian Cole Sr., contributed $3,000 to Vincent Dixie, a Democrat state Representative in Tennessee. Meanwhile, Cole Jr. has been “linked to statements in support of anarchist ideology.” (hired by Pelosi and Brennan - jjs)
(Surprise!) Alleged January 6 Pipe Bomber’s Family Are Democrat Donors.
- Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper skewered for calling black DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a ‘white man’ on air (Jake Tapper is a bipedal shitstain - jjs) NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage - World Relief accused Trump of "retraumatizing" Afghan refugees one day before Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot two soldiers.
Religious NGO That Settled Afghan Shooter Condemned Trump For Additional Vetting Order CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - IMPACT: Walz’s comments come despite much of the political violence in 2025 and 2024 being carried out by far-left extremists, such as the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk and the attempted assassinations of President Trump.
Tim Walz Complains That Calling Him Retarded Will Lead to Violence.
(but equating Trump and conservatives with Hitler leads to what?! - jjs)
- When conservatives appeal to the Constitution, what they don’t recognize that leftists are operating from a completely different mental framework.
Ideology and Authority in America "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - Work permits issued to foreign nationals who’ve applied for asylum or other humanitarian programs will only be valid for 18 months rather than five years, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Thursday. The decision marks the latest action by the agency tasked with managing the country’s immigration system, since two National Guard members were ambushed by an Afghan man shortly before Thanksgiving.
Trump Admin Dramatically Scales Back Work Permits For Asylum Seekers - If we pretend that America was built by people and cultures that quite literally could not have built America, then we aren’t just misremembering our past, we are losing the future that our actual ancestors secured for us.
Fiat-faced degenerate wog Pramila Jayapal Thinks Everyone In The World Built America Except Americans DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - Investigators exposed a major weakness inside the Obamacare scheme. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows the same Social Security number to run through the enrollment process multiple times. In other words, it was designed for fraud.
GAO Bombshell Reveals Obamacare Fraud on a Massive Scale (Remember, it was designed to fail so that the gov't could just take over the healthcare industry lock stock and barrel - jjs) - There are still 20,000 Delphi workers who didn't get theirs, either.
Elderly vet robbed of his pension in Obama's auto bailout is made whole with crowdfunding CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Muneeb was charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and to destroy records, two counts of computer fraud, theft of government records, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, while Sohaib was charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud, destroying records, and computer fraud.
Twin Brothers Charged with Plotting to Delete Government Databases and Steal Private Info (They also planned on Spit-roasting Debbie Wasserman Schultz as per the Koran - jjs) - Nicole Hernandez, who goes by Nikki Baird, was hit with four felony counts of having “unlawful sexual relations with a student” in May after local police received a tip regarding a social media post indicating that the 30-year-old Wichita North High School art teacher, who is married, was engaged in illegal activity with the alleged victim, the Wichita Eagle reported in July.
Police: Kansas ‘Teacher of the Month’ Groomed Boy into Sex, Showed Up at His Job When He Cut Her Off - This week a Washington Post puff piece leaped to the defense of the progressive district attorneys propelled into office by the campaign cash of billionaire George Soros, portraying these prosecutors as well-meaning reformers besieged by racist Republicans.
Nazi War Criminal George Soros wrecked American criminal justice — one leftist DA at a time OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - In promoting “inclusion,” BDS advocates hurt Jews, Druze, Muslims, Christians and many others.
An Israeli Druze Academic Laments Effect of BDS on Israel’s Minorities
- The young Christian is challenging an ordinance that restricts street preaching.
Supreme Court To Weigh In On Christian Evangelist’s Street Preaching Battle With City WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - And local authorities are giving the men named ‘Mohammed’ a pass.
A Somali Rape Crisis in Minnesota
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - The Washington Post’s ‘war crimes’ hoax is part of a longstanding media campaign to take out War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The Media’s ‘War Crimes’ Hoax Was Always About Taking Out Hegseth - A Labour Party thinktank cutout posing as a grassroots anti-“Fake News” group worked to kneecap left-wing outlets that were a threat to its globalist-left worldview, and right-wing outlets that positively covered U.S. President Donald Trump and ‘Mr Brexit’ Nigel Farage, it is claimed. The revelations come in an article published by Dropsite News by South African investigative journalist Paul Holden, citing “a trove of documents that expose the operation” and promoting his forthcoming book.
UK PM’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney Ran Secret Censorship Campaign to Destroy Breitbart News: Report
- The American left doesn’t look at the United Kingdom and see a cautionary tale, it sees a template to follow.
Democrats Would Like To Suppress Free Speech The Way Britain Does RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - House lawmakers want the IRS to investigate Energy Foundation China's tax-exempt status
Chinese Climate Group Led by CCP Insiders Gave More Than $1M to Harvard and University of California in 2024, Tax Filings Show
- Have you noticed that the climate alarmists are not “alarming” anymore?
I guess that the world is not ending soon
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - "I want people to realize that we are meant to celebrate what we have in common instead of dividing and fighting over our differences"
Kent State Singing Group Bans White Students From Solos, Disciplines Member Who Objected (Let's call up the National Guard for a reprise of 1970! - jjs)
- The conference, which occurred at the end of Notre Dame's seminar, also included sessions denouncing whiteness and attacking Asian Americans
‘Proud of My Alma Mater’: Dem Senate Candidate Mallory McMorrow Praised ‘White Privilege’ Seminar That Included Trip to Racially Segregated Conference
- The legislation aims to safeguard American students from CCP propaganda and foreign influence in schools.
House GOP Introduces Bills to Block CCP Influence in U.S. Education.
- By silencing critics, pushing politics, or imposing beliefs, school districts fail in their central mission of education. And the means of failure are unconstitutional.
Public schools are failing students by obstructing free speech rights
- Ideological homogeneity and radicalism on college campuses are driving away potential students.
The Political Causes of Higher Education’s Decline ABORTION - Give me the pro-lifer, I’ll find you the crime.
SCOTUS blasts New Jersey attorney general for malicious subpoena DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - Probably better than being known as the governor who let Somalis steal $1 billion.
Gov. Tim Walz Makes His Retardation Into National Issue
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has found herself in yet another scandal, and this time it involves unpaid bills on her own luxury condo while she burns through tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash on five-star hotels and limousine rides. Dallas County records reveal that Crockett has been carrying an unpaid lien of more than $3,000 on her upscale condominium for over a year, raising fresh questions about her judgment as she flirts with a Senate run.
Another Scandal for Jasmine Crockett
POLITICS - The court’s conservative majority – Justices Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett – agreed that a lower court did not have the authority to invalidate the map as a racial gerrymander. The court’s liberals – Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jacks0n – voted against the revival.
Supreme Court Permits Texas GOP to Keep Redistricted Congressional Map for 2026
- New Manhattan Institute polling shows it’s still mainstream Americans.
Who’s the Future of the Right?
- Here are a few suggestions on how to pull it off.
Can Trump Win the Midterms?
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - Is the Pope willing to admit what Erdogan’s approval means?
Erdogan Praises Pope for His Stance on ‘Palestinians’ - But who's the real destabilizer?
Trump Speaks to Netanyahu, Warns Israel Not to ‘Interfere’ in Syria THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - Fred Fleitz: Trump’s push for a Ukraine deal is grinding forward, proving both that progress exists and that ending the war will demand tougher, tighter, long-haul diplomacy.
A Long-Term Trump Strategy to End the Russia-Ukraine War
- Russia’s state program that turns children into soldiers. (meh US Academia turns kids into Antifa cadres - jjs)
Moscow’s Young Army Project
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - I'd also add that the Maduro regime is inviting China and Russia into our hemisphere and propping up Cuba, but you get the idea. It's a problem with a semi-simple solution. The people of that country voted overwhelmingly for a president last summer, and he's sitting in Europe in exile with a strong plan for the first 100 days after Maduro falls, waiting to take over. We've got allies in the region who are ready to help and support any action we take.
Maduro’s Ex-Insider Turns Snitch, Sends Trump an Explosive Letter - The passage of the law sparked outrage in Beijing, where the Chinese Communist Party demanded that Washington adhere to the “One China Principle”: its false claim that Taiwan is a province of China rightfully governed by the Communist Party. In reality, Taiwan is a sovereign state whose government and institutions run entirely independent of the Communist Party; Taiwan has never been governed by a regime headquartered in Beijing.
Taiwan Thanks Trump for Signing Law Reviewing Relationship: ‘A Firm Symbol of Our Shared Values’
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled the plan, which aims to put partner nations over wealthy NGO executives.
The Trump Administration’s New Foreign Aid Model Cuts Out The ‘NGO Industrial Complex’ HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - The debate over the subsidies could affect healthcare premiums and whether reforms like income caps or abortion funding restrictions are included.
Senate Democrats Reveal Plan to Keep Obamacare on Life Support.
- Taxpayers could be losing up to $27 billion annually due to improper Obamacare payments, while patients face higher costs and denied or delayed care.
Govt Watchdog Uncovers $94m in Obamacare Subsidies Fraudulently Paid for Dead People.
- GOP = Grifting Oleaginous Parasites - jjs
A Dozen Republican Lawmakers Sign Letter in Support of Extending Affordable Care Act Subsidies - "You cannot sideline parents,” HHS Secretary RFK Jr. said on Wednesday.
HHS To Investigate Midwestern School Accused Of Vaccinating Child Against Parents’ Wishes - While attacking PBMs might seem well-intentioned, it turns out to be the wrong target and a misguided strategy.
Targeting PBMs could raise drug prices
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - Robert Zimmerman: "I say without fear that all of this is blather, and means nothing in the long run. The American space program is no longer being run by NASA, and all of NASA’s present plans with Artemis, using SLS, Orion, and the Lunar Gateway station, are ephemeral, transitory, and will by history be seen as inconsequential by future space historians."
Yesterday’s Senate nomination hearing for Jared Isaacman was irrelevant; America’s real space “program” is happening elsewhere CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
- The New York Post reports that AT&T, the Dallas-based telecom company with over 110,000 employees in the United States, has announced its decision to eliminate its DEI policies. This move comes in response to pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who has made it clear that companies will not be approved for crucial FCC licenses until they axe policies that discriminate on topics like race, gender, and sexual orientation.
AT&T Pledges to Eliminate DEI Policies After Pressure from Brendan Carr’s FCC
- The backlash to one of America’s most beloved country brands has been anything but imaginary.
After Rebranding Fiasco, Cracker Barrel Takes It On The Chin In Latest Shareholder Meeting (On the chin or up the culo - jjs)
- “These neo-pioneers have preserved an insight that the modern left has abandoned.”
What the Left Can Learn From Homesteaders
- What gives authenticity to the human experience isn’t found in technology, however valuable. Technology is supposed to be a helper, not a replacement. Society is people, not machines.
The Great American Birth Dearth - Discovering our great Republic anew.
Restoring America’s Beauty and Promise
- Can we change?
4 Reasons Our Society is Collapsing ("WE" are sinking because we are being dragged down to the infernal reaches by the Leftist/Islamic Axis of Evil. - jjs) HITHER & YON - Christian Toto: Surprise parody brings big laughs in the grand 'Naked Gun' style
‘Fackham Hall’ Is the Parody We Didn’t Know We Needed
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8h
This is actually insane!! 👀👇🏼
“I thought it’d be interesting to try to figure out what percentage of the fraudsters that have already been identified or the organizations came out of Ilhan Omar’s congressional district.
You know what I found? Nearly 95 to 100% of the fraud came from people from her congressional district.”
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 07:39 AM (USosD)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 07:39 AM (lXoJ5)
Somehow they think impeaching Hegseth will 1) go anywhere and 2) win the public to the side of ... narco-terrorists?
But remember, these are all the same people that were 100% sure that, once the public heard the evidence, that "8 times Trump asked Ukraine to manufacture evidence on Biden" ...
And then, once the public saw their truth about J6 ...
And then, once the public saw Trump convicted of felonies ....
So, you know, impeccable track record of success.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 07:39 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 07:40 AM (wZvvl)
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 07:41 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 07:43 AM (8CIFn)
JJ I must beg to differ. He robbed the rightful first in line Bondholders. Somewhere around $10 Billion. Next he allow the Pension Fund to be included in the Chapter 11 but DID NOT force GM to buying into the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. Saving another $5 Billion or so.
PS There is a story of a 88 YO grocery store workers that had to go back to work and just received a $1 M go fund me so he could finally retire.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)
You really can't hate these people enough.
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 07:41 AM (xNHSX)
As I said, Tapper is a bipedal Shitstain.
Somewhere in hell Joseph Goebbels is laughing his ass off.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 05, 2025 07:44 AM (x0n13)
Do tell!
Posted by: guy who only read the comments at December 05, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 05, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
They also radio for help.
Should have waited for the second boat and killed them too.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)
You can't make this stuff up. Or can you?
Posted by: guy who doesn't believe anything at December 05, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)
Next time there's a hurricane poised to hit the US, it'll be back in full force. They're still shrieking about how SE Asia is having flooding in flood-prone areas because of GW.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:47 AM (sDNVV)
Seasonal Acute Depression is a thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 07:48 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:49 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 07:49 AM (bNzW0)
Another son of BHussein.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)
They like paying taxes there in yankee land.
Posted by: Zombie J.E.B Stuart at December 05, 2025 07:50 AM (m8zKa)
It would be easier to climb Mt. Everest using a Pogo stick than getting them to answer.
Plan B: contact the local office of my Congressman, Tracey Mann (KS-1) and ask for help. His staff are a helpful group of people who answer on the first ring.
May none of you need this kind of assistance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 05, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
Isaiah 7:14
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 07:50 AM (TTPRc)
Seasonal Acute Depression is a thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 07:48 AM (NwnyJ)
It may not make sense, but on dreary days I make it a point to spend some time at least outdoors. Holing up inside is not a good plan for me.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 07:50 AM (pDt9x)
"Incoherent rage" was the polite way to describe my reaction to what was done to him.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 07:52 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 07:52 AM (bNzW0)
Like GM bondholders, American citizens seems to come in second to terrorist, Mohammedans, and Shithole Countries.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: The GOP at December 05, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)
"Platkin, a Democrat appointed by Gov. Phil Murphy, began scrutinizing pregnancy counseling centers in July 2022 by launching a ‘strike force’ to promote abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision. Platkin said such facilities presented consumer fraud concerns because they misled donors and clients about the services they offered."
Part and parcel of the Four Nos of the Democrats on abortion:
- No restrictions
- No exemptions
- No alternatives
- No opposition
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 07:53 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 07:54 AM (8CIFn)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at December 05, 2025 07:54 AM (53oGX)
Nowhere in that Breitbart article does it name the 12.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)
Here's a picture. She's everything you'd expect her to be:
https://tinyurl.com/3tmn7s6z
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 07:56 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Tom Jones and is Brillo hair at December 05, 2025 07:56 AM (PyO3M)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 05, 2025 07:57 AM (Cjt/F)
The website I go to for logging my hours at work is misbehaving this morning.
It's also the day I'm supposed to submit my timesheet so that I can get paid.
Hope it starts working again by this afternoon.
Fun times.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:58 AM (ESVrU)
Of course, that was the same administration that decided that the banking system must be bailed out and be made whole so that the management teams got their bonuses, while hundreds of thousands of people lost their houses, because somebody had to be punished for eliminating lending standards.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 07:58 AM (0U5gm)
Think more "something more global." And, yes, more pliable to the dictates of Davos, to enforce the globalism they desire.
Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 07:58 AM (8PdV+)
>> If Hegseth can weather these storms and continue to succeed in helping smash Narco and perhaps Islamo-terrorists while restoring pride in our military as the massive gains in recruitment have indicated, then he burnishes his credentials as a potential GOP presidential candidate if not in 2028 then perhaps '32 or '36! We should live so long (and see it happen!)
Ha! Trump's cabinet = GOP farm team future party leaders
May they all continue to shine after their positions under Trump.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 07:59 AM (GbwPZ)
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Dec 3
Brother-humper Omar says debating Americans is hard because of the level of stupidity in this country.
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/
1996415115915313327
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 08:00 AM (USosD)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 08:00 AM (8CIFn)
"Quiet you fool! If you tell them, then we have to pay them!" -Average VA rep.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 08:00 AM (lXoJ5)
Yep… watch the media ignore the story now
Thanks JJ and happy Friday all… I might just pretend to work this morning. I’m tired and cranky
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 08:03 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 08:04 AM (Q+gd/)
Here's a picture. She's everything you'd expect her to be:
https://tinyurl.com/3tmn7s6z
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 07:56 AM
++++
Sorry to be That Guy, but the post has two typos: correct the spelling to read "unconscious" and it's "Capitol" not Capital."
Posted by: That Guy at December 05, 2025 08:04 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 08:07 AM (31rKq)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 08:07 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 08:09 AM (8CIFn)
Oh wait, not Trump:
A new book on the 2012 presidential campaign claims that President Barack Obama told aides that he is "really good at killing people."
According to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the authors of Double Down: Game Change 2012, Obama made the comment while discussing drone strikes last year. CNN's Peter Hamby noted the anecdote in his review of the book for the Washington Post. . .
The quote comes in the context of both the drone program and the killing of Osama bin Laden by a special forces strike force. The passage also specifically references the death of another al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:09 AM (GbwPZ)
What's your reason for watching any of them?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 05, 2025 08:10 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: That Guy at December 05, 2025 08:04 AM (XQo4F)
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Seriously?
It's not my post to correct. I merely linked it for the picture.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 08:10 AM (3ImbR)
Even brave firefighters like me sometimes blow it, ok? You should be grateful I'm saving Our Precious Democracy.
Posted by: Jake Tapper, Ponce at December 05, 2025 08:10 AM (KWbVO)
Posted by: Musikologist at December 05, 2025 08:10 AM (oftw2)
There are 12 Million ObamaDONTcare enrollees with ZERO claims for the 2024 year.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THIS DUMB B#TCH HAS ALWAYS TALKED TRASH ABOUT AMERICA AND AMERICANS -- AND WE NOW HAVE A PREZZY WILLING TO TAKE THE TRASH OUT
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 05, 2025 08:13 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Musikologist at December 05, 2025 08:10 AM (oftw2)
retards to the left of me BroFkrs to the right
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)
What's your reason for watching any of them?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 05, 2025 08:10 AM (XQo4F)
I don’t watch much but when I do it’s to see what lies they’re telling… and of course we hear about their idiocy here as well. So it’s not hard to keep track of how bad they are without watching regularly…. Oh, I watched on election night to see their downcast faces. Schaudenfreude
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 08:13 AM (YobFY)
"According to Mark Halperin..."
"In 2017, Halperin was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct during his time at ABC News, leading to his dismissal from NBC News, Showtime, and other media partnerships." (Wiki)
So he's got that going for him.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 05, 2025 08:13 AM (XQo4F)
I think they knew who it was back then.
But, I'm willing to entertain the likelihood of systemic incompetence.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 08:15 AM (NwnyJ)
thats puke right there in the back of my throat
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)
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1. You can only falsely predict ecological disaster for so many decades with no repercussions.
2. There is too much money to be made in AI, which needs actual energy instead of unicorn energy.
It can be both.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:16 AM (0U5gm)
Basically, "just because you kids put a whole lot of time and effort into smearing shit on the walls, doesn't mean we have to call it good."
LOL, you can tell those three are getting real tired of the stupid shit from the Left Bloc.
The most laughably dishonest line from the dissent was where they were all going on about how they need to follow the rule that defers to the trial court and then drops this turd, "I would have the same position if the district court would have decided the other way."
Ain't a snowball's chance in hell you would have upheld the trial court if it ruled that the maps were not racist, you lying bitch.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 08:16 AM (HXT0k)
Wonder what bail bond daddy been doing in the dark?
Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 08:18 AM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 08:18 AM (wzUl9)
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All of it is laughable - including every line of the majority ruling, as well.
Posted by: Article III at December 05, 2025 08:19 AM (KWbVO)
Just did a mile walk to my local convenience store. It's 8° out. Thankfully no wind. Lungs get cold though
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 08:20 AM (bfwj/)
Worked for a software company for many years that created boring invoice auditing programs. Creating unique record keys in tables within the database to prevent duplicate records is a basic, maybe the most basic, thing when creating a data model. I'm not a coder, but even I know this.
Yes, this was intentional. Just Obama's campaign team disabling the fields of their online donations page that would have prevented foreign donations.
None of the stuff he did as a mistake. Not stupid or incompetent - intentionally allowing massive corruption.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:20 AM (GbwPZ)
THEM HERE
THERE HERE
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)
Religious NGO That Settled Afghan Shooter Condemned Trump For Additional Vetting Order
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Out: No more blood for oil!
In: No more blood for NGOs!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 08:20 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Lizzy
There seems to be a small number of us in the country who aren't scamming the system every day. The suckers.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:21 AM (0U5gm)
The lack of focus by the GOP and the RNC on the coming midterms is stunningly ignorant and dangerous.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 08:22 AM (TTPRc)
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Kagan don't know shit.
Hell, she's only got two names!
Posted by: Pretty much every other female Supreme Court justice ever at December 05, 2025 08:23 AM (XQo4F)
JJ seems to have considered that unnewsworthy
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 08:24 AM (31rKq)
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It still sells to Euroboomers.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 08:24 AM (0XD7L)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 08:25 AM (NpAcC)
The lack of focus by the GOP and the RNC on the coming midterms is stunningly ignorant and dangerous.
Posted by: Marcus T
I was listening to a UK podcast group just the other day. In their opinion, if the democrats take power again, it will mean not just imprisonment for republican supporters, but death for many. They are not willing to entertain any limits on their power anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:25 AM (0U5gm)
THEM HERE
THERE HERE
Posted by: r hennigantx
We're being fundamentally transformed. Thanks Obama!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 08:25 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 08:25 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at December 05, 2025 08:26 AM (vFG9F)
Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele: Just tell us what happened at the chopper pad. But First a number.
Warrent Officer Martin 'Marty' Williams: [pause, and looks at Hawkeye and Henry] Sir?
Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele: A musical number. Why it's in your blood boy!
[singing and dancing]
Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele: When the sun goes down, and the darkies go to town, Hey hey what do you say.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA)
Really, NY Post? REALLY? It. Was. NOT. A. Gaffe.
Fake Tapper is a duplicitous, inveterate, unashamed, unabashed professional liar. No "gaffe" about it. It was a deliberate LIE, and his idiot viewers will believe it. Which was the entire point. There is an especially hot corner of Hades reserved for Fake Tapper and his ilk.
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 08:26 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 08:25 AM (NpAcC)
If I ever get back my blue jean
Lord, how happy could one man be
If I ever get back my blue jean
Lord, how happy could one man be
Because if I get back those blue jeans
You know my baby
Be bringing them home to me
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (gbOdA)
Tax rates are set by law. That'd be thrown out PDQ.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 08:25 AM (NpAcC)
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Dang it!
*** Takes off black jeans, walks around pantsless the rest of the day since it's not Sunday ***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)
That is their job, isn't it?
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney's pants at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (5rh/l)
By J11 or J12
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)
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Neither wish the current status quo to change. We, us here, have a pretty good idea how bad the corruption is in government. Most of the public doesn't.
If the Republicans retain a majority Trump stands a reasonable chance of making inroads to deal with the corruption. This is basically messing with the political establishment's livelihood.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 08:28 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:28 AM (0U5gm)
I always giggle every time you post. It's ridiculous the Demoncrats are speaking about "affordability" when it was the Biden cabal that brought us such high inflation.
Posted by: AliasJonesJones at December 05, 2025 08:29 AM (GLmO1)
Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 08:29 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 08:29 AM (W7XSX)
That is their job, isn't it?
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (W7XSX)
Why did GMAC be allowed to reorg as Ally Bank and get back into the wait
wait
wait for
Auto Loan Business
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (Dv3i1)
Well, shit. I guess that the only reasonable, and moral, thing to do... in order to protect them from further trauma... is to round them all up and ship them to countries which will treat them with the respect and care they deserve.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)
These people have a Narrative, coordinated talking points disseminated by some unaccountable spook agency somewheres. Just following orders you see.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (wO3Gh)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)
These people have a Narrative, coordinated talking points disseminated by some unaccountable spook agency somewheres. Just following orders you see.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (wO3Gh)
Or ask for your change in nipples and dimes
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 08:32 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Retard Strength at December 05, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)
After being ordered to do so by the government.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Common Tater
Next time JD Vance is on to spar with Tapper, he should mock him mercilessly. "Why should anyone trust what you have to say when you lie so shamelessly?"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 08:33 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2025 08:27 AM (5rh/l)
By J11 or J12
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)
I’ve firmly believed this since mid-2021
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 08:33 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 08:22 AM (TTPRc)
(sigh)
Marcus, you know the real reason for it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 05, 2025 08:33 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Theater Trivia at December 05, 2025 08:33 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 05, 2025 08:33 AM (ph+d0)
Walz further complained that he has yet to see any elected Republicans agree with him that such behavior is “shameful,” saying, “I’m worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts, and they turn to violence.”
Obligatory: Charlie Kirk could not be reached for comment.
Unbelievable, he's upset that Republicans, who are being shot at, forced to like on military bases due to death threats, and Charlie killed, aren't concerned he's being called a "retard." lolgf
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:34 AM (GbwPZ)
Finally, Lloyd Doggett of TX, the Marxist old man, is finally gone after Scotus decision yesterday.
Mike Rogers of Michigan looking strong for 2026 Senate at this point, as Dem candidates are very weak. Rats will have to spend big $$$$ up there
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)
I believe that every media figure should be a despised and unwanted media figure.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
Kiss the Russian flag
Sing the Russian national anthem
Assemble and operate firearms
Participate in mock combat
Prepare for “battle against Ukraine” if “Ukraine attacks Russia.”
Accept the idea that Ukraine is a “Nazi state” with no legitimacy
About the same as going to Public Schools here in the US.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)
___
Alternate headline, "Garbage Entertainment Industry will Produce Even More Garbage"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 08:34 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 08:35 AM (9bIJg)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:35 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 08:36 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Sydney Sweeny's boobs at December 05, 2025 08:36 AM (Y1sOo)
Next time you're bitching about Where Are Kulchur Has Went, keep this in mind. This person was educated at your expense.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 05, 2025 08:36 AM (zdLoL)
That is their job, isn't it?
Posted by: no one
The Delphi pension plan, which was fully funded, was stripped of its assets by the federal government. In addition, the bond holders, who are first in line in a bankruptcy, were stripped of their rights, in order to give 100% of the funds to the union.
The PBGC eliminated the pension for salaried employees.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:36 AM (0U5gm)
Sometimes the truth hurts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 08:36 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (My0zW)
via I-35 N
17 hr 14 min without traffic
This route has tolls.
So I could be in a position to yell RETARD at Tampon Tim around 1 AM tomorrow morning
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)
I know, huh? Makes me feel all warm, no doubt because I pay my bills and taxes...
No, wait. That's not why I'm warm...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 08:29 AM (Oy/m2)
When I go places
I just don't care
You'd know why if you'd see what I wear
Black slacks pegged fourteen
Black slacks, really are keen
Black slacks make a cool daddy-o
When I put them on I'm a-rarin' to go...
Posted by: Zombie Joe Bennett And The Sparkletones at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (m8zKa)
Yes of course the virus is real but the op was to shut down the country and sow panic over what is essentially the flu
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (YobFY)
They put him up to it?
I'm remembering that one of the ISIS guys was on the phone w/undercover FBI outside of the Texas "draw Mohammed" event right before he got shot. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:38 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:20 AM (GbwPZ)
Because everyone in the upper echelon of government gets some form of kickback from the corruption.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)
That is, it can't be called racist just because it involves race and that some people of that race don't like the outcome--they have to prove a similar (and Constitutional) outcome could have been achieved that isn't racist.
Or: If you say it's racist, show us how you would have done it.
Why that looms larger than the left realizes is, it's telegraphing the majority-minority district ruling.
And the CA districting ruling.
The left is going to be howling mad.
And their legal experts will have no clue why the CA districting is different--and unconstitutional--from the TX districting.
That is, seeking to increase partisan advantage is not the same as seeking to increase Hispanic representation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 08:38 AM (HXT0k)
But now there’s another factor I strongly suspect; I believe a whole lot of “respectable people” in this country are taking money from the drug cartels, especially among Democrat officeholders, and if Maduro is broken that whole game will fall apart.
I think Maduro’s regime is about to crack up, and the people on the payroll are scared he’s really going to do it.
You can sense the absolute desperation in their attempts to stop the pressure on the cartels - this isn’t just ordinary leftist opposition, there’s big money behind these attacks, and they’ve got a lot of supporters still inside the military. (Probably a good part of the senior flag officers that he hasn’t fired yet)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: The ghost of Don Rickles at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (XQo4F)
Netflix gave 200 million to Kamala in 2024.
Trump's FTC should block that sale
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)
Actually I'm much less interested in Sweeney 's boobs that in the fact she seems to be moderate or conservative in her political views
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (GLmO1)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 08:40 AM (W7XSX)
He should be used to it by now.
Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 08:40 AM (Oy/m2)
via I-35 N
17 hr 14 min without traffic
This route has tolls.
So I could be in a position to yell RETARD at Tampon Tim around 1 AM tomorrow morning
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)
What's the Alinsky Rule?
A good strategy in one that your supporters find fun...something like that.
I do find it great that finally we're giving the Alinsky Treatment back to the Dims good and hard thanks to Trump.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 08:41 AM (iJfKG)
I agree with you . A whole lot of politicians are taking money from the cartels.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 08:41 AM (GLmO1)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
https://youtu.be/-cHaufA26B8
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 05, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)
https://youtu.be/tr682-U0_B0 - NSFW
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)
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Make Milton Friedman Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 08:42 AM (My0zW)
Rush use to talk about how Southern provided the National GOP a majority of donations.
due to military and Georgraphy, Cal will always be solvent
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
Welp, Dallas had a game they had to win last night, so naturally they choked.
They were outreached and outplayed by Detroit...No doubt.
But...ewhat the heck happened to Pickens?
It's like he decided to become the Tim Walz of NFL Receivers with his retarded play last night.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (iJfKG)
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Alternate headline, "Garbage Entertainment Industry will Produce Even More Garbage"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 08:34 AM (Dv3i1)
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Netflix entered exclusive negotiations with WB to purchase it while the DOJ has already signaled that Netflix is on its shitlist.
I'm not sure this purchase goes through. It may, but it also may fall apart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (GBKbO)
A good strategy in one that your supporters find fun...something like that.
I do find it great that finally we're giving the Alinsky Treatment back to the Dims good and hard thanks to Trump.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 08:41 AM
This is what I voted for.
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (i+bC1)
And their legal experts will have no clue why the CA districting is different--and unconstitutional--from the TX districting.
That is, seeking to increase partisan advantage is not the same as seeking to increase Hispanic representation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 08:38 AM (HXT0k)
I would hope things will turn out that way - but what I suspect is that the Court is so sick of these redistricting fights that they’re going to rule that any State can redistrict any way it wants for any reason and the Courts will have no say in whatever they decide to do.
Which would be going back to a pre-Warren Court view on the matter.
One good effect of such a ruling - the Congressional Black Caucus will drop down to about 9 or 10 members , at most.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:44 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 05, 2025 08:33 AM (ph+d0)
I assume that all of that content will now be available on Netflix. Consolidation would probably help the streaming services if they didn't just end up raising prices more.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Neil Diamond at December 05, 2025 08:45 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 08:45 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
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The purchase hasn't happened yet. WB has essentially accepted Netflix's opening bid, but there's more talks to have.
Plus, the DOJ will have to approve the purchase for monopoly concerns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney's pants
Shut up. No one cares about you.
Posted by: Sydney Sweeny's boobs at December 05, 2025 08:36 AM (Y1sOo)
I dunno. Sydney has a pretty nice derriere.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
I disagree. In fact I think Cal will move towards insolvency by April.
No one is paying attention to how much the refinery issue is going to ripple.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:46 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney's pants
Shut up. No one cares about you.
Posted by: Sydney Sweeny's boobs
Hey! Hey! Hey! Let's not get too hasty here.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 08:47 AM (9bIJg)
One of the byproducts of this migration was a huge influx of women and children sold into the sex / slavery market.
Hundreds of thousands of them. Paid for by our government.
So, yea. Hegseth is huge liability to all this and must go.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 08:47 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Eddie Fisher at December 05, 2025 08:48 AM (oftw2)
Ok, that's funny right there...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
Legal? Rules? If I taught you idiots anything, there are no "rules" or "legal". Well, off to get pegged by Reggie!
Posted by: Barack Obama, homosexual at December 05, 2025 08:49 AM (m8zKa)
How is that legal?
Posted by: no one
According to a report from the Inspector General for the troubled asset relief program, the UAW hourly employees had the right to vote to approve GM's bankruptcy, and the salaried employees did not. So, they gave all of the money to the people that would vote to reorganize GM as the feds wanted. In other words, those who had power got what they wanted.
Shorter answer, if the feds say it is legal, it is legal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (GLmO1)
I believe that she's primarily silent about her political views. The left shrieks that she's a Nazi because she doesn't shriek about OMB all the time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
Hundreds of thousands of them. Paid for by our government.
Yup, they were making billions in human trafficking.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:50 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 08:52 AM (xNHSX)
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
5 and 6 combined
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)
Plus, the DOJ will have to approve the purchase for monopoly concerns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:45 AM (GBKbO)
Strangely, one of the things that may gum up the works for this deal is one of the dumbest : Professional Wrestling.
Netflix has the streaming rights to WWE. HBO Max (WBD) has the streaming rights to their competitor, AEW (through 2027).
Both will not be able to (nor want to) exist under the same roof.
Especially since UFC (WWE's Sister Company under TKO Holdings)'s streaming rights belong to Paramount/Skydance.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 08:53 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 08:54 AM (lXoJ5)
If Walz is upset about Trump calling him a retard, PDJT should ask him, "OK, do you want to be called a moron, imbecile or idiot instead?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 08:55 AM (tgvbd)
Shorter answer, if the feds say it is legal, it is legal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm)
So it was the Atlas Shrugged Annual Piss and Moan Meeting.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)
I love how that word lost all its power.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 08:54 AM (lXoJ5)
It had the power to get Troon-Chaser Tyler Robinson to shoot Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 08:55 AM (UnA8+)
Netflix has the streaming rights to WWE. HBO Max (WBD) has the streaming rights to their competitor, AEW (through 2027).
Both will not be able to (nor want to) exist under the same roof.
Especially since UFC (WWE's Sister Company under TKO Holdings)'s streaming rights belong to Paramount/Skydance.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 08:53 AM (UnA8+)
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This would be like Fox spinning off its TV news division to allow the purchase of the parent company by Disney a decade back. Wrestling gets spun off, Netflix buys WB.
Though...
https://is.gd/L0dAPX
"“Netflix has been running around Washington trying to convince everyone that their deal is fine from an antitrust standpoint. No one is buying what they’re saying either at senior levels of the White House or DOJ antitrust.”"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:56 AM (GBKbO)
IIRC, she had immediate family who were openly Trump supporters, and the entertainment media tried to shame her about it, got fans to demand she denounce them -- then she didn't.
The entertainment media harassed Taylor Swift for years for not being political, claimed she was a secret Aryan princess to all her Nazi fans (seriously). She gave in to the demands that she get involved -- for the "correct" side -- and went full progressive.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:56 AM (GbwPZ)
I love how that word lost all its power.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 08:54 AM (lXoJ5)
I think the next time a lefty says that I am a Nazi I shall reply with, "No, I am an Imperial Roman. Hail Caesar!"
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
Helmet-wearing short bus riding window licker is a bit much to stay in normal conversation.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (iJfKG)
IMHO the whole team went retarded last night. Ferguson’s fumble, Prescott taking a sack at his own goal line (I think that was a safety…. Refs are awful)…. Lions came to play and Cowboys were sleep walking…. Especially the defense!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (/iXAp)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
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"What makes you think I want single payer healthcare like Hitler did?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Fuck yeah...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)
Representative Mark Green of Tennessee – Resigned early- Matt Van Epps replaced
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia – Resigning early
Representative Troy Nehls of Texas – Retiring
Representative Jodey Arrington of Texas – Retiring
Representative Michael McCaul of Texas – Retiring
Representative Morgan Luttrell of Texas – Retiring
Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska – Retiring
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – Retiring
Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa – Retiring
Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina – Retiring
Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas – Running for Senate
Representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa – Running for Senate
Representative Barry Moore of Alabama – Running for Senate
Representative Mike Collins of Georgia – Running for Senate
Representative Earl "Buddy" Carter of Georgia – Running for Senate
Representative Andy Barr of Kentucky – Running for Senate
Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee – Running for Governor
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama – Running for Governor
Representative Elise Stefanik of New York – Running for Governor
Representative David Schweikert of Arizona – Running for Governor
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (VJXEf)
Representative Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin – Running for Governor
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina – Running for Governor
Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina – Running for Governor
Representative Dusty Johnson of South Dakota – Running for Governor
Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa – Running for Governor
Representative John James of Michigan – Running for Governor
Representative John Rose of Tennessee – Running for Governor
Representative Byron Donalds of Florida – Running for Governor
Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona – Running for Governor
Representative Chip Roy of Texas – Running for Texas Attorney General
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
The funniest one that I saw lately was actor Timothée Chalamet being called a Nazi because he wanted a wife and children.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: The Dairyland Dynamo at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: redridinghood
Anybody got George Will's address? I'd like to send him a card.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)
“Oh! And it’s Scott Jennings with a folding chair across Abby Phillips noggin! She’s sent flying out of the ring! Wait, is that Brian Stelter trying to tap in?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:59 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 08:59 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 08:56 AM (GbwPZ)
Didn't TayTay, for reasons known only to GOD, become friends with Lena Dunham shortly before deciding that she'd made enough money from normal people?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)
Old: Jewish American Princess
New: Aryan American Princess
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (tgvbd)
Both want a new Mercedes the Aryan wants it to be The Mercedes-Benz 770, also known as the Großer Mercedes.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)
They like paying taxes there in yankee land.
Posted by: Zombie J.E.B Stuart at December 05, 2025 07:50 AM (m8zKa)
We'll just close every single military installation and all federal installations in Rebel Land and you'll all cry.
Posted by: Yankee Land Dude at December 05, 2025 09:01 AM (5xuJ/)
Check the fine print, some states have it in their constitution that the taxpayer, the non-pension holder is on the hook for it when it all goes Tango Uniform.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Pq0CS)
I love how that word lost all its power.
Posted by: NR Pax
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No soup for you!
Come back - one year!
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 05, 2025 09:02 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)
I'm betting that Dejah Thoris was no less clothed in the 3D version than in the 2D version. Pointless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)
I'm guessing they're just pissed off that the grooming didn't take after he made the gay grooming movie "Call Me By Your Name" (or whatever)? He's so pretty, why does he crave a woman and kids?!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:02 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 09:03 AM (wVcYX)
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
@ImMeme0
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BREAKING: Elon Musk’s X platform has been hit with a €120 million ($140 million) fine for allegedly violating the European Union’s controversial content-moderation law.
TRANSLATION: Unelected bureaucrats are now bullying companies and punishing anyone who refuses to follow their manufactured rules and dares to allow free speech.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Pq0CS)
Much like the less than 60 YO workers owe the Over 62 YO workers 1 7th of their paychecks.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)
I'm pretty sure this guy is 100% Correct as to the reasons for the "delayed" identification of the J6 bomb planter by "Our" FBI:
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/199673748812
4101099
Now, I want them to drill down hard on the Las Vegas massacre.
More than likely something very very similar is at work there.
There's no reason or excuse why this should be a "mystery".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)
Yes, yes she did. Idiot.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:04 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Pq0CS)
Little known history - the State of Arkansas had to declare bankruptcy during the depression, and default on much of their debt. It can happen again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 09:05 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 09:05 AM (bfwj/)
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[To wit, and a long but important post as Loomer advocates for Trump's next scalp (with J.D. Vance hardest hit?);]
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨SECRETARY OF THE ARMY’S OFFICE PLOTTING COUP AT THE PENTAGON TO REMOVE @SecWar PETE HEGSETH AND REPLACE HIM WITH @SecArmy DAN DRISCOLL 🚨
[details snipped]
https://is.gd/tnwO9G
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:05 AM (f7ucq)
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s X platform has been hit with a €120 million ($140 million) fine for allegedly violating the European Union’s controversial content-moderation law.
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Europe. Can't innovate. Can't cash in on any innovations they do make. So their only way of competing is to fine and regulate anyone who can.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:05 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (JwNbV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)
What does George think of Sydney's dungarees?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (8CIFn)
Nah. It's "anyone who they think has enough assets to go after"
It's why "flying under the radar" is commonplace around the world...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Yortuk and Georg at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (oftw2)
Normalcy will assert itself regardless of feelings.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (lXoJ5)
Though...
https://is.gd/L0dAPX
"“Netflix has been running around Washington trying to convince everyone that their deal is fine from an antitrust standpoint. No one is buying what they’re saying either at senior levels of the White House or DOJ antitrust.”"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 08:56 AM (GBKbO)
Well, in this case, the streaming services don't own the companies involved, just their Streaming Rights (and in the case of WBD, also AEW's TV Rights).
Another company wouldn't get spun off, because they don't own the company in the first place.
Maybe they'd be forced to sell off the TV/Streaming rights, but this isn't like WCW, where Time Warner owned the company outright.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (XQo4F)
One of them is elderly Vietnam War veteran Ed Bambas, who's now 88, working at the Meijer grocery chain in Brighton, Michigan, trying to get by without a pension, having lost his in Barack Obama's multi-billion-dollar GM and Chrysler bailouts, which were all about favoritism for union members at the expense of everyone else.
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In fact, this man has been enslaved by the Democrats to serve our foreign invaders.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (Vj99u)
"Oh, yeah, uh, Mr. President, we all got together and decided that the guy you picked to be SecWar is out and we're putting this other guy in instead."
Suicidal Chutzpah aside, are we just going to ignore that whole "advise and consent" thing because.... reasons?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:08 AM (JwNbV)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)
Not in a chilly room. *cue Bob Seger's Night Moves*
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 09:08 AM (wVcYX)
@ImMeme0
·
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s X platform has been hit with a €120 million ($140 million) fine for allegedly violating the European Union’s controversial content-moderation law.
TRANSLATION: Unelected bureaucrats are now bullying companies and punishing anyone who refuses to follow their manufactured rules and dares to allow free speech.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
Musk should cut service to all European governments, government agencies, and officeholders. See who blinks first.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
Contest of bad songs by bad artists.
Even the name is bad. It should be EuroAudio.
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (xNHSX)
"Oh, yeah, uh, Mr. President, we all got together and decided that the guy you picked to be SecWar is out and we're putting this other guy in instead."
Suicidal Chutzpah aside, are we just going to ignore that whole "advise and consent" thing because.... reasons?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:08 AM (JwNbV)
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It's amazing how myopic one can become when one is king of a fiefdom that doesn't actually have complete authority over itself but has been granted it through inertia for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:05 AM (tgvbd)
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Old & Busted: The Truman Doctrine.
New Hotness: The Bergeron Doctrine.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (My0zW)
Ireland is a dump
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
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The Irish only achieve something when they leave Ireland.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (tgvbd)
Sullivan's wife is a NH Us rep, and part of the Seditious 6.
Sullivan wants Hegeth dumped to protect his c$$t wife
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:10 AM (YCxFk)
It's like he decided to become the Tim Walz of NFL Receivers with his retarded play last night.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 08:43 AM (iJfKG)
I take it you never saw his time in Pittsburgh...
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 09:10 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Yortuk and Georg at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (oftw2)
Urban foxes!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:11 AM (YCxFk)
Musk should cut service to all European governments, government agencies, and officeholders. See who blinks first.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)
__________
"Minitel! We got Minitel instead!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:11 AM (tgvbd)
huh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:11 AM (JwNbV)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Africa at December 05, 2025 09:11 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
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Preferably mud-wrestling in Jello.
/A man can dream (unless his wife sees this comment) ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:12 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 09:12 AM (P4eqW)
Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 09:12 AM (xNHSX)
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Ummm, that's retarded sir.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 09:12 AM (RgYBC)
huh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:11 AM (JwNbV)
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* golf clap *
And stolen.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:13 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:06 AM (JwNbV)
It's always interesting to se the juxtaposition of people who clamor for fresh blood in DC and getting rid of incumbents with those who wail when an incumbent leaves for some reason.
As long as they serve the entire term for which they were elected and announce their decision prior to the start of the next campaign season, I wish them Godspeed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX)
There are tons of Youtube videos of them coming up to middle aged-to-old British ladies' back doors and being fed chicken.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:13 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg
Karoline. And it's good to see you move on from the Upton Dame, poor girl.
Posted by: Did You Get New Glasses? at December 05, 2025 09:13 AM (oftw2)
I often wondered how the lights stayed on. Lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:13 AM (kz78D)
Not many will be missed on that list , except for Tiffany in Wisc. We need to take back Gov in Wisconsin
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:14 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (GLmO1)
Her boobs were not designed for you.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 09:14 AM (RgYBC)
https://tinyurl.com/mr2zerfy
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (klw0w)
At least the WNBA has flying green dildoes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (YCxFk)
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Is that what you kids are calling it now?
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (XQo4F)
At least the WNBA has flying green dildoes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ
Give it time.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (RgYBC)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (XQo4F)
An annual song competition where every country will put forward some mediocre musical act to eventually be crowned Monarch of the Bland.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:16 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 05, 2025 09:15 AM (XQo4F)
Coach Z, You're Nasty.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:16 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)
I was just noticing the relative youth of that list. I do applaud people serving their time and then scramming to go be crooked somewhere else. But I suppose that leads to something like trying to blend something that's too thick... you get a furious liquified mess at the bottom, while the rest of it hovers above the void blissfully undisturbed and not at all doing what you want it to do.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 09:16 AM (JwNbV)
That was the constant refrain in the 90s from our illiterati whenever AOL came up. It was funny...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:17 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
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[Being half Scots-Irish:]
I still can't believe Scotland voted against Independence from the UK in (checks watch) 2014 already! Where does the time go ...
As others here have noted, apparently all the good men left or were killed in wars generations ago ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:17 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Someone has to say it at December 05, 2025 09:18 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:18 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 09:18 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/3urtfs77+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:18 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
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[Being half Scots-Irish:]
I still can't believe Scotland voted against Independence from the UK in (checks watch) 2014 already! Where does the time go ...
As others here have noted, apparently all the good men left or were killed in wars generations ago ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:17 AM (My0zW)
Well, to be fair...
You can't grift if there's nobody to grift from.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)
Ah...um....ok. Sure..
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 05, 2025 09:20 AM (XQo4F)
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It is a big worry.
Because the election seasons are longer and start earlier.
The traditional mid to late-summer start has been dead for a decade or longer.
Yet, the GOPe ... bitterly clings to that old thinking.
Meanwhile, you see the Dems already in full swing for the first steps of their fall campaign:
- Hegseth impeachment to stretch into March; building on their "lawless Trump" who must be stopped narrative
- made up health care crisis January to June; GOP don't care about the poor
- Budget fights March to July; GOP won't give Americans freebies
- and their ace, Powell's slow burn to kill the economy, or at least retard any growth until September.
And the only one who seems interested in staging anything to build the R narrative is ... Trump.
And yes, this midterm is for all the marbles.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)
It's not sustainable.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 09:21 AM (W7XSX)
Sullivan's wife is a NH Us rep, and part of the Seditious 6.
Sullivan wants Hegeth dumped to protect his c$$t wife
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2025 09:10 AM (YCxFk)
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Excellent summary. Makes me worry somewhat about Vance's judgement and "loyalties" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:22 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Damn. She must have a whole team of aerospace engineers to design her clothes. The g-forces when she moves must be off the charts.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:22 AM (77rzZ)
You can't grift if there's nobody to grift from.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (iJfKG)
Stupid/weird aside...
...other places I've come across on the internet, they generally use "grift" to mean "turn against the Left".
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:22 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 09:22 AM (bfwj/)
Um.... No.
Western Europe likes their 4 day work weeks, their month-long vacations,"
You left off "bashing the suckers who make it all possible"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:22 AM (XuXeR)
https://x.com/TheTrekCentral/status/
1996638951294058896
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)
Not gay enough.
Rewrite this for Our Times.
And dammit, Klingons are not furries!!!!
I want to see a unicorn-guy in there or something.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:22 AM (iJfKG)
Must be the same people running it who thought Stanford in the ACC was a good idea.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:23 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 05, 2025 09:07 AM (XQo4F)
20 bucks, same as in town.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 05, 2025 09:23 AM (5xuJ/)
Hmmm...
Posted by: Grammar Gestapo
It's called "functional shift." English is the master of it among languages.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 09:24 AM (YKvmX)
@mazemoore
One of the worst takes you will ever see. 😂
2022. Mehdi Hasan and another race-baiter claim that the January 6th pipe bomber has not been caught because the person is white.
According to Hasan, if the bomber had been black or muslim, he would have already been caught.
https://tinyurl.com/a6hf7pac
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 09:24 AM (NpAcC)
https://x.com/TheTrekCentral/status/
1996638951294058896
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)
Why does everything have to chase the "Shipper" audience anymore?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:24 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Hot Air Art Maven at December 05, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:25 AM (kz78D)
They needed $$$, so it's open to any country that "joins"
(hard for 'mericans to follow, but most countries have a "national" broadcaster)
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:25 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 09:24 AM (UnA8+)
They're the ones who watch.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 09:25 AM (N+GUx)
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:26 AM (77rzZ)
It will be about young people coming to terms with things, and confronting issues relevant to our present day, etc...
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 09:26 AM (YKvmX)
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Have it blasting "Tequila!" but instead of the part where it yells "tequila" have it yell "RETARD!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 09:26 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:17 AM (My0zW)
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Looks like the Irish are starting to fight back against their invasion, but it may be too late. Also, not sure if this development is a good thing:
https://tinyurl.com/mp7f44vm
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 09:26 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:25 AM (kz78D)
She has a spectacular body and a wonderful face - when she smiles. When she's not smiling, she has a mid face. The body remains spectacular regardless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)
The attempted murder charge in this case was dropped...
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 09:28 AM (YKvmX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:28 AM (kz78D)
Posted by: Trotsky the Snowman at December 05, 2025 09:29 AM (IvCzq)
It's almost as if "Hollywood" (or wherever the hell this crap emerges from) has run out of original ideas (BTW, there was a pretty good new Post-Apocalyptic SciFi series we enjoyed in Season 1 -- with a mild degree of #Wokeness -- called "Silo" based on some series of novels (but found Season 2 a little disappointing, and waiting for Season 3).
Best comment [with juxtapositioned images]:
The pitch: "FRIENDS...but in space"
https://x.com/mynerdyhome/
status/1996791061818298449
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:29 AM (My0zW)
"The ship reported being approached by up to 15 small craft, prompting its onboard security team to return fire. A second attack..."
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 09:30 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 09:30 AM (RgYBC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
Office of Management and Budget?
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 09:30 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 09:31 AM (9bIJg)
A California community is reeling after hearing the news that a local pastor was allegedly caught trying to meet a person he thought was a minor for sex. James David Stockton, 54, was arrested on Saturday by Signal Hill police after an online citizen group called "Caught Fished" said it had documented inappropriate messages with the pastor.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 09:31 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 09:28 AM (kz78D)
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Sure.
And the Brits are in worse shape wrt migrants.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 09:31 AM (3ImbR)
The attempted murder charge in this case was dropped...
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)
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Where do they draw the line: 10 stabbings? 100 stabbings? 1000 stabbings?
Of course, infants (by which I mean The Left) have no boundaries when it comes to evil, misery, destruction, poverty, murder, rape, child abuse, et. al. ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (My0zW)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 09:30 AM (FMtrg)
Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 09:33 AM (RHGPo)
. . . From the beginning, these standards were a disaster, forcing automakers to radically downsize their fleet, which research showed cost thousands of lives because, all things being equal, smaller, lighter cars are less safe than larger ones.
They also resulted in cars being stripped of anything that added weight – including spare tires –dreary designs that only a socialist could love
Hi there
Posted by: The Mustang II at December 05, 2025 09:33 AM (y9nCu)
>>>This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Africa
Nope, your people don't accomplish much anywhere (without some additional admixture along the way)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:35 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 09:35 AM (i+bC1)
I like the new IRA and would like to subscribe to their newsletter (and buy whatever whiskey brand is funneling them money)
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
CIA color revolutions don't leave anyone out.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (+YRf1)
I think Maduro’s regime is about to crack up, and the people on the payroll are scared he’s really going to do it.
You can sense the absolute desperation in their attempts to stop the pressure on the cartels - this isn’t just ordinary leftist opposition, there’s big money behind these attacks, and they’ve got a lot of supporters still inside the military. (Probably a good part of the senior flag officers that he hasn’t fired yet)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:39 AM (P4eqW)
Don't get your hopes up about Maduro and his regime falling. He's going to be there a long time yet. Just like the Iranian mullahs.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
Justice Department
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
In part, WASHINGTON — "The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter."
It ends, "(Jack) Smith recently said he wanted to publicly testify about his investigation, but House Republicans rejected his request, instead planning to interview him behind closed doors on Dec. 17."
So revealed in a day for the Brian J. Cole, Sr. family - federal charges against Jr.; former TN business lawsuits; an illustrious civil rights attorney, and Jack Smith.
Geez.
BTW, Jack Smith had worked with the U.S. Department of Justice in Tennessee from 2015 to September 2017, serving as Assistant U.S. Attorney and briefly as Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee in Nashville.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (NFX2v)
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