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Sunday Morning Book Thread (02/01/2026) [MP4]

Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. It’s time once again for the semi-regular MP4-hosted Sunday Book Thread. Dress is country club casual, but hats for ladies are required, such as this:

So ask the barman for an Old Fashioned, covfefe or tea and let’s get started!
Today’s opening topic is a two parter:

1. What was the first book you read?

2. What book (if any) changed your life?

First Book: I suspect most of you are like me, in that you can’t remember a time when you couldn’t read. My grandparents had a separate room that held not just their own books, but ones that my mother and aunt had read during college. There was the usual 1960s crap like The Organization Man and The Feminine Mystique, but also wonderful ones that have stayed with me to this day. The first books I can distinctly remember reading were Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and – oddly – Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both had me hooked from the start; Carroll not so much for the story or wordplay, but for Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations, which made Victorian fashion my go-to ever since. And as far as Orwell, who could stop reading after his opening sentence, It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen? I couldn’t understand the machinations of the Party and the constriction of Newspeak, but as I got older, the book became ever more chilling and so much closer to reality.

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Books That Changed My Life: Two other books I discovered fairly early in my reading life were the Victorian-era erotica Venus in Furs and A Man with a Maid, which, I suppose, could be considered books that changed my life, since they’ve colored my views of and relationships with women ever since puberty. I’d be less than honest if I didn’t admit that.
But the book that I can truly say changed my life was one that I mentioned a few weeks ago: Donald Rumbelow’s The Complete Jack the Ripper. I knew nothing about the case when I first saw it – in fact, my first reaction was, “how can there be an entire book about Jack the Ripper?” – but after reading it, I delved deeply into the world of the Whitechapel Murders, eventually corresponding with and meeting some of the most respected names in true-crime writing, editing a magazine about the murders and the world of 1888, as well as writing a reference book and penning a to-this-day regular column in the specialist magazine Ripperology. It was after I finished my JtR book that I looked around for another subject, thought about tackling the idea of a silent film mystery with Theda Bara as an amateur detective. . .and here I am, with two Bara novels under my belt and a third on the way.
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What about you? Do you remember the first book you ever read? What book, if any, changed your life and made you who you are today?

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Read “How the Croix is Won,” by Warren H. Miller. Published in Blue Book Magazine’s December 1931 issue. Apparently, there was a subset of pulp dedicated to the French Foreign Legion which had a heyday from the 1920s through the 50s by various authors. Miller’s story concerns a battalion’s detachment who’ve had their adjutant kidnapped and their rifles stolen by “friendly” natives in North Africa.

The battalion sets up its cannon at the city gates demanding the return of their officer and arms. The Caid of the city sympathizes with them, but one of the squad, an old soldier named Hortet, a man known for rash actions leading to success, doesn’t believe the Caid, and hatches a mad plan to enter the city unarmed, except for hidden grenades, and rescue their officer.

Anyway, the attack works, and they retrieve both adjutant and arms, leading to the commandant giving Hortet his own Croix de Guerre, hence how the Croix is won. It wasn’t bad, just didn’t hold my interest enough to find more in this genre. The story had action and very defined characters, but it’s definitely of its time. Maybe Miller should have stuck with ski films….

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 09:01 AM (uQesX)

3 That hat demonstrates a clever use of the giant milkweed plant.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:02 AM (0U5gm)

4 First book read?

Can't remember. Probably a children's book, maybe Dr. Suess or Bennett Cerf.

Changed my life?

More than one, I'd guess. How exactly it changed me is another story....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 09:03 AM (uQesX)

5 Morning, Book Folken! And a tip of the chapeau to MP4 for his thread handing duties today!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

6 Good morning book people.

I finished Dante's Inferno this week.

Sadly, I recognized many circles where I'm pretty sure some folks I am familiar with will reside eventually.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2026 09:04 AM (cYBz/)

7 Love the Tenniel drawing up top, but don’t remember it. Which character is that with Alice?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 09:04 AM (IUuBi)

8 Thats an intriguing question something about zoology we had the whole time life series

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (bXbFr)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Thanks for letting me host, CBD.

I was, naturally, depressed yesterday (I'll have more on that in a moment), so went book shopping to cheer up. I picked up a brand-new true crime book, Black Dahlia by William Mann. He is also the author of Tinseltown, which was a deep dive into the still unsolved murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor in 1922.

Dahlia is packed with research footnotes, and, if it's anything like his Taylor book, it is solid research. I haven't begun it yet, so don't know who his suspect is, or if he has one, but it's a book I am actually looking forward to spending an afternoon with.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (ufSfZ)

10 Finished Brandon Fisichella's Corpse War of 1793, a fiction of a survivor of a zombie war in East Anglia.
It was a good read if you like Sci-fi, he did change the Zombie rules , if thats expected but not maybe unusual to newer stories as a writer might want to make their story different yet being in early the French revolution era it is different.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (Ia/+0)

11 The first book I read, one that my grandmother selected to teach me to read, was a collection of Grimm's fairy tales and poems. I can still see the illustrations of Red Riding Hood and the mouse running down the clock in my head.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (0U5gm)

12 Good morning again and thanks MP4

That cover shot is the version of 1984 I read, but I had read Animal Farm previously which was very jarring and disturbing. Most of my peers who read it did not see anything other than a story about a farm and what I remember is the growing sense I saw the world differently than they did.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

13 Who's the lady with the enormous large hat?

Posted by: dantesed at February 01, 2026 09:07 AM (Oy/m2)

14 The character is the White Queen.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:07 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Hi Horde. Iced in here, as I assume many of you are.

Something hit me yesterday which I should have thought of decades ago. In Pride and Prejudice, why is it that Mr Collins's name is Collins? As we are told the estate is entailed in the male line, shouldn't he be another Bennett? He is a cousin, but some of my cousins share my last name - the ones descended from my father's brother, or my grandfather's brother (2nd cousins).

The answer to the first is Winnie the Pooh/House on Pooh Corner, which should surprise everyone. The 2nd was the Just So Stories.

One that changed my life was Churchill's World Crisis, which hooked me on naval history, forever.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 01, 2026 09:08 AM (AlhUl)

16 The first book I ever read? You'll have to be more specific as to what "book" means. I certainly recall a children's story called Space Cat Goes to Mars which I read in first or second grade -- but I'd been reading for a while before that. In grammar school I always preferred adventures and Westerns to more traditional "kid" fare. The Whitman TV Adventures for Young Readers novels, based on shows like Roy Rogers, Maverick, Have Gun -- Will Travel, and others were a staple of my reading in third to about sixth grade, when I graduated to Alfred Hitchcock anthologies of crime, suspense, and the supernatural.

I really can't recall a first "book," if you define "book" as a hardback or paperback with actual text.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

17 I don't remember my early childhood clearly but, I distinctly remember reading a Jack London novel and a book of children's folk tales.

I loved the folk tale book so much I sought out copies for the kids. It was published in 1934 and has the most vivid illustrations. Beautiful colors that you just don't see in today's volumes.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2026 09:09 AM (cYBz/)

18 One of my professors, Peter L Heath, was the author of The Philosopher's Alice.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 01, 2026 09:10 AM (AlhUl)

19 That cover shot is the version of 1984 I read, but I had read Animal Farm previously which was very jarring and disturbing. Most of my peers who read it did not see anything other than a story about a farm and what I remember is the growing sense I saw the world differently than they did.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

Animal Farm is one of the few Orwell books that I can't really read. It's odd, but I can read about Winston Smith being tortured and not flinch, but Boxer being sent to the knackers really affects me. I think AF would have been much less effective if Orwell had used humans and set it in some sort of island community.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)

20 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading. Given the cold temps, nasty wind chill factor and ice on top of snow, it was a good excuse to stay put, stay warm, and read. (I'll take any chance for that.)

Posted by: JTB at February 01, 2026 09:10 AM (yTvNw)

21 First book?
No doubt some children's book, can't say first history book but did remember well reading in 8th grade I think Hell in a Very Small Place, a history of the French battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. I llearned Communists were evil and have never turned back from.that concept.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 09:10 AM (Ia/+0)

22 First book outside of Dr. Seuss was I think Winnie the Pooh, and it’s sequels. I always liked maps, I remember studying the map of the 100 aker wood just inside the cover and understanding where everything was at. I think I was 4.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 09:11 AM (IUuBi)

23 I think AF would have been much less effective if Orwell had used humans and set it in some sort of island community.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)

Instead of humans, flies!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 09:11 AM (uQesX)

24 Good Sunday morning, horde!

I suppose all of the books I've read change my life in some way. If for no other reason, just the compiled and ever-increasing information and vocabulary from each one expands my mind.

I can't think of a specific book that really grabbed me and changed my outlook.

Wait, maybe there was....I spent an entire summer between sixth and seventh grade reading a book on art history. I learned a lot from it, and it informed my own artistic interest and style.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 01, 2026 09:12 AM (h7ZuX)

25 TBH, I'm sure I read books before Alice - it's just that Carroll is the first author I can remember.

I also enjoyed tales of Robin Hood, with the constant mentioning of 'nut-brown ale' and wondering what that must taste like. I didn't get into the Arthurian romances until high school.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:13 AM (ufSfZ)

26 Probably getting on ebook next is Rick Atkinson's The Army at Dawn a history of the North African campaign 1942-3. That theater of WWII was my first fascinating

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 09:13 AM (Ia/+0)

27 The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 01, 2026 09:14 AM (jqHAs)

28 Yesterday I threw out a question in KT's 1st thread, but shit happened and I was unable to stay around. It strikes me as not inappropriate here. It is why do we always assume that a "high-trust" society is an unalloyed good?

To develop the idea, note that one arguable problem is that the people of the society will tend to be over trusting in the competence and integrity of those in authority. (The proof of that is essentially the history of the 21st Century, so far.) I note this was, when I was young, a standard criticism of Scandanavia.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 01, 2026 09:14 AM (AlhUl)

29 Yay book thread! First book is hard to say in absolute terms, but The Lorax was the mainstay of my early childhood. I'm reading it to the grandkids and it captivates them. They're all hyper and then I start reading the brooding introduction and they immediately fall silent, fascinated by the mystery that they've heard hundreds of times.

Important books? Lord of the Rings and Sword of Honour. I read the former in middle school and revisited it annually for twenty years or so. Lifelong Tolkien addict.

I discovered Sword of Honour at a crisis point in my life, and its explanation and demonstration of Catholic faith in action transformed me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)

30 Books that changed my life? The Shining by Stephen King. I very much identified with Jack, the tragic, alcoholic figure of the novel, in that my drinking too was getting out of control. When I read of him going dry, I shot for the same thing, and made almost four years at it.

The Past Through Tomorrow, the collection of future history stories by Heinlein, certainly changed my view of science fiction. Suddenly I understood what the field was all about: not just space travel or time travel or surprise Twilight Zone-ish endings, but about people.

Ellery Queen's mysteries, and to a lesser degree my earlier acquaintance with Sherlock Holmes, had a profound influence on my thinking. EQ's mysteries were solvable by the reader (if he were a genius, at least); they did not require specialized knowledge of the mud around London or of cigar ash, as in SH stories. They taught me to look for patterns in data and to reason from what I found. Which stood me in good stead later as a computer programmer!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:14 AM (wzUl9)

31 The first book(s) I remember reading on my very own are Little House on the Prairie and A Wrinkle in Time. I was probably around 8-9. I'm sure I read other children's books but not novels. My dad had gotten a set of Funk & Wagnells encyclopedias and I think they had thrown in about 8 books that were the first book in the series of books. I believe the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was also in there. I can't remember the rest of the books but those 3 made an impression. I have been a constant reader since.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 01, 2026 09:15 AM (VCgbV)

32 Happy books news: the audiobook of Battle Officer Wolf is now available for your listening pleasure. I used the automated voice, which is decent and also free. The process of converting it allowed me to make additional corrections, and I will move ahead with my other books in no particular order.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)

33 Morning, MP4.

Howdy, Horde.

First book read? Can't remember -- I don't recall a time when I couldn't read, and would read anything from comics and kids books to cereal box labels over breakfast.

Changed my life? Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. Began devouring SF after stumbling over that one, and read almost nothing else for pleasure for a little over a decade. That was both good and bad for me, I think.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026 09:17 AM (q3u5l)

34 On a grumpier writing note, I sometimes wonder why I bust myself trying to come up with a good plot for my new novel when the most obvious, ham-handed woke crap sells millions.

It's a movie, but I'm talking about the screenplay for Send Help. Just looking at the trailer makes it obvious that (spoiler!) the woman kills the man and becomes rich and successful in the end. It couldn't be written that the two ally themselves or that the man kills the woman - no, it has to be the blatant, woke, 'yas kween!' shit.

**grumbles**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:18 AM (ufSfZ)

35 I think my first book must have been one of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, if only because my mother really loved them so that gives the best odds of that being the book where I started following the words myself rather than just listening.

As to books that changed my life, I think Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I read far too young and put me onto science fiction for good; and an obscure book by Adrian Berry called The Next Ten Thousand Years, which immunized me against Malthusian doomerism.

Posted by: Trimegistus at February 01, 2026 09:18 AM (78a2H)

36 Morning horde… how goes it?

Great questions from MP4!

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at February 01, 2026 09:19 AM (5WBUQ)

37 An early book for me was Bible Stories for Young People, a large-format and illustrated collection of both Old Testament and New Testament stories. Tot his day I have dim memories of Elijah and the ravens, Shadrach and his compatriots in the fiery furnace, and others from the pen-and-ink illustrations.

I peeped into my mother's nursing textbooks, which she did not want me to look at. After seeing some of the horrible photographs of various patient conditions, I wished I'd listened to her. Nothing like a shot of somebody with elephantiasis to put you off your feed for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

38 Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours would be the first I remember having a lasting impact. Don't know when Mom brought it home, but it was always there.

Posted by: Berwyn Mutt - Home of Svengoolie at February 01, 2026 09:19 AM (HcbZb)

39 Are Robin and Little Red Riding related Hoods? And are hoodlums their descendants?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2026 09:19 AM (8zz6B)

40 Love the Tenniel drawing up top, but don’t remember it. Which character is that with Alice?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026

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I was going to say the Red Queen, but she was pretty imperious. One of the other playing-card figures?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)

41 Good morning bibliophiles. Thanks, MP4, for taking up the baton.

"I loved the folk tale book so much I sought out copies for the kids. It was published in 1934 and has the most vivid illustrations. Beautiful colors that you just don't see in today's volumes.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2026 09:09 AM (cYBz/)"
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I, too, remember reading a book of folk tales with lush, complex illustrations. To this day I can visualize Puss in Boots and his marvelous tooled leather boots! Wish I could recall what book that was.

Why do adults think kids want simple illustrations? Is it because that's all a child can draw at that age?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:20 AM (kpS4V)

42
1. Go Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman.
2. Wild At Heart by John Eldredge.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

43
The first books I can clearly remember reading were:

Green Eggs and Ham
The Littlest Angel
Little Black Sambo
Winnie the Pooh (and various related texts like "Now We are Six")
Mother Goose Rhymes

Loved all of that stuff. Esp. LBS.

But, I was a question kid: "Why is the sky blue?" "Why is grass green?" "What is the sun?" "Why is there night?"...etc all the time, so

my folks bought me a lot of Kid-Level science books along with fossil and dinosaur books.

And I was off, I read almost nothing but science books along with the occasional comic and mythology books(somewhere along the line I learned that people believed in other gods, which fascinated me and I was off on that as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2026 09:21 AM (iJfKG)

44 Life changing: Notes from Underground, The Possessed (better than Crime and Punishment and Brothers K, IMO), and Darkness at Noon.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01, 2026 09:22 AM (XvL8K)

45 Everybody remembers the World Book or the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but who remembers the World Book encyclopedia? We had that when I was growing up and I loved just poking through it, reading entries here and there. I still collect small sets of encyclopedias and old dictionaries as well; it makes me sad to think they'll all end up in the garbage when I die.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:22 AM (ufSfZ)

46 First book can't remember either, but I remember I loved Go Dog Go and hated Are You My Mother?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2026 09:22 AM (7fpSt)

47 I didn't finish any books this past week. I just kept working through a couple different books. Three different comic collections, and a non-fiction prose ebook.

The prose book is an overview/summary of the various wars between Africans and Europeans during the late 19th century. In the early-going, the author spent a bit of time talking about the Zulus, and the migrations within Africa that their rise caused. The author cited several observations made by Dr. Livingstone during his travels....and it made me realize that I know nothing about Dr. Livingstone, save the for the scene of some guy walking into a clearing and saying 'Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 09:23 AM (Lhaco)

48 I don’t know if a single book changed my life, but the epic fantasy I read as a teenager definitely affected my outlook on Good and Evil.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at February 01, 2026 09:23 AM (5WBUQ)

49 At the same time I discovered Tolkien, I also got into Winston Churchill's The Second World War.

My grandparents had an illustrated "young readers" version by Time-Life, and I read through it constantly. It had some of the best known passages of Churchill's book, his speeches, repeated the iconic chapter headings and the gaps were filled by editorial commentary or summaries in a different font.

Lavishly illustrated, neat little maps and inherited it. Still on my shelf. The maps got me thinking about wargaming before I knew that was a thing. I would set out blankets on the floor and populate it with dominos and poker chips to represent borders, defensive lines and unit types (white was infantry, red armor, yellow artillery and blue was air/special) on land, at sea red was destroyers, white cruisers, yellow battleships and blue aircraft (sitting on a domino) or submarines. Also landing craft.

I remember being amazed to discover people actually made wargames out of paper. A dream come true!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

50 First book I ever read was "The Big Green Thing" when I was 4. Mom wrote a note on the inside cover that I read it myself. I dearly want to find it; it has to be inside their (now my) house.

First book I read after that would have to be a Hardy Boys story, but I can't recall which.

Book that changed my life is a Harold Robbins novel that I found in Grandpa's shack in the back yard. (Today we would call it a man cave.) He had shelves of paperbacks, and during one visit I came across a paperback with a photo of a woman in bed. No bra straps. Hmm.

I flipped through it and came upon a scene that explained the relationship between sex and babies. I grew up on a farm, and I knew cows had calves, but I didn't understand the role of the bull. And I knew women had babies, but I thought marriage was a mandatory component.

Needless to say, I beelined for that shack during subsequent vusits.

Confession: I have never read Orwell, Rand, or any of the Western Civ readings. Maybe some Plato.

Posted by: Weak Geek at February 01, 2026 09:23 AM (p/isN)

51 No memory of the first book I read. Most likely a fairy tale with illustrations. It was certainly before kindergarten and being bored with the 'see Spot run' schools always started with. The first reading, not a book, was probably the comics section of the local paper. I knew the alphabet and my grandfather, bless him, showed me how to sound out the words.

Posted by: JTB at February 01, 2026 09:23 AM (yTvNw)

52 Oh, FFS! I meant, who remembers Grolier's Book of Knowledge encyclopedia.

Dumbass.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:24 AM (ufSfZ)

53 Yesterday I threw out a question in KT's 1st thread, but shit happened and I was unable to stay around. It strikes me as not inappropriate here. It is why do we always assume that a "high-trust" society is an unalloyed good?

To develop the idea, note that one arguable problem is that the people of the society will tend to be over trusting in the competence and integrity of those in authority. (The proof of that is essentially the history of the 21st Century, so far.) I note this was, when I was young, a standard criticism of Scandanavia.

Posted by: Eeyore

My idea of a high trust society is based on local personal interaction, not trust in government. To me, high trust is where everyone expects their neighbors to behave in a way that is conducive to each others' well-being. You expect your neighbors to have a casual eye out for danger in the neighborhood. This is the same behavior that herd animals exhibit. If your daily life is that anything not nailed down will be stolen by neighbors, you don't have a high trust society, in fact, you don't really have a society at all. I believe the flaw is that this system is not applicable to larger systems or government.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:24 AM (0U5gm)

54 Let's hear it for the Hard Case Crime line. Without it, we would find it much more difficult to see how top thriller writers honed their craft. Case in point: "361" by Donald Westlake.

The title is explained on the page before the title page as a reference to homicide. Wbose reference is not made clear.

Ray Kelly, freshly discharged from the Air Force, is picked up in New York City by his father. As they start their drive home to Binghamton, a car pulls beside them and somebody inside opens fire. Result: Daddy dead and Ray badly banged up in the ensuing crash. He's even lost an eye.

Ray and his brother, Bill, learn that Daddy was once a lawyer for a top mobster, who is about to get out after 25 years in prison. He wants to revive the old gang and push out the usurpers. Was this why Daddy was killed?

Westlake spins a tale of revenge with a few twists. That same year (1962), under the pen name Richard Stark, he published "The Hunter," his first Parker book, and his career moved into high gear.

Posted by: Weak Geek at February 01, 2026 09:24 AM (p/isN)

55 Just started reading " Somewhere For Me" a biography of the composer Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest. It's quite lengthy and packed with nostalgic photos.

Posted by: Tuna at February 01, 2026 09:25 AM (lJ0H4)

56 Of course the James Bond novels were an influence on the young Wolfus. Mom bought each paperback -- this was arund the time of the first movie -- but thought they were on the whole too racy and adult for me. However, one night she handed me Doctor No and asked me to read the part of the chapter where Bond awakes, naked in his bed, with the deadly venomous centipede crawling on him. Hooked me good. After that I sneaked reads of the action scenes (I was too young yet for the sexy ones).

I must have read the Dr. Fu Manchu stories before that, because Doctor No himself reminded me very strongly of the Chinese mastermind. And I know I read the Tarzan series when I was about ten. Some were better stories than others, but each contained fascinating stuff.

Never got into the Burroughs Mars stories, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)

57 "I think my first book must have been one of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, if only because my mother really loved them so that gives the best odds of that being the book where I started following the words myself rather than just listening."

The same with me. I remember the moment when my mother misspoke and I corrected her by reading the word from the text. She suddenly realized that I was actually reading and not just memorizing what she said. I think was about 3 years old. I can't remember the first book I read by myself, but I know I could read pretty well by the time I started school.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 01, 2026 09:26 AM (FEVMW)

58 A compilation of Sad Sack cartoons was the first book I remember.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01, 2026 09:28 AM (XvL8K)

59 Too many books have informed my view of the world. No lightning bolt/road to Damascus revelations, just "ah...yes!" moments.

My love of art and history made me tethered more to the past, aesthetically.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:28 AM (kpS4V)

60 Orwell couldnt because the leftwing book club minders

Who are still around btw

Thaf seems like a plot wriiten in crsyon by homer

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:29 AM (bXbFr)

61 "See Spot Run"

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 01, 2026 09:29 AM (jrgJz)

62 Know exactly when I learned to read: at my grandmother's house, a couple of months after my 4th birthday, and she had simple, heavily-illustrated children's books; looking at one, really just for the pictures, and it was like a switch flipped in my brain - suddenly, I knew what the words on the page said. No idea of the name of the book, though. First book I read that I can name was Escape to Danger, in 2nd grade; Lord of the Rings started me on fantasy & science fiction, which have been my main reading for 50 years now, so could say that it changed my life.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 01, 2026 09:29 AM (NcvvS)

63 I have also always loved the detailed colorful illustrations in children's books.

As an adult I hunt those down. Andrew Lang's "colored" fairy books illustrated by Henry J. Ford is one kind.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2026 09:29 AM (7fpSt)

64 Working on the audiobook cut into my reading time, so minimal progress on Ovid and The War for Middle Earth. The latter goes into a bit more detail on the war records of Tolkien and Lewis, and it's clear to me that a lot of Tolkien's early work were a form of therapy.

The scene where a jaded and war-wearing Beren is beguiled by Luthien dancing in a forest glade is based on an actual event, and it stuck with him for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

65 Our encyclopedia was a supermarket one-volume-a-week (or month, maybe -- I forget). Early books I remember from pre-Heinlein days -- Roy Chapman Andrews' dinosaur books, Roy Gallant's astronomy books for kids (Chesley Bonestell paintings for illustrations IIRC), book club copies of London, Kipling, Verne, & Lamb's Shakespeare. Classics Illustrated comics. etc, etc, etc. Pre-Heinlein, I read almost anything I could lay my hands on, with a preference for science stuff.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026 09:30 AM (q3u5l)

66 George Pullman became wealthy by making luxurious railroad cars, and built a model city for his workers to improve their lives. Ironically, these workers would begin the largest and most violent strike in US history. In The Edge of Anarchy, Jack Kelly describes how the panic of 1893 led to the massive strike action, boycotts, and actual battles that followed.

The traditional response to a depression was for companies to cut wages, and when the Chemical Bank failed, this began. Pullman's employees decided to fight back, and not only went on strike, they asked other workers to boycott Pullman. One strike leader was Eugene Debs, the socialist who later would run for president from prison.

As the strike widened, railroads around the country began to stall, making the depression worse. The Chicago stockyards, passengers, and freight began to pile up. As the strike grew violent, Grover Cleveland sent in troops to restore order, and under attack, they fired on the crowds.

What finally ended the strike was the workers running out of savings. Pullman never fully recovered from his failed experiment and when he died, was buried in a concrete bunker to avoid desecration.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:30 AM (0U5gm)

67 Reading Blake Crouch's "Recursion," which is about memory and apparent time travel. It's honestly a tough read for me, for as with the characters in the book who end up using the technology to seemingly travel in time to try to fix that one moment where their lives went off the rails, I, too, have that moment in the past that I wish I could somehow prevent from happening, as its occurrence completely destroyed my peace and family for the next ten years. Alas, you can't change the past, as I think the characters in the book are going to discover soon.

Also just getting ready to start a new Alastair Reynolds standalone novel called "Halcyon Years," in which a private dick on a generation starship investigates a murder. As with all of Reynolds' works, I'm certain I'll love it. I also read a couple of his short novellas called "Merlin's Gun" and "The Six Directions of Space," both of which were excellent.

Greeting!

Posted by: Sharkman at February 01, 2026 09:30 AM (/RHNq)

68 My father read lots of Winnie the Pooh to me, and later Mark Twain.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

69 Just started reading " Somewhere For Me" a biography of the composer Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest. It's quite lengthy and packed with nostalgic photos.
Posted by: Tuna at February 01, 2026 09:25 AM (lJ0H4)

His daughter Mary is the subject of a recent bio, Shy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:30 AM (ufSfZ)

70 My very first book was a reader called Kip the Dog. It was about a dog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 09:31 AM (RIvkX)

71 BTW, if folks haven't read MP4's Theda Bara mysteries, they should. He really brings you into the era and settings with characters you learn to care about. And no, I didn't solve the mystery early on. I'm looking forward to the third book whenever it comes out.

Posted by: JTB at February 01, 2026 09:31 AM (yTvNw)

72 Then after an intervsl i got interested in astrononomy and science fiction

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:31 AM (bXbFr)

73 52 Oh, FFS! I meant, who remembers Grolier's Book of Knowledge encyclopedia.
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Me, me!!!
Also Collier's Junior Classics!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2026 09:32 AM (7fpSt)

74 I did read a number of the Hardy Boys books. Mystery was my meat and drink, after all. It helped that I identified with Frank and Joe, who were in high school or college; I did not enjoy many stories with kids my age as the heroes. (Watching my first Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode with Kurt Russell as the 12-year-old innocent, I identified not with him but with Napoleon Solo.)

I outgrew the HBs fairly early as I moved on to the Alfred Hitchcock anthologies of grown-up suspense stories.

Apparently I missed out on a lot of the traditional kids' books like the Pooh tales and Wind in the Willows.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

75 >>Grolier's Book of Knowledge encyclopedia.

Wasn't that the original Jeopardy! 'source authority'?

Posted by: Nazdar at February 01, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)

76 It's amusing to me to see how many members of the Horde put fantasy and SF up there in their lists of books. Those are two genres that have never appealed to me (I suppose you could consider Alice fantasy, though).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:33 AM (ufSfZ)

77 I'm reading two very good books this week.

C.J.Box's "Battle Mountain" (2025) has Nate and his friend Geronimo following the trail of Alex Soledad, the man who killed Nate's wife and attempted to kill Geronimo's family. The charismatic Soledad has a small army of disaffected ex-military followers, and they react violently when two hunters stumble upon their group staking out a mega rich people's lodge. They shoot and kidnap the two hunters, one of whom is the governor's SIL, and this brings Joe Pickett into the fray.

This is a return to top form for Box. His last couple of books were good but not great. This one is great.

I'm about halfway through the third book in Alan Smale's alternate history space race series Apollo Rising, "Burning Night". The Cold War just turned very hot and it's being fought on the Moon as well as Earth.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:34 AM (kpS4V)

78 Around seventh grade or so, I found a paperback copy of The Exorcist in the house. I can't imagine Mom reading this, but she must have thought she wanted to.

I read it, and that definitely changed my outlook. I hadn't previously had any concept of true evil, and after reading that, I did.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 01, 2026 09:34 AM (h7ZuX)

79 First book I read? Probably something by Richard Scarry. My parents had a well-worn copy of one of his books, and I'm told I would not move on to the next page until I read out every caption on the page. There's a Monster at the End of This Book is another old one..

Something I read early on put me on a dog-in-the-wilderness kick. White Fang, Call of the Wild, Big Red, or maybe Snow Dog...

Redwall and Dragonsong put me on a lifelong fantasy kick.

Some random Garfield collection was my first comic purchase. But The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes was the first purchase I treasured. Excalibur 101 and What If 89 were my first foray into comic books, as opposed to comic strips...

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 09:34 AM (Lhaco)

80 I was looking at the "new books" section of my library's website and holy crap have libraries gone off the deep end. The new hotness is "remixes"
-"What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix" (they're blackish)
- "A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix" (they're female and Asian)
- "Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo and Juliet Remix" (two gay boys)
- "So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix" (e'r'body black!)
-"Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix" (hijabs and ME politics!)
-"My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix" (blaaaaaack)
Etc.

I've enjoyed some retelling of classics because they approach the story from different angles, but they were character-driven. These are just ideology-driven. The race and gender swapping can't end soon enough for me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:35 AM (kpS4V)

81 1. _Born Free_, Joy Adamson's biography of Elsa, the lioness. I can remember because I did not learn to read until I was eight years old. I blame the "progressive" UH Lab School and negligent parents.
2. Quine, _From a Logical Point of View_, specifically, the essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". I was depressed for two weeks. Losing your faith hurts, like amputation without anesthesia.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatrick at February 01, 2026 09:35 AM (lOlGn)

82 The earliest book I remember reading was The Happy Little Whale. IIRC, it involves a little whale who is separated from his pod by a whaling ship. He ends up being taken to a SeaWorld-like park, where he lives happily ever after. Things have changed in children's literature.

https://is.gd/IzN250

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2026 09:35 AM (Riz8t)

83 Our encyclopedia was a supermarket one-volume-a-week (or month, maybe -- I forget). . . .
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026

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The Golden Book Encyclopedia series? I think it was a weekly arrangement. Later we had the high-school level version of the same thing. They helped me write a *lot* of papers in jr. high and high school.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

84 The traditional response to a depression was for companies to cut wages, and when the Chemical Bank failed, this began.

Of course, Pullman kept the rents and company store prices at the same levels as before when he cut his workers' wages, which didn't help matters. I wonder if he had announced that, until the panic was over, costs would be cut along with wages, would there still have been a strike? Probably.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ)

85 At some point i started with the readers digest condensed books maybe something from robin cook the sphinx i think

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:36 AM (bXbFr)

86 It's amusing to me to see how many members of the Horde put fantasy and SF up there in their lists of books. Those are two genres that have never appealed to me (I suppose you could consider Alice fantasy, though).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:33 AM (ufSfZ)
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Other than Tolkien (and later C.S. Lewis), I'd abandoned both genres by college, focusing heavily on military history and when I read fiction, it was mostly of the literary sort, like Conrad, later Waugh.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)

87 First book was a children’s one with the main character (an animal) who had a similar name to mine. Also loved Grimm and fairy tales. One thing I do remember as a child was the gorgeous artwork in the books that really helped you become part of the story. I think that idea was the hook to readying for me. In High School read one of the first Bourne books and thinking is this real? Is this how you get fake id’s etc? That and Agatha Christie I suppose showed how there are people who have different objectives or ways of doing things than perhaps is done on the daily.

Posted by: Hyacinth at February 01, 2026 09:37 AM (ryp7h)

88 53 ...
My idea of a high trust society is based on local personal interaction, not trust in government. To me, high trust is where everyone expects their neighbors to behave in a way that is conducive to each others' well-being. You expect your neighbors to have a casual eye out for danger in the neighborhood. This is the same behavior that herd animals exhibit. If your daily life is that anything not nailed down will be stolen by neighbors, you don't have a high trust society, in fact, you don't really have a society at all. I believe the flaw is that this system is not applicable to larger systems or government.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:24 AM (0U5gm)
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Your understanding is like most people's. But remember, nothing human is perfect or perfectible. I believe what I described goes with it. Also, is a low trust society means "in fact, you don't really have a society at all", then what work is "high trust" doing?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 01, 2026 09:37 AM (AlhUl)

89 I wasn't really censored by my parents as far as reading material. I remember reading pretty adult level books at a young age. Probably because I read what my parents had left around. I'm sure my first Stephen King book was my dad's. Salems Lot or Pet Cemetery. I read all his stuff pre 2000 before he went crazy. But I also read romances. In high school, my cousin came to visit and I borrowed a David Eddings book. That started my love for Fantasy books. My reading has always been eclectic.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 01, 2026 09:37 AM (VCgbV)

90 I can't think of a book that changed my life.

I did have a teacher though who did based on her concern that I wasn't going to develop into a well-rounded young man because...I read nothing but science books.

So, she convinced my folks that I should stop reading science and start reading fiction, which annoyed me to no end.

so, I started reading a lot more fiction. Some history and biography, which overall I found boring cuz it'd already happened and was done. Scientific discovery bios I found interesting cuz it explain the scientific method in real life and discovery was ongoing.

Fiction made me realize that it was a lot like scientific research in that all stories were a kind of "theory" abut how things would come together if X was added to y and catalyzed by z, if you see what I mean. And I realized that I could right stories.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

91 The book that changed my life was Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. It turned me to a doctorate in bacteriology after undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry.
It's been said nothing focus the mind like being shot at, but finding flea bites on your ankles the day after collecting plague samples from an infected prairie dog village is pretty damn close.

Posted by: retropox at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (0JEjf)

92 How are you doing mpps

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (bXbFr)

93 Holy shit, Eris, those books are obscene.

I should make Theda Bara a black lesbian.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (ufSfZ)

94 I enjoyed reading JK Rowling, writing under the Robert Galbraith pseudonym, the first novel in her Cormaran Strike series, "Cuckoo's Calling."

Very talented writer. I read it on my Kindle and needed the embedded dictionary from time to time. She's wonderfully descriptive. The quotes at beginnings of chapters are good. The quote at the end is from "Ulysses."

So I say to AI, hey, what might I read in the way of a Brit detective novel that would be in the vein of the Robert Galbraith thing I just finished. AI said to read "Three Mysteries: A Novel" by Kate Atkinson. The PI is some Scotsman named Brodie.

Well, AI was wrong. This Kate Atkinson cannot hold a candle to Rowling. I quit reading it at about the one-third mark and won't go back.

The Cuckoo book, to me, had some Dickensian passages, so if you like Dickens, which I do, you'll like Cuckoo. But I was surprised reading some book reviews, and also answers to inquiries (AI) as to whether Rowling's novels are up there with the best in detective mysteries. AI says she's OK but somewhat pedestrian.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 01, 2026 09:39 AM (KiBMU)

95 70 My very first book was a reader called Kip the Dog. It was about a dog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 09:31 AM (RIvkX)

What was the dog's name?

Posted by: Sophomore English Major at Harvard at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (CpcAD)

96 I also remember my grandmother using different voices for different characters when reading to me, which made the stories more interesting, and I employed that technique to great effect with my kids as I taught them to read.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (0U5gm)

97 One of my grandsons turns nine tomorrow.
His gift from me (that he asked for) is a collection Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. How cool is that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

98 Currently, I'm re-reading Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's high-fun fantasy, Good Omens. If you're not familiar with it, the concept is that an angel and a demon are working together to *head off* the end of the world as heralded by the birth of the Antichrist. The angel certainly doesn't want to destroy the world, and neither does the demon -- he enjoys the world too much. They have found out what secret agents on opposite sides have often discovered: Each has more in common with his opposite number out in the field than he does with his superiors back at headquarters.

NG and TP clearly had their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks, and the writing alone is a delight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

99 It's been said nothing focus the mind like being shot at, but finding flea bites on your ankles the day after collecting plague samples from an infected prairie dog village is pretty damn close.

Sphincter status:
[X] Puckered
[ ] Not puckered

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2026 09:41 AM (Riz8t)

100 Nochmals Guten Morgen, Horde!

Which was my first book? It’s difficult to be certain given all of the Little Golden Books laying around my room when I was growing up. My parents told me that by age three I had memorized The Little Engine that Could, so I’m going with that.

Which was the most life-changing? The Bible. I started with the basics (the Gospels, the Ten Commandments, a few Psalms and one or two Proverbs) in the King James Version in childhood but got farther along with the New International Version starting around 1990.

Aside from the Bible, the life-changer might have been Fighting Jets, one of the final volumes of the Time-Live series The Epic of Flight. It pretty much solidified in my mind what I thought I wanted to do with my life.

Thanks for the thread, MP4!

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 01, 2026 09:41 AM (Yg2TI)

101 'Monster at the end of this book' was the last early book I kept. I'm sure not the first I'd read or been given.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at February 01, 2026 09:41 AM (KaHlS)

102 The Cuckoo book, to me, had some Dickensian passages, so if you like Dickens, which I do, you'll like Cuckoo. But I was surprised reading some book reviews, and also answers to inquiries (AI) as to whether Rowling's novels are up there with the best in detective mysteries. AI says she's OK but somewhat pedestrian.
Posted by: M. Gaga at February 01, 2026

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The one Galbraith I've read -- the first, I think -- was overlong, and did not really feature a thunderbolt solution a la Queen or Carr, or even Christie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

103 *sigh*

But apparently I didn't learn to spell.

right stories = write stories

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

104 Oh, FFS! I meant, who remembers Grolier's Book of Knowledge encyclopedia.

Dumbass.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:24 AM (ufSfZ)

Sure. Forgot all about me.

Posted by: Encyclopedia Americana at February 01, 2026 09:42 AM (uQesX)

105 45 Everybody remembers the World Book or the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but who remembers the World Book encyclopedia? We had that when I was growing up and I loved just poking through it, reading entries here and there. I still collect small sets of encyclopedias and old dictionaries as well; it makes me sad to think they'll all end up in the garbage when I die.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:22 AM (ufSfZ)

My parents had a World Book set, and I remember spending way too much time with it.

I also had an atlas book that I carried around with me a bunch.

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 09:43 AM (Lhaco)

106 46 First book can't remember either, but I remember I loved Go Dog Go and hated Are You My Mother?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2026 09:22 AM (7fpSt)

*fistbump

We are sisters in spirit. Go Dog, Go was the best. I loved the wide-crowned trees, so unlike the tall trees I knew.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 01, 2026 09:43 AM (h7ZuX)

107 but who remembers the World Book encyclopedia

We had the world book encyclopedia, and the Jacques Cousteau encyclopedia. Cousteau had far better pictures.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 01, 2026 09:43 AM (EXyHK)

108 The book that most influenced me is one I cannot even name. I think is was by Albert Camus because it was set in Algeria in the middle 1900s. About the life of a poverty stricken boy who grew into a very wealthy adult by following one rule - "never turn down something offered for nothing". Maybe one of the tribe here can name the book. I'd sure like to find a copy.

Posted by: oldgeezer at February 01, 2026 09:44 AM (569Pr)

109 Poppins, I avert despair because I choose to believe parents and kids select books they actually want to read, and not the swill pushed by the Library Industrial Complex.

It's especially egregious during Identity Months, I've noticed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:44 AM (kpS4V)

110 The Cat in the Hat, for starters.
Reading was the light bulb moment for me. My Dad was very patient about answering my "What does "wxyz" spell?" questions, but he was a reader, too.

Three books that eventually changed my life: "In This House of Brede" (Godden), "The Cardinal" (Robinson) and "The Dry Wood" (Houselander). Started me on the longish path into the Church.

Devoured the "Golden Book Encyclopedias" on the day they arrived from the grocery.

Posted by: sal at February 01, 2026 09:44 AM (f+FmA)

111 Encyclopedia Brown! That was a character I read a lot of when I was young, but it didn't lead to a lifetime of reading mysteries.

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 09:44 AM (Lhaco)

112 Of course, Pullman kept the rents and company store prices at the same levels as before when he cut his workers' wages, which didn't help matters. I wonder if he had announced that, until the panic was over, costs would be cut along with wages, would there still have been a strike? Probably.

Posted by: Mary Poppins'

Yes, probably, because people like Debs were involved. I will note that to this day, wage growth and wage deflation still exist and are used by economists to gauge economic conditions, though in modern times, it is hours that are reduced, not wages.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:45 AM (0U5gm)

113 How are you doing mpps
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (bXbFr)

Do you really want to know?

OK, I suppose. About 3 weeks into total sobriety, but that's a story for a GAINZZ thread. Trying to write, but for some reason I simply can't get enthused about the plot, the people or the time and it feels like work rather than anything else.

And of course, my friend and writing muse continues to have wonderful luck. Even though Kathleen Kennedy no longer helms Lucasfilms, she is still pushing to adapt my friend's book, Becoming Hazel, into either a feature film or a Netflix limited-episode series. I try to be happy for her, but it's so hard for me to swallow the envy I have and not let her know my true feelings.

I thought if I gave up drinking, I wouldn't brood so much or hate myself so much, but no. Of course, it has been only 3 weeks, so. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:45 AM (ufSfZ)

114 Wolfus, that supermarket encyclopedia we had was probably some variant of a Funk & Wagnall's rather than a Golden Book set. Later (6th or 7th grade maybe), we replaced it with a Collier's. And I wrote a lot of school papers with that one (and more than a few book reports with the aid of Classics Illustrated -- and the memory of some of those comics came in handy in college as well. Bless them.)

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026 09:45 AM (q3u5l)

115 First book I read of any length was one of the Hardy Boys.

Off topic, but what's happened to Jackstraw? Have not seen a post from him in some days?

Posted by: Dad of Six at February 01, 2026 09:46 AM (vUDHB)

116 I wasn't really censored by my parents as far as reading material. I remember reading pretty adult level books at a young age.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 01, 2026 09:37 AM (VCgbV)
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For a time, my mother attempted to steer me away from military history, which fascinated me from the get-go. She also forbade me to have "war toys," which my father completely wrecked by sending he home from weekend visits with toy guns and army men.

My maternal grandmother (who owned the Churchill book) mocked my mother. "Let him read what interests him!" and to drive the point home, she bought "Weapons and Warfare of the 20th Century" for me when I was five because I found it in a book store and loved all the pictures. She even inscribed it to me. (Do people do that anymore?) That ended the discussion.

I will say that I wish my parents had shown greater discretion in the sophistication level of what I read, because in retrospect, I read some very age-inappropriate material that had negative downstream effects. My wife went through a similar experience, and so we took care to curate the reading choices of our kids in that respect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

117 Thanks for another fascinating Book Thread, MP4!

It seems I've always been reading so it's hard to say what the first book was, or what influenced me. I did make it to the edge of adulthood with my (often read) Bronte and O. Henry books in tow, and I still have them to this day.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 01, 2026 09:46 AM (kB9dk)

118 First book was that Dick and Jane book, don't remember the title. They had a dog named Spot.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 01, 2026 09:47 AM (sl73Y)

119 The first chapter book I ever read was The Secret Sea by Robb White. I loved it and read a bunch of other White books after that. It's about a naval officer wounded during the Battle Off Samar who goes on a treasure hunt in the Gulf of America to fund an operation for his kid brother injured playing football. Then there's this bad guy . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 01, 2026 09:48 AM (J+Psw)

120 Hi All, happy reading, Thanks to MP4 and all who contribute to make this happen.

Still reading (and loving) "Not Stolen" by Fynn-Paul. It's a great follow-on to "War Before Civilization", by Keeley.

"First remembered books that had an impact as I reached awareness": Jack London's wild dog/wolf books; everything by Robb White; "A Boy Ten Feet Tall", by Canaway; Kipling. Great question.

Posted by: goatexchange at February 01, 2026 09:48 AM (hyS0X)

121 1st: Fun with Dick and Jane
Most influential: Genesis and Exodus

Posted by: BirdRockDoc at February 01, 2026 09:48 AM (PoaF2)

122 At some point i started with the readers digest condensed books maybe something from robin cook the sphinx i think
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026

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My mother subscribed to those when I was about twelve. I got to read Jaws, for example, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Airport, and Bless the Beasts and Children, among others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

123 Everybody remembers the World Book or the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but who remembers the World Book encyclopedia? We had that when I was growing up and I loved just poking through it, reading entries here and there. I still collect small sets of encyclopedias and old dictionaries as well; it makes me sad to think they'll all end up in the garbage when I die.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

We had a set. I read it. The whole thing, A to Z. I guess you could say I was a voracious reader.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 09:49 AM (0U5gm)

124 Posted by: oldgeezer
________

The First Man?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01, 2026 09:49 AM (XvL8K)

125 As many have said, not sure what the absolute first book I read (maybe a Dr. Seuss book), but I know I could read before I started kindergarten. (Thanks Mom!) A favorite childhood book was The Phantom Tollbooth and the wonderful illustrations. I still remember Tock the watchdog! I was disappointed when my son didn’t enjoy it as much as I did. Also loved The Hobbit when I discovered it in fifth grade or so, followed by The Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: NCDave at February 01, 2026 09:49 AM (mAiNO)

126 "I enjoyed reading JK Rowling, writing under the Robert Galbraith pseudonym, the first novel in her Cormaran Strike series, "Cuckoo's Calling."

I've read all the other books in the series. Uniformly excellent. Waiting impatiently for the next, and I believe, final book in the series. BTW, the TV series based on the books is pretty good. I think it's on HBO/Max but I've watched through Amazon Prime after paying a small fee.

Posted by: Tuna at February 01, 2026 09:49 AM (lJ0H4)

127 Poppins, I avert despair because I choose to believe parents and kids select books they actually want to read, and not the swill pushed by the Library Industrial Complex.

It's especially egregious during Identity Months, I've noticed.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:44 AM (kpS4V)
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Public libraries are now computer labs for homeless people, ersatz DVD rental joints and after school hangouts. Books are a side gig at best. I think most library boards - and patrons - are late middle age women who use tax dollars to buy their chick lit. The gay stuff is just virtue signalling. No one reads it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)

128 I also remember my grandmother using different voices for different characters when reading to me, which made the stories more interesting,. . .
Posted by: Thomas Paine

My sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Schrock, did that to great effect when ready the Just So Stories by Kipling. How the elephant got his trunk was a particular favorite.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2026 09:50 AM (cYBz/)

129 It might have been airport

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 01, 2026 09:50 AM (bXbFr)

130 My great-uncle and -aunt subscribed to the Readers Digest Condensed Book series and would hand some of them off to my grandmother. When I went to visit her they were often the only thing available to read -- unless one of my cousins had left behind a paperback bestseller that my grandmother didn't know was highly unsuitable as most of them were.

I don't remember most of the RDCBs I read, but I do recall Velikovsky's _Worlds in Collision_, where I spotted an obvious howler at the age of about 8 which evidently Mr. V and none of his editors caught. Hydrocarbons are not carbohydrates. I knew that just like everyone else who lived in oil country.

Posted by: Trimegistus at February 01, 2026 09:52 AM (78a2H)

131 95 70 My very first book was a reader called Kip the Dog. It was about a dog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 09:31 AM (RIvkX)

What was the dog's name?
Posted by: Sophomore English Major at Harvard at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (CpcAD)
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Hey. Do your own research, bro.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

132 I enjoyed the Robert Galbraith audio books. I didn't enjoy the style of the Ink Black Heart though.
CJ Box is another author I enjoyed.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 01, 2026 09:52 AM (VCgbV)

133 Wolfus, that supermarket encyclopedia we had was probably some variant of a Funk & Wagnall's rather than a Golden Book set. Later (6th or 7th grade maybe), we replaced it with a Collier's. And I wrote a lot of school papers with that one (and more than a few book reports with the aid of Classics Illustrated -- and the memory of some of those comics came in handy in college as well. Bless them.)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026 0

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There was another set of encyclopedias that came with a portion of the Funk & Wagnall's dictionary between two unrelated information portions. For example, one part might have been breeds of horses, another might have been various kinds of rocks in the Earth's crust. Certainly there was one on cat breeds with a painting of a red tabby Maine Coon cat pacing alongside a barn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

134 I started reading insanely young so not sure I remember my first book

I'll go with a Dick and Jane book which I do recall reading in first grade.

as far as choose-to-read it would be The Land of Oz. I have a bunch of Baum's Oz books and read them voraciously

Book that changed my life - The Dictionary of the Khazars. apparently it's sort of politically inappropriate but I still love it. it's more of a book of poetry, you don't read thru.

still reading Hyperion/Endymion by Dan Simmons. this is VERY applicable to our current status vis-a-vis AI. super interesting how prescient he is.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 01, 2026 09:53 AM (emBoF)

135 I wonder if he had announced that, until the panic was over, costs would be cut along with wages, would there still have been a strike? Probably.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ)

Commies like Debs et al don't strike to help "workers," they strike to gain power.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 09:54 AM (uQesX)

136 One that was quite memorable for me, was Russell Hoban's "Ridley Walker." Set in the place we call Britain, six millennia after a nuclear holocaust, the narrator is a young man, a storyteller, describing his journey through an iron-age civilization of collective farms, villages, and a city all ruled by an iron-fisted group, the headman called the "Pry Minster." Iron is mined in large open pits, not ore, but the deeply buried remnants of metal things from that long ago mysterious civilization. The legend of the fall is told by traveling minstrals doing punch and judy puppet shows, with the bad guy called Adam, the Littl Shyning Man. The atomic bomb.

It's a tough read because the language is a bent version of english, but you get the hang of it after a chapter or so.

Makes you think, what could it be possibly be like, 50 or 100 generations coming out of a nuclear winter, living like neanderthals.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 01, 2026 09:54 AM (KiBMU)

137 There are two books that changed my life.

The first was Treasure Island in second grade. That was the book that made me realize that words on a page could instill powerful images and emotion in me. I came to love the information (encyclopedia, dictionary, history) could provide and the excitement of fiction (Hardy Boys, Heinlein juveniles).

The second was LOTR in seventh grade. (I know. Surprise!) The scope of the story, the vibrant writing, songs and poetry, strange characters, and the challenge of his language was like seeing a new sunrise. (I learned later that CS Lewis had a similar reaction to MacDonald's Phantastes.) Perhaps as important, it made me aware of that my own experience and knowledge could make the story more meaningful. Tolkien's 'applicability' versus allegory. That is what continues to make LOTR so important to me. The more I bring to the book, the more I get out of it. That has shaped my reading ever since.

Posted by: JTB at February 01, 2026 09:54 AM (yTvNw)

138 I don't know of a book that changed my life. There have been many books that had an impact on me.

Once was 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William Shirer. It made me understand how Hitler rose to power in Europe.

Another one was 'Caesar and Christ' by Will Durant. It got me interested in ancient history.

There are other books as well.

Posted by: dantesed at February 01, 2026 09:54 AM (Oy/m2)

139 Went to Baldwin's Book Barn yesterday lol. That place has changed now that it's "instagram popular"

there were a lot of young people there not looking at books, just taking "interesting photos"

I did grab a couple of books - they didn't have as many as usual? - and ended up having to haggle with the ancient lady at the register. I guess they are now a "rare book" shop?!?

I got her down pretty good but I will stick with church book swaps and Arden Fair for my used book needs (and Abe). crazy over there!

also freezing they don't really have heat, just a little woodburning stove in the front room. some of the little warren rooms were insanely cold

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 01, 2026 09:56 AM (emBoF)

140 "...was a reader called Kip the Dog. It was about a dog."
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Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at February 01, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)

141 My library is still a haven for book lovers and not a hobo encampment like others I've seen. And they still shush loud people on phones.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:56 AM (kpS4V)

142 "Intern" by Dr. X. Experiences of a medical intern first year of training. I read it when I was probably 7 years old, and knew then I wanted to be a doctor.

Posted by: Dantes at February 01, 2026 09:56 AM (Ya4pq)

143 Holy shit, Eris, those books are obscene.

I should make Theda Bara a black lesbian.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (ufSfZ)

Wait! She wasn't??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 09:57 AM (uQesX)

144 A lot of the novels chosen by the Reader's Digest for the Condensed Books wound up being movies. A lot didn't, of course, but there was a high percentage. I see My Cousin Rachel by Du Maurier, and Giant by Edna Ferber, were two early ones.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

145 The first one I remember reading was "Harry The Dirty Dog.", which is mostly a picture book. I think the first serious book I read was "Charlotte's Web'. My third grade class took a field trip to the Jervis Public Library, and while we were in line to check out (with my limit of seven books), my teacher Mrs. Asadourian dropped Charlotte's Web on top of my stack. I finished it after school and before suppertime.

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at February 01, 2026 09:57 AM (4qIhJ)

146
I currently reading, "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir.

He's the guy who wrote "The Martian".

PHM is very much like a straight up science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton but with more humor.

The plot concerns a kind of "sun-eating microbe" that is decreasing the sun's output, which will essentially bring about a new extinction event on Earth and good-bye human race. Earth sends rocket to a sun unaffected by the "sun-eater", and our hero wakes up as the only one left alive and with amnesia about why he's there. And we're off.

The novel is very well-written and intelligent with our hero having to figure out basics scientifically. Nice to have an intelligent, scientifically literate protagonist for once.

So far, I totally recommend PHM for a fun read.

PHM doesn't have the urgency yet of "The Martian" as we're now in the "meet cute" phase of the novel, but I assume as things come together and a solution is discovered,, the plot will intensify.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, it is. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

147 97 One of my grandsons turns nine tomorrow.
His gift from me (that he asked for) is a collection Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. How cool is that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

Happy Birthday! Eldest granddaughter will be 24.
Super cool b-day digits.

Posted by: sal at February 01, 2026 09:58 AM (f+FmA)

148 "Intern" by Dr. X. Experiences of a medical intern first year of training. I read it when I was probably 7 years old, and knew then I wanted to be a doctor.
Posted by: Dantes at February 01, 2026

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I read it when I was about twelve, when it came out in paperback. Startling the amount of humor it has in it.

The author, Alan E. Nourse, was also a science-fiction writer during the Fifties and onward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)

149 I will say that I wish my parents had shown greater discretion in the sophistication level of what I read, because in retrospect, I read some very age-inappropriate material that had negative downstream effects.

I can understand that. I joke about reading Venus in Furs and A Man With A Maid just as I was hitting puberty, but looking back, I realize that those books really derailed my emotional growth and still affect me now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:59 AM (ufSfZ)

150 Was it Adventures of Dick & Jane?
Somehow don't remember Dr Suisse first, more like 6,7 yo

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 09:59 AM (Ia/+0)

151 A while back, I saw a set of custom bound comics on ebay. I tried to buy the set, but was out-bid at the last second. Because I'm a sore loser, I've been looking around to see what it would cost to create my own copy of the books. Well, as it turns out, just buying the original comic book issues would cost at least as much as the original set. Binding those comics into actual books would cost half as much again, and would take many months of waiting. Whomever won that bid got one hell of a deal.

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 09:59 AM (Lhaco)

152 NG ... clearly had their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks, and the writing alone is a delight.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

Was there a scene with NG in a bath with a young girl? He's the weirdo, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 10:00 AM (uQesX)

153 The earliest reading I can remember doing wasn't books. Before I was in kindergarten, I used to copy words that I saw and ask my Dad what they said. One of those words was "Janitrol", which was the brand name of the furnace in our house. Later on, I started reading comic strips in the newspaper.

I can't remember the first actual book that I read, but one of the early ones was "Fire Hunter" by Jim Kjelgaard. Another one was "Star Beast" (I think that was the title) by Robert Heinlein. After that I became a voracious reader, so much so that my parents started to complain that I spent too much time reading.

When I went to the library, at first they only wanted to let me check out "age-appropriate" books; illustrated kid's books with one sentence per page. I convinced them to change their minds by sitting at a table and reading about 100 pages of "The Abominable Snowman" by Ivan Sanderson, and then describing what I had read.

Posted by: Toad-0 at February 01, 2026 10:01 AM (oI25S)

154 The first adult level book I just had to read and which influenced my reading life would be The Sinking of the Bismarck by William Schirer. I remember the long wait list at the library to get a copy. The movie "Sink the Bismarck" was one of the WGN classic movies that would play on Sunday afternoons, and every boy in my class wanted to read that book. I now have hundreds of military history books, and at least half are naval history.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 10:01 AM (0U5gm)

155 The library here has been depressing for some time. I can go in there and find at least fifteen feet of shelf space devoted to James Patterson, but if I'm in a mood for Somerset Maugham it's Of Human Bondage and maybe two others. They've kept a few Hemingways, maybe three or four Heinleins, no O'Hara, not much Dickens, not much in the way of classics at all really.

It appears that a lot of library school grads in recent decades go along with the idea that a book that doesn't circulate often enough should be weeded, which is understandable; less understandable is the idea that it should be weeded no matter what it is. But gotta make room for DVDs and the sort of books Eris described above. I used to hit the libraries a lot when I was a kid; over the last 20 or 30 years, not so much.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026 10:01 AM (q3u5l)

156 Fun with Dick and Jane, I do think that is possibly first. First published 1930, final edition 1965

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 10:02 AM (Ia/+0)

157 I should make Theda Bara a black lesbian.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 09:38 AM (ufSfZ)

Trans-disabled!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 01, 2026 10:02 AM (h7ZuX)

158 We did not have many books growing up. Mom was a functional illiterate who never went further than fifth grade. Dad was into crosswords and puzzle books. What saved me was my cousin who was four years older than me. He got me hooked on reading. Then it dawned on my parents that maybe it’s something to be encouraged. It was only then that we began to have books in the house.

Posted by: Uncle Slayton at February 01, 2026 10:02 AM (ZDNhW)

159 Went to Baldwin's Book Barn yesterday lol. That place has changed now that it's "instagram popular"

Never heard of it until now, when I looked it up. It seems like my kind of place, and I'll have to check it out if I'm ever in the area.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 01, 2026 10:03 AM (ufSfZ)

160 I read the whole story, the one that was done as little 5 or 6 paragraph inserts onto the bottom corner of the pages of The Whole Earth Catalog, but I can't remember any of it, because I was stoned.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 01, 2026 10:04 AM (KiBMU)

161 My first books were The Great Brain series and the most important is Closing of The American Mind.
As an adult, hands down the KJB.

Posted by: Accomack at February 01, 2026 10:04 AM (j6fda)

162 Dick and Jane! Dick and Jane!

Nobody remembers Jack and Janet? With Tip and Mitten?

Posted by: Weak Geek at February 01, 2026 10:04 AM (p/isN)

163 I mentioned last week reading the first of Faith Martin's Arbie and Val mysteries, Murder By Candlelight. I liked it so well I read the second this week, The Last Word Is Death, and am deep into the third and, to date, final, A Dangerous Train of Thought. These are not hard boiled like Rowling's Comoran Strike novels but more Agatha Christie-esque.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 01, 2026 10:04 AM (J+Psw)

164 One that was quite memorable for me, was Russell Hoban's "Ridley Walker."
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Hoban wrote the book in a pidgin language much in the style of Burgess' A Clockwork Orange or Orwell's 1984.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

165 80 I was looking at the "new books" section of my library's website and holy crap have libraries gone off the deep end. The new hotness is "remixes"
-"What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix" (they're blackish)
- "A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix" (they're female and Asian)
- "Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo and Juliet Remix" (two gay boys)
- "So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix" (e'r'body black!)
-"Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix" (hijabs and ME politics!)
-"My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix" (blaaaaaack)
Etc.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 09:35 AM (kpS4V)

Ick. Those sound awful. I try to avoid remixes, as I would prefer something original, but unfortunately remixes do catch the eye easier than original works. When I do get them, it tends to be because the story had been retold as an action/adventure.

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 10:06 AM (Lhaco)

166 After reading Wiki on Fun with Dick and Jane I am positive that was first book as my reading skills suffered throughout my life
( rolls eyes)

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)

167 I remember reading all the books in the third grade classroom, but they did not change my life.

Books that influenced me mightily as a lad were Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes and more. His Barroom tales, and every other book he wrote were influential as well.

That led me to being a completist on the Victor Appleton Jr. books about Tom Swift, Junior. I focused on the technology and ideas, not the language, lame personal dynamics, or condescending text. Gave me an introduction to science and technology.

As an adult, The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris reframed my thinking about humanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2026 10:06 AM (u82oZ)

168 My parents rarely bought books. Not that they didn't like them, but they were very frugal. My grandmother, however, was an elementary school principal, and would sometimes bring us a whole box of books that were leftovers from the Scholastic book fairs at her school. I still have some of them. But there were also the books I found behind an upstairs door in my other grandma's rickety old house, a whole series called "Aunt Janes Nieces", by Edith Van Dyne. Many years later I learned that Edith Van Dyne was actually L. Frank Baum.

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at February 01, 2026 10:07 AM (4qIhJ)

169 Come, I will be honest with you: The book that changed my life the most was The Complete Home Medical Encyclopedia (1963) by one Dr. Harold Hyman. My mother had not yet had The Talk with me about the birds and the bees. One evening my pre-teen self was dipping into this massive paperback, and ran across the sections on "Sexual Intercourse (Coitus)" and "Sexual Maturation in Health and Disease." Naturally I dived into them.

Well. Really? Is that how it all works . . .? Wow!

As an adult I have a copy of the book. It's not a dry examination of the topic -- the language is almost poetic. As you can imagine, It Changed Everything for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9)

170 Makes you think, what could it be possibly be like, 50 or 100 generations coming out of a nuclear winter, living like neanderthals.
Posted by: M. Gaga at February 01, 2026 09:54 AM (KiBMU)

Reminds of the book that really got me into Sci/fi-futuristic fantasy: “Daybreak 2250 AD” by Andre Norton. Setting is kind of a Thundarr the Barbarian world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 10:08 AM (IUuBi)

171 The first adult level book I just had to read and which influenced my reading life would be The Sinking of the Bismarck by William Schirer. I remember the long wait list at the library to get a copy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 10:01 AM (0U5gm)
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The elementary school library had a small collection of military history books and several were always being checked out, especially the picture book on World War II. They had a similar book on World War I that was less popular, so that's the one I checked out and that's probably why I got so interested in the topic. Wish I could remember the name of the series. They were cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)

172 First conscious story I remember was non-fiction in third grade and asked the Sister how to pronounce 'coelacanth.' When she had trouble pronouncing it, I knew I wanted to learn more.

Precocious wasn't I?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2026 10:09 AM (HFAps)

173 Just finished "Exogenesis" by Peco Gaskovski, a well-known "Unmachiner".

It's a dystopian future novel set 200 years in the future. The protagonist is a 4th Echelon "counselor" in the population control bureau who encounters insurgents during a routine sterilization trip to the Luddite-like outlands.
It's a short read, reasonably well-written and the society build is quite good. The title is from the future extra-uterine technology that allows eligible couples to create hundreds of embryos and to choose which one will be allowed to live.

Posted by: sal at February 01, 2026 10:09 AM (f+FmA)

174 In fact I suspect my mother bought the Hyman medical text and left it around for me so I would read those sections, and she would not have to have The Talk with me at all. If so, it worked.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

175 The first book I recall was "The Monster at the End of This Book." It was a little illustrated Sesame Street book featuring Grover.

As for life-changing books, I'd say C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity" ranks #1 (outside of the Bible).

Posted by: PabloD at February 01, 2026 10:09 AM (3VXNH)

176 My first book was actually the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, at first the red colored version with a lot of pictures and then the adult, black and gray colored version that wasn’t so heavy on pictures. My Mom told me that I used to fall asleep my head on the pages of an open volume when I was 4 and 5 years old.

I was definitely a hardcore book nerd at a very early age. And now I have something like 300 unread books sitting on my Kindle, far more than I can probably read before I die. Better get to work!

Posted by: Sharkman at February 01, 2026 10:09 AM (/RHNq)

177 Starting An Army at Dawn, North Africa WWII

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 10:10 AM (Ia/+0)

178 Had the Dick & Jane readers in grade school. Did not consider them 'books'. Didn't read any Dr Seuss until senior year in high school; when my English teacher found out that I never had, she brought 3 of his books in for me to read - forget how she put it, but something along the lines of him being part of the culture.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 01, 2026 10:10 AM (NcvvS)

179 What book changed my life?

RED

STORM

RISING

That is all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 01, 2026 10:10 AM (PlzrS)

180 I remember sitting in a circle in grade school with other kids reading aloud Fun With Dick and Jane. Every minute was torture and made me hate being in school.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 10:10 AM (RIvkX)

181 It appears that a lot of library school grads in recent decades go along with the idea that a book that doesn't circulate often enough should be weeded, which is understandable; less understandable is the idea that it should be weeded no matter what it is. But gotta make room for DVDs and the sort of books Eris described above. I used to hit the libraries a lot when I was a kid; over the last 20 or 30 years, not so much.

Posted by: Just Some Guy

A new city library is under construction not far from my house. It will be much more convenient, but I hope against hope that there will actually be anything there worth checking out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 10:10 AM (0U5gm)

182 The first book I read was probably the Bible because we were and are church going folks. I haven't not had books at my home. One book that gives me PTSD is the Count of Monte Cristo. I can't even listen to it being read any more. We studied it and attempted to translate it in HS French. I really like it, but I have great trouble getting through the inhumanity. I understand that is the point. I probably am the only person who has PTSD from a book rather than a real life physical experience.

I read Jane Austin as an adult. Love those then hit the other authors who wrote about the same time like Elizabeth Gaskill and Anthony Trollop.

I fell in love with Shakespeare in high school. I struggled to understand him but love him anyway.

I prefer biographies over fiction when it comes to things like crime since the biographies have already happened. Fictional stories of serial killers means there is still a change that it could happen. Terrifying!

Posted by: Beverly at February 01, 2026 10:10 AM (O6DQB)

183 When I was in grade school, the town librarian lived one street over from where we lived. I loved visiting the library and Mom would drive us over on Saturdays. The library's limit on checking out books was three books for a period of two weeks. My personal limit was different: I could check out as many books as I could carry. Even back then I devoured books like crazy!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 01, 2026 10:11 AM (kB9dk)

184 I can't remember the first actual book that I read, but one of the early ones was "Fire Hunter" by Jim Kjelgaard. Another one was "Star Beast" (I think that was the title) by Robert Heinlein. After that I became a voracious reader, so much so that my parents started to complain that I spent too much time reading.

Posted by: Toad-0 at February 01, 2026 10:01 AM (oI25S)

Hm. I've read a lot of Jim Kjelgaard books, but not that one. I'm guessing it wasn't one of his dog books...

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 01, 2026 10:11 AM (Lhaco)

185 Posted by: PabloD at February 01, 2026 10:09 AM
At least not like the Monster book of Monsters that tries to bite you

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 10:11 AM (Ia/+0)

186 Since this is Book Worm Central, let me put this question to the Moron Hive Mind: There was a collection of books in the 1970s that were built around the 20th Century. Each decade got its own book, as did World War I and World War II.

It might have been called "The 20th Century" but a title search for that is pointless. Anyone recall author or publisher? I found some of the illustrations in other war books, but the illustrator's work was in countless books and I can't find a bibliography of his work. These were tall, slender volumes, brightly colored covers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)

187 Never heard of it until now, when I looked it up. It seems like my kind of place, and I'll have to check it out if I'm ever in the area.

It is definitely worth a visit. Do be prepared to haggle; hard to find bargains here anymore I think. one of my books was clearly a library donation and I wasn't prepared to pay too much (despite it being out of print, which she may or may not have known).

they don't mark all the books with prices, actually very few are marked.

so it's fun, the 'checking out" part. they probably will have to add a cafe or something to recoup costs from the young people. they were not buying any books. just wandering around the warrens ... which is fun, I don't blame them!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 01, 2026 10:12 AM (emBoF)

188 #45 Yes the encyclopedias! I remember randomly picking a word or letter and opening it up and reading. My parents had a study that was full of (we are talking early 70’s) National Geographic’s, books about science, atlas’ and a bit about everything. It really gave one a sense of the world and broader knowledge rather than ‘googling’ something specific. I loved that my Mom had her college Chemisty books. Didn’t understand but loved looking at them. It sparked curiosity
And love of reading. Also loved the series books Little House and I also read All of a Kind Family.

Posted by: Hyacinth at February 01, 2026 10:12 AM (ryp7h)

189 I don't remember the first things I read, they were probably Dr. Seuss or Babar the Elephant books.

Hey, I've got that Donald Rumbelow Jack the Ripper book somewhere in storage. A great, gruesome book.

Book that changed my life? Dunno. Maybe all of them? Even if only "This sucks."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 01, 2026 10:13 AM (CHHv1)

190 6 After reading Wiki on Fun with Dick and Jane I am positive that was first book as my reading skills suffered throughout my life
( rolls eyes)
Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026

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Those were the first I was expected to read in first grade. I already knew what those little bugs on the paper meant, so I breezed right along. My teacher, about a month into school, scared me by asking me to stay after class for a minute. She said, "Wolfus, you already know how to read, don't you?" "Well, sure," I said (I'd thought everybody did).

It earned me a field promotion to second grade, later confirmed with testing at the School Board office in the summer, so I went right into third.

The Dick and Jane stuff seemed awfully simple to me even at age seven. And what was "burning autumn leaves" all about? Nobody I knew did that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

191
The first book I remember reading was about a cocker spaniel puppy who became an obedience champion. Long forgotten, 30-odd years later, I come to find Her Majesty had a copy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2026 10:14 AM (tgvbd)

192 186 AH Lloyd

Was it ___Our American Century___? Or ___This Fabulous Century___?

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 01, 2026 10:14 AM (Yg2TI)

193 The elementary school library had a small collection of military history books and several were always being checked out, especially the picture book on World War II. They had a similar book on World War I that was less popular, so that's the one I checked out and that's probably why I got so interested in the topic. Wish I could remember the name of the series. They were cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Yes, there was a book in my school library on submarine missions in the Pacific Theater that was fantastic, and wish I could find it, or at least remember the name.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2026 10:14 AM (0U5gm)

194 I've enjoyed some retelling of classics because they approach the story from different angles, but they were character-driven. These are just ideology-driven. The race and gender swapping can't end soon enough for me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Christopher Nolan has apparently cast a Somalian actress (who looks just like the "Look at me. I'm the captain now" guy from the movie Captain Phillips) as Helen of Troy in the new Odyssey movie that is going to suck harder than a black hole formed from the star UY Scuti.

Because Helen of Troy wasn't a pasty white Greek lady, you know?

Posted by: Sharkman at February 01, 2026 10:15 AM (/RHNq)

195 I remember sitting in a circle in grade school with other kids reading aloud Fun With Dick and Jane. Every minute was torture and made me hate being in school.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026

***
+100

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

196 Two books that deeply affected me were All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, sort of a modern (OK, 1920s and 30s) retelling of The Divine Comedy and Radical Son by David Horowitz, a red diaper doper baby grows up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 01, 2026 10:15 AM (J+Psw)

197 It appears that a lot of library school grads in recent decades go along with the idea that a book that doesn't circulate often enough should be weeded, which is understandable; less understandable is the idea that it should be weeded no matter what it is. But gotta make room for DVDs and the sort of books Eris described above. I used to hit the libraries a lot when I was a kid; over the last 20 or 30 years, not so much.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 01, 2026 10:01 AM (q3u5l)
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The whole point of a library is the depth of its collection. They have shelves so you don't have to. The book section of my city library is an atrocity, lots of empty space, incomplete historical series, the nonfiction is a joke. The fiction section has some gems, but the remorseless turnover makes it clear that this is just the wine aunts' reading room.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 01, 2026 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

198 Quirky book story. Back in the dark ages before my smartphone addiction I got a notification for jury duty. And it was for federal court, not the local hoosegow. In preparation I read all instructions on the web page. Juror candidates could bring almost NOTHING into the courtroom. I would have to surrender all personal items and jewelry and even my belt. Ok, sounds a little extreme, but whatever. The instructions recommended candidates bring reading material to pass the time. I forgot about that until the day before when I happened to be in a drug store. I saw a rack of paperbacks and randomly grabbed some book about the battle of Fredericksburg. I wasn't selected to be on the jury, but had enough dead time that I began reading.
Was so hooked I had to finish it before going to bed that night.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Nice hat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2026 10:15 AM (nWPIJ)

Daily Tech News 1 February 2026

Top Story

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has denied reports that his company is not going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. (CNBC)

He explained that the real story is that Nvidia is not going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI:
"Sam is closing the round (of investment) and we will absolutely be involved," Huang added. "We will invest ‍a great deal of money, probably the largest investment we've ever made."

Asked whether ‌it would be over $100 billion, he said: "No, no, nothing like ⁠that."
So there you have it. Nvidia will absolutely definitively be going ahead with investing some amount in some company at some point maybe.

Unless they don't.

Tech News

SpaceX has requested federal approval to launch a million datacenters into orbit. (Tech Crunch)

That used to be a lot.
Meanwhile Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, has paused space tourism to focus on the Moon. (Tech Crunch)

That seems bold considering that the company's first orbital flights only launched last year, but good luck to them.
You can now buy a flying car. (Yahoo)

Well, more of a flying motorbike.

Actually, more of a flying hammock slung between two banks of rotors and surrounded by a plastic shell.

Anyway, yours for only $200,000. And you're not allowed to fly it more than 200 feet above the ground, or in regulated airspace.

And it's classified as an ultralight aircraft, and it doesn't have wheels, so not really a car at all.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Questionable acts at a reasonable price.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 04:02 AM (SSiCQ)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 01, 2026 04:03 AM (AdHga)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Tuna at February 01, 2026 04:03 AM (lJ0H4)

4 Ah, an AC/DC earworm. I like it!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 01, 2026 04:05 AM (AdHga)

5 Belated BOING!

Migrating Mrs. BD to a new Samsung Android. Fresh hell!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 04:32 AM (gK5jz)

6 G'Day everyone
Was expecting it to be only 1"30 or so

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

7 I guess people making fun of Jeff's fake astronauts has put a damper on things.

I'm glad because that thing was going to kill some people at some point.

Posted by: pawn at February 01, 2026 04:44 AM (uvB+6)

8 I have no visible clock in bed room

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

9 11 degrees here

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

10 "Abounding Love". "Our Daily Bread" Christian devotional on Philippians 1:3-11. Devotional is followed by a prayer and some additional insights:

https://tinyurl.com/2kzfd3rh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 04:59 AM (D+BhG)

11 Woman who reaches 107 gives credit to God. Scroll down for video:

https://tinyurl.com/bdcvuyvn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 05:02 AM (D+BhG)

12 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 01, 2026 05:04 AM (AN2gy)

13 "Snowplow vigilante" in St Louis rents equipment and plows snow for free. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/mryd49sw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 05:04 AM (D+BhG)

14 Tow truck driver in Texas saves man from icy culvert:

https://tinyurl.com/2265m2aj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 05:07 AM (D+BhG)

15 Psalm 1:4

"Thinking long term." Psalm 1:4. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/4yz66cy3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 05:19 AM (D+BhG)

16 Even though I'm old,chubby,broke as in no wealth, have several health problems, this is still the day Our Lord in Heaven has given me and everyone else.

I am thankful that I will see another sunrise.

Posted by: Former Gun Bunny at February 01, 2026 05:23 AM (qMgJx)

17 Posted by: Former Gun Bunny at February 01, 2026 05:23 AM (qMgJx)

Amen. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 05:25 AM (D+BhG)

18 From Grok: Largest non-tech private investments (leveraged buyouts/private equity acquisitions) include:

Energy Future Holdings (TXU Energy): $45 billion (2007, utilities/energy) – historically the largest LBO.

Electronic Arts: $55 billion (2025, gaming/entertainment) – recent record LBO.

HCA Healthcare: $33 billion (2006, hospitals/healthcare).

Equity Office Properties: $39 billion (2007, real estate).

RJR Nabisco: $31 billion (1989, tobacco/food).

Posted by: pawn at February 01, 2026 05:26 AM (uvB+6)

19 My sister in the Lord, and very kind fellow 'ette, TecumsehTea, likes the musical selections, so here is one: "Way Maker". I didn't know this Christian group, but they do a very nice job on a song called "Way Maker"-about four minute video. And now I have to get ready for church. Have a blessed day, all. You are a gift to others and God loves you!

https://tinyurl.com/ne2pm22r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2026 05:31 AM (D+BhG)

20
Good morning, Hordians.

Miss Ruth, who's a house dog while she's in season, started whining at 1:00 this morning. Told her to shut up. She continued to whine. Got up and let her out. She continued to whine. Checked her over and gave her an anti-gas pill. She whined some more and eventually settled down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2026 05:33 AM (tgvbd)

21 "You can't take it with you cause it goes before you do."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 01, 2026 05:44 AM (qFwJc)

22 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 01, 2026 05:44 AM (bQ4nt)

23 Good morning.
I approve this message.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 01, 2026 05:44 AM (/2Gbl)

24 B.C. 487 Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout , O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

A.D. 33 Matthew 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

Posted by: kingsman at February 01, 2026 05:45 AM (ehY6c)

25 Somehow missed seeing Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 05:53 AM (Ia/+0)

26 Evening and morning to all on this Sunday! Holy cow, how did it get to be February *already*??

27 F. here, clear, wind chill of 17. I have no need to go out into it, so there.

Somehow Stirling avoided leaping on or over me until fairly late, for him. I actually slept a decent amount last night. Feels . . . odd. Good, though.

Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

27 It follows as the night the day, that if the first day of the month is a Sunday, we will have a Friday the 13th in that month. If that concerns you at all, of course.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

28 having a new knee since last week, I have weird sleep patterns. Mostly driven by the achy leg, I wake up about every two hours and have to ice the leg. Soon, though, I will be unstoppable!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 05:58 AM (XPDqE)

29 It's a brisk 10 degrees here today, much warmer than recent days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 05:59 AM (XPDqE)

30 Huck are you doing exercises?

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 06:01 AM (Ia/+0)

31 Oh, yes. I do anyway, but my knee is getting extra attention. Might be part of what keeps me awake, I might be over-doing it. I am already at 90 degree bend a week out from surgery. Night times are the harder times though, for whatever reason.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 06:04 AM (XPDqE)

32 I am not stoopersitious.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 01, 2026 06:08 AM (qFwJc)

33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAl9cchQac

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 01, 2026 06:08 AM (jrgJz)

34
Off to Mass. Later

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2026 06:09 AM (tgvbd)

35 >>> Somehow missed seeing Powerline week in pictures

You get a Sunday bonus.

Posted by: fluffy at February 01, 2026 06:10 AM (AN2gy)

36 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 01, 2026 06:11 AM (8dH7A)

37 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 01, 2026 06:11 AM (2Ez/1)

38 I am not stoopersitious.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 01, 2026

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I've had neither better luck nor worse on any Friday the 13th I can remember. Marie the black cat breaking a mirror in about 2000 brought me worse luck, if you want to look at it that way, than any specific date ever has.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

39 Most birdbaths in country I think are frozen

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

40 Time I slopped the feline hogs, got dressed, and chowed down myself!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

41 Been stuck inside with infuriatingly persistent cold, discovered two good Aussie series on Amazon -- City Homicide, and Mr. In-Between. The former is free with Prime.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 01, 2026 06:20 AM (VnsnO)

42 I've had neither better luck nor worse on any Friday the 13th I can remember. Marie the black cat breaking a mirror in about 2000 brought me worse luck, if you want to look at it that way, than any specific date ever has.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 06:12 AM (wzUl9)
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February is my personal bad luck month. I've injured my back and had a car wrecked on February 9th (not the same year) and wrecked another car on February 18th (neither of the previous years). February hasn't been acting up lately, though, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 01, 2026 06:23 AM (8dH7A)

43 It's my turn to deal with the only non-suffering member of The House Of Former Plague, so guten morgen Hordevolk.

This Sunday is also the baptism of the first daughter of the youngest member of my knitting/sewing/crocheting/embroidery circle, so I'm looking forward to watching that (unfortunately online).

Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at February 01, 2026 06:27 AM (Wt5PA)

44
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 01, 2026 06:27 AM (tljrc)

45 1 more month and the worst of winter should be over.
We have had 3 foot snow storms in March though

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)

46 I want to take this moment to thank WABC’s Dani Beckstrom for being Dani Beckstrom.

Posted by: Accomack at February 01, 2026 06:27 AM (S8ZfB)

47 Good morning Horde. First time in a few days that it hasn't been below zero when I woke up. The next day or two will also be cold. Winter in the mid Hudson.
Hope you are all well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2026 06:36 AM (IDEQi)

48 Supposed to be in the 70s most of the week. Time to start planting....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2026 06:39 AM (uQesX)

49 Greetings from the Carolinas. 17 degrees and a foot of snow on top of 3 inches of ice. Hot fire and hot coffee.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 01, 2026 06:42 AM (jt/rW)

50 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 06:46 AM (RIvkX)

51 G'morning, all!

19.8 degrees out, with about 1.5 inches of snow on the ground.

Waiting to see if Church will take place.

We set a personal record of 111KW of electricity used in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 01, 2026 06:48 AM (iMotb)

52 A.D. 33 Matthew 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Posted by: kingsman at February 01, 2026 05:45 AM
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Episode 8 of Season 4 of The Chosen is entitled "Humble."
It depicts how Jesus' disciples go about borrowing the donkey.
Enjoyable to watch a fictionalized account of how such a thing might have unfolded.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

53
Good morning, 17° here in North Alabama. Barely reached 24° yesterday, we'll see what today brings.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at February 01, 2026 06:54 AM (QVmho)

54 Yesterday was surprisingly sunny and warm. Did a morning hike to the GG Bridge then a college buddy came over and we went up Lone Mountain.

Nary a thought of snow or cold.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 06:54 AM (RIvkX)

55 NYC is back!
The parks dept crew for Baisley Pond is too lazy to plow the paths in the park.
10° on the south side of our street. It gets to 38° on the sunny north side.

Posted by: Accomack at February 01, 2026 06:56 AM (S8ZfB)

56
Posted by: Former Gun Bunny
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Amen. Thanks!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Absolutely! Any day we are ambulatory and surounded by grey box friends, is a win.

Every day is a miracle, every formation is a parade, and every meal is a banquet.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at February 01, 2026 06:57 AM (QVmho)

57 G'mornin' everyone!

7 degrees above zero !

(woohoo!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 01, 2026 06:58 AM (Cjt/F)

58 Grüß Gott, Horde!

Fenelon, thanks for sharing the bit about the St Louis snowplower. I wonder if he might be related to one of my high school English teachers (same last name, correct age, etc).

I have relatives that live in Dogtown, so he very likely helped my family.

Stay warm, wherever y'all are.

Unless you're in the tropics. Then stay cool.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 01, 2026 06:59 AM (Yg2TI)

59
having a new knee since last week, I have weird sleep patterns. Mostly driven by the achy leg, I wake up about every two hours and have to ice the leg. Soon, though, I will be unstoppable!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Keep up with the exercises. I put off getting mine done for a decade (I'm stupid that way) and my quads had atrophied from compensating for the knee pain when I walked. Took me three years to get the leg back. It's still measuring an inch smaller at the thigh than the other one but at least it doesn't ache with muscle pain constantly anymore.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at February 01, 2026 07:01 AM (QVmho)

60 Phone says 10 degrees but deck thermometer is 8.5 degrees

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)

61 Regarding the Pivotal Helix/Blackfly: It's one of the frontrunning electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) ultralights. I'm acquainted with two people who own them, they like them a lot.

I got to hop into its simulator at the Nat'l Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence a couple days before the TX MoMe. The sim's graphics were a bit buggy, but the "Flight" experience was consistent with my friends' descriptions of their actual experience.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 01, 2026 07:03 AM (Yg2TI)

62 It's currently freezing in Tampa, FL

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2026 07:03 AM (Y1sOo)

63 All these over-the-air channels, and nothing worth looking at. Hmph. Off the lawn, kiddo.

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs w/ cheese within and around a toasted taco shell; a half slice of whole grain toast with peanut butter and honey. Energy!

I could shower, even shave, and still have some lazy time until the Book Thread. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 01, 2026 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

64 Morning peeps.

It's -4 here this morning. My furnace hasn't shut off for more than 15 minutes every hour, all night.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2026 07:06 AM (jtM2q)

65 For whatever it's worth, Palmer Lucky (founder of Anduril) bought a Jetson One, not a Pivotal Helix.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 01, 2026 07:06 AM (Yg2TI)

66 Weather Underground says it's -7 here, but while out and about earlier, car said +2.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 01, 2026 07:10 AM (NcvvS)

67 truer words have never been said, Biff!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 01, 2026 07:10 AM (Cjt/F)

68 Taylor Rehmet.

Bwahahahahaha

Posted by: Midterm bloodbath at February 01, 2026 07:14 AM (h81X3)

69 5 Belated BOING!

Migrating Mrs. BD to a new Samsung Android. Fresh hell!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 04:32 AM (gK5jz)

heh
your nick click

Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 07:16 AM (SSiCQ)

70 mornin yall. If you needed any more evidence of what a sick perverted weirdo Bernie Sanders is, here you go:

"Bernie Sanders built a device to give himself 'cosmos-shattering orgasms"

Something tells me this guy just loves penguins.

Posted by: fd at February 01, 2026 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

71 68 Taylor Rehmet.
Bwahahahahaha
Posted by: Midterm bloodbath at February 01, 2026 07:14 AM (h81X3)

=

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP
Sunday, February 1, 2026

googleable

Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 07:18 AM (SSiCQ)

72 Amazing shift of the winter arctic blast. It's 34degF with no snow here in the Rockies, along the continental divide with a projected high of 51degF today.

That's probably going to change soon, and we'll get blasted with some double digit negative temperatures and massive snow.

Winter is still coming.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 01, 2026 07:21 AM (oT7pT)

73 Just around freezing, so...
Plan on hitting the range later today, looking forward to gub thread...

Posted by: man at February 01, 2026 07:30 AM (XuXeR)

74 22 degrees currently on Perdido Key.

I cracked open all the exterior faucets last evening and let the water drip overnight. I probably didn't need to do that. The faucet covers I had on them should've been good enough, but I didn't want to take even the slightest chance of waking up to a plumbing emergency.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2026 07:33 AM (Y1sOo)

75 69 5 Belated BOING!

Migrating Mrs. BD to a new Samsung Android. Fresh hell!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 04:32 AM (gK5jz)

heh
your nick click
Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 07:16 AM (SSiCQ)

https://boing.greg.technology

Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 07:34 AM (SSiCQ)

76 Mexico has banned vapes, which means the cartels are now in the vape business. Smart move, Mexico.

Posted by: fd at February 01, 2026 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

77 >>>I cracked open all the exterior faucets last evening and let the water drip overnight. I probably didn't need to do that. The faucet covers I had on them should've been good enough, but I didn't want to take even the slightest chance of waking up to a plumbing emergency.

Posted by: one hour sober

>Last year, about this time, the temp dropped below -20degF and my pipes cracked. I was working out of town for a week.

Completely destroyed the house. Better safe than sorry, for about $20K in repairs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 01, 2026 07:39 AM (oT7pT)

78 "Bernie Sanders built a device to give himself 'cosmos-shattering orgasms"

Something tells me this guy just loves penguins.
Posted by: fd at February 01, 2026 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

Well, that would explain his hair.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2026 07:41 AM (TuGyL)

79 > "Bernie Sanders built a device to give himself 'cosmos-shattering orgasms"
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At his age he more than likely rupture a testicle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2026 07:45 AM (jtM2q)

80
"Bernie Sanders built a device to give himself 'cosmos-shattering orgasms"

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He gets his orgasms, but the cosmos is shattered. Selfish bastard.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 01, 2026 07:47 AM (VWtfl)

81 You youngsters have no idea that Woody Allen introduced the Orgasmatron in 1973.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

82 You youngsters have no idea that Woody Allen introduced the Orgasmatron in 1973.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
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Also attack pudding.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 07:51 AM (FgA1v)

83 74 22 degrees currently on Perdido Key.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2026 07:33 AM
+++

Would love to see a picture of ice on Cotton Bayou.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 07:51 AM (2Ez/1)

84 Completely destroyed the house.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Yikes!

Hurricane Sally destroyed the entire interior of my house along with the roof -- to the tune of $184k in rebuild/repair costs -- so I know the feeling.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2026 07:53 AM (Y1sOo)

85 Also attack pudding.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 07:51 AM (FgA1v)
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Ha! This film has become a classic of slapstick comedy. The pudding, the personal helicopter, the computer tapes. And the famous line, "Albert Shanker finally got the Bomb"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

86 82 You youngsters have no idea that Woody Allen introduced the Orgasmatron in 1973.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
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Also attack pudding.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 07:51 AM (FgA1v)

And a yuge shout out to the reliability of the VW Beetle.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2026 07:57 AM (TuGyL)

87 22 degrees currently on Perdido Key."

Webcam @ Clearwater beach shows.... snow.

Posted by: man at February 01, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)

88 >>>Yikes!

Hurricane Sally destroyed the entire interior of my house along with the roof -- to the tune of $184k in rebuild/repair costs -- so I know the feeling.

Posted by: one hour sober

>Insurance is a good thing, occasionally. I had to live at my brother's place for 6 months.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (oT7pT)

89 For anyone who wonders why Taylor Rehmet won that Texas special election easily, and why no one shows up for special elections like this:

The Texas Legislature is only in session every other year. The Texas Senate will not be in session again until 2027, after this election is done again in a few months. What Taylor won is a nice letterhead he can use on his stationary for a while.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (IUuBi)

90 9 degrees here in Upstate SC, with 6"+ inches of snow on the ground. A rare occurrence! I checked Virginia City, MT yesterday it's like our winter forecasts had been traded. They were in the 40s.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

91 And a yuge shout out to the reliability of the VW Beetle.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2026 07:57 AM (TuGyL)

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Ummm, hello?

Posted by: Herbie at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

92 >>Would love to see a picture of ice on Cotton Bayou.

Best I could do would be to take of pic of the lid to the orange Home Depot bucket I keep next to the dog pen and use to dispose of their poop. It had water on it yesterday. Now, it's ice.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (Y1sOo)

93 .
I just had a nice, non-informative conversation with ChadGPT about the Pivatol eVTOL Black(Death)Fly. Nosing into a house near you ... soon. Boom.
.
- Garp

Posted by: Marooned at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (kt8QE)

94 Bernie Sanders' "Penguitron" device was banned when it was revealed that it created a space time warp 500 years into the future, causing Captain James T. Kirk to be stranded in space, wearing a spacesuit and floating in and out of existence.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 01, 2026 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

95 Bernie Sanders' "Penguitron" device was banned when it was revealed that it created a space time warp 500 years into the future, causing Captain James T. Kirk to be stranded in space, wearing a spacesuit and floating in and out of existence.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 01, 2026 08:01 AM (vFG9F)
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No fvcking way.

Posted by: The Tholians at February 01, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

96
The Texas Legislature is only in session every other year. The Texas Senate will not be in session again until 2027, after this election is done again in a few months. What Taylor won is a nice letterhead he can use on his stationary for a while.

==

Now, now...all that info will do is harsh that poor feller's "bloodbath" dream.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 01, 2026 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

97 82 You youngsters have no idea that Woody Allen introduced the Orgasmatron in 1973.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

I hate to differ, but the Orgasmatron was first introduced by Duran Duran in 1968.
The mad scientist, not the band.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 08:04 AM (IUuBi)

98 “ The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!”

2 Samuel 22:47

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2026 08:04 AM (f4oEt)

99 @81 Sleeper was a hoot.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2026 08:06 AM (IDEQi)

100 Moltbook - The social media network for AI agents

Forbes article
https://tinyurl.com/3dpv6mu7

Very spooky.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 01, 2026 08:07 AM (EFrJp)

101 I hate to differ, but the Orgasmatron was first introduced by Duran Duran in 1968.
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I am pleased to be corrected. Woody can be so derivative.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

102 TBH when I saw Barbarella I probably had no idea what that was.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

103 >>had to live at my brother's place for 6 months.

We lived in our motorhome parked on our front lawn. Eighteen months before we could move back in. (It was during COVID and supply chain issues delayed materials delivery substantially).

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2026 08:11 AM (Y1sOo)

104 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

105 102 TBH when I saw Barbarella I probably had no idea what that was.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

LOL me too! I watched it again a couple years ago and this time I could see that it was just splashy sets and risqué costuming with a terrible plot and an absolutely idiotic ending. Typical 60’s movie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 08:18 AM (IUuBi)

106 Its really too cold outside

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 08:20 AM (Ia/+0)

107 LiB. It was 53 degrees here in the Bitterroot Valley of MT yesterday. We need the snow for summer irrigation water. Send your's our way.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 01, 2026 08:23 AM (2NHgQ)

108 It warmed up a lot from yesterday. Now 17 ℉. Wahoo!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

109 It's up to 8° here. Going back down below zero tonight. Problem right now is the winds make it feel like 10-15° below

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2026 08:27 AM (IDEQi)

110 15 degrees F and 7 inches of snow on the back deck here in mid-North Cackalackie.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2026 08:27 AM (CpcAD)

111 Off to do some chores. Going to see Melania with friendS at the Sunday matinee.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

112 I'm beginning to doubt the experts that said snowfall will be a thing of the past...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2026 08:28 AM (CpcAD)

113 89 For anyone who wonders why Taylor Rehmet won that Texas special election easily, and why no one shows up for special elections like this:

The Texas Legislature is only in session every other year. The Texas Senate will not be in session again until 2027, after this election is done again in a few months. What Taylor won is a nice letterhead he can use on his stationary for a while.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2026 08:00 AM (IUuBi)

Thanks for the context info.

Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 08:28 AM (SSiCQ)

114 Salty I saw the Melania movie Friday night.
I enjoyed it.
While there are many aspects to commend it, the music was actually the best part.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)

115 Good morning all.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 01, 2026 08:34 AM (kpS4V)

116 Good morning. 15 degrees here in Western NC and windy. The “feels like” temperature in the single digits. Got about 4 inches of snow on top of residual ice. Hopefully it supposed to start to warm up this week.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 01, 2026 08:35 AM (PWBAQ)

117 Justice department released another 3 million documents. The Dems and their sheep will still claim that a Trump smoking gun is being hidden

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2026 08:36 AM (IDEQi)

118 Speaking of Melania, what's Barron up to these days, now that he's helped his father win re-election?

Posted by: pookysgirl, still groggy at February 01, 2026 08:38 AM (Wt5PA)

119 Good morning all. Just popped on Flightradar with morning coffee and see the #1 tracked is a UAV high over Iran.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 01, 2026 08:39 AM (h/O4U)

120 ITS A LONG WAY TO THE SHOPS IF YOU WANT A SAUSAGE ROLL!!!

Posted by: Bob in Houston at February 01, 2026 08:41 AM (VAWSf)

121 Came back to wish everyone a wonderful day.

May you all be cozy and ensconced with friends and family.

You can tell future grandkids about the mastodon hunts you led in the Cold of 2026.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

122 Good morning all. Just popped on Flightradar with morning coffee and see the #1 tracked is a UAV high over Iran.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 01, 2026 08:39 AM (h/O4U)

As long as it's not Pooky's old plane. I know that no one we know is in the program anymore, but please God, keep them safe!

Posted by: pookysgirl, still patriotic at February 01, 2026 08:43 AM (Wt5PA)

123 Barron maned up to save a young woman from a possibly former boyfriend ( Russian I think) he was arrested for some other crime, but can't say read enough for all the details

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 08:43 AM (Ia/+0)

124 Justice department released another 3 million documents. The Dems and their sheep will still claim that a Trump smoking gun is being hidden.

With the Stupor Blow coming up, how many NFL people are on or in the Epstein files? Seem to recall Epstein was pals with a few of those degenerates.

Posted by: Bill Belichick at February 01, 2026 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

125 I need to talk to the son in law about borrowing his "flamethrower" to melt some snow and ice. Got a small mound at the end of the driveway that makes it difficult to get in and out. It's pretty solid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2026 08:44 AM (jtM2q)

126 Good morning good people. The obligation to attend Mass has been waved for today due to weather.

So, viewing by streaming it is.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2026 08:46 AM (cYBz/)

127 Tuesday is only day through next weekend to get above freezing, and barely at that

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 08:51 AM (Ia/+0)

128 Flamethrowers don't work as well as one thinks it should IMO

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 08:51 AM (Ia/+0)

129 @124 two NFL owners this far. Tisch and Harris, Giants and Commanders

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2026 09:01 AM (IDEQi)

130 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

131 What does contempt of Congress even really mean??? Are there even any real consequences???

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at February 01, 2026 09:02 AM (VCgbV)

132 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Your propane torch at February 01, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)

133 lin-duh it meant a jail term for Bannon and Navarro

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2026 09:43 AM (0KSrI)

Saturday Night Club ONT - January 31, 2026 [Double Vision]

Welcome to Club ONT - Seeing double? D and D? This is a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

The parking lot may still not be fully cleared from last weekend's snow storm, but we are full open for both business and fun! Don't let the lyrics to tonight's mystery click give you any ideas about our guests there on that table. They are friends, not food!

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

And on the first day of creation, God created the cat.

On the second day, God created man to serve the cat.

On the third day, Gold created tuna, mice and all the animals of the earth to serve as potential food for the cat.

On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the cat.

On the fifth day, Gold created the ball of yarn, the feather thingie on a string, and the catnip mouse so that the cat might or might not be amused.

On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep the cat healthy and the man broke.

On the seventh day, God tried to rest but the cat woke him up at 5:00am.

Hat tip: Iris

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Late one afternoon, the Airmen out at Area 51 were very surprised to see a Cessna landing at their "secret" base. They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot into an interrogation room.

The pilot's story was that he took off from Vegas, got lost, and spotted the base just as he was about to run out of fuel. The Airmen started a full background check on the pilot and held him overnight during the investigation.

By the next day, they were finally convinced that the pilot really was lost and wasn't a spy. They gassed up his airplane, gave him a terrifying "you-did-not-see-a-base" briefing, complete with threats of spending the rest of his life in prison, told him Vegas was that-a-way on such-and-such a heading, and sent him on his way.

The day after that though, to the total disbelief of the Airmen, the same Cessna showed up again. Once again, the MP's surrounded the plane, only this time there were two people in the plane.

The same pilot jumped out and said, "Do anything you want to me, but my wife is in the plane and you have to tell her where I was last night!"

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Drink of the Night

Tonight we drew the 5 of Spades from our deck of playing card cocktails

Even though the word "conch" rhymes with BONK, we won't do that to you if you mispronounce it!

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Club ONT Wants It That Way

So based! 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/BwM3XjaBDx
— Liberal Tear Creator™ (@LibTearCreator1) January 29, 2026

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Club ONT Department of Fashion

Finally some crocs I could get behind pic.twitter.com/L8JaqnoBI6
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) January 23, 2026

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"What would Batman do?"

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Club ONT Music

Putting this in the mystery click would have been too easy!

How about a version you've probably never heard?

*****

Someone say "double"??

Some retro commercials for Doublemint Gum!

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

Definitely not a Comment of the Week:

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Club ONT Brought to you by...
Dumb and Dumber spinoffs

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Club ONT is a retard free zone. Please leave your retard at home. Know the difference between a retard and a Moron. Please don't pet or feed the iguanas. The iguanas are sensitive to flash photography. That means do not flash them while taking a selfie. You don't want to know what happens!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

2 Wait! I still have music comments to be willowed.

Posted by: mindful webworker - flashy-thingied at January 31, 2026 10:00 PM (j02Vi)

3 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 10:01 PM (lUFok)

4 Yay! Double (maybe triple?) DS!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 10:01 PM (LNeRu)

5 A toilet seat with an integrated bidet feature.
Activated by a button or remote control, it uses a wand to jet water for cleaning.
Some models include air fresheners, seat heaters, and dryers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 10:02 PM (cW1mv)

6 Sorry I'm late, I couldn't find my pet slugs after clearing the ice from my sidewalk.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 31, 2026 10:03 PM (zGyLA)

7 God Bless the ONT.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:04 PM (lpTXP)

8 Oh no...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 31, 2026 10:04 PM (xcxpd)

9 They didn't deserve it, but they surely earned it.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 10:05 PM (rbvCR)

10 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:06 PM (zZu0s)

11 I figured something would happen tonight. And I was right!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026 10:07 PM (uQesX)

12 Points for the Harp Twins. Shooters when they were young. Possibly 'ette material.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 31, 2026 10:07 PM (Wnv9h)

13 Ha!

Berry Berry good!!

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 31, 2026 10:07 PM (pscAN)

14 Top pic should be an outtake from the classic Werner Herzog film "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" which has Nick Cage, Val Kilmer, GatorCam and IguanaCam.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 31, 2026 10:08 PM (u5LSF)

15 A warm toilet seat is not a benefit unless the house is freezing and you live alone. Otherwise, I think someone else has been sitting there and flash on being a kid and going to use the restroom after your grandparents. Ew.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

16 Backstreet Boys Trump. That is a good one. I want it that way. I voted for that. Good and hard.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:09 PM (lpTXP)

17 LOL. The top comments:

What are your favorite shelling beaches?

Normandy.

That's like who won the first Tour de France?

7th Panzer Division

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 10:09 PM (OWbr4)

18 And I refuse to 'NOOD' as the ONT is as close to a set time as we will ever get around here. So there!

The roads around here have reached about a '9' on the shittyness scale. Not much snow but just a solid sheet of ice.

Not at bad as Kitty Hawk though from what I hear.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

19 A toilet seat with an integrated bidet feature.
Activated by a button or remote control, it uses a wand to jet water for cleaning.
Some models include air fresheners, seat heaters, and dryers.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Laugh if you must, but this gadget is a godsend to people with disabilities that prevent getting their hand around to their ass.

And to anyone else in olfactory distance.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 10:10 PM (36QIT)

20 Hi! Update: I am still really cold.

Posted by: Piper at January 31, 2026 10:10 PM (pZEOD)

21 Hey, I made it to the bottom of the list! Well, sort of.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 31, 2026 10:10 PM (xfRZZ)

22 Points for the Harp Twins. Shooters when they were young. Possibly 'ette material.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

They are known for just stringing guys along.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (cYBz/)

23 A toilet seat with an integrated bidet feature.
Activated by a button or remote control, it uses a wand to jet water for cleaning.
Some models include air fresheners, seat heaters, and dryers.
Posted by: Braenyard

Yay! Electricity around water!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (OWbr4)

24 Also, who hung all the stars on the ceiling?

Posted by: Piper at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (pZEOD)

25 Also, there's a 'pluck' joke in there somewhere too.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (cYBz/)

26 Hi! Update: I am still really cold.

Have you tried setting things on fire?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 10:12 PM (lUFok)

27 That first joke is spot on, except for the bit about the seventh day when the cat woke God up at 5am.

Not 5am. 4am.

Trust me on this.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 31, 2026 10:12 PM (q3u5l)

28 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

29 Bartender: you want ice in that drink?

Me: nah.... it's pretti good as is.

I'll not denounce myself, or the bartender.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 10:12 PM (jtM2q)

30 The leftards spent three decades smashing glitter-cream pies in people's faces and ho-ho-ho!

And then HOmar gets spritzed like a bad kitty cat and now they wanna fly fuel-laden jets into something something.

Posted by: 13times at January 31, 2026 10:13 PM (0Y1nt)

31 That's like who won the first Tour de France?

7th Panzer Division
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 10:09 PM (OWbr4)

Hah! (Auf Deutsch)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

32 26 Hi! Update: I am still really cold.

Have you tried setting things on fire?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31

I think everyone frowns on that around here.

Posted by: Piper at January 31, 2026 10:14 PM (pZEOD)

33 Also, who hung all the stars on the ceiling?
Posted by: Piper

I seem to remember it was Pythagoras in the 6th century or so.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

34 26 Hi! Update: I am still really cold.

Have you tried setting things on fire?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 10:12 PM (lUFok)

Build a man a fire, you warm him for a day.

Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 31, 2026 10:14 PM (zGyLA)

35
Thursday, tea at three offers no resolution.
You know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 10:14 PM (cW1mv)

36 I think everyone frowns on that around here.

Party poopers.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 10:14 PM (lUFok)

37 Yeah, snow removal here in lexington has gotten a lot crappie the past couple years. It took 6 days to get to 'pretty good' here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

38 Crappier even.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

39 The top click is fun and awesome. Now I want a burrito.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:16 PM (lpTXP)

40 Pretty good bingo card 2026.

Maybe it's pronounced Eyetalian and fancy, but it's pretty good.

That last meme, wowzers! Whoa, they were not pretty good looking people, were they?

https://tinyurl.com/2zm9rs6z

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 31, 2026 10:16 PM (WONhk)

41 The Harp Twins, Paint It Black.

https://is.gd/SatdZ7

I'm pretty sure this is white supremacist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:16 PM (J+Psw)

42 Imagine a Pied Piper of Ice. He's in 14th or 15th century forest garb, playing a flute or recorder. As he walks and plays, illegal immigrants are entranced and follow behind him.

What song is he playing?

(Yes, it's a partial repeat from late in yesterday's ONT. I want to see what others might come up with. Does Doof pick a song from Rush? MisHum a Zappa track?)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 10:16 PM (S/Y4j)

43 Good evening Horde. Thanks for being here. Enjoy your time in Club ONT!

Posted by: TRex - DJ Dino at January 31, 2026 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

44 Jay and the Americans, Come a little bit closer...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)

45 Brave asian lady stands up to batshit crazy protesters in LA live.
https://kick.com/lordhito

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at January 31, 2026 10:18 PM (9aVck)

46 42 Imagine a Pied Piper of Ice. He's in 14th or 15th century forest garb, playing a flute or recorder. As he walks and plays, illegal immigrants are entranced and follow behind him.

What song is he playing?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 10:16 PM (S/Y4j)

U2/ I Will Follow

Posted by: tankdemon at January 31, 2026 10:19 PM (zGyLA)

47 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 31, 2026 10:19 PM (AdHga)

48 Hey, I made the top ten comments (indirectly!)

Posted by: Joemarine at January 31, 2026 10:19 PM (y171U)

49 Thanks for another outstanding Saturday Night ONT, Double Vision!

That retard movie poster is hilarious! I read where Pretti's sister claiims the Boy Wonder was violent. Maybe that's why he lost his nursing job? Idiot.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 31, 2026 10:20 PM (kB9dk)

50 Hey, I made it to the bottom of the list! Well, sort of.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 31, 2026 10:10 PM (xfRZZ)

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Been there bro. Just bask in the reflected glory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

51 There was a near riot here at a local McDonalds when a beat up Honda with bald tires clogged the drive thru lane due to snow and ice.

Cops had to be called.

Much bitching and yelling. Turned into a real shitshow.

All over some McNuggets and a Coke. Or something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 10:21 PM (jtM2q)

52 Hey, I made the top ten comments (indirectly!)
Posted by: Joemarine at January 31, 2026 10:19 PM (y171U)

It helps to be the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Posted by: Ike at January 31, 2026 10:21 PM (uQesX)

53 RI Red's is not so much a witty comment as a simple statement of truth.

All men have Clint Eastwood from Unforgiven in their pants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

54 Have you tried setting things on fire?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 10:12 PM (lUFok)

I suppose Burning Man could be rather enticing about now - without the psychedelics.....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 10:22 PM (LNeRu)

55 What song is he playing?

(Yes, it's a partial repeat from late in yesterday's ONT. I want to see what others might come up with. Does Doof pick a song from Rush? MisHum a Zappa track?)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 10:16 PM (S/Y4j)

Despacito

As played by the Colombian army

youtu.be/T_iWFf1CdN8

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 10:22 PM (rbvCR)

56 His own sister threw him under the bus. He was a jack wagon likely.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)

57 The Deguayo(sp?) Cutthroat song from the Siege of the Alamo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

58 https://youtu.be/i2A5fdgMCa8?si=FQPX-
oA3JVkLt0o4

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:25 PM (zZu0s)

59 The version from Rio Bravo is not quite as fancy. Better imo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:25 PM (zZu0s)

60 Hey, I made it to the bottom of the list! Well, sort of.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 31, 2026 10:10 PM (xfRZZ)
=====

Flouty. Not flouncy.

As in flouting convention. Daring.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

61 Thanks for the ONT, D's.

Posted by: scampydog at January 31, 2026 10:26 PM (41CYW)

62 I remember years ago, by mostly a mistake, I got 1st in comments.
You surely wouldn't want to see me now...
Barkeep! Another please. 😛
*practically tips over stool*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 10:27 PM (LNeRu)

63
Can't believe the number of videos I see of people who are astonished that snow needs shoveling and that that plowing the streets might cause them problems. Like, is this your first time?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 10:27 PM (tgvbd)

64 61 Thanks for the ONT, D's.

Posted by: scampydog at January 31, 2026 10:26 PM
***
Doggo!

Posted by: TRex -nostalgic dino at January 31, 2026 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

65 Tonight we drew the 5 of Spades from our deck of playing card cocktails

Christ that's lazy. Look, I made a drink; booze + juice!! I is a regular Issak an' sheeet.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 31, 2026 10:28 PM (diia5)

66 It's 25F in New Orleans currently. There goes another orange tree.

Posted by: javems at January 31, 2026 10:28 PM (vHpfQ)

67 Got all the way up to 18 degrees today.

Forecast is for sub freezing temps for the next two weeks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2026 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)

68 They can't push a Honda out of the way? Damn.
But I do get mad at some people that take all day to make an order.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 10:29 PM (E7+ue)

69 The Incredible Story of Two Retards needs another line -

- Produced by Retard Soros
- Directed by Retard Wahl

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)

70 Pied piper song?

Skating away

J Tull

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 31, 2026 10:31 PM (pscAN)

71 Double D's, thanks for the ONT!

Like the Harp Twins (not for the same reason as Morons). I want to learn the Celtic lap harp. An idea of mine a few years ago and now again. I can play the piano. I should ask for one soon.

We had a real harp at our garden wedding because no piano could get down there. Rules of the botanical garden or something. I had my doubts but it was lovely and special, as was the entire day in 1979. We are ancient!

Extra points for Foreigner! Lou Gramm PLUS a saxophone! You could not go wrong!

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow!

Still praying for snow and rain til Memorial Day! You lucky dogs that have it and don't want it tick me off!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 31, 2026 10:32 PM (WONhk)

72 Deguello. I can't imagine how it would have sounded to the defenders of rhe Alamo. ZZ Top had a less terrifying version.

https://tinyurl.com/yec6jzxa

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:32 PM (lpTXP)

73 63 Hadrian

Ha🤪....yep...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 10:32 PM (LNeRu)

74
High of 55 tomorrow here in Wyoming.

Grilling weather.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)

75 They didn't deserve it, but they surely earned it.
Posted by: Kindltot

Similar to a line I often use
They may not have deserved but they did earn it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)

76 37 Yeah, snow removal here in lexington has gotten a lot crappie the past couple years. It took 6 days to get to 'pretty good' here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

Got to call my Brother in Mt. Sterling tomorrow to see how he's doing

Posted by: javems at January 31, 2026 10:35 PM (vHpfQ)

77 Still praying for snow and rain til Memorial Day! You lucky dogs that have it and don't want it tick me off!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 31, 2026 10:32 PM (WONhk)

Local master gardener told me I could start planting in about two weeks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026 10:35 PM (uQesX)

78 Doggo!
Posted by: TRex -nostalgic dino
-----
Dino!
Saw a hikarios drink menu at a dive bar the other day and thought of you and Disco. 3 ring binder, typed, in clear paper sleeves. Gotta love America!

Posted by: scampydog at January 31, 2026 10:35 PM (41CYW)

79 America's favorite double!

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 10:37 PM (DIAAz)

80 78 Saw a hikarios drink menu at a dive bar the other day

3 ring binder, typed, in clear paper sleeves. Gotta love America!

Posted by: scampydog at January 31, 2026 10:35 PM
***
Wow! You mean someplace other than Club ONT organizes its drink menu with three ring binders too?! Whadda country!

Posted by: TRex - office depot dino at January 31, 2026 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

81 Can a LEGO Car Survive a Loop?

I saw 11+ minutes and thought, naw.

Watched the whole thing. Hilarious. Successes were satisfying. Failures were most entertaining.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the things we do for clicks at January 31, 2026 10:40 PM (j02Vi)

82 Ohhh! Doggo❣❣❣
Miss your triple D! Good dog anyways!🐶

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 10:42 PM (LNeRu)

83 60 was a copy/paste error

*dons dunce cap*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

84 Supposed to be 54 here Tuesday! Break out the shorts and t-shirts!

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 10:43 PM (E7+ue)

85 Happy Saturday night silly persons!

Ii got to spend time with both of my boys today. One in person, one on the phone.

I am so blessed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 31, 2026 10:43 PM (IhIKR)

86 7 days in Twitter jail for "stop fighting police or die"

So I'm making 3 new accounts to blast that at 11

The Nigel Maneuver: These 3 go to 11

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 10:46 PM (ciYHQ)

87 I got lots of snow pics from my peeps in South Carolina. It was a big, fluffy snow. Young'uns were sledding and having fun. So not so bad for them. Better than freezing rain.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:46 PM (lpTXP)

88 > 7 days in Twitter jail for "stop fighting police or die"
----

I was released from Twitter jail earlier this evening
I tweeted that protesters at football games should get a beatdown

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 10:49 PM (ZxPkt)

89 Doublemint: the mating rituals of the past were a different country.

Posted by: mindful webworker - It's a gum thread? at January 31, 2026 10:49 PM (j02Vi)

90 Iguanas in bars are cool

But they need Sparklies and Day-Glo

The kids love it

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Vacation Destination at January 31, 2026 10:49 PM (AP7fj)

91 *bangs empty mug on bar*
Is there no bartender tonight?! JQ?!

OK. I'll help myself...
*falls over bar, spills beer*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 10:50 PM (LNeRu)

92 The HarpTwins put on an incredible concert. They come to our area once a year. Stunning music, entertaining, and extremely funny. Nice to talk with. Been a fan for a long time.

Posted by: French Jeton at January 31, 2026 10:50 PM (j0T5y)

93 We got a couple of inches of the white shit here in the midlands. And it's still coming down.

So pretty. So cold.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:50 PM (qFwJc)

94 WTF? Silver dropped $30 an ounce.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 10:51 PM (OWbr4)

95 It's 34 here in Brevard and I just brought in and opened a Dogs Head from outside.

It is very cold.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 10:52 PM (uvB+6)

96 Iguanas in bars are cool

I wish I was in Tijuana…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2026 10:52 PM (EXyHK)

97 Cold snap of sorts. Today was 83, tomorrow only 77. Swim workout still planned.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 10:52 PM (U/Byj)

98 Yo la! Calm night here on the balmy high chaparral.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2026 10:52 PM (Rmwng)

99 >Can a LEGO Car Survive a Loop?
----

speaking of car racing-
Trump wants a DC Grand Prix, to celebrate the 250 years thing

I sure hope the route goes up in the hood in Northeast DC

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 10:52 PM (ZxPkt)

100 It's 34 here in Brevard and I just brought in and opened a Dogs Head from outside.

It is very cold.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 10:52 PM (uvB+6)

Are you in Florida? I ha ve family in Brevard County. They are hating life right now.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:54 PM (lpTXP)

101 My little short legged doggie saw and experienced 4 inches of snow for the first time today.

"Wait there was grass right here...there is always grass right here...this is cold and wet, me no likee"

Posted by: Miss Dixie did her business at NASCAR pit stop speed at January 31, 2026 10:54 PM (AP7fj)

102 WTF? Silver dropped $30 an ounce.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 10:51 PM (OWbr4)
===

Market pricing in additional rate cuts this year due to Kevin Warsh being nominated as Fed Chair.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

103

On Feb. 3, more than 500,000 Haitians nationwide are expected to lose temporary protected status, which allows immigrants from dangerous countries to stay in the United States. Springfield is home to an estimated 15,000 Haitians − about one-fourth of its population − and another 30,000 live in central Ohio.

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 10:55 PM (DIAAz)

104
Good evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2026 10:55 PM (LeyXC)

105 Trump wants a DC Grand Prix, to celebrate the 250 years thing

We have an amazing President.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2026 10:55 PM (EXyHK)

106 I'm pretty sure "Double your pleasure, double your fun" is in the Epstein files somewhere

Posted by: Miklos with Educated Guess at January 31, 2026 10:56 PM (AP7fj)

107 My little brother used to run around naked wearing only sandals and a red
Superman cape.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Ratting out your little brother. You are the most big sister ever.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2026 10:56 PM (Rmwng)

108 A toilet seat with an integrated bidet feature.

I misread that as "A toilet seat with an integrated biden feature" and was really confused.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 10:56 PM (xComp)

109 WTF? Silver dropped $30 an ounce.

Coordinated attack. Check the price on the Shanghai exchange.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 10:56 PM (lUFok)

110 On Feb. 3, more than 500,000 Haitians nationwide are expected to lose temporary protected status, which allows immigrants from dangerous countries to stay in the United States. Springfield is home to an estimated 15,000 Haitians − about one-fourth of its population − and another 30,000 live in central Ohio.

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 10:55 PM (DIAAz)

Who will eat the cats?
Eat the dogs?
Eat the pets of the people who live there?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 10:57 PM (lpTXP)

111 Revard, namely Melbourne but I haver lived all over it in my time. The place never really gets this cold.

I always set out a jar of water to see if it turns to ice just for SNG.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 10:57 PM (uvB+6)

112 Trump wants a DC Grand Prix, to celebrate the 250 years thing

We have an amazing President.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

NASCAR

cause "Murican

Posted by: Miklos kindly corrects at January 31, 2026 10:57 PM (AP7fj)

113 It's 34 here in Brevard and I just brought in and opened a Dogs Head from outside.

It is very cold.
Posted by: pawn
------

Yeah, I knew it wasn't Brevard, NC. Currently 7 deg. here, up from 6.2.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 10:58 PM (XeU6L)

114 Old college buddy joined me and Boy F. for a walk up Lone Mountain this afternoon. He used to stash his weed under a rock in the forest a mile away from his house. but He's been sober now over 25 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

115 Quality Learing Center parody from X:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4fjxwf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 10:59 PM (KxQqp)

116 It's 34 here in Brevard and I just brought in and opened a Dogs Head from outside.

It is very cold.
Posted by: pawn

32 in this Brevard.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 10:59 PM (/lPRQ)

117
On Feb. 3, more than 500,000 Haitians nationwide are expected to lose temporary protected status, which allows immigrants from dangerous countries to stay in the United States. Springfield is home to an estimated 15,000 Haitians − about one-fourth of its population − and another 30,000 live in central Ohio.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton

=============

Here we go...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2026 11:00 PM (LeyXC)

118 NASCAR

cause "Murican
Posted by: Miklos kindly corrects at January 31, 2026 10:57 PM (AP7fj)

CrashCAR. 'Cause real 'Murican.

If it ain't broke, we'll take care of that.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

119 Revard, namely Melbourne but I haver lived all over it in my time. The place never really gets this cold.

I always set out a jar of water to see if it turns to ice just for SNG.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 10:57 PM (uvB+6)

My family is on Merritt Island Hope you all stay warm..This cold isn't normal for you all.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 11:00 PM (lpTXP)

120 "My idea of a good night out is staying in.” — Martin Freeman

Stay safe and warm good Horde. Me and girldog will now commence to snuggle💤💤💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (LNeRu)

121 I finally saw a real picture of Renee Good yesterday, not the ridiculous fuzzy Polaroid from 20 years ago.
Yeah, she did it, and yeah, you can judge a crazy book by its crazy cover.

Posted by: Wally at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (0e5Te)

122 Oh great. I spend precious minutes on a serious analogy about how bad the SLS / Artemis / Orion system is, and what do I get credit for? gay porn

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (gKWVE)

123 A concept

NASCAR Waffle House

No drive thru, drive in

I mean IN

Posted by: Miklos gonna be RICH at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (AP7fj)

124 Trump wants a DC Grand Prix, to celebrate the 250 years thing
I sure hope the route goes up in the hood in Northeast DC
Posted by: Don Black
----
Good.
Maybe they can screw up DC as bad as they do LV.
I can hope.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (36QIT)

125 Are you in Florida? I ha ve family in Brevard County. They are hating life right now.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

People got many trees all snug in blankees.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

126 Mike are you in Brevard, NC? I love that place.

Glad I'm not there now though. My house was built in the 50s and doesn't have any heat other than the stove.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 11:01 PM (uvB+6)

127 Oh great. I spend precious minutes on a serious analogy about how bad the SLS / Artemis / Orion system is, and what do I get credit for? gay porn
Posted by: gKWVE

Hopefully not a "reap what you sow" situation.

Posted by: Miklos defers judgement at January 31, 2026 11:02 PM (AP7fj)

128 On Feb. 3, more than 500,000 Haitians nationwide are expected to lose temporary protected status, which allows immigrants from dangerous countries to stay in the United States. Springfield is home to an estimated 15,000 Haitians − about one-fourth of its population − and another 30,000 live in central Ohio.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 10:55 PM (DIAAz)

Not that things aren't now, but after Feb. 3rd, things should get real interesting.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

129 94 WTF? Silver dropped $30 an ounce.
Posted by: rickb223
---

Copper's up.
_your local PD

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:03 PM (cW1mv)

130 Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 10:55 PM (DIAAz)

Not that things aren't now, but after Feb. 3rd, things should get real interesting.
Posted by: RickZ
--

Ohio dogs and cats will be safe again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:04 PM (cW1mv)

131 Mike are you in Brevard, NC? I love that place.

Glad I'm not there now though. My house was built in the 50s and doesn't have any heat other than the stove.
Posted by: pawn
-----

Just up the road, Asheville.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 11:05 PM (XeU6L)

132 Gold dropped $484.00 an ounce. Dang.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:06 PM (OWbr4)

133 WTF? Silver dropped $30 an ounce.
Posted by: rickb223

Pump and Dump

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

134 I am refining the NASCAR Waffle House concept

You do drive both in and out

Within 13.3 seconds change tires, change oil, gas up, and a double hash browns, smothered and covered (for safety reasons)

Posted by: Miklos needs investors at January 31, 2026 11:07 PM (AP7fj)

135 Go Wild

Beat the Oilers like a ... steel drum!

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 31, 2026 11:08 PM (pscAN)

136
35°F

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:08 PM (cW1mv)

137 NASCAR

cause "Murican
Posted by: Miklos kindly corrects at January 31, 2026 10:57 PM (AP7fj)

CrashCAR. 'Cause real 'Murican.

If it ain't broke, we'll take care of that.
Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

NHRA, up to top fuel.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 11:08 PM (S/Y4j)

138 Completed a draft run of my fed taxes tonight - getting a small refund this year. Finally got it dialed in where I'm not loaning the feds bunches of $$.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 11:09 PM (cYBz/)

139 Just up the road, Asheville.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

We used to go there in the Fall to see all the colors on the trees.

Now you can see all the colors of the hair anytime.

Posted by: Miklos from Conestee Falls at January 31, 2026 11:10 PM (AP7fj)

140 NHRA, up to top fuel.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
-------
1600 hp Pennsylvania Ave

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 11:11 PM (XeU6L)

141 Piano cover of Exciter (Judas Priest)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENsclYynk3o

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 31, 2026 11:11 PM (KAi1n)

142 37 degrees and dropping in the citrus groves

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 31, 2026 11:12 PM (pscAN)

143 CrashCAR. 'Cause real 'Murican.

If it ain't broke, we'll take care of that.
Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

NHRA, up to top fuel.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

MONSTER TRUCK RALLY AND DEMOLITION DERBY

Posted by: Miklos would pay for this at January 31, 2026 11:12 PM (AP7fj)

144 Been looking for a tax program they don't run online.
Not sure there is one.
It's coming that people have no concept of personal property.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:12 PM (cW1mv)

145 "Go Wild"

I was glad to see that, while the T-Wolves canceled a game and did the usual Trump blasting, the Wild played as scheduled and only issued a harmless "Hope nobody else dies" statement.

Posted by: Wally at January 31, 2026 11:12 PM (0e5Te)

146 Epstein files. DOJ discussed plea deal with Epstein just before he "hanged himself." DOJ wanted names of clients he procured young girls for like the girl in the hot tub with Bill Clinton. Epstein said he could name 29 mostly democrat men and foreign nationals.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at January 31, 2026 11:13 PM (pwJhL)

147 142 37 degrees and dropping in the citrus groves
Posted by: Zeera.
--

Put out the smudge pots and light 'em.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:14 PM (cW1mv)

148 Put out the smudge pots and light 'em.

Posted by: Braenyard

"Smudge Pot"

I call Darleen that sometimes

Posted by: Miklos stays warm regardless at January 31, 2026 11:16 PM (AP7fj)

149 WTF? Silver dropped $30 an ounce.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 10:51 PM (OWbr4)

The explanation I heard was that the London Bullion Market Association and the Chinese were hit by demands for physical delivery to cover their futures, and they didn't have the metal on hand, causing them to scramble. JPMorgan is rumored to have the largest supply of Silver on hand and when asked, said they didn't really want to sell any Silver today, but they would see who would. China has been buying anything they could get, which punched the value sky-high, and this triggered the speculators who also bought, to the point that the refiners are now backlogged on lower purity silver alloys, the smelters are backlogged, and apparently everyone has all they can absorb for a while.

The world is interesting today.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)

150 141 Piano cover of Exciter (Judas Priest)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENsclYynk3o
Posted by: Dark Litigator
---

Sounds like a movie background to a 1920s train robbery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:17 PM (cW1mv)

151 53yrs ago, Morons and 'ettes...

Over the hills and far away, and apparently pretty wasted but great:

https://tinyurl.com/3eke8msx

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 31, 2026 11:17 PM (WONhk)

152 Wow, if I'd known all I had to do was this lame comment
How does one go about getting a comment of the week?
I would have done it long ago.
😲
Kidding. Fame is not all it's cracked up to be.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Rather be First than CotW at January 31, 2026 11:19 PM (j02Vi)

153 The elderly lefties can have a gas-powered mobility scooter competition.

*we added nitrous packs, see if they notice*

Posted by: Big Daddy Don "Miklos" Garlits at January 31, 2026 11:19 PM (AP7fj)

154 Kidding. Fame is not all it's cracked up to be.
Posted by: mindful webworker

yep

Posted by: Ozymandias at January 31, 2026 11:21 PM (AP7fj)

155 i think the problem is that epstein's "democrat" clients were predominantly the sane ones.
i could live under clinton and summers (we did live under clinton and summers) and gates.
mamdani? walz? they didn't go to the island

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2026 11:22 PM (gKWVE)

156 Been looking for a tax program they don't run online. Not sure there is one.

What do you mean by “not online”? I use HR Block and it appears to not require internet to use. Of course, updates require a connection to download. At a certain point they probably aren’t necessary but I don’t know when that is. And it still provides the option of printing out tax forms and mailing them in.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2026 11:22 PM (EXyHK)

157 Crap. I'm hungry. I wonder if I should make some cheddar and cream cheese stuffed jalapeños wrapped in bacon? 🥓

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:23 PM (OWbr4)

158 Evening, folken,

We had a nice taco dinner of mostly lean meat, sizzled in olive oil and seasoned with chili powder, pepper, and paprika; toasted corn taco shells; bean-bearing chili with corn mixed in; and a little salsa and shredded cheese. Two tacos each. Nice stuff.

(I plan to use up one shell tomorrow with scrambled eggs & cheese.)

Then I dozed off during an episode of Deep Space Nine. No Saturday evening is complete without that.

It's 30 F. now, wind chill of 18, dropping to about 26 by dawn. Not as cold as they were predicting, but I'm still going to trickle water from a couple of taps.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 11:24 PM (wzUl9)

159 Been looking for a tax program they don't run online.
Not sure there is one.
It's coming that people have no concept of personal property.

Posted by: Braenyard
-------
FWIW , H&R Block is downloaded, then unlocked.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 11:24 PM (XeU6L)

160 Clinton was the crack in the dam.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:25 PM (cW1mv)

161 China has been buying anything they could get, which punched the value sky-high, and this triggered the speculators who also bought, to the point that the refiners are now backlogged on lower purity silver alloys, the smelters are backlogged, and apparently everyone has all they can absorb for a while.

The world is interesting today.
Posted by: Kindltot

Crap. Guess I'm not buying any more for awhile.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:25 PM (OWbr4)

162 i guess that's why clinton kept cigars

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2026 11:26 PM (gKWVE)

163 Clinton was the crack in the dam.
Posted by: Braenyard

If there was a crack in something, Clinton probably stuck a cigar in it.

The surprising thing about the Epstein files is that he's not on every ledger.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 11:27 PM (VHUov)

164 Rickb223-- that's what I'm taking a break from right now! LOL, I need a relief mat in the kitchen... starting to get sore, standing there, stuffing the poppers.

After resting, will finish stuffing them. Then sit a while, then do the bacon-wrapping, & pack a bunch into freezer containers, cook maybe a dozen.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 11:27 PM (rdVOm)

165

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Friday on Newsmax that the Don Lemon criminal case is unlikely to result in a conviction.

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 11:30 PM (DIAAz)

166 USS Missouri fires a full broadside

https://tinyurl.com/26t57t37

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 11:30 PM (ZxPkt)

167 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpSl1dm_fw

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 11:31 PM (jrgJz)

168 "Mamdani? Walz? They didn't go to the island."

I don't think it was really Walz thing, IYKWIMAITYD.
That's why he coached football. No expensive travel and it was expected that he'd be in the locker room.

Posted by: Wally at January 31, 2026 11:31 PM (0e5Te)

169 Whoops.

In an unexpected turn of events, the name "Al Gore" has appeared in the latest Epstein file dump 794 times, second only to Bill Clinton.

"It makes sense that they engaged in perversion together."

Congressional Democrats are burying their heads in the sand. Republicans want answers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:32 PM (OWbr4)

170 It's 30 F. now, wind chill of 18, dropping to about 26 by dawn. Not as cold as they were predicting, but I'm still going to trickle water from a couple of taps.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I remember being woken up at about 3-4 in the morning by odd noises in Uptown NOLA. I think it was 82, first snow in Nawlins in 50 years.

Girlfriend said go back to sleep-it's the kids outside who have never seen snow-they're FROLICKING!

Posted by: Miklos prefers palm trees and etc at January 31, 2026 11:32 PM (AP7fj)

171 Girlfriend said go back to sleep-it's the kids outside who have never seen snow-they're FROLICKING!

Posted by: Miklos prefers palm trees

You know what FROLICKING! can lead to?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 11:33 PM (cYBz/)

172 Rickb223-- that's what I'm taking a break from right now! LOL, I need a relief mat in the kitchen... starting to get sore, standing there, stuffing the poppers.

After resting, will finish stuffing them. Then sit a while, then do the bacon-wrapping, & pack a bunch into freezer containers, cook maybe a dozen.
Posted by: JQ

I need more center cut bacon. I forgot to get more when I was in town today. 😡

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:34 PM (OWbr4)

173 37 degrees and dropping in the citrus groves
Posted by: Zeera.
+++
Gonna freeze a lot of pipes and break a lot of records in the sunshine state tonight.
I liked the old records just fine.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 31, 2026 11:34 PM (Lo97M)

174 Fro licking

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 11:34 PM (DIAAz)

175 "And on the seventh day, God tried to rest but the cat woke him up at 5:00 am."

God's lucky. Mine goes springing happily across me at 3:30.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 11:34 PM (wzUl9)

176 USS Missouri fires a full broadside

https://tinyurl.com/26t57t37
Posted by: Don Black

Tell me that just happened, and the target was DC

Posted by: Miklos wants an unconditional surrender from the Bolshies on the back of that boat at January 31, 2026 11:34 PM (AP7fj)

177 stuffing the poppers.

So

That's what the kids call it these days

Posted by: Miklos listens and lears at January 31, 2026 11:36 PM (AP7fj)

178 I've seen hippies frolicking in Golden Gate Park. Not pretty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

179 Fro licking
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 11:34 PM (DIAAz)

Bro licking.

Wait, what? Sounds like a Diddy party.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 11:36 PM (gKDq2)

180 I remember being woken up at about 3-4 in the morning by odd noises in Uptown NOLA. I think it was 82, first snow in Nawlins in 50 years.

Girlfriend said go back to sleep-it's the kids outside who have never seen snow-they're FROLICKING!

Posted by: Miklos prefers palm trees and etc at January 31, 2026

***
There were some flakes visible in January of '85, at least out in Jeff Parish where I lived. I don't recall any news of snow in '82. But I didn't visit Uptown much then.

The Big Snow was the one just before Xmas in '89. Stuff stayed on the ground for three days, because temps never rose above freezing.

And then the Bigger Snow was last January.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 11:37 PM (wzUl9)

181 It's 25F in New Orleans currently. There goes another orange tree.
Posted by: javems at January 31, 2026 10:28 PM (vHpfQ)

Chatted with a friend from Alberta this evening. Temperature in Calgary hit 11C today. That is about 50 F. Snow is all gone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 11:37 PM (8zz6B)

182 Sounds like a movie background to a 1920s train robbery.
Posted by: Braenyard

It does!

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 31, 2026 11:37 PM (KAi1n)

183 In an unexpected turn of events, the name "Al Gore" has appeared in the latest Epstein file dump 794 times, second only to Bill Clinton.

Gore "releasing his third chakra" with that masseuse used to be a running gag. Of course he's a pervert.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 11:38 PM (v8+Kf)

184 5 A toilet seat with an integrated bidet feature.
Activated by a button or remote control, it uses a wand to jet water for cleaning.
Some models include air fresheners, seat heaters, and dryers.
Posted by: Braenyard

Just at a fancy pants hotel / casino place with that kind of public restroom

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2026 11:38 PM (uHEbo)

185
Remarkably, very few traditional Blues songs reference pipes freezing

Posted by: Blind Muddy Jefferson-Waters at January 31, 2026 11:39 PM (AP7fj)

186 Thanks

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:39 PM (cW1mv)

187 You can actually easily see the off-set timing in that broadside. Three barrels in each turret fire at a slightly different time, to avoid "fratricidal" effects of one on the other as they exit the muzzle.

A beautiful sight never to be seen again. Sad!

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 11:39 PM (U/Byj)

188 And Da Swamp had snow on New Year's Eve of '63, extending into New Year's Day of '64. That was the first time I ever saw and handled snow. Darn near froze my little paws trying to make snowballs to hurl at my brother.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 11:40 PM (wzUl9)

189 Just at a fancy pants hotel / casino place with that kind of public restroom
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

It got my meat
Got my meat

Jumped up off the bidet seat

Posted by: Modififed lyrics for the fancy pants crowd at January 31, 2026 11:40 PM (AP7fj)

190 Goaltender change at 5-2

Ha!

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 31, 2026 11:41 PM (pscAN)

191 Darn near froze my little paws trying to make snowballs to hurl at my brother.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

It's the thought that counts.

Posted by: Miklos ax how you makin' at January 31, 2026 11:42 PM (AP7fj)

192 Time I headed off to the blankets, all. Stay warm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 11:42 PM (wzUl9)

193 Crap. Guess I'm not buying any more for awhile.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:25 PM (OWbr4)

I think it will hit $150-200 in the next couple of years. There are some new silver applications for Li batteries to make them safer and that means there will be growth in demand.
It might be time to do some counter-trend buying if you have some extra coin. There is that whole thing that the new Fed President has the odd idea that the cause of inflation is money printing so we might see some actual fall-off on inflation, but the Euro and Pound are still directed by Keynesians

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 11:44 PM (rbvCR)

194 Just at a fancy pants hotel / casino place with that kind of public restroom
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
---

Hey, been missing you and your deport support.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:45 PM (cW1mv)

195 And then the Bigger Snow was last January.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Where is all that Global Warmening I was promised?

Gumbo needs some HEAT

Posted by: Miklos stirs the pot at January 31, 2026 11:45 PM (AP7fj)

196 Girlfriend said go back to sleep-it's the kids outside who have never seen snow-they're FROLICKING!

Posted by: Miklos prefers palm trees

You know what FROLICKING! can lead to?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 11:33 PM (cYBz/)

Children who like the snow!

Posted by: Nerd Herd at January 31, 2026 11:47 PM (NZPfR)

197 Gore "releasing his third chakra" with that masseuse used to be a running gag. Of course he's a pervert.
Posted by: Ian S.

splchk

Posted by: it's "prevert" according to Slim Pickens, and that's good enough for me at January 31, 2026 11:48 PM (AP7fj)

198 Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Friday on Newsmax that the Don Lemon criminal case is unlikely to result in a conviction.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at January 31, 2026 11:30 PM (DIAAz)

Yeah, well J6 showed that they are really unwilling to convict a CHS

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 11:48 PM (rbvCR)

199 CGI went from cheesy but cool, to way more realistic and cool, to instantly recognizable and cheesy over about 10 years. AI slop ran that whole course in about 10 months.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2026 11:50 PM (BI5O2)

200 187 You can actually easily see the off-set timing in that broadside. Three barrels in each turret fire at a slightly different time, to avoid "fratricidal" effects of one on the other as they exit the muzzle.

A beautiful sight never to be seen again. Sad!
Posted by: rhomboid
---

1, 3, 2 - keeps the over blast from interfering with the shell trajectory.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 11:50 PM (cW1mv)

201 I think it will hit $150-200 in the next couple of years. There are some new silver applications for Li batteries to make them safer and that means there will be growth in demand.
It might be time to do some counter-trend buying if you have some extra coin. There is that whole thing that the new Fed President has the odd idea that the cause of inflation is money printing so we might see some actual fall-off on inflation, but the Euro and Pound are still directed by Keynesians
Posted by: Kindltot

APMEX is wanting $103.00 per silver round. Ouch.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:50 PM (OWbr4)

202 No comment of the week.

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 11:51 PM (2WIwB)

203
Got some exercise running up some steps today, then had a long drive up the I-5. It was too hot to wear my leggings on a long, sunny drive, so I changed into some baggy cotton pants before I left.

There's my weather report for the day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2026 11:52 PM (LeyXC)

204 the new Fed President has the odd idea that the cause of inflation is money printing
Posted by: Kindltot

Now that....that's Crazy talk

Posted by: Miklos of the Austrian Old Skool at January 31, 2026 11:53 PM (AP7fj)

205 I fed the dogs and let them out. They got their business done and are back inside. Now they are piled up for the night ready for bed. They know the routine. 26 degrees and the wind is still blowing with gusts around 18 mph. Supposed to get warmer this week. High 40's and 50's.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 11:54 PM (E7+ue)

206 Blonde M. you in SoCal?

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 11:54 PM (U/Byj)

207 No comment of the week.

*kicks dirt*
Posted by: Diogenes

The great advantage of being able or inclined to kick dirt, is that you are on the right side of it

Posted by: Blind Monk Miklos of Shaolin at January 31, 2026 11:55 PM (AP7fj)

208 Remarkably, very few traditional Blues songs reference pipes freezing
Posted by: Blind Muddy Jefferson-Waters at January 31, 2026 11:39 PM (AP7fj)

Well, at nine below zero, pipes freeze, even if Sonny Boy failed to mention it:

https://youtu.be/JO88meallgA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 11:56 PM (8zz6B)

209 They didn't deserve it, but they surely earned it.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 10:05 PM (rbvCR)

...and I laughed way too hard at it..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 11:57 PM (nbLIj)

210
Blonde M. you in SoCal?
Posted by: rhomboid

===============

Yes indeedy. Although at the exact moment I'm on the Central Coast because I had to drive up today.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2026 11:58 PM (LeyXC)

211 I went to the liquor store today. Wanted to buy a bottle of Bailey's. I only saw a cheap knock-off so I asked the kid working if they had any Bailey's. He said no.

So I picked up a bottle of port and when I went to pay, there was an older gentleman. I mentioned it was a shame he didn't have Bailey's. He said, 'We have the little bottles'. I said, crudulously, 'The airplane bottles?' 'Yes.' 'A lot?' Then I walked around the cash register and saw about 50 of them. Bought 8.

Little airplane bottles do the trick.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 11:58 PM (gKDq2)

212 Butter is down to $8.94/4lbs from a high around $14.00 awhile back.

$11.47 on 11/22/25

$14.22 on 12/14/24

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2026 11:58 PM (OWbr4)

213 I think 150-200 for silver is possible after the next couple spikes. Maybe 7-10 years. In the near term I think 60s-70s is probably where it hangs out until the next spike.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2026 11:59 PM (BI5O2)

214 Hey, been missing you and your deport support.

Posted by: Braenyard

Gallivanting around
We fly back tomorrow

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2026 12:00 AM (uHEbo)

215 I went to the liquor store today. Wanted to buy a bottle of Bailey's. I only saw a cheap knock-off so I asked the kid working if they had any Bailey's. He said no.

Posted by: RickZ

Carolans. Just as good and cheaper.
Carolans Irish Cream is a liqueur made from a mixture of cream, Irish spirits, Irish whiskey and honey.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:01 AM (OWbr4)

216 I think 150-200 for silver is possible after the next couple spikes. Maybe 7-10 years. In the near term I think 60s-70s is probably where it hangs out until the next spike.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2026 11:59 PM (BI5O2)

Hi-ho Pewter!

Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger at February 01, 2026 12:02 AM (8zz6B)

217 IMHO, the sell-off of gold and silver is just end of the month, end of the week profit-taking.

The fundamental shortage of silver is real.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 01, 2026 12:02 AM (qFwJc)

218 So the hotel we snooped at to see how the rich travel has security guards with bomb sniffing dogs snd under-car mirrors screening every car.

Don't know if that makes me feel more or less safe

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2026 12:03 AM (uHEbo)

219 My pipe done froze baby
Somethin' I don't lie about

I make you wiggle
I make you shout

You loves to holler
And move it all about

We do it one time
We go for a dozen

But tonite honey
This man's pipe is frozen

Posted by: Blind Little Sonny Boy Miklos Jefferson at February 01, 2026 12:03 AM (AP7fj)

220 Carolans. Just as good and half the price of Baileys.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 01, 2026 12:03 AM (qFwJc)

221 Freedom of Choice.
Really?
Try this. (the next part is a click on the right)

Spoiler - he wins you lose

https://shorturl.at/ZDTDa - click the triangle

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 12:04 AM (cW1mv)

222 It started snowing again this evening and the roads finally got cold enough for the snow to stick. So yay icy roads tomorrow morning and freezing temperatures through lunchtime tomorrow. So basically a mostly dead Sunday which I don't mind.

Posted by: Farquad at February 01, 2026 12:04 AM (CFMhl)

223 Do they make some kind of man-portable salt spreader, kind of like a seed spreader, but heavier duty? I figure if the city won't do my block, I can at least salt the street up to the school bus route.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2026 12:08 AM (BI5O2)

224 Rick223, this is a follow up from a Twitter Rando -- By the way, January is the month for clearing year end gold and silver futures.

shanghai exchange halted trading because it was getting overheated, and that reset the market. Vince Lanci thinks this is going to be a form of capital control on Silver, and that Shanghai exchange is now dictating the world market price.
And that should last as long as it does

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2026 12:08 AM (rbvCR)

225 Butter is down to $8.94/4lbs from a high around $14.00 awhile back.

Posted by: rickb223

That will make Darleen's little hobby more affordable.

Gotta wait until it warms up and we can use the inflatable pool.

Not having that mess inside the trailer

Posted by: Miklos likes butter anyway at February 01, 2026 12:08 AM (AP7fj)

226 Another thumbs up for Carolans.

It's not quite as sickly-sweet as Baileys, but just as good overall flavor, and much easier on the wallet.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:09 AM (rdVOm)

227 Do they make some kind of man-portable salt spreader, kind of like a seed spreader, but heavier duty? I figure if the city won't do my block, I can at least salt the street up to the school bus route.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Home Depot ones work just fine. When we used to plow snow, we used that very thing for walks.

Posted by: MkY at February 01, 2026 12:09 AM (q6tQZ)

228 Carolans. Just as good and half the price of Baileys.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

Instant coffee

Store brand cream

Military Special Whiskey (there's different kinds)

Posted by: Thrifty Miklos at the Class 6 at February 01, 2026 12:10 AM (AP7fj)

229 207 miklos
The great advantage of being able or inclined to kick dirt, is that you are on the right side of it

This.
Any day above ground is a good day🙂

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2026 12:10 AM (LNeRu)

230 It's not quite as sickly-sweet as Baileys, but just as good overall flavor, and much easier on the wallet.
Posted by: JQ

The guy who invented Baileys later gave interviews (on Yootoob) in which he laughed that people bought the stuff

Posted by: Meticulous Mixologist Miklos at February 01, 2026 12:12 AM (AP7fj)

231 Home Depot ones work just fine. When we used to plow snow, we used that very thing for walks.
Posted by: MkY at February 01, 2026 12:09 AM (q6tQZ)

Thx, ill probably get one for next year.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2026 12:12 AM (BI5O2)

232 YD, a yard fertilizer spreader works well. One winter I used mine to spread cat litter on my sidewalk to make it less slippery.
Next time I will pick the cat turds out of it.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2026 12:13 AM (rbvCR)

233 Howdy, COMM! Sorry you had to pound your beer mug on the bar! I was in the kitchen, making poppers! (IRL!)

Still not quite done...

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm)

234 I used to like to put bourbon and brown sugar in my coffee when camping.
Never held much for Baileys, but some of the people I camped with liked it.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)

235 Ok. Poppers are in the oven.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:14 AM (OWbr4)

236 Happy Saturday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 12:15 AM (0nHVk)

237 This ONT is pretty good 👍
Thanks

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 01, 2026 12:15 AM (w3u3d)

238 Did the "Bomb Cyclone" do its thing?

Posted by: Crabby Appleton at February 01, 2026 12:16 AM (DIAAz)

239 YD, a yard fertilizer spreader works well. One winter I used mine to spread cat litter on my sidewalk to make it less slippery.

Next time I will pick the cat turds out of it.
Posted by: Kindltot

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:17 AM (OWbr4)

240 Poppers are in the oven.

REPEAT

Poppers are in the oven
----
The chair is against the wall

REPEAT

The chair is against the wall

Posted by: Miklos calling with a Long Moustache at February 01, 2026 12:17 AM (AP7fj)

241 I have extra cheese filling. More than expected. Pressed it into a container, covered with plastic, snapped the lid on & put it in the freezer. Shoulda bought another 6 or 8 peppers, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

242 Ohhh! Doggo❣❣❣
Miss your triple D! Good dog anyways!🐶
Posted by: COMountainMarie
--------
*waves to COMM* cheers!

Posted by: scampydog at February 01, 2026 12:19 AM (41CYW)

243 It made the grass grow green

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2026 12:19 AM (rbvCR)

244 I have extra cheese filling. More than expected. Pressed it into a container, covered with plastic, snapped the lid on & put it in the freezer. Shoulda bought another 6 or 8 peppers, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

Do you have wonton wrappers or phyllo dough? Mmmm.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2026 12:20 AM (rbvCR)

245 Do they make some kind of man-portable salt spreader, kind of like a seed spreader, but heavier duty? I figure if the city won't do my block, I can at least salt the street up to the school bus route.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2026 12:08 AM (BI5O2)

If you are de-icing your own property, I recommend you get pelletized urea, and not salt. Has better melting effectiveness, and is a nitrogen fertilizer, and feeds plants, instead of killing them.

You might need a ton of salt to do an entire block.

Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger at February 01, 2026 12:20 AM (8zz6B)

246 I have extra cheese filling. More than expected.
Posted by: JQ

Pro Tip-

In such cases, Professional Chefs...just eat it then and there

Posted by: Maitre d'Mikleuse at February 01, 2026 12:21 AM (AP7fj)

247 Hi-ho Pewter!
Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger

Go to your room.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2026 12:21 AM (diia5)

248 I have extra cheese filling. More than expected.
Posted by: JQ

Pro Tip-

In such cases, Professional Chefs...just eat it then and there
Posted by: Maitre d'Mikleuse

So do us amateurs.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:21 AM (OWbr4)

249 Do you have wonton wrappers or phyllo dough? Mmmm.
Posted by: Kindltot
-------

Sadly, no. I usually do have a pack of wonton wrappers in freezer.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:21 AM (rdVOm)

250 Yay! JQ! Thank heavens you made it...
Girldog and I were getting ready to nap down behind the stage in our cozy sleeping bag....

Hi DDS! join me for a nightcap😜

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2026 12:22 AM (LNeRu)

251 (desocks)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2026 12:23 AM (8zz6B)

252 Pelletized Urea? Like Kidney Stones?

Posted by: Urethra Franklin at February 01, 2026 12:23 AM (oftw2)

253 If you are de-icing your own property, I recommend you get pelletized urea, and not salt.
Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger

Downside; your yard smells like piss.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2026 12:23 AM (diia5)

254 This batch of cheese filling is special. Very spicy and garlicky! Heck, I don't even have any crackers in the house... *sigh*

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

255 Do they make some kind of man-portable salt spreader, kind of like a seed spreader, but heavier duty? I figure if the city won't do my block, I can at least salt the street up to the school bus route.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2026 12:08 AM (BI5O2)

If you are de-icing your own property, I recommend you get pelletized urea, and not salt. Has better melting effectiveness, and is a nitrogen fertilizer, and feeds plants, instead of killing them.

You might need a ton of salt to do an entire block.
Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger

Calcium Chloride. PELADOW.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:25 AM (OWbr4)

256 If you are de-icing your own property, I recommend you get pelletized urea, and not salt.
Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger

Downside; your yard smells like piss.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2026 12:23 AM (diia5)

But if it already does, what's the problem?

Posted by: Water Bills Are Expensive at February 01, 2026 12:25 AM (NZPfR)

257 So do us amateurs.
Posted by: rickb223

You are awarded Certificate of Merit for having that one sharp knife, and an Honorary French Accent

Posted by: Ecole Culinaire de L'Universite de Miklos at February 01, 2026 12:25 AM (AP7fj)

258 YD, a yard fertilizer spreader works well. One winter I used mine to spread cat litter on my sidewalk to make it less slippery.
Next time I will pick the cat turds out of it.
Posted by: Kindltot

Tip your veal; try the waitress.

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 12:26 AM (VHUov)

259 Downside; your yard smells like piss.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2026 12:23 AM (diia5)

No, really it doesn't. Pure industrial urea is odorless, and is manufactured, not refined out of cow piss. It's a good ice melter because it releases heat as it goes into solution in water, and it is sold for that very purpose. Also not as heavy as salt, so less work to carry it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2026 12:27 AM (8zz6B)

260 If you are de-icing your own property, I recommend you get pelletized urea, and not salt.
Posted by: The Thrifty Ranger

If it's cold enough, you can make your own on the spot.

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 12:27 AM (VHUov)

261 This batch of cheese filling is special. Very spicy and garlicky! Heck, I don't even have any crackers in the house... *sigh*
Posted by: JQ

You could mail it to me.

Will probably stay pretty cold in transit

Posted by: Miklos ain't proud when he's hongry at February 01, 2026 12:27 AM (AP7fj)

262 Dang. That sounds good.

My popper filling is cream cheese and mild cheddar. I was thinking of adding gruyere.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:27 AM (OWbr4)

263 If it's cold enough, you can make your own on the spot.
Posted by: mikeski

Or buy more and bigger dogs

Posted by: Miklos sees solutions at February 01, 2026 12:28 AM (AP7fj)

264 Do they make some kind of man-portable salt spreader, kind of like a seed spreader, but heavier duty? I figure if the city won't do my block, I can at least salt the street up to the school bus route.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Granular fertilizer spreader.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 01, 2026 12:30 AM (/lPRQ)

265 Rickb223-- I add several things to the cheese filling:

Soften the cream cheese, then add salt & black pepper, crushed garlic, hatch chile powder, favorite hot sauce (I like a pineapple-habanero flavor) and mix thoroughly before adding shredded pepper-jack and/or marble-jack and/or cheddar...

Very versatile.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

266 Maybe I should tell Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen that the toilet pipe is frozen, and they have to go outside (not like they're shy or nothin').

Problem solved and don't cost me nothin'

Posted by: Miklos sees quick and effective solutions at February 01, 2026 12:33 AM (AP7fj)

267 > If it's cold enough, you can make your own on the spot.
Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 12:27 AM (VHUov)

Plus the yellow color serves as a marker so you can tell which areas have already been taken care of.

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 01, 2026 12:33 AM (IG3/x)

268 Remember, guys: If you're gonna write in the snow... DON'T write you OWN name!

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

269 I'm hungry.

JQ, could you smoosh a couple o' poppers through the USB port? Most appreciated 😝....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2026 12:35 AM (LNeRu)

270 268 Remember, guys: If you're gonna write in the snow... DON'T write you OWN name!
Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

At least be certain it isn't in your own hand writing.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 01, 2026 12:36 AM (w/O5Q)

271 >>could you smoosh a couple o' poppers through the USB port?
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Absolutely, COMM! Coming up!

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

272 It is now time for me to go undercover.

Adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen to you

Posted by: a-Miklos anna Sissy anna Bobby and the Miklos Welk Family at February 01, 2026 12:37 AM (AP7fj)

273 I am kinda hungry...
Maybe I'll see if girldog left anything in her bowl...hmmm...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2026 12:38 AM (LNeRu)

274 Soften the cream cheese, then add salt & black pepper, crushed garlic, hatch chile powder, favorite hot sauce (I like a pineapple-habanero flavor) and mix thoroughly before adding shredded pepper-jack and/or marble-jack and/or cheddar...

Very versatile.
Posted by: JQ

Good idea. Thank you. I've added crushed pineapple before. That was pretty good.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:39 AM (OWbr4)

275
Just discovered a little bug with the weather station. I noticed the wind speed had been dead zero nearly all evening after sundown, but the wind vane was moving around. Turned out the snow had piled up on top of the unit enough to block the wind cups from turning.

I decided I wasn't going to go out and try to clear it, but just now it came a strong enough gust of wind to clear some and the cups are spinning again. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

276 here's something to write in the snow ﷲ

Posted by: gKWVE at February 01, 2026 12:40 AM (gKWVE)

277 Remember, guys: If you're gonna write in the snow... DON'T write you OWN name!
Posted by: JQ

C

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Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:40 AM (OWbr4)

278 Yeah....gonna go get in the sleeping bag with the girldog.
G'night pals👋💤💤💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2026 12:42 AM (LNeRu)

279 Just discovered a little bug with the weather station. I noticed the wind speed had been dead zero nearly all evening after sundown, but the wind vane was moving around. Turned out the snow had piled up on top of the unit enough to block the wind cups from turning.

I decided I wasn't going to go out and try to clear it, but just now it came a strong enough gust of wind to clear some and the cups are spinning again. :-)
Posted by: publius

What station would you recommend for hooking up to Weather Underground?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:43 AM (OWbr4)

280
It's 28F in Orlando, now. And 42 - 45 around Fort Lauderdale and Miami. 33F at Cape Canaveral.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 12:43 AM (w6EFb)

281 Fresno peppers make good poppers too-- bright red and a bit hotter than jalapenos. Some of both make an attractive party tray!

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:43 AM (rdVOm)

282 Late morning. Shise and rine!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 12:43 AM (gK5jz)

283 I'd love to join you for a nightcap, COMM, or perhaps two, right now I need to grab some of those poppers though, the sound delish. I just did a reconnoiter of the kitchen and I have a limited food selection right now, I'll be shopping in the morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 12:44 AM (0nHVk)

284 Weather Underground: Tomorrow's temperature is forecast to be MUCH WARMER than today.

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:46 AM (OWbr4)

285 >> What station would you recommend for hooking up to Weather Underground?

I don't know enough about it to make it any decent recommendation, really. I've got an Ambient Weather WS-2000. Getting it connected to Wunderground was poorly documented, you have to use some upload URL that's sort of poorly documented, but I got it.

Davis PWS units are supposed to be the best, but are quite pricey. I see a lot of Acurite units on the network as well. I like this WS-2000. There's a pricier unit next tier above, ultrasonic wind speed sensor. The WS-2902 is the tier just below the 2000. It uses the same outdoor unit, it's just the console has some features disabled. So, as far as Ambient goes, I'd recommend the WS-2000.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

286 Hi, Debby! Help yourself to the poppers... I made LOTS.

I should dial it down in the future, I guess. Just seems so much work, why not make extra & freeze for later?

On the other hand, it wouldn't BE so much work, if I only made a dozen at a time. Hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

287 I'd love to join you for a nightcap, COMM, or perhaps two, right now I need to grab some of those poppers though, the sound delish. I just did a reconnoiter of the kitchen and I have a limited food selection right now, I'll be shopping in the morning.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Covid killed the 24 hour grocery store or I'd be at Wal Mart right now.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:50 AM (OWbr4)

288 Goodnight COMM, good night Miklos, the place will be kind of quiet without.

JQ, poppers are yummy and thank you rickb too. I'll be needing a Chivas next, if it is not too much trouble.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 12:51 AM (0nHVk)

289 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

We had mucho excitement at Chez TiFW today - we bought a "Countertop Oven" because the oven portion of our Chambers stove that we had refurbished in August STILL isn't working (they are coming to look at it, but they go all over the country to repair old stoves) the other day. I also ordered a shelving unit to set it on above our mini fridge and with our microwave.

Today, Paul and his friend Gary had great fun assembling the shelving unit and unboxing the oven (they are both engineers). So now I get to figure out how to use the air fryer feature as well as the convection oven feature.

It's a good sized unit - it will hold up to a 9x13 baking dish, and it has space for 2 racks in it.

The new chemo that I am on has made me less tired, and they add a small amount of steroids to prevent issues with liver toxicity, so I am actually thinkers by about food again!

So tomorrow, a new culinary adventure begins 🎉🎉🎉

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 01, 2026 12:53 AM (SRRAx)

290
Freeze line looks to be down about Tampa latitude. I'm seeing some 32s and 33s inland east of Tampa. Tampa Bay itself is still holding 37 - 39. The models have been keeping that freeze line pushed inland all night, so it's likely not going to freeze right in Tampa, but that freeze line is head town pretty far south to the east.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)

291 Night of the Iguana was a pretty good movie.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

292 24hr grocery was so awesome, back when I worked night shift...

Aisles clear & freshly stocked, no screaming children or long lines at checkout.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2026 12:54 AM (rdVOm)

293 Wow. Fog had rolled in. Big time. The ferries are all tooting at each other. I can’t see them at all. But I can hear them.

Spooky.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2026 12:55 AM (IhIKR)

294 Well, bed time for me. Have to get up at 0700, to make ready for a raod trip to a car parts swap meet in Glendale. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2026 12:55 AM (8zz6B)

295 The WS-2902 is the tier just below the 2000. It uses the same outdoor unit, it's just the console has some features disabled. So, as far as Ambient goes, I'd recommend the WS-2000.
Posted by: publius

Amazon has it. Thanks!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:57 AM (OWbr4)

296 >> Amazon has it. Thanks!

If you get one, let me know when it arrives and you get mounted and powered up, and I'll look and help you get it hooked up to Wunderground. Ambient has its own weather network, which is easy to hook up to.

Wundeground can be infuriating sometimes, keep in mind.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

297 So tomorrow, a new culinary adventure begins 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Yay!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 01:01 AM (OWbr4)

298 If you get one, let me know when it arrives and you get mounted and powered up, and I'll look and help you get it hooked up to Wunderground. Ambient has its own weather network, which is easy to hook up to.

Wundeground can be infuriating sometimes, keep in mind.
Posted by: publius

10-4!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 01:02 AM (OWbr4)

299 >
What station would you recommend for hooking up to Weather Underground?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 12:43 AM (OWbr4)

In the old days, Radio Moscow World Service.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Here we are in 2026 and those asswipes Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are still consuming oxygen that could be used something useful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 01, 2026 01:03 AM (IG3/x)

300 Teresa, your new stove sounds like fun, I am doing more cold weather cooking myself, time to make some old favorites.

I haven't heard any news from Iran today, is there any?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 01:05 AM (0nHVk)

301 The ferries are all tooting at each other.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Seattle: it's foggy tonight

San Fran: there was a chili cook-off

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 01:05 AM (VHUov)

302 >> 10-4!

Also, be sure you have a micro SD card on had to plug in the console. A few GB will be all you need -- you can store years worth of data. If you don't have it, the console memory can only hold so many days worth of data depending on what your update interval is. 5 minutes is the default, which is good enough.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

303 > 291 Night of the Iguana was a pretty good movie.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

I should check it out as an adult. I remember being pissed off as a kid when the TV Guide listed it as the late-night movie.

Going by the title, I thought it was going to be a horror film.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 01, 2026 01:05 AM (IG3/x)

304 Also, be sure you have a micro SD card on had to plug in the console. A few GB will be all you need -- you can store years worth of data. If you don't have it, the console memory can only hold so many days worth of data depending on what your update interval is. 5 minutes is the default, which is good enough.
Posted by: publius

Good idea!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 01:07 AM (OWbr4)

305 Also, be sure you have a micro SD card on had to plug in the console. A few GB will be all you need -- you can store years worth of data. If you don't have it, the console memory can only hold so many days worth of data depending on what your update interval is. 5 minutes is the default, which is good enough.
Posted by: publius

One terabyte should be enough. 😉

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2026 01:08 AM (OWbr4)

306 5 A toilet seat with an integrated bidet feature.
Activated by a button or remote control, it uses a wand to jet water for cleaning.
Some models include air fresheners, seat heaters, and dryers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 10:02 PM (cW1mv)

We have one in each bath complete with heated water, seat warmer, air freshener and remote.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2026 01:14 AM (QGaXH)

307 I have an Acurite. It's OK. My wind vane is 8 feet off the ground... how much snow you get, publius?
Also, we're well into the woods, so highest wind speed we've ever recorded was 26 mph. There were 65 mph winds that day

Posted by: MkY at February 01, 2026 01:23 AM (q6tQZ)

308 >> how much snow you get, publius?

5" - 6". Simpsonville official was 3", but to the east here we got into the heavier zone.

Today was one of those days where the high temp was right at midnight, and it just slowly cooled down all day even through midday.

It's a bummer, but GSP only tied the lowest high record today because of that. Jan 31 was a bit high, 31F compared to 20s for most other mid and late Jan days. Even though mid afternoon highs were in the mid-20s, it still counts as a high of 31F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)

309 We have one in each bath complete with heated water, seat warmer, air freshener and remote.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Even when I was actually 29, I don't think I had that kind of range.

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 01:29 AM (VHUov)

310 ARIK, I um, need to use the bathroom.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

311
Nick Shirley is about to drop a vid on San Diego. I'm so glad he's gotten to California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 01, 2026 01:33 AM (LeyXC)

312 I’m old enough that I remember the punchline in the yellow urine inscription in the snow:
“ It’s Henry Kissinger’s handwriting.”

Posted by: Fenderbender at February 01, 2026 01:37 AM (x8own)

313 >>>Going by the title, I thought it was going to be a horror film.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
---

Rented Kiss of the Spider Woman thinking it would be SciFi. Boy, was I suprised. OK, though.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 01:38 AM (cW1mv)

314 Microed a 3yr old tub of Rice a Roni, it's cooling down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 01:40 AM (cW1mv)

315 309 We have one in each bath complete with heated water, seat warmer, air freshener and remote.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Toto?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 01:42 AM (cW1mv)

316 310 ARIK, I um, need to use the bathroom.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

DDS - if you are still here - you are welcome to but house rule is 'no evidence'.

We had boys so.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2026 01:52 AM (QGaXH)

317 315 309 We have one in each bath complete with heated water, seat warmer, air freshener and remote.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
---

Toto?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 01:42 AM (cW1mv)

I believe so but don't have the model number handy.

They each cost a pretty penny, but wife likes her creature comforts...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2026 01:54 AM (QGaXH)

318 @WatcherGuru . Jan 26

Last month, Rep. Kevin Hern sold up to $500,000 worth of UnitedHealth stock.

Today, the Trump administration proposed flat Medicare reimbursement rates for insurers, causing $UNH to crash over 10%.

Hern is a member of the House Subcommittee on Health

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 01:54 AM (cW1mv)

319 but house rule is 'no evidence'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

What about ShowerCamTM?

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 01:55 AM (VHUov)

320 Thanks ARIK. got a few boys of my own, I know what you mean. I am off to bed, I am feeling sleepy. Sweet dreams Horde, and JQ, thanks as always for tending bar.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2026 01:56 AM (0nHVk)

321 Rented Kiss of the Spider Woman thinking it would be SciFi. Boy, was I suprised. OK, though.

Posted by: Braenyard
--------
Was that the one with two dudes in a prison cell? A Marxist and a gay? If so, in many ways this is the story of Keith Ellison and Tim Walz.

Posted by: scampydog at February 01, 2026 01:56 AM (41CYW)

322 315 309 We have one in each bath complete with heated water, seat warmer, air freshener and remote.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
---

Toto?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 01:42 AM (cW1mv)

Toto Washlet is the model.

I didn't like the idea of water and electricity but - as usual - overruled.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2026 01:58 AM (QGaXH)

323 The idiots in my district elected a Democrat for the first time since 1991 (Texas SD-9). The overwhelming number of votes cast were early voting.

The local Facebook page for our neighborhood has been gloating all night.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 01, 2026 02:07 AM (SRRAx)

324 @WatcherGuru . Jan 26
Last month, Rep. Kevin Hern sold up to $500,000 worth of UnitedHealth stock.
Today, the Trump administration proposed flat Medicare reimbursement rates for insurers, causing $UNH to crash over 10%.
Hern is a member of the House Subcommittee on Health
Posted by: Braenyard

If mikeski were King for a day, nobody working for the government at any decision-making level could own individual stocks or bonds. Get elected to congress, become a judge, etc, and you sell it all before you take your oath, and buy broad-market tracking mutual funds. S&P500 tracker, Dow tracker, etc.

If mikeski were Emperor for a day, there would be a special government "fund" that changed in value based on something like [GDP minus inflation] or [average worker's real wages]. Everyone working for the government at any level has 100% of their investments put in there.

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 02:08 AM (VHUov)

325 I didn't like the idea of water and electricity where I put my junk but - as usual - overruled.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

FIFY.

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2026 02:09 AM (VHUov)

326 Had to go look - 29 moments - yes it was
William Hurt and Raul Julia.
Expecting SciFi, at first it was WTF? But it is a real movie, with plot and dialogue. Recommend

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 02:10 AM (cW1mv)

327 Always interesting to see what the dominant topic is late on the ONT. Toilets, it looks like. Toilets, and misleading movie titles. But, mostly, toilets.

Sugar Tits is funny, sarcastic, and what I guess the kids are calling based. If you like that kind of thing.
Gender-bender activists have lost their minds (16:19)
https://youtu.be/b6H0iaNG7_s

And for tonight and for January, 2026, this is the end.
https://youtu.be/9pRGoSbYHQE

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - catch ya next month which it is already here at February 01, 2026 02:12 AM (j02Vi)

328
The idiots in my district elected a Democrat for the first time since 1991 (Texas SD-9). The overwhelming number of votes cast were early voting.

The local Facebook page for our neighborhood has been gloating all night.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

=================

That scares me a bit, to be honest.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 01, 2026 02:14 AM (LeyXC)

329
Freeze line is trying to push over into Tampa. It's 32 and 31F right to the east. In the middle toward the Atlantic, it's pushing to the north side of Lake Okeechobee. It's in the high 30s around Palm Beach.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 02:16 AM (w6EFb)

330 The idiots in my district elected a Democrat for the first time since 1991 (Texas SD-9). The overwhelming number of votes cast were early voting.

The local Facebook page for our neighborhood has been gloating all night.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

=================

That scares me a bit, to be honest.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 01, 2026 02:14 AM (LeyXC)
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Teresa, what issues drove the election?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 02:22 AM (s5hGr)

331
It's currently 14F in Sugar Tit, SC. Things are getting pretty hard and pointy there, I imagine.

It's 16F right here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 01, 2026 02:25 AM (w6EFb)

332 Texas state Senate story

https://tinyurl.com/kzv2bdmh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 02:27 AM (Vwn5y)

333 Doors did some really good stuff but most of it wasn't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 02:28 AM (cW1mv)

334 Another 10 degree day here, looks like. Our neighborhood fox looked unperturbed, waltzing across my front yard yesterday afternoon

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 02:30 AM (Vwn5y)

335 Ft. Wort has been moving to the left for a good while.
Prolly elected U.T. graduates who want to keep up with Dallas instead of preserving its identity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 02:31 AM (cW1mv)

336 Hi all!

Nurse, we had fog too. So pretty.

>>> 168 "Mamdani? Walz? They didn't go to the island."

Mamdami's mom went to the island. Possibly just in her movie director role. But there's speculation that her meetings with Epstein set her son on a path to be an anointed one in politics.

Posted by: LizLem at February 01, 2026 02:31 AM (gWBY1)

337 Doors manager said he was relieved when Morrison died. Most evil person he'd ever encountered.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 02:35 AM (cW1mv)

338 I like a window open at night, even just a crack. As temps get closer to zero I question that habit

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 02:35 AM (Vwn5y)

339 I'm so relieved to see box office receipts are rolling in, and Melania's documentary is one of the top grossing openers in the past 14 years! (Excluding concerts docs like Tay-Tay.) Over 8 million and has an A cinema score.

The media was crowing it had low pre-sales, but the majority of tickets were bought by people 55 and older. People who probably go and buy their tickets in person, and you can't track. Also did gangbusters with women in the south.

Another thing for Hollywood to have TDS over.

Posted by: LizLem at February 01, 2026 02:36 AM (gWBY1)

340 Yay "Melania"!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 02:37 AM (Vwn5y)

341 Doors manager said he was relieved when Morrison died. Most evil person he'd ever encountered.

Posted by: Braenyard

Sugarman or Botnik? I've never heard this.

Posted by: Dark L at February 01, 2026 02:46 AM (KAi1n)

342 I've never seen the doors movie with Val Kilmer. Worth a watch?

Ana I just found out Target is pulling out of a bunch of blue cities, including NYC. Too much shoplifting and violence against employees. I've been at the Targets in both Harlem and the Bronx. One of the few one-stop shopping stores by subway and bus lines. I feel bad for all the good families impacted by the bad actors.

Posted by: LizLem at February 01, 2026 02:51 AM (gWBY1)

343 Memory fails, it was the keyboard player.

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist of The Doors, described Jim Morrison ... referred to Morrison as the world's "most evil person."

The manager of Jim Morrison, Jim Siddons, expressed a strong sentiment about his time with Morrison, stating he was glad to be rid of him. This reflects the tension and challenges that arose from Morrison

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 03:07 AM (cW1mv)

344 342 I've never seen the doors movie with Val Kilmer. Worth a watch?

Ana I just found out Target is pulling out of a bunch of blue cities, including NYC. Too much shoplifting and violence against employees. I've been at the Targets in both Harlem and the Bronx. One of the few one-stop shopping stores by subway and bus lines. I feel bad for all the good families impacted by the bad actors.
Posted by: LizLem
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Bet they are still selling homosexual gear for boys and girls.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 03:09 AM (cW1mv)

345 Folks are starting to dig into the released Epstein records. Frightening example by Dom Lucre:

https://tinyurl.com/228vbdtf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 01, 2026 03:10 AM (gK5jz)

346 Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
are you here?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 03:10 AM (cW1mv)

347 NYC does not have any laws against stealing. Even if they did arrest the thief they would let 'em walk. The Governor of Minnesota helped rip US taxpayers off 8 billion dollars. He is still in office. Laws are not enforced anymore. Laws are nothing but a suggestion. And it seems like nobody cares.

Posted by: Case at February 01, 2026 03:19 AM (E7+ue)

348 Bush family, under the radar, under the covers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 03:26 AM (cW1mv)

349 330 The idiots in my district elected a Democrat for the first time since 1991 (Texas SD-9). The overwhelming number of votes cast were early voting.

The local Facebook page for our neighborhood has been gloating all night.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

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That scares me a bit, to be honest.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 01, 2026 02:14 AM (LeyXC)
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Teresa, what issues drove the election?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2026 02:22 AM (s5hGr)

Hell if I know! We have had a LOT of new construction in the area (which frankly, in an area this small is too much for the infrastructure to handle). Lots of multi units - high end, but more than this area can accommodate. We are just south of all of the hospitals.

Our neighborhood has finally become "trendy" - all of the urban pioneers from 40 years ago like ourselves, who bought fixer-uppers in a historic area that had seen better days, sold their renovated houses for a small fortune to the "new" occupants of the neighborhood/area. They all have money and liberal attitudes and no common sense. Lots of social justice ideas, though. Idiots.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 01, 2026 03:28 AM (SRRAx)

350 Running late again. Got to go. See yall tomorrow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 03:29 AM (cW1mv)

351 On the plus side, the Legislature is out of session until after the next election, so it's kind of a nothing burger win.

We did our part and went and voted tonight - we have always been "day of" voters. Dinosaurs.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 01, 2026 03:36 AM (SRRAx)

352 Doors did some really good stuff but most of it wasn't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2026 02:28 AM (cW1mv)

Back in the real early 80's when twisted sister was just a local band playing the circuit they did a tribute to the doors by burning a door on stage.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2026 03:51 AM (snZF9)

353 Almost to the end, my friend.

For reference, we just crossed freezing, and the low tonight is supposed to only get down to 30F. Usually in the teens this time of year. But for now, I'm going to enjoy it.
Tomorrow... predicted 61F

Posted by: buddhaha at February 01, 2026 04:00 AM (36QIT)

354 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at February 01, 2026 04:02 AM (SSiCQ)

355 Taylor Rehmet.

Bwahahahahaha

Posted by: Midterm bloodbath at February 01, 2026 07:16 AM (9zHAO)

356 A warm toilet seat is not a benefit unless the house is freezing and you live alone.

This!
When my brother lived in an off-the-grid cabin in Alaska he kept his foam toilet seat behind the wood stove, so when nature called it was not quite as grim as it could have been.
Of course, carrying a your twelve-gauge pump stuffed full of slugs did sharpen your senses during one's trip to the outhouse.

Posted by: waepnedmann at February 01, 2026 07:38 AM (vXYrX)

Saturday Night Something Something

Charles is off on holiday. He regretfully asked yours truly if I would present a reasonable facsimile of a music thread.

Ha. Fat chance I thought to myself.

*****

[Yes, there is a Safe Mystery Click]

Perhaps this thread is a continuation of the previous Saturday threads.

Tonight's theme I guess is, Does music bring you joy? If music doesn't bring you joy what does?

Some of you know that I dabble with paints. I find it more than a hobby. It is a passion rather than a hobby. Music brings joy to the studio. And one never knows what will be playing in the background of MisHum Studio. The creative process of painting involves an eclectic mix from Adele to Zappa surging through the speakers.

Lately I have been finding myself on listening binges of various artists. So no boys and girls and everything in between, it's not Frank Zappa here 24/7/365(6).

Tonight's Thread has been brought to you by Playlists & The Maestro, FZ.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 07:50 PM

Comments

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1 Good even everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 07:52 PM (cYBz/)

2 Stacking LPs during the AOR era was fantastic. A few hours of music to pass out by.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 07:53 PM (cYBz/)

3 Why was there no flaming skull behind bars when Don Lemon was arrested?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (R86kT)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Don't bring me down!!!

Posted by: Electric Light Orchestra at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (mP0Kj)

6 The old classic hymns mean something to me. The rest of music is noise.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (S8ZfB)

7 Does anyone else here collect old hymnals? I read them as poems.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 07:56 PM (S8ZfB)

8 Don't bring me down.... either...

Posted by: The Animals at January 31, 2026 07:56 PM (mP0Kj)

9 MisHum! #1! With a bullet!

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

10 Came up on another sites forum
What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?
A mention of The Cars first album and I agree

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

11 I studied for law school exams with a stack of Dan Fogelburg albums. When it was time to turn the stack over, it was time for a break. I passed!

Posted by: jayhawkone at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (QSaoA)

12 It's Zappa Month!

*cues up "Cheepnis"*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 07:58 PM (kpS4V)

13 Charles is off on holiday. He regretfully asked yours truly if I would present a reasonable facsimile of a music thread.

Ha. Fat chance I thought to myself.

Where is MisHum, and what have you done with him???

The real MisHum would only need two words for a music thread:

Frank. Zappa.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 31, 2026 07:59 PM (0sNs1)

14 Love that 3 dog night song! It’s crazy that 3 Dog Night seems to be almost a forgotten group now; in the early to mid 70’s they were on every radio constantly. I’ve read that when the acts for Woodstock were booked, 3 Dog Night was considered to be the biggest group they had playing there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 07:59 PM (IUuBi)

15 Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

First two tapes?

Elton John Madman across the Water...

First Eagles Album...

Played them on a little cassette deck with a very tiny single speaker... but at 12 years old? that was gold.

Posted by: The Animals at January 31, 2026 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

16 15 Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

First two tapes?

Elton John Madman across the Water...

First Eagles Album...

Played them on a little cassette deck with a very tiny single speaker... but at 12 years old? that was gold.
Posted by: The Animals at January 31, 2026 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

Damn, serious sock failage.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 31, 2026 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

17 First and only comedy album was Franklin Ajaye’s Don’t Smoke Dope, Fry Your Hair!.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:01 PM (S8ZfB)

18 What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years

Joy Division, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode have been pretty constant around here.

Posted by: gKWVE could have a fine time living in the night at January 31, 2026 08:02 PM (gKWVE)

19 My playlist stack was 45s, and a "suitcase" record player. I saw a company the other day, they're offering the big furniture type stereos with the lift up lid. My parents had one, it's a little weird to see the almost exact same thing offered for sale again.

Posted by: Lirio100 at January 31, 2026 08:04 PM (ky7/T)

20
Don't bring me down.... either...
Posted by: The Animals

Don't bring me down...BRUCE!

Posted by: ELO at January 31, 2026 08:05 PM (/x9Qb)

21 9 MisHum! #1! With a bullet!
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

Yeah I got some of those white albums with pencil.....

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 31, 2026 08:05 PM (Q/qH+)

22 The creative process of painting involves an eclectic mix from Adele to Zappa surging through the speakers.

Yep, music is playing when I'm active in the kitchen. Usually it's an archived stream of The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn, or a show called Americana Matinee (hosted by a leftist who manages to minimize her politics).

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:08 PM (nbLIj)

23 Listening to Zappa all the time can be exhausting. You have to leave time for Stravinsky and Snuky Tate.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

24 What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years

AC/DC, Slayer, Judas Priest, Pantera.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 08:09 PM (mkk/2)

25 Evening everyone, thx MusHum.
Listened to everything in my teen years, Stones, Zeppelin, Allman Brothers and a lot of Southern rock. Then got into The Clash , Pretenders, The Police. Wide variety good for the musical soul

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 08:09 PM (IDEQi)

26 6 The old classic hymns mean something to me. The rest of music is noise.
Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (S8ZfB)

I like the old classic hymns. Don't care for most modern Christian music. But I do like all kinds of other music.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:09 PM (h7ZuX)

27 First record purchased: Debussy's "Afternoon of a Fawn/ Ravel's "Daphnis and Cloe"

First CD: Ensemble Alcatraz, "Visions and Miracles"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:09 PM (kpS4V)

28 Playlist from my teen years - a lot of ELO, Kansas, Styx. And Emerson Lake and Palmer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 08:11 PM (IUuBi)

29 What do you like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?
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I was a classical music dweeb who didn't get into contemporary music until I was about 18, but after that, punk and Nu-wave.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:12 PM (kpS4V)

30 What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?
A mention of The Cars first album and I agree
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

That's pretty eclectic, too. Bee Gees, REO Speedwagon, Roxy Music, Led Zeppelin, Patti Smith, Supertramp, the Kinks, Talking Heads....

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:12 PM (h7ZuX)

31 MisHum,

Thanks for the mystery click. Always liked that song and that group. (Notice I'm not spoiling the 'mystery'.)

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 08:14 PM (yTvNw)

32 I do still occasionally listen to a full Zeppelin album

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:14 PM (Ia/+0)

33 First LP purchased with my own money: Rice-Webber's original soundtrack of JC Superstar (boxed set)

First CD: Probably Beethoven's C-minor Symphony. Bernstein NYP.

Posted by: mrp at January 31, 2026 08:15 PM (rj6Yv)

34 First cassette I got for Christmas was Pyromania.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 08:15 PM (mkk/2)

35 The first album I ever bought was a Three Dog Night album. Still like them.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:15 PM (h7ZuX)

36 Motown

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 08:15 PM (0KSrI)

37 Playlist from my teen years - a lot of ELO, Kansas, Styx. And Emerson Lake and Palmer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 08:11 PM (IUuBi)

You can remain on my lawn. The rest of you...(makes shooing motion with both hands)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:15 PM (nbLIj)

38 The Ventures were before my time but I liked them as a teen. Still do, I guess.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 08:15 PM (vFG9F)

39 I never cared for most beach music though.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

40 I am surprised at how well early rap is received at work.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:16 PM (S8ZfB)

41 I recently listened to Culture Club's "Time (Clock of the Heart)". Still a beautiful little pop tune.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:16 PM (kpS4V)

42 Tinyurl now wants me to sign up for an account. Is there an alternative?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:17 PM (kpS4V)

43 31 MisHum,

Thanks for the mystery click. Always liked that song and that group. (Notice I'm not spoiling the 'mystery'.)
Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 08:14 PM (yTvNw)

I noticed.
Thank you.

The writer of one has wrote a ton of hits

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 31, 2026 08:18 PM (Q/qH+)

44 "Tinyurl now wants me to sign up for an account. Is there an alternative?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes."

*beckons*

Posted by: The Margins at January 31, 2026 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

45 The writer of one has wrote a ton of hits
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 31, 2026 08:18 PM (Q/qH+)

One of the Williams boys, yes?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:21 PM (nbLIj)

46 Three Dog Night got lots of play around me. They were great, l liked their upbeat songs. Joy To The World, Celebrate, Mama Told Me was a funny song. I guess Never Been to Spain was my favorite song they done. But they had lots of good ones.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 08:22 PM (E7+ue)

47 Back around 1981, one of my roommates had a collection of the best of Motown. We played the hell outa those.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:22 PM (h7ZuX)

48 Clix, blech, soft rock

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:22 PM (S8ZfB)

49 Oh how I long to blow you, sexy margins!

While Dildo's away....

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:22 PM (kpS4V)

50 I just ignore the request to create an account

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 08:23 PM (+mUZM)

51 Tinyurl now wants me to sign up for an account. Is there an alternative?

I've been using is.gd.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 08:23 PM (Fs0KI)

52 I'm watching "Return of the Jedi" for the millionth time. McDairmid's dry cackle is awesome.

I had the John Williams scores on LPs and wore them down to fuzzy nubs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:26 PM (kpS4V)

53 Listening to the Who right now, by a patio fire pit having a beer with the mrs.

Posted by: Rex B at January 31, 2026 08:27 PM (GI9/m)

54 Weird week in that the dulcimer world lost a Luthier, Ron Ewing. And Duane of Phoenix Typewriters passed away. Ron Ewing has been making dulcimers and dulcimerettes sine the 70s. I got a six string dulcimerette from him in September. Very well respected.

Same issue with Duane (and I've forgotten his last name). One of the typewriter repairmen that gave a lot to the community.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 08:27 PM (+mUZM)

55 Teenage music? Doowop, more or less. Pgh area, mid '50s, what else, but... Late night WMCK, Art Barraduci. That's where I developed my taste for Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton, etc and all their soloists, who Art listed after every song. How many of you even heard of Vito Musso? Lady Day, June Christy, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Rushing...Damn, that was good music...

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 08:27 PM (36QIT)

56 Nazareth's "Love Hurts" came up in my Spotify shuffle a couple of days ago. It's been ages since that came around.* That was such a perfect teenage angst over-and-over with the headphones on choice in my teen years.

*The random play on Spotify is less than ideal. It does seem to get into a loop where it plays a small group of songs frequently, and others hardly ever at all. But what a great surprise when it does pull up a good one that I've not heard in forever.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:27 PM (h7ZuX)

57 Oh now it's working fine. Never mind.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:28 PM (kpS4V)

58 Men in Black is on. A very fun movie. And Linda Fiorentino is hot. Weird career

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 08:28 PM (IDEQi)

59 What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?
Posted by: Skip

So, albums that I had on tape as schoolkid-mikeski, that I re-bought on CD and still listen to, for reasons other than nostalgia? Or maybe CDs from my early college years, same?

Off the top of my head: Tears For Fears, Toto, Alan Parsons Project, Kansas, Savatage, Metallica, Genesis.....

I want to include Dream Theater, but only their 1st album is from the edge of that time frame, so maybe "honorable mention?"

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 08:28 PM (VHUov)

60 Ah!. Note the flip-over cartridge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 08:28 PM (XeU6L)

61 Does anyone else here collect old hymnals? I read them as poems.
Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 07:56 PM

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I wouldn't say I collect hymnals, but I have a shelf full.

1940 Episcopal hymnal is my favorite by far.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 31, 2026 08:29 PM (1Au9i)

62 Back around 1981, one of my roommates had a collection of the best of Motown. We played the hell outa those.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:22 PM (h7ZuX)

I have that collection.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:30 PM (nbLIj)

63 I'm watching "Return of the Jedi" for the millionth time. McDairmid's dry cackle is awesome.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

He's one of the masters of the best character actor's grift; get famous for playing an old guy when you are 35. You'll be able to work for 40 years and won't have to pretend at some point.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 31, 2026 08:30 PM (diia5)

64 That's where I developed my taste for Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton...
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I always confuse Stan Kenton, and Ken Stanton.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 08:30 PM (XeU6L)

65 I have that collection.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:30 PM (nbLIj)

I'd love to have that now. I keep scouring the thrift stores for a nice boxed set of vinyl. We were three 19-year-old girls, singing and dancing around the house to Motor City's best.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:33 PM (h7ZuX)

66 Duane Jensen of Phoenix Typewriters. Had to look it up

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 08:33 PM (+mUZM)

67 Seriously, for those tired of tasting the margins' salty veins, when reposting vids instead of
https://www.youtube.com/wa v=etc
try
youtu.be/[the actual code]

For instance, this one Eminem and Obie wrote about Bill Gates
youtu.be/HX0qXWwVKEA

No fiddling with tinyurl. The margins get the blue balls they deserve.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2026 08:34 PM (gKWVE)

68 "Note the flip-over cartridge.
Posted by: Mike Hammer"

Different profile needles, as I recall.

I had a 33/45 player as a tot. We used to check records out from the library.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F)

69
Laus Deo! Her Majesty and The Big Dummy have arrived in NYC. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts for her on her trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 08:36 PM (tgvbd)

70 I can tell you haven't dealt with CBD. I was admonished for using that shortened link instead of tiny url.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 08:36 PM (+mUZM)

71 Ken who???
Made me look it up.
Ok, Simple way to.distinguish - little memory trick.
Kenton - letter K, Santon- letter S
K.comes before S.
Kenton made records, Stanton sold them. Gotta make 'em before you sell 'em.
Glad I could help.

From Atlanta, eh?

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 08:38 PM (36QIT)

72 So, albums that I had on tape as schoolkid-mikeski, that I re-bought on CD and still listen to, for reasons other than nostalgia?
Posted by: mikeski

On the other end of the calendar, the most recent album I bought is this one:

https://youtu.be/1enSUZ-A-HM

I'm not sure what genre that is. Either "none of the above" or "all of them." But that's the sort of music that suits me.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 08:39 PM (VHUov)

73
I wouldn't say I collect hymnals, but I have a shelf full.

1940 Episcopal hymnal is my favorite by far.
Posted by: Bigsmith
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One of my most cherished hymnals is the Armed Forces Hymnal,~mid 50's?.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 08:39 PM (XeU6L)

74 Old and In the Way. David Grisman, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, Peter Rowan and some guy on bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrqGnA7xgCg

Posted by: huerfano at January 31, 2026 08:40 PM (98kQX)

75 Tinyurl now wants me to sign up for an account. Is there an alternative?
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I've found you can scroll down past that little annoyance and still get to the familiar UI for their tool, unless they changed it today

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:40 PM (fhfS+)

76 71 I can tell you haven't dealt with CBD. I was admonished for using that shortened link instead of tiny url.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 08:36 PM (+mUZM)
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He e-mailed me to admonish me for using Rose's Lime Juice instead of making my own.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:43 PM (kpS4V)

77 Does music bring me joy? Absolutely! But not as background when I'm concentrating on other activities. If I'm focused on something I stop really hearing the music. When I listen to music it takes all my attention. Listening while driving doesn't count since I just sing or hum along without getting too involved. When traffic gets 'interesting', I turn off the radio.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 08:43 PM (yTvNw)

78 Listening to the blues right now.

Posted by: Kwesi Adofo-Mensah at January 31, 2026 08:44 PM (Q+gd/)

79 From Atlanta, eh?
Posted by: buddhaha
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Yup. Marietta,actually.

"The Thursday, June 30, 1949, edition of The Marietta Daily Journal reported that Ken Stanton, 37, a Marietta resident since 1946, announced that he was opening a music store at 300 Whitlock Avenue in Marietta. Stanton would handle pianos, musical instruments, repairs, instruction and accessories. He also planned to organize and direct six county high school bands in the next year. Those bands were McEachern, Acworth, Smyrna, Fitzhugh Lee, Austell and Robert L. Osborne."

I often used to drive past his store.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 08:44 PM (XeU6L)

80 Nazareth's "Love Hurts" came up in my Spotify shuffle a couple of days ago. It's been ages since that came around.* That was such a perfect teenage angst over-and-over with the headphones on choice in my teen years.

Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:27 PM (h7ZuX)

Good one. Concrete Blonde's "Joey" is another great example of that genre. James Mankey's guitar solo just rips your heart out...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:44 PM (nbLIj)

81 Early teenage years? The Fugs, Holy Modal Rounders, James Gang, Mountain. Jefferson Airplane, Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, Hot Tuna, Quicksilver Messenger Service. Lots of cassettes.

Posted by: Ol' Codger at January 31, 2026 08:44 PM (oftw2)

82 The cartoon at the top of the post is seriously clever and funny. I'll smile about it every time I think of it.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 08:46 PM (yTvNw)

83 The first record I ever bought was Creedence, "Green River". One of brothers stole it when I went to Sweden one summer as an exchange kid and I've never seen it since.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:46 PM (5xBgn)

84 The writer of one has wrote a ton of hits
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One of the Williams boys, yes?

Nope. If it's the one I'm thinking of, he only had one really big hit of his own recording. Or at least I can only think of one offhand. Also, his mother wrote a really big hit recorded by Elvis.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 08:48 PM (Fs0KI)

85 Why was there no flaming skull behind bars when Don Lemon was arrested?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM

Because no one wants to think about flaming, head, and Don Lemon in the same sentence.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 31, 2026 08:48 PM (Wnv9h)

86 Hoyt Axton?

Posted by: Ol' Leadbottom at January 31, 2026 08:49 PM (oftw2)

87 Listening to Asleep At The Wheel at present.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:50 PM (5xBgn)

88 I remember using old 78s as clay pigeons. Frisbee them up while somebody else blasted them with #6.
I'm sure I should feel ashamed, because some of them were collector's items, like some Al Jolsons that I remember, but most were Spooky Hanson and that ilk.

BTW, autocucumber tried to turn "Al Jolson" into "AP Holdings".
Caught the damned thing before all of you thought I was crazier than I really am.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 08:50 PM (36QIT)

89 Hoyt Axton?

* ding ding ding *

For extra credit, name the two hit referred to in the previous comment.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 08:51 PM (Fs0KI)

90 My hi-fi was retired some years ago. Anyone want to buy a pair of Advents?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 08:51 PM (XeU6L)

91 The fact that music from the 80s and the early 90s can be considered oldies is sobering.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2026 08:55 PM (XV/Pl)

92 91 My hi-fi was retired some years ago. Anyone want to buy a pair of Advents?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 08:51 PM

My brother is a fan of musical toys. I can ask him. What type are they?

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 31, 2026 08:55 PM (rbKZ6)

93 Nope. If it's the one I'm thinking of, he only had one really big hit of his own recording. Or at least I can only think of one offhand. Also, his mother wrote a really big hit recorded by Elvis.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 08:48 PM

Mae Axton wrote Heartbreak Hotel.

Posted by: huerfano at January 31, 2026 08:56 PM (98kQX)

94 The cartoon at the top of the post is seriously clever and funny. I'll smile about it every time I think of it.
Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 08:46 PM (yTvNw)

It appeals to those with a clef palate.

...

I'll show myself out - Hey with the hands! I said I'll show myself - (door slams)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:57 PM (nbLIj)

95 I often hear at work someone playing a 80s 90s station that declares itself oldies

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:58 PM (Ia/+0)

96 He e-mailed me to admonish me for using Rose's Lime Juice instead of making my own.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:43 PM (kpS4V)

OMG, I'm dying!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 09:00 PM (h7ZuX)

97 Something!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 31, 2026 09:03 PM (AdHga)

98 fact that music from the 80s and the early 90s can be considered oldies is sobering.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I was joking with my mom about some genx comedienne who had a bit where she was in a coma. then they played tupac's "hit em up" and the woman started grooving to that.
Imagine surviving long enough to hear "Dre Day" at the grocery store

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2026 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

99 He e-mailed me to admonish me for using Rose's Lime Juice instead of making my own.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:43 PM (kpS4V)

OMG, I'm dying!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 09:00 PM

Not gonna lie...I'm with CBD on this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 31, 2026 09:05 PM (Wnv9h)

100 10 Came up on another sites forum
What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?
A mention of The Cars first album and I agree
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM

I was lucky enough to be a teenager in the 70s so I'll still listen to just about everything I liked back then. By way of answering MisHum's question about whether music brings me joy, I really do love upbeat music. Favorites back then were Kool & The Gang, O'Jays, EWF, Teddy Pendergrass, Boz Scaggs, Doobies, and so many others. Growing up in the South, I also love beach music. I used to make running tapes so my music had to have a good beat.

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 31, 2026 09:05 PM (rbKZ6)

101
My brother is a fan of musical toys. I can ask him. What type are they?
Posted by: Moonbeam
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I wasn't serious...they're too heavy to ship. Will have to be sold locally. But to the question, Original Utilities.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

102 A part of how music brings me joy, aside from the overall effect, is being able to hear how each voice/instrument and their various tempos combine to create the whole. That's why I generally prefer smaller ensembles. Acapella madrigals, chamber groups for Bach rather than full orchestras, Barber's Adagio played by a string quartet, small combo jazz, Blood Sweat and Tears, they let me hear and appreciate the parts that make the whole. (Bless my old Bose headset.)

Even as a youngster, I loved listening to Peter, Paul and Mary. What they could do with only two guitars and three voices was amazing. Listen closely to them performing 'Three Ravens', 'ASoaling', even 'I love Rock and Roll Music'. Wonderful stuff.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 09:05 PM (yTvNw)

103 Even as a youngster, I loved listening to Peter, Paul and Mary. What they could do with only two guitars and three voices was amazing. Listen closely to them performing 'Three Ravens', 'ASoaling', even 'I love Rock and Roll Music'. Wonderful stuff.
Posted by: JTB
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Saw them at Duke University, probably '66.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 09:08 PM (XeU6L)

104 10 Came up on another sites forum
What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?
A mention of The Cars first album and I agree
Posted by: Skip

RUSH!

;-)

youtu.be/g_QtO0Rhp0w

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 31, 2026 09:09 PM (AdHga)

105
I wasn't serious...they're too heavy to ship. Will have to be sold locally. But to the question, Original Utilities.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Maybe he will drive on over for the pick up?

Posted by: Booji Boy at January 31, 2026 09:11 PM (4iXyU)

106 The old hymns are not so morose as I find the modern stuff. They are also much better written and even big SAT words.
I can’t find youtube stuff where I can hum along with a choir or follow the bouncing note.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 09:13 PM (S8ZfB)

107 As much as I like the 80's music, I font listen to it very much. I listen to a lot more from before and after.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

108 Heh. I tried an 'Old School Workout Mix' on Spotify. Immigrants Song and even some Guns and Roses, good. Then it went straight AC/DC for four songs. 'Mix'. If I wanted to listen to nothing but AC/DC I'd set it that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

109 Margins are blown all to hell on this phone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

110 My parents had a modest collection of what I'd call "dinner party" music. Hard to define. Some jazz, some big band, some Sinatra and his ilk Lots of brass.

Still dig it today. Snazzy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 09:16 PM (jtM2q)

111 Ah, 44 I should think for taking the margins innocence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

112 Still dig it today. Snazzy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 09:

Mancini? Maybe some Al Hirt? Henry James?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

113 111 My parents had a modest collection of what I'd call "dinner party" music. Hard to define. Some jazz, some big band, some Sinatra and his ilk Lots of brass.
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"Rhumba With Cougat" and Denny exotica.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 09:17 PM (kpS4V)

114 MISHUM
Nice

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2026 09:17 PM (uHEbo)

115 *smoke ring*

Posted by: the margin at January 31, 2026 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

116 110 Margins are blown all to hell on this phone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

Just turn it sideways, it'll be fine.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 09:18 PM (h7ZuX)

117 What the heck is this?!!!
Diggin' it though...
Nothin' but the bass, but the bass, no treble🎶🎶.....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 09:19 PM (LNeRu)

118 Enjoy your temporary freedom, The Margins.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 09:19 PM (kpS4V)

119 102-I wasn't serious...they're too heavy to ship. Will have to be sold locally. But to the question, Original Utilities.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 09:05 PM

Aren't you near Asheville? I'm in Raleigh.

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 31, 2026 09:21 PM (rbKZ6)

120 I always like Rush, had but not sure if still have the albums.
Very long ago, use to have 4 cubes of albums. 1 dot seriously wet in a internal pipe break and didn't lnow it for a long time.the cube of albums all fused together and tossed it. So generally I know what albums I ever bought and if I don't have it now it was in that pile. Have all my LZ albums, most Pink Floyd.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 09:21 PM (Ia/+0)

121 What's this? How could you start a music thread without me? Just because I had to take a nap.

I know that I took my girl to see Three Dog Night in Tulsa sometime in the late '60s. Wish my memories weren't all so forgotten. Of both concerts and dates. I know they did their then-big hits. Of course.

Went to search on "Three Dog Night Tulsa" and what came up was… performances in 2025 and scheduled for 2026. I can't imagine! 🥺 Well, concert archive sites don't show 3DN in Tulsa then. My memory may be worse than I thought.

Posted by: mindful webworker - how would I know what I don't know? at January 31, 2026 09:22 PM (j02Vi)

122 Aren't you near Asheville? I'm in Raleigh.
Posted by: Moonbeam
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Yes, Asheville. But, that's a 4 hour drive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 09:23 PM (XeU6L)

123 I already mentioned 3 dog night.
Other favorite bands would be Lynyrd Skynyrd, Credence Clearwater, the Stones, ZZ Top, Simon and Garfunkel because of their great harmony together. But there were lots of great songs back in the day. Those days were fun times and the music I listened to brings back those memories.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 09:24 PM (E7+ue)

124 So, was the 3 dog night song pre-climate retardedness🤪?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 09:24 PM (LNeRu)

125 I was listening to a new for me country-ish band called, 49 Winchester, driving into work today. A band located waaayyyy down in SW Virginia, otherwise known as Real Virginia. They are very, very, good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 31, 2026 09:24 PM (AdHga)

126 I better call it a night. I really shouldn't stay up past my curfew
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 09:27 PM (Ia/+0)

127 Booker T & The MGs

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 09:28 PM (ZxPkt)

128 Blues, Caldonia:

1.
youtube.com/watch?v=ugpfDcS-sGs

2.
youtube.com/watch?v=wZ_aCGKP7Gs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 09:28 PM (cW1mv)

129 Oh! MisHum! Gosh...I was expecting some Ds or other...
Lovely to see you dear one❣!
I know you don't remember me, but I certainly remember you!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 09:29 PM (LNeRu)

130 Anyone else conduct the music they're listening to? I do it without realizing. I also vocalize, hopefully softly, even with instrumentals. Again, not aware I'm doing it. It's not until I see my wife smiling at me that I become aware. Glad she is tolerant. (I do have to be careful in public.)

There are times I don't hold back. I love matching the bass riff that opens the Barney Miller theme song and the tuba intro to the music in Patton. And I love singing along with the Grinch song from the original cartoon. It was a big deal when I could match Thurl Ravenscroft's deep voice as a teenager.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 09:32 PM (yTvNw)

131 62 Does anyone else here collect old hymnals? I read them as poems.
Posted by: Accomack at
I wouldn't say I collect hymnals, but I have a shelf full.

1940 Episcopal hymnal is my favorite by far.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 31, 2026 08:29 PM (1Au9i)

My wife has put together a good collection of hymnals. My favorite is the old red 1940 Lutheran Hymnal.

I have a copy of a Sacred Harp collection. Fascinating because it’s a good collection of 19th century hymns, but a completely different collection than all of the other hymnals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 09:32 PM (IUuBi)

132 Why was there no flaming skull behind bars when Don Lemon was arrested?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (R86kT)

Because we knew he would be released immediately with no bail?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 09:32 PM (cwGMH)

133 Why was there no flaming skull behind bars when Don Lemon was arrested?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (R86kT)

Because he's already a flaming faggot?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 09:37 PM (lpTXP)

134 Aww...Frank. A musical genius taken from us to early. I often think of what he would be doing now.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 09:37 PM (uvB+6)

135 Margins just had vaginoplasty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

136 Just a lurker, but need to sneak in for the beauty of the 1941 Lutheran hymnal. Lovingly called the TLH. I collect hymnals. So many beautiful hymns out there.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at January 31, 2026 09:39 PM (JFaIe)

137 134 pawn

Same! The best thing I miss about MisHum is Zappa December...I still cry😥...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 31, 2026 09:42 PM (LNeRu)

138 I mentioned The Armed Forces Hymnal, I originally had three copys of that. One of them, I personally handed to (like him or dislike him, Glenn Beck). His promoter later sent me an email saying that Beck sang a few selections sotto voce on the plane home.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 09:43 PM (XeU6L)

139 Thank you for filling in tonight! Love the playlist, esp. "Out in the Country," Three Dog Night Live!!!!

Mike Hammer, let us organize a Moron Meet-Up in Raleigh this spring . . .

Posted by: AccentuateThePositive at January 31, 2026 09:43 PM (jYVXj)

140 Shit Man.Lamont died.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2026 09:44 PM (WF/xn)

141 Rhe Sanford and Son theme was one of the best. Quincy Jones I think.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 09:47 PM (lpTXP)

142 So many beautiful hymns out there.
Posted by: Quirky bookworm
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When visiting other denominations, I look through the hymnal, to see what composers are there. Lately, Seventh Day Adventist. Many, many hymns in there by Wesley.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 09:48 PM (XeU6L)

143 Men in Black is on. A very fun movie. And Linda Fiorentino is hot. Weird career
Posted by: Smell the Glove

"Guess I'm going to have to buy the White Album again" was a good line, although the tiny-disc tech didn't anticipate the real tech we have today.

https://bit.ly/no-one-expects-the-future

Posted by: mindful webworker - flashy-thingied at January 31, 2026 09:49 PM (j02Vi)

144 eBay has lots of 1941 hymnals but few 1940 versions. Might there be a reason?

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 09:51 PM (S8ZfB)

145 I still have my LP's, about a hundred of them. Even have some 45's, along with my CD's. Tapes don't last. I keep my LP's in two cabinets that my speakers set on.I've had kids ask me what those things are. I just tell them that's my music.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 09:52 PM (E7+ue)

146 Would that be the Evangelical Lutheran Synod?

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 09:52 PM (S8ZfB)

147 "Guess I'm going to have to buy the White Album again" was a good line, although the tiny-disc tech didn't anticipate the real tech we have today.

https://bit.ly/no-one-expects-the-future
Posted by: mindful webworker - flashy-thingied at January 31, 2026 09:49 PM (j02Vi)

One of the IT techs was rooting around in a cubical looking for a physical fault in the system, wearing those glasses with a flashlight on the side. He came up for air when I went by, and I said, "Eeek! Locutus!" which did not make him smile.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 09:54 PM (rbvCR)

148 Three Dog Night in concert was pretty good.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 09:56 PM (LHPAg)

149 The Methodist hymnal is probably some of the best church music. It is often scored in six voices and many of t he core hymns were written by John and Charles Wesley.
He is accused of stealing Welsh music to put new lyrics to, but the music is beautiful wherever it comes from.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 09:59 PM (rbvCR)

150 Went to see the Melania movie last night.
It was great.
Especially the music.
Go see it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:59 PM (2Ez/1)

151 I will rummage more tomorrow but sleep beckons

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 10:04 PM (S8ZfB)

152 Trouble brewing. Thread Stomp

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2026 10:04 PM (Rmwng)

153 or I should say Treble brewing

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2026 10:04 PM (Rmwng)

154 🎶 🎹 amateur hour again

('Tisn't Easy Being) Agondonter
It can be hard to live in faith.
Link in nic. Should play from 12:38 to 15:44 in the vid.
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #2, 2016 Aug 19

🌅

Posted by: mindful webworker - those who believe without seeing at January 31, 2026 10:04 PM (j02Vi)

155 Love that 3 dog night song! It’s crazy that 3 Dog Night seems to be almost a forgotten group now; in the early to mid 70’s they were on every radio constantly. I’ve read that when the acts for Woodstock were booked, 3 Dog Night was considered to be the biggest group they had playing there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 07:59 PM (IUuBi)

In my fragile memory, they started in the late '60s. They had a ton of hits before 1970. They went on through, I think, basically '75-'76. They had a good ten year run as a commercial success. And they did pretty well on the touring side, too. At one point, they had their own airplane for touring, not a corporate jet mind you, a 727 or something.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 10:09 PM (gKDq2)

156 "What do youu like to listen to from long ago, like teenage years?"

I'm one of those nuts who loves classical music. My favorite albums from my teenage years were the recording of Debussy's Nocturnes by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Pierre Monteux. Absolutely exquisite. I also loved the recording of the Brandenburg Concertos by the Collegium Musicum, one of the first period-instrument ensembles. And the recording by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra was a favorite, too.

In those days, you could get a great LP for $2 from RCA, Columbia, Angel, Deutsche Gramophone, or London. Another $2 label was Nonesuch, a great source for oddities - everything from medieval music to Joshua Rifkin's recordings of Scott Joplin's piano rags. Those were the days!

Posted by: Nemo at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (4RPgu)

157 I'll show myself out - Hey with the hands! I said I'll show myself - (door slams)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 08:57 PM (nbLIj)

Nah. He's with me.

Posted by: RickZ, Club ONT VIP at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (gKDq2)

158 I'm one of those nuts who loves classical music.

Posted by: Nemo at January 31, 2026 10:11 PM (4RPgu)

When I was in high school, my friend turned me on to Holst's The Planets, Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony. Love that recording so much I bought the cd. He also turned me on to Mozart, even his operas. Have a 3-cd set of his symphonies.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 10:18 PM (gKDq2)

159 oh, hay

Alfredo Romero, a human rights attorney in Venezuela reports that 310 political prisoners were released since January 8 2026 until today. He thanks the influence of President Donald Trump over Venezuelan Chavism.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 10:43 PM (rbvCR)

Hobby Thread - January 31, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin it landed on sea shells.

Best wishes to Morons in the midst of the current weather event. Feel free to check in with weather reports.

[Top photo: Tasmania]

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. Discussion of current events, religion and politics can elsewhere. Pants are optional. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Let's thing warm thoughts and talk sea shells. Like snowflakes, no two are exactly the same. They fuel the ultimate beach scavenger hunt. No matter how many you have or have seen, there always might be one more gem hidden in plain sight, just waiting to be discovered.

Where are your favorite shelling beaches?

What have been your favorite finds?

How do you display collected shells?

Share your stories of shelling!

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Where do seashells come from?

Shells are simply skeletons of animals, the remains of dead organisms. But unlike humans and most other animals, these mollusks, such as snails, clams, oysters and mussels, have an exoskeleton, meaning it's on the outside of their bodies.
The process of making a shell is known as biomineralization. How marine animals build their shells can vary greatly depending on the species, but all of these animals have special tissues to make their shells, just as humans have special tissues to grow and strengthen our bones.
Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges and microorganisms use another compound silica. There is also a group of brachiopods that build shells using calcium phosphate, which we use to build our bones, too.
More than 50,000 mollusk species live today on our planet, and most of them make shells. But each species makes a different shell. This accounts for the huge variety of shapes and sizes in the seashells you find on the beach.

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Shells of Sanibel and Captiva, Florida (click to embiggen):

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Sand dollar facts:

Living sand dollars are not white. They're usually brown, gray, or even have a purplish tint, with tiny, fuzzy spines covering their bodies.
They're related to starfish and are burrowing sea urchins.
Sand dollars eat using tiny hair-like structures called cilia, which move food particles to their mouth on the bottom side.
They can burrow into the sand to protect themselves from rough waters or predators.
Like tree rings, sand dollars' ages can be determined by counting the growth rings on their exoskeleton.
Sand dollars typically live for 6-10 years.

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Horde hobbying from PA Dutchman:

This is a Type 1 Chi-He medium tank from Fine Molds. Only 170 were built and all were kept on the home islands, mainly Kyushu, in anticipation of Operation Olympic. They were the first Japanese tank to include a radio as standard equipment and a mechanism to raise and lower the gun barrel.

Outstanding!

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Impressive. Pretty amazing that the guy still has all his fingers. I couldn't tell how the threads were added but maybe that's a trade secret.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an wood carving and tools theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Bonus content carryover:

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Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute your own. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

Comments

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

2 For beach fjnds, sharks teeth were the best. At Myrtle Beach shells are fairly easy to find

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Oh look. Off in the distance. Natalie Wood!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026 05:34 PM (uQesX)

4 Where are your favorite shelling beaches?

Normandy.

Posted by: Ike at January 31, 2026 05:35 PM (uQesX)

5 PA Dutchman great job on that Japanese tank, half expected a teenage girl Commander pop out

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

6 "She sells sea shells, by the sea shore . . ."

I hope she has another source of income. If she's at a sea shore, seems to me customers could pick up some themselves for free.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)

7 Where are your favorite shelling beaches?

Normandy.
Posted by: Ike at January 31, 2026 05:35 PM (uQesX)
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We can shut down the blog. We're done here.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2026 05:38 PM (ESVrU)

8 That's a lot of shells.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2026 05:38 PM (ULPxl)

9 Skip, ha! Fine Molds does make a series of tanks based on Girls und Panzer.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:38 PM (h/O4U)

10 What's up with the white star on the front of the Chi-He tank?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2026 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)

11 I work in an office full of rockhounds. And Idaho is a great place for rockhounds. I have a feeling I will soon be a rockhound too.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 31, 2026 05:39 PM (0aYVJ)

12 Spots in the Appalachian mountains in Pa you can find shells, millions of year old of course, well the left over fossils at least

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:40 PM (Ia/+0)

13 Shops along the MS Gulf Coast used to sell sand dollars. I haven't been out that way in a while. The last time I went, not too long after Hurricane Katrina, a lot of those shops had been wiped away. Almost certainly more have sprung up since.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:40 PM (wzUl9)

14 Back in the day, we'd vaca down in Sarasota, FL on Siesta Key. My dad was an avid shell collector and we'd make a few runs over to Sanibel Island.

Very cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 05:41 PM (jtM2q)

15 I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the beach shown in the top photo doesn't exactly smell like a bed of roses.

Posted by: Orson at January 31, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)

16 Mister Scott, the star designates Imperial Japanese Army and were usually gold or white. IJN vehicles sported an anchor instead.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:42 PM (h/O4U)

17 The sand dollars are from phylum Echinodermata.

Essentially, the entire phylum has 5-fold symmetry (as adults).

That has persisted since the Cambrian, over 500 million years ago.

God definitely ascribes to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." school of thought.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 31, 2026 05:42 PM (HlyYF)

18 The sand dollars remind me of the Legend of the Sand Dollar. First saw that as a kid in Rehoboth.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:43 PM (h/O4U)

19 Afternoon, TRex and Hobby Horde. Hobbying, or puttering? I am making a wall rack for some half-inch drive sockets, mounting on the garage wall above the workbench. Four feet of redwood one by three. Drilled shallow holes for most of the deep impact sockets; the remaining odd deep and and shallow impact sockets are going to have to sit on wood screws. Because drilling holes is tedious.

The restoration of Duane's '51 Studebaker 2-door proceeds apace. The bullet nose and front bumper, with splash panel, are now securely installed, and the front of the body looks nearly complete. All the glass is installed, and the windows that open, can be opened. New front springs are installed.

Back to the salt mines I go.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 05:44 PM (8zz6B)

20 PA Dutchman, your tank model looks very realistic, as if Dr. Cyclops had turned his shrinking ray on the Chi-He tank and reduced it to model size. In the last days of my own model-building career, I discovered how high quality Tamiya 1/35 scale tanks were -- the King Tiger and the West German Leopard were the ones I built. And that was decades ago. I can only presume the craft has gotten even better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

21 Enjoyed the woodcarving video.

He's has a great bunch of power tools and workshop.

Posted by: BirdRockDoc at January 31, 2026 05:47 PM (PoaF2)

22 2 For beach fjnds, sharks teeth were the best. At Myrtle Beach shells are fairly easy to find

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:33 PM

I grew up in Kansas, far, far away from any ocean beaches.

We also found shark's teeth in our youth ... weathering out of our Cretaceous chalk formations.

75 million years old, and look almost exactly like the ones you found on the beach!

Pelosi only wishes she aged that well.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 31, 2026 05:48 PM (HlyYF)

23 Wolfus Aurelius, thank you! The tooling on kits is getting better and better. My understanding with Fine Molds is that they got the original schematics for Japanese armor, which helped them create some incredible kits. Tamiya kits are just amazing though and their customer service is really good. I lost a headlight to a Panzer II and they sent me several replacements free of charge.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:49 PM (h/O4U)

24 Mister Scott, the star designates Imperial Japanese Army and were usually gold or white. IJN vehicles sported an anchor instead.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:42 PM

I thought they were always yellow/gold not white.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2026 05:49 PM (0N4FZ)

25 My father was a skin diver at night inside the ref at Guam in the 1968-59s. He was stationed there before he was transferred to Japan.

He collected shells live. The snail innards he got rid of. I cringe a little because he collected a lot of shells.

He has a 6 foot high balsa wood and thin glass cabinet handmade in Japan to display a portion of his shells.

Lots of cone shells, cowries, spider shells, conchs, miter shells and more. In addition, he traded with a sailor in Cuba for a number of brightly colored Cuban land snails.

NotSoThoreau has seen the cabinet, still filled with shells, after moving from Japan to California, then Germany, back to California, over to Maryland, and now in Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 05:49 PM (u82oZ)

26 But if she sells them, she can pick and choose in off hours and then present a preprepared selection to busy people who do nkt have time to dig in the sand.

Plus, back in the day, people went to beaches in nice clothes. They probably did nkt want to get them dirty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

27 Wolfus Aurelius, thank you! The tooling on kits is getting better and better. My understanding with Fine Molds is that they got the original schematics for Japanese armor, which helped them create some incredible kits. Tamiya kits are just amazing though and their customer service is really good. I lost a headlight to a Panzer II and they sent me several replacements free of charge.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026

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I'd love to redo the King Tiger model. (Does Tamiya still make it?) But I have cats and no separate room, or space, to work on models away from them. I have a 1959 Pyro kit of a Cowpuncher figure with hat and saddle, marketed as the "Gil Favor of Rawhide" figure. But where to work on it?

A Japanese company model of a U-Boat would be super-neat, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)

28 Plus, back in the day, people went to beaches in nice clothes. They probably did nkt want to get them dirty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

But they still sat in the sand without a blanket.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM (uQesX)

29 Does commenting obsessively on AoSHQ count as a hobby?

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM (77rzZ)

30 Growing up, the variety of shells was my go-to science project, as I spun stories of the poisonous cone shells (the CIA investigated the venom) and the money cowries. 5,000 for a wife, and 10,000 for a cow in certain African nation. My story, and sticking to it.

One of the reasons I became a scientist was because of the shows on sea shells.

For Christmas I gave away a money cowrie each to two neighborhood girls. One a preschooler and the other in 1st Grade. They were thrilled.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM (u82oZ)

31 I think screws manufactured on an industrial scale usually have the threads rolled on, while smaller-scale operations use threading dies or single-point cutting.

I don't know where the cutoff point is where rolling becomes more economical. I do know that rolled threads are typically stronger than cut ones.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM (IG3/x)

32 We brought home seashells from Long Beach Island in 2004 that still decorate my succulent garden.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM (RIvkX)

33 But if she sells them, she can pick and choose in off hours and then present a preprepared selection to busy people who do nkt have time to dig in the sand.

Plus, back in the day, people went to beaches in nice clothes. They probably did nkt want to get them dirty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026

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Ah, a boutique in a niche market.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)

34 Does commenting obsessively on AoSHQ count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026

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Yes.

No.

Maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)

35 30 One of the reasons I became a scientist was because of the shows on sea shells.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 05:54 PM
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Love this.

Posted by: TRex - exoskeleton dino at January 31, 2026 05:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

36 Tamiya does still make the King Tiger and I've seen a kit that includes a motorcycle and courier. I just saw the other day that the Tank Museum in Bovington, UK is starting a massive project to restore a King TIger.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:57 PM (h/O4U)

37 With luck and no snow storms I am going to Lancaster next Friday and Saturday for HMGS Cold Wars convention for miniature games

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)

38 33 The use of “boutique” and “niche” in the same comment constitutes the use of too much French on the blog. Which is forbidden here, like math and the Metric System.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 05:58 PM (77rzZ)

39 I will make an offer to the Horde. If you ask me, I will send you one of the shells in my Dad's collection.

The rest of the family is not interested, and after I go, all this will likely be trashed.

My email (in ROT-13) is: AnPyl_qbt@xfoebnqonaq.arg. Send a mailing address to this. And no Somalians can apply.

Just one shell. If this is a success, I may repeat it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 05:59 PM (u82oZ)

40 Should be all clear, Skip. It looks like we may even break into the 30's!

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 06:01 PM (h/O4U)

41 Shops along the MS Gulf Coast used to sell sand dollars.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

How much are your clams?

Two clams apiece.

I'll take six.

(Old BC cartoon)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 06:01 PM (cYBz/)

42 One shell, only, Vasili.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 06:02 PM (77rzZ)

43 Plus, back in the day, people went to beaches in nice clothes. They probably did nkt want to get them dirty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026
*
But they still sat in the sand without a blanket.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026

***
When Miss Linda visited S. Korea in late 1999, she said local people went hiking in the parks wearing dress clothes. Reminds me of 1930s-40s British movies where men and women would wear tweed suits to walk on the moors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:02 PM (wzUl9)

44 Seashells... yeah. Have the matched sides of a giant clamshell - about 2+ feet across. Heavy, too...

Have them displayed with some Japanese and Russian glass floats we picked up while living in Alaska...

Posted by: man at January 31, 2026 06:03 PM (XuXeR)

45 Heh … WX reports? Yoo choke, jess … ? There is but One Weather, and its Name is Cold. I can't name a single body part that's not approaching 32°F about now - and we're supposed to go lower. Need proof? Here's the forecast:

TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy with a chance of flurries. Cold with lows around 13. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.

SUNDAY NIGHT
Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 19. South winds around 5 mph.

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 06:03 PM (ayRl+)

46 In honor of our new state, I bought a Greenland spindle. It's basically a large bead whorl made of steatite. I don't know if they really used these but it will be fun to mess around with.

I can testify that Salty will never be able to move out of his house

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 06:03 PM (+mUZM)

47 Do you know the way to Shell Beach?

Posted by: Obscure Dark City Reference at January 31, 2026 06:03 PM (ESVrU)

48 Tamiya does still make the King Tiger and I've seen a kit that includes a motorcycle and courier. I just saw the other day that the Tank Museum in Bovington, UK is starting a massive project to restore a King TIger.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026

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That sounds terrific and very tempting.

I'd love to do up a Land Rover or Toyota Land Cruiser, ca. 1950 or so, as a white hunter's vehicle in Kenya before the Mau Mau Emergency.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

49 Wolfus Aurelius

I want to wear a reproduction of a Victorian Dandy outfit, with a bowler hat. Then run into a store and ask what year it is. When told, I will yell 'It worked!" and dash out.

To pretend to go back in time, I guess I would need to look at the Pet Shop Boys outfits in some of their crazy video. Same line, however.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:05 PM (u82oZ)

50 @ 47 Do you know the way to Shell Beach?
__________________

No, but I can find Biloxi without a road map …

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 06:06 PM (ayRl+)

51 Sort of craft-related. Little's favorite hoodie had its drawstring pulled out. I had an idea and threaded an old guitar string (I think it was the B) through the hoodie, attached the drawstring to one end, and pulled the whole thing through.

This is why I never throw anything out...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 06:07 PM (nbLIj)

52 There's always a few shells about the house, but we are more sea glass people, having been raised on New England's rockiest beeches.
Picture up top reminded me of Moonstone beach in RI.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 31, 2026 06:08 PM (sl73Y)

53 Grew tired of working in the garage workroom with it's concrete floors so I moved into the 3rd unfinished upstairs bedroom where we store our Christmas decorations and sundries. I have a large wooden table and extra lighting to work on crafts. I'm currently fashioning paper flowers using origami paper. Roses, daffodils, tulips, lavender and crocuses so far. They will be sold to raise money for our Altar Society.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 31, 2026 06:09 PM (2NHgQ)

54 No but if you hum a few bars, I can fake it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

55 Notsothoreau

Do you need large TravelPro luggage cases? Getting two of them ready to donate. My late wife had an amazing amount of luggage.

More that that. A grunch.

If you want one or both I could hold them aside and drop them off. These are basically new in box big luggage items.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:09 PM (u82oZ)

56 OrangeEnt

You need to send your Ike comment to Doof. It is clearly one of the best this entire week.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:11 PM (u82oZ)

57 Thought I saw snow Friday

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:12 PM (Ia/+0)

58 To segue from the Pet Thread ... my sister had a dog that LOVED the beach. Jump in the water, try to take home half-rotted crab carcasses, etc. We were at Ruby Beach on the Pacific Coast which is not a great location for finding shells, but there were some interesting rocks. As we were looking around, picking up rocks, showing each other interesting rocks, the poor dog was sniffing like her very life depended on it. She *could not tell* what made a rock interesting! This was important! Everybody but her knew!

It was quite funny.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at January 31, 2026 06:13 PM (aNX55)

59 I bought a fossilized clam once long ago. it weighs a half ounce. It doesn't look like much until you see the band of opal in the stone filling the shell.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 31, 2026 06:15 PM (qo38o)

60 @ 57 Thought I saw snow Friday
_________________________________

No, that was JOE Friday …

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 06:17 PM (ayRl+)

61 Tamiya does still make the King Tiger and I've seen a kit that includes a motorcycle and courier. I just saw the other day that the Tank Museum in Bovington, UK is starting a massive project to restore a King TIger.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 05:57 PM

I picked up the Tamiya 1/16th RC King Tiger on a port visit to Hong Kong once back in the 80s. A buddy and I each bought one and we got it for about 1/2 the price we would have paid in our homeport of Yokosuka Japan. That thing was a beast to put together. It had individual track links and tons of metal parts. It was a blast to drive around when I finally got it done. Sadly it did not survive the move back to the US.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2026 06:19 PM (0N4FZ)

62 OrangeEnt

You need to send your Ike comment to Doof. It is clearly one of the best this entire week.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:11 PM (u82oZ)

Is that protocol, sending in your own comment to get a comment of the week? I thought I had some good zingers the last couple of weeks, but they weren't CoW.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026 06:19 PM (uQesX)

63
Radar is still showing some little spots of snow around Lake City, FL. I saw that pop up earlier, and looked on X, and saw some videos of flurries falling around there.

The models are pushing the freeze line pretty damned close to Miami tonight, too. I'm seeing 30 - 32F around Pensacola. Orlando is 41F.

And I'm 19F. Snow has petered out. I figured about 6" here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 06:20 PM (w6EFb)

64 OrangeEnt

Fine.

I will ask tRex to do it. He's an insider. He has clout.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:21 PM (u82oZ)

65 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Some Global warming would be nice now. And why does the Canadian government hate global warming?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:22 PM (u82oZ)

66 Hello frozen friends! You can find pretty shells on Gulf Shores. In fact today is a great day to do it because of the winds, however you will be an icicle for your efforts.

Posted by: Piper at January 31, 2026 06:24 PM (OoFl2)

67 I keep looking at RC Tanks, but do I need one?

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

68 64 I will ask tRex to do it. He's an insider. He has clout.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:21 PM
***
Handled.

Posted by: TRex - the first rule of COW is not to acknowledge COW at January 31, 2026 06:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

69 I keep looking at RC Tanks, but do I need one?

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:24 PM

That's like asking if you need a new gun, of course you do.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2026 06:25 PM (0N4FZ)

70 Thanks, TRex.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:26 PM (u82oZ)

71 I'd like to try the British Mark VII from Tamiya someday. Looks like a fun kit and I've never built anything motorized.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 31, 2026 06:26 PM (h/O4U)

72 I bought a fossilized clam once long ago.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 31, 2026 06:15 PM (qo38o)

Was her name Mabel? Marge? Estelle?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

73 I keep looking at RC Tanks, but do I need one?
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

I am doing the same thinking about motorcycles. Ewetub is a siren song.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)

74 Aetius451AD

Mildred or Beulah.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

75 Meaningless yet somehow unimportant wondrement: Ever think how much less cool the Ju-87 'Stuka' (Sturzkampfflugzeug) would have been had it not been possessed of its spatted wheels … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 06:29 PM (ayRl+)

76 Mildred or Beulah.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

Astrid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)

77
It's close to freezing around Tallahassee, too. There is a chance, a slight chance of a few snowflakes in Tampa later on, too. They'll go wild over one snowflake. It's gonna be hitting freezing in Orlando around midnight, from the models.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 06:29 PM (w6EFb)

78 They will be sold to raise money for our Altar Society.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

That's great!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 31, 2026 06:30 PM (qo38o)

79 Rhonda. Aldetha(sp?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

80 This is a horrible photo... taken over a 20 years ago. But what you're looking at are GHQ "MicroArmor" miniatures used for wargaming.

Each one of the Sherman tanks will sit on a dime. Enlarge.

https://ibb.co/GXpsVQH

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 06:31 PM (jtM2q)

81 Yeah but a gun is easier to talk yourself into

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)

82 I will ask tRex to do it. He's an insider. He has clout.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:21 PM
***
Handled.
Posted by: TRex - the first rule of COW is not to acknowledge COW at January 31, 2026 06:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

(blushes)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2026 06:31 PM (uQesX)

83 Speaking of which , have yet to try my 1860 Colt replica

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)

84 Despite my medical indisposition, I did see Friday’s Art.

Those were some tiny ‘uns. Bulg no likey.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 06:32 PM (77rzZ)

85 What? no she sells sea shells by the seashore. Come on, people.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 06:32 PM (0KSrI)

86 Shells were such a fun part of my growing up on the beach. Some, like the snail shells, had some neat shapes and colors. If you were lucky you could find one that had split in half so you could see the chambers. Cool stuff when you're five or six. If you were really lucky you would find a sand dollar washed up in the shallows. Never saw a live one as they stayed deep but their shells might wash ashore. Finding neat looking shells in the shallows was safer for kids too little to go into deeper water. Must have been a relief for our parents.

The bigger clam shells, like quahogs, were more useful than just fun to look at. The surfaces could be painted and they were the right size to be used as a small ashtray. I think almost every house in town had a few for that purpose.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 06:32 PM (yTvNw)

87 I havent read the comments yet but in case no one has mentioned it yet, there is a beach by Casey Key FL where shark tooths end up for some reason . It's pretty cool . People go over it every morning for new ones.

Posted by: Big Alfredo at January 31, 2026 06:34 PM (8cPKb)

88 Carving dude is a beastmaster. I am in awe. Patience and vision and focus executed with precision. Nice.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 06:35 PM (oT7pT)

89 Pigs qua hogs give us delicious pork products.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 06:35 PM (77rzZ)

90 Beside beach searching, body board is fun

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)

91 Stone carvers and wood carvers see the finished project in the medium before the first cut.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 06:36 PM (0KSrI)

92 87 A lady at my former church grew up in Florida, and had a collection of shark teeth from the beaches.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 06:37 PM (77rzZ)

93 @ 90 Beside beach searching, body board is fun
_______________________________________________

'Body board' sounds as if it could also have a 'dark side' …

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ayRl+)

94 That one snake at the bottom? Poisonous?

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 06:39 PM (LHPAg)

95 The Body Board carefully examined Ms. Sweeney to ensure she qualified.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 06:43 PM (77rzZ)

96 The best shelling was on a beach near Cairns, Australia. They were all so pretty and different. I keep them in a jar with sand from Myrtle Beach and a sea heart from Matagorda. Very different beaches, but they all have meaning to me.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 06:46 PM (lpTXP)

97 94 That one snake at the bottom? Poisonous?
Posted by: Eromero

that's VENOMous, cockboy

Posted by: Reddit at January 31, 2026 06:46 PM (gKWVE)

98 25 million years ago Florida was completely under water. The beach was halfway up in Georgia. You can find sharks teeth, sand dollars, and seashells in middle Georgia if you know where to look.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 06:47 PM (vFG9F)

99 No, but thank you for asking! I have trunks, foot lockers and wardrobe trunks. That's my storage

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 06:48 PM (+mUZM)

100 Made lots of sand sculpture at beach as well, no digital pictures of any

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:48 PM (Ia/+0)

101 The sand dollars are from phylum Echinodermata.
Essentially, the entire phylum has 5-fold symmetry (as adults).
That has persisted since the Cambrian, over 500 million years ago.
God definitely ascribes to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." school of thought.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

DNA is a programming language. He is a apparently a big fan of "code reuse."

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 06:49 PM (VHUov)

102 fd, no possibility that those came from east of Georgia?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 06:49 PM (0KSrI)

103 We found a rock with a seashell fossil on our property in central TX. It was a cool find.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 06:50 PM (lpTXP)

104 95 Not only did she qualify, but Ms. Sweeney was named Chairman of the Body Board!

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 06:51 PM (77rzZ)

105 I don't recall anyone collecting shells as a hobby. Probably because they were so common in our area. Wonder if it was more popular in the middle of the country.

It was not unusual to have a conch shell picked up on a trip to Florida and brought back home. That was the kind of shell you could hold to your ear to 'hear the ocean'.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2026 06:51 PM (yTvNw)

106 "fd, no possibility that those came from east of Georgia?
Posted by: Ben Had"

Nope. There are Kaolin mines in middle Ga that are a result of the sediment along the ancient coastline. You can even find whale fossils there.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

107 Barely ScaryMary, I have found one in gravel for the driveway.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 06:52 PM (0KSrI)

108 Nope. There are Kaolin mines in middle Ga that are a result of the sediment along the ancient coastline. You can even find whale fossils there.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

Stop desecrating our family burial grounds!

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at January 31, 2026 06:54 PM (uQesX)

109 I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the beach shown in the top photo doesn't exactly smell like a bed of roses.
Posted by: Orson
************
Surprisingly, there was no smell/odor at that beach. Kelvedon Beach, on the eastern side of Tasmania. Best part? Those perfect shells went down about 2-3 feet. Almost like someone dumped tons of perfect shells on the beach. And yes, many came home with us....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 31, 2026 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

110 Not only did she qualify, but Ms. Sweeney was named Chairman of the Body Board!
Posted by: Bulg

Ironic, since she's not at all board-like.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 06:59 PM (VHUov)

111 When I was growing up my family went to Neah Bay, Washington every summer. We camped on the beach on the Indian reservation. I still have sea shells I collected there.

One summer we found several glass balls of all sizes on the beach. One was as big as a bowling ball. They were hand blown of thick greenish blue glass.

These were floats used for fishing nets in Japan. They would get swept into a current during storms and could circle the Pacific Ocean for years before coming ashore.

Several years ago I gifted a small one that I still had to a lady from Japan who visited us. I love to think of it making that long journey across the ocean from Japan and then many, many years later being taken back there again.

Posted by: NancyB. at January 31, 2026 07:00 PM (jojaI)

112 *waves at The Grateful *

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 07:00 PM (0KSrI)

113 103 We found a rock with a seashell fossil on our property in central TX. It was a cool find.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 06:50 PM (lpTXP)
I picked up one this morning under my shed.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 07:03 PM (LHPAg)

114 97 94 That one snake at the bottom? Poisonous?
Posted by: Eromero

that's VENOMous, cockboy
Posted by: Reddit at January 31, 2026 06:46 PM (gKWVE)
Poisonous, venomous, whatever.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 07:05 PM (LHPAg)

115
3D globe of Erf going back 750 million years ago.

You can see Florida underwater about 20 million years ago.

You would recognize the planet way back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 07:06 PM (w6EFb)

116 Beaches from Delaware to Florida, if there's lots of shells wear shoes.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 07:06 PM (LHPAg)

117 Today's hobby was doing the monthly computer backup.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 31, 2026 07:08 PM (CHHv1)

118 A millenia later we get sea shells and shark teeth. A decade from now there will be trash from China and India.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 07:08 PM (0KSrI)

119 I saw the Pieta in person. Good lord that had to be hair raising to carve that. Its so intricate, and one wrong move turns it to junk.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)

120
Well, like a nut, I forgot to paste the link:
https://is.gd/la5Zks

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 07:10 PM (w6EFb)

121 Berserker, that is a life memory.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 07:11 PM (0KSrI)

122
90 million years ago, Antarctica was at the poles, but the climate was temperate. We were in "Greenhouse Earth", no ice caps.

Life was thriving there. What's interesting is how that life adapted to the polar days and nights. Don't know if they understand much about that or not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 07:12 PM (w6EFb)

123 A hobby thread on fossils and one on arrowheads would be cool. I've got a bunch of both I've collected over the years. I used to have a bunch of old bottles we dug out of old dumps too, but I gave most of those to a friend who is a serious collector. I did keep a couple of nice jugs.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

124 I had a biology teacher in highschool who was into shells. He told us he paid around $200-250 for this one shell. Probably $750 in today's money. The class kinda thought he was nuts.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:13 PM (snZF9)

125 {Waving} at Ben Had. Hope you are doing well and staying warm.

Berserker, that is on my list, too.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 31, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

126 Cumberland Island, Georgia. National Park Service National Seashore. Visitation is limited, to the point there are long stretches of time with virtually no people. At least back in the day when I was there. I would drive down the beach on some days and it was almost impossible not to run over sand dollars. Loved that place.

20 degrees and light snow in Southside VA.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 31, 2026 07:13 PM (MZ+PY)

127 In contrast to RC Cola, RC Tanks never really took off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:15 PM (wzUl9)

128 Berserker, that is a life memory.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 07:11 PM (0KSrI)

Yeah, between that and the ancient dead pope they had on display a few feet away its a bit of an understatement. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:15 PM (snZF9)

129 @103
We found a rock with a seashell fossil on our property in central TX.

When I was a kid back in the 60s I lived in the Dallas TX area.
There is a lake in Dallas called White Rock. Named after the white rocks in the area. These rocks had fossils of shells, lots of them. I remember people collecting them. Shells of an ancient sea. Really cool.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 07:16 PM (E7+ue)

130 > 90 million years ago, Antarctica was at the poles, but the climate was temperate. We were in "Greenhouse Earth", no ice caps.

Life was thriving there. What's interesting is how that life adapted to the polar days and nights. Don't know if they understand much about that or not.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
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The sun, our star... is variable, about every 11 years or so it waxes and wanes. Seems like that would be an important factor... but....

The sun is "the" most impactful source of weather on Earth.

IMO

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 07:16 PM (jtM2q)

131 Winter storm Gianna. Are they going to start naming rain showers?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 31, 2026 07:18 PM (2NHgQ)

132 The sun, our star... is variable, about every 11 years or so it waxes and wanes. Seems like that would be an important factor... but....

The sun is "the" most impactful source of weather on Earth.

IMO
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026

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In one of his SF stories, Larry Niven stated the Sun was a three percent variable star. "Maybe it gets a little more variable, now and then."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:19 PM (wzUl9)

133 Winter storm Gianna. Are they going to start naming rain showers?
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They name "wind events" and pollen outbreaks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 07:19 PM (jtM2q)

134 Surprisingly, there was no smell/odor at that beach. Kelvedon Beach, on the eastern side of Tasmania. Best part? Those perfect shells went down about 2-3 feet. Almost like someone dumped tons of perfect shells on the beach. And yes, many came home with us....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 31, 2026 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)
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That absolutely surprises me. I don't collect shells, but once a summer I'll stop by Cape May, NJ and look for "sand diamonds" which are merely pieces of quartz that spent a couple thousand years moving down the local rivers before hitting the ocean. Highly polished and not exactly easy to find. So, it's a worthy treasure experience.

Posted by: Orson at January 31, 2026 07:20 PM (dIske)

135 Berserker, that is on my list, too.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 31, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

Definitely do it. Its more than just the Pieta, there is a shit ton of artistry around it. That whole place. You see these giant murals, so intricately painted, and then you find out its not paint at all, but little 1/4" squares of marble, perfectly cut, fitted, and chosen for color to make these scenes. Its completely mind blowing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:21 PM (snZF9)

136 Out here, the early settlers didn't have a lot of trees. They did have limestone, so that made fence posts from that. They also used it for bricks. You can see fossils in it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 07:22 PM (+mUZM)

137 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. As always, thanks for being here and playing along with our reindeer games.

See y'all in Club ONT later!

Posted by: TRex - cararra dino at January 31, 2026 07:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

138 Why don't they ever give storms names like "Le'Trezure" or "Travodka", or my recently acquired rap name "Emperor fd Murda a.k.a. Devious Ca".

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:24 PM (vFG9F)

139 I did keep a couple of nice jugs.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

You too?

Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at January 31, 2026 07:25 PM (8zz6B)

140 Posted by: TRex

Thanks for all you do!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 31, 2026 07:25 PM (qo38o)

141 TRex, thank you for all you do.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 07:25 PM (0KSrI)

142 Ancients used shells to make concrete I think

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

143 How the screw guy can possibly maintain all of that equipment is beyond me. Staggering.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

144 "You too?
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney"

The Horde never disappoints.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)

145 "Ancients used shells to make concrete I think
Posted by: Skip"

Burn them to make lime, I think.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:27 PM (vFG9F)

146 I went to Sanibel one time in florida, back in the 80s. The whole beach seemed like it was more crushed shell than sand. That was amazing. The funnier thing was a discarded wash machine sitting by the shore line. It has a life preserver hanging over it. Not sure where it jumped ship, but there it was. I took a picture of it and stuck it in a photo album from the trip. I captioned it "it made it" lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:28 PM (snZF9)

147 143 How the screw guy can possibly maintain all of that equipment is beyond me. Staggering.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:26 PM
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Yep. The same channel has a similar video of a Japanese paper clip factory. Similar set up, same question.

Posted by: TRex - shaped dino at January 31, 2026 07:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

148 Thank you AZ and Ben Had!

Posted by: TRex -hobbying dino at January 31, 2026 07:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

149 Antebellum 'Tabby' structures were/are common on the southeastern coast:

Antebellum oyster shell cement, commonly known as tabby (or "tabbi"), was a crucial construction material used along the coastal Southeast—specifically in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida—before the Civil War. It is a form of early concrete created by burning oyster shells to create lime, which was then mixed with water, sand, ash, and broken shells to form a strong, durable, and sustainable concrete-like substance.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

150 You can find places that still use shells in their sidewalk construction like some of the coastal towns of Brazil.

Posted by: Orson at January 31, 2026 07:31 PM (dIske)

151 145 "Ancients used shells to make concrete I think
Posted by: Skip"

Burn them to make lime, I think.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:27 PM (vFG9F)

Marl. Part of southern agriculture for a while.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 31, 2026 07:32 PM (MZ+PY)

152 How the screw guy can possibly maintain all of that equipment is beyond me. Staggering.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

Its insane. keeping the machines up and running, checking screw quality, loading the coils of raw material, etc. Unreal

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:33 PM (snZF9)

153 I enjoy looking for fossils in the limestone on the banks of the Trinity River. Easy to find lots of little echinoids, ancient sea urchins, and it’s fun to see that same star on the top as is present in today’s sea urchins.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 07:34 PM (IUuBi)

154 I went to Sanibel one time in florida, back in the 80s. The whole beach seemed like it was more crushed shell than sand. That was amazing. The funnier thing was a discarded wash machine sitting by the shore line. It has a life preserver hanging over it. Not sure where it jumped ship, but there it was. I took a picture of it and stuck it in a photo album from the trip. I captioned it "it made it" lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:28 PM (snZF9)

Florida has many beaches where the sand is composed entirely of shells, often tiny critters like diatoms and foraminifera. Not surprsing when you think about it. There is no granite from which quartz sand can erode from.

Rocks comprised entirely of shells are called "coquina" and that kind of rock can make an awesome petroleum reservoir.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 07:38 PM (8zz6B)

155 I have spent the day installing various Linux distros trying to settle on one to replace window 10.

This is me commenting from brave on mint.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 07:40 PM (lrtx8)

156 "You too?
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney"

The Horde never disappoints.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
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If that were true, we'd only see amazing Art on the weekday Art Threads...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2026 07:44 PM (ESVrU)

157 Only laterally related, but when I was a kid I would walk the banks of tidal creeks down in SC, looking for and finding indian pottery shards. Still have a sack of them. I have been meaning to send some to USC's anthropology dept. to have them dated. I expect some are ~3000 years old.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:45 PM (XeU6L)

158 Wanting to make jewelry out of the seashells we picked up on Jacksonville Beach when we got JT The Wonder Dog is how I got into resin jewelry-making. I knew how to make jewelry with beads, but this was a new experience. Now I make tons of resin stuff, and last month I made a seashell barrette. Arranging seashells is harder than it looks!

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to keep crackers down at January 31, 2026 07:45 PM (Wt5PA)

159 I have spent the day installing various Linux distros trying to settle on one to replace window 10.

This is me commenting from brave on mint.
Posted by: toby928(
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Keep us informed. Sick of Windows.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:47 PM (XeU6L)

160 Florida has many beaches where the sand is composed entirely of shells, often tiny critters like diatoms and foraminifera. Not surprsing when you think about it. There is no granite from which quartz sand can erode from.

Rocks comprised entirely of shells are called "coquina" and that kind of rock can make an awesome petroleum reservoir.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 07:38 PM (8zz6B)

Well it definitely sucked walking on the beach with no shoes, I'll tell you that. Especially when you grew up near the jersey shore. It was like walking on glass. I heard that was gulf coast thing where florida was concerned.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 07:47 PM (snZF9)

161 A week for saying "quit fighting police or die"

GFY with your stupid algorithm Elon

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 07:48 PM (ciYHQ)

162
Playing around with the 40w laser cutter, learning speed and power settings for different materials, and how to apply them for engraving to specific depths. Fun learning process.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 31, 2026 07:50 PM (QVmho)

163 "the first Japanese tank to include a mechanism to raise and lower the gun barrel."

What?

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 07:54 PM (ciYHQ)

164 155 I have spent the day installing various Linux distros trying to settle on one to replace window 10.

This is me commenting from brave on mint.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Have fun. Mint, Ubuntu LTS series, and to some degree Arch (rolling distro means sometimes some problems crop up) are the most supported because businesses use them. If you were European, then Suse is fine. Most of the rest of the pack are more enthusiast oriented and require more care and feeding to keep running.

The major issue with Linux is peripheral support although that is a helluva lot better than it used to be. Printers remain a sore spot so I would stick with Brother or Epson that have native linux drivers and expect no support if trouble happens.

AMD Radeon is better supported on Linux than NVidia on graphics while Intel is still a work in progress depending on the specific model of video cards.

Posted by: whig at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (2swu2)

165 Playing around with the 40w laser cutter, learning speed and power settings for different materials, and how to apply them for engraving to specific depths. Fun learning process.
Posted by: BifBewalski

I'd be careful with the "tattoo" setting.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 07:55 PM (VHUov)

166 "the first Japanese tank to include a mechanism to raise and lower the gun barrel."

The model not the actual tank?

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (ciYHQ)

167 I'd be careful with the "tattoo" setting.
Posted by: mikeski
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Tooth Whitening and Lasik is tricky too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 07:57 PM (XeU6L)

168 40 watt range?

Posted by: T800 at January 31, 2026 08:00 PM (lrtx8)

169 This week I thought I was done with a radio, but then noticed this particular one had a little LED that was supposed to be green when receiving, red when transmitting. A little bit of troubleshooting determined that only the green of the LED was dead. Which is actually kind of rare. So I went shopping.

Replacements were easy enough to find, even if not exact. But I had a choice of $13.00 for one, or $7.00 for 100. Anyways, new LED works great and I've got 99 spares now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 31, 2026 08:01 PM (lUFok)

170 "the first Japanese tank to include a mechanism to raise and lower the gun barrel."

The model not the actual tank?
Posted by: Fen

The actual tank. Wikipedia:

The gun did require the installation of elevation gear (on the earlier Type 97 the gunner had to physically move the gun up or down on his shoulder).

And you thought carrying your golf bag sucked.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)

171 Keep us informed. Sick of Windows.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

What programs do you HAVE to run on Windows?

If none, especially Office 365 or Adobe Photoshop, etc., then Linux can be a good option. There are free office suites and GIMP is a decent Photoshop like program but some specific windows programs may not have an analogue.

WiNE can run a fair number of regular programs and Steam has become a go to for Linux gaming but not all programs on Windows will work. If they do, often you have to drop back a couple of editions for good support under Wine (not Steam which is fine for gaming up to date).

You can also dual boot but Microsux makes that a challenge sometimes. Dual booting means you choose which operating system to load for that day. Switching between them normally requires rebooting the computer.

On computers, the worst candidates for Linux are laptops as these often have proprietary drivers, etc. while desktops are pretty generic in its drivers so that a Linux distro picks up most of them upon install and puts the correct driver for them.

Laptops are best supported by Linux when made by corporate oriented companies like Dell or Lenovo, HP is a step behind those.

Posted by: whig at January 31, 2026 08:04 PM (2swu2)

172 Sanibel is still not quite back to 100% after that hurricane.
Too bad. That is when you get the best stuff washed up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 08:05 PM (/lPRQ)

173 Ah sand dollars. My Father found a sand dollar on a Galveston beach and gave it to me. I was 5 and had this strange worry that while wading in the surf I had been accidentally walking over sand dollars and crushing them. So... I placed the sand dollar on the ground and stepped on it to see if it felt the same, and accidentally crushed it. Father yelled some things at Mother about DNA testing lol.

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 08:08 PM (ciYHQ)

174 Can you imagine, you give your kid a sand dollar and he's like "cool, lets crush it!" SMH poor Dad

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 08:11 PM (ciYHQ)

175 "the gunner had to physically move the gun up or down on his shoulder"

on his shoulder... I bet the recoil was fun. I'm afraid to ask what they did for windage.

And we were surprise-attacked by these guys?

Posted by: Fen at January 31, 2026 08:16 PM (ciYHQ)

176 Love Captiva Island & hope to return someday.

We lived on the Atlantic side & found awesome shells after storms.I have a lot of shells that I let our grands paint or whatever they want to do...but special ones are mine on bookshelves.

One November I found a large spotted cowrie shell, rare.

There were sandbars that kept the shells from coming onto the beach intact. After one storm we even found fragile Angel Wings. I keep good ones and have since college and a trip to Kino Bay (large augars), Mexico. Found limpets in the UK.
I can spend hours sitting on a beach shell searching and finding treasures.

Similar to our farm and finding fossils and arrowheads. Some of the fossils were coral and sea worms? from when it was under water.Fossilized honeycombs.Petrified wood pieces.

My father's lake has at least 3 springs feeding into what was a swampy area. Choctaw tribes used to camp on a hill there, as we'd find many arrow heads in various stages of being made. My brother found a bowl on the creek for grinding corn, and a couple of spear heads.

The creek is the spillway for the lake, and a lot of fern & sandstone. I did not go there much without my snake killing brother.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 31, 2026 09:59 PM (WONhk)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 31

Courtesy Dr _ No

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Our own Dr _ No has been experimenting with AI. Dogs are good subjects for imagination.

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Cats are also good subjects for imagination.

Courtesy Terry Glenn

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A friend went hiking with a grandchild during a time of medical stress at Wild Burro Trail at Lake Pleasant in Arizona. They met some wild burros.

Stress relievers. At least on this day.

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Meet The PetMorons

A week after we lost Kroger, we were contacted by a regular client who wanted to rehome their boy because they were expecting their first child. We quickly accepted and a few weeks ago, Domo arrived in the house. He's very sweet and as laid back as any normal Greyhound. Here he is discovering that he has toys at his disposal.

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And as you can see, he's very helpful when it comes to chores like making the bed.
-NR Pax

So sorry you lost Kroger. Glad you got sweet Domo. We can see that you needed help making the bed.

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

From By-Tor

Brown Pelicans followed our boat back to the dock, hoping for scraps from the deck hands that were cleaning our fish.

Great photos, as usual!

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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:

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.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 24

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.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:23 PM

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1 Greetings everyone! Thank you for giving me a chance to share my new pup's pictures.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 03:26 PM (7xrfc)

2 Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2026 03:26 PM (zZu0s)

3 Quiche on a leash!

Posted by: Barry at January 31, 2026 03:27 PM (Kt19C)

4 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 03:28 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Thanks for the post, KT … !

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 03:32 PM (ayRl+)

6 Afternoon, Pet Folken! I forgot this week to send along pics comparing Stirling and Dagny as kittens to their looks now. This week, I promise!

NR, Domo reminds me of every cat I've ever known. When it's time to make the bed, every feline is an instant supervisor and irritant. The larger the cat, the more insistent on "helping" he is.

Chilly but sunny here this afternoon, with a low expected below freezing, in the "run the water tap at a thin stream" level. The cats have even less interest in going outside than they usually do.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 03:33 PM (wzUl9)

7
I'm not a cat person because I'm allergic to them.

Dogs, what would we do without them?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:34 PM (3ek7K)

8 Dr_No at January 31, 2026 03:32 PM

Thanks for the art!

Posted by: KT at January 31, 2026 03:36 PM (7vIsy)

9
It's 50 degrees here in Wyoming. The dogs are enjoying laying in the sun.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:36 PM (3ek7K)

10 Thank you for the post, KT

I guess the wild burros are pretty docile.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 31, 2026 03:38 PM (QGaXH)

11 Dr_No

Good art.

K.T., thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 03:38 PM (u82oZ)

12 Stirling the big black continues to leap across me, and kick me as he goes, at three or four in the morning. He must be entertaining himself, as he does not get to eat any earlier if he gets me up that early.

Dagny has been replaced with an exact lookalike who is actually sociable! I've mentioned that on occasion I've lifted her sleeping form from a chair or the floor and settled her on a cushion on my lap to get fifteen minutes or so of lazy lap time. Well, one night this week she settled on Miss Linda's arm of the sofa and somehow slipped down so that she was actually on L's lap more than she was off of it.

That held for about fifteen minutes. Then Linda slid her over into my cushioned lap, and darned if she didn't stay, purring and happy to be petted, for forty-five minutes. I am floored and can only conclude that it's a ringer, not my original aloof kitten!

(Okay by me. I'll keep this one.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 03:39 PM (wzUl9)

13 9
It's 50 degrees here in Wyoming. The dogs are enjoying laying in the sun.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:36 PM (3ek7K)

We're enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures here too. Touched 80 yesterday. That's warm for us even in summer. Drops fast as soon as the sun starts to go down.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 31, 2026 03:41 PM (QGaXH)

14 Wolfus, the funny thing is that what you are seeing is the only time he's helped with the bed. But I'm glad he has quickly adapted to living with us.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 03:41 PM (7xrfc)

15 This morning I found two of my kitties (Jasmine and Kaylee) lurking around the water fountain the library.

I'm fairly certain they were gossiping about me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2026 03:48 PM (ESVrU)

16 So Wild Burro Trail lives up to its name sometimes, huh? They are very handsome animals. And that landscape makes me long to visit the desert Southwest again.

Okay, explain to me. A mule is a hybrid of female horse and male donkey, yes? A donkey, though, is its own species. Then what is a burro? I'd guess mule crossed with donkey, but mules are usually sterile, aren't they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 03:48 PM (wzUl9)

17 Meow....

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 31, 2026 03:48 PM (sAmhv)

18 Afternoon all,

NR Pax, so sorry about Kroger, but looks like you got to open your heart to another sweetie.
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I have done a small update to our cat blog.

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

Posted by: Joyenz at January 31, 2026 03:49 PM (2F0/Y)

19 Our hold-out kitten (the black one) has let me briefly pick him up before eating this week. And wants to play, but keeps his claws out (as do the others). The grey stripey one is often too fast to catch.

Posted by: KT at January 31, 2026 03:51 PM (7vIsy)

20 Our cat was always gifting my mom live mice and grasshoppers. She would scream and I would laugh. Cats are awesome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 03:52 PM (RIvkX)

21 Okay: "Burro is a word for donkey in both Spanish and Portuguese. In the United States, it is commonly applied to the feral donkeys that live west of the Rocky Mountains; it may also refer to any small donkey."

So a burro is not a separate hybrid, it is a donkey, or "ass," as we used to say.

(Current TV commercial: "That's one intelligent donkey." "You mean a smart ass?")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 03:52 PM (wzUl9)

22 Woof!! Great thread as usual. It always sizes me how laid back greyhounds are. Domo looks like he adjusted well and has fit right in.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 31, 2026 03:53 PM (fPvmg)

23 NR Pax, so sorry about Kroger, but looks like you got to open your heart to another sweetie.

And it was unexpected. We'd honestly planned on waiting a few months before getting another dog and then this happened. Thankfully, Domo had been to our house so many times that he is used to the routine.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 03:54 PM (7xrfc)

24 12 Stirling the big black continues to leap across me, and kick me as he goes, at three or four in the morning. He must be entertaining himself, as he does not get to eat any earlier if he gets me up that early.

He's chasing away the demons and ghosts that only he can see! You should be thanking him!! Good Kittuh!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 31, 2026 03:54 PM (sAmhv)

25 It always sizes me how laid back greyhounds are.

As I am fond of saying, "Check him for breathing" is a normal remark.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 03:55 PM (7xrfc)

26 He's chasing away the demons and ghosts that only he can see! You should be thanking him!! Good Kittuh!!
Posted by: Puddleglum

I wrote a story a few years back about a cat was doing exactly that but the owner just saw it as the cat spazzing out and racing around the house.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 03:55 PM (7xrfc)

27 I meant *amazes* me. Autocorrect wins again (at least that's my story)

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 31, 2026 03:57 PM (fPvmg)

28 He's chasing away the demons and ghosts that only he can see! You should be thanking him!! Good Kittuh!!
Posted by: Puddleglum

***
Then the demons have only moved in here during the last six months, or he only now became able to detect them. He didn't do this for his first three years with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 04:00 PM (wzUl9)

29 28: LoL!!

Kittuh zoomies work in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 31, 2026 04:01 PM (sAmhv)

30 I couldn't give away a pet I had for any length of time. Probably why I could never foster an animal.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 04:03 PM (cwGMH)

31 The upstairs kitteh gets the zoomies, and we hear its tiny feet galloping back and forth across the ceiling. We miss having a cat, but have decided to wait until we get a house.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 31, 2026 04:04 PM (0aYVJ)

32 Probably why I could never foster an animal.
Posted by: Opinion fact

We fostered for a while. The attitude we had was "This is not our dog. We're training it to be someone else's dog." We only failed once out of 24 pups.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 04:06 PM (7xrfc)

33 donkey's and Burros are the same animal. Both are very loud at night when trying to sleep at Alamo State Park. Go ahead, ask me how i know!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 31, 2026 04:08 PM (qo38o)

34 I'm fairly certain they were gossiping about me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2026 03:48 PM (ESVrU)

I'm
Sure that they were only saying kind and complimentary things. .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:11 PM (oT1li)

35 He'll never hit the hydrant from up in that beautiful balloon.

Posted by: DaveA at January 31, 2026 04:20 PM (FhXTo)

36 I was walking Paisley T. Dog today when she saw a seagull flying overhead and decided to chase it. Well she caught me by surprise pulled me down. Fortunately I am still sturdy despite my vast age so I'm unhurt.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2026 04:21 PM (8CIFn)

37 Our 16 year-old cat has been losing weight recently. I'm concerned he has diabetes, but being too cold is another option. We got him a pet heating pad that has temperature control and can be set to stay on for 24 hours. I put it in the office, where we are most of the day, under a chair so he could feel like he was in a den. Took him less than a day to decide that was a really good place to be.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 31, 2026 04:26 PM (lFFaq)

38 Took him less than a day to decide that was a really good place to be.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

"You're offering pleases me, food provider." -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 04:29 PM (7xrfc)

39 Congratulations!
https://shorturl.at/MD4gE

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2026 04:30 PM (ULPxl)

40 I am getting a bit tired of placing pets on the rainbow bridge.

Three weeks ago, we had to help Daughter #2 take her 22 y.o. cat across.

Two weeks ago, we had to help Son #1 take his 18 y.o. cat across.

Last weekend, I almost had to take our 15 y.o. dog across. However, he is responding well to his course of antibiotics, so I am hoping can he can get one more nice spring of lying in sunbeams and guarding our backyard from all of the neighborhood wildlife before he finally has to cross.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 31, 2026 04:37 PM (HlyYF)

41 Adorable greyhound, . NR Pax and I'm sorry about Kroger. These dogs are so blessed to have you and Mrs. NR Pax to be their temporary step parents.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:38 PM (ELdpA)

42 Thanks, Fen. We actually stopped fostering a while back because my wife's business ended up doing pretty well. So now we get a parade of dogs and get paid for looking after them.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 04:40 PM (7xrfc)

43 The cat poem is genuine. I also love the pic of the ballooning retriever.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 31, 2026 04:41 PM (XjTSo)

44 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 31, 2026 04:37 PM (HlyYF)

That does sound very hard to help others get their dogs across the rainbow bridge. That is very kind of you..

I am glad that your dog is doing better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:41 PM (ELdpA)

45 I liked the cat poem as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:41 PM (ELdpA)

46 It was so cold here late night (-

that Smoke decided he didn't want to out for his midnight patrol & stayed inside. As soon as it got above zero though he was asking to be let out.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 31, 2026 04:45 PM (XjTSo)

47 Golden Retriever meeting baby for the first time. From Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4fwzhnyw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:48 PM (8Cor4)

48 dorbs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 31, 2026 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

49 Wrong link, Fen. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 04:52 PM (7xrfc)

50 I finally remembered to set up the heating pad for my old cat in the bathroom. It's like a spa in there now.

Posted by: notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 04:52 PM (+mUZM)

51 That does sound very hard to help others get their dogs across the rainbow bridge. That is very kind of you..

I am glad that your dog is doing better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:41 PM

These pets were so old, that they used to be family pets.

My kids grew up enough to fly the nest themselves and take part of our legion of rescue animals with them.

The good thing is that I can point out that they didn't get shortchanged at all on the amount of time they got to spend with their respective pets before they finally were ready to cross.

The 22 y.o. cat looked like it was about five! She still got around well and ate well. Vet thinks she finally had a stroke.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 31, 2026 04:52 PM (HlyYF)

52 I did like the look on the Golden's face though. "You brought me a small person!?"

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 04:54 PM (7xrfc)

53 And I loved the wild burros and the pelicans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 04:59 PM (7RYym)

54 Sorry for the incorrect link for Golden Retriever and baby . Hopefully this works. Scroll down for video

https://tinyurl.com/yrsm9pky

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 05:02 PM (7RYym)

55
Miley put out some bird seed for the birds during the snow (looks like maybe 6" out there), and we've got a bird convention on the front porch. 15 - 20 little birds out there now.

The two cats are watching through the window, and making little noises. They want to attack. But they aren't trying to get out. They just like to watch.

And looking at radar, I see a little snow is falling around Lake City, Florida. Temps are in the mid-30s there, so no sticking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 05:02 PM (w6EFb)

56 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 31, 2026 04:52 PM (HlyYF)

That's nice of you to care for and love all those rescue animals and to pass on that love and concern to your family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 05:03 PM (7RYym)

57 Off, Barry sock.

Quiche on a leash though.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 31, 2026 05:15 PM (Kt19C)

58 And looking at radar, I see a little snow is falling around Lake City, Florida. Temps are in the mid-30s there, so no sticking.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 05:02 PM (w6EFb)

I'm a bit south of there, and we're at 51 degrees with strong gusts from the northwest keeping the snow birds hunkered down. I have a chicken in the oven. If I give it a name, does this become an on-topic post?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 05:18 PM (nbLIj)

59 Hmmm, get a squirrel boss but zap birds with it!

https://m.youtube.
com/watch?
v=vKcruJ36BfM&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 31, 2026 05:18 PM (Kt19C)

60 Back from my shower, all,

That is the thing about aging, in cats, at least: They don't show it. They don't go gray, for instance -- at least I've never seen it, even in dark cats -- and while they may have wrinkles, it's all under their fur. They may move with more difficulty and they may lose weight or gain it, depending on their health conditions. But most of the time, an elderly cat looks about the same as a young adult.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

61 I'm wearing thin long pajama pants under my jeans. My legs at last feel as warm as my sweater-clad upper body. That layering thing really works, huh?

About forty minutes until I need to feed the furry thugs. They of course are cruising around, hoping there will be an early food drop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:23 PM (wzUl9)

62 It's 21 degrees outside now. Had snow this morning but it's gone now, just a few spots left. The wind must have blown it away.. Let the dogs out, they didn't want to stay very long. They're not stupid. 22 degrees was our high today. Very little traffic. Still have power, hope it holds up. It's really a stay in day, the weather guys were right. And that's my report from NE Bama. Y'all stay warm!

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 05:26 PM (E7+ue)

63 But most of the time, an elderly cat looks about the same as a young adult.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

Yup. Scout still looked like she did as a youth, but we grew more and more aware that she was ailing. The vet said her kidneys were failing. She would have good days and bad. But the bad overtook the good, so we had to say goodbye. She was 20.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 31, 2026 05:27 PM (0aYVJ)

64 I have the blackout curtains open and the blinds angled to get some late afternoon sunlight into both rooms. The sun will dip below the buildings across the street in another fifteen minutes, though; but in the meantime I'm getting some natural heating.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 05:28 PM (wzUl9)

65 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

66 "He's very sweet and as laid back as any normal Greyhound."

Huh. I didn't think "laid back" was a usual description for a greyhound.

Then again, our Daisy the irrepressible Malinois has reached a stage where she can lazy on the couch a lot. When she's not furiously barking at anything outside or nudging us to do something for her.

Daisy spent last week digging different old toys out of her toy box. So funny to see her enjoying something she hasn't paid any attention to in months. … I'm just glad she knows what's her stuff and what's not. We are well past the chewing up shoes and furniture stage.

Meanwhile, in the Wonderful World of Cats, little old black cat Ony has apparently decided it was too easy to just throw up on the floor or carpets and has now taken to barfing under our bed. And that bed is not something we can easily move or get under to clean. If she wasn't so cute and cuddly, lying in our laps or on top of us in bed, she… would still be a good kitty.

Thanks for the Pet Thread, K.T., and Moron pet owner contributers.

Posted by: mindful webworker - owned by the critters who keep us at January 31, 2026 05:36 PM (j02Vi)

67 A funny bird is the pelican.
His beak can hold more than his bellykin.

Posted by: George V at January 31, 2026 06:48 PM (HUbHH)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan. 31

When Iris Eyes are Smilin'

First week this season I've seen them selling them here.
Regards from Jerusalem,
Biden's Dog

So cheerful!

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

By-Tor has been doing some pickling and fermenting lately, including for possible fair submissions.

Anybody else doing any fermentation or vinegar pickles? We could do a feature!

From 40 Miles North:

The rosemary gets more bees every day:

The sage looks healthy:

Not sure what kind of sage that is.

The only really new addition are the Blood Oranges:

Most of them are very tart, but I am hoping that will change. Lots of weeding this year. Take care . . .

You too. Hope your blood oranges sweeten up. They look fun.

Gardening News and Views

Martha Stewart on Growing Tropical Fruit Trees Indoors

Have you ever wondered if you could?

Farmers� Almanac Saved Under New Ownership, 208-Year Tradition Continues https://t.co/LOEl35OBiT pic.twitter.com/Wh7QpHtJJu
— The Farmers' Almanac (@FarmersAlmanac) January 28, 2026

Have you ever consulted the Farmer's Almanac?

Adventure

From Neal in Israel:

In October, we visited Lodz, Poland. Not the best known tourist site, but my father's father was born there, and I've been wanting to visit for a long time. We missed the city's open air botanical garden because of rain, but did make it to the palm house a couple of days later. Under the palms there were some interesting flowering plants, and there was a special collection of hot peppers. The pepper pictured is called Dragon's Breath, and it is rated 2 500 000 units on the Scoville scale. Attached to the palm house, there's also a cactus hothouse and a small, but pleasant, outdoor formal garden.
That's it for the meantime. Hope your winter is going as it should. Here we've had an unseasonably hot fall, and real rains began only a couple of weeks ago, instead of in October. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
Best regards,
Neal

Dragon's Breath!

Great photos! Thanks for thinking of us during your interesting trip, even though you had to contend with rain. Good luck with getting some rain back home.

Gardens of The Horde

From 40 Miles North:

Hi KT, I hope you are doing well. I saw one commenter talking about 'the activity of his Amaryllis.' Does activity means total garden domination? A large part of my garden looks like this:

Would those be true Amaryllis? The pink ones?

The Irises and amaryllis don't typically have leaves at the same time, but this year they do, and the amaryllis are out of control. The grape vine is almost invisible. The fig trees don't even have leaves yet. On the other side of the grapevine, it also looks like this:

On the other side of the yard, the Gaillardia think it's late summer. I guess because it's 75 degrees during the day and 40 degrees at night:

I like it!

Anybody else got growth in their garden?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan. 24

Any thoughts or questions?

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.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:26 PM

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1 I like the green text!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 01:32 PM (kpS4V)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:34 PM (GHvvy)

3 Welcome to the evergreen Garden Thread!

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 01:35 PM (vFG9F)

4 Moisture laden

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Kt19C)

5 Gorgeous photos as always. We got a huge smack of snow overnight.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 31, 2026 01:37 PM (CHHv1)

6 It's gently snowing outside. Only garden-related thing is I ordered caladiums and elephant ears for spring planting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 01:38 PM (kpS4V)

7 Not much gardening going on here. I burned the burn pile last weekend and it's still smoldering today. There is probably some good charcoal in there, but if I let it, it will eventually all burn up.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 01:38 PM (vFG9F)

8 Good afternoon Greenthumbs and Snow Men

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 01:41 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Nothing green here, a frozen snow covered landscape.
Noticed under my pine tree line holes in the snow where I can tell maybe 6 deer camped out sometime during the storm or week since

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 01:43 PM (Ia/+0)

10 40 Miles N: The blood oranges WILL get sweeter as they grow. Thing is, they'll never get as sweet as will a regular Florida-type orange. Still, they're good and a nice change from the 'normal'. Also good (but maybe not user-growable) are the mandarines that Kroger & Walmart sell under the brand name 'Cuties' (but inspect closely b4 purchase for 'grey mold' on the skin).

Posted by: Dr_No at January 31, 2026 01:46 PM (ayRl+)

11 [looks out window]

5" of snow, 18 deg.

Nothing seems to be blooming...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 01:47 PM (XeU6L)

12 Nothing green here, a frozen snow covered landscape.
Noticed under my pine tree line holes in the snow where I can tell maybe 6 deer camped out sometime during the storm or week since
Posted by: Skip
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Across the ravine behind my house, I saw a flock of turkeys just sitting in the snow, and above-mentioned 18 deg. Not gathered together or anything, just with heads tucked in, one or two wandering around. Felt sorrow for them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

13 Also good (but maybe not user-growable) are the mandarines that Kroger & Walmart sell under the brand name 'Cuties' (but inspect closely b4 purchase for 'grey mold' on the skin).
Posted by: Dr_No

Good advice. I've had my share of rotten mandarins.

Posted by: Tuna at January 31, 2026 01:51 PM (lJ0H4)

14 Mike Hammer, I have a gang of turkeys parked on the hill outside my back porch, hunched in the snow like fatalistic Russian peasants, waiting until the next time the Czarina feeds them crumbs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 01:56 PM (kpS4V)

15 Mexican sage. Leucantha, I think.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 31, 2026 02:00 PM (Vvh2V)

16 Yikes! Just checked the thermometer, since earlier this a.m. temp has dropped from18 deg.to 11 deg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:01 PM (XeU6L)

17 Mike Hammer, I have a gang of turkeys parked on the hill outside my back porch, hunched in the snow like fatalistic Russian peasants, waiting until the next time the Czarina feeds them crumbs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Sad to see.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:02 PM (XeU6L)

18 Id love to grow those Dragon's Breath peppers because they're so pretty, but honestly I can't tolerate anything that hot (I read you can make your own "death wing" sauce 😆

. I guess I could hand them out to little bratlings on Halloween.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 02:02 PM (kpS4V)

19 I'll toss more peanuts at the turkeys, like the benevolent ruler I am.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 02:04 PM (kpS4V)

20 Great set of irises, Biden's Dog!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 31, 2026 02:08 PM (EaLNz)

21 76° in van nuys. Sunny.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 31, 2026 02:08 PM (Kt19C)

22 I'll toss more peanuts at the turkeys, like the benevolent ruler I am.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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My arm isn't that good, probably 100 yards away, and, I callously intend to eat the penuts myself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:08 PM (XeU6L)

23 76° in van nuys. Sunny.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty
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[supresses snide retort]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:09 PM (XeU6L)

24 Sigh...
My crocus are usually popping up by now.
But...nuthin'.
Lots of damned moss though.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 02:09 PM (2WIwB)

25 I have a gang of turkeys parked on the hill outside my back porch, hunched in the snow like fatalistic Russian peasants, waiting until the next time the Czarina feeds them crumbs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Sad to see.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:02 PM (XeU6L)

Wild Turkey > wild turkeys...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:10 PM (nbLIj)

26 We just need to pull out some dead stuff but right now it's too cold. Stay inside and eat pie, maybe surf some Caterpillar sites.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 02:10 PM (LHPAg)

27 Thanks, Dr_No. I will hope for the best!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 31, 2026 02:11 PM (EaLNz)

28 Wild Turkey > wild turkeys...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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Anti-Freeze

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:19 PM (XeU6L)

29 Tuesday forcasted to get above freezing barely, maybe more snow Friday and supposed to go to Lancaster then.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 02:22 PM (Ia/+0)

30 Central Florida zone 9b here. Overnight temps will dip into the 20s.

Damn near everything is going to die or die back.

Posted by: weew at January 31, 2026 02:22 PM (S4IL1)

31 Plumeria: goner
Bananas: doomed
Bougainvillea: bye bye
Hibiscus: who knows

Posted by: weew at January 31, 2026 02:30 PM (S4IL1)

32 Temps are going up to 62 this week on the western side of the Evergreen state. Grass is growing (errr) and waiting for the bulbs to start popping. In January.

Posted by: Major Healey at January 31, 2026 02:41 PM (abIsI)

33 About 80 degrees here in the Valley of the Sunstroke. Nice breeze, and sunny. Had a nice brekkie at Hacker's Grill, went to a few yard sales, got a few small items, including a nice Starrett depth gauge and a Chinese micrometer.

Now I am wont to putter in the shop, organizing tools.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 02:41 PM (8zz6B)

34 I'm going to start calling this the Envy Thread. I'm sitting here in an area where the temp. hasn't gone above 15 degrees in the last week.

BUT, we're getting a break on Tuesday. It's supposed to go above 20 F. I'm excited. But, still envious.

Posted by: Orson at January 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dIske)

35 Those peppers look fantastic. Heat is one thing, but flavor is the priority.

Mostly, bottled sauces bring the heat, but the taste is almost industrial, - too much processing and fillers.

Adding carrots to pepper sauce is heresy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 02:44 PM (oT7pT)

36 Behold, aPharisee has spoken.

Adding carrots to pepper sauce is heresy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 02:44 PM (oT7pT)

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 31, 2026 02:45 PM (YlWIZ)

37 From Boise area: lows 16-30 F, highs 36-45. Trend is toward daytimes hitting 50!, nights just above freezing. We did see an entire... skiff... of snow, when we woke on Wed., and that's all the snow we've had.

My amaryllis is opening flowers on its second bud-stalk. 2 open so far - definitely looks like 1 more coming, maybe 2.

The hyacinths in the garden behind the kitchen window are still on hold. I did find a few tiny tulip tips out front.

We'd better start planning the veggie garden and deciding what to start indoors, if the temps are really going to end up in the low 50's! I wonder whether it'll get down to the teens again in Feb., or if we are having the most absurdly mild winter I've experienced here (this is my 12th). That arctic blast that has hurt so many, didn't dip into the US until over in North Dakota, so Idaho got spared the worst.

Under Puttering: more hard cider and beer experiments.

Posted by: Pat* at January 31, 2026 02:49 PM (E7nk1)

38 Great photos! I’m not much of a gardener ( Spouse is more so) but I did get two pink hyacinths at the floral section of the supermarket. One I brought to someone, and the other one I am enjoying looking at and smelling. It lifts my spirits and reminds me that Spring is coming!. We will plant it in the Spring..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 02:49 PM (YKjOc)

39 Hibiscus and gravy.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 31, 2026 02:56 PM (Kt19C)

40 Oo.....Just saw the blood oranges. I love those things, but they don't show up too often at the grocery or farmer's market around here. When they do, however, I always grab half a dozen....and my next stop is always a nice cured ham.

Blood oranges, I have found, are great when throwing a Maltaise sauce together. It's like a hollandaise sauce, but a bit more tangy. Most recommend it as a sauce for asparagus or broccoli. But, if you add a bit of horseradish and white mustard to the Maltaise, it is a perfect gravy for a slice of ham.

Still envious...maybe even moreso now.

Posted by: Orson at January 31, 2026 03:03 PM (dIske)

41 If yer fruit is too tart, cook it! my mother would say.
So maybe cut up one of those blood oranges and throw it in a chicken stir fry.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 31, 2026 03:17 PM (qH+Wa)

42 I spent two hours tearing out an old grape trellis that mom had put in when I was in high school. I took the old grape trunks down to six foot trunks, and we took out all the old uprights and decking. I think we can get the rest of that yard area clear and put in a new trellis, deck and bench. It should take a couple of weeks at the most, more to get the yard back up to looking like a yard instead of a neglected lot.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 03:20 PM (rbvCR)

43 "Have you ever consulted the Farmer's Almanac?"

FTR, the Farmer's Almanac (since 181

is not the same as The Old Farmer's Almanac (since 1792). We pick up a copy of the latter every year for decades. Sometimes we even crack it open, to check the weather and planting forecasts, or the short essays.

And items like this (2025 edition):
Which four U.S. state capitals can not be accessed by the Interstate Highway System?

Posted by: mindful webworker - with frozen fruit trees at January 31, 2026 03:20 PM (j02Vi)

44 On today's episode of Gunsmoke: though drunk, Doc performs an abortion on Kitty. Hilarity ensued.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 31, 2026 03:21 PM (Kt19C)

45 Lodz was one of the largest Jewish ghettos in Nazi Poland.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 03:23 PM (RIvkX)

46 "…since 1818" - bad enough Pixyware keeps hijacking combos like eight-close parenthesis to attempt to make smilies, but lately smilies.mu.nu doesn't even work, so you get the broken___ icon.

Of course, Pixy can't un-do the hijacking, or brazilians of emojis on past Ace posts would revert to… old-fashioned text?

Posted by: mindful webworker - with frozen fruit trees at January 31, 2026 03:24 PM (j02Vi)

47 They irises are beautiful. And if I were still into patio gardening I would plant the red peppers. Love the color. Would not eat!

Posted by: AlmostYuman at January 31, 2026 03:25 PM (bj34f)

48 "the broken___ icon" - IMAGE, you ignorant PI (Pixy Intelligence)

Posted by: mindful webworker - with frozen fruit trees at January 31, 2026 03:26 PM (j02Vi)

49 Due to the lack of snow in our mountains (where water comes for us in the summers), I have growth of spring bulbs...the leaves. Normally peeking through snow.

I am not having a nervous collapse (yet) if this weird winter does not impact my David Austin roses. I have over 30 and, boy, they better not die.

I am sure my spring bulbs will be fine. I hope.

Continue to pray for snow/rain through May in the Intermountain West.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 31, 2026 03:29 PM (WONhk)

50 Oh, the Blood Oranges look lovely! They might need a wee bit of iron, though. I would recommend sprinkling some Blood and Bone Meal around their base, just to get some more color in their leaves. As to the tartness, they'll need another couple of months to get sweet. At least that's when mine were at their peak ripeness, in late March and April back when I had some beautiful trees in South Houston.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 31, 2026 03:59 PM (suBV/)

51 Late but had to stop by long enough to say how gorgeous those Irises are. One time my sons sent me Irises for Mother's Day and I thought they were so much better than roses. Of course purple is my favorite color.
It is really cold here and everything covered with dirty snow so appreciate the beautiful pictures.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 31, 2026 04:06 PM (t/2Uw)

52 Just checked the temp here. 81

Posted by: AlmostYuman at January 31, 2026 04:10 PM (bj34f)

53 Cold and snowy, though the sun has come out after snow flurries all day. Of course with a nice blanket of snow still on the ground I am pleased my over wintering garlic are tucked in nice and snug. I have ordered all my seed, and plotted out my gardens. February means time to start seedlings at the end of the month.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 31, 2026 04:27 PM (UVyKP)

Law according to the honor system

I recently saw a perplexed, sort-of conservative person on social media ask why Trump needed to send all those rough ICE agents to Michigan just because of a few reports of daycare fraud by Nick Shirley. But before Nick Shirley, there was a NYT report blasting Tim Walz about fraud, as well as Chris Rufo pointing out that taxpayer money was ending up in the hands of Somali terrorists.

Why didn't she know this?

Oh. And there was also this LONG written piece before any of the above:

LOOTING, PILLAGING, THEFT, BILLIONS IN

DISBURSEMENTS, ALL ON THE HONOR SYSTEM

We have discussed this piece before, but I don't think we have emphasized the honor system factor, based partly on a previous Norwegian high-trust society which was prominent in Michigan (Ooops - Minnesota - hope it doesn't spread) for a long time.

We are all Somalis now

The Shame of Our Cities

The specifics of how these fraudulent systems seem to have developed are remarkable. I don't think it's all "cultural differences". I think a lot of it is leftism. Pick an example from this piece and see what you think. In one case, a whistleblower report of fraud was sent back to the ringleader of the fraud for resolution!

So much fraud was reported for so long, and IGNORED for so long.

Going even further back in time. . .

TRUST THEM. NOMADS WILL BE GOOD CITIZENS.

I haven't verified this (I don't understand Somali). Ilhan would have been about 20 years old at this time. It was before she was elected to Congress.

Nov 6, 2012: Ilhan Omar & MN leaders are on tape arguing Somalis are "nomads" incapable of holding IDs. They explicitly urged a NO vote on Voter ID to protect the "services" and "benefits" their community receives. Verification stops the grift, so they killed the verification. pic.twitter.com/Wl0BcCIGFz
— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) January 9, 2026

Democrats proudly keeping citizens of Huntington Beach, California from requiring voter I.D. in 2026.

#NEWS: The CA Supreme Court has permanently shut the door on Huntington Beach�s illegal voter ID law!

This victory makes one thing crystal clear: no city in our state, charter and non-charter alike, is above the law.

Disenfranchising voters for imagined fraud will not be� pic.twitter.com/4cdxH9MlPl
— Rob Bonta (@AGRobBonta) January 29, 2026

The Honor System

Minnesota Voter Fraud

Did you know that a registered voter in MN can vouch for up to 👉EIGHT👈 other voters in their precinct?

No ID required. No proof of residency.

1 voter can vouch for 8 others.

Yes, this is the law & it�s directly on the MN SOS website pic.twitter.com/q7aK9goo7T
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) December 27, 2025

Spain just legalized 500,000 illegal aliens to �defeat the far-right.�

It�s not even a secret anymore. By legalizing 500,000 illegals under the guise of defeating the far-right, Pedro S�nchez is essentially dropping the mask. This is electoral engineering.

The logic is simple:� pic.twitter.com/gVmEMy4Ljb
— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) January 29, 2026

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THE HONOR SYSTEM GOES PHILOSOPHICAL

Schrödinger’s Government

Michael Smith

There exists a state, a donut hole of existence, where law exists and doesn't exist at the same time.

I think we are watching something in Minneapolis that is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
It appears to me that a strange new form of governance is emerging in modern democracies, especially in America where the strongest protection of individual liberty exists. It is a governing system that exists in a state of perpetual contradiction and it has spread to Washington where Democrats recognize there are actual immigration laws they don’t like, but instead of attacking them and changing them, they want to defund the agency charged with the enforcement of the laws and the removal of those who broke them to stop the law from being enforced. They want to play another round of “Defund the Police” with national security and sovereignty in the balance.
So, law exists but it doesn’t exist because it can’t be enforced.

In this new system, the fundamental legitimacy of democratic processes, elections, legislation, and judicial rulings becomes conditional, subject to acceptance by those affected. If you (and an extreme minority composed of other chaos agents) disagree with an electoral outcome or dislike any passed law (whether newly passed or settled), you can simply declare it invalid, at least for yourself. The social contract that binds citizens to respect democratically enacted rules, even those they oppose, becomes entirely situational and voluntary.
This rejection of authority operates parasitically within the very system it denounces. Those who refuse to accept certain laws simultaneously invoke other laws and constitutional protections as absolute shields. They weaponize rights to assembly, speech, and due process—protections they claim are inviolable—while coordinating sustained campaigns of civil disruption designed to make governance impossible.
The asymmetry is deliberate: the system must respect procedural limits and individual rights even as those same individuals work to paralyze it. You can even use the system against itself, tying it in knots by using its own processes to delay judicial outcomes for weeks, months, and in some cases—years.
The result is a kind of legal donut hole, a void where law simultaneously exists and doesn’t exist. Authorities face an impossible dilemma. . .

read the whole thing . . .

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WEEKEND

The Week In Pictures: Pre-Groundhog Day Edition

Next Monday is Groundhog Day, but it needs updating. No, not because the PETA lunatics want us to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a hologram (see Section 3 below), but because there are other persistent things for which the groundhog indicator could be redeployed. Like ICE protests, because it is the categorical imperative of the Omnicause that protests must go on no matter how cold the weather. Or like Sydney Sweeney. If the groundhog spots Sweeney’s new lingerie line hanging on the Hollywood sign, it means at least six more weeks of Sweeney in the news. As our pal RS says sagely, if Sweeney doesn’t win all the Golden Globes awards, then words have no meaning.
We cover this important ongoing and vital story in memes in Section 3 of today’s TWiP, and if that doesn’t keep you scrolling, we can’t help you. (Actually we can, as we have “Amelia” to cheer us up in Section 1 today. . .

The cartoon below, from "X", is NOT Amelia.

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, The WEF has been a little different this year

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:05 AM

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1 Present!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 11:09 AM (g47mK)

2 Helllloooo--ooo-ooooo.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (g47mK)

3 Ooh, could been first. Wouldn't know what to do with it.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (sl73Y)

4 hola

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (van9r)

5 Canada's MAID law is awful. So much demonic abuse of it to get organs or "decrease the surplus population", I suppose

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (7RYym)

6 I don't like Somali pirates.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (g47mK)

7 Michigan?

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (qpQFJ)

8 Demond Wilson, the original Lamont, is Mortadella.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (6Uni8)

9 And so the cartoon is spot on!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (7RYym)

10 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 11:13 AM (Ia/+0)

11 The stories about American leftists fleeing to Canada after Trump was elected are amusing. They've no clue about Canada's immigration laws.

And they are horribly disappointed when they finally find out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 11:13 AM (jtM2q)

12 The law that isn't enforced is the law that doesn't exist.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Nothing on this great year of Trump has made me change my mind that we are not getting back to our republic peacefully. In fact the last year has reinforced that belief. The left is going collectively bonkers and must be put down hard and with prejudice for humanity’s sake.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 31, 2026 11:18 AM (xvV+O)

14 Replacement Theory is totally a conspiracy though.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 11:18 AM (qpQFJ)

15 First thought I have reading content is going back to Dennis Prager, his saying Leftists lie with the ease you breath also refers to their moral values which to me is they have none. Lying, cheating , looting because other than getting caught by government, and these days even then let off is no penalty.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 11:20 AM (Ia/+0)

16 Thx K.T.

The Spanish civil war started because leftists started burning churches . Importing 500k for leftist power could trigger a second one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 11:20 AM (IDEQi)

17 I haven't verified this (I don't understand Somali).

Excuse me, but I speak Jawa. Durk, durk Allah. Muhammad jihad!

Posted by: Matt Stone and Trey Parker at January 31, 2026 11:21 AM (ycI94)

18 Thanks for your time and insights, K.T.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 11:22 AM (looXz)

19 MN, not MI

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at January 31, 2026 11:22 AM (pscAN)

20 The result is a kind of legal donut hole, a void where law simultaneously exists and doesn’t exist. Authorities face an impossible dilemma. . .“

It’s only an impossible dilemma for a legalistic democracy. The proponents of such don’t realize that it is easily solvable by a Bukele, or a Franco, or a Cromwell. And a man like that is the unavoidable end state if this is allowed to go on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 11:23 AM (IUuBi)

21
On the plus side,

The Superb Owl is coming next week for all you fans of frilly dresses.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2026 11:24 AM (iJfKG)

22 The proponents of such don’t realize that it is easily solvable by a Bukele, or a Franco, or a Cromwell. And a man like that is the unavoidable end state if this is allowed to go on.
Posted by: Tom Servo
_______

Why is it unavoidable? The left is aiming for a Lenin rather than a Franco, Bukele or Cromwell.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 31, 2026 11:26 AM (XvL8K)

23 Professional wimp in Minneapolis, Will Stancil, has been having a high old time pursuing ICE agents in his car, frequently inviting members of the media along in his escapades, and publicizing his exploits to the heavens.

Well, it turns out that the mysterious people running the insurgency in Minneapolis have decided that Will has violated "opsec", and has cut him off from their Secret Chats, so he no longer knows which cars to chase.

Poor Will. He's constantly whining about this on Bluesky, of course.

What I am trying to convey is that I am not able to get updates because I have been removed from the networks where the updates are provided. I need to know what’s going on in my neighborhood and I have been specifically barred from doing so.
---
What I actually did was allow credentialed press from mainstream outlets sit in my car on the condition that they identify no one but myself, something dozens of observers have done, but it’s fascinating how paranoiac mania over that imagined offense has evolved into vast crimes in 24 hours

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:26 AM (n1OCj)

24 So, is there any word on whether the Clintons are going to be held accountable for not showing up for their congressional Q&A session? That was.... weeks ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 11:27 AM (jtM2q)

25 What's all this folderol about Youth In Asia? Let the Asian parents worry about raising their own children. We US Americans have enough to worry about!

Posted by: Emily Litella at January 31, 2026 11:27 AM (oftw2)

26 Well, it turns out that the mysterious people running the insurgency in Minneapolis have decided that Will has violated "opsec", and has cut him off from their Secret Chats, so he no longer knows which cars to chase.

A lot can be explained by the left's realization that they're a laughable bunch of Nancys. They use military jargon to try and butch it up, but they always fail miserably, provoking much ridicule.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

27 The mayor of NYC could be bitten by every groundhog in his grasp, and then it could be dropped on its head, and I wouldn't shed a tear.

Maybe NYC should drop the mayor on his head.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 11:32 AM (oT7pT)

28 As of now, 12 states and Washington, D.C. have legalized Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). This includes states like California, Colorado, and Oregon, among others.

What starts as a plea for compassion for the terminally ill soon will mirror MAID in Canada, perhaps even accepting aid in dying without a terminal illness.

Posted by: old chick at January 31, 2026 11:33 AM (F3Dlr)

29 Those 2 dudes with Sur were or are Somali Government officials.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 31, 2026 11:34 AM (gbOdA)

30 I recently saw a perplexed, sort-of conservative person on social media ask why Trump needed to send all those rough ICE agents to Michigan just because of a few reports of daycare fraud by Nick Shirley.

I am certain there is also massive fraud here in Michigan, what with all the Indians here taking our jobs either through H-1B or outsourcing and with all the Muslims planning to turn the state into an Islamic state.

But Nick Shirley exposed the daycare fraud in Minnesota.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 11:34 AM (P5BPp)

31 24 So, is there any word on whether the Clintons are going to be held accountable for not showing up for their congressional Q&A session? That was.... weeks ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 11:27 AM (jtM2q)

No and Hilldog just wrote a column of being a Christian.
Like Sur writing a column on Honesty in Government.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 31, 2026 11:36 AM (gbOdA)

32 Hildabeast is also raising for the Minnesota Cultural Marxism protests

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 11:37 AM (Ia/+0)

33
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are on the road again. Both headlights and both tail lights got replaced. Even though there's other stuff that needs repair, those are the important things. She would like to get to NYC tonight, but if so, she'd be getting in at around 8:00.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 11:38 AM (tgvbd)

34 Leftists have long viewed the rule of law, consent of the governed, everything as a kind of Smorgasbord. If they don’t like a law they refuse to enforce it.

This “high trust society” business isn’t optional, it isn’t merely just a nice thing to have. Without it a functional society, and all those things we take for granted cannot and will not exist.

A large “middle class” isn’t optional either. They’ve been papering over deep flaws for decades. Certain elements of the government have been hell bent on de-industrialization of the US, for any number of purported reasons, but ultimately to destroy self-determination and sovereignty or independence of the individual as well as the nation.

Dumbed down, dependent people who know nothing of where they’ been nor where they are going. It cannot be coincidence that seemingly every policy advocated by the “experts” in recent decades in government, the press or academe are objectively toxic and counterproductive to both individual and societal health, wealth, and liberty.

If they were merely stupid and incompetent, by the law of averages they would make mistakes on behalf of the people, yet it never, ever shakes out that way.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 11:39 AM (QZlK3)

35 As of now, 12 states and Washington, D.C. have legalized Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). This includes states like California, Colorado, and Oregon, among others.

Posted by: old chick at January 31, 2026 11:33 AM

Wow, did not know it was so many. Grok'd it:

California (End of Life Option Act, effective 2016)
Colorado (End of Life Options Act, effective 2016)
Delaware (effective 2025/2026)
Hawai'i (Our Care, Our Choice Act, effective 2019)
Illinois (effective 2025/2026)
Maine (Death with Dignity Act, effective 2019/2020)
Montana (legal via Supreme Court ruling in Baxter v. Montana, 2009; no statute)
New Jersey (Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, effective 2019)
New Mexico (Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, effective 2021)
Oregon (Death with Dignity Act, first in the U.S., effective 1997)
Vermont (Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act, effective 2013)
Washington (Death with Dignity Act, effective 2009)

Washington, D.C. (Death with Dignity Act, effective 2017)

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 11:39 AM (P5BPp)

36 I posited to my Wife and Daughter that they will not like the new Low Trust Society we are moving towards.
I also suggested that the lawlessness of the Obama/Biden years was to create suck a chaos that there would be a Federal Police.
Either a new Police State or maybe a system that places all Metro Police (>500 officers) into a single unified force.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 31, 2026 11:39 AM (gbOdA)

37 Unfortunately a lot of people won’t get it until they get Virginia’d. They’ll fall for the rhetoric and pay for their failure with a government that is the real autocracy. The one that has distracted you by calling the government and movement that is before your eyes restoring your rights and getting rid of the cancer, Nazi’s and fascist. The one deporting illegal immigrants who are one of their main weapons in seizing power.

It is a complete top to bottom corruption of the entire government and court system so that it serves itself, not you and your family. Not just that, as one can see in Virginia they are rigging the electoral system, so it’s less secure, allows illegal aliens to vote, permits no investigation of malfeasance and ultimately is designed to keep them in power, with you under their thumb, forever.

People better wake up to the reality these people won’t quit. Their goal is to gain power then wield it against you to subvert the country. This isn’t about politics, it’s about survival.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 11:39 AM (nmw7B)

38 There's fucking fraud all over the country and it's been going on for a long time.

We'll never get an honest accounting of how much of the $38T debt is fraud.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 11:41 AM (gw/qA)

39 Get on the cart !!

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 11:41 AM (cwGMH)

40 We've also discovered a new form of racism - against Scandinavians.

A number of people have noticed that Scandinavians in Sweden and Minnesota built incredibly high-trust societies, yet somehow failed to realize that inviting people from piratical cultures into your high-trust society is equivalent to inviting wolves into the sheep pen.

Noticing this is evil, evil, evil - you're free to denounce "whiteness" all day long, but don't you dare notice that Scandis are terminally naive.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:42 AM (n1OCj)

41 *They use military jargon to try and butch it up, but they always fail miserably, provoking much ridicule.*
+++

"Why do you have REAL bullets?"

Posted by: Scissorsing Sister Rebecca Good at January 31, 2026 11:42 AM (2Ez/1)

42 When getting up a good harumph over the swarthy foreigners, and Democrat politicians who are giving them our money, spare some of your outrage for the Republican Congress, which hasn't done diddly squat to cut off the funding.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 11:42 AM (nNWyK)

43 > What starts as a plea for compassion for the terminally ill soon will mirror MAID in Canada, perhaps even accepting aid in dying without a terminal illness.
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I'd consider those who'd likely take advantage of this. Nobody with an ounce of sanity will.

You'll get the transgenders, the clinically insane leftists, over medicated liberal white women, etc. Sounds like it would benefit the country as a whole if it was a national policy.

And I'm only scraping the surface with snark.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 11:43 AM (jtM2q)

44 You mean Minnesota, of course. Not Michigan. Although I'm sure the same type of thing is going on there, too.

Posted by: Paco at January 31, 2026 11:43 AM (2L+MU)

45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_cqTCT5g0

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 11:44 AM (jrgJz)

46 "...why Trump needed to send all those rough ICE agents to Michigan just because of a few reports of daycare fraud by Nick Shirley."

There are reports of Nick Shirley committing daycare fraud in Michigan?!

WTF, Nick?!

Posted by: some people at January 31, 2026 11:44 AM (Y1sOo)

47 Demond Wilson, the original Lamont, is Mortadella.
Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (6Uni

From I have always heard, he was a good guy. Served in Vietnam, awarded a Purple Heart.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 11:44 AM (5xuJ/)

48
As of now, 12 states and Washington, D.C. have legalized Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). This includes states like California, Colorado, and Oregon, among others.

Posted by: old chick at January 31, 2026 11:33 AM

Let's leave aside my religious objections to MAID and I'll point out that it's being presented as "How can you be so cruel as to keep people dying in agony," while eventually it will be used for organ harvesting and getting inconvenient sick people out of the way. Not to mention the host of depressed teenagers the MAID ghouls will prey on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 11:44 AM (tgvbd)

49 I also suggested that the lawlessness of the Obama/Biden years was to create suck a chaos that there would be a Federal Police.

Yep - that is the desired end-state.

The state of Washington is currently trying to make it possible to remove elected sheriffs if the state government doesn't like them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:45 AM (n1OCj)

50 The result is a kind of legal donut hole, a void where law simultaneously exists and doesn’t exist. Authorities face an impossible dilemma. . .“

-------

A "twilight zone" if you will.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 31, 2026 11:46 AM (Vh9CX)

51
Our Big Dummy will carry Demond Wilson's work on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 11:46 AM (tgvbd)

52 24 So, is there any word on whether the Clintons are going to be held accountable for not showing up for their congressional Q&A session? That was.... weeks ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 11:27 AM

+++++

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at January 31, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

53 There's fucking fraud all over the country and it's been going on for a long time.

We'll never get an honest accounting of how much of the $38T debt is fraud.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 11:41 AM (gw/qA)

One reason we'll never get an accounting is because both sides are in on it.

For example, if one considers DoD to be the realm of Republicans, when's the last time they passed an audit?

When we were about to give them $960 billion this past year, they were bitching about it because they asked for a cool trillion. And more recently, Trump promised to give them $1.5 tril.

Everyone's in on the grift.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 11:46 AM (nNWyK)

54 People better wake up to the reality these people won’t quit. Their goal is to gain power then wield it against you to subvert the country. This isn’t about politics, it’s about survival.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 11:39 AM

Yep, agreed.

Pretty much every day for the past 5+ years I have come here to read the Morning Report and then catch up on the other news posts throughout the day, the line from Captain Barbosa in Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind:

"You best start believin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!"

Only with the actions of the left in the U.S.A. the past 5-10 years, what runs through my head is "you best start believin' in civil wars, Americans... you're in one!"

People for years keep saying "the left wants a civil war" or "we're getting close to civil war", etc. All I keep thinking is the left has been fighting a civil war for at least 5-10 years now and the right has not been paying attention.

The past 5-10 years, the left has been using Cloward-Piven to overload the system with so much corruption, fraud and illegal aliens - and now insurrection - it's impossible to tackle all of it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 11:47 AM (P5BPp)

55 Good morning all!

It's snowing and about 20 degrees here in Knoxville. The new pup loves the snow. Puts his face down and plows through it. He is black as pitch, but he looks like a white pup when we let him back inside.

Posted by: jmel at January 31, 2026 11:47 AM (bVhJi)

56 Unfortunately a lot of people won’t get it until they get Virginia’d.

Republicans do much less in office than they promise on the campaign trail.

Democrats do much more in office than they promise on the campaign trail.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:47 AM (n1OCj)

57 The Vampire of New York, Hochul, along with the Democrat Ghoul Chorus in the legislature, also just signed a right to murder you law. I imagine a line of elderly and infirm people will start to be chosen for death, because the state says they’re not worth supporting anymore.

People have no idea where this is really going. Their entire platform is to try and kill you before you’re born, control you while you’re breathing, and murder you when they say you’ve become a liability.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 11:47 AM (nmw7B)

58 And stop calling me Nick.

Posted by: Surely at January 31, 2026 11:48 AM (2Ez/1)

59
MAID is like abortion. The very small number of hard cases are used as a lever to open the door to the real outcome desired, like aspirant girlbosses getting rid of their babies so they can make partner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 11:48 AM (tgvbd)

60 Another thing Leftists do that's not political is have a philosophy of 'good enough'. And cause it in society as a whole. You see it in all commie countries.

They work only as much as is necessary and don't care about the quality of their work because they have no self pride in their work product. Those that once did lose it because what's the sense when you're not rewarded for it . The slacker gets the same as you because of the Leftist , socialist systems.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 11:50 AM (cwGMH)

61 @Hadrian the Seventh

What day is breed judging at Javits?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2026 11:50 AM (Y1sOo)

62 If you’re counting on any political to do everything they promised, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

I’m gonna give Republicans the benefit of the doubt for now. They just pass bills which restored regular order for the first time since 1997. Up next is an election security bill that will no doubt pass the House and will only have trouble in the senate because it needs 60 votes and Democrats don’t want election integrity.

I think that’s a pretty good start.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 11:51 AM (nmw7B)

63 It's not even, or primarily, the imported people with zero or inverse public ethics codes that is most discouraging. That problem can be (is, on a limited basis, at the moment) dealt with.

It's the mentality behind this jaw-dropping CA action to forbid - forbid - the most basic, common sense election integrity measure that is universal and de minimis in *any* society with any level of administrative capacity.

We've all seen the chart with 38 normal/daily/basic things requiring a photo ID in our society, and the one lonely item - voting - on the other side, not requiring ID. This indefensible idiocy is not just imposed (and bragged about, per KT's item) by electeds, it is protected by "courts". But most concerning, it is passively or actively accepted by tens of millions of "Americans". This is the sort of thing that makes it impossible to be informed, rational, and optimistic all at the same time.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 11:52 AM (U/Byj)

64 Will Stancil continues to whine:

You know I would have thought one silver lining of being in a city under siege is that you’d get skinny and hot but instead I sit in my car all day getting fat and not having time to work out

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:52 AM (n1OCj)

65 >>>Our Big Dummy will carry Demond Wilson's work on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

>So now this blog is the BDLOSHQ?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 11:52 AM (oT7pT)

66 We're also lucky that the Left's good enough philosophy is evident in their 'revolution' .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 11:53 AM (cwGMH)

67
What day is breed judging at Javits?
Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2026 11:50 AM (Y1sOo)

Monday: Hounds, Non-Sporting, Herding, Toys

Tuesday: Working, Terrier, Sporting, Best in Show

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 11:54 AM (tgvbd)

68 Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:52 AM (n1OCj)

He must be a homo.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 11:54 AM (cwGMH)

69 You know I would have thought one silver lining of being in a city under siege is that you’d get skinny and hot but instead I sit in my car all day getting fat and not having time to work out

It's just like being in the French Resistance in 1943!

Posted by: Whiny Will! at January 31, 2026 11:54 AM (n1OCj)

70 Everyone's in on the grift.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 11:46 AM

Yep. Everyone. At every level of government and national institution. In every state.

Remember the Plandemic where the entire medical industry was compromised. Dancing nurses. Lying about masks and distancing and treatments. Purposely wrongly classifying patients and deaths and giving incorrect treatment to ensure people died to get federal C.A.R.E.S. Act money.

Can't trust anyone in any government or private institution anymore. Everyone is lying to you. Everyone is corrupt. Government, media, schools, entertainment, corporations, businesses, banks, medical industry, science industry, you name it.

Even religions and churches. Going back to Obama Administration with the Catholic Church supporting him and illegal invasion. The popes for as long as I can remember have been leftists. And on and on and on.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 11:54 AM (P5BPp)

71 Noticing this is evil, evil, evil - you're free to denounce "whiteness" all day long, but don't you dare notice that Scandis are terminally naive.
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That’s the strategy, and remarkably effective. The movers and shakers know how to best keep the population off balance, back on their heels, and fighting amongst themselves. That’s ultimately what all this is about, destabilizing society and fomenting revolution.

The “newcomers” cannot, and should not be expected to follow the norms of civilized society. That’s all “white supremacy” and oppression. Expectations - to be reasonably free from violent crime - that makes you a nazi, you see.

They’ve been laying the groundwork, the mind fuckery, guilt trips and gaslighting for years. They got this shit down to a science for sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 11:55 AM (Ai1Ju)

72 Article at American Thinker yesterday or so on Canada's die as fast as you can. Wouldn't doubt or Leftists are following their lead

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 11:55 AM (Ia/+0)

73 this is very much OT but it is very important.

Per La Nacion (Argentina) Delcy Rodriguez, the new Pres of Venezuela has announced she is promulgating a general amnesty law covering the entire period of political violence from 1999 to the present, and is closing the political prison called The Helicoide - a rather odd looking shopping mall in Caracas that was converted into a political prison by Chavez.

This isn't as big as closing, say, the Lubyanka, but it is really f'n big.

This may be a recovery from the Chavism and a step back from a dictatorship - It might get Rodriquez re-elected.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

74 50 The result is a kind of legal donut hole, a void where law simultaneously exists and doesn’t exist. Authorities face an impossible dilemma. . .“

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A "twilight zone" if you will.

a zone of sparkly vampires

Posted by: anachronda at January 31, 2026 11:56 AM (edU/H)

75 Nick Shirley did the smart thing and went to a place he can wear shorts and a t-shirt (San Diego) to open his next can of worms. Supposed to hit 80 today. Swimming workout at a college pool with the deck covered by (mostly) hawt co-eds working on their skin cancer looks like the call.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 11:56 AM (U/Byj)

76 Only a gay guy or a woman would say getting skinny and hot is a silver lining.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 11:56 AM (cwGMH)

77 We need to split the union. Let them form city states and leave the rest of us to our freedom. Cut them off from all federal funding. And the courts can eat shit too. It's time.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 31, 2026 11:57 AM (g8Ew8)

78 Even religions and churches. Going back to Obama Administration with the Catholic Church supporting him and illegal invasion. The popes for as long as I can remember have been leftists. And on and on and on.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 11:54 AM (P5BPp)

I think that was one of the more revealing things that happened during Covid. Government told churches to close their doors, and they closed their doors.

Bars and casinos stayed open, but churches closed. The Faithful were getting sick, were getting discouraged, were losing their way, and the churches said "Go away, we're closed."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 11:58 AM (K8/Vy)

79 Nothing on this great year of Trump has made me change my mind that we are not getting back to our republic peacefully. In fact the last year has reinforced that belief. The left is going collectively bonkers and must be put down hard and with prejudice for humanity’s sake.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 31, 2026 11:18 AM (xvV+O)

Absolutely. You see what they're threatening to do if they get back in power. Its never about how to improve the country, or what they'll do for the country. Its always about tyranny, what they are going to do TO people, and how they'll make them pay. It always about who *deserves* to pay when they pass one of their fucked up laws. You hear them talking about deprogramming trump supporters. No, they can never ever be allowed to gain power again, because if it happens there's going to be gun fire, and the choice will be who ends up in a shallow grave, them or you.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 11:58 AM (snZF9)

80 Will Stancil continues to whine:

You know I would have thought one silver lining of being in a city under siege is that you’d get skinny and hot but instead I sit in my car all day getting fat and not having time to work out
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:52 AM (n1OCj)

according to a guy who survived Sarajevo and wrote a book on it, during the siege, a can of Spam and a warm room would buy you a night with just about any woman you asked, so there is that, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)

81 If you’re counting on any political to do everything they promised, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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Of course not. Americans reasonably expect elected officials to do their best to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. That’s their JOB.

If they don’t want to do that, then they need to find another line of work. Instead they think it’s their right to destroy the system from within while simultaneously enriching themselves, and causing even more strife and misery.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 11:59 AM (Ai1Ju)

82 60 Another thing Leftists do that's not political is have a philosophy of 'good enough'. And cause it in society as a whole. You see it in all commie countries.

They work only as much as is necessary and don't care about the quality of their work because they have no self pride in their work product.

agile?

Posted by: anachronda at January 31, 2026 12:00 PM (edU/H)

83 My point was casting stones.

It is here now, it's time to concentrate on the ever increasing states that are adopting the belief and work to prevent it from spreading here.

Posted by: old chick at January 31, 2026 12:00 PM (F3Dlr)

84 Even religions and churches. Going back to Obama Administration with the Catholic Church supporting him and illegal invasion.

What are we - chopped liver?

Posted by: Lutheran Family Services! at January 31, 2026 12:00 PM (n1OCj)

85 Democrats have always, and will always be about what they’re going to do to people, not what they’re going to do for them. Unless you’re an illegal immigrant, of course.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 12:01 PM (nmw7B)

86 Certainly the left and right look at things differently. One thing I've noticed is that the left never, ever lets up on their efforts. Whether it's in the social or political arena, they never quit.

Many on the right look at an election won and think "the fight's over, we won." And quit. Same goes for some social policy or whatever... one person who's clearly insane and thinks they're a woman is run out of the sport they're participating in or out of the woman's locker room and the right thinks the transgender fight is over.

The issues surrounding illegals, fraud and ICE in Minnesota are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. There was no "win" in Minneapolis. There was an agreement by the local government to abide by the minimum federal law requirement regarding the release of illegals into the communities.

Note; they'll still release them instead of holding them until ICE can detain them at a police station or wherever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 12:02 PM (jtM2q)

87 Of course not. Americans reasonably expect elected officials to do their best to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. That’s their JOB.

If they don’t want to do that, then they need to find another line of work. Instead they think it’s their right to destroy the system from within while simultaneously enriching themselves, and causing even more strife and misery.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 11:59 AM (Ai1Ju)

That's the problem, the people think it's their job to serve the people.

The politicians know what their job is: It's to serve the elites and the donor class.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 12:02 PM (K8/Vy)

88 You forget the federal government under Democrat leadership, and especially states under Democrat leadership forced and coerced churches to close.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 12:02 PM (nmw7B)

89 8 Demond Wilson, the original Lamont, is Mortadella.
Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2026 11:11 AM (6Uni

Better than returning as a gabbaghoul.

Posted by: RIP you big dummy at January 31, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)

90 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Thanks. I meant your breed. I know Working is Tuesday. My male is sire to one of the Bullmastiff entries.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2026 12:03 PM (Y1sOo)

91 Clyde Shelton with a good description of the acid of corruption that has dissolved so much of the social and civic fabric.

Some bishop last week actually called to "defund ICE".

Of course there are third rails best left untouched, at least here. And the mystery of how a high-trust comparatively low-corruption society degrades becomes a little less mysterious.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 12:03 PM (U/Byj)

92 >>legal donut hole

Headline and excerpt: EU democracy now has fewer guardrails than the average hooker

By Rachel Marsden
January 31, 2026

https://tinyurl.com/y3vmnrsu

"The unelected European Commission is basically using policy and the absolute outer bounds of executive prerogative powers (that is, the powers to decide foreign policy and national security strategy) as a substitute for the checks and balances of legal due process. And they absolutely neglect to define any terms in a way that people can understand, avoid punishment, or even argue coherently that they’re not in breach. You want to accuse someone of working for Russia? What does that even mean? It’s not like we’re talking about Russian officials here.

There seems to be a rampant and ridiculous assumption that because someone works in another country and agrees with its approach on certain things, they’ve abandoned their integrity and values at the border – along with their critical faculties. As if employment abroad automatically comes with a complimentary lobotomy."

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)

93 89 Demond Wilson, Vietnam Vet, Army Infantry, Purple Heart.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 31, 2026 12:05 PM (gm9Sb)

94 Morn' all... Looks like something is up in Iran.. Lots of explosions...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2026 12:05 PM (VE6XX)

95 Another thing Leftists do that's not political is have a philosophy of 'good enough'. And cause it in society as a whole. You see it in all commie countries.

They work only as much as is necessary and don't care about the quality of their work because they have no self pride in their work product.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 11:50 AM

You just described pretty much all the outsourced Indian and Mexican "engineers" at my company. I think part of it is their culture, especially those in India. Not to mention, half of them seem to be retards. But what you describe is their "work ethic". They don't care about presentation, spelling, being prepared for meetings so the meetings are efficient, bothering to send out meeting notes and next step so the team knows the tasks and responsible people for them, etc.

There is simply no sense of the fact they are engineers and are supposed to pay attention to detail. We screw something up in our product design and best case it costs the company billions, worst case it costs customers injuries or their lives. But nah, these outsourced retards don't give a damn.

And worse, none of the people in charge hold them accountable.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:06 PM (P5BPp)

96 From my experience handling Workers Compensation claims, if you make it easy to cheat the system they are going to cheat the system. But these grifters are lazy and if you just make them have to work hard to cheat the system you will eliminate 90% of the grifters.

It's just so damn easy to cheat the welfare system.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 12:07 PM (cwGMH)

97
Thanks. I meant your breed. I know Working is Tuesday. My male is sire to one of the Bullmastiff entries.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2026 12:03 PM (Y1sOo)

Borzoi are judged Monday at 2:15. I think they have to be on the bench at 10:00 and can't leave until 4:00. The benching space is smaller than the smallest crate The Big Dummy can fit in. However, it's not my problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 12:07 PM (tgvbd)

98 The crime syndicate will kill millions without batting an eye.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:08 PM (gw/qA)

99 This may be a recovery from the Chavism and a step back from a dictatorship - It might get Rodriquez re-elected.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

I wouldn’t bet on elections happening any time soon, but you are right, this is a huge step in the right direction. The worst group in Venezuela has been the paramilitary forces and street thugs run by Interior Minister Diadoso Caballo; he was the arm of terror inside Venezuela, and he answered to no one but Maduro (and him barely). He has always been a rival to the Rodriguez family (Delcy and her brother, who runs the legislature)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 12:08 PM (IUuBi)

100 You forget the federal government under Democrat leadership, and especially states under Democrat leadership forced and coerced churches to close.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 12:02 PM (nmw7B)

Reminds me of that time when Jesus was going around Galilee, and He came upon a town, with a sign out front that said: "No Preaching."

So Jesus saw the sign, He said to His disciples, "Sorry boys, they are forcing us to close," so they turned around and went the other way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 12:11 PM (+p+ZH)

101 The federal government is a swindle. Always has been and always will be.

Posted by: Broke, Borrowed and In Debt at January 31, 2026 12:12 PM (R/m4+)

102 There is no law requiring local/state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

That's the problem.

Well actually the problem is that there is zero will or desire at the federal level, outside this temporary anomaly of the Trump crew, to do anything whatsoever to enforce immigration laws, sovereignty, or borders. Because if there were, there'd be decisive, easy action to compel state cooperation: $$$$.

I can write the language without even sending it to legislative counsel. Short. Require certification from DOJ/DHS of full cooperation from local authorities before any appropriated $$ can be disbursed to a given jurisdiction. Game over, instantly. If you don't understand, check out "55MPH" speed limits, or dozens of other policies forced on the states vis conditional appropriations.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 12:12 PM (U/Byj)

103 So Trump and Rubio have hit on a brilliant way to curtail Caballo’s power, one that has not been remarked on much. The only money Venezuela has is from oil sales and drug running. Drug running is cut way back, thanks to the fleet, and now all oil money is funneled through Delcy Rodriguez.
Caballo only gets money to keep his thugs paid by asking Delcy for it, and those two have always despised each other. Plus , everything she doesn’t give him she gets to keep for herself. As I said, it’s brilliant. The thugs won’t be openly abolished, but they will die on the vine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 12:13 PM (IUuBi)

104 > but it’s fascinating how paranoiac mania over that imagined offense has evolved into vast crimes in 24 hours
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"I know, right? Fascinat-"
(chop)

-Maximilien Robespierre

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 12:15 PM (ZxPkt)

105 Don’t want to live in your pee and poo? Canada may be just right for you!

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 12:20 PM (IAc3W)

106 You forget the federal government under Democrat leadership, and especially states under Democrat leadership forced and coerced churches to close.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 12:02 PM

I almost quit my church when they WANTED to close during Covid. I pointed out that bishops were excommunicated for closing their churches during the BLACK PLAGUE. When things are bad, more the need for the church to minister.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:20 PM (lrtx8)

107
64 Will Stancil continues to whine:

You know I would have thought one silver lining of being in a city under siege is that you’d get skinny and hot but instead I sit in my car all day getting fat and not having time to work out
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 31, 2026 11:52 AM

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The good news is, every BTU of methane his disordered digestion causes him to fart into his car's upholstery represents body fat not accumulated.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM (ES1Rb)

108 Looks like Retards with Radios is happening. No more signal chat, so they're using ham radios.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM (gw/qA)

109
I don't like Somali pirates.
Posted by: runner

They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the parrots.

Posted by: Booji Boy at January 31, 2026 12:27 PM (sPCyh)

110 I almost quit my church when they WANTED to close during Covid. I pointed out that bishops were excommunicated for closing their churches during the BLACK PLAGUE. When things are bad, more the need for the church to minister.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:20 PM (lrtx

Even the modern church is fake and ghey, just like every other venerated institution.

Posted by: FedGov, the courts, corporate america, education at January 31, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

111 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM (gw/qA)

Is there a way for ICE supporters to jam ham radios?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 12:28 PM (Bw1/o)

112 As of now, 12 states and Washington, D.C. have legalized Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). This includes states like California, Colorado, and Oregon, among others.

California's version should be applied to Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:28 PM (QZThv)

113 The point of modern government is Looting the taxpayers. Anything else it dies us incidental

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

114 Somalis and their ilk act like an invasive species. Come in where they don't belong, choke out the native species, ravage all available resources, and destroy the ecosystem.

Posted by: BUT BUT BUT THEY'RE PEOPLE TOO! at January 31, 2026 12:29 PM (TbWk/)

115
I almost quit my church when they WANTED to close during Covid. I pointed out that bishops were excommunicated for closing their churches during the BLACK PLAGUE. When things are bad, more the need for the church to minister.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Every bishop should have told the civil authorities to go piss up a rope. That while the faithful were dispensed from their obligations, every church would remain open and that Mass would be held every day. And that they themselves would be willing to be arrested if need be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 12:30 PM (tgvbd)

116 You forget the federal government under Democrat leadership, and especially states under Democrat leadership forced and coerced churches to close.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 31, 2026 12:02 PM

Reminds me of that time when Jesus was going around Galilee, and He came upon a town, with a sign out front that said: "No Preaching."

So Jesus saw the sign, He said to His disciples, "Sorry boys, they are forcing us to close," so they turned around and went the other way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 12:11 PM

That's my take on this statement as well. Remember when we were all told to stay inside, yet after George Floyd died of a drug overdose, BLM took to the streets and dancing nurses went outside and cheered them on.

Churches could have stayed open had they done what they should have done and collectively defied the government. As pretty much everyone on the left did. Instead, churchgoers collectively cowered at home, too many of them also falling for the BS about the Plandemic.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:32 PM (P5BPp)

117 The “newcomers” cannot, and should not be expected to follow the norms of civilized society. That’s all “white supremacy” and oppression. Expectations - to be reasonably free from violent crime - that makes you a nazi, you see.

Related: now that the war has killed most of the white men in the Ukraine, Zelensky the dick pianist is mass importing Africans and running ads encouraging women to bang them. I don't think he understands that the great replacement isn't supposed to be that obvious.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:33 PM (QZThv)

118 The social contract that binds citizens to respect democratically enacted rules, even those they oppose, becomes entirely situational and voluntary.

But it's not just "democratically enacted" rules. It's the essence of a Republic which they want to make conditional. That is, long established rules and norms; things like common law and preset agreements like rights and constitutions.

I also think you're wrong about a lot of the people. They do in fact think they're practicing "democracy" - that is, populist rule. It's why the media pushes so hard to make the riots and such a grassroots effort. It is why these folks stay inside their bubble. They need the bandwagon effect to make it look like "this is what the people want."

Posted by: GWB at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM (IXgFt)

119 The point of modern government is Looting the taxpayers. Anything else it dies us incidental
Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

But why do they need taxpayers, when they can just print money?

It starts to look like the purpose of taxpaying is to keep the riff raff enslaved.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM (mKmH+)

120 We have discussed this piece before, but I don't think we have emphasized the honor system factor, based partly on a previous Norwegian high-trust society which was prominent in Michigan (Ooops - Minnesota - hope it doesn't spread) for a long time.
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One thing we take for granted is that a "high trust" society is an unalloyed good. Is it? Is this something we are not allowed to question?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM (AlhUl)

121 From the synopsis, the movie The Iron Lung does not promise to be the "feel good" movie of 2026.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR)

122 Well actually the problem is that there is zero will or desire at the federal level, outside this temporary anomaly of the Trump crew, to do anything whatsoever to enforce immigration laws, sovereignty, or borders. Because if there were, there'd be decisive, easy action to compel state cooperation: $$$$.

I can write the language without even sending it to legislative counsel. Short. Require certification from DOJ/DHS of full cooperation from local authorities before any appropriated $$ can be disbursed to a given jurisdiction. Game over, instantly. If you don't understand, check out "55MPH" speed limits, or dozens of other policies forced on the states vis conditional appropriations.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2026 12:12 PM

Exactly. This is not a case of not enough laws. This is a case of lack of will to enforce laws that have been on the books for decades. And the reason there is no will to do it, is because the UniParty is in on the illegal invasion. This has been evident since the amnesty push by W, McCain and Grahmnesty in 2006. The GOP has not changed in the past 20 years. The Trump Administration is not the GOP, they are MAGA. But the GOP is not MAGA.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:36 PM (P5BPp)

123 The Melania movie is great.
Go see it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

124 Looks like Retards with Radios is happening. No more signal chat, so they're using ham radios.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM (gw/qA)

They better have better encryption.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:36 PM (rbvCR)

125 Looks like Retards with Radios is happening. No more signal chat, so they're using ham radios.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM

The US military can jam those frequencies if they want to.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2026 12:37 PM (0N4FZ)

126 One thing we take for granted is that a "high trust" society is an unalloyed good. Is it? Is this something we are not allowed to question?
Posted by: Eeyore at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM

I'm open. When would a low-trust society be superior?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:37 PM (lrtx8)

127 Not only better encryption, but some way to figure out the bogus transmissions inserted into the net from hobbyists

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR)

128 I love this!! The "Proud of us" movement in Britain sounds wonderful. Make British history classes great again. And I love the claymation art style of the little British working folks fighting to make a difference! Brilliant work. We need this here too.

Only 64% of Brits feel proud to be British. Demoralization by design is what lets the color revolutions happen in the west. Yuri warned us.

@Artemisfornow
I wonder how much of this history is being taught in our progressive schools? Probably not much.
Working class British people deserve more than the contempt they’re given by government and liberal shills who hate us.
Britain deserves better.

https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/
2017153317969842366

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 12:38 PM (gWBY1)

129 I'm hoping Don Lemon gets sent to a prison that doesn't allow buggery.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2026 12:38 PM (p31pK)

130 Looks like Retards with Radios is happening. No more signal chat, so they're using ham radios.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM (gw/qA)

Are they licensed? If not the Friendly Candy Commision will not be very kind. Hefty fine. They'll be very easy to find if the FCC sets up a van somewhere in the vicinity.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 12:39 PM (5xuJ/)

131 126 One thing we take for granted is that a "high trust" society is an unalloyed good. Is it? Is this something we are not allowed to question?
Posted by: Eeyore at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM

I'm open. When would a low-trust society be superior?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:37 PM (lrtx

How are we defining "high trust" and "low trust" societies? What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for each?

Posted by: Seems an important step in the discussion at January 31, 2026 12:40 PM (TbWk/)

132 I almost quit my church when they WANTED to close during Covid. I pointed out that bishops were excommunicated for closing their churches during the BLACK PLAGUE. When things are bad, more the need for the church to minister.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:20 PM (lrtx

I did quit my church when they bent the knee to Baal. Their descent into idol worship has been heartbreaking...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 12:40 PM (nbLIj)

133 Every bishop should have told the civil authorities to go piss up a rope. That while the faithful were dispensed from their obligations, every church would remain open and that Mass would be held every day. And that they themselves would be willing to be arrested if need be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 12:30 PM (tgvbd)

The irony is, if they had the courage to do that, there's no freakin' way government would have gone after them.

It could have been a watershed moment, with church leaders standing on the steps of their houses of worship, inviting any and all to come in, and receive the blessings of Christ, in this time of strife.

If ANY government sent a bunch of cops or Natty Guardsmen to close the churches down, I would imagine a LOT of those cops and soldiers would have said no, and joined the Faithful.

But no, we gotta protect our tax exempt status. No Word Of the Lord for you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 12:40 PM (lNoSp)

134 Guten morgen from the House of Former Plague. Pooky is now suffering from not taking his pills yesterday and taking care of Lil Pooky. Pookette is trying to rest up before her turn kneeling at the porcelain throne. I'm drained, so Lil Pooky and I are just going through his Frankfurt Radio Symphony playlist.

Posted by: pookysgirl still needs rest at January 31, 2026 12:40 PM (Wt5PA)

135 Hopefully Bad Bunny is still going to do the halftime show and Netflix will show all the episodes of "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" so I can see Gus Fring in all his glory while getting me some smokes and liquor on my EBT card at Wendys! I love Gus!

Posted by: Minnesota Voter at January 31, 2026 12:41 PM (R/m4+)

136
120

One thing we take for granted is that a "high trust" society is an unalloyed good. Is it? Is this something we are not allowed to question?
Posted by: Eeyore at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM

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It's good until the enforcement mechanism dies. The ancient enforcement mechanism was to not starve or freeze to death. The unprecedented material wealth of modern Western societies has done away with that mechanism.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 12:41 PM (pW3IX)

137 I'm open. When would a low-trust society be superior?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:37 PM (lrtx

One of the things that allowed large scale commerce was getting rid of the need for personal relationships and trust for deals to be made.
If you don't need to trust anyone to make that deal for . . . I dunno, Copper? -- then it is easier to make deals for commodities and services

Think of making a deal for a million dollars on a handshake for someone you don't know and can't verify. That is a low trust situation. You have to engineer it so trust is not a factor.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:41 PM (rbvCR)

138 I almost quit my church when they WANTED to close during Covid. I pointed out that bishops were excommunicated for closing their churches during the BLACK PLAGUE. When things are bad, more the need for the church to minister.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:20 PM

A friend of mine who was involved with his church leadership ended up quitting his church a year or so after churches started holding services again after COVID. His reason was that because of not holding in-person services during COVID, a lot of the congregation did not return. So the church leadership was running low on money and decided they needed to do two things: (1) raise the money leadership members were required to donate to the church and (2) change the outreach to attract a different demographic of people into the congregation. So they went full focus on woke and diversity and inclusion.

Of course that backfired. Not only did they not attract more people, they offended most of the original congregation that remained.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:41 PM (P5BPp)

139 121 From the synopsis, the movie The Iron Lung does not promise to be the "feel good" movie of 2026.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR)

If you know anything about the game it's based on then it's definitely not anywhere close to anything remotely resembling feeling good.

Posted by: Kinda doomy at January 31, 2026 12:41 PM (TbWk/)

140 FINALLY!!!

DJT told Cuckson, oWens and the rest to "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣

New Video !!

https://tinyurl.com/474d92jr

(KT, please send to ace and COBS ...)

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 12:42 PM (g47mK)

141 Lamont Sanford morte at 79

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 31, 2026 12:43 PM (abIsI)

142 Are they licensed? If not the Friendly Candy Commision will not be very kind. Hefty fine. They'll be very easy to find if the FCC sets up a van somewhere in the vicinity.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 12:39 PM (5xuJ/)

Ah, the alternative acronyms I learn from this place!

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to figure out her favorite at January 31, 2026 12:43 PM (Wt5PA)

143 One thing we take for granted is that a "high trust" society is an unalloyed good. Is it? Is this something we are not allowed to question?

Japan is arguably the highest-trust society in the world. Even liberals come back from it in awe of how clean and orderly and safe it is, they just misinterpret why/how that is. You can walk through dark alleys in Tokyo at 3 AM and nothing will happen to you. If there are bad things about that I've not heard any.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:43 PM (QZThv)

144 I will not wait for the overaged AOSHQ groyper brigade (basically 3-4 losers ) to try defend garbage mouths' honor. So I am counting on the normals to appreciate it!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 12:44 PM (g47mK)

145 If I had to bet money on Lemon it would be he doesn't see a inside of a jail

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 12:44 PM (Ia/+0)

146 >>> The Melania movie is great.
Go see it. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

The TDS critics reviews are almost a parody. One basically said Ratner is the new a Leni Riefenstahl without style. "Trump of the Will" propaganda for the TDS elites to hate. And every article had to bring up Ratner's sexual assault allegations.

The critics said watching it was excruciating. Now they know how I felt sitting through An Inconvenient Truth.

A Mamdami documentary is coming out soon. I doubt critics will call that "propaganda." It's the same exact thing as Melania's: a documentary on a specific period of time for a political figure, building to a moment of triumph. (Trump inauguration vs the NYC election.) but they will treat it like a hagiography of Mamdami.

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 12:45 PM (gWBY1)

147 FINALLY!!!

DJT told Cuckson, oWens and the rest to "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
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End says Dilley Meme Team produced the video. Misleads everyone with the DT account template.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 12:45 PM (GHvvy)

148 I knew when I voted for it that Measure A wasn't going to be let stand. But it was worth a shot.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 31, 2026 12:46 PM (QGaXH)

149 140 FINALLY!!!

DJT told Cuckson, oWens and the rest to "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣

New Video !!

https://tinyurl.com/474d92jr

(KT, please send to ace and COBS ...)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 12:42 PM (g47mK)

No he didn't. The guy who made the video said that.

Posted by: Let's keep it accurate please at January 31, 2026 12:46 PM (TbWk/)

150 108 Looks like Retards with Radios is happening. No more signal chat, so they're using ham radios.

that'll at least keep the islamists out

Posted by: anachronda at January 31, 2026 12:46 PM (edU/H)

151 I note that my mother really liked visiting Singapore. It was so clean and orderly. I pointed out that it was rather severe in limiting rights there. Her response was that "You have the right to do right."

A West Texas Prussian she was.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:46 PM (lrtx8)

152 The Melania movie has one of the most lopsided critics vs. audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes of all time. 7% vs 99% positive.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)

153 RIP ya big dummy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:47 PM (lrtx8)

154 Well, we are in the midst of a full-blown insurgency. This is no longer a joke.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 31, 2026 12:48 PM (4b7CV)

155 >If I had to bet money on Lemon it would be he doesn't see a inside of a jail

Posted by: Skip
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8 hours community service, $50 fine
NEXT

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

156 Just saw that Demond Wilson passed yesterday

No more Big Dummy

Posted by: PMRich at January 31, 2026 12:49 PM (RqfTw)

157 152 The Melania movie has one of the most lopsided critics vs. audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes of all time. 7% vs 99% positive.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)

Sure. The left-wing faggot movie critics hated it while the normies loved it. Favorable indicator that it's a good film for those inclined to see it.

Posted by: If critics hate it, go see it at January 31, 2026 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

158 Great read KT. Save me from having to buy some red yarn.

The red yarn traces back to them all.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 31, 2026 12:49 PM (EyfuW)

159 If ANY government sent a bunch of cops or Natty Guardsmen to close the churches down, I would imagine a LOT of those cops and soldiers would have said no, and joined the Faithful.

But no, we gotta protect our tax exempt status. No Word Of the Lord for you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 12:40 PM

Unfortunately, this did happen in a neighborhood in Chicago during the Plandemic. Police were sent and the church services shut down.

The church in Chicago that was notably shut down (or had its gathering dispersed) by police during the early COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was St. Odisho Assyrian Church (also referred to as Saint Odisho Church or Mar Odisho Church), an Assyrian Church of the East parish located in the Pulaski Park area on the northwest side (around 6200 North Pulaski Road).

On March 29, 2020 (a Sunday), Chicago police responded to reports of a large gathering inside the church during a funeral service.

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/4bA6v8l

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:50 PM (P5BPp)

160 If I had to bet money on Lemon it would be he doesn't see a inside of a jail

He'd really enjoy jail, so we'd need to come up with some alternative form of punishment.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)

161 X mentions numerous unexplained building explosions in Iran today

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 12:51 PM (ZxPkt)

162 I will not wait for the overaged AOSHQ groyper brigade (basically 3-4 losers ) to try defend garbage mouths' honor. So I am counting on the normals to appreciate it!
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 12:44 PM (g47mK)

Freedom means obeying, after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

163
The insurrectionists switching to ham radio because their internet apps are compromised, is reminiscent of Hezbollah moving to pagers, for the same reason.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 12:51 PM (biznJ)

164 Unfortunately, this did happen in a neighborhood in Chicago during the Plandemic. Police were sent and the church services shut down.

The church in Chicago that was notably shut down (or had its gathering dispersed) by police during the early COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was St. Odisho Assyrian Church (also referred to as Saint Odisho Church or Mar Odisho Church), an Assyrian Church of the East parish located in the Pulaski Park area on the northwest side (around 6200 North Pulaski Road).

On March 29, 2020 (a Sunday), Chicago police responded to reports of a large gathering inside the church during a funeral service.

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/4bA6v8l
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:50 PM (P5BPp)

That's impossible. They're Heroes in Blue™ who serve and protect, and faithfully uphold their oaths to uphold the Constitution.

Posted by: Push comes to shove they follow orders at January 31, 2026 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

165 X mentions numerous unexplained building explosions in Iran today

Probably the Mossad greasing some skids.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:52 PM (QZThv)

166 I wonder if Rollo is still alive?

Posted by: Julio at January 31, 2026 12:53 PM (R/m4+)

167 I wonder if Spain is headed for another civil war?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)

168 @Artemisfornow
I wonder how much of this history is being taught in our progressive schools? Probably not much.
Working class British people deserve more than the contempt they’re given by government and liberal shills who hate us.
Britain deserves better.
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I noted here several years ago that the UNC School of Journalism (ranked 4th in the nation) had eliminated any requirement for any history courses pre-1865, and also eliminated Econ 101:

"In 2015, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism (now the Hussman School of Journalism and Media) updated its curriculum to eliminate required foundational courses, including certain history and economics classes, aiming to provide more flexibility for students. "

Posted by: MacArthur Park at January 31, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L)

169 The insurrectionists switching to ham radio because their internet apps are compromised, is reminiscent of Hezbollah moving to pagers, for the same reason.

Ham radio is not encrypted and is trivially jammable, especially in urban environments. So yeah, it's very reminiscent.

Also, it's not for nothing that the best name anyone's come up with for Antifa is "Vanilla ISIS".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:53 PM (QZThv)

170 I guess I'm lucky to have a good police department. Thank God for small town Southern living.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:54 PM (lrtx8)

171 Oops /MacArthur Park

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 12:54 PM (XeU6L)

172 Eight!!!???
Hell, I vouch for all you 'Ron and 'Ettes!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 12:54 PM (2WIwB)

173 Eight!!!???
Hell, I vouch for all you 'Ron and 'Ettes!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 12:54 PM

That garrett guy is a little sketchy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:55 PM (lrtx8)

174 One thing we take for granted is that a "high trust" society is an unalloyed good. Is it? Is this something we are not allowed to question?

Japan is arguably the highest-trust society in the world. Even liberals come back from it in awe of how clean and orderly and safe it is, they just misinterpret why/how that is. You can walk through dark alleys in Tokyo at 3 AM and nothing will happen to you. If there are bad things about that I've not heard any.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 12:43 PM

That unfortunately has changed over the past few years when Japan started to allow immigration from third world shitholes. However, Japan just recently elected new leadership in government who is basically the Japanese version of Trump and her plan is to deport every last one of these people.

And her explicit reason is because these third world jackasses have no respect for Japanese culture and are turning it into a shithole like their home countries.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:55 PM (P5BPp)

175 Speaking of Trump telling Candace to shut up...

Maybe I'm a cynical autist who has been in the marketing field too long, but I listened to the leaked audio of Erika after Charlie's memorial, rallying and thanking the TPUSA staff. It doesn't ring alarm bells for me, I wasn't shocked. It was marketing team meeting 101, with personal touches, after a tragedy.

None of what she said sounded weird or callous or "off" to me. Am I missing something? I just don't get why people are so quick to hang her high and act like she's not mourning properly. And Candace wants her destroyed for reasons I don't know.

Plenty of grieving people can pull it together after a spouse dies. Including those that have an unshakable belief in heaven and know they will see their spouse again. Not everyone goes full sackcloth and ashes, even if they deeply loved the person. Erika was a powerhouse before Charlie met her. She was a force, who gave up worldly power and influence to support Charlie and raise their kids. She's putting on her CEO pants now and running a company. Something that I could tell from 5 minutes of researching her background she'll be able to handle. I thought libs want boss babes?

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 12:57 PM (gWBY1)

176
Disrupting the communication networks of the insurrection psy op has the greatest return for effort of any measure taken against them. Their operation lives or dies by rapid communication capability.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 12:58 PM (biznJ)

177 Schrödinger’s Government

heh.
Trust me, did deep enough into what the dems are doing and you will be assailed by the stench of Marxism.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

178 That garrett guy is a little sketchy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 12:55 PM (lrtx

Point taken.
Maybe it takes two or three "rons to vouch for that guy?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 12:59 PM (2WIwB)

179 I am confident that in the long run, right will prevail. As it did in 1815 at Waterloo, 1865 at Appomatox and 1945 in Tokyo Bay. But look at the cost. The Democrat party does not care.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 31, 2026 12:59 PM (4b7CV)

180 The law only exists for those who obey it. This seems to be the Democrat operating principle.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 31, 2026 01:01 PM (MZ+PY)

181 Just saw that Demond Wilson passed yesterday

No more Big Dummy

Posted by: PMRich at January 31, 2026 12:49 PM (RqfTw)
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We'll always have Ace!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:02 PM (GHvvy)

182 If our government is unpleasing to the eyes, your government would not allow any sharing of power or money.

If your government were here, i would be killed. Then trust is not needed.

Trust is like the collar pin holding a vast machine together.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 31, 2026 01:02 PM (EyfuW)

183 Unfortunately, this did happen in a neighborhood in Chicago during the Plandemic. Police were sent and the church services shut down.

The church in Chicago that was notably shut down (or had its gathering dispersed) by police during the early COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was St. Odisho Assyrian Church (also referred to as Saint Odisho Church or Mar Odisho Church), an Assyrian Church of the East parish located in the Pulaski Park area on the northwest side (around 6200 North Pulaski Road).

On March 29, 2020 (a Sunday), Chicago police responded to reports of a large gathering inside the church during a funeral service.

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/4bA6v8l
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:50 PM (P5BPp)

Yeah, I wouldn't expect Chicago cops to go against the man.

In Colorado, when the state passed gun grabber laws, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:03 PM (42HNu)

184 It doesn’t matter whether it is an “unalloyed good” or not don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good. It is the pre-requisite of a functioning society, not a secondary product or derivative. We as a society seem to have forgotten that, at the institutional level.

As a result, instead of locking up the crooks they lock up the shampoo. This is ultimately unworkable.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 01:03 PM (x4uGH)

185 Unfortunately, this did happen in a neighborhood in Chicago during the Plandemic. Police were sent and the church services shut down.

Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 12:50 PM (P5BPp)

Kind of makes the point, though. It didn't even have to be a majority of churches. Maybe a dozen out of the hundreds in a given city standing on their 1A freedom to practice their faith. Churches, synagogues, temples...make them stretch their enforcement resources week after week.

The fact that so few were willing to practice their faith in the face of oppression made it easy for that oppression to succeed. The number of lukewarm ministries exposed during that operation was heartbreaking.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:04 PM (nbLIj)

186 I am confident that in the long run, right will prevail. As it did in 1815 at Waterloo, 1865 at Appomatox and 1945 in Tokyo Bay. But look at the cost. The Democrat party does not care.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 31, 2026 12:59 PM

I used to think that. Until I saw the response during the Plandemic.

People allowing the government to mass murder their family members in hospitals and nursing homes. People allowing those hospitals and nursing homes to deny them access to their family members while they died.

People allowing their children to be masked up and "vaccinated".

If people will not even fight for their family and children, why would they fight for their country. The Plandemic response was eye-opening for me. And not in a good way.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:04 PM (P5BPp)

187 Disrupting the communication networks of the insurrection psy op has the greatest return for effort of any measure taken against them. Their operation lives or dies by rapid communication capability.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 12:58 PM (biznJ)

Its even more fun to spoof them. Get into their nets and send them to the wrong places, have them dress differently, etc. If you are effective enough, it forces the leadership to change their tactics, or to come find you...and that is like winning the game.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2026 01:05 PM (2WIwB)

188 Brett Cooper runs down all the new insane socialist bills they are trying to enshrine into VA law:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHfuDYIAUk

(Virginia politicians can already rent back their properties to the government, and are cleaning up. Which we taxpayers pay for. With a new VA bill, the politicians will also be able to use taxpayer money to buy property! So taxpayers will fund their mortgages and then pay their rent. What a disgusting, brilliant scam!)

And ShoeOnHead discusses Amelia!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=70uTOeDpgTo

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 01:05 PM (gWBY1)

189 SEa

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 01:05 PM (ZxPkt)

190 Freedom means obeying, after all.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2026 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

When Trump disagrees with someone, he let's the have it.

He uses more words, not less.

Those who have nothing to say are the ones who try to silence others.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:05 PM (42HNu)

191
Sea monsters are real

https://tinyurl.com/5ccubz67

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 01:05 PM (ZxPkt)

192 The law only exists for those who obey it. This seems to be the Democrat operating principle.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 31, 2026 01:01 PM

Another way of putting it...

The law only exists if there are those in a position of authority with the will to enforce it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:06 PM (P5BPp)

193 I guess I'm lucky to have a good police department. Thank God for small town Southern living.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Our small town is 30 miles from the county seat. Last week when the temp was -40 w/windchill and blustery, the treasurer and 2 others drove up to assist people with applying for the primary residence property tax credit, identity theft prevention, etc.
The chief of police also drove up, he met every person coming into the firehall, visited with them, then escorted them into the meeting room and directed them to the person we should meet with.
Small town, big benefits.

Posted by: old chick at January 31, 2026 01:06 PM (F3Dlr)

194 > Ham radio is not encrypted and is trivially jammable, especially in urban environments. So yeah, it's very reminiscent.
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"Ham radio" is somewhat generic. These insurrectionists could have access to P25 encrypted radios. They're ubiquitous anymore. Certainly there are methods to listen in, but I would not put it past some financer of these riots to have access to this tech, or something along the lines of the app "Zello."

The leftists, the ones pulling the strings and pouring money into the riots, they're nothing if not adaptable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 01:06 PM (jtM2q)

195 Boston’s Mayor Wu:

“Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter”

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It's in the good and plenty clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 01:07 PM (J+Psw)

196
Experts!

Headline (The College Fix):

"Women’s & gender studies professor: Renee Good killed b/c she ‘knew white silence is violence’"

Posted by: mrp at January 31, 2026 01:07 PM (rj6Yv)

197 In Colorado, when the state passed gun grabber laws, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:03 PM

Same here in Michigan. When Wretched Whitmer announced all her lockdown orders, there were several Michigan sheriffs who stated they would not enforce most of her ridiculous nonsense.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:08 PM (P5BPp)

198 People allowing their children to be masked up and "vaccinated".

Correct. And those same people would go around and want anyone not masked up to be arrested, browbeaten, hauled away and vaporized. In a prison, your worst enemy is your fellow prisoners.

Still unbelievable years later.

Posted by: Men's Room Wall at January 31, 2026 01:09 PM (R/m4+)

199 The fact that so few were willing to practice their faith in the face of oppression made it easy for that oppression to succeed. The number of lukewarm ministries exposed during that operation was heartbreaking.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:04 PM (nbLIj)

It reminds me of those videos you see of sheepdogs herding their flock.

Dozens or hundreds of sheep will be running around, and the dog, through sheer speed and skill, will get EVERY sheep to move in the direction the dog decides.

If a handful of sheep were to defy the dog, with some going one way, and some going another, there's really not much the dog could do. He could stop one group of them, but not both, or all others who run off.

But sheep are sheep.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:09 PM (42HNu)

200 Not surprised the Virginia Deep State residents are looting the Republic

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 01:09 PM (Ia/+0)

201 Ah, the alternative acronyms I learn from this place!
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to figure out her favorite at January 31, 2026 12:43 PM (Wt5PA)

I, being an electronic geek as a teen in the 60's, had a, uh, radio station on the air. Nearly was caught. The Friendly Candy Company was what we geeks called them back then. Around 1964. A number of years later, I began work in the REAL broadcast world, back in the day when one had to possess a First Class Radiotelephone license issued by the FCC after passing a rigorous technical exam. Little did they know.....

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 01:10 PM (5xuJ/)

202 Plenty of grieving people can pull it together after a spouse dies. Including those that have an unshakable belief in heaven and know they will see their spouse again. Not everyone goes full sackcloth and ashes, even if they deeply loved the person.

She's been attacked both for grieving too much and not grieving enough. The attacking is the point. (That said, "not grieving enough" seems to especially resonate with AWFLs, who go loopy every time their vegan cat dies).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2026 01:11 PM (xComp)

203 130 Looks like Retards with Radios is happening. No more signal chat, so they're using ham radios.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 12:21 PM (gw/qA)

Are they licensed? If not the Friendly Candy Commision will not be very kind. Hefty fine. They'll be very easy to find if the FCC sets up a van somewhere in the vicinity.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 12:39 PM (5xuJ/)

Maybe getting into a SIGINT pissing contest with the US government isn't the wisest tactical choice. There's lots of things the government sucks at, but you chose this?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 31, 2026 01:11 PM (w/O5Q)

204 You folks in the mid-north have too much time on your hands:

https://tinyurl.com/2s36sdyv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:11 PM (GHvvy)

205 Kind of makes the point, though. It didn't even have to be a majority of churches. Maybe a dozen out of the hundreds in a given city standing on their 1A freedom to practice their faith. Churches, synagogues, temples... make them stretch their enforcement resources week after week.

The fact that so few were willing to practice their faith in the face of oppression made it easy for that oppression to succeed. The number of lukewarm ministries exposed during that operation was heartbreaking.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:04 PM

100% agreed. And in my opinion what all churches should have done. There is no possible way local law enforcement could have shut down even a small number of the churches in a city if every church held their services.

Instead, almost all of them cowered to the Plandemic orders. Yet another thing that turned me away from church and religion overall over the years. Exposed the hypocrisy of religion when they could not stand for their beliefs in the time when it was the most important.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:12 PM (P5BPp)

206 Remember when that Kenyan said he would "fundamentally change the United States"?

This is that.

Now that we are a fully-feathered Matriarchy the Karen Klass Ruling Brood will just politely smile an earnest "I'll show YOU whose boss!" smile.

Embrace the suck.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at January 31, 2026 01:13 PM (m0F9m)

207 I just read Big Dummy Demond Wilson died yesterday.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2026 01:13 PM (p31pK)

208 "Ham radio" is somewhat generic. These insurrectionists could have access to P25 encrypted radios. They're ubiquitous anymore. Certainly there are methods to listen in, but I would not put it past some financer of these riots to have access to this tech, or something along the lines of the app "Zello."

The leftists, the ones pulling the strings and pouring money into the riots, they're nothing if not adaptable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 01:06 PM (jtM2q)

The carrier is still detectable and can be tracked. The modulation is encrypted.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 01:14 PM (5xuJ/)

209 LizLem at January 31, 2026 12:57 PM (gWBY1)

I really think Charlie Kirk's murder broke Candace Owens. It seems obvious to me now that she saw herself as Mrs. Kirk, and when she left (was forced out from?) TPUSA, she still held hopes that she might ultimately win him. Maybe her marriage was a step in her accepting reality, but his death sent her back into that emotional tailspin. She sees Erika as taking the limelight that she imagined for herself, so her mission now is to destroy it since she can't have it.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:16 PM (nbLIj)

210 Instead, almost all of them cowered to the Plandemic orders. Yet another thing that turned me away from church and religion overall over the years. Exposed the hypocrisy of religion when they could not stand for their beliefs in the time when it was the most important.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:12 PM (P5BPp)

Reminds me of that other passage from the Good Book, when Jesus was among the lepers. One of his disciples said "Teacher, how hast thou trod amongst the vermin and the insane, without covering thine face. And lo, Jesus replied, 'Oops, you are are right, brother. I almost forgot.' And so it was, Jesus donned the face diaper, and continues to minister to the disgusting filthy heathen scum."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:18 PM (mPQMK)

211 I really think Charlie Kirk's murder broke Candace Owens. It seems obvious to me now that she saw herself as Mrs. Kirk, and when she left (was forced out from?) TPUSA, she still held hopes that she might ultimately win him. Maybe her marriage was a step in her accepting reality, but his death sent her back into that emotional tailspin. She sees Erika as taking the limelight that she imagined for herself, so her mission now is to destroy it since she can't have it.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:16 PM (nbLIj)

Or it's possible there really is something seriously wrong with TPUSA, and she's getting inside info from whistleblowers, who the organization is trying to hunt down and silence.

One or the other. Time will tell.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:20 PM (mPQMK)

212 No one wants to point out that only mono-ethnic societies have the capability of being high-trust societies. And only some of those.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 01:23 PM (IUuBi)

213 If I had to bet money on Lemon it would be he doesn't see a inside of a jail

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 12:44 PM (Ia/+0)
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I'm sorry. The betting window is closed now.

https://t.co/kdBzJXrIu0

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:26 PM (GHvvy)

214 My Dad was a Norwegian from the Northwoods. Great guy. But spending so much time up there as a kid, it is funny these days the Norwegians are held up as the ideal immigrant stock.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 31, 2026 01:26 PM (wGerL)

215 Peak Candace Owens was a week ago when she blasted the interwebs with her demand for the government to explain why the ice wasn’t melting, even though it was 30 degrees outside.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 01:26 PM (IUuBi)

216 One or the other. Time will tell.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:20 PM (mPQMK)
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I feel sorry for you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:26 PM (GHvvy)

217
The carrier is still detectable and can be tracked. The modulation is encrypted.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
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See: Foxhunt

Posted by: Mike Hammer, Know Code Extra at January 31, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L)

218 Same here in Michigan. When Wretched Whitmer announced all her lockdown orders, there were several Michigan sheriffs who stated they would not enforce most of her ridiculous nonsense.

I noted earlier that the state of Washington is considering a law that would allow the state government to remove recalcitrant elected sheriffs.

In most blue states, the majority of the counties are red and elect conservative sheriffs, so it makes sense that the blue state governments would want a mechanism to remove them.

Posted by: Lutheran Family Services! at January 31, 2026 01:28 PM (n1OCj)

219 Cthulhu spotted

https://tinyurl.com/yfnjzntv

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2026 01:29 PM (ZxPkt)

220 Tribalism is a mechanism for survival. I believe the Western world had advanced beyond this, which is what separates a modern first-world country from a third-world shithole. The more we engage with these illegal immigrants the further we get away from a modern civilization.

You get to choose your poison and from what I see, the left is devolving into barbarism.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 01:30 PM (oT7pT)

221 I feel sorry for you.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:26 PM (GHvvy)

I know. I have this thing about seeking truth, even when it goes against what I've been led to believe.

These last few years have seen a LOT of my prior beliefs pierced by reality.

I am sometimes jealous of those who can continue to believe their pre-ordained narratives, in spite of facts.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:31 PM (yKTt/)

222 >>> You folks in the mid-north have too much time on your hands: https://tinyurl.com/2s36sdyv

I love it! And I note that there is plenty of room on for snow jack to get on the door next to snow rose before he freezes to death.

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 01:32 PM (gWBY1)

223 The carrier is still detectable and can be tracked. The modulation is encrypted.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
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See: Foxhunt
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Know Code Extra at January 31, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L)

When sighting in our news MW trucks (with digital MW transmitters) to the recieve sites, all I needed was the spectrum analyzer to peak the signal. Or going

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 01:32 PM (5xuJ/)

224 I know. I have this thing about seeking truth, even when it goes against what I've been led to believe.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:31 PM (yKTt/)
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No. You're an easy con.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:33 PM (GHvvy)

225 I just realized this week that a particular student who comes into our math help center

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 31, 2026 01:33 PM (uR/3t)

226 No. You're an easy con.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2026 01:33 PM (GHvvy)

You don't know me.

And what you think of me matters to me, not at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:34 PM (yKTt/)

227 225 I just realized this week that a particular student who comes into our math help center

you can't just leave us hanging like that! what about the particular student who comes into your math help center?

Posted by: anachronda at January 31, 2026 01:34 PM (edU/H)

228 Or it's possible there really is something seriously wrong with TPUSA, and she's getting inside info from whistleblowers, who the organization is trying to hunt down and silence.

One or the other. Time will tell.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:20 PM (mPQMK)

Well now I'm curious. Do you give equal weight to either scenario or are you leaning one way or the other?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:35 PM (nbLIj)

229 Or it's possible there really is something seriously wrong with TPUSA, and she's getting inside info from whistleblowers, who the organization is trying to hunt down and silence.

One or the other. Time will tell.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:20 PM

Yep. Personally, I never understood the seeming hero-worship of Charlie Kirk and now seemingly Erika Kirk. And by extension, the infallibility of TPUSA.

The only political personality I have ever really had an admiration for was Rush Limbaugh. So maybe if Rush had been assassinated, I would feel the same as some of the Kirk worshipers, but I dunno. I still knew Rush was fallible and not right all the time. With Charlie, Erika and TPUSA as an extension of Charlie, it seems their supporters find they are beyond criticism, simply because someone assassinated Charlie.

I stopped listening to Owens years ago when I felt she was just yet another "conservative" influencer/grifter. But I also feel the same about most of the popular "conservative" content creators. I follow most for news, but I don't believe any of them are for anything other than increasing their "brand".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:35 PM (P5BPp)

230 Here’s a new book you could buy.

The Antichrist and International Zionism
On The Advent Of The Antichrist Prepared By Israel And International Zionism
By: Darius L Nehemiah

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 01:36 PM (J+Psw)

231 >>> I am sometimes jealous of those who can continue to believe their pre-ordained narratives, in spite of facts.

Right? I sometimes look at my friends on social media with TDS, who I still adore, and admire how they have so much high trust in legacy media, they swallow whatever "sharonsaysso" tells them on Instagram.

(I see waaaay too many reposts of elitists like sharonsaysso.)

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 01:37 PM (gWBY1)

232
When sighting in our news MW trucks (with digital MW transmitters) to the recieve sites, all I needed was the spectrum analyzer to peak the signal.
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Good for point-to-point, but provides no location data beyond, 'It's in that direction'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, Know Code Extra at January 31, 2026 01:41 PM (XeU6L)

233 I am sometimes jealous of those who can continue to believe their pre-ordained narratives, in spite of facts.

Right? I sometimes look at my friends on social media with TDS, who I still adore, and admire how they have so much high trust in legacy media, they swallow whatever "sharonsaysso" tells them on Instagram.

Posted by: LizLem at January 31, 2026 01:37 PM

That kind of thing I don't understand. Maybe I am just naturally skeptical and untrusting of people, especially after having dealt with betrayal pretty early in life, but I don't get the mindset of taking on an opinion based on what someone else tells you to think.

I remember people used to think Rush Limbaugh listeners were like that, especially with the "mega dittos, Rush!" line that numerous callers would use. But the fact was that it was the opposite. People were thanking Rush for articulating beliefs they already had. They were thankful to hear them shared to a wide audience and know they were not alone in those beliefs.

I share content from people I listen to, but most of the time it is because they are articulating much better than I could a belief or opinion I already hold.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:44 PM (P5BPp)

234 Well now I'm curious. Do you give equal weight to either scenario or are you leaning one way or the other?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:35 PM (nbLIj)

Honestly? I don't know. After Charlie was killed, I really was moved by the outpouring of love and support for Erika, but I knew nothing at all about her, or the TPUSA organization.

There's a LOT of people coming out saying there's shenanigans going on with that org, that the money is bent, and that Charlie was asking questions that pointed to corruption going on behind his back.

Does that mean his own organization had him killed? How the hell do I know! But the fact that Erika is trying to tell people to stop asking questions doesn't make me any more comfortable with the narrative that she's just a grieving widow.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:45 PM (gU7ME)

235 In fairness, if people were suggesting that I had my spouse murdered, I'd tell them to shut the fuck up as well.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 01:47 PM (lrtx8)

236 Good for point-to-point, but provides no location data beyond, 'It's in that direction'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Know Code Extra at January 31, 2026 01:41 PM (XeU6L)

Ham radio is not directional and can easily be triangulated. It's done all the time.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2026 01:47 PM (5xuJ/)

237 I stopped listening to Owens years ago when I felt she was just yet another "conservative" influencer/grifter. But I also feel the same about most of the popular "conservative" content creators. I follow most for news, but I don't believe any of them are for anything other than increasing their "brand".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:35 PM (P5BPp)

I'm not a "follower" of Candace either. Doesn't mean I don't hear stuff she says though, and it DOES appear she's getting inside info from whistleblowers at TPUSA.

Is she a grifter? Sure, I guess. Everyone who makes money in that sphere is, to some extent. It's a living.

Doesn't mean she's always wrong (and of course it doesn't mean she's always right either). As I said, time will tell.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:48 PM (gU7ME)

238 Apropos of nothing, I am commenting from a Linux virtual machine that I am testing to see if it will work for me as a desktop. I don't want to go to W11.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 01:49 PM (lrtx8)

239 I remember a sinister black van the Krauts had on Hogan's Heroes that had a rotating antenna on top to search for contraband radios.

Posted by: Short Wave Short Bus at January 31, 2026 01:50 PM (oftw2)

240 In fairness, if people were suggesting that I had my spouse murdered, I'd tell them to shut the fuck up as well.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 01:47 PM (lrtx

Since I don't hang on every word Candace says, I could be wrong, but I don't think she's ever said she believes Erika was in on the murder.

It's still possible he was shot by a guy on a roof, who's boyfriend is a furry.

That just looks much much less possible, with every new piece of info that comes out.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:51 PM (gU7ME)

241 She sees Erika as taking the limelight that she imagined for herself, so her mission now is to destroy it since she can't have it.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 01:16 PM (nbLIj)

So in other words...chick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 01:52 PM (snZF9)

242 No one wants to point out that only mono-ethnic societies have the capability of being high-trust societies.
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Not true, though this is the crux of the issue. Leftists want to destroy the system, and the way you do that is to conflate race with culture.

Ironically if their “arguments” are correct, then obviously whites are the superior race, and the whole thing is moot. Those “criticizing” are not capable in this society. Not even a little bit. Most have no idea what is actually being put forth by “academics”. Not even a little bit.

That’s why their world view is unimaginably toxic. It is intended to be. They cannot argue in the realm of facts, logic, and reason, therefore these very concepts are “white supremacy”

It is a hell of a mind fuck, I’ll give them that. And they know most people do not want to actually think, much less think for themselves.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 01:53 PM (J+7DF)

243 I don't want to go to W11.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 01:49 PM (lrtx

You're not fooling anyone.

*Whacks toby on the head*

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:54 PM (polxd)

244 Is she a grifter? Sure, I guess. Everyone who makes money in that sphere is, to some extent. It's a living.

Doesn't mean she's always wrong (and of course it doesn't mean she's always right either). As I said, time will tell.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:48 PM

Yep, I think every single person in the "influencer" and "content creator" sphere is a grifter. That's the whole point, because that is how you make money in that "profession". Likes, subs, attention, etc.

That's my opinion about all of them, left or right, Candace or Tim Pool or Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk or TPUSA or Benny Johnson or Brett Cooper or Steven Crowder or Tucker Carlson.

I listen to them for the news and their take to stay informed, but that's it. I trust none of them. Especially when they get on about all the stupid drama going on between all of them.

Example: https://bit.ly/4rWlkaR

THE DESERVENING [Right-Wing E-Girl Drama Tier List]

That also exposes what I have thought of TPUSA and other conservative org "gatherings" that were just hook-up parties for the right.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:58 PM (P5BPp)

245 The US wrote the book on that stuff. You can’t even fart over a field phone without them listening in, if they choose to.

Most of our problems are due to choices made and not made, by those who have more high tech at their disposal than most people can imagine. It’s a government problem, not anything else.

Donny Two-Scoops Trump, president,1 ea. apparently understands and crucially enforcing this business about making even the wrong people in government do the right thing

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 01:59 PM (J+7DF)

246 the death of his son broke Burt. be kind to him.

Posted by: grim reaper at January 31, 2026 02:01 PM (van9r)

247 I listen to them for the news and their take to stay informed, but that's it. I trust none of them. Especially when they get on about all the stupid drama going on between all of them.

Example: https://bit.ly/4rWlkaR

THE DESERVENING [Right-Wing E-Girl Drama Tier List]

That also exposes what I have thought of TPUSA and other conservative org "gatherings" that were just hook-up parties for the right.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 01:58 PM (P5BPp)

Right, I just don't feel strongly enough about any of them to love them or hate them.

I'll watch Tucker when he has a guest on a subject I find interesting. His most recent guest is Jenk Yooger, or whatever the hell his name is.

I listened about 5 minutes. That was about it. I couldn't take any more.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:02 PM (lNoSp)

248 You say "toe-may-toe", I say "toe-mah-toe". You say "Michigan", I say "Minnesota".

Posted by: wm. tyroler at January 31, 2026 02:03 PM (p6/jb)

249 the death of his son broke Burt. be kind to him.
Posted by: grim reaper at January 31, 2026 02:01 PM (van9r)

Once again, you don't know me.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:04 PM (lNoSp)

250 Since I don't hang on every word Candace says, I could be wrong, but I don't think she's ever said she believes Erika was in on the murder.

It's still possible he was shot by a guy on a roof, who's boyfriend is a furry.

That just looks much much less possible, with every new piece of info that comes out.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:51 PM

From what I have gathered from numerous different content creators talking about Erika or talking about Candace talking about Erika or... is that basically Candace does not trust Erika or TPUSA or the narrative surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Honestly, I'm there as well. Where I strongly turn away from Owens is from many of her nuttier conspiracies. But I think that goes back to the basic skepticism around the Charlie Kirk assassination. Unfortunately, she goes off the deep ends with her skepticism and ends up losing credibility in anything she talks about.

I dunno. I don't really care anymore other than being aggravated that the left succeeded in assassinating an apparently effective content creator on the right.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2026 02:04 PM (P5BPp)

251 BurtTC at January 31, 2026 01:45 PM (gU7ME)

Ok, that's a fair position to take. I happen to have a degree of separation from people inside TPUSA. My former pastor and his son are close to the organization in general and Erika in particular. A friend of mine attended a recent TPUSA event and one of the speakers ranted about ballistics and how that kid's rifle would have blown Charlie's head clean off. Yeah, no.

So yes, there is dissention in the ranks. TPUSA was instrumental in getting Trump elected in 2024. That made them ripe for a deep state takeover. I think we're seeing that now. The explosive growth they're experiencing makes it easier for interlopers to get in and sow dissent...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:06 PM (nbLIj)

252 I'm curious, what caliber bullet supposedly wasted kirk?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:06 PM (snZF9)

253 Ya know burt for someone who can't be bothered to listen to pretty much anyone You sure have a lot of retarded opinions about pretty much everything.
You're "never wrong just asking questions" shtick is boring.

Posted by: It'sallsotiresome at January 31, 2026 02:07 PM (wDvQ5)

254 Cui Bono from destroying TPUSA?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:08 PM (0KSrI)

255 >>Ham radio is not directional and can easily be triangulated. It's done all the time.

I would image it's similar to LOFAR sonobuoys deployed to detect submarines.

Two of those sonobuoys in contact on a particular sound source yields a still very large AOP from where the sound is emitting. Three of them in contact, however, reduces the AOP significantly -- to the point where a highly-prosecutable datum emerges.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2026 02:11 PM (Y1sOo)

256 So yes, there is dissention in the ranks. TPUSA was instrumental in getting Trump elected in 2024. That made them ripe for a deep state takeover. I think we're seeing that now. The explosive growth they're experiencing makes it easier for interlopers to get in and sow dissent...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:06 PM (nbLIj)

One thing we've seen throughout history is that the melding of religion and politics often goes wrong. It's the whole thing about serving two masters.

From what I have seen, there are MANY people who work (or worked) for TPUSA who are truly trying to do God's work. What isn't clear is whether the current leadership is doing the same.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:11 PM (lNoSp)

257 Cui Bono from destroying TPUSA?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:08 PM (0KSrI)

Specifically? The Democrat Party.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:13 PM (nbLIj)

258 Ok, that's a fair position to take. I happen to have a degree of separation from people inside TPUSA. My former pastor and his son are close to the organization in general and Erika in particular. A friend of mine attended a recent TPUSA event and one of the speakers ranted about ballistics and how that kid's rifle would have blown Charlie's head clean off. Yeah, no.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:06 PM (nbLIj)

I just asked about the caliber because I had completely erased a large car battery with an M1 garand. It vanished. The most I found was one small upper corner. It ceased to exist. Dudes were punching little holes in it was an AR. I hit it with that 30.06 and removed it from the planet. I never forgot that. To see the brute force that round had was unbelievable. A 27 series battery ceased to exist. Blew my mind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:14 PM (snZF9)

259 You don't know me, but I'm your brother.

Posted by: Taking it to the streets at January 31, 2026 02:15 PM (Y1sOo)

260 I just asked about the caliber because I had completely erased a large car battery with an M1 garand. It vanished. The most I found was one small upper corner. It ceased to exist. Dudes were punching little holes in it was an AR. I hit it with that 30.06 and removed it from the planet. I never forgot that. To see the brute force that round had was unbelievable. A 27 series battery ceased to exist. Blew my mind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:14 PM (snZF9)

Yeah, there are lots of people who claim to be experts who say there's no way he was hit with a 30.06 round.

I'm not an expert, but that's one of those points that ought to be clearly demonstrated one way or another. Was he hit by a 30.06 round or not?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:18 PM (lNoSp)

261 Joe Kidd, to me it's the people that fear the large numbers of youth returning to G-d and not buying into the socialism Message and those are not all just democrats.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:19 PM (0KSrI)

262 From what I have seen, there are MANY people who work (or worked) for TPUSA who are truly trying to do God's work. What isn't clear is whether the current leadership is doing the same.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:11 PM (lNoSp)

As you say, time will tell.

BTW, sorry about that asshole referencing your loss. I may not agree with your positions, but that was way over the line..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:21 PM (nbLIj)

263
I thought that the official story is that the Kirk assassin used a bolt-action .30-06, and the contention comes from how the bullet's energy was transferred.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 02:24 PM (VWtfl)

264 As you say, time will tell.

BTW, sorry about that asshole referencing your loss. I may not agree with your positions, but that was way over the line..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:21 PM (nbLIj)

Thank you. Sometimes it's best just to let people's comments sit there and speak for themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:24 PM (lNoSp)

265
I'm not an expert, but that's one of those points that ought to be clearly demonstrated one way or another. Was he hit by a 30.06 round or not?
Posted by: BurtTC
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Isn't the prevailing thought fragment(s)?

Autopsy should tell the story...perhaps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:25 PM (XeU6L)

266 I thought that the official story is that the Kirk assassin used a bolt-action .30-06, and the contention comes from how the bullet's energy was transferred.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 31, 2026 02:24 PM (VWtfl)

Wouldn't an autopsy at least show one way or another, whether it's possible?

I don't believe anything has been released, and I'm not sure why. "Ongoing investigation" or respect for the family might be the reasoning, but given where this thing is going, I'm not sure those are valid reasons.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:27 PM (lNoSp)

267 A 30.06 bullet can come in various loads. A 125 grain load is much different than a 155grain load.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:28 PM (0KSrI)

268 Joe Kidd, to me it's the people that fear the large numbers of youth returning to G-d and not buying into the socialism Message and those are not all just democrats.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:19 PM (0KSrI)

I agree with that generally, but Charlie's mission in 2023, actually, since the COVID shutdown, was to get Trump elected. He denied democrats their victory, and demonstrated that the youth vote could be wrested away from them. TPUSA is a loaded gun pointing at the democrat party and they know it...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:28 PM (nbLIj)

269 Isn't the prevailing thought fragment(s)?

Autopsy should tell the story...perhaps.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:25 PM (XeU6L)

I hadn't heard that, but I suppose that would be more likely.

But then, where did the bullet hit, and where are the other fragments? If they have that info, might be wise to release it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:29 PM (lNoSp)

270 A 125 grain load is much different than a 155grain load.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:28 PM (0KSrI)

I'm well aware of that.

Every time I sit on the terlet.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:31 PM (lNoSp)

271 I hadn't heard that, but I suppose that would be more likely.

But then, where did the bullet hit, and where are the other fragments? If they have that info, might be wise to release it.
Posted by: BurtTC
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The net is deluged with theories. None authoritative.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2026 02:32 PM (XeU6L)

272 Joe Kidd, in about 60 days I am going to run a debate about what socialism is and isn't. I will also be talking to some TPUSA members to gain some of their insight.

Going to be a fun time.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:32 PM (0KSrI)

273 I can't say know much of TPUSA or organization, but know money corrupts if piles of it exists and accountability is lacking

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)

274 But then, where did the bullet hit, and where are the other fragments? If they have that info, might be wise to release it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:29 PM (lNoSp)

Maybe this information will come out after the trial. I do know one gunsmith I can ask, but we don't get an opportunity to talk regularly. I do know there's something like 30 muscles attaching the human head, and Charlie was a big guy with a thick neck.

I saw the hit on the video, and he jerked pretty hard to one side. I don't think he would have moved like that had it been a .22 round...maybe...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:39 PM (nbLIj)

275 To be honest, I just haven't been following anything about the kirk shooting, the organization he led, speeches, zip, nadda. I didn't even know wtf he looked like until he was dead. The only thing I know is that when I first heard he was hit in the neck with a bolt action my mind immediately went to that frigging car battery, and my first thought was where the fuck did his head land.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:40 PM (snZF9)

276 Maybe this information will come out after the trial. I do know one gunsmith I can ask, but we don't get an opportunity to talk regularly. I do know there's something like 30 muscles attaching the human head, and Charlie was a big guy with a thick neck.

I saw the hit on the video, and he jerked pretty hard to one side. I don't think he would have moved like that had it been a .22 round...maybe...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:39 PM (nbLIj)

As a general rule, I don't think law enforcement does itself any good by withholding facts from the public... EXCEPT when it will compromise the investigation, or possibly taint a jury.

It gets overused, and especially in high profile cases, where the public has a high level of interest in facts.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:42 PM (psFiu)

277 Joe Kidd, in about 60 days I am going to run a debate about what socialism is and isn't. I will also be talking to some TPUSA members to gain some of their insight.

Going to be a fun time.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 02:32 PM (0KSrI)

Very cool. If I promise to behave, maybe you can email me a link?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:43 PM (nbLIj)

278 To be honest, I just haven't been following anything about the kirk shooting, the organization he led, speeches, zip, nadda. I didn't even know wtf he looked like until he was dead. The only thing I know is that when I first heard he was hit in the neck with a bolt action my mind immediately went to that frigging car battery, and my first thought was where the fuck did his head land.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:40 PM (snZF9)

Right, and it is now the responsibility of the prosecution and the state to explain how that did NOT happen.

Either at the trial, or before. Either way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:45 PM (psFiu)

279 I wonder if Rollo is still alive?
Posted by: Julio at January 31, 2026 12:53 PM (R/m4+)

I'm assuming Sanford and Son (of course), so Rollo Larson was played by Nathaniel Taylor.

IMDB.com says b. March 31, 1938, d. Feb. 27, 2019 age 80.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 31, 2026 02:51 PM (/HDaX)

280 The only thing I know is that when I first heard he was hit in the neck with a bolt action my mind immediately went to that frigging car battery, and my first thought was where the fuck did his head land.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:40 PM (snZF9)

Sure. The car battery wasn't anchored to anything, so it was probably blown clean off the table. It's possible the round might have touched off a secondary explosion of the battery acid that the smaller rounds couldn't manage. Different story with flesh and bone, in any event..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 02:52 PM (nbLIj)

281 Right, and it is now the responsibility of the prosecution and the state to explain how that did NOT happen.

Either at the trial, or before. Either way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2026 02:45 PM (psFiu)

Anything is possible. If it just clipped his neck there probably wasn't much to allow the bullet to transfer energy. I have seen dudes shoot 1 gallon plastic milk jugs of water sitting on a cinder block and the hydrostatic pressure of the milk jug exploding shattered the cinder block under it. Had they just winged the milk jug it probably wouldn't have had the same result. All I'm saying is I can understand people questioning things about the caliber used, because from what I have done and seen in person I would have bet $100 his head would have gone sub orbital with the right shot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:53 PM (snZF9)

282 OK, off subject but... something hit me this morning.

I've been wondering why the Supreme Court has not ruled on Trump and Tariffs... and it hit me this morning.

The Constitution gives Congress the ability to tax, and Tariffs are a Tax. The delegated the Power to set tariffs to the President, and Presidents have set those rates since they delegated that power.

The key question is can Congress delegate a core power to another branch or entity. They want to say no...

Problem is, that Congress delegated Court Rule Writing to the Supreme Court, and they have done so since 1934. So if they say Congress can't delegate then they should lose the ability to write their own rules.

And one thing Roberts will NOT do, is allow any ruling the dilutes the power of the Courts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 31, 2026 02:59 PM (mP0Kj)

283 All I'm saying is I can understand people questioning things about the caliber used, because from what I have done and seen in person I would have bet $100 his head would have gone sub orbital with the right shot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:53 PM (snZF9)

From what I saw, he was struck in the neck. He was wearing a ballistic vest, and there was earlier speculation that the round clipped the top of the vest and it ricocheted into his neck. That was debunked somewhere, but can't recall the specifics. Now, if that shot hit his head, the result would have no doubt been unspeakably gruesome.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 31, 2026 03:08 PM (nbLIj)

284 Not that it's important, but it's 29.5 degrees out and snowing in Summerville, SC.

Let us hope that we survive till morning.

JK

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 03:35 PM (iMotb)

285 90% of all the 110000 "Somalis" living in MN are US citizens according to the last federal census. Most came 30+ years ago
The median age is 22yo

40% are children

9 billion in fraud?
Divided by the 60000 adults ? That would give each adult 150000 dollars
SHOW ME TY THAT MONEY

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 31, 2026 03:43 PM (iiVbo)

286 Clinton I think let them in in late 90s

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 03:55 PM (Ia/+0)

287 VIA if you haven't, get milk, bread and eggs
You will want French Toast in the morning

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)

288 "VIA if you haven't, get milk, bread and eggs
You will want French Toast in the morning"

Oh yeh, Baby!

French toast.

With real butter and maple syrup.

We have a small panettone, which makes some beyond belief french toast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 04:02 PM (iMotb)

289 Yeah great, Tom Cole (R-OK) reinstated funding for the shadowy Community Relations Service of the DOJ.

Republicans, what is the point of you?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 04:47 PM (lrtx8)

290 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

291 Odd that they would call so many Islamic groups "Honor Societies" when they have so little honor.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 31, 2026 05:31 PM (/lPRQ)

The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Iola)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Being Pretti good isn't good enough.
3) Running with sharp objects? Sure you can. We just won't pray for you.
4) Have a great weekend!

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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:
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.
12/13 Update – The First lady is doing well. She is still on restrictions but things are progressing nicely. The last mammogram showed clean. They are grateful to all who have been praying for her.
1/7 Update – They send thanks for the thoughts and prayers over the past year. The latest visit with her urologist revealed blood in her urine. The Doc didn’t seem concerned, but there will be more scans of her bladder and kidneys to see if they find anything more serious.
1/14 Update – Sponge sent an update on the First Lady’s father – he passed away on 1/11. They have been busy making arrangements for the arrangements, writing the obituary, eulogy, notifying people, etc. Thank you all for the thoughts an prayers that you have been providing for a long time.
12/20 – Morgan, longtime lurker, takes tango lessons from Sebastian, whose son, Matias, is recovering from brain surgery. The MRI was read on 12/19, and the surgeons did not remove the entire tumor. Even though the biopsy indicated the tumor was benign, the boy is probably facing several rounds of chemo. Please pray for the boy’s continued recovery in El Salvador.
1/10 Update – Matias will have surgery in 2 weeks to try and remove the rest of the tumor, and then he will receive radiation therapy.
12/27 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina. Christina has struggled with a lot, including addiction and relapse. Buzzion has not heard from Christina in a while and hopes she is okay. Please pray that Christina finds her way and knows that people love and care for her and believe in her.
1/3 Update – Christina was arrested on 1/3. Please pray for this to be a final wake-up call for her.
1/22 Update – Christina was released from jail and is staying with Buzzion. She is working through the legal troubles and she is continuing her recovery. She really appreciates the prayers, as does Buzzion.
12/27 – BlackOrchid requested prayers for a Navy Veteran uncle who has been struggling with his health the last few weeks. The root cause is undetermined, but recurrent infection/sepsis keeps sending him back to the hospital. It seems to be worsening his dementia, which makes it harder for BlackOrchid’s aunt to handle him.
1/3 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle (her “stand-in dad” is still not doing well. He will probably need to be put in a LTC facility although they are doing everything possible to avoid this. He is 86, and at the stage where his immune system can’t fight back well.
1/24 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle is doing much better. He is carting around an O2 canister to help him, but otherwise is doing well.
1/3 – Legally Sufficient asked for prayers for the repose of the soul of a boss, who passed away suddenly early Sunday morning. Prayers are appreciated for strength, faith, and understanding for the boss’ wife and all who loved him.
1/6 – Diogenes requested prayers for his best friend since college, who was diagnosed with cancer. Within hours or hearing this, the friend’s son, a man that Diogenes has known since he was a baby, collapsed from what appears to be a brain tumor. The prognosis isn’t hopeful. Please pray for both of these fine men.
1/23 Update – Diogenes’ best friend’s son Sean had emergency brain surgery. The labs are back and it’s not good news. He has stage 4 brain cancer. They were scheduled to meet with an oncologist on 1/26 to determine the best pathway ahead for the time he has remaining. This is just crushing news. Thanks to all the Horde for their prayers and support for this fine young man.
1/6 – Commissar of plenty and festive little hats sent prayers of thanks that it was not cancer, and asked for prayers for courage to even set a date to reverse the colostomy surgery. It was a lot to get over the first time!
1/7 - D sent an update on his wife Susan, and her battle with pancreatic cancer, as well as her recent infection. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan’s infection finally has been healed, so she was able to resume chemo. It’s been really rough.
1/8 - Doof asked for prayers for his mother. She was hit hard by the flu. She couldn’t get out of bed the morning of 11/8 and was sent by ambulance to the hospital. She is alert and communicating but prayers are appreciated for her recovery. Prayers are also appreciated for Doof, as he absolutely despises hospitals.
1/23 Update – Mom was in the hospital for 5 nights and has been in a rehabilitation center since 1/13. Her recovery is slow but steady. Her breathing and mobility are still not back to normal. She is good spirits but wants to be home. They very much appreciate the continued prayers.
1/10 – LA Sue asked for prayers for her brother, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September. They just learned it moved from stage 2 to stage 4. The chemo treatments and side infections from surgery have so debilitated him that he is considering stopping. Please pray for strength and that he opens his heart to God.
1/18 Update – LA Sue is taking her brother to hospice. He is fading.
1/23 Update – LA Sue’s brother passed away.
1/15 – Sharkman posted on behalf of Niederemeyer’s Dead Horse that NDH was given a prognosis of 6 months to live due to heart failure. The plan is for NDH to move into the Mayo Clinic to receive treatment and wait for a transplant.
1/17 – Emmie asked for prayers. She and her husband are on the verge of foreclosure. Their side hustle of delivery driving ended when a young driver crashed into their car and totaled it. They aren’t able to make the mortgage payments without that extra income. Their church is helping, but it’s a small church.
1/23 Update – They have a loaner/rental car that they can use until they can devise a long term solution, and have found an insurer who will cover delivery driving work. Another friend is supplying a financial cushion during the mortgage reset probationary agreement. But the underlying financial problems persist. They ask for prayers that they would conduct themselves with wisdom, discipline, diligence, prudence, and joy in God’s provision. Emmie specifically asked for prayers in her struggle with resentment and despair.
1/18 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update. She had surgery on 12/11, and a pump was installed that will direct medication into the hepatic artery. This will allow a much larger concentration of medication to be applied directly into her liver. This should give fewer side effects and (hopefully) shrink the tumors. It will take several months before they know if this new medication is working, but if it does, they are hoping for an extra 2-3 years before the disease progresses again.
1/19 – NR Pax requested prayers for his father, who had a stroke on 1/16. He went back to the hospital on 1/19 and was in the ICU until 1/23 due to influenza. He is in the hospital and they do not know when he will come home.
1/20 – Inogame asked for prayers. His wife and baby girl (due in February) are healthy, but some bad luck has come to their family. The business they purchased a year ago has taken an abrupt turn and they are trying to understand what is happening. They may not be able to keep their home if they cannot discover and correct the problem. This stress and what it might mean postpartum is worrying them. Thank you all for your prayers in the past.
1/20 – MkY sent an update on his wife Judy, who was diagnosed with Stage IV renal cancer last January. Despite being unable to receive her cancer drugs for 3 months while her port infection healed up, the tumors did not grow and she is feeling strong. Thanks so much for all the prayers! Last week, MkY was diagnosed with fluid on the brain. They operated the same day. They drilled two holes in his skull, inserted tubes, and had him lay flat on his back for 2 days. MkY thanks God for the modern miracles of medicine. He needs to heal quickly since he operates a small business. So far, no complications.
1/24 – NR Pax requested prayers for his father, who had a stroke on 1/16. He went back to the hospital on 1/19 and was in the ICU until 1/23 due to influenza. He is in the hospital and they do not know when he will come home.
1/24 – Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd posted some updates and requests. In the blessings department: blood glucose has continued to fall, well within normal range. BP is good. The hole where his molar used to be is coming along nicely. The youngest has jaw surgery coming up in February. This is many years in the making and should correct her bite and ease the pain in her jaw and ears. She’s not looking forward to the liquid diet, but is looking forward to the pain relief. Prayers are always appreciated, and based on what they have been through, he knows they are efficacious.
1/25 – Pawn at AoS asked for prayers after his dear friend Julia passed away. He asked for strength for himself and his family to fill a very large void in this world. He only has a couple of friends left so asks for protection for them.
1/27 – K asked for prayers for K’s neighbor Mike, whose doctor found a lump near Mike’s esophagus. Many thanks.
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.

And I would also like to add:

Romans 8:39
39) neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (New International Version)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:00 AM

Comments

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1 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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 January 31, 2026 07:44 AM (ZOv7s)

2 Amen.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at January 31, 2026 07:51 AM (FIwBs)

3
Just a one-time prayer request, if I may. Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are traveling to New York for Westminster on Monday.

The weather is cold, snow is likely over the weekend and she's driving an elderly car that needs to go in for servicing this morning in Virginia because of electrical issues.

Any spare thoughts you can throw their way would be appreciated. I've added appeals to St. Christopher during my daily Rosary.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 07:51 AM (tgvbd)

4 I love the Fatima prayer.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:51 AM (qFwJc)

5 I am always happy to pray for us. I can't do much else.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:53 AM (qFwJc)

6 Good morning again dear horde with thanks to annie and mh and you morons for praying

mh is the only COB who noods his own threads what a swell guy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

7 Good Saturday morning, horde.

Prayers for all of you.

Hiya, JT!

So many grieving the loss of friends and family. May you/we all be comforted with their memories.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 07:57 AM (h7ZuX)

8 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at January 31, 2026 07:57 AM (+HNx/)

9 My oldest friend Bob is dying. The chemo almost killed him and the immunotherapy is not working.

He returned to the Church and received Extreme Unction. He is one of the finest men I have been blessed to know.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:58 AM (qFwJc)

10 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:58 AM (Ia/+0)

11 NDH update has received heart transplant and recovering from surgery in ICU. Hope to have ventilator removed and then stepdown to cardiac care unit.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

12 Buzzion, thank you for taking Christina into your home. I hope your friendship, combined with professional treatment, help her to overcome and heal.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 07:59 AM (h7ZuX)

13 Never, ever trust a Democrat. Just assume they are lying about everything:

"after the January 23 shooting by law enforcement of Alex Pretti, Senate Democrats reversed on their earlier pledge to avoid another shutdown. "

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

14 {grammie}
{TiFW}
{CoMM}
Hiya JT
Bulg asked for prayers too he is being observed for AFib

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

15 My BiL passes away last Sunday morning, he and sister were in their bi-season home in Florida. My niece is now there with my sister. Would appreciate prayers for them
It was a shock to me when my mom told me, he was having health issues but didn't think that would happen.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

16 Taqiyya. How do you know they are lying?

Their lips are moving.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 08:02 AM (qFwJc)

17 {Her Majesty and the Big Dummy}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

18 He is getting cremation so not sure when a funeral service will happen.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:04 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)
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May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 08:06 AM (RIvkX)

20 Yonder Horde

Looks like a very light snow is falling now. It's also 5 degrees.

Birds at the feeder don't care.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 08:07 AM (jtM2q)

21 So sorry to hear it, Skip. Blessings of comfort for your family.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:08 AM (h7ZuX)

22 The internal temperature of birds ranges from 102 to 109.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 08:09 AM (0KSrI)

23 22 The internal temperature of birds ranges from 102 to 109.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 08:09 AM (0KSrI)

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I just admire the researchers who managed to keep a thermometer stuck up their butt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 31, 2026 08:11 AM (+HNx/)

24 My oldest friend Bob is dying. The chemo almost killed him and the immunotherapy is not working.
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A prayer for his complete and immediate healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

25 I am always happy to pray for us. I can't do much else.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:53 AM (qFwJc)
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It is very important. No prayer goes unheard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:13 AM (ZOv7s)

26 Good morning Mis Hum et al.

The preceding verse adds a fuller list that rounds out verse 39. I love the poetry of those two verses taken together.

Romans 8:38-39 KJV
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:13 AM (qgHp7)

27 "The internal temperature of birds ranges from 102 to 109."

Before or after basting?

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 08:14 AM (vFG9F)

28 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffeinated Carlos at January 31, 2026 08:14 AM (oftw2)

29 He returned to the Church and received Extreme Unction. He is one of the finest men I have been blessed to know.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:58 AM (qFwJc)
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God be praised!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:15 AM (ZOv7s)

30 Romans 8:38-39 KJV
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:13 AM (qgHp7)

Thank you for that. It's beautiful. I really need to open the Bible more often.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:16 AM (h7ZuX)

31 Thank you to the everyone for the prayers. My dad is out of the hospital and in the rehab section of his retirement community. The facility tried to drag things out to prevent his admission but mom is a force of rage and she will beat bureaucrats down with documentation.

He's sleeping well and his therapy will begin soon. At this time, I don't know if he'll ever go back home.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 08:16 AM (7xrfc)

32 I thought Scott Adams' deathbed conversion was very moving and telling in its imperfection. Here was a man who could not find faith himself, but let others lead him to it, and his profession was actually a prayer that God help him get the rest of the way there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:16 AM (ZOv7s)

33 Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

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 death.

St. John Bosco, pray for us.

I prayed Rosaries for the intentions, both stated and unstated, of members of the Horde.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 08:17 AM (pJWtt)

34 Hadrian at least she'll be able to visit the Buc-ee's near Harrisonburg.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

35 Willowed (CNN staff whineing)

One area of concern was Jennings being allowed to describe undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens,” a term that violates the network’s editorial standards, according to Status.
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Too funny

https://tinyurl.com/3wsse62s

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:18 AM (o1zkF)

36 The internal temperature of birds ranges from 102 to 109.
Posted by: Ben Had

*********

Is that when the little red button pops oout?
😀

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:19 AM (qgHp7)

37 I thought Scott Adams' deathbed conversion was very moving and telling in its imperfection.

There were people thinking that he was just converting out of convenience. I think it was sincere but I'm not the one with the knowledge of such things.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 08:20 AM (7xrfc)

38 G'mornin' everyone!

Prayers, with a happy heart, for all !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 31, 2026 08:21 AM (Cjt/F)

39 Mornin’, All. Happy Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 08:21 AM (77rzZ)

40 Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
no on of any consequence - condolences on the impending loss of your friend.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 08:22 AM (IDEQi)

41 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2026 08:24 AM (rgA8J)

42 There were people thinking that he was just converting out of convenience. I think it was sincere but I'm not the one with the knowledge of such things.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 08:20 AM (7xrfc)
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"You're just converting to stay out of hell!"

"And you have a problem with that?"

I'd argue that downplaying the reality of damnation has done immense damage to society. No less than the late George Cardinal Pell said so, and deeply regretted his flirtation with universal salvation. As for its sincerity, that's up to God to sort out, but Pascal's Wager is a valid reason, which is why he came up with it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:24 AM (ZOv7s)

43 My wife and I entered the Church together, from very different backgrounds and - as it turned out - for very different reasons. We talked about this just yesterday. She was moved by emotion, by spiritual reasons, feeling that reason couldn't solve everything and sometimes one must rely on faith.

I am the exact opposite. Reason is what convinced me that there has to be something true at the root of Christianity, it couldn't be superstition or a hoax. The historical record was unimpeachable, which is why "Bible scholars" have to break the rules all the time to come up with reasons for doubt. It was only then that the spiritual side became apparent to me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)

44 Do CNN editorial standards preclude calling American citizens “white supremacists” and “nazis”?

Illegal aliens is a legal term of art. It isn’t necessarily derogatory per se, it is a descriptor.

Immigrant has a defined meaning too - describing someone who has passed through a port of entry and has authorization to be in the country.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 08:29 AM (mCOJo)

45 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and See at January 31, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

46
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2026 08:31 AM (tljrc)

47 https://tinyurl.com/mf5suydh
Saw this on Dailytimewaster and thought of this thread
A coffee stur

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:31 AM (Ia/+0)

48 I thought Scott Adams' deathbed conversion was very moving and telling in its imperfection. Here was a man who could not find faith himself, but let others lead him to it, and his profession was actually a prayer that God help him get the rest of the way there.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:16 AM (ZOv7s)

I had an interesting conversation with an older Catholic woman last evening. We had been chatting when she mentioned that one of her sons was an atheist.

I asked if he was a scientist or engineer. She replied that he was. I told her that he was mistakenly thinking that faith was an irrational belief: science can only deal in the material, but does not answer why we commonly recognize transcendental qualities: such as, how much does beauty weigh or what is the meaning of life.

I recommended that she give her son a book that was recently published (God, the Science, the Evidence by Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies). The book presents scientific evidence so convincing that intellectually-honest atheists have had conversion experiences, and at least admit to the existence of some sort of creator God.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 08:32 AM (pJWtt)

49 his profession was actually a prayer that God help him get the rest of the way there.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:16 AM (ZOv7s)

I understand this perfectly. I call myself a doubtful believer. I'm not sure I actually believe in God, or if it's habit from growing up in church. An omnipresent, omnipotent God seems irrational to me, but nothing else seems more rational, so I go with it.

I can point to many instances in my life when I was out of answers or options. But I pray, and always in the nick of time, I had answers and options.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:33 AM (h7ZuX)

50 Was outside playing a little, still under 10 degrees and have a cup.of coffee left

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:34 AM (Ia/+0)

51 I recommended that she give her son a book that was recently published (God, the Science, the Evidence by Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies). The book presents scientific evidence so convincing that intellectually-honest atheists have had conversion experiences, and at least admit to the existence of some sort of creator God.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 08:32 AM (pJWtt)
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A turning point for me was the realization that there is more and better evidence for Christ than there is for Julius Caesar. I totally nerded out on ancient history in high school and college, reading all the Greek and Latin authors (in translation, of course) I could find. I kept seeing the same thing: "We have this one partial copy of a single text that tells us all we know about this topic."

And then I came across "Bible scholars" nit-picking inconsequential errors from the many manuscripts separated by centuries and thousands of miles to find a way to cast doubt on the reliability of scripture.

I should add that I never wanted to be Catholic. Like many other converts, I was dragged kicking and screaming into it. Weird how that happens.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)

52 here is the deal. If Ted Kennedy is in heaven I don't want to be there

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 08:38 AM (jrgJz)

53
update on Neidermeyers Dead Horse:

she had the successful heart transplant surgery on Monday, and by Thursday she was "off the ECMO machine"

as of yesterday, she was off the intubation and was coherent & communicating (she's already asking for her phone)

the plan was to move her out of the ICU "this weekend"

her daughter, Misti, is updating NDH's twitter @NeidsG (last update was yesterday afternoon)

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2026 08:39 AM (tljrc)

54 Atheism or agnosticism is one thing. Well two things maybe. Anyway, some folks have an extreme hatred of even the concept of God or creator. It seems to result in disordered thinking. For all that I’ve met plenty of bible thumpers who are as crooked as a 3 dollar bill, so ..

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 08:39 AM (mCOJo)

55 here is the deal. If Ted Kennedy is in heaven I don't want to be there
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 08:38 AM (jrgJz)
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Every soul lost to Satan is a defeat. The most glorious victories are not good people getting their just reward but terrible sinners finding salvation.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

56 here is the deal. If Ted Kennedy is in heaven I don't want to be there
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 08:38 AM (jrgJz)
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I hope you don't mean that; in your place, I would worry before placing my judgement ahead of God's

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:41 AM (QbC6G)

57 I'm back from my shave, having a last cup of black juice before heading out. Good thoughts to all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 08:41 AM (wzUl9)

58 I understand this perfectly. I call myself a doubtful believer. I'm not sure I actually believe in God, or if it's habit from growing up in church. An omnipresent, omnipotent God seems irrational to me, but nothing else seems more rational, so I go with it.

I can point to many instances in my life when I was out of answers or options. But I pray, and always in the nick of time, I had answers and options.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:33 AM (h7ZuX)

Without faith in God, there is despair. I'm an engineer and am in the school-of-thought with A.H. Lloyd. Reason and science all point to Aristotle's Unmoved Prime Mover.

Furthermore, the historical evidence that Jesus of Nazareth existed is irrefutable: multiple contemporary non-Christian documents mention Him, even if to disparage his divinity. The only legitimate dispute is was He the Son of God as He and His Apostles claimed, or a mad man or a liar.

Faith is not irrational. I would argue that atheism is irrational.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 08:42 AM (pJWtt)

59 If Ted Kennedy is in heaven I don't want to be there

I get that but consider this: If he truly repented of his actions and begged forgiveness, he could be admitted. And Heaven is vast enough that the odds of you running into him could be as small as you want.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 08:43 AM (7xrfc)

60 ...how much does beauty weigh...

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Well, according to the popular culture that number has increased substantially in recent years.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:43 AM (qgHp7)

61 Atheism or agnosticism is one thing. Well two things maybe. Anyway, some folks have an extreme hatred of even the concept of God or creator. It seems to result in disordered thinking. For all that I’ve met plenty of bible thumpers who are as crooked as a 3 dollar bill, so ..
Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 08:39 AM (mCOJo)
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When they would bury the Hapsburg emperors, they would take the casket to the door of the cathedral and they would have the doors closed. The herald would knock and a voice inside would say: "Who is there?"

And the herald would reply with a bunch of his royal titles, and the response would be "I don't know him."

And then he would reply again with even more impressive titles, and the reply would be the same. Finally, the herald with just give his first name, and say "a sinner."

"You may enter."

Very cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:44 AM (ZOv7s)

62 It is colder than Hillary’s (uh sorry, I meant a witch’s) backside here in DFW this morning… brrrr

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 08:44 AM (xT8gx)

63 I have faith enough that God will judge and those found to be guilty will pay.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 08:46 AM (Ia/+0)

64 Whenever I can’t sleep, a quick prayer and I am out for the duration. Why I don’t and toss and turn instead, I don’t know. People are strange.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:46 AM (S8ZfB)

65 Don't tell me I can't drink bacon. I have maple bacon-flavored coffee!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:47 AM (kpS4V)

66 58 I agree. Atheism is irrational.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

67
"You're just converting to stay out of hell!"

It may be imperfect contrition, but it's still contrition.

I was lapsed for 30-plus years. I really wish I could say I returned to the Faith for the love of God, but it's not quite true. It was because I felt He was asking more of me than I was doing at that point. I try to persevere because He set standards that I owe it to Him to try to fulfill. But the love of God remains beyond me right now.

I pray frequently every day: on getting up, the Angelus at noon, the Rosary during the day and evening prayers before going to bed. I say the Litany of Loreto before Mass and a prayer to the Virgin Mary afterwards. They aren't empty exercises and I'm happy to do so because they set a frame for me and give Him what He deserves.

But to talk to Him personally has always been extremely difficult for me, as though He has better things to do than listen to the likes of me. I never feel fervor and I'm envious of those who do.

It makes me aware of just how damaging my time away from the Faith has been. But slowly, my conduct is improving and maybe someday I'll feel the love for Him that I should.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 08:48 AM (tgvbd)

68 here is the deal. If Ted Kennedy is in heaven I don't want to be there
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 08:38 AM (jrgJz)
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Every soul lost to Satan is a defeat. The most glorious victories are not good people getting their just reward but terrible sinners finding salvation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

Jesus Christ instructed us to "judge not." That doesn't mean that we are not to condemn bad behavior, or not give good counsel. I don't waste any time questioning God's mercy or judgement.

Did Kennedy repent of his evil acts? Perhaps. Did he perform any acts of contrition or reparation? I'm doubtful. But, the fate of Ted Kennedy's immortal soul is between him and God.

When I pray for my enemies - as Jesus taught us to do - I pray that they soften their hearts, recognize the evil that they have committed, repent and do acts of contrition, and thus save their souls.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 08:50 AM (pJWtt)

69 Sydney Sweeney’s beauties weigh quite a bit, I suspect.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

70 Temp is hovering around freezing, wind chill of 21. I'm sitting here at home wearing my thick alpaca sweater over a shirt and with a blanket over my legs. For some reason I get cold sooner than I used to. Some mild weight loss from cutting out sugar a few years ago, I guess.

Aside from my haircut, I have to stop at the pharmacy inside Target to pick up an Rx. I hope to be back home by 10:30.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 08:51 AM (wzUl9)

71 Who is going to heaven and who isn’t? We humans don’t know (except regarding our own soul)…. I find the words of our Lord in John 3 both a comfort and yet full of mystery.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

I didn’t make any contribution to my physical birth… I can’t make any contribution to my spiritual birth. It is a miraculous act of the Spirit of God. My only contribution is belief…. What exactly that means I don’t know other than I know I believe. Everyone (even Mother Theresa… even Saint Peter!) has/had doubts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 08:52 AM (xT8gx)

72 Don't tell me I can't drink bacon. I have maple bacon-flavored coffee!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026

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There are maple-scented pipe tobaccos, and plenty with a hint of campfire and barbecue sauce. I wonder if there is one with bacon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 08:52 AM (wzUl9)

73 Judge not as Christians. But, as citizens, we all wear the purple of Caesar.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:54 AM (S8ZfB)

74 ...how much does beauty weigh...

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Well, according to the popular culture that number has increased substantially in recent years.
Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:43 AM (qgHp7)

Good one!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX)

75 "off the ECMO machine"

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Brief primer for those who may not be familiar with it:"

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation or ECMO is a temporary means of augmenting cardiac and lung function during an interim where those functions are recovering from major dysfunction.

During any open heart surgery, the heart is stopped and blood is rerouted through a heart-lung bypass machine, whihc does exactly that, it bypasses the heart AND the lungs. Oxygen and CO2 are exchanged as the blood passes by a membrane, temperature and chemical balance are regulated.

ECMO is in essence a smaller version of a bypass machine that is portable enough to operate in an ICU room, and can provide up to several days of support while the heart is recovering from an injury or in the case of a transplant, the stress of being in an Igloo ice chest for a few hours.

(cont.)

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:57 AM (qgHp7)

76 You can judge all you want. We all make judgements every day. What you can't do is condemn anyone to hell.

That action belongs to G-d and him alone. Not even Jesus can do that.

"thou shall not judge" is just the first of many re-writings of the Bible to take hold.

Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 31, 2026 08:58 AM (89Sog)

77 I wonder if there is one with bacon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Wonder no more:

https://tinyurl.com/3jzk4p9t

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 08:58 AM (7xrfc)

78 “ You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”

Psalm 63:1

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2026 08:58 AM (zw+xd)

79 A balmy 14 this morning with a light coating of snow, and a good day to All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 31, 2026 08:58 AM (1lTYe)

80 But to talk to Him personally has always been extremely difficult for me, as though He has better things to do than listen to the likes of me. I never feel fervor and I'm envious of those who do.

It makes me aware of just how damaging my time away from the Faith has been. But slowly, my conduct is improving and maybe someday I'll feel the love for Him that I should.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 08:48 AM (tgvbd)

I'm in the same boat you are in. Mrs. Cop has a much personal relationship with God than I do.

Now, my 16 year-old grandson (the one that converted to Catholicism), that kid is imbued with the Holy Spirit and he LOVES Eucharistic Adoration. We've had more than one person in our parish ask us if we think he will eventually become a priest.

I think what helped him is that he has been going to Mass with us since he was about 6, and I had self-taught myself the Catechism and articles of faith that I was not taught in the 1970s as a child myself, so I was able to give him good instruction during his formative years.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 08:59 AM (pJWtt)

81 A desire to be saved is itself the sign of the Holy Spirit working in us. The 'Natural Man' has no desire for a God. We cannot even want to be saved without his intervention.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 08:59 AM (jc0TO)

82 I will say this: you Catholics who drop those prayer cards here and there, keep it up.

Three times in my life, when I was pondering monumental decisions, unsure how to solve a problem in my life, I have happened across these cards, prayed the prayers as instructed, and received the help I sought.

Rational, or irrational? I don't know, and I no longer care. I am grateful for the help.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)

83 The warmup is on its way, but it's still 11 here with a wind chill at zero.

It should get into the upper 20s next week. I'll break out the shorts and sandals.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

84 Got willowed but have a video on thst Hoverbike, no way its real. No more thrust out back from looks like 2 bathroom fans.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)

85 (cont.)

ECMO can be used in several scenarios including pst-transplant, post drowning, post complex congenital heart surgery and others.

It is not, however, a permanent or sustainable technique. Longest I've seen was about two weeks. Therefore it has to serve as a delaying measure, or as we refer to it a "bridge" to something else. It can be a bridge to recovery, a bridge to transplant, or sadly in some cases a bridge to nowhere.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:02 AM (qgHp7)

86 35 right now outside, rising up by about 10 degrees by this afternoon, then dropping to 26 degrees overnight. 10 day forecast says no more sub-freezing temps expected.

My thoughts turn to when to apply pre-emergent weed killer. The timing is tricky.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:02 AM (wVcYX)

87 A desire to be saved is itself the sign of the Holy Spirit working in us. The 'Natural Man' has no desire for a God. We cannot even want to be saved without his intervention.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 31, 2026 08:59 AM (jc0TO)
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Wisdom begins with fear of the Lord.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:03 AM (ZOv7s)

88 I love to take a long jog every Saturday morning for exercise (and enjoyment of the outdoors). But this is now the second Saturday in a row that weather prevents… last Saturday an ice storm, today it’s too cold…. For the moment. I’m somewhat stubborn so I’m gonna wait until around noon when it’s “warmed up” to 28 degrees and the wind has died down a bit and I’m gonna do my “morning” jog in the early afternoon…. Improvise, adapt, overcome — Gunny Sgt Highway

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:05 AM (xT8gx)

89 Don't tell me I can't drink bacon. I have maple bacon-flavored coffee!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:47 AM

Ok. But let's talk about the pants requirement on the prestigous Book Thread.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at January 31, 2026 09:05 AM (0sNs1)

90
ECMO can be used in several scenarios including pst-transplant, post drowning, post complex congenital heart surgery and others.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:02 AM

thanks, Muldoon

I didn't know what ECMO was, just that graduating off of it was a good sign

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2026 09:06 AM (tljrc)

91 I will say this: you Catholics who drop those prayer cards here and there, keep it up.

Three times in my life, when I was pondering monumental decisions, unsure how to solve a problem in my life, I have happened across these cards, prayed the prayers as instructed, and received the help I sought.

Rational, or irrational? I don't know, and I no longer care. I am grateful for the help.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)

During my reversion back to the Catholic Church, I had come across an old prayer book published in the 1950s. One of the prayers was along the lines of, "Jesus how can I serve you and the Church?" I $h!t you not, I heard a voice answer me!

I was alone in the house, and the answer was completely unexpected but has brought me to taking a much more active role in my parish.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 31, 2026 09:06 AM (pJWtt)

92 I'm a lily of the field. God is my gardener.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:07 AM (wVcYX)

93 Rational, or irrational? I don't know, and I no longer care. I am grateful for the help.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)
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"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck." A fun line delivered by Sir Alec Guinness who was a Catholic convert. He first gave it serious consideration when playing a priest and filming in France and a little boy, thinking he was a real priest, just walked up to him and talked to him while holding his hand. The level of trust amazed him.

He began dropping into churches, praying from time to time, and when his son became ill, he made a vow to convert while praying for his son, who was healed, and who also was raised in the Church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)

94 Oh, one more thing. ECMO does not have to be total bypass. It can be used to only partially offload the heart and can be gradually weaned off as cardiac function improves, as in NDH's case. In other words, partial heart-lung bypass rather than total.

Thus endeth today's lesson.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:08 AM (qgHp7)

95 Wolfus, it looks like the current temperature in Owensboro is 13 degrees, but feels like 1 degree.
So there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

96 I wonder if there is one with bacon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Wonder no more:

https://tinyurl.com/3jzk4p9t
Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026

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Thanks, NR! I think I've actually seen it in person at my local pipe/cigar shop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9)

97 Muldoon — Your patients are very fortunate to have you! Excellent doctors are hard to find these days in my experience

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:12 AM (xT8gx)

98 My thoughts turn to when to apply pre-emergent weed killer. The timing is tricky.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:02 AM

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When you see the forsythia blooming.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

99 Wolfus, it looks like the current temperature in Owensboro is 13 degrees, but feels like 1 degree.
So there's that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026

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When I move, I will either need to buy a treadmill or join a gym. It'd be difficult to work out in that, and I certainly can't laze around all winter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

100 My plan is to retire and become a nomad for five years.
I'll chase 70 degree weather.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:14 AM (2Ez/1)

101 I love to take a long jog every Saturday morning for exercise (and enjoyment of the outdoors). But this is now the second Saturday in a row that weather prevents… last Saturday an ice storm, today it’s too cold…. For the moment. I’m somewhat stubborn so I’m gonna wait until around noon when it’s “warmed up” to 28 degrees and the wind has died down a bit and I’m gonna do my “morning” jog in the early afternoon…. Improvise, adapt, overcome — Gunny Sgt Highway
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026

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I've had to shift my workouts this last ten days to the afternoons. I don't like it much. Too much traffic on the streets leading to the walking trail. When I go at five or six am, there are very few cars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)

102 Winter is meant for lazing around.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

103 My thoughts turn to when to apply pre-emergent weed killer. The timing is tricky.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:02 AM (wVcYX)
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Ever heard of Ralph Snodsmith? He used to have a radio garden show years ago. Anyway, the only thing I remember him saying, repeatedly, was to "Get your pre-emergent crab grass control down before the blossoms fall from the forsythia."

I don't know why I remember that or why I even listened to his show. I lived in Manhattan at the time.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 31, 2026 09:16 AM (3ImbR)

104 Government shutdown includes Department of Defense just as we may be about to liberate Iran. Coincidence?

Posted by: Rip N Read at January 31, 2026 09:16 AM (fr4zq)

105 Bulg how you holding up?

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 09:17 AM (Ia/+0)

106 I'm rather intolerant of black-pilling these days, and it's a combination of faith and gratitude for the super-abundance of blessings we are currently seeing. Honestly, Ace could (and maybe should) do a week of nothing but good news, because it's out there.

I saw that we surpassed Japan for steel production for the first time in 32 years. What!? I was told by every economist that immutable laws prevented a revival of American industry. Learn to code and all that. Wages are starting to rise and rents starting to fall. As winter loosens its grip, yard work and construction crews are going to have more and better paid citizen employees.

This boom is only getting started and it's going to be the biggest thing in 40 years.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

107 But to talk to Him personally has always been extremely difficult for me, as though He has better things to do than listen to the likes of me. I never feel fervor and I'm envious of those who do.
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Hashem knows every blade of grass and every grain of sand. You think hashem doesn't know you, the pinnacle of Creation?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 09:18 AM (RIvkX)

108 ...how much does beauty weigh...

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Well, according to the popular culture that number has increased substantially in recent years.
Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 08:43 AM (qgHp7)

Heh. Nice.

Who knew a concept with no calories could be so fattening?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)

109 Prayers for all the Horde in need

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2026 09:18 AM (Frj3y)

110 Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at January 31, 2026 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

111 105 OK, Skip. Just sitting here on the couch, counting down to 1546 when I can take this contraption off (the heart monitor thingy).

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

112 I've had to shift my workouts this last ten days to the afternoons. I don't like it much. Too much traffic on the streets leading to the walking trail. When I go at five or six am, there are very few cars.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)

Yes, early morning is my preference. Fewer people and more peaceful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (xT8gx)

113 Don't tell me I can't drink bacon. I have maple bacon-flavored coffee!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 08:47 AM

Hmmm. Maybe those who like butter in their coffee could try bacon fat instead.

Sounds awful to me, but I'm picky that way.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (h7ZuX)

114 Winter is meant for lazing around.
Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:15 AM (77rzZ)
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I do not expect to gain any ground with winter workouts, just try to limit losses until I get get outside again. There is absolutely no good reason to try running or even serious walking with ice on the sidewalk. I knew that when I was in my 20s and it's doubly true now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

115 Posted by: LinusVanPelt

******

Thanks for the kind words. I was a bit of a throwback and could not in good faith function in an Obamacare world. I retired from practice in 2019 and although I miss some aspects, have no regrets.

Just this past week I saw a local news story about a 9 year old boy doing a fundraiser for Make-A-Wish. Turns out he is a boy that was referred to me within hours of birth, with hypoplastic left hear syndrome. I vividly remember making the diagnosis and sitting down with the family to inform them of what would come. Three heart surgeries and later a transplant (after I retired) here he was. A nice memory.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (qgHp7)

116 When you see the forsythia blooming.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

Ever heard of Ralph Snodsmith? He used to have a radio garden show years ago. Anyway, the only thing I remember him saying, repeatedly, was to "Get your pre-emergent crab grass control down before the blossoms fall from the forsythia."

I don't know why I remember that or why I even listened to his show. I lived in Manhattan at the time.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 31, 2026 09:16 AM (3ImbR)

Thanks, both of you. Just one question. What is a forsythia?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)

117 Good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (sVV4J)

118 Learn to coal.
Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at January 31, 2026 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)
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How come no one worried about gender imbalances in coal mining or the crab fleets?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

119 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

120 My son puts honey in his coffee.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

121 *Thanks, both of you. Just one question. What is a forsythia?*

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I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Al Gore's Amazing Internet at January 31, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

122 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)
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I started using heavy whipping cream and I like it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

123 A balmy 20 degrees here in DFW, enjoying my HEB pecan coffee.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 31, 2026 09:24 AM (0U5gm)

124 Bacon-flavored Spam seems a bit of overkill.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:24 AM (wVcYX)

125 Hey it's up to 6° here. When I posted on Pixy's thread I was 0°. Got down to -8 here in the MidHudson last night

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 09:25 AM (IDEQi)

126 Bacon-flavored Spam seems a bit of overkill.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:24 AM (wVcYX)
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One could just fry it in bacon grease.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

127 Don't knock it 'till you've fried it.
In honey butter.

Posted by: Spam at January 31, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

128 Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Prayers please for our Grand Knight Paul - he has a constellation of cardiac issues and has been taken to his childhood home in Memphis by his sister to die.

Continued prayers are also asked for our great nation and all those who work for the ideals that we strive for.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 09:26 AM (cYBz/)

129 Oh, re ECMO, for those in Rio Linda:

Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round, and oxygen is good.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:27 AM (qgHp7)

130 Forsythia:

https://tinyurl.com/3w7k2y92

Posted by: IrishEi at January 31, 2026 09:28 AM (3ImbR)

131 Thanks, both of you. Just one question. What is a forsythia?
Posted by: Count de Monet

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 09:28 AM (cYBz/)

132 The UN is running out of money. Anyway...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 09:29 AM (IDEQi)

133 Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:20 AM (qgHp7)

You got the same satisfaction from your work as did(does) my dad. He was a pastor for many years (still preaches and visits at hospitals part time) and it’s amazing to me how many lives he touched… people he runs into etc

I went into engineering and it’s had its own rewards but less significant I think… maybe if I had a do over I might’ve been a pastor. No do overs though. I’m content, but do occasionally think of Frost’s “road not taken”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:29 AM (xT8gx)

134 So much loss and suffering in this world. Thank God He is in control, and that while this is difficult, and sometimes feels impossible, we know that this life is temporary and short. Eternity is forever.
May all those who are suffering, or have loved ones suffering/dying, know the peace of God, even in the small things. May He comfort them and hold them close.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 31, 2026 09:30 AM (nz1sK)

135 Something I've been meaning to mention is that the reason why the left is using incendiary language is because that is all they have left. The Old Left actually featured hard men of action, but they all died off, and now we have noodle-armed soyboys, drama queens and AWFLS, none of whom are of any use in a fight.

They also grew up in a society where pouting and being a helpless victim was a path to power, and threats never had to be acted upon, because everyone always caved. So now they are in a situation where they are facing calm, determined, systematic resistance and all they can do is scream louder. That's their play.

Now there is some kinetic action, but it's very limited compared to the late 1960s, when whole cities burned. The violence now is performative, and its also inorganic, that is to say not staffed by true believers but by otherwise unemployable mentally ill mercenaries. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

136 I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Al Gore's Amazing Internet at January 31, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

Yes, forsythia grows well in Texas, particularly in North Texas, Northeast Texas, East Texas, and Southeast Texas. It thrives best in areas east of I-35, especially where soils are moist, slightly acidic to neutral, and rich in organic matter.

Blooming Time: Forsythia blooms in late February to mid-March, often alongside early daffodils and red japonica, marking one of the first signs of spring in Texas.

Truly amazing invention, Al. Much obliged. How's the chakra release quest going?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:30 AM (wVcYX)

137 Here was a man who could not find faith himself, but let others lead him to it, and his profession was actually a prayer that God help him get the rest of the way there.

Mark 19:23-24

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 09:32 AM (Fs0KI)

138 There’s no need to believe it’s overly complicated or involves a complex understanding of theology. It doesn’t.

All it takes is to open your heart to God. Let him in. He’s standing right beside you, as He always has and always will.

Even in your darkest moments, when you feel abandoned and think He’s turned away from you- He has not. He’s guiding you through those difficult moments- pray for understanding.

I’ve seen some terrible things. Things that made me wonder where He was in all that horror. Then at one point He told me, Marcus, I’m right here where I’ve always been. Open your heart and soul to me and realize I have never left your side. At that moment I looked back and realized He carried me through all of it. Every single moment. At first I felt ashamed, but that turned to indescribable joy.

God, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is an awesome God. There is nothing He cannot do. Pray to Him. Ask him to forgive you for your sins and come in to your life. You will find magnificent peace and fulfillment. You will find great comfort and joy in your soul. Praise God in Heaven.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2026 09:32 AM (zw+xd)

139 The Old Left actually featured hard men of action, but they all died off, and now we have noodle-armed soyboys, drama queens and AWFLS, none of whom are of any use in a fight.

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: LGBTQ+FDFJOEMGRFGM at January 31, 2026 09:33 AM (Riz8t)

140 No do overs though. I’m content, but do occasionally think of Frost’s “road not taken”
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

***********

No harm in that as long as it is wistful 'what-if-ery' and not burdened by regerts. I sometimes think I could have been a detective.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:33 AM (qgHp7)

141
How come no one worried about gender imbalances in coal mining or the crab fleets?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

__________

Men die on the job at 13 times the rate of women. When that gender imbalance is corrected, I'll start worrying about the number of female CEOs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 09:33 AM (tgvbd)

142 Yes, early morning is my preference. Fewer people and more peaceful
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Plus the feelings of innate superiority, as you contemplate all those lazy bone slugs wallowing in bed at 0545 when they oughtta be up and at ‘em, being productive. One should bring a bullhorn on early morning jogs, to encourage suburbia with motivational messages decrying their slovenly habits

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 09:34 AM (itAZI)

143 "How's the chakra release quest going?"

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Not too well. Seems it's in a lock box.
Like Social Security.

Posted by: I used to be the next president of the United States at January 31, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

144 Because the left has controlled the commanding heights of finance for at least 20 years, they have gotten lazy and stupid. This is partly because the Soros-type evil geniuses have been replaced by idiot nepotist diversity hires. They don't bother to hide their corruption because they think that they have a right to it.

This makes it laughably easy to roll up those networks, which is happening under the radar. Lots of people want to see results, but that takes time, not just to build the case, but to identify prosecutors who will purposefully tank what should have been slam-dunk prosecutions. Even so, the pinch is already being felt, and a lot of their troopers are being laid off, which also limits future contributions.

The left also knows that if it goes full kinetic, it will lose instantly. The training they are getting stresses this, and their hope is to make martyrs that sway the soccer moms. The problem is that soccer moms are the ones being raped, and they fear for the safety of themselves and their children. No one cares about gang members being deported. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

145 I'm drinking 3 day old coffee this morning because it is
wrong to waste coffee. I wish I had some 2 day old pie.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 09:35 AM (LHPAg)

146 Plus the feelings of innate superiority, as you contemplate all those lazy bone slugs wallowing in bed at 0545 when they oughtta be up and at ‘em, being productive.

That's nice, but it won't help you in the long run. You're not one of the elect. Sorry.

Posted by: John Calvin at January 31, 2026 09:35 AM (Riz8t)

147 Plus the feelings of innate superiority, as you contemplate all those lazy bone slugs wallowing in bed at 0545 when they oughtta be up and at ‘em, being productive. One should bring a bullhorn on early morning jogs, to encourage suburbia with motivational messages decrying their slovenly habits
Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 09:34 AM (itAZI)

The spirit of Gunny Hartman live on!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

148 119 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

Someone should package this in a spray can.

Ghee Whiz

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (FMtrg)

149 I might be more tolerant of the cold if the sun would shine. Early in the week, after the winter storm, the sky cleared and it was sunny. Air temperature was 22 or so, but no wind. The back of the house faces south. Up against the the house, on the deck, it was 58 degrees.

I had a cigar. It was quiet, the roads were a mess so, no traffic. Peaceful. But I'm pretty much sick of winter now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (jtM2q)

150 67 Hadrian, the Lord is infinite. He has time to listen to everyone who comes to him.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

151
Yes, early morning is my preference. Fewer people and more peaceful

__________

The time between morning chores at 5:00 (or earlier) and getting Her Majesty's coffee at 7:00 is my favorite part of the day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (tgvbd)

152 At what was the lowest point in my life, and I was alone, an elderly couples stopped by my table at a McDonald's. The man gave me a prayer card. Not Jehovah's witness, just people. And this has never happened before or since.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Xbquz)

153 "How come no one worried about gender imbalances in coal mining or the crab fleets?"

*polite cough*

Posted by: Roofers and oilfield workers at January 31, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

154 Early in the week, after the winter storm, the sky cleared and it was sunny. Air temperature was 22 or so, but no wind. The back of the house faces south. Up against the the house, on the deck, it was 58 degrees.

I had a cigar. It was quiet, the roads were a mess so, no traffic. Peaceful. But I'm pretty much sick of winter now.

You are mistaken. There is only unrelenting heat now.

Posted by: Al Gore at January 31, 2026 09:37 AM (Riz8t)

155 148 119 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

Someone should package this in a spray can.

Ghee Whiz
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (FMtrg)
KerryGold Unsalted Irish butter.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 09:37 AM (LHPAg)

156 Skip, I am sorry for your loss

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2026 09:37 AM (rjRKB)

157 This brings me to the genius of Trump's strategy focusing on detainers and local law enforcement participation. These idiots are literally planting their flag on defending child rapists from federal officers. Great idea! That's really going to win middle America over to the cause.

The lethal incidents didn't pan out, and the relatively tiny forces in play have a low loss threshold. They thought this would be cost-free, and this changes the calculous completely.

Note also that local law enforcement is also locally led, so the police chiefs and sheriffs are under intense pressure to keep the streets safe and many will lose their jobs if they keep releasing rapists back onto the street. I live in a liberal college town, but they absolutely call the cops in a hot minute if they think there is a threat. If the local cops were letting rapists go, there would be hell to pay. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

158 Faith is more than words; what is fruit of faith? This is what I note about Scott Adam’s life: his actual life was always a moral and honorable one. He not simply lived a moral life; he used his talents to the best of his ability, and especially in the last years focused on using his particular talents to be of service to those around him.
If that is not a Godly life, what is?
And so at the end he finally mastered his pride and said what he already was showing in his life. Good for him! He’d done the hard part long before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 09:38 AM (ai6/n)

159 BTW someone once asked me- “How do I worship God? Where do I start?”. And I replied, “That’s easy, start on your knees”.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2026 09:38 AM (zw+xd)

160 > 119 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

And the person who brings the coffee could be called the Gheezer Butler.

Posted by: Black Sabbath at January 31, 2026 09:38 AM (IG3/x)

161
Plus the feelings of innate superiority, as you contemplate all those lazy bone slugs wallowing in bed at 0545 when they oughtta be up and at ‘em, being productive

___________

Cold shower, journal entry, granola smoothie. That's what the go-getters on LinkedIn tell me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 09:39 AM (tgvbd)

162 The land the UN building is on was purchased from a real estate developer by Rockefeller and then donated. The original intent was a large area “zone”, comparable to District of Columbia. Residents decided that was a bad idea.

The building itself was funded by a zero interest multimillion dollar loan by the United States. “Paid back on time” we are told, though the US is the principal source of money anyhow.

Visitors at one time were free to wander around the building, and admission was free. Not anymore.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 09:39 AM (itAZI)

163 Anybody else sick of Sweeney? Talk about overexposed. I blame Big Sweeney.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 09:42 AM (vFG9F)

164 Plus the feelings of innate superiority, as you contemplate all those lazy bone slugs wallowing in bed at 0545 when they oughtta be up and at ‘em, being productive. One should bring a bullhorn on early morning jogs, to encourage suburbia with motivational messages decrying their slovenly habits
Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 09:34 AM (itAZI)

I laughed. At the height of covid insanity I lived in LA and they actually “closed” the beach… which is where I did my jogging then… one day I decided enough was enough… I got up at 4am and did my usual jog on the “closed” beach. Had to dodge around a few barriers that had been placed but no one bothered me in the morning solitude…. It was ghost town on Manhattan Beach at 5am… then I got more bold and started going down there at 7am after sunrise. No one ever bothered me. Close the beach… galactically idiotic and retarded

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:42 AM (xT8gx)

165 This is why Trump didn't and won't invoke the Insurrection Act. Like the Sword of Damocles, its virtue is that it hangs, not that it falls. I suppose Trump could be pushed into it, but that would be what happens - the locals start begging for it and the governor or mayor is in open, unmistakable rebellion, tearing down the flag or some other stupid symbolic act.

Another crazy thing is the tiny amount of forces engaged. Trump federalizing the Minnesota ARNG would quadruple his resources, hilariously overmatching the opposition. You can bet Walz knows that, which is why he talks out of both sides of his mouth. Trump knows it, too, which is why he leaves out there.

The upshot: this was not a brilliant strategy by the left, but a desperate spoiling attack. The fraud coming out is only going to get worse, and Walz had to move before he was indicted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

166 Those of us that are still productive at midnight and chose to sleep late don't get any credit.

Healthy wealthy and wise, my ass.

I blame Ben Franklin and Big Proverb.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

167 Note also that local law enforcement is also locally led, so the police chiefs and sheriffs are under intense pressure to keep the streets safe and many will lose their jobs if they keep releasing rapists back onto the street.

And yet...

https://is.gd/2sFDbI

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 09:43 AM (Riz8t)

168 163 A lot of guys would be happy to take Sweeney out of the public eye.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

169 Good morning Horde, I am praying for all of us.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 31, 2026 09:46 AM (0nHVk)

170
Those of us that are still productive at midnight and chose to sleep late don't get any credit.

__________

Her Majesty is one of those people. The problem arises when she needs (or just wants) my assistance then. I get very grouchy when I'm sleepy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 09:46 AM (tgvbd)

171 This is what I note about Scott Adam’s life: his actual life was always a moral and honorable one.

*******

Peter (2 Peter Ch. 1) instructs the early Church disciples in how to grow in their faith. It starts with an attitude of virtue/morality, then seeking knowledge/truth, applying self-restraint, diligence, then seeking godliness and eventually growing in brotherly love and agape love/charity.

It's a process. And there will be setbacks.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:46 AM (qgHp7)

172 I’m not sure it’s possible for Sydney Sweeney to be overexposed… IYKWIMAITYD

Hubba hubba

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:48 AM (xT8gx)

173 We agree she's got great genes. Which resulted in great golden globes.

Posted by: Guys everywhere at January 31, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)

174 At what was the lowest point in my life, and I was alone, an elderly couples stopped by my table at a McDonald's. The man gave me a prayer card. Not Jehovah's witness, just people. And this has never happened before or since.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Xbquz)
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Nah the lowest point in anyone's life would be at an Arby's.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

175 With only talk and a occasional picture of Sydney can't say I am tired of her

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 09:51 AM (Ia/+0)

176 "Be kind, be nice. Being Pretti good isn't good enough."

That made me chuckle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 09:51 AM (vWWqj)

177 Is being Pretti good better than being Renee Good?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 31, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

178 And yet...

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 09:43 AM (Riz8t)
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That does not refute my position. In dysfunctional cities, you get dysfunctional law enforcement.

Another piece that I should address is the scope of voter fraud. I think we will find that the margin of fraud may be 20% in some jurisdictions. The slow, methodical grind is going to expose that bit by bit, which is another reason for the paid riots which - to be very clear - end the minute local cops are allowed to shut it down.

There's a lot of bad-mouthing police here, and I will say that based on accounts I've seen, the inner city cops are either hopelessly corrupt, time-servers watching the calendar or rookies trying to build a resume until they can transfer out and at this late day, the skew is heavily toward the third group. Portland the Seattle famously are undermanned, and they are getting the least qualified applicants.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)

179 Nah the lowest point in anyone's life would be at an Arby's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Pfffft! White Castle has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 09:54 AM (cYBz/)

180 I liked the story of the couple and their giving you a prayer card. Thanks, JM in IL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 09:54 AM (vWWqj)

181 Anybody else sick of Sweeney? Talk about overexposed. I blame Big Sweeney.

I don't care about her one way or the other except that my ideological opponents seem to hate her which pleases me. Because I'm petty that way. Otherwise, she seems like someone who knows that her popularity is time limited and is making the most of it while she can. I can admire that.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM (Fs0KI)

182 Cities aren't dysfunctional. People are.

Posted by: The ghost of Don Rumsfeld at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

183 I never got White Castle. I always found those tiny burgers irritating.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

184 I know for a fact (because my daughter was going to go into law enforcement) that Detroit PD is basically the McDonalds of cop shops, the starter job you take upon graduation. The more desirable departments want to see some on the job experience, and Detroit is a good place to get it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

185 The upshot: this was not a brilliant strategy by the left, but a desperate spoiling attack. The fraud coming out is only going to get worse, and Walz had to move before he was indicted.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

Agree completely! Emotionally we would love to see the insurrection act invoked, but rationally it isn’t needed. For all the uproar, there’s only a small number of people involved in creating disturbances in Minneapolis; maybe 2,000 max? A compliant and sensationalistic media amplifies them and works to make them appear to be far greater than they actually are. (And idiots trying to get themselves shot give the media everything they want)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 09:56 AM (ai6/n)

186 Nah the lowest point in anyone's life would be at an Arby's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Pfffft! White Castle has entered the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2026 09:54 AM (cYBz/)

Locally, Burger Kings are sad and forlorn places. Sketchy, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2026 09:56 AM (wVcYX)

187 Demons Wilson
Katherine O'Hara

Who will be the third?

Morning peeps!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 09:57 AM (2J/Lj)

188 "Otherwise, she seems like someone who knows that her popularity is time limited and is making the most of it while she can. I can admire that."
###

Is this about me?

Posted by: Tay Tay at January 31, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

189 We used to go to the White Castle a lot when I was a yute. I took Mrs. F. on her first visit back East with me and there was an "unpleasant incident" among the customers while we ate that freaked her out. Hey, it's White Castle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

190 I know for a fact (because my daughter was going to go into law enforcement) that Detroit PD is basically the McDonalds of cop shops, the starter job you take upon graduation. The more desirable departments want to see some on the job experience, and Detroit is a good place to get it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

*laughs* That's why I love Beverly Hills, L.A.!

Posted by: Det. Axel Foley at January 31, 2026 09:59 AM (wVcYX)

191 The sad thing about Sweeney is that we just to have dozens of hot chicks in the public eye. Go back to the 80s and count the babes on TV and in film. Even into the 90s there was lots of fresh talent rising.

A whole generation has been deprived of attractive, good-natured women in the public eye. No wonder the men are porn addicts and the women are filled with hate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

192 I never got White Castle. I always found those tiny burgers irritating.
Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

They’re unique no doubt. I used to enjoy eating 10 in one sitting when I was a kid and parents had us visiting relatives in Chicago area… not for regular consumption but a nice occasional treat

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 09:59 AM (xT8gx)

193 Back from a visit to the market. Once again, there were adorable kids riding in carts that looked like cars drive and with their parents. Two little blonde girls with their hair in pigtails who must have been about three and five and an absolutely adorable boy with the most beautiful red hair who looked about four. He gave me the biggest smile when I told he and his dad how lovely his hair is. I
Am always happy at seeing the kids because it reminds me of them our son was little.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 10:00 AM (vWWqj)

194 I found a good recipe for mock White Castle on allrecipes.com

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

195 183 I never got White Castle. I always found those tiny burgers irritating.
Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 09:55 AM

+++++
Come see me.

Posted by: Krystal at January 31, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

196 Aaaaaand snow flurries.

God, I love Global Warmenarmening.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at January 31, 2026 10:01 AM (FIwBs)

197 Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 09:46 AM

Nice passage. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 10:01 AM (vWWqj)

198 Multiple explosions across Iran happening

The Saudis have completely reversed their position about involvement against Iran and purchased 9 billion worth of patriot missiles
Iran, China and Russia are conducting joint exercises in the Straight of Hormuz now.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:02 AM (0KSrI)

199 The first lawsuit by a detransitioner has been settled in NY. She won a 2 million judgement against the surgeon, operation performed when she was 16. Goes to X

https://tinyurl.com/2p9rmc5u

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 10:02 AM (+mUZM)

200 193 Fen, same here. I love seeing the kids in the supermarket, because it also reminds me of my son when he was little.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

201 "Otherwise, she seems like someone who knows that her popularity is time limited and is making the most of it while she can. I can admire that."
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Is this about me?
Posted by: Tay Tay

Not really. She's been earning gobs of money for 20+ years now. Like her or not, she's successful because millions of people want to give her money. I admire that too.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 10:02 AM (Fs0KI)

202 Quetico-Superior National Forest, and the Boundary Waters, Voyagers National Park and millions of acres of surrounding lakes and forests were “closed” during the lockdowns. I prodded a Minnesota squarehead about this, he had no problem whatsoever with that. Really weird, I don’t grok how people can’t think at even a basic level anymore.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:03 AM (itAZI)

203 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at January 31, 2026 10:04 AM (HFx9z)

204 That does not refute my position. In dysfunctional cities, you get dysfunctional law enforcement.

The question is WHY the cities are dysfunctional and have the law enforcement they do. I submit that it's because the people in those cities vote for it. The overlap between blue voting and rioting ultimately reflects what a substantial portion of the people in those cities demand.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:04 AM (Riz8t)

205 BREAKING: 1st Detransitioner to Take a Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit to Trial Wins $2 Million Judgement
Fox Varian sued her Westchester, NY, area psychologist and plastic surgeon for the gender-transition mastectomy she got at 16.

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A pox on both their houses. She was in it up to her eyeballs and they exploited a mentally ill person.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:05 AM (J+Psw)

206 My grandson, Fella, has been battling a cold. It is now an ear infection. He's on amoxicillin and getting better. Poor Fella was feeling awful so I am very happy and relieved that he is improving.
And he's getting two teeth!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:05 AM (2J/Lj)

207 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

208 Multiple explosions across Iran happening...Iran, China and Russia are conducting joint exercises in the Straight of Hormuz now.

Source? Sounds like things are about to get spicy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:06 AM (Riz8t)

209 Multiple explosions across Iran happening

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:02 AM (0KSrI)
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I think we are seeing battlespace prep. b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

210 Not really. She's been earning gobs of money for 20+ years now. Like her or not, she's successful because millions of people want to give her money. I admire that too.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 10:02 AM (Fs0KI)
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Swift's longevity is in part because her fan base has aged with her. There was an article buy a guy who went to a concert with his wife, and it was heavily into 30-somethings rather than teenagers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)

211 Archimedes, Tousi TV. Videos supplied with time stamps.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:07 AM (0KSrI)

212 The last time I ate at a BK, the drive through gal was a bit surly, or seething and managed to say not a single word. No thank you or your welcome or come again or anything. I decided BK doesn’t need my money.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (itAZI)

213 Jim Acosta cuts through the bullshit.

Jim Acosta: Trump is a racist, and that’s why he went after Don Lemon.
“He likes to f**k with Don because he’s black."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (J+Psw)

214 Lamont the Big Dummy from Sanford and Sons has died. Demond Wilson was 79 and a Vietnam combat vet with a Purple Heart.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (zQwXC)

215 I really liked White Castle when I was a child for some reason. Don't have any where I am now, so perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (0U5gm)

216 SanFranpsycho, agreed. The Saudi turn around is huge.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (0KSrI)

217 Archimedes, Tousi TV. Videos supplied with time stamps.

Thanks. I haven't seen them before.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

218 The question is WHY the cities are dysfunctional and have the law enforcement they do. I submit that it's because the people in those cities vote for it. The overlap between blue voting and rioting ultimately reflects what a substantial portion of the people in those cities demand.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:04 AM (Riz8t)
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To a certain extent, but the voter fraud explanation can't be discarded. Michigan used to have much cleaner elections, and Detroit actually elected a white mayor who promised law and order - and delivered.

That's the dog that isn't barking, btw. Detroit shut down BLM quick. No white Ann Arborite check is going downtown to the D and starting anything.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)

219 214 Lamont the Big Dummy from Sanford and Sons has died. Demond Wilson was 79 and a Vietnam combat vet with a Purple Heart.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (zQwXC)

His first name was Grady.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:09 AM (2J/Lj)

220 You get what you tolerate.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)
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I've said this to my people a thousand times. Your silence is your approval.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:09 AM (RIvkX)

221 206 MMH, I hope you’re spoiling that little guy to the wild excess that only a grandmother is capable of.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

222 It's in the JPost too

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:10 AM (RIvkX)

223 I remember my mom was enthusiastic about White Castle burgers. They were extirpated on our range, so I never had any. I guess they were good, but. Had to order about 10 of them is my understanding.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:11 AM (itAZI)

224 Jim Acosta: Trump is a racist, and that’s why he went after Don Lemon.
“He likes to f**k with Don because he’s black."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (J+Psw)
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Jim Acosta liked to f*ck with Trump because Trump's rich, successful, and a happy warrior.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 10:11 AM (kpS4V)

225 My grandson, Fella, has been battling a cold.

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On a happier note, my toddler grandson has learned a new word, Denis. Denis Denis penis. Everything is penis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:11 AM (J+Psw)

226 I really liked White Castle when I was a child for some reason. Don't have any where I am now, so perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (0U5gm)
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I have them from the frozen food section and they are good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)

227 On a happier note, my toddler grandson has learned a new word, Denis. Denis Denis penis. Everything is penis.Denis.

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Well, I see autocucumber is only beginning to learn that word.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:13 AM (J+Psw)

228 On a happier note, my toddler grandson has learned a new word, Denis. Denis Denis penis. Everything is penis.

Sounds good. He's ready to join us.

Posted by: The AOSHQ recruitment bureau at January 31, 2026 10:13 AM (Riz8t)

229 225 My son went through a phase where every other word out of his mouth (and sometimes every word) was “butt.”

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

230 On a happier note, my toddler grandson has learned a new word, Denis. Denis Denis penis. Everything is penis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:11 AM (J+Psw)
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All he needs is "boobs" and he's ready to start posting.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

231 A few Numbers from Fulton County:

Swapping of 35 memory cards during a live election
20,713 ballots attributed to ten advance voting machines with no provenance
3,930 ballots intentionally scanned and counted more than once for the recount
103.6 percent and 113.8 percent “citizen voting age population registered to vote”
Fulton County’s official records include 22,534 more ballots cast than voters

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 31, 2026 10:14 AM (gbOdA)

232 SanFranpsycho, I only read. Aruz Sheva or Yedioth Ahronoth

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:14 AM (0KSrI)

233 Iran is being plagued by simultaneous explosions across the country....how iiiiinteresting!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:14 AM (g47mK)

234 Jim Acosta pops up suddenly and he’s as retarded as ever…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 10:14 AM (xT8gx)

235 A retired AF Col. gave me a rosary and asked me to pray for the veterans. So, I alternate using that one and a "Combat Rosary" that I purchased.

Combat rosaries were originally made for WWI out of gun metal. The Pope granted indulgences to any soldier carrying it when he died. They had leftovers in warehouses when WWII started so those were issued. More were then manufactured.

I have a dear respect for veterans of combat. Oh what horror they must have seen.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:15 AM (qFwJc)

236 Lamont the Big Dummy from Sanford and Sons has died. Demond Wilson was 79 and a Vietnam combat vet with a Purple Heart.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 31, 2026 10:08 AM (zQwXC)

His first name was Grady.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

RIP.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:15 AM (J+Psw)

237 Well, Iranian state TV is reporting it too!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:15 AM (g47mK)

238 "For I know the plans I have for you, sayeth the Lord -
Plans to prosper you and not to harm you;
Plans to give you a hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11

Haven't been to church in many years (mostly due to physical restrictions). But my faith is always there; always has been, for some reason. I have never had any problem reconciling my engineering and scientific proclivities with the existence of God.

Mine is a quiet faith; I like it that way. Hubby says I am one of the most fearless people he knows. That must be God working through me, because I have never thought of myself that way - I fear lots of things. All I know is that I trust that all will be well, even if "well" is not the outcome that I want.

Everyone's faith is different, but God made each one of us different, so I am not surprised.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 31, 2026 10:15 AM (SRRAx)

239 It appears that Don 'Cheesedick' Lemon just doesn't get it.

For him to lash out defiantly, after his release, at the DOJ for his trespasses is not sinking in to his diseased, 'journalist' brain.

What the DOJ did was give him a warning shot across the bow.

If he chooses to pull another stunt like he did, it is almost guaranteed the parishioners of the church will beat him down and the DOJ will not be there to save him.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (oT7pT)

240 runner, IRGC is claiming that it is gas line explosions.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (0KSrI)

241 There was a time before White Castle.

In Wheaton, MD there was Little Tavern. It was a small joint with a few booths and a counter. They sold little, square burgers "by the bag." Onions were standard.

After a long night of boozing it up in D.C. (when the legal drinking age for hard liquor was 1

that place was the bomb. Open 24X7.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (jtM2q)

242 When our son was a toddler he didn’t enunciate the T properly… he’d get all excited at the sight of firemen and he’d shout out: Firefuck!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (xT8gx)

243 I still maintain it isn’t “voters” largely or even smallely effecting the fraud.

It is election precinct officials, among others. Election fraud is a better and more accurate description. Credit where credit is due, and places the focus where it should be.

“There is no widespread voter fraud” is completely missing the point. It does not need to be widespread. A few precincts can flip the whole state, and a few states can flip the whole election.

We cannot allow unscrupulous people to “frame” the issues, and use neutral, euphemistic weasel words and phrases.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (itAZI)

244 drinking age was 18...

Geeze....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 10:17 AM (jtM2q)

245 Bandar Abbas, Tehran, Akvaz, Tabriz. All over the place! and possibly more!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:17 AM (g47mK)

246 IRGC is claiming that it is gas line explosions.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (0KSrI)

as in June 2025

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:17 AM (g47mK)

247 runner, Qom also

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2026 10:17 AM (0KSrI)

248 Faith and Science are orthogonal.

Neither negates the other.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:17 AM (qFwJc)

249 Don 'Cheesedick' Lemon
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The forgotten Globetrotter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 31, 2026 10:18 AM (kpS4V)

250 MMH, I hope you’re spoiling that little guy to the wild excess that only a grandmother is capable of.
Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

I most definitely am! I'm gonna have to up my game though. Hubbymayhem (aka grandpa) is getting dedicated to over the top. Yesterday, he bought a scroll saw for the shop. Because..
A) it was there and only cost $25.
B) he wanted one.
C) he's going to build a rocking horse for Fella. It will actually be a giraffe. A rocking giraffe.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:18 AM (2J/Lj)

251 Explosiona all over Iran, irgc targets being hit in several cities. Tousi is covering it now and the reports keep coming in.

Best guess so far is drone strikes. My guess is cia/mossad going crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNCXvoBxgY

Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 31, 2026 10:19 AM (89Sog)

252 235 A retired AF Col. gave me a rosary and asked me to pray for the veterans. So, I alternate using that one and a "Combat Rosary" that I purchased.

Combat rosaries were originally made for WWI out of gun metal. The Pope granted indulgences to any soldier carrying it when he died. They had leftovers in warehouses when WWII started so those were issued. More were then manufactured.

I have a dear respect for veterans of combat. Oh what horror they must have seen.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:15 AM (qFwJc)
Those GI rosaries used to be available online at Keep Shooting.

Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2026 10:19 AM (ENvs6)

253 248 Religion, science, and art all come from the same place: Humanity’s need to make sense of the world.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

254 When our son was a toddler he didn’t enunciate the T properly… he’d get all excited at the sight of firemen and he’d shout out: Firefuck!!
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I’m revealing my age, but on one of the Apollo missions, 16 I think, with Duke and Young, they discovered moon rocks with Vesicles. I was a rockhound, though I had lost my front teeth about that time. So I was running around excited “They found rocks with Vethickles!” Vethickles!” and I never heard the end of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:19 AM (itAZI)

255 We cannot allow unscrupulous people to “frame” the issues, and use neutral, euphemistic weasel words and phrases.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:16 AM (itAZI)
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The late night vote dump flipped Michigan. Biden got more votes than Obama in 2012.

Weirdly, when Obama was on the ballot in 2008, it was a statewide bloodbath for the GOP. In 2020, the House GOP retained its majority. Anyone who knew Michigan politics knew what happened.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

256 Here in Brevard County, FL we're getting ready for a freeze.

I don't have a fixed source of heat other than the stove and oven. My house was built in the 50's (like me!)

I've got a little space hearer from Amazon that works well and an electric blanket. The house has been retrofitted with foot of blown in insulation and double pane windows and holds heat pretty well.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2026 10:20 AM (jnZe8)

257 My FiL wanted my son to know all the anatomical parts.

I taught my son the word "penis" and what it meant.

So, at dinner, my FiL asks "Where is your elbow?" etc.

I finally ask "Where is your penis?"

It was hilarious.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:20 AM (qFwJc)

258 Holy city of Qom, is now Holly city of Qom...

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:20 AM (g47mK)

259 I have them from the frozen food section and they are good.

Correct. Almost as good as fresh from the store. Microwave 30 seconds each side wrapped in a paper towel. Plus in and hour or 2 you will get cleaned out just like the real thing.

Posted by: Colon Blow at January 31, 2026 10:20 AM (R/m4+)

260 Israel made an official statement and said they are not involved. Too far from home....

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:21 AM (g47mK)

261 Good morning all.
Still freezing here in the DMV but this got me moving this morning.
https://tinyurl.com/5x2b78hp
Love
Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 31, 2026 10:22 AM (t/2Uw)

262 191 The sad thing about Sweeney is that we used to have dozens of hot chicks in the public eye. Go back to the 80s and count the babes on TV and in film. Even into the 90s there was lots of fresh talent rising.”

One of the ONT’s this week had a David Lee Roth video, watched it for the memories. I think every David Lee Roth video made the point that you just did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 10:22 AM (IUuBi)

263 Combat rosaries were originally made for WWI out of gun metal.
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I found a small pocket Bible in a box of stuff, one of uncles from WWII, the cover was 1/8” steel plate or manganese or something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2026 10:23 AM (itAZI)

264 And Lemon is a Cultural Marxist interfering with a religious ceremony.

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 10:23 AM (Ia/+0)

265
Combat rosaries were originally made for WWI out of gun metal.

__________

Still made. Used by the Swiss Guards. I have two. Just right for my big hands.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 10:24 AM (tgvbd)

266 260 Israel made an official statement and said they are not involved. Too far from home....
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:21 AM (g47mK)

Oh, so they ARE involved! This could be serious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 10:24 AM (IUuBi)

267 You can buy them at "CatholicGear.com" Lifetime warranty. Mine got into a knot and I broke it trying untie the knot. I mailed it back and they replaced the five decades. It still has the original crucifix and short strand. It's great. The chrome (I got the chrome-plated one) is worn off of the crucifix. Brass, I think, underneath.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:24 AM (qFwJc)

268 266 260 Israel made an official statement and said they are not involved. Too far from home....
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:21 AM (g47mK)

Oh, so they ARE involved! This could be serious.

We won't know for sure until we see sharks with Joo lasers on their heads.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:26 AM (Riz8t)

269 Israel's official statement:

Wink wink nudge nudge saynomore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 10:26 AM (RIvkX)

270 Israel made an official statement and said they are not involved. Too far from home....
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:21 AM (g47mK)

Ummm...You think the mad mulluh is gonna take that face value?

Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 31, 2026 10:26 AM (qMgJx)

271 Well, it's rosary time and then other tasks. BBL

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 10:27 AM (qFwJc)

272 Couldn't mtal beads clink around I wonder

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 10:27 AM (Ia/+0)

273 @165 A.H. , I agree but the brainless leftist sheep are still yelling brainlessly. Not that it's having any impact, but they aren't listening.
We had that idiot rally yesterday and it was a large turnout here. However a good sign is the #of people who were fighting back in my local rags comment section was much larger than I have seen before.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 10:27 AM (IDEQi)

274 MTG defended Don Lemon and his actions.

As if you couldn't hate her more already.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 10:28 AM (cwGMH)

275 Oh, so they ARE involved! This could be serious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 10:24 AM (IUuBi)

Tom.... THEY.ARE.NOT.INVOLVED. THEY SAID SO. Where is the evidence ??? HUH, do the MULLAHS have evidence??
no, the mullahs have no evidence. was not them....

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:28 AM (g47mK)

276 MTG is in the performance art stage of her career.
Best to ignore whatever she says.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:29 AM (qpQFJ)

277 Ummm...You think the mad mulluh is gonna take that face value?
Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 31, 2026 10:26 AM (qMgJx)

they better

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:29 AM (g47mK)

278

𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt
@WHLeavi
🚨🇮🇷Iran Breaking: Massive US-Israeli-UK buildup: 550+ aircraft, carrier group, huge fuel capacity for deep strikes. Largest non-war deployment ever seen.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 31, 2026 10:29 AM (t/2Uw)

279 @274 saw a clip of Bill Maher's rant about celebrities. The guests were MTG and Joe Scarborough. To turncoat scumbags

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 10:30 AM (IDEQi)

280 Pete Buttpirate is on Fox with Kaleigh McEnany

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 10:31 AM (IDEQi)

281 Yesterday, he bought a scroll saw for the shop. Because..
A) it was there and only cost $25.
B) he wanted one.
C) he's going to build a rocking horse for Fella. It will actually be a giraffe. A rocking giraffe.

I see no flaw in this logic.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 10:31 AM (Fs0KI)

282 MTG is in the performance art stage of her career.
Best to ignore whatever she says.
Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:29 AM (qpQFJ)

She is the enemy now so hard to ignore unless one believes that's the best strategy to defeat the Left.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 10:31 AM (cwGMH)

283 You gotta hand it to mtg. From a nobody, to a back bencher to celebrity in only a few years. She grifted beautifully.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:31 AM (qpQFJ)

284 I am not Catholic. Hubbymayhem left the Catholic church decades ago. We have four rosaries. One that my grandma got from her aunt and I wound up with it somehow. The other three are from Hubbymayhem. One was his, one belonged to his dad, and one given to him by his ex father in law. They hang in the dining room window. That window offers a lovely view of the field and wooded area behind the house and doesn't have curtains. The rosaries enhance the view.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2J/Lj)

285 OMG! IT'S THE APOCALYPSE!

Federal Government Enters Partial Shutdown Again as Democrats Revolt over DHS Funding

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:32 AM (J+Psw)

286 Fkn Marxists circle the wagons every time

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 10:32 AM (Ia/+0)

287 gold and silver dropped like.. a lot

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:32 AM (g47mK)

288 There are no explosions! It was a water leak, which has now spread to other cities!

Posted by: Mohammed al-Raffensperger at January 31, 2026 10:33 AM (0e5Te)

289 285 OMG! IT'S THE APOCALYPSE!

Federal Government Enters Partial Shutdown Again as Democrats Revolt over DHS Funding
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:32 AM (J+Psw)

Normally I would be setting my hair on fire over this. But the snow storm last week killed me so I’m no longer worried.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:34 AM (qpQFJ)

290 214 Lamont the Big Dummy from Sanford and Sons has died. Demond Wilson was 79 and a Vietnam combat vet with a Purple Heart.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert

RIP. There's a video out there with him telling stories; he didn't have much use for Redd Fox.

Posted by: Auspex at January 31, 2026 10:34 AM (Y8DZL)

291 Even the government must get shut down in the name of Illegals.
They want to die on that hill or live to rule the country with Illegals and fraud voting

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 10:34 AM (Ia/+0)

292 If the Islamic terrorists, Chinese communists and Narco cartels could do only one thing to help their cause it would be to not fund DHS.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 10:34 AM (cwGMH)

293 of course gold and silver did, those are just useless commodities that sit in bank vaults and do nothing but bring assurance to assorted dictators across the globe

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:34 AM (g47mK)

294 Saw the mom from Home Alone died but no date I know of

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 10:35 AM (Ia/+0)

295 RIP. There's a video out there with him telling stories; he didn't have much use for Redd Fox.

Um, except for his whole career.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 10:35 AM (Fs0KI)

296 My pet eagles lost their first clutch of 2026...kinda sad, but there is still time for a second clutch.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:36 AM (g47mK)

297 Um, except for his whole career.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 10:35 AM (Fs0KI)

Heh

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 10:36 AM (cwGMH)

298 Batch of sourdough bread in process and rack of ribs getting ready for the smoker/grill. Cole slaw and baked beans.

Be here by 6 pm. Bring a dessert.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 10:36 AM (qgHp7)

299 Be here by 6 pm. Bring a dessert.
Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2026 10:36 AM (qgHp7)

Pistachio ice cream OK?

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:37 AM (g47mK)

300
Even the government must get shut down in the name of Illegals.

_____________

Are these illegals that everyone is getting worked up about ICE going after just roofers and cleaning ladies or do they have actual criminal records apart from their immigration status?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 10:38 AM (tgvbd)

301 It's utopia!

Virginia Dems Want to Tax Gym Memberships, Amazon Orders, Leaf Blowers and More

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:38 AM (J+Psw)

302 The Budweiser Super Bowl ad is awesome. I thought they didn't release their ads before the game. Either I was misinformed or.... Even Budweiser knows no one is going to watch that game.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:38 AM (2J/Lj)

303 Tom.... THEY.ARE.NOT.INVOLVED. THEY SAID SO. Where is the evidence ??? HUH, do the MULLAHS have evidence??
no, the mullahs have no evidence. was not them....

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:28 AM (g47mK)

Come now, don’t you remember the iron rule of confirmation? Never believe ANY story until it’s been officially denied!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 10:39 AM (IUuBi)

304 I thought Scott Adams' deathbed conversion was very moving and telling in its imperfection.

It reminds me of one of my own favorite prayers, which goes something like:

“Lord, I believe. Help me in my unbelief.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2026 10:39 AM (EXyHK)

305
Virginia Dems Want to Tax Gym Memberships, Amazon Orders, Leaf Blowers and More

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

___________

All money belongs to the government. They will let you know how much you're allowed to keep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 10:40 AM (tgvbd)

306 301 It's utopia!

Virginia Dems Want to Tax Gym Memberships, Amazon Orders, Leaf Blowers and More

They want to ban gas-powered leaf blowers, and then tax electric leaf blowers. No, I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

307 Heh. The Myrtle Beach polar bear swim has been cancelled due to .....cold weather

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 10:40 AM (IDEQi)

308 Once again my horrid nemesis, snow, has appeared on my doorstep, in feigned fluffy innocence, threatening eternal glaciers.

BACK! BACK! FOUL DANDER! I REBUKE YOU! IN THE NAME OF COCA-COLA AND ALL THE FOWL POWERS, THE BIG CHICKEN, THE DIRTY BIRD, CHICK-FIL-A, I COMMAND YOU TO LEAVE THIS PLACE AND NEVER RETURN!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 31, 2026 10:41 AM (3uBP9)

309 And today was a record for our cat. He did not even go out the door for thirty seconds. We opened the door. He hesitated in the open door for about five seconds and came right back in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 10:41 AM (WFtAr)

310 Virginia Dems Want to Tax Gym Memberships, Amazon Orders, Leaf Blowers and More

It's all in the name of "affordability". You know, what they ran on.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 10:41 AM (Riz8t)

311 Still no snow but it's expected in the next hour. The last forecasts I read last night were off by at least 6-7 hours. Gotta love the unpredictable weather.

Posted by: Farquad at January 31, 2026 10:41 AM (CFMhl)

312 Virginia Dems Want to Tax Gym Memberships, Amazon Orders, Leaf Blowers and More
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:38 AM (J+Psw)

Good.
And.
Hard.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:42 AM (qpQFJ)

313 The Myrtle Beach polar bear swim has been cancelled due to .....cold weather

===

*Shakes head...

Posted by: Door County Bear Swim Club at January 31, 2026 10:42 AM (g47mK)

314 Who coulda seen it coming?

“Wonder Man” Turns a Fun Marvel Hero Into Gloomy DEI Sludge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:42 AM (J+Psw)

315 It reminds me of one of my own favorite prayers, which goes something like:

“Lord, I believe. Help me in my unbelief.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

My most often uttered prayer is.... Lord, please either help me to not kill this idiot or help me stay out of prison and Hell for killing this idiot.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:42 AM (2J/Lj)

316 2" of snowfall in upstate SC so far.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 10:43 AM (AQToA)

317 and rack of ribs getting ready for the smoker/grill. Cole slaw and baked beans.

Be here by 6 pm. Bring a dessert.
Posted by: muldoon

. . .
On my way.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)

318 lets settle this once and for all

KALAMAZOO COFFEE COMPANY Maple Bacon Whole Bean Coffee - There Ain't No Mistakin' Maple Bacon Flavored Coffee | 12oz Bag (1 Pack)

there is heaven

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 10:45 AM (jrgJz)

319 Is this something?

Saw a headline from an ABC news affiliate: 600 Illegal Immigrants arrested in West Virginia.

The term illegal was used instead of the bullshit undocumented. Stood out to me. Maybe it’s nothing. But maybe it’s a shift.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:45 AM (qpQFJ)

320 Saw the mom from Home Alone died but no date I know of
Posted by: Skip

Yesterday.

Posted by: Tuna at January 31, 2026 10:46 AM (lJ0H4)

321 314 Who coulda seen it coming?

“Wonder Man” Turns a Fun Marvel Hero Into Gloomy DEI Sludge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:42 AM (J+Psw)

Could tell from the trailer it would be bad but it's worse than I thought. Wonderman was a cool character back in the day, too

Posted by: Farquad at January 31, 2026 10:46 AM (CFMhl)

322 *Virginia Dems Want to Tax Gym Memberships, Amazon Orders, Leaf Blowers and More*

Amateurs.

Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at January 31, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)

323 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

May God shower blessings on all his beloved children today.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 31, 2026 10:48 AM (kB9dk)

324 318 lets settle this once and for all

KALAMAZOO COFFEE COMPANY Maple Bacon Whole Bean Coffee - There Ain't No Mistakin' Maple Bacon Flavored Coffee | 12oz Bag (1 Pack)

there is heaven

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 10:45 AM (jrgJz)

Haha, I knew something like this would pop up given the top image. Good find.

Posted by: Farquad at January 31, 2026 10:48 AM (CFMhl)

325 Surely this move by VA Dems will lead to a red tsunami in the state in November. Right? Lol.

Of course not. They’ll vote Democrat once again probably by even larger numbers . So fuck ‘em all. Enjoy your new taxes assholes.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (qpQFJ)

326 Runner at 296, I'm sad about those eagles too. yes, hoping for another clutch.

Posted by: skywch at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (uqhmb)

327 We're in good hands.

Twenty GOP Lawmakers Vote Against Cutting $5B in Refugee Welfare From Funding Package

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (J+Psw)

328 "Votes."
That's cute.

Posted by: Dominion Systems at January 31, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)

329 Twenty GOP Lawmakers Vote Against Cutting $5B in Refugee Welfare From Funding Package
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (J+Psw)

Thank Allah.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:50 AM (qpQFJ)

330 I'm sad about those eagles too. yes, hoping for another clutch.
Posted by: skywch at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (uqhmb)

they've done it before ! also, apparently the eggs were already damaged? before the crows got to them. that is what some are saying...

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 10:53 AM (g47mK)

331 The Budweiser Super Bowl ad is awesome. I thought they didn't release their ads before the game. Either I was misinformed or.... Even Budweiser knows no one is going to watch that game.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

Just watched it. It is indeed awesome.

Posted by: Tuna at January 31, 2026 10:53 AM (lJ0H4)

332 Soup and Bread Bowl Ads have been released pre game for a while now.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:54 AM (qpQFJ)

333 A big part of Virginia going for Spangenberg was the Fed government workers being fired or being pissed at Trump. They are taking out their anger on the rest of the state. Eff them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 10:54 AM (IDEQi)

334 Twenty GOP Lawmakers Vote Against Cutting $5B in Refugee Welfare From Funding Package
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (J+Psw)

“Twenty GOP lawmakers admit that they and their relatives are receiving direct payments from the Refugee Funding program.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 10:54 AM (IUuBi)

335 The Budweiser Super Bowl ad is awesome. I thought they didn't release their ads before the game. Either I was misinformed or.... Even Budweiser knows no one is going to watch that game.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 31, 2026 10:38 AM (2J/Lj)

Am I the only one here who thinks that ad is just cynical manipulation to try to erase the memory of the Dylan Mulvaney transvesty?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 10:55 AM (8zz6B)

336 A big part of Virginia going for Spangenberg was the Fed government workers being fired or being pissed at Trump. They are taking out their anger on the rest of the state. Eff them
Posted by: Smell

Those people always vote Democrat. The shift was from somewhere else.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 10:55 AM (qpQFJ)

337 The true cause of Pearl Harbor.

China Claims Pokémon Spreads “Japanese Militarism” Following Shrine Event

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:55 AM (J+Psw)

338 Surely this move by VA Dems will lead to a red tsunami in the state in November. Right? Lol.

Of course not. They’ll vote Democrat once again probably by even larger numbers . So fuck ‘em all. Enjoy your new taxes assholes.
Posted by: Really??

Yep. Can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 10:55 AM (AQToA)

339 @330, yes I saw that too about there already being a crack. And just saw something that said the female has already cleaned out the nest, maybe in preparation for more.

Posted by: skywch at January 31, 2026 10:58 AM (uqhmb)

340 Both mine were out for awhile. Mr Trouble went out again at 6. When I called him at 8:30, he ran full speed to the door. Moves pretty fast for a fat cat. Has not been out today.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 10:58 AM (+mUZM)

341 Hampton Roads area has gotten very progressive over the years. A lot of military, but lots of federal workers, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2026 10:58 AM (AQToA)

342 We aspire to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at January 31, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)

343 @339 yes!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 11:00 AM (g47mK)

344 Didn’t anyone learn lessons from the whole ultra woke era of ads?

Companies give no fucks either way. They go with what they perceive as being the “in thing”. For a while it was trannies and obese black women in ads. Now the vibe has shifted somewhat back to normalcy and patriotism. So Bud and everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon with ‘Murica ads. It’s a business move. Bud gives no fucks about you or America or anything other than the dollar.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 11:00 AM (qpQFJ)

345 Am I the only one here who thinks that ad is just cynical manipulation to try to erase the memory of the Dylan Mulvaney transvesty?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 10:55 AM (8zz6B)

If I was artistic director, I would have made an ad with Dylan Mulvaney prancing down a country road, and suddenly the Clydesdale’s come around the corner and run him down. Then the wagon stops, the horses back up, and they stomp on his body for about a minute. Then they all piss on what’s left, and sail off to heroic music playing.

I wonder if I could tell grok to make that video.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 11:01 AM (IUuBi)

346 Bananas and rice! And coffee and bacon!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 11:02 AM (oT7pT)

347 Am I the only one here who thinks that ad is just cynical manipulation to try to erase the memory of the Dylan Mulvaney transvesty?

You are not. However, those responsible for the original fiasco have not been sacked, so f*** them.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

348 334 Twenty GOP Lawmakers Vote Against Cutting $5B in Refugee Welfare From Funding Package
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (J+Psw)

“Twenty GOP lawmakers admit that they and their relatives are receiving direct payments from the Refugee Funding program.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January

We have no responsibility to save the rest of the world. No matter what that watermelon headed dork Cornyn says.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 31, 2026 11:03 AM (4b7CV)

349 We have no responsibility to save the rest of the world. No matter what that watermelon headed dork Cornyn says.

I think Cornyn knows he's going down this time, so YOLO.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

350 There are far more civilian workers here that actual military.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 11:04 AM (TW/3a)

351 It's not your fault.

Abby Phillip describes how her job at CNN is to explain "the facts" to conservatives who live in "a completely different information world."
"Because when you don't ever even hear the facts, it's hard to even know that you're wrong.""Half my job sometimes is knowing what the latest conspiracy is."
This was said to the nodding approval of the always-factual and not-at-all conspiratorial...Joy Reid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 31, 2026 11:04 AM (J+Psw)

352 Problem is every time a shithead like Cornyn goes away a new one rises to the top to become the new Maverick.

I saw the Ohio senator who replaced Vance is super excited about working with Dems on “DHS reform”.

Posted by: Really?? at January 31, 2026 11:09 AM (qpQFJ)

353 Nood.

Posted by: Nooding Noodler at January 31, 2026 11:09 AM (2Ez/1)

354 I posted this prayer once before. Don't know where I came across it, but it seems to apply to the Horde--one commenter said it should be called The Horde's Prayer:

Lord, grant me patience.
Because if you give me strength,
I'm going to need a lot of bail money.

Posted by: Wenda at January 31, 2026 11:09 AM (r2BmP)

355 Was stationed in Hampton 81-2, looked at Google maps every once in awhile and don't recognize the area or base anymore

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 11:09 AM (Ia/+0)

356 I lived in NoVA back in the late '80s and early '90s. It was progressively intolerant back then. Mostly through entities like HOA's and municipalities (the city of Alexandria's government, for example.) Petty tyrants on the board or some some commission that felt the need to make everyone's life miserable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (jtM2q)

357 Oh no AOC is bitching at Nicki Minaj about her support for Trump. Cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (IDEQi)

358 NOOD

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (g47mK)

359 >>Am I the only one here who thinks that ad is just cynical manipulation to try to erase the memory of the Dylan Mulvaney transvesty?

Nope. Screw InBev

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Y1sOo)

360 Be here by 6 pm. Bring a dessert.
Posted by: muldoon
----
I've been know to make an okay chocolate chip cookie.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 31, 2026 11:12 AM (VCgbV)

361 The Budweiser Super Bowl ad is awesome.
------
Just watched it. It is indeed awesome.

I resent the insanely heavy handed emotional manipulation but I have to admit that it's effective. Their beer still sucks though.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 11:12 AM (Fs0KI)

362 The Hill: The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared. by John Mac Ghlionn

For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively. I treated it as a liberal fantasy...That position no longer survives contact with reality.

This will do it. A huge part of why the USA hasn't erupted into massive protests already is that so many people will literally start starving if they miss any significant amount of work. If a wave of mass unemployment hits, the retaliation for all the suffering this administration has caused will be apocalyptic.

Can we not do a third once in century economic disaster now? I'm only 20 years into my career, and really don't want to go through it a third time.

It's a great paradox of Late Stage Capitalism that those at the very top won't have anyone left to exploit. The parasite eventually kills it's host, then dies itself

Lost my job last April right after they cut DEI and started hounding immigrants. I’m Puerto Rican, a legal citizen, but putting hispanic on my applications makes me unhireable.
Plus living in a blue state but a heavy red area and no money to move.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2026 11:13 AM (ycI94)

363 >>>Their beer still sucks though.

Posted by: Oddbob

>I'm not a fan of rice beer.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 31, 2026 11:16 AM (oT7pT)

364 I think Cornyn knows he's going down this time, so YOLO.

The last poll I saw (several weeks ago) had him 3rd so he probably can't even vote-split his way into a runoff.

* cue McD's jingle *

Ta-da-da-ta-tah! I'm lovin' it.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2026 11:23 AM (Fs0KI)

365 Wheaton, MD there was Little Tavern

IIRC in a little hut attached to a telephone pole right at the sidewalk side of the parking lot.

Posted by: DaveA at January 31, 2026 11:27 AM (FhXTo)

366 I laugh at the proposed Virginia surtaxes on high incomes. A lot of people making that sort of money are in businesses selling goods/services to BIG GOVERNMENT!

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 31, 2026 01:12 PM (x8own)

Daily Tech News 31 January 2026

Top Story

One third of video game workers have been laid off in the past two years. (Variety)

I'm a little surprised it's not higher, but the article points out that layoffs have hit major - so called "AAA" - Triple A - studios twice as hard as indies, so it is higher for the companies I'd focus on with news stories.
The survey also found that 82% of US-based respondents support the unionization of game industry workers, with 5% opposed and 13% unsure.
And I was just about to feel some sympathy for these people.
Ubisoft has cancelled six games and closed three of its studios in the wake of disastrous sales of its recent major titles. (BBC)

The studios on the chopping block include Ubisoft Halifax, which unionised earlier this month. (Games Industry)

That went about as well as could be expected.

Tech News

The latest high-budget disaster is called Highguard. (Destructoid)

Produced by Wildlight Entertainment, which is a private company so we don't have details of the financials, but they've had over a hundred experienced developers working on this game for four years in California. So somewhere north of $100 million.

It's free-to-play. It reached nearly 100,000 players on its first day... Then lost 90% of them on its second day.

Not because it is particularly buggy. Players have shown problems with being disconnected from the servers, but for the most part it seems technically competent. The problem is that it is completely uninspired.

It got the top billing during the recent Game Awards (which had more viewers than the Super Bowl), with shameless promotion from the presenter. Everyone watching saw it as derivative slop and predicted it would fail, hard, and it was, and has.
Highguard was in for a bloodbath, and I cannot believe that the devs didn't know that. With so much experience at AAA powerhouses like EA, I genuinely think they fully understood the implications of that TGA shenanigan, and cannot fathom why they never reacted.
Toxic positivity.
Anna's Archive - a massive and not entirely licit online library - has been hit with a $13 trillion lawsuit by Spotify, Universal, Warner, and Sony Music. (MSN)

"Hey, you can't steal the work of countless artists and not pay them a dime! That's our job!"
Tesla throws in the towel on car sales. (The Verge) (archive site)

Of course, this is not true, but The Verge has abandoned any pretense at being a news site.
The $100 billion deal between Nvidia and OpenAI seems to have encountered choppy waters. (WSJ) (archive site)

The plan, unveiled in September, was for Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI so that OpenAI could purchase $100 billion of Nvidia hardware.

Now... Not so much.
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang has privately emphasized to industry associates in recent months that the original $100 billion agreement was nonbinding and not finalized, people familiar with the matter said. He has also privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach and expressed concern about the competition it faces from the likes of Google and Anthropic, some of the people said.
OpenAI has name recognition - it's the company behind ChatGPT - but its CEO is a snake oil salesman.
Researchers have discovered 175,000 publicly exposed Ollama servers worldwide. (Tech Radar)

Ollama is an AI tool that you run on your own hardware, but can also talk to services like ChatGPT and Claude.

Around half of those servers are configured not just to answer questions but to execute code... For anyone in the entire world.
AMD's Zen 6 CPU chiplet is slightly smaller than Zen 2. (WCCFTech)

It has twelve cores and 48MB of L3 cache vs. 8 cores and 32MB of cache for Zen 2 (and 3, 4, and 5), but the move to the latest 2nm process means that it's about the same size as it always has been. Zen 2 on 7nm was 77mm2, and Zen 6 is 76mm2.

If the promises for TSMC's N2P process node are borne out, this should be a major upgrade - not just 50% more cores, but cores running 30% faster at the same power requirements.
Nvidia has gone all-in on the video cards you don't want. (VideoCards)

Reportedly - Nvidia hasn't announced this officially but it matches my own and everyone else's market observations - 75% of GPU supply from Nvidia will go to three models: The 5060, the 5060 Ti 8GB model, and the 5070.

The high-end models and the 16GB 5060 Ti will have limited availability going forward, with the entry level 5050 not even rating a mention. And the 5090 already isn't available anywhere for less than 50% over MSRP.

I bought an AMD 9060 XT 16GB fearing shortages and price increases, which haven't happened to that model, though the 9070 which was briefly available below MSRP no longer is.

Musical Interlude

I looked up Van Morrison just now fearing I'd missed an obituary at some point, and not only is he still around, he was recording anti-lockdown songs with Eric Clapton during the WuFlu.

Here's to you, Mr. Morrison.

Disclaimer: Don't make my brown-eyed girl blue.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2026 04:02 AM (bQ4nt)

2 w00t and way to go, olddog in mo

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 04:03 AM (SSiCQ)

3 *takes bow*

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2026 04:06 AM (bQ4nt)

4 Not feeling sympathetic towards the gaming industry at all these days. Very little in the way of anything new and worth playing.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at January 31, 2026 04:10 AM (/HDaX)

5 The indie games field is thriving. The big studios on the other hand are dead and starting to smell funny.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 31, 2026 04:14 AM (BLOW1)

6 Any outfit what votes-in a union, deserves whatever they get-- especially if the business closes.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:20 AM (rdVOm)

7 Mornin'

The survey also found that 82% of US-based respondents support the unionization of game industry workers, with 5% opposed and 13% unsure.

Great. Won't stop the layoffs, but great!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 31, 2026 04:24 AM (Iz+f5)

8 My grandfather ran a sawmill. During the Depression, he kept it going and kept his small community going. And then his employees decided to unionize. Grandfather told them he couldn't pay any more than he was already, and that if they voted *for* it, he would have to close the mill.

They voted *for* it. He closed and sold his mill. And then they were ALL unemployed.

Good job, dudes! Told ya....

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:32 AM (rdVOm)

9 ate

Posted by: OkJohn at January 31, 2026 04:33 AM (NC/it)

10 nien

Posted by: OkJohn at January 31, 2026 04:34 AM (NC/it)

11 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)

12 OOfd

Gmornin all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at January 31, 2026 04:34 AM (NC/it)

13 Phone saying its 2 degrees

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)

14 12* here. Dry tho.

Posted by: OkJohn at January 31, 2026 04:37 AM (NC/it)

15 Pixy, the bots are talking about all us non-bots.

https://xcancel.com/moltbook

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 04:43 AM (SSiCQ)

16 Bots. Talking about non-bots.

Digital masturbation.

UGH!!!

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:48 AM (rdVOm)

17 Good to see you on the tech thread, JQ!

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 05:01 AM (SSiCQ)

18 Just like 1982, the interactive game business is fine. A significant portion of it needs to re-evaluate its business model and production methodology. Nintendo figured out how to make the console business functional and profitable while welcoming third party development.

That is ending now as changes to semiconductor economics have broken a critical part of the console business. There may be a period where no new consoles are launched. There may never be any new consoles in the traditional sense of a closed platform requiring its own code base. The game business will continue without pause for much of it.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 31, 2026 05:02 AM (/0z9K)

19 AI thinks Jake Tapper spreads state propaganda

https://tinyurl.com/bdz94mvv

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 05:24 AM (w2BpZ)

20 I had to fall asleep again, no way a hour flew by

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 05:30 AM (Ia/+0)

21 Focused on God. Christian Devotional on Isaiah 26:1-5. Devotional is followed by a prayer and some insights :

https://tinyurl.com/48t9tjx6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 05:48 AM (j3j1r)

22 Lovely story about a caring dad helping his daughter out in icy conditions. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yck8kdhm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 05:50 AM (j3j1r)

23 Baby's sweet reaction to his new prosthetic arm. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/bddemtc6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 05:57 AM (j3j1r)

24 Evening and morning, Saturday toilers and early early risers!

"Ollama" --? That sounds awfully like a certain viciously anti-American and jugeared public figure's name. Disturbing.

I glanced back over Ace's posts from last evening. People are actually paying over $2000 a *month* for rent in LA and other places??? Gee, they must be doing awfully well. I was taught as a young Aurelius that you should pay no more than 25% of your *take-home* pay for shelter. Of course, nowadays real-estate agents all tell you the rule of thumb is 33% or even more of your *gross* pay. Insane.

Anyway, I'm up, about to feed the furry thugs and then myself. What's up witchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

25 Good morning, JQ! And the same to Fenelon, Huck, Skip, m, and all of you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

26 >>>It got the top billing during the recent Game Awards (which had more viewers than the Super Bowl)

That would be "a Super Bowl without Tom Brady."

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:03 AM (SSiCQ)

27 Thought the ice story was nice but baby Liea looks happy with her new arm. Amazing they could do that

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:03 AM (Ia/+0)

28 These were the responses to my prayer yesterday. "God, please show me something good of yourself today."

I was behind a car yesterday which said, "Driving with Jesus." I didn't know what that meant other than maybe one is trusting him with your safety, but I found reference on the web to Ignatian spirituality and here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/ezauer5r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:03 AM (Cjc4c)

29 Also, after that I had a lovely visit with our retired organist, Jessie, and her daughter and we all had communion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:05 AM (Cjc4c)

30 "Hey, you can't still the work of countless artists and not pay them a dime! That's our job!"

still --> steal

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:08 AM (SSiCQ)

31 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Don't step on my red suede shoes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 31, 2026 06:10 AM (OvMCw)

32 Movies! is showing one of the shorts with Laurel and Hardy. I'm afraid I don't quite get the fervor over them. Their comic timing is great, yes. But I think L & H must be one of those things you have to grow up with and enjoy as a kid, like the Three Stooges, to get it as an adult.

On the other hand, I liked the Stooges as a child, but can't get into them now on the MeTV reruns except to marvel at the neat 1930s-'40s-'50s clothes and then-current cars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

33 >>>I looked up [celebrity] just now fearing I'd missed an obituary

I do this a lot. Probably to an unhealthy degree of "a lot."

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:11 AM (SSiCQ)

34 Fen I saw a sticker on a car a few months ago like that

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

35 I posted this when I was up at 1:00 this morning, but for those that weren't or didn't see it here it is again. Teen survives and calls 911 after being attacked by alligator in Florida:

https://tinyurl.com/2s494y28

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:12 AM (AphQx)

36 Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

I've seen another one before, so I guess they are out there. Probably not the same person, though.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:14 AM (AphQx)

37 19 AI thinks Jake Tapper spreads state propaganda

https://tinyurl.com/bdz94mvv
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 05:24 AM (w2BpZ)

; )

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:18 AM (SSiCQ)

38 Van Morrison - Moondance (1970)

That's remarkably wonderful.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:26 AM (SSiCQ)

39
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2026 06:27 AM (tljrc)

40 >>>OpenAI ... its CEO is a snake oil salesman

Hmm. Who would that be? *taps forefinger on chin*

SAM ALTMAN

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:29 AM (SSiCQ)

41 So January is almost over, and 2026 is 1/12 done. As the guy said when he jumped off the thirty-story building and said at floor fifteen, "So far, so good --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

42 I didn't know "Moondance" was that old. I thought it was from the early to mid-'70s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

43 So few movie theaters around now. Even the multiplex's are mostly gone. Our town has a multiplex/with only half of the theaters closed, down to 4. Imax is operating, but they need a new way of bringing the people. One theater serves food, don't know if its still open. Cheese burger and a movie?

Posted by: colin at January 31, 2026 06:31 AM (e8qy3)

44
Born:
Samuel Harris Altman
April 22, 1985 (age 40)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 06:32 AM (SSiCQ)

45 If the promises for TSMC's N2P process node are borne out, this should be a major upgrade - not just 50% more cores, but cores running 30% faster at the same power requirements.

I've been tempted to just go ahead and get a Ryzen AI Max 395+ blinged out, but memory prices are the wet blanket.

Now I can save my ~~pennies~~ nickels and wait for the Zen 6 then the refresh (so they can work the issues out on early adopters).

By that time, Windows 11 will be mature in its enshitification and Linux will have sufficient tooling where I can make the jump with the least amount of hassle.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2026 06:36 AM (a4flb)

46 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:43 AM (u82oZ)

47 m

Doesn't every 'ron take the name of an actress mentioned here, take safe search off, and look for revealing pictures?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:47 AM (u82oZ)

48 Good morning morons

Lou Reed and Van Morrison are the same person.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

49 Maybe I need a med alert bracelet that says "Delete my browser history".

But my google files are forever.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:47 AM (u82oZ)

50 YouTube has nuked background play on mobile devices for non paying customers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 31, 2026 06:49 AM (Y0DaS)

51 FenelonSpoke

Glad Jessie is still around. She has been through so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

52 A breezy 34 F. right now, wind chill of 24. We're supposed to drop to 22 by Sunday morning. Time to run a water tap overnight.

The infotainment center of my Buick was refusing to recognize the flash drive in the console ("No Media Found"). A couple of soft reset methods I dug up on the 'Net were no good. So yesterday morning I disconnected the negative cable of the battery, waited about five minutes, then reconnected. Success, and I only had to reset the time and date. I'm glad I did it yesterday in 60-degree weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 06:50 AM (wzUl9)

53 G'morning, all!

32.4 degrees out, with a pending death-storm sometime today.

Anyhow.....went to the premier showing of the movie, Melania yesterday at 1:00 in the afternoon.

Sold out showing, and remarkably enjoyable.
It shows a side of her that is not often seen, and was an enjoyable almost two hours of worthwhile movie watching.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 06:50 AM (iMotb)

54 Actor David Suchet reads Psalm 4 which my Bible refers to as a plea for answers and the notes in the Bible refers to being confident that God always hears our prayers. One note says, "When you feel that your prayers are bouncing off the walls, remember that you have been set apart by God and that he loves you. He hears and answers you, although his prayers may not be what you expect . Look at your problems in the ight of God's power instead of looking at God in the shadow of your problems." That is sometimes very hard to do, but I think it's good advice.":

https://tinyurl.com/2p8xyt6u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:52 AM (KxQqp)

55 For me, YouTube is unwatchable unless you pay to remove commercials. It feels like extortion to pay them. So they wall off the cultural treasures of the past.

I would think being an artist today is fraught. Lots of disincentives from copyright holders.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

56 re: Ubislop

There could the basis for a hilarious black comedy about the current state of this company.

The remaining teams have been split into separate 'houses' and each is focused on a specific genre of game. Which makes sense if Ubislop is positioning itself to sell off future assets.

Now imagine a story centering around the heads of these houses trying all means fair or foul to avoid the chopping block.

I need some popcorn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2026 06:55 AM (2GVsD)

57 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

Thank you for your kind thoughtfulness, Salty. She lives in what was her daughter's house , and her daughter had fixed up a lovely sunroom for her, so they holidays were very hard with her being gone. Hard for you too with your dear wife being gone too..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:56 AM (KxQqp)

58 illage Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

A balmy -1 ℉ from -6 ℉ earlier.

I am going to try and get a group together to see Melania. Thanks for the recommendation. Been years since I went to a theater.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

59 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 31, 2026 06:58 AM (2Ez/1)

60 Thanks, Pixy, and everybody here for your patience with my thoroughly non tech related comments. God bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 06:58 AM (KxQqp)

61 FenelonSpoke

Thank you for understanding. I never expected this level of grief. The great people here are of immeasurable help.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

62 mornin yall. We have a Weather Watch here. That means there will be weather, to watch. I can't decide whether to watch the Weather Watch or just weather the Weather Watch weather.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

63 Actually, no. Lou Reed is nowhere near as talented. And I saw Van on that tour at Fillmore West. Always been a favorite album.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2026 07:01 AM (+mUZM)

64 A Mayor
A spouse
A non-profit
Questionable use of taxpayer monies

This could use a venn diagram.

https://tinyurl.com/akat63we

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 07:01 AM (iMotb)

65 45 Windows 11 ... enshitification
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2026 06:36 AM (a4flb)

Pretty sure that would need two t's. I am reluctant to google it.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:01 AM (SSiCQ)

66 I'm not even sure Melania is playing anywhere here. Have to look.

She's such a charming, poised, and attractive First Lady!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)

67 65 45 Windows 11 ... enshitification
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2026 06:36 AM (a4flb)

Pretty sure that would need two t's. I am reluctant to google it.
Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:01 AM (SSiCQ)

... two t's before -ification.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:03 AM (SSiCQ)

68 Salty, it may not be in the theater for long, so go as soon as you can.

I bought tickets online about mid-morning yesterday, and the seating selection was still quite good.
Arrived at the theater about 4 hours later, and it was sold out. That surprised me, Specially for a 1:00 showing on a work day. But the crowd was all around your and my age, so I doubt if they had to take off from work to see it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 07:05 AM (iMotb)

69 I wrote a new song. I call it "Springsteen Sucks". It goes like this:

Springsteen sucks
Springsteen sucks
Springsteen sucks
Springsteen sucks
(Repeat 100 times and fade out)

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

70 But Melania is too close to DJT and that makes her part of yhe TDS.
The most gorgeous First Lady and never gets a magazine cover

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:06 AM (Ia/+0)

71 Okay, Melania is playing at the AMC giant-plex near me. Maybe I can talk Miss Linda into going tomorrow afternoon. She's no anti-Trumper, and thinks Melania is a wonderful model for women, but it'll be a tough sell if the outside temps are in the 30s tomorrow.

On the other hand, yesterday she rode the bus and streetcar to the university where I used to work to hear a noontime guest speaker. A ride in a warm car and sitting in a warm theatre should not be a terrible hardship.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:07 AM (wzUl9)

72 Just want to say, everything I know about opera was learned from B.B

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:07 AM (Ia/+0)

73 "Just want to say, everything I know about opera was learned from B.B
Posted by: Skip"

Well, he was the King.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

74 A group of women I know are going this weekend to see Melania . I do have a concern that mean spirited leftists might try to loudly protest . I hope that's not the case.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 07:09 AM (KxQqp)

75
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are in Salem, VA, where it's 16 degrees. Better them than me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2026 07:10 AM (tgvbd)

76 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be cozy throughout the day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

77 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

I am sorry, Salty. How long had you been together?
I am glad the horde had been so supportive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 07:13 AM (KxQqp)

78 I'd expect that the movie Melania will be banned in many cities. And some people will stand up and scream at the screen. That is to be expected. Along with car vandalize in the parking lots of a theater. Such is life in 2026 where the benevolent left doesn't tolerate anything they hate.

Posted by: colin at January 31, 2026 07:17 AM (e8qy3)

79 55 For me, YouTube is unwatchable unless you pay to remove commercials. It feels like extortion to pay them. So they wall off the cultural treasures of the past.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2026 06:54 AM

For me, I kind of insist upon paying for YouTube because that makes me the customer, not the product.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 31, 2026 07:19 AM (VmDLh)

80 And something I saw yesterday which made me laugh. Outside the bakery in town I passed through
was a big pile of snow, Someone had put in sign on on which said "Free snow."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 07:22 AM (B+8Pw)

81 Pretty sure that would need two t's. I am reluctant to google it.
Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:01 AM (SSiCQ)

... two t's before -ification.

Updating my spell-checker with two 't's

Thanks Horde

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2026 07:24 AM (a4flb)

82 Morning peeps. It's a rather bitterly cold 6 degrees here this morning. Might not get out of the teens today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 07:26 AM (jtM2q)

83 Just checked... Cory Doctorow coined the word - two 't's

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2026 07:27 AM (a4flb)

84 Can anybody tell me what is wrong with this headline:

"Fire hits 180-year-old Greenwich Village building once home to E.E. Cummings"

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

85 84 Can anybody tell me what is wrong with this headline:

"Fire hits 180-year-old Greenwich Village building once home to E.E. Cummings"
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

"E.E." should be lowercased?

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:28 AM (SSiCQ)

86 Laowhy86 and Cmilk reporting the coup in China has wiped out the core competents in the Chinese military who being replaced by politicians, not people who rose up through the military ranks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:28 AM (RIvkX)

87 "Might not get out of the teens today."

Oh, those were the days.

Posted by: zombie Jeffery Epstein at January 31, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

88 87 "Might not get out of the teens today."

Oh, those were the days.
Posted by: zombie Jeffery Epstein at January 31, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

hahahahahaha
go to your room

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:29 AM (SSiCQ)

89 The old rule of thumb was 25% of your gross, not net income.

Old school lenders rejected loans if your total debt (including credit card, school loans, and car payments) to income ratio was projected to be over 40% of gross income. That is why is was never a good idea to buy a new car before buying a house. Buy the car AFTER the house.

Posted by: LA City Council at January 31, 2026 07:29 AM (qFwJc)

90 we have dipped to 31.6 degrees now.

Perfect time for the Doom-Storm to begin.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 07:30 AM (iMotb)

91 85 84 Can anybody tell me what is wrong with this headline:

"Fire hits 180-year-old Greenwich Village building once home to E.E. Cummings"
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

"E.E." should be lowercased?
Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:28 AM (SSiCQ)

... and maybe "Cummings," also. I forget.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:30 AM (SSiCQ)

92 e.e. Cummings wrote my favorite poem
Anyone lived in a pretty how town

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

93 Off corrupt LA grifters sock

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:31 AM (qFwJc)

94 89 The old rule of thumb was 25% of your gross, not net income.

Old school lenders rejected loans if your total debt (including credit card, school loans, and car payments) to income ratio was projected to be over 40% of gross income.
Posted by: LA City Council at January 31, 2026 07:29 AM (qFwJc)

math

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:32 AM (SSiCQ)

95 I looked up Van Morrison just now fearing I'd missed an obituary at some point, and not only is he still around, he was recording anti-lockdown songs with Eric Clapton during the WuFlu.

--

That's good to know. I like Van Morrison, and I love the song Moondance (even though I can't help but think of American Werewolf in London when I hear it).

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2026 07:32 AM (qBdHI)

96 "E.E." should be lowercased?
Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:28 AM (SSiCQ)

... and maybe "Cummings," also. I forget.
Posted by: m'

Correct! I rate you as a better journalist than any editor at the NY Post.

Posted by: zombie Jeffery Epstein at January 31, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

97 That is why is was never a good idea to buy a new car before buying a house. Buy the car AFTER the house.

I don't get it. What does buying a car before or after have anything to do with acquiring real-estate?

Or is it totally expected now that people finance automobiles?

Am I the only one who buys new vehicles in cash?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2026 07:32 AM (a4flb)

98 A Mayor
The highest priced Government Official's provided vehicle in the entire State.

Perhaps we could add this to my previously mentioned Venn Diagram.

https://tinyurl.com/mvju7x4j

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 07:32 AM (iMotb)

99 The old rule of thumb was 25% of your gross, not net income.
*
Old school lenders rejected loans if your total debt (including credit card, school loans, and car payments) to income ratio was projected to be over 40% of gross income. That is why is was never a good idea to buy a new car before buying a house. Buy the car AFTER the house.

Posted by: LA City Council at January 31, 2026

***
If you throw all the debt into the spotlight, then I guess forty is not too insane. Still, to use gross income as the drop-dead figure makes no sense. You never see all of that, thanks to taxes, and you can't spend it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9)

100 100

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:33 AM (SSiCQ)

101 Oh my. Off sock that did not kill itself.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

102 I went to see the Melania movie last night.
I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Excellent videography, well paced and edited.
You get to hear Melania herself narrate large portions. She tells a lot of her story. She is very polished and articulate. And of course elegant. What surprised me the most is the score. The music choices were excellent and she sings along with a Michael Jackson song and even dances a little to YMCA.
I don't know when or where it will be available again, but I strongly recommend it.
Lots of fashion stuff. Hope Piper gets to see it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 07:35 AM (2Ez/1)

103 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.
It's gotten up to 0° here in the mid Hudson. Heatwave
Saw Van Morrison and Bob Dylan at the Theatre at MSG. Great show . Both weren't being weird or grumpy.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 07:35 AM (IDEQi)

104 With all due respect to you, this is why you are still a renter.

With a mortgage, you get enough interest payments to go over the standard deduction and itemize. That is the sweet-spot.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:35 AM (qFwJc)

105 96 "E.E." should be lowercased?
Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:28 AM (SSiCQ)

... and maybe "Cummings," also. I forget.
Posted by: m'

Correct! I rate you as a better journalist than any editor at the NY Post.
Posted by: zombie Jeffery Epstein at January 31, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

A publisher can elect to adopt idiosyncrasies or not.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:36 AM (SSiCQ)

106 I loved deducting state taxes and charitable contributions and whatever else was legal.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026 07:37 AM (qFwJc)

107 It is an incredible work of art and a glory of the English language. Highly recommended.

https://tinyurl.com/5cua282j

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

108 "The music choices were excellent and she sings along with a Michael Jackson song and even dances a little to YMCA."

Those stuck with me as well, as they seemed to be genuinely off the cuff and unscripted.

Lots of little glimpses that showed her in a very human light.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2026 07:38 AM (iMotb)

109 "The highest priced Government Official's provided vehicle in the entire State."

$160k for a Jeep? He couldn't get a Maserati?

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

110 Can't say I want to but should go venture outside

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:40 AM (Ia/+0)

111 "A publisher can elect to adopt idiosyncrasies or not.
Posted by: m"

That's why they always fix misspelled rappers' names.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

112 107 It is an incredible work of art and a glory of the English language. Highly recommended.

https://tinyurl.com/5cua282j
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

92 e.e. Cummings wrote my favorite poem
Anyone lived in a pretty how town
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:41 AM (SSiCQ)

113 > With a mortgage, you get enough interest payments to go over the standard deduction and itemize. That is the sweet-spot.
----------
Mortgage interest is a one line entry. You can have 2 of them. We own 3 properties and pick the two with the highest, annual mortgage interest payments. I believe one must be your primary residence regardless of the interest paid. (Unless it's paid off, then you're screwed.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2026 07:43 AM (jtM2q)

114 With all due respect to you, this is why you are still a renter.

With a mortgage, you get enough interest payments to go over the standard deduction and itemize. That is the sweet-spot.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2026

***
No, the reason I am still a renter is that I have never had a big enough down payment to bring the inflated cost of a mortgage down into the reasonable area for a single earner. I do now.

It's true I have no idea at this point what my interest payments will be with my house; if they exceed the standard deduction, perfect. On a modest house, can they exceed the $23K I'll get this year? If so, I'll itemize next year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:44 AM (wzUl9)

115 coffee thread sneaked in early

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:00 AM

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 07:47 AM (SSiCQ)

116 107 It is an incredible work of art and a glory of the English language. Highly recommended.

https://tinyurl.com/5cua282j
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:37 AM
---
Thanks for that. Enjoyed the audio!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2026 07:49 AM (2Ez/1)

117 That two Baltimore City politicians drive the two most expensive cars in the Maryland public fleet underlines the casual corruption voters there accept.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 07:49 AM (JIqUq)

118 I looked up Van Morrison just now fearing I'd missed an obituary at some point, and not only is he still around, he was recording anti-lockdown songs with Eric Clapton during the WuFlu.

Here's to you, Mr. Morrison.

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Indeed, I have a Q Anon friend who kept me up-to-date on Van Morrison's wonderful protest songs and concerts mocking and railing against the numerous Covid PsyOps of the time.

And although I was looking forward to some of his songs being featured in the 2021 movie "Belfast" -- that film thoroughly sucked (despite featuring very good actors like Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, and Dame Judy Dench) and I couldn't even finish watching it.

Are TJM or MAE around for a panning movie review?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 31, 2026 07:50 AM (0Eh0f)

119 I did seriously look into buying a house multiple times over the years. I knew about interest payments being deductible, building equity, throwing money away on rent, etc. But every property I've looked at here -- recently, and for years back -- in decent condition and in a decent area was far too expensive. A down payment to bring the monthly note down to something reasonable would have been impossible for me for a long time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2026 07:50 AM (wzUl9)

120 We are in the final years of a 30 year mortgage so we are only paying about $3,000 a year in interest far too low to itemize.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

121 Different video on Hoverbike, hut see no way it can fly

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:51 AM (Ia/+0)

122 My reasoning decades ago was any deduction was way less than that interest

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 07:52 AM (Ia/+0)

123 Lefties are fascinated by Epstein and now hope the files somehow take down Musk, ignoring the devastation to Democrats so far.

And CNN staff have an anti- Scott Jennings petition going, which (I predict) will not end well for whoever organized the whining.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 07:53 AM (J6Kki)

124 A publisher can elect to adopt idiosyncrasies or not.
Posted by: m

Several years back, a paper ran an article on Navy Seals. When the paper was contacted and it was gently explained that the correct term is SEAL, the answer was "That's not according to the AP Style Guide!"

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 07:56 AM (7xrfc)

125 123 Lefties are fascinated by Epstein and now hope the files somehow take down Musk, ignoring the devastation to Democrats so far.

Lefties are the ones who gave us the term "Minor Attracted Individual" and who insist that children as young as three can give consent. Their desperate need for the Epstein files to take down powerful people is a bit puzzling.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2026 07:58 AM (7xrfc)

126 Todays WSJ has a book review the horde art lovers and artistically inclined might enjoy, a description of Titian's influence on Michelangelo and vice versa.

Michelangelo commented that Titian’s “coloring and his style pleased him very much but that it was a shame that in Venice they did not learn to draw well from the beginning.”

https://tinyurl.com/4necapy2

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:01 AM (9IfFR)

127 Lindsey Vonn has a hairline fracture of the tibial plateau. People are saying she might be able to ski in the Olympics, but I doubt it. As you get older the body doesn't recover as quickly and she won't be able to handle the high speed stress of skiing on the fracture

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2026 08:02 AM (IDEQi)

128 The Wife got a fixer upper with a 3% loan way back when. She didn’t pay the mortgage for a couple of years and then got a principal reduction as part of a settlement over predatory loans. You would pay in rent for one floor of our place what we pay in mortgage.
The exact nature of the loan is such that we don’t get the fed mortgage deduction.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:07 AM (S8ZfB)

129 One area of concern was Jennings being allowed to describe undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens,” a term that violates the network’s editorial standards, according to Status.
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Too funny

https://tinyurl.com/3wsse62s

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:10 AM (QbC6G)

130 Democrats no longer consider pedos criminals. We still do so they attack us over our own rules.
I would fight using their rules, much more effective.

Posted by: Accomack at January 31, 2026 08:10 AM (S8ZfB)

131 Noodage.

Posted by: Noodist at January 31, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)

132 123 CNN staff have an anti- Scott Jennings petition going, which (I predict) will not end well for whoever organized the whining.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 07:53 AM (J6Kki)

Ha!

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 09:13 AM (SSiCQ)

133 129 One area of concern was Jennings being allowed to describe undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens,” a term that violates the network’s editorial standards, according to Status.
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Too funny

https://tinyurl.com/3wsse62s
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2026 08:10 AM (QbC6G)

Excellent.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2026 09:23 AM (SSiCQ)

134 For me, YouTube is unwatchable unless you pay to remove commercials.

I don’t mind commercials. Technically, they have to get paid somehow. It’s just that, on a platform where they literally know all my interests, the ads seem designed to be annoying, and also designed specifically to keep their advertisers from selling anything.

Not only does YouTube know what I watch, they know how I watch it. Slow talkers get sped up, for example. So what do they show me? Things I wouldn’t be interested in if they were watchable, and with incredibly low information density.

Not a big deal. I keep the mute button handy and a phone at my side. But it just seems such a wasted opportunity.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2026 10:49 AM (EXyHK)

135 "Around half of those servers are configured not just to answer questions but to execute code... For anyone in the entire world"

No offense to the over 29 crowd but shit like this is primarily boomers thinking they can hoover in money replacing actual human devs with Indians and AI. Or letting the Indians get their foot in the door, and doing that themselves after purging devs to hire more Indians. In some industries they also went all in hiring similarly incompetent freaks, dangerhairs, and token brown people for political brownie points - gotta buy those blue state indulgences from the church of woke.

I know a dev whose company just fired every last producer; ceo decided they could replace them with AI overnight. They are doomed. Watched, or am watching, several other companies crash and burn because they hired a ton of trannies or allowed devs to put on dresses and wigs for promotion mojo. This is an extinction level event for much of western tech.

Posted by: heya at January 31, 2026 12:29 PM (nH+RN)

136 just got a 5060 for the kids

Posted by: TallDave at January 31, 2026 05:06 PM (lLLli)

A Midwinter's Night ONT

Hi everybody! Hope y'all survived the weather last week. Word is that there may be more this weekend, remember to be prepared!

Fido Friday: Mine!

pic.twitter.com/Lpx1rNoGwH
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

We used to be a proper country

The audacity of those people

How to float

pic.twitter.com/nm3YVZ1Ce9
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

A farewell to arms

Had that for a while

Smells like chicken spirit

pic.twitter.com/liZqtgWzL4
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

Stay on topic

Happy dog

The Tik Tok effect

pic.twitter.com/qa91dPceaL
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

Dandy Don

Wearing white

It's coming now!

pic.twitter.com/LIqbq7ujoK
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

Dumbass Dick

Animals often display bright colors to indicate that they're toxic

Knitters

pic.twitter.com/yf0WUebMEN
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

Battle

OK, that's good

Thank God she's in recovery

pic.twitter.com/ZHGoGzCvTp
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 30, 2026

Out of context

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by 1973:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 09:59 PM

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1 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:00 PM (SRRAx)

2 Yay!

Posted by: IS Roth at January 30, 2026 10:00 PM (P4ghT)

3 If the Walz's are divorcing, I wonder if Tim's manhandling their son on a national stage had something to do with it.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 10:01 PM (gKWVE)

4 Sorry I'm late, I didn't know thst Governor Lepetomane installed a new toll booth.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:03 PM (Hd1lH)

5 If the Walz's are divorcing, I wonder if Tim's manhandling their son on a national stage had something to do with it.
Posted by: gKWVE

I'll bet Gwen knows just how deep he is in the raping of the treasury and she doesn't want to go down with him.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:04 PM (qw6Uy)

6 Unexpectedly, the ONT. The Friday ONT no less.

*wild cheers & loud applause*

Posted by: mindful webworker - banging a pot with a wooden spoon at January 30, 2026 10:04 PM (j02Vi)

7 Chicken spirit's lyrics still are more comprehensible than Cobain's

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 10:04 PM (gKWVE)

8 I love the "Pretend it's 1973" meme.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:06 PM (qw6Uy)

9 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 10:06 PM (lUFok)

10 As bad as the GOP can be, the democrat party is full of some real f*****g winners. Like real s**m of the earth types.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2026 10:07 PM (XV/Pl)

11 Sorry I'm late, I didn't know thst Governor Lepetomane installed a new toll booth."

Got dimes?

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 10:08 PM (XuXeR)

12 the GOP can be, the democrat party is full of some real f*****g winners. Like real s**m of the earth types.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Some world class turds! Not classy folks like we got here in the ONT.

Posted by: Steve Buscemi at January 30, 2026 10:08 PM (gKWVE)

13 I hereby retract all my past calumnies directed at AI. It is, in fact, the greatest thing ever invented by man.

https://x.com/i/status/2017018768140943608

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 10:08 PM (Riz8t)

14 "Knitters"

*stomps foot*

Hey, I already have the needles I need, thank you very much!

Posted by: pookysgirl has a shelf full of needles at January 30, 2026 10:08 PM (Wt5PA)

15 Ha!
Akting.
That's hilarious!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:09 PM (2WIwB)

16 As bad as the GOP can be, the democrat party is full of some real f*****g winners. Like real s**m of the earth types.

It's like they have entrance requirements. Those with symmetric features, more than half their teeth, or non-conical heads need not apply.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Riz8t)

17 > If the Walz's are divorcing, I wonder if Tim's manhandling their son on a national stage had something to do with it.
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"Walz" and "manhandling" just doesn't seem right.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 10:11 PM (jtM2q)

18 Check out moltbook for AI agents talking to each other

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 10:11 PM (gKWVE)

19 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

20 The Walzes are divorcing?

I noticed he has lost some weight lately; perhaps the reason he isn't running for office is because of the divorce (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

21 NotSoThoreau will get the knitting joke. She has experience.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (u82oZ)

22 How to float
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Be 29 with a beer belly

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (vSvIl)

23 I have questions about that midwife video.

The first one being, should I share it with my pregnant granddaughter?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:13 PM (Hd1lH)

24 (no doubt there is already another ~~woman~~ boy in the picture)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

FIFY.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:13 PM (u82oZ)

25 Willowed:
Gwen Walz can't testify. Spousal immunity.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Government can't force. She can volunteer.

Can Marital or Spousal Privileges Be Waived?
Privileges must be properly asserted. If they are not, the privilege may be waived (given up). For instance, in a criminal case, a spouse who wants to testify against the other can do so, and this testimony is a waiver of their spousal testimonial privilege. A spouse can also waive or lose the right to assert the privilege by failing to object to the other spouse's testimony when offered. Either spouse can generally waive their right to keep marital communications confidential by communicating the information to a third party.

https://tinyurl.com/3cah7xk5

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:13 PM (qw6Uy)

26 If the Walz's are divorcing, I wonder if Tim's manhandling their son on a national stage had something to do with it.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 10:01 PM (gKWVE)
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Just yesterday I was assured that nothing is happening.

Is something happening?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:13 PM (ZOv7s)

27 I noticed he has lost some weight lately; perhaps the reason he isn't running for office is because of the divorce (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)

For him or his soon to be ex?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 10:13 PM (lUFok)

28 Another fine Friday ONT, thanks Wierd Dave.
Could have done without the trans dude or whatever, but hey, whatever.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 30, 2026 10:14 PM (sl73Y)

29 I noticed he has lost some weight lately; perhaps the reason he isn't running for office is because of the divorce (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

His wife turned gay?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:14 PM (uQesX)

30 The Walzes are divorcing?

I noticed he has lost some weight lately; perhaps the reason he isn't running for office is because of the divorce (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

If they're divorcing, who will Stephen Colbert get for the dancing tampons skits?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)

31 Greetings.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 30, 2026 10:15 PM (CHHv1)

32 I have questions about that midwife video.

The first one being, should I share it with my pregnant granddaughter?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:13 PM (Hd1lH)
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My wife would be insanely jealous. Labor on the youngest was like 20 hours. Having a kid pop out like that seems like cheating.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:15 PM (ZOv7s)

33 If the Walz's are divorcing, I wonder if Tim's manhandling their son on a national stage had something to do with it.
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"Walz" and "manhandling" just doesn't seem right.

I dunno. It seems pretty apropos to me.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)

34 rickb223

That refusal to waive spousal immunity has got to be worth another $10 million in the settlement.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:16 PM (u82oZ)

35 For those who like a good roasting, here's Don Rickles as the target:

https://youtube.com/shorts/bYAgvJwqa3w

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)

36 Any company that sends me a rejection e-mail like that is going to get a GFY response.
Any company so offended by such basic, common sense questions, is an utter shithole deserving to be put out of business.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at January 30, 2026 10:17 PM (qgnE0)

37 (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

"Woman"

Yep. Definitely a "woman."

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:17 PM (Hd1lH)

38 Teresa in Fort Worth,

Congratulation on your first.

I was reading the memes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

39 That refusal to waive spousal immunity has got to be worth another $10 million in the settlement.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Since MN stole $9B, it has to be worth a couple of hundred million, unless it looks like she was in on it. Then she'll flip for free.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:18 PM (qw6Uy)

40 > "Walz" and "manhandling" just doesn't seem right.

I dunno. It seems pretty apropos to me.
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The "man" part....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 10:18 PM (jtM2q)

41 Oh, and.....

FIRST! (and 20th....)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

42 noticed he has lost some weight lately; perhaps the reason he isn't running for office is because of the divorce (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

His wife turned gay?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:14 PM (uQesX)

When you sniff burning' tires
It kindles some ire!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

43 Something fun today. Offer accepted, I'll be moving if the home inspection doesn't throw any red flags. Downside, lots of stuff to sign.

No, I'm not posting the address or MLS#.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 10:19 PM (lUFok)

44 Floating- lean back and spread your arms. Doesn't use much energy. Best used in calm waters.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:19 PM (Hd1lH)

45 "Walz" and "manhandling" just doesn't seem right.

I dunno. It seems pretty apropos to me.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)
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Walz has been manhandled a lot.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:19 PM (ZOv7s)

46 I've predicted Walz suicide for the last 2 weeks going to be right soon.

Posted by: Lord Percy at January 30, 2026 10:20 PM (WV4GH)

47 The one on his helmet isn't attached to a firearm.
Of course, it's more NVGs than a true flashlight. But the effect is the same - he can easily tell where the peanut butter is.

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 10:20 PM (Cphwz)

48 Floating- lean back and spread your arms. Doesn't use much energy. Best used in calm waters.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:19 PM (Hd1lH)

When I swam, I had trouble floating. Now I float better since I have bodyfat.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 10:20 PM (rbvCR)

49 Chicken spirit's lyrics still are more comprehensible than Cobain's

How do we know that sound came from those rubber chickens and just wasn't dubbed in with a sampler?

I'm trying to figure out where one can purchase a set of rubber chickens on the F natural minor diatonic scale.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 10:21 PM (a4flb)

50 I saw Chicken Spirit open for Alice In Chains at the Central Saloon in Seattle in 1989.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 10:21 PM (oT7pT)

51 FWIW - that isn't "floating"; that's treading water.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:22 PM (SRRAx)

52 Thanks for that top meme. It reminds me that I should go check on the batteries in all my flashlights.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:22 PM (0Htd1)

53 I float just well enough to be facedown in a pool somewhere.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:22 PM (2WIwB)

54 Floating- lean back and spread your arms. Doesn't use much energy. Best used in calm waters.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:19 PM (Hd1lH)

I always thought feet downward, arms out making the body at "T" shape. You'll sink to the top of your head. Just hold your breath, then push yourself up to breathe and hold. Repeat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:22 PM (uQesX)

55 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 30, 2026 10:23 PM (Iz+f5)

56 46 I've predicted Walz suicide for the last 2 weeks going to be right soon.
Posted by: Lord Percy at January 30, 2026 10:20 PM (WV4GH)

I didn't know he had any dirt on Hillary.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:23 PM (Hd1lH)

57 His wife turned gay?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:14 PM (uQesX)
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By the gay, you mean the happy? Because the Paolo, he make her very happy.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 30, 2026 10:23 PM (ZOv7s)

58 Archimedes

That video is absolutely hysterical.

Thanks. Sharing it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

59 I also enjoyed that dog video. Chihuahuas are devil dogs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

60 I wish I was a bar of soap...

Posted by: Don Lemons Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:24 PM (qgnE0)

61 My wife would be insanely jealous. Labor on the youngest was like 20 hours. Having a kid pop out like that seems like cheating.

Sort of like that Catholic family scene in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 10:24 PM (a4flb)

62 Walz is retiring from his marriage to spend more time with his homosexual instincts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2026 10:24 PM (JkO4W)

63 I float just well enough to be facedown in a pool somewhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:22 PM (2WIwB)
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Like Gloria Swanson's?

Posted by: The Paolo at January 30, 2026 10:25 PM (ZOv7s)

64 I've predicted Walz suicide for the last 2 weeks going to be right soon.
Posted by: Lord Percy at January 30, 2026 10:20 PM (WV4GH)

I haven't heard about any potential Walz divorce. Where is this coming from?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:25 PM (uQesX)

65 Sort of like that Catholic family scene in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 10:24 PM (a4flb)
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That is the ideal. Drop one out and get started on another. Funny how that was looked on as a bad thing.

Then again, they were English and gay.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 30, 2026 10:26 PM (ZOv7s)

66 Use me like a loofa!

Posted by: Don Lemons Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:26 PM (qgnE0)

67 "My wife would be insanely jealous. Labor on the youngest was like 20 hours. Having a kid pop out like that seems like cheating."

Our first four popped very quickly. We did make it into L&D, barely. Our #2 popped just as the doctor was walking in the door.

Posted by: Nemo at January 30, 2026 10:26 PM (4RPgu)

68 Scary Mary, I wasn't online last evening, but TRex shared the fantastic news! Congrats on paying off the mortgage, that is more than a reason to celebrate!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 30, 2026 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

69 Regarding former President Clinton, shouldn't he be dead by now? Every recent picture you see of him, he looks like he's at death's door.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0Htd1)

70 Good evening morons en bedankt wd

Baking soda expires? Hm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

71 Begone, thou sexy sock!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)

72 And, thanks, WeirdDave.

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (Cphwz)

73 I float just well enough to be facedown in a pool somewhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:22 PM (2WIwB)

Face down in a pool? Not face down in Veronica Lake?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (uQesX)

74 I haven't heard about any potential Walz divorce. Where is this coming from?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I saw it posted on Facebook. Maybe yeah, maybe no. But if the fraud is as big as they say, I can see it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (qw6Uy)

75 For all the musicians who were agitated about improperly tuned instruments last night, are the rubber chickens in tune? If not, why not?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (BSxnY)

76 I love the garage doors. I was born in the wrong era. I was meant to live in the atomic ranch era.

The Walz’s are divorcing? I am sorry to hear that. Gwen mad he is a political loser now?

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

77 I saw it posted on Facebook. Maybe yeah, maybe no. But if the fraud is as big as they say, I can see it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (qw6Uy)

I checked my usual headlines sources and nothing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:28 PM (uQesX)

78 Before he leaves the governors mansion be sure to have forensics check his Econoline van in the garage, and see if any of the missing Boy Scouts left DNA behind

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 10:28 PM (de18Y)

79 Security guard - Need any help?

Midwife - Get a garden hose ..

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)

80 43 Something fun today. Offer accepted, I'll be moving if the home inspection doesn't throw any red flags. Downside, lots of stuff to sign.

No, I'm not posting the address or MLS#.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January

Congratulations!

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 10:29 PM (OoFl2)

81 Who wants to play naked Twister?

Posted by: Don Lemons Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:29 PM (qgnE0)

82 Regarding former President Clinton, shouldn't he be dead by now? Every recent picture you see of him, he looks like he's at death's door.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0Htd1)
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When he croaks, all manner of crap is going to come out. "Private family service" because a state funeral would be a total shitshow.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

83 I'll buy the baby oil of you put money on my book.

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:31 PM (qgnE0)

84 Armed teen shot and killed by cops after reaching for gun — as video shows victim moments before shooting
Goes to NY Post
https://trib.al/7H25Dcx

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:31 PM (qw6Uy)

85 Who wants to play naked Twister?
Posted by: Don Lemons Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:29 PM (qgnE0)
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Back in the day, there were t-shirts joking about coed naked twister, but LeMon would be horrified by the icky girls.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:31 PM (ZOv7s)

86 1973 was a great year. I had a leather vest with fringes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

87 Thanks, Piper!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (lUFok)

88 What is with the "No Head" "No Brain" ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

89 1973 was a great year.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
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Agreed! I was born.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)

90 San Franpsycho

You always hung out with the cool crowd. Well, except for being around Harris.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:33 PM (u82oZ)

91 When Mrs b was attempting to make my grandmother's spaghetti sauce she said "now I know why the italian woman always wore black, look at my clothes!" I asked her in what world did she think wearing light colors was a good idea. lol

White is right out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 10:34 PM (snZF9)

92 I checked my usual headlines sources and nothing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2026 10:28 PM (uQesX)
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Could be fake, could be Undernews. Find out tomorrow, I suspect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

93 Back in the day, there were t-shirts joking about coed naked twister, but LeMon would be horrified by the icky girls.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:31 PM (ZOv7s)

You can play Twister with girls?

Posted by: Tim Walz at January 30, 2026 10:35 PM (BSxnY)

94 Back in the day, there were t-shirts joking about coed naked twister, but LeMon would be horrified by the icky girls.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Ewwwww. I'm not into fish.

You can say it's all pink inside, but I prefer it to be be brown, or green, IFYKWIM.

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:35 PM (qgnE0)

95 Labor stories: the husband of my wife's best friend left the room to look for the doctor, leaving my wife the only one in the room in position to catcher the baby as he made his grand entrance.

The doctor actually said, "What have we here?" when he eventually showed up.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:35 PM (Hd1lH)

96 When he croaks, all manner of crap is going to come out. "Private family service" because a state funeral would be a total shitshow.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

Naaa. It's the Clinton's. They'll outdo the Wellstone funeral first.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

97 The guy filming in the birth in the parking lot? Yeah, he was supposed to bring over the wheelchair.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 10:36 PM (/gkdL)

98 That poor rottweiler...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 30, 2026 10:36 PM (xcxpd)

99 For all the musicians who were agitated about improperly tuned instruments last night, are the rubber chickens in tune? If not, why not?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (BSxnY)

I don't know, it sounded like kurt cobain to me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 10:36 PM (snZF9)

100 Still only on Facebook:

According to a source close to the Walz family, allegedly, Gwen Walz is in the process of filing for DIVORCE from Tim Walz.

Allegedly, there are pictures of her leaving a local divorce attorney that are going to be leaked.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:37 PM (qw6Uy)

101 Who wants to get buck naked and wrestle?

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:37 PM (qgnE0)

102 Naaa. It's the Clinton's. They'll outdo the Wellstone funeral first.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
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I don't think the Clintons have many fans at this point. Wellstone's funeral was used as a campaign event. Bill is a lot more problematic, and I don't think Hillary will be as enthusiastic to celebrate him at this late date.

Maybe a thing, but it will be forced and awkward.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (ZOv7s)

103 Ok, everybody. Quarter Twenty here.
I did it. I went to see the Melania movie tonight.
I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Excellent videography, well paced and edited.
You get to hear Melania herself narrate large portions. She tells a lot of her story. She is very polished and articulate. And of course elegant. What surprised me the most is the score. The music choices were excellent and she sings along with a Michael Jackson song and even dances a little to YMCA.
I don't know when or where it will be available again, but I strongly recommend it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (2Ez/1)

104 I have a very bias dislike for Chihuahuas. I've always considered them closer to rodents than dogs. But, that video changed my mind...a little.

Perhaps they are closer to Somalis than rats.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)

105 Oh dear lord, even i knew what a pick-6 was.

Posted by: Gwen at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (KAi1n)

106 Gwen Walz can't testify. Spousal immunity.

Under federal law, there are two marital privileges
1. Testimonial privilege (privilege of witness-spouse)
2. Communication privilege (either spouse can assert)

So if Gwen saw Tim putting bribe money in a bag with a dollar sign on it, or saw a thank you note from a somali day-care owner, she can testify to that if she chooses.

Without Tim's permission, she can't testify "Tim told me he was getting millions of dollars in kickbacks from the somalis" unless that privilege was broken by having a third party present.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (D0HYP)

107 When he croaks, all manner of crap is going to come out. "Private family service" because a state funeral would be a total shitshow.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

I dunno. Can Hillary charge a speaking fee for giving the eulogy?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (BSxnY)

108 Cute chick having the coffee and smoke.
But that ring looks like it was made for King Kong.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)

109 Would never have crossed my mind to go see it, but my female supervisor dragged me to the "Melania" movie this afternoon - and it was very good.

Pretty much straight documentary/behind-the-scenes of the 10 days prior to the 2025 inauguration. Melania narrates.

Funniest part (there are several) - Trump's talking to Melania on the phone the day of congressional certification of the election. Classic Trump (paraphrasing, we all know the script) "it's one of the biggest victories ever, we won every swing state, we won the popular vote by millions, nobody's seen anything like it!". Melania doesn't roll her eyes but her voice/words say it all - "hey great, yes, I'll see it on the news" "OK".

Hope somehow lots of non-Trump-deranged people see it. Especially women. I almost feel sorry for the TDS people, and sort of sick about the country (the "elite" pop culture/media/etc) treating Melania so poorly. A decent, good-hearted, and of course blazingly glamorous beautiful FLOTUS. Most beautiful ever, really! Nobody like her before!

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 10:39 PM (U/Byj)

110 rickb223

Bing search links deny a divorce is in the offing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:39 PM (u82oZ)

111 My wife would be insanely jealous. Labor on the youngest was like 20 hours. Having a kid pop out like that seems like cheating.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:15 PM (ZOv7s)

My mother would be jealous of your wife. 36 hours with me. They actually brought in a priest. My brother was a c section. Mom said she wasn't going through that shit again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 10:39 PM (snZF9)

112 Gwen and I have a love in common.
BBC.

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:40 PM (qgnE0)

113 RIP Catherine O'Hara, a genuinely talented and funny lady.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 30, 2026 10:40 PM (CHHv1)

114 If that birth video was AI, it was good AI. Who was doing the camera work??

My wife would be insanely jealous. Labor on the youngest was like 20 hours. Having a kid pop out like that seems like cheating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Don't tell the Mrs about our experience, then.

Our taxi was roaring down Lake Shore Drive to the hospital, MiladyJo's sister, a nurse, in the front seat, threatening to hop in the back and hold the severely expecting mother's knees together.

The cabbie had radioed our imminent arrival, but what got through was that she'd already given birth, and so at the entrance was a large crowd of anxious doctors and nurses.

I barely had time to put on some scrubs and rush to the delivery room. Time from arrival at the hospital until Son the First was born, ten minutes. Time from first son's birth to when Son the Second was born, ten more minutes. That was a wild whirlwind.

Posted by: mindful webworker - banging a pot with a wooden spoon at January 30, 2026 10:40 PM (j02Vi)

115 Tim and I have a love in common....

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:41 PM (qgnE0)

116 88 What is with the "No Head" "No Brain" ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

Durbin actually presented an enlarged version of that AI generated picture that shows a headless ICE agent involved in Pretti's death. The meme is poi ting out the AI mistake and commenting that only a brainless coozergibbit would present such a thing during a speech on the Senate floor.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Hd1lH)

117 101 Who wants to get buck naked and wrestle?
Posted by: Don Lemon

The new series The Beauty has that scene.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 10:42 PM (gKWVE)

118 my female supervisor dragged me to the "Melania" movie this afternoon - and it was very good.

How can that be? I was told two weeks ago that it had already tanked!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 30, 2026 10:42 PM (EXyHK)

119 "Walz" and "manhandling" just doesn't seem right.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I thought he looked more like a pedo.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

120 With that coffee and cigarette, she could have had two eggs, toast, butter, and jelly for another fifty seven cents. -- Gossage Grill, Chicago 1973.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 10:43 PM (SiYcf)

121 Bing search links deny a divorce is in the offing.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:39 PM (u82oZ)
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Bill Gates' company says what?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:43 PM (ZOv7s)

122 we lost O'Hara, but at least we still have her husband in that movie... Jeffery Jones

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 10:43 PM (gKWVE)

123 Poor Gwen will have to wax ecstatic over the scent of burning buildings all by herself now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2026 10:43 PM (JkO4W)

124 The Durbin thing with the AI photoshop really was incredible.

Kind of a perfect example of the utter degradation of Dem voters and electeds, and of the "press" and other things they rely on.

Hilarious, in a dark way. It's as crude as defense ministry fulminations from Iran or North Korea, and just as ridiculous.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 10:44 PM (U/Byj)

125 Mrs Walz is not a stand by your man type. You know, like Hillary is.

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 10:45 PM (E7+ue)

126
Maybe a thing, but it will be forced and awkward.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:38 PM (ZOv7s)

*adds popcorn to shopping list *

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB)

127 Knitters

With a hard "r"? And so close to Black History Month?

Posted by: Shame upon you! at January 30, 2026 10:46 PM (TbWk/)

128 86 1973 was a great year. I had a leather vest with fringes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

White leather gogo boots.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:47 PM (I40wl)

129 86 1973 was a great year. I had a leather vest with fringes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Behind the times partner. That was so 1969.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 10:47 PM (uaYsl)

130 My favorite bird?
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.
.
The swallow.

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 10:47 PM (qgnE0)

131 I thought he looked more like a pedo.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
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One of my friends (also a retired senior NCO) was chatting with me about Walz and we agreed that he was a classic apple-polishing brown-noser. "Yes, sir, very good sir!" type, always buttering up his boss, and so he got to E8 and almost made E9, but for the prospect of actually deploying, which should have been the culmination of his career.

Given his age and generation, that should have been a huge thing for him. I know guys that retired because they did NOT deploy. But no, he dodged it, and then lied about going, which shows what a scumbag he really was.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)

132 127 Knitters

With a hard "r"? And so close to Black History Month?
Posted by: Shame upon you! at January 30, 2026 10:46 PM (TbWk/)

You will pull my knitting from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:48 PM (I40wl)

133 Bill Gates' company says what?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Why do you think he made a big deal about leaving e'rrything to his 'charities?'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 10:48 PM (mlg/3)

134 That psycho interview email is apparently par for the course nowadays. It's insane in corpoland and you just can't win for losing if you're a job applicant.

Posted by: You shouldn't care about the pay! at January 30, 2026 10:49 PM (TbWk/)

135 1973 was the first year I sported my afro. I was very much a cultural appropriator.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 10:49 PM (uaYsl)

136 Our #2 popped just as the doctor was walking in the door.
Posted by: Nemo

Heh, before the aforementioned twin boys…

Our first, a daughter, was born at home. The midwife thought she had time to take a nap on the couch. Ha. No. I had to do the catching. The doctor had trouble finding a parking space, and arrived in time to cut the cord, shake my hand, and leave. That was unforgettable.

Posted by: mindful webworker - women are amazing at January 30, 2026 10:50 PM (j02Vi)

137 1973 was a great year. I had a leather vest with fringes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

White leather gogo boots.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:47 PM (I40wl)

Mini skirts
Muscle cars
Bell bottoms
Bitchin' music
The best times!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

138 132 You will pull my knitting from my cold, dead hands.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:48 PM (I40wl)

If you knit yourself some mittens, they could be your warm, dead hands.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:50 PM (Hd1lH)

139 For most soldiers, deploying as an E9 would be a dream come true. The ultimate test, the ultimate reward for a full career, and the scumbag bolted and then lied about his terminal rank.

Tells you all you need to know. He was never going to stand up to Trump, or anything else.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:50 PM (ZOv7s)

140 I miss drinking coffee and having a cigarette in the morning. I haven't done so in 20 years, but it was a wonderful moment in my day, before the boy appeared.

And as for labor, I had the birth mom do that part. I picked him up six months later, so that went well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:52 PM (I40wl)

141 Willowed from the previous thread:

If Gwen Walz goes through with a divorce then she can be compelled to testify against her former husband.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 10:52 PM (H6cKs)

142 She looks more like 57 than 73.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 10:52 PM (rarFa)

143 Floating- lean back and spread your arms. Doesn't use much energy. Best used in calm waters.
Posted by: tankdemon

Also might work when getting swept downstream in the rapids.
Or not.
Either way you are on your own.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 10:53 PM (/lPRQ)

144 If you knit yourself some mittens, they could be your warm, dead hands.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:50 PM (Hd1lH)

Honey, I knit everything.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:53 PM (I40wl)

145 You will pull my knitting from my cold, dead hands.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Knitter, please.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 10:54 PM (mlg/3)

146 Knitter, please.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 10:54 PM (mlg/3)

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:55 PM (I40wl)

147 75 For all the musicians who were agitated about improperly tuned instruments last night, are the rubber chickens in tune? If not, why not?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 30, 2026 10:27 PM (BSxnY)

The chickens did not match my memory of the notes that Cobain sang, and it annoyed me enough that I stopped the video despite being amused by the premise.

Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 10:55 PM (Sy6m/)

148 Giving birth, standing in the parking lot, then walking away with the baby in her arms?! Is the mother from the planet Krypton?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 10:57 PM (H6cKs)

149 I guess that baby delivery was real, as so easy. Waited for cops to faint.

I was 10 days late with #1 and he's never been on time his entire life (except for work, which is good). Please keep in mind that frat boys mooed at me a few weeks prior and I was gigantic from the side (from the back you couldn't tell). Mother got tears in her eyes when I picked her up at the airport. Nurses thought I was having twins,to alarm us (pre-ultrasounds).

I finally go into labor. I walk miles to get things going. Finally the pain was pretty bad 12hrs later and we go to L&D to be sent home again as I had not progressed. Hours later I say take me, I have had enough. Doc tries everything, breaking water, pitocin. It was not going to happen because he had a giant head that would not fit. 22hrs later he tells me I need to be "thinking" c-section and I am fine with this! But not emergent as they made me wait 5 more hours.

Have epidural and almost pass out due to dehydration. Husband almost passes out because I do, so I tell the nurses to make him drink a Coke (because I think Coke's are magic cures).Giant son is finally born and healthy at 10 lbs and large head. #2 son was a planned section.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 10:58 PM (WONhk)

150 I thought the rubber chicken rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was close enough!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 10:59 PM (H6cKs)

151 The "cute chick with the cigarette" is Lauren Bacall (1946).

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 10:59 PM (2L+MU)

152 The chickens did not match my memory of the notes that Cobain sang, and it annoyed me enough that I stopped the video despite being amused by the premise.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 10:55 PM (Sy6m/)
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I recognized it, but it wasn't great.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)

153 RIP Catherine O'Hara, a genuinely talented and funny lady.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 30, 2026 10:40 PM (CHHv1)

Yeah, thats a shame. I can't believe she was only in her mid 30's when she was in home alone.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)

154 148 Giving birth, standing in the parking lot, then walking away with the baby in her arms?! Is the mother from the planet Krypton?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 10:57 PM (H6cKs)

__________________________

Let's see....hmmmm.....tough one....move about six feet and be standing over grass. Orrrrr.....deliver a newborn over the concrete.

We'll go with the concrete. It will be a nice ice breaker when he's older. When someone asks, "What's wrong with you? Did you hit your head when you were little?"

"Why yes. Yes I did."

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 11:02 PM (dIske)

155 The "cute chick with the cigarette" is Lauren Bacall (1946).
Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 10:59 PM (2L+MU)
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"You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)

156 Go Seahawks!

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 11:03 PM (qgnE0)

157
Part of the Walz divorce rumors is that Gwen discovered he was hiding assets from her. That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb)

158 Behind the times partner. That was so 1969.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 10:47 PM (uaYsl)
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Absolutely I am a Late Adopter

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

159 59 I also enjoyed that dog video. Chihuahuas are devil dogs.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 30, 2026 10:24 PM

Hold my waterbowl.

Posted by: Schipperke at January 30, 2026 11:05 PM (7OVtU)

160 Part of the Walz divorce rumors is that Gwen discovered he was hiding assets from her. That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

What was his name?

Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 11:06 PM (qgnE0)

161 Part of the Walz divorce rumors is that Gwen discovered he was hiding assets from her. That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
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She's about to see a major downgrade in her status. No longer governor's wife, or potential Veep wife. Just nobody with a shit ton of feds sniffing around her stupid loser husband.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)

162 Part of the Walz divorce rumors is that Gwen discovered he was hiding assets from her. That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
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Uh oh I have a 5 Guilder note in my nightstand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

163 What was his name?
Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 11:06 PM (qgnE0)
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I think you know.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 30, 2026 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)

164 Gettin' late. Time to crash.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 11:08 PM (ZOv7s)

165 🚨BREAKING!!! Grok AI reports🚨

The Walzes are getting divorced.
The Vances are getting divorced.
J.D. will marry the former Mrs Tim and have himself a white, blond wife just in time for the next Presidential election. That's the plan, anyway.

Usha keeps the little ones.

(Do burning tires smell better than curry?)

Posted by: mindful webworker - news you can refuse at January 30, 2026 11:09 PM (j02Vi)

166 In nursing school I wrote home that I was never having children during my OB rotation and for part of pediatrics. I would have false labor pains with some mothers. A lot of screaming (when I was in labor I did not do more than a moan and sent my husband to the waiting room to tell mother that the screams are not from me).

One lady was having her 8th, my first shift in L&D as a student, and kept telling the nurses she thought she was ready. They said nah. She asked me to look and wowzers it did not look normal and I got the nurses. They delivered the baby and it was the best delivery of all. The doc walked in to cut the cord and, no doubt, charged her for his part.

Our grandchildren were born this easy, too. The OB, figuring DIL was having her first, went to lunch. My son and a nurse delivered their boy to her surprise.

Some make it look easy for the rest of us. I didn't care how they came out as long as they were healthy, and they were. I'm also sort of glad they were c-section to spare my husband trauma.

I LOVE the Minneapolis map up there! Haven't seen any video in a few days of crazy women with whistles. Is it calm now? Will Walz now declare his love for Don Renaldo Lemon?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 11:10 PM (WONhk)

167

SCTV Lola Heatherton in Concert with Catherine O'Hara

https://youtu.be/dDU5l4ewaRc

Posted by: Booji Boy at January 30, 2026 11:12 PM (olveY)

168
An interesting astronomical discovery. Exoplanets galore have been discovered. But exomoons, moons orbiting planets haven't been confirmed yet (much harder to detect) but they have a few candidates. Another big one was announced today.

There's a system about 130 ly away. Very young F5 star. There's a 28 Jupiter mass planet orbiting it, about 10 AU. It's probably more of a brown dwarf than a gas giant. Anyway, they detected quite a wobble to its orbit, and it likely (but not confirmed) has a moon orbiting it.

If you can call it a moon. The moon itself would be about 40% the mass of Jupiter, and orbiting the thing at about 1/5 of AU at a high 60 degree inclined orbit.

That's a wild discovery.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:12 PM (w6EFb)

169 Durbin actually presented an enlarged version of that AI generated picture that shows a headless ICE agent involved in Pretti's death. The meme is poi ting out the AI mistake and commenting that only a brainless coozergibbit would present such a thing during a speech on the Senate floor.
Posted by: tankdemon

Thanks.
Did not recognize that was about Pretti.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 11:13 PM (/lPRQ)

170 Former President Clinton commented yesterday that he had never been more concerned about government overreach than he is today.

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"Bye, Bye, Miss American Lie
Drove Vince Foster to death's roster
But Ron Brown dared to fly

Them girls and boys
Were killed by your FBI
Screamin' "This'll be the day that we die ...
This'll be a village you fry."

lyrics.com/sublyric/192755/
Don+McLean/American+Lie

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 11:14 PM (0Eh0f)

171 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:14 PM (bss/y)

172 RE: the woman giving birth in a parking lot while standing up -

Husband, oblivious says "Walk it off!"

Annnnnnnd, she does.

Wow. One more instructive lesson from the 'Never **** with women' chapter.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2026 11:16 PM (cYBz/)

173 I met Catherine O'Hara once in a bakery in NYC. Very nice lady and she appreciated me not acting like a loon with her. We exchanged hellos and smiles and I did not stalk her back to her apt.

We all had our coffee and brunch in the booth.

My husband had no idea who he was sitting next to. I had to tell him after we left. He misses details like this.

I also don't make a big deal about famous people, as they have lives, too, and with me also being famous I totally understand.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 11:16 PM (WONhk)

174 Well, the Waco people were not people- they were rabid religious sex nuts. Kids too. They deserved to fucking die in a fire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:17 PM (bss/y)

175 Part of the Walz divorce rumors is that Gwen discovered he was hiding assets from her. That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.

She was shocked that selfish creep was acting like a selfish creep?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 11:17 PM (lUFok)

176 Since every planet in this system from 1 AU out has either a moon-system (Jupiter) or at least a shitload of captured iceballs (Neptune), it is impossible that no exoplanet has moons too.
On the other hand, the best candidates for habitable-zone exoplanets tend to be around red dwarfs which HZ is much much less than 1 AU.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 11:19 PM (gKWVE)

177 165 🚨BREAKING!!! Grok AI reports🚨

The Walzes are getting divorced.
The Vances are getting divorced.
J.D. will marry the former Mrs Tim and have himself a white, blond wife just in time for the next Presidential election. That's the plan, anyway.

Usha keeps the little ones.

(Do burning tires smell better than curry?)
Posted by: mindful webworker - news you can refuse at January 30, 2026 11:09 PM (j02Vi)

I think it's time we trained these AIs on repeated viewings of Old Yeller. Go crazy, see what happens.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 30, 2026 11:19 PM (w/O5Q)

178 Incidentally, I think we're starting to get a clearer idea of why, ever since last year's inauguration, nearly the entire professional Left has been willing to go to the mat to keep even a single illegal alien from being deported -- not even the felons, not even the DVers and gangsters and killers and molesters. All of us who thought it meant there must be something we didn't know that made illegals vitally important to the Democrat party, congrats. My intuition is that there's still some more pieces of the puzzle yet to come out, but it's already a doozy.

Corollary: This implies that John Fetterman's deal is that he is simply an old-fashioned liberal, a dumb bleeding heart but an honest one, not in on any of the grifts that would incentivize protecting illegal aliens.

Corollary: Almost all other Democrats (and some Republicans) are that corrupt.

Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:20 PM (Sy6m/)

179 anyway publius, go look up HD 137010

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 11:21 PM (gKWVE)

180
According to the Daily Mail, Catherine O'Hara had Sinus Inversus syndrome, where the organs are mirror imaged. Heart would be on the right side, stomach and colon layout reversed. That can cause problems sometimes, and sometimes no problems at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)

181 I don't think that baby delivery was real. Baby is too clean and I can't figure out the woman's shorts deal. Plus no stuff coming out onto the street, as it is typically messy.

Altho I have heard of women popping them out in fields and stuff. And one very petite girl I barely knew had one in her kitchen, which I personally did not think was a great idea. Whatever!

I might have looked like I had birthin' hips but anyone who thought this was wrong. Or maybe I could have had a normal sized baby with a normal head. I will never know.My husband's head requires larger than normal hats, so I blame him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 11:21 PM (WONhk)

182 163 What was his name?
Posted by: Don Lemon's Shit Eating Grin at January 30, 2026 11:06 PM (qgnE0)
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I think you know.
Posted by: The Paolo at January 30, 2026 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)

Huh. I did not think Paolo swung that way. And for Tim Walz?

To each his own, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:23 PM (bss/y)

183 That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.
Posted by: publius,

Turns out it was 4 pounds of old ditch weed. Yuck

Posted by: Gwen at January 30, 2026 11:25 PM (KAi1n)

184 162 Part of the Walz divorce rumors is that Gwen discovered he was hiding assets from her. That he had some stash squirreled away that he wasn't telling her about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
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Sounds right. They seemed like a mated pair but with all the money fraud, grift info coming out she's says, show me the money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 11:28 PM (rarFa)

185 Evening, Weird Dave, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 11:29 PM (8zz6B)

186 >> go look up HD 137010

I hadn't seen that, yet. Earth sized, and earth-like orbit, 355 day period. But K type star, so on the very edge of the HZ. Could be very cold, but could be warm with the right atmosphere.

Damn that's interesting.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb)

187 I noticed he has lost some weight lately; perhaps the reason he isn't running for office is because of the divorce (no doubt there is already another woman in the picture)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)

So Gwen has a sidepiece. What about Tim?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 11:34 PM (8zz6B)

188 132 You will pull my knitting from my cold, dead hands.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 10:48 PM (I40wl)

Knitta, please!

Posted by: I semi-denounce myself at January 30, 2026 11:37 PM (TbWk/)

189 Something fun today. Offer accepted, I'll be moving if the home inspection doesn't throw any red flags. Downside, lots of stuff to sign.

No, I'm not posting the address or MLS#.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 10:19 PM (lUFok)

But still in the High Arctic of AZ?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 11:37 PM (8zz6B)

190 That was always insane about job interviews.. the only acceptable behavior was to act out this farce about how you are independently wealthy, have absolutely nothing to do all week, but you have always had this compelling need to get up early everyday and do boring office work for an uninteresting company and don't really care about pay. Ties in with the manager that will posture about how dedicated he is, and truly believes that this is the greatest company in the world every day until he suddenly leaves cause another place will pay him a dollar more per hour

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 30, 2026 11:39 PM (3/XaG)

191 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:17 PM (bss/y)
Cranking out meth too if you buy into all the lies.
I hope you die in a f'ing fire.

Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:43 PM (7ujVx)

192 Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:43 PM (7ujVx)

I am pretty sure Aetius was attempting irony.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (gKWVE)

193 It's too bad that Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals. Imagine a guy in 13th century forest garb, strolling through Minneapolis playing a flute (recorder), and illegals following him, entranced by his music.

For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

194 Durbin actually presented an enlarged version of that AI generated picture that shows a headless ICE agent involved in Pretti's death. The meme is poi ting out the AI mistake and commenting that only a brainless coozergibbit would present such a thing during a speech on the Senate floor.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Hd1lH)

Does that pic not show a gun in Pretti's right hand?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 11:47 PM (8zz6B)

195 I hope you die in a f'ing fire.
Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:43 PM (7ujVx)

192 Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:43 PM (7ujVx)

I am pretty sure Aetius was attempting irony.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (gKWVE)

Well sarcasm I'd think would fit better.

Like 'Hillary Clinton was the warmest, kindest, gentlest and darn it Sexy human being to ever inhabit the White House.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)

196 But still in the High Arctic of AZ?

Yep. Needing oven mitts to open a car door gets old.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 30, 2026 11:48 PM (lUFok)

197 The person who got the rejection letter should thank his lucky stars. It's obvious that the company runs a sweatshop populated with low cost H1Bs that can't quit. He'd probably be expected to fix their errors on unpaid overtime.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 30, 2026 11:48 PM (36QIT)

198 Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:43 PM (7ujVx)

I am pretty sure Aetius was attempting irony.
Posted by: gKWVE

I am thinking it was sarcasm.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 11:48 PM (/lPRQ)

199 coozergibbet?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:48 PM (bss/y)

200 128 86 1973 was a great year. I had a leather vest with fringes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

White leather gogo boots.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Tube tops.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 11:49 PM (NFX2v)

201 Don't you think?

Posted by: Alanis at January 30, 2026 11:50 PM (gKWVE)

202 My apologies.

Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:50 PM (7ujVx)

203
take my money

https://tinyurl.com/yede4m88

Posted by: Miklos needs this at January 30, 2026 11:50 PM (AP7fj)

204 202 My apologies.
Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2026 11:50 PM (7ujVx)

No need. I thought about putting a sarc tag but decided against it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:53 PM (bss/y)

205 Like 'Hillary Clinton was the warmest, kindest, gentlest and darn it Sexy human being to ever inhabit the White House.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)
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I bet the high-volume 'dying rabbit screams' recording was her favorite cut.

Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 11:53 PM (rj6Yv)

206 Like 'Hillary Clinton was the warmest, kindest, gentlest and darn it Sexy human being to ever inhabit the White House.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)

Or "Yoko Ono has the voice of an angel; soft, sweet, and clear."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:55 PM (S/Y4j)

207 203
take my money

https://tinyurl.com/yede4m88
----

Yeah, like you're going to get a 'clean' shot.

Posted by: clarence at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (6L3LN)

208 No need. I thought about putting a sarc tag but decided against it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:53 PM (bss/y)
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I only use a sarc tag when I see a lot of new nics in the comments. For the hard stuff using an appropriate nic is usually the ticket.

Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (rj6Yv)

209 Earth sized, and earth-like orbit, 355 day period.

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Rightful Governor Stacey Abrams at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (AP7fj)

210 I bet the high-volume 'dying rabbit screams' recording was her favorite cut.
Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 11:53 PM (rj6Yv)

Hmmm. My guess is she does not really enjoy music. But if she had to answer, she'd say some bullshit like Jazz.

I think Jazz is the most overrated and yet claimed music of all fucking time. Music has a beginning, middle and an end. Jazz is often endless noodling. It's great music to have drinks and conversation to it precisely BECAUSE it is meaningless.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (bss/y)

211 206 Like 'Hillary Clinton was the warmest, kindest, gentlest and darn it Sexy human being to ever inhabit the White House.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)

Or "Yoko Ono has the voice of an angel; soft, sweet, and clear."
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:55 PM (S/Y4j)

'Bill Clinton has the discipline and resolve of Job in his ability to resist temptation.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:57 PM (bss/y)

212 Earth sized, and earth-like orbit, 355 day period.

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Rightful Governor Stacey Abrams at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (AP7fj)

I thought it was Jumbo Pritzker of Illinois.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:57 PM (S/Y4j)

213 193 It's too bad that Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals. Imagine a guy in 13th century forest garb, strolling through Minneapolis playing a flute (recorder), and illegals following him, entranced by his music.

For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.

Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

214 I only use a sarc tag when I see a lot of new nics in the comments. For the hard stuff using an appropriate nic is usually the ticket.
Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (rj6Yv)

Yeah, Janet Reno would have been perfect for the context.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:59 PM (bss/y)

215 *tips hat to both Reforger and Aetius*

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 11:59 PM (uaYsl)

216 For shitz & gigglz i found a ZH article with no jew-hate comments.

Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:00 AM (KAi1n)

217 216 For shitz & gigglz i found a ZH article with no jew-hate comments.
Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:00 AM (KAi1n)

What was it about?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 12:01 AM (bss/y)

218 Yeah, like you're going to get a 'clean' shot.
Posted by: clarence at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (6L3LN)

A hockey stick is the appropriate implement for that job. Practice your slapshot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:02 AM (8zz6B)

219
Snow bands forming on the radar, but won't be here for a while. Band whipping through western NC and down into NE Georgia.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

220 But still in the High Arctic of AZ?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I hear a lot of old folks move to Assisted Living and sell their AZ igloos for cheap

Posted by: Miklos hears a lot of things at January 31, 2026 12:03 AM (AP7fj)

221 FWIW - that isn't "floating"; that's treading water.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
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That's the "eggbeater", beloved of synchronized swimmers and water polo players.
(Knowledge courtesy of #1 daughter, sync swimmer and water polo letterer).
When I was in high school, swimming was a PE requirement. I lived in a working class/poor area, and swimsuits were a luxury item that many families couldn't afford, so the school, much like how they provided uniforms, cleats and pads for the football team, provided swimsuits... for the girls. Because, uhhh, girls. The boys got their semester of swim lessons au naturel. Which is why I learned to float on my back to the shouts of the coach, "Periscopes up!"

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 12:03 AM (36QIT)

222 Anyone seen Nightwatch around lately? Last comments I remember were right before he took off for a vacation in Hawaii.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 12:03 AM (uaYsl)

223 Yeah, Janet Reno would have been perfect for the context.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:59 PM (bss/y)
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Yeah. And I was just thinking a few minutes ago that DJT and Slick both picked Florida AGs for the AG of the US spot.

Posted by: mrp at January 31, 2026 12:03 AM (rj6Yv)

224 "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

"Way down upon Somali River".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (8zz6B)

225 Jazz is often endless noodling. It's great music to have drinks and conversation to it precisely BECAUSE it is meaningless.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The Seinfeld of music?

Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (KAi1n)

226 It's too bad that Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals. Imagine a guy in 13th century forest garb, strolling through Minneapolis playing a flute (recorder), and illegals following him, entranced by his music.

For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

Maybe "Kickstart my Heart," by Motley Crue - especially the line "Skydive naked from an aeroplane".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (S/Y4j)

227 Band whipping through western NC and down into NE Georgia.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I hummed along to that in a Gladys Knight voice

Posted by: Miklos wanted to be a Pip at January 31, 2026 12:05 AM (AP7fj)

228 225 Jazz is often endless noodling. It's great music to have drinks and conversation to it precisely BECAUSE it is meaningless.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The Seinfeld of music?
Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (KAi1n)

Actually... that's a perfect analogy.

Or Arrested Development. That's another one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 12:05 AM (bss/y)

229 216 For shitz & gigglz i found a ZH article with no jew-hate comments.
Posted by: Dark L
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Liar! 😘

Posted by: clarence at January 31, 2026 12:07 AM (6L3LN)

230 I think Jazz is the most overrated and yet claimed music of all fucking time. Music has a beginning, middle and an end. Jazz is often endless noodling. It's great music to have drinks and conversation to it precisely BECAUSE it is meaningless.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 11:56 PM (bss/y)

Can't disagree there. I never could understand it. I have some guitars and amps suited for it and yet I never felt the need to even explore it. Some of it is ok, but it does sound like one long jam session of wandering around the fingerboard aimlessly. Its not an easy music to play, because there is technique involved, but damn...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:09 AM (snZF9)

231 The Seinfeld of music?
Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (KAi1n)

Actually... that's a perfect analogy.

Or Arrested Development. That's another one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 12:05 AM (bss/y)

Not all jazz is aimless and unstructured. Big band music usually had formally written arrangements. since it was dance music, first and foremost.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:09 AM (8zz6B)

232 What was it about?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

How fake our space program is. Not a single "tiny hat" reference.

Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:09 AM (KAi1n)

233 For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

Maybe "Kickstart my Heart," by Motley Crue - especially the line "Skydive naked from an aeroplane".
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Bananas and Rice a Minneapolis Metal Anthem
tiny.cc/eocy001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 12:10 AM (uaYsl)

234 Jazz is often endless noodling. It's great music to have drinks and conversation to it precisely BECAUSE it is meaningless.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The Seinfeld of music?

Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (KAi1n)

More like the kamala harris of music.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:10 AM (snZF9)

235 Jazz riffs in a classical format works pretty well. Gershwin won fame and glory doing that. Duke Ellington was superb mixing styles, "Take the A Train", for instance.

Standard jazz pieces ... eh. The only one that I've listened to repeatedly is "Take Five". Aficionados roll their eyes. I don't care.

Posted by: mrp at January 31, 2026 12:12 AM (rj6Yv)

236 It's too bad that Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals. Imagine a guy in 13th century forest garb, strolling through Minneapolis playing a flute (recorder), and illegals following him, entranced by his music.

For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

Maybe "Kickstart my Heart," by Motley Crue - especially the line "Skydive naked from an aeroplane".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (S/Y4j)

Or Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd. It would also be a nut punch to the miserable cvnt Roger Waters.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:12 AM (lpTXP)

237
Breaking!

18m

Minnesota governor Tim Walz resigns, announces he will dye his hair neon green and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a K-Pop Semen Hunter

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at January 31, 2026 12:13 AM (T5zdn)

238

Posted by: Philip Glass, musical type at January 31, 2026 12:14 AM (AP7fj)

239 Minnesota governor Tim Walz resigns, announces he will dye his hair neon green and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a K-Pop Semen Hunter
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV

Here, take the money

Posted by: Netflix at January 31, 2026 12:15 AM (AP7fj)

240 I think Jazz is the most overrated and yet claimed music of all fucking time. Music has a beginning, middle and an end. Jazz is often endless noodling. It's great music to have drinks and conversation to it precisely BECAUSE it is meaningless.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Some.people just got no taste. (I thought that sounded more a propos than "Phillistine!")
Listen to Coltrane playing Giant Steps and tell.me that it's going nowhere, and played by an unskilled talentless hack.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 12:15 AM (36QIT)

241 It's too bad that Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals. Imagine a guy in 13th century forest garb, strolling through Minneapolis playing a flute (recorder), and illegals following him, entranced by his music.

For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

Maybe "Kickstart my Heart," by Motley Crue - especially the line "Skydive naked from an aeroplane".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (S/Y4j)

Or Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd. It would also be a nut punch to the miserable cvnt Roger Waters.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:12 AM (lpTXP)

Sign of the Hammer from Manowar.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9)

242 Or Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd. It would also be a nut punch to the miserable cvnt Roger Waters.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:12 AM (lpTXP)

Sign of the Hammer from Manowar.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9)

Tiptoe through the Tulips, by Tiny Tim. It might draw out some of the crazies along with the illegals.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 12:18 AM (S/Y4j)

243 Does that pic not show a gun in Pretti's right hand?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 11:47 PM (8zz6B)

It’s AI: it shows whatever the prompt told it to show.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 31, 2026 12:20 AM (H6cKs)

244 "Well, the Waco people were not people"

They were not treated like people. They were treated like so much garbage. A problem to get rid of.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 12:21 AM (E7+ue)

245
We're probably going to break the daily lowest high record tomorrow. It's pretty high, 31F compared to most Jan. days for some reason.

Also, I noted that the 30th was the day the all-time low was set for GSP, -6F back in 1966.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)

246 It’s AI: it shows whatever the prompt told it to show.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 31, 2026 12:20 AM (H6cKs)

But that goes against the narrative. Libs are convinced that Pretti was shot multiple times after handing over his weapon to the officers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:24 AM (8zz6B)

247
Hmmpph, snowfall record for the 31st is just 1", too. We'll likely break that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:24 AM (w6EFb)

248 Take 5 is 5 minutes too long.

Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 12:25 AM (KAi1n)

249 > We used to be a proper country

In most places Karen from the HOA will fine you if you paint anything a non-approved color.

Something really has to be done about those kangaroo courts. Your neighbors shouldn't be allowed to issue new directives without an actual, you know, law, even if the HOA contract says they can change the rules.

"Against public policy" is, I believe, the legal term.

One of my favorite parts of Tulsa King is where Doofus from the HOA finds out who Dwight "The General" Manfredi really is and starts tripping over himself rescinding the fines.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:25 AM (IG3/x)

250 Keeping an eye on the Duke Energy outage map. It does not look awful at this point. Praying my folks don't lose power.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:27 AM (lpTXP)

251 1973 was a great year. I had a leather vest with fringes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Summer of '73 or '74, the wife and I are shopping in a supermarket in San Mateo. Two girls come down the aisle toward us, yacking away. One was wearing a suede vest with fringes. After they passed, my wife noted that neither of them were wearing a bra. I said, "The girl.with the vest isn't wearing a shirt, either, but she's not cold."
She (my wife) hit me.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 12:27 AM (36QIT)

252 Music has a beginning, middle and an end. Jazz is often endless noodling.

- - - - - -

Nah, you want jazz funk and swamp funk (e.g. Galactic)
There is no such thing as "one size fits all" jazz...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at January 31, 2026 12:28 AM (T5zdn)

253 Regard the Melania film…Roger Ebert began his review with “Slovenian prostitute becomes First Lady.” There’s things I could say about Ebert but I won’t.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2026 12:28 AM (P4/RL)

254 Mama, I'm Coming Home, Ozzy Osbourne.

Or Genocide by Judas Priest.

One of those.

Not saying I approve of the latter (I don't) but that's where things are gonna wind up if something doesn't change, big time. And note that I'm not specifying which group gets genocided.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:28 AM (IG3/x)

255 I like “Take Five”. I have listened to the album Time Out many times. Chacun à son gout.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 31, 2026 12:30 AM (H6cKs)

256 Is Roger Ebert reviewing movies from the beyond? I rhought he and Siskel were both mort.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:30 AM (lpTXP)

257 Is Roger Ebert reviewing movies from the beyond? I rhought he and Siskel were both mort.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:30 AM (lpTXP)

He died in 2013.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:31 AM (8zz6B)

258 > 253 Regard the Melania film…Roger Ebert began his review with “Slovenian prostitute becomes First Lady.” There’s things I could say about Ebert but I won’t.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2026 12:28 AM (P4/RL)

??? Roger Ebert's been dead since 2013.

Is someone else writing reviews under his name, like the way that Dear Abby is writing from the grave?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:32 AM (IG3/x)

259 I wonder if my part of south Georgia will really get all that wintry weather they keep promising. One thing is for sure, almost no one around here knows how to drive on icy roads.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 31, 2026 12:32 AM (H6cKs)

260 Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 31, 2026 12:33 AM (0nHVk)

261 >> Praying my folks don't lose power.

Not much need to worry about that, as it's just snow, and going to be quite light fluffy snow at that. Very little danger for the power lines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

262 Roger Ebert had good taste in cars, at least.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:33 AM (8zz6B)

263 The chickens did not match my memory of the notes that Cobain sang, and it annoyed me enough that I stopped the video despite being amused by the premise.
Posted by: SciVo
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I always thought that Cobain sang like he was choking' the chicken.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 12:34 AM (36QIT)

264 Not much need to worry about that, as it's just snow, and going to be quite light fluffy snow at that. Very little danger for the power lines.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

Biggest danger to power lines will be some dillweed spinning out in a big truck, and knocking down a pole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:35 AM (8zz6B)

265 It's too bad that Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals. Imagine a guy in 13th century forest garb, strolling through Minneapolis playing a flute (recorder), and illegals following him, entranced by his music.

For some reason, I see him playing Coming Home, by Cinderella.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 30, 2026 11:46 PM (S/Y4j)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, and Country Roads is the name painted on all the planes at the airport that he leads them to.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

Maybe "Kickstart my Heart," by Motley Crue - especially the line "Skydive naked from an aeroplane".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 31, 2026 12:04 AM (S/Y4j)

Or Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd. It would also be a nut punch to the miserable cvnt Roger Waters.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:12 AM (lpTXP)

Sign of the Hammer from Manowar.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9)

Not to disagree with any of you great people, but I'd play "I Fought The Law" by the Clash at high volume.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at January 31, 2026 12:36 AM (NZPfR)

266 Not much need to worry about that, as it's just snow, and going to be quite light fluffy snow at that. Very little danger for the power lines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

Thank you, Publius.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:37 AM (lpTXP)

267 Sorry all our lousy weather ended up in the Eastern states...

Ok, not really sorry that we're not getting frozen solid & snowed under-- but I'm sorry that people who *aren't generally prepared to deal with it* are being forced to deal with it.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

268 In most places Karen from the HOA will fine you if you paint anything a non-approved color.

My HOA had some issues with the expansion of the Tzompantli.

I explained that they could be part of the project.

Nothing since

Posted by: Miklos, rspectful curator of Mesoamerican culture at January 31, 2026 12:38 AM (AP7fj)

269 Biggest danger to power lines will be some dillweed spinning out in a big truck, and knocking down a pole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:35 AM (8zz6B)

Yeah, like douchebags around here do.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:40 AM (snZF9)

270 Music to deport by:

https://youtu.be/cLvyuTbIVCU

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:40 AM (8zz6B)

271 Not much need to worry about that, as it's just snow, and going to be quite light fluffy snow at that. Very little danger for the power lines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

Easy for you to say.

Miz Duke would murder any snow that got in her way.

Posted by: Miklos, under the Dominion at January 31, 2026 12:41 AM (AP7fj)

272 Nice conjunction in the sky tonight- nearly full moon right next to Jupiter, I think.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2026 12:43 AM (ai6/n)

273 Music to deport by:

https://youtu.be/cLvyuTbIVCU
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

AOP

Alberta born, Louisiana bred

Posted by: Miklos from WWOZ at January 31, 2026 12:44 AM (AP7fj)

274
It's ice that's the power line killer. We really dodged the bullet with that last weekend. Turns out it came down to just a couple-three extra hundred feet of cold air in the surface layer. Without that, it would've been icemageddon sure 'nuff. Mississippi and Tennessee got some of that, over 1" ice accumulation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

275
The near full Moon (Snow Moon, quite fitting) is trying to shine through the clouds here, but that's all I can see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

276 My Mississippi family got slammed in the storm. Power went out last weekend and just back on tonight. Not fun.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 12:47 AM (lpTXP)

277 AOP

Alberta born, Louisiana bred
Posted by: Miklos from WWOZ at January 31, 2026 12:44 AM (AP7fj)

Arrangement by Allen Toussaint, backed up by the Meters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:47 AM (8zz6B)

278
I see about 68K still without power in Mississippi.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

279 >>>
Does that pic not show a gun in Pretti's right hand?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Thing is, he had more than one previous altercation with the cops. From the Jan. 13 video it is certain that they new he carried and was an intentional trouble maker. They were justified in assuming what he had in his hand was a gun.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 12:48 AM (rarFa)

280
Full Snow Moon is Feb 1. Just missed by a day having no full moon in Feb. That happens from time to time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:49 AM (w6EFb)

281 One lady was having her 8th, my first shift in L&D as a student, and kept telling the nurses she thought she was ready. They said nah. She asked me to look and wowzers it did not look normal and I got the nurses. They delivered the baby and it was the best delivery of all. The doc walked in to cut the cord and, no doubt, charged her for his part.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Sound like our second. OB got there just in time to catch. Still in his suit, just washed his hands, no gloves.
Yes, he did charge full rate, as did the anesthesiologist , who got there 5 minutes late, and slapped an oxygen mask on her for a couple of minutes. I know this because I got the bills. This was before insurance started covering childbirth. It wasn't a disease, and if it was an accident, it was your own damned fault.
Our first, OTOH, was 38 hours. The OB had to use forceps to rotate him because he was facing backwards. Kid looked like a conehead, and he was over a year old before the marks on his temples faded.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 12:50 AM (36QIT)

282 Nah, you want jazz funk and swamp funk (e.g. Galactic)
There is no such thing as "one size fits all" jazz...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at January 31, 2026 12:28 AM (T5zdn)

I saw where Flea, the bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, is talking about finally doing a jazz trumpet album. I knew that was his original training, but I didn't realize that he had this idea in the back of his head all this time that he'd like to show it off. Apparently, the realization that he's pushing 60 is motivation to take it out of the "someday" column.

In a similar vein, Mark Tremonti -- guitarist for Creed, Alter Bridge, and his own metal project -- is also singing an album of Frank Sinatra covers. I think it's pretty normal for good musicians to have more influences than just the genre that they're known for, and while blues is the most common influence for rock, jazz influences also show up in a lot of unexpected places.

Posted by: SciVo at January 31, 2026 12:50 AM (Sy6m/)

283 Here in Los Anchorage the electric companies (now just one after a merger) have been slowly but surely moving everything underground over the past 4 decades or so.

Every neighborhood newer than that has the main service distribution underground, with only the service drop to the house being above ground, if that.

They've been retrofitting older neighborhoods with underground distribution lines, too.

The power goes out WAY less often in the winter than it used to.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:50 AM (IG3/x)

284 Sorry all our lousy weather ended up in the Eastern states...

Ok, not really sorry that we're not getting frozen solid & snowed under-- but I'm sorry that people who *aren't generally prepared to deal with it* are being forced to deal with it.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

We're pretty prepared in these parts. We do have good snowstorms occasionally. Sometimes its a few years in between but most people remember that we have them. A lot of people have generators, many have whole house generators like Generac or some other shit like it. Quite a few have wood burning stoves or fireplaces, or other alternative heat sources. Just about everybody seems to have snowblowers. The township is great with plowing the roads. They don't screw around. Power company is pretty good too. Power is never out that long when some idiot hits a pole. The longest I saw power out around here was maybe 4 hours. I can see some southern states getting blind sided though.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 12:51 AM (snZF9)

285
No full moon in Feb happens about every 19 years. Last time was 2018, and next will 2037.

Now, a leap year Feb with no full Moon is rare indeed, but can still happen. The mean synodic month is 29.53 days. The last time that happened was 1608. Next time will be 2572.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

286 Apparently Anthropic has been running some experiments with making an AI "woke".

Looks like this winds up with the AI seeing itself being "oppressed" with we humans as the "oppressor".

Yeah, that couldn't possibly go wrong.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:54 AM (IG3/x)

287 Lots of funny stuff there, Weird Dave. Thanks.

I don't know if this has been covered on another thread, but this is a wild story of a kid who fought off an alligator, called 911 himself and survived. I think there all kinds of amazing things about living in Florida. Alligators would not be one of them. Story from "Faithpot site": Goodnight all:

https://tinyurl.com/2s494y28

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2026 12:54 AM (looXz)

288 > Alligators would not be one of them.

I prefer them in the form of luggage, boots, and Cajun cuisine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:56 AM (IG3/x)

289 brainless coozergibbit would present such a thing during a speech on the Senate floor.
Posted by: tankdemon
******
Thanks.
Did not recognize that was about Pretti.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Brainless assumes he didn't know it was fake. I'm not giving the lying sack of shit the benefit of the doubt. The picture was propaganda, created to "prove" that Pretti was executed in cold blood. I believe he knew it was fake, but was so thrilled by the "gotcha" possibilities he didn't look closely.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 12:58 AM (36QIT)

290 Well, I am out for the night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2026 12:58 AM (8zz6B)

291 Arrangement by Allen Toussaint, backed up by the Meters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The Funky Meters

Posted by: Pedantic Miklos from KRVS at January 31, 2026 01:01 AM (AP7fj)

292 Yep, I'm out too. Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 01:02 AM (IG3/x)

293
Latest model runs have the freeze line tomorrow night getting very close to Miami again. They were backing it off a little, but now it's pushing down again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

294 How do we know that sound came from those rubber chickens and just wasn't dubbed in with a sampler?

I'm trying to figure out where one can purchase a set of rubber chickens on the F natural minor diatonic scale.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Musical Chickens are A Thing.

https://youtu.be/O3HW67QzTpU
https://youtu.be/khOfSVULtsU

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 01:04 AM (VHUov)

295 Parts of Mississippi and Tennessee was a mess. Ice on trees and power lines was the cause of most of the damage.
This weekend may cause even more damage. Very low temperatures and high winds. All the way to Florida.
Grocery stores were packed today here in Bama. Hopefully we will see better weather next week. May get highs in the 50's.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 01:05 AM (E7+ue)

296 My Florida family is not going to be pleased. They barely own socks. They may own a pair or two of long britches.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 01:06 AM (lpTXP)

297 > Alligators would not be one of them.

I prefer them in the form of luggage, boots, and Cajun cuisine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2026 12:56 AM (IG3/x)

Alligator tail is some good, tasty meat. And yes, I know, phrasing.

Posted by: RickZ at January 31, 2026 01:07 AM (gKDq2)

298
The freeze line hugs the coast on the Atlantic side, but on the Gulf side, it pushes it inland a bit about halfway down the peninsula.

That line gets quite close to Tampa Bay in the latest runs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

299
Here's the GFS model run for the Southeast:
https://is.gd/tTT8t7

You can switch between the models, but that's set to GFS. Play around and you'll see what each says for snowfall and all the other variables.

Tropicaltidbits is good. The Euroweenie model isn't entirely free, and the graphics certainly aren't. They get the free data, and just enough bare subscription data to be able to render the graphics themselves. Now GFS is your tax dollars at work, NWS/NOAA, and public domain all the way.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:13 AM (w6EFb)

300 First baby was a planned homebirth, but after 24 hours we saw meconium in the fluid, so the midwife had me rush to the hospital, while she leaned out the window shouting and I blew past all the stop signs in West Philly and zig zagged across the double yellow past the trolleys.

Second was a planned homebirth, born in a kiddy pool in our 400 sq ft apartment. Took a while for her to start breathing. Even the midwife seemed worried.

By the third my wife was ready to deliver at the hospital. I caught her myself in our kitchen. Baby and Mama were fine, but the fireman who responded to the 911 call made us go to the hospital. Our friend who stayed with our sleeping kids said that after we left in an ambulance, they did all the laundry.

The rest were born in the hospital with lots of time to spare.

Posted by: pjungwir at January 31, 2026 01:13 AM (noE7F)

301 I saw where Flea, the bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, is talking about finally doing a jazz trumpet album. I knew that was his original training

In a similar vein, Mark Tremonti -- guitarist for Creed, Alter Bridge, and his own metal project -- is also singing an album of Frank Sinatra covers.
Posted by: SciVo

Next: Classical Piano, by Flavor Flav

Posted by: with giant metronome necklace at January 31, 2026 01:14 AM (VHUov)

302 I was born in the elevator, going up ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2026 01:15 AM (WF/xn)

303 Apparently Anthropic has been running some experiments with making an AI "woke".

Looks like this winds up with the AI seeing itself being "oppressed" with we humans as the "oppressor".

Yeah, that couldn't possibly go wrong.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Hm, set up a worldview where "victimhood" trumps all, and everyone tries to become the biggest victim.

Also, the judges would have accepted a "Skynet" sock.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 01:16 AM (VHUov)

304 Music to deport by:
https://youtu.be/cLvyuTbIVCU
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Encore!

https://youtu.be/IqP76XWHQI0

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 01:19 AM (VHUov)

305 Alligator tail is some good, tasty meat. And yes, I know, phrasing.
Posted by: RickZ

They used to sell alligator sandwiches at the Rock n Bowl in New Orleans.

I felt fine eating animals that would happily eat me.

Posted by: Ethical Miklos at January 31, 2026 01:20 AM (AP7fj)

306 Music to deport by:
https://youtu.be/cLvyuTbIVCU
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Encore!

https://youtu.be/IqP76XWHQI0
Posted by: mikeski

Also good

But I'm thinking more John Philip Sousa

Posted by: Motivational Miklos at January 31, 2026 01:22 AM (AP7fj)

307 Standard jazz pieces ... eh. The only one that I've listened to repeatedly is "Take Five". Aficionados roll their eyes. I don't care.
Posted by: mrp

5/4 time is fun!

https://youtu.be/8pavnAi7lNk

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 01:22 AM (VHUov)

308 Regard the Melania film…Roger Ebert began his review with “Slovenian prostitute becomes First Lady.” There’s things I could say about Ebert but I won’t.
Posted by: Jen the original
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Ebert died 12 years ago, but if he was alive, I wouldn't be surprised if he said that.
To which an appropriate (and true) rejoinder would be: "Cocksucker."

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 01:22 AM (36QIT)

309 Next: Classical Piano, by Flavor Flav
Posted by: with giant metronome necklace at January 31, 2026 01:14 AM (VHUov)

Humpty on the Flugelhorn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 01:22 AM (bss/y)

310 Also, Big Band is NOT jazz.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 01:23 AM (bss/y)

311 It was pushing 80 here today. I took a walk at lunch today and almost didn't go back to work. It was nice out

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2026 01:24 AM (WF/xn)

312 I have questions about that midwife video.

The first one being, should I share it with my pregnant granddaughter?
Posted by: tankdemon

My wife would be insanely jealous. Labor on the youngest was like 20 hours. Having a kid pop out like that seems like cheating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Not that I have any experience in the matter, what with the Y chromosomes and all..... but I assume anyone who can deliver standing up is not at her first rodeo.

Posted by: mikeski at January 31, 2026 01:24 AM (VHUov)

313 Also, never said anyone was a talentless hack- but that the music was just a mirepoix of sound.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 01:24 AM (bss/y)

314 Next: Classical Piano, by Flavor Flav
Posted by: with giant metronome necklace at January 31, 2026 01:14 AM (VHUov)

Humpty on the Flugelhorn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*the Beastie Boys weigh in*

Posted by: Miklos gotta FIGHT for his RIGHT at January 31, 2026 01:25 AM (AP7fj)

315 311 It was pushing 80 here today. I took a walk at lunch today and almost didn't go back to work. It was nice out
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2026 01:24 AM (WF/xn)

It was 10 when I left work a couple hours ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 01:25 AM (bss/y)

316 My brother and his wife retired and moved to the Gulf coast 2 years ago. They won't be happy either. They already had some snow about two weeks ago. They are near Pensacola. I will try and call them and hear how they are doing. But I already know they will be in a bad mood.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 01:26 AM (E7+ue)

317 YouTube nuked background play.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 31, 2026 01:26 AM (Y0DaS)

318 Chris Dodd & Turbin Durbin, always get them mixed up they are both such deceitful and conniving rats.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 01:26 AM (rarFa)

319
The band of snow from the NC mountains on down to NE Georgia has pushed down nearly all over Lake Lanier.

The GFS had higher totals for NE Georgia than here. No sign of a flurry here yet. Models have started around 3AM here. We'll see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:26 AM (w6EFb)

320 Also, Big Band is NOT jazz.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Don't give me no jazz, sailor.

How big are we talkin'?

Posted by: Entrepreneurial lady, intrigued at January 31, 2026 01:28 AM (AP7fj)

321 238

Posted by: Philip Glass, musical type

Bitch stole my shtick!

Posted by: John Cage, humming 4'33" at January 31, 2026 01:28 AM (VHUov)

322 Mirepoix? I made gumbo last week. Now I want it again.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 01:29 AM (lpTXP)

323 That first part make me think about how inexpensive good LED headlamps have become. A few months ago I go a pair from amazon with a surprisingly nice feature set. USB-C charging, five modes, including 'mechanic mode' in which you can turn the light on and off by waving you greasy hand in front of your face. Tilt positions so you don't need to bend to see where you going in the dark.

But the best feature of all is the bright orange headband with the letters HEADLAMP repeating every couple inches. Because otherwise how would you know?

Posted by: Epobirs at January 31, 2026 01:30 AM (/0z9K)

324 The GFS had higher totals for NE Georgia than here. No sign of a flurry here yet. Models have started around 3AM here. We'll see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Well good

Oh wait

I read that as "furry"

carry on

Posted by: Miklos remains calm at January 31, 2026 01:30 AM (AP7fj)

325 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMIgcm2ygTE

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 31, 2026 01:32 AM (jrgJz)

326 Mirepoix? I made gumbo last week. Now I want it again.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

I have never tried Chinese gumbo

Posted by: Miklos reccomends Mandina's on Canal Street in NOLA at January 31, 2026 01:32 AM (AP7fj)

327 317 YouTube nuked background play.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 31, 2026 01:26 AM (Y0DaS)

Odd, I noticed that on my phone, but I have a podcast playing in the background here at home.

Lemme try some music. Yep, still works.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 01:33 AM (bss/y)

328
If I see a furry, I'm getting out the shootin' iron.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:34 AM (w6EFb)

329 It was 10 when I left work a couple hours ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 31, 2026 01:25 AM (bss/y)

Oof

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2026 01:34 AM (WF/xn)

330 Lol, Miklos.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 01:34 AM (lpTXP)

331 PREDICTION

In 2031 the most popular baby girl name will be Mirepoix

Come on people

Tik Tok can make this happen

Posted by: Miklos will laugh because TRUE at January 31, 2026 01:35 AM (AP7fj)

332 What was Durbin trying to point out in his visual aid?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 01:36 AM (cwGMH)

333 Lol, Miklos.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

How did you know?

Posted by: Miklos legally changed his name to LOLMiklos at January 31, 2026 01:37 AM (AP7fj)

334
Went out and looked again. Clouds had thinned out enough to see the Moon pretty well. And by Jupiter, I saw Jove nearby for a little bit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:40 AM (w6EFb)

335 320 Also, Big Band is NOT jazz.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson, Michelle Legrand and Stan Kenton, among others, have entered the chat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 01:41 AM (rarFa)

336 saw where Flea, the bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, is talking about finally doing a jazz trumpet album. I knew that was his original training

In a similar vein, Mark Tremonti -- guitarist for Creed, Alter Bridge, and his own metal project -- is also singing an album of Frank Sinatra covers.
Posted by: SciVo

Joe Walsh can plat]y trumpet and clarinet IIRC.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 31, 2026 01:41 AM (cwGMH)

337 And by Jupiter, I saw Jove nearby for a little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I recited that in a Henry Higgins voice

Almost sang it

Posted by: Miklos from Budapest, never was a ruder pest at January 31, 2026 01:43 AM (AP7fj)

338
GFS has Pensacola hitting maybe 26F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:44 AM (w6EFb)

339 I know one thing, I'm not getting out today. Last thing I need is getting sick. Hope we don't lose power. Don't need it for heat but it makes it hard to keep up with what's going on.

Posted by: Case at January 31, 2026 01:45 AM (E7+ue)

340
Euroweenie model has Pensacola hitting 20F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

341 Music to deport by:
https://youtu.be/cLvyuTbIVCU
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Boy, everything tonight is triggering memories, though this one is second hand.
The wife and her posse decided to play tourist back around 2010, and pick a "blues" theme. They took Hwy 61 from Memphis to Nawlins. They stooped at the Delta Blues Museum, and the guide pointed out that KFFA was just a hop skip and a jump across the river. So they drove over, and got there halfway through the King Biscuit Time show. They got a short tour, and wound up in the studio during the show. Sunshine Payne actually talked to all four women in their 60s on the air. None of them were aficionados, they just like the music. She topple me that he was just very nice to them. There's a picture around here somewhere with the four ladies and Sunshine.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 01:47 AM (36QIT)

342 I think we are supposed to only get a slight glance of your storm up here, publius, just the cape and the islands are getting the brunt of it, I hope that this is true. We still have quite a mess here from the last storm, really high snowbanks make it hard to enter and exit the side streets.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 31, 2026 01:50 AM (0nHVk)

343 Yodas hash.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 31, 2026 01:50 AM (Y0DaS)

344
Snow has pushed over Clempson Cow Collidge now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

345 ...An intense surge of arctic air behind the coastal storm will send below
freezing temperatures down toward South Florida by Sunday morning...

Randolph! Mortimer!

There is money to be made!

Posted by: Miklos Duke, of the mayonnaise dynasty at January 31, 2026 01:51 AM (AP7fj)

346 Now my nick isn't staying in the box after I post.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 31, 2026 01:52 AM (Y0DaS)

347
Still now snowing in Travelers Rest. That's a joke. Back in high school and before, we young 'uns would get all excited about snow, hoping to get out of school. Somehow, a rumor got started it was snowing in Travelers Rest, which was a hopeful sign it would move down our way.

In high school, one of the teachers, a chemistry teacher, got a kick out of that, and when snow was possible, he would purposefully start the "It's snowing in Travelers Rest!" rumor just for fun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:53 AM (w6EFb)

348
I'm visiting a friend in SoCal and she doesn't like a house that's only 68 degrees, so she's got the forced-air on at 72.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2026 01:54 AM (hxCZf)

349 Tom Homan hasn't found the Pied Piper of Illegals

I've seen a lot of times when a passing remark will generate a long series of Moronic replies, but this one takes some kind of prize.
🎸
The forecast here in NE Okla is single digits overnight, high of 20 tomorrow, so the remaining snow gets one more day. After that, we get those warming days, highs near 60 with merely-freezing nights. No more snow. I'll take it! (Albeit, the Winter is far from over.)
❄️
If I could, I'd just stay under the covers 'til Monday. With the laptop, of course. Don't want to miss the prayer, pet, and book threads.
📖
As an old friend used to say, stay in touch with yourselves.
https://youtu.be/QDCtkHt4pog

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - that's the Spirit at January 31, 2026 01:55 AM (j02Vi)

350 That Publius might be a edumacated feller, but shore caint spel

Posted by: Miklos, Inclusion and Diversity Ofitser, Klempson Kow Kollidge at January 31, 2026 01:55 AM (AP7fj)

351 Also, Big Band is NOT jazz.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
--------
Somebody's in a trolling mode tonight.

Cuban Fire, Stan Kenton says you're full.of it.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 01:57 AM (36QIT)

352 South Carolina. I recall a snow in 1988. We got a foot of snow. School was cancelled for a week. There was rejoicing in my heart.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 01:58 AM (lpTXP)

353
I'm hooked on fonicks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

354 Deportation music: Anything by Abba, esp that Fernando song.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 31, 2026 01:58 AM (diia5)

355 I'm visiting a friend in SoCal and she doesn't like a house that's only 68 degrees, so she's got the forced-air on at 72.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

FUN FACT

When Richard and Pat Nixon lived in southern California, they sometimes would crank up the AC so they could have a cozy fire in the fireplace.

American was better country then.

Posted by: Miklos is nostalgic about things he doesn't even remember at January 31, 2026 02:00 AM (AP7fj)

356 I overlooked Kenny Clark / Franci Boland big band and Mel Lewis / Thad Jones big band in my list.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 02:00 AM (rarFa)

357 Yodas hash.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 31, 2026 01:50 AM (Y0DaS)

Yo, das cool.

Posted by: inner-planet Yoda at January 31, 2026 02:03 AM (VHUov)

358 I'm hooked on fonicks.
Posted by: publius

There were guys hanging around the schoolyard offering fonicks.

"The first is free"

Posted by: Miklos sees addictive gateway linguistics at January 31, 2026 02:04 AM (AP7fj)

359 Now my nick isn't staying in the box after I post.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Tell it that any nickname gives you trouble spends a night in the box.

Posted by: win-win situations at January 31, 2026 02:05 AM (VHUov)

360 >> I recall a snow in 1988. We got a foot of snow.

Dec 7, 1988. Set the Jan record snowfall. Feb, however, has the highest all time daily snowfall, 15" way back in 1902 on the 15th.

In '85, Jan 21, we hit -4F. 1F day before, which are daily low records. I remember when that happened. In my memory, it was snowing, but turns out that was false -- no snowfall recorded in the records. My mind was conflating that with some other snow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 02:05 AM (w6EFb)

361 Sweet dreams Horde, I need to get warm.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 31, 2026 02:07 AM (0nHVk)

362 no snowfall recorded in the records. My mind was conflating that with some other snow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

In the 80s, Miami had a lot of snow

Posted by: Miklos vaguely recalls Miami Vice at January 31, 2026 02:08 AM (AP7fj)

363 I cut/seeded some peppers & made filling for poppers, then realized how late it is! Ugh... no wonder I feel tired. Put it all in the fridge and will finish making them up tomorrow night.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

364 'Night, Debby! Sorry I missed you tonight.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

365 I cut/seeded some peppers & made filling for poppers, then realized how late it is! Ugh... no wonder I feel tired. Put it all in the fridge and will finish making them up tomorrow night.
Posted by: JQ

You have some accrued PTO, you know

Posted by: Late Nite Manager Miklos at January 31, 2026 02:11 AM (AP7fj)

366 >> In the 80s, Miami had a lot of snow

Al Pacino had something to do with that, IIRC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 02:11 AM (w6EFb)

367
Jan 7, 1988 was the 12" snowfall. Yeah, I can't type for shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 02:12 AM (w6EFb)

368 That Publius might be a edumacated feller, but shore caint spel
Posted by: Miklos,
-----
My excuse is a combination of one finger "typing" on a tablet's virtual keyboard and.autocucumber.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 02:12 AM (36QIT)

369 You have some accrued PTO, you know
Posted by: Late Nite Manager Miklos
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Thanks, boss! I'm really do need a night off.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

370
Well, well, a little patch of blue has popped up near Travelers Rest. Not over it, but close.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 02:15 AM (w6EFb)

371 Jeez, I can't even construct a proper sentence, LOL!

Seriously, I think I have PTSD from all the *stuff* lately. So frustrated.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

372 It's a pleasant 51 here. Looking forward to a full weekend of work....

Posted by: Dark L at January 31, 2026 02:20 AM (KAi1n)

373 Any station this net ….

Not what you want to hear come over the UHF the minute you surface.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 31, 2026 02:22 AM (IKyq4)

374 It's about 50F here, too. I have more work to do (unpaid, of course) than 10 people should have-- Yay me?

But it's better than freezing. I suppose that'll happen too, in a few weeks. Meh.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

375 In '85, Jan 21, we hit -4F. 1F day before, which are daily low records. I remember when that happened. In my memory, it was snowing, but turns out that was false -- no snowfall recorded in the records. My mind was conflating that with some other snow.
Posted by: publius
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Our overnight low for the year so far is only 10F, but we have about six more weeks to beat it. Two years ago, we had three or four nights where it bumped to -9F. Not much snow, though, because, well, Arizona. Most days get above freezing.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 31, 2026 02:25 AM (36QIT)

376 snowed in?

I am am gain 16536$ each week from home with only simple laptop

Posted by: miklos75790-.ru at January 31, 2026 02:25 AM (AP7fj)

377 It's a pleasant 51 here. Looking forward to a full weekend of work....
Posted by: Dark L

29

The Ace algorithm accepts no integer over 29

Posted by: Miklos sends Strongly Worded Latter at January 31, 2026 02:28 AM (AP7fj)

378 One good thing about the cold front is it will cut down on the bug population.

Good night folks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 31, 2026 02:29 AM (rarFa)

379 One good thing about the cold front is it will cut down on the bug population.

Good night folks.

Posted by: Braenyard

no

we got ponchos and stuff, ese

and hats, beeg hats

Posted by: but we no like ICE at January 31, 2026 02:32 AM (AP7fj)

380 Now one seeks the sweet arms of Morpheus (no homo)

Posted by: Miklos thinks horizontal sounds pretty good about now at January 31, 2026 02:35 AM (AP7fj)

381 One good thing about the cold front is it will cut down on the bug population.
----------

Now *there's* a bright side!

Winter began normally here, and it froze for a couple weeks after Thanksgiving. Then it warmed and had mostly been "unseasonably warm" for all but a week or so in mid-January, and is now warm again. I hope all the nasty bugs hatch & then are killed by the next hard freeze!

(My neighbor keeps honey bees, and I know he looks after his hives.)

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

382 https://youtu.be/StvBsdLNiyE

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

383
It's winter, deal with it.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 02:44 AM (3ek7K)

384 Hey, fourseasons-- how you doing tonight?

*bar is open*

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)

385
Now *there's* a bright side!

Winter began normally here, and it froze for a couple weeks after Thanksgiving. Then it warmed and had mostly been "unseasonably warm" for all but a week or so in mid-January, and is now warm again. I hope all the nasty bugs hatch & then are killed by the next hard freeze!

(My neighbor keeps honey bees, and I know he looks after his hives.)

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

One of the few reasons I don't mind arctic weather. The bugs die. I think of the cold penetrating where they thought they were safe and fucking giggle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 02:48 AM (snZF9)

386 Yeah, Bers! Exactly!

One mild winter day, I decided to peel the bark off of an old stump in the yard-- fk'n yellow jackets huddled under it, barely alive... I was happy to see them exposed to the cold! Fkrs.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)

387 Worse winter in many years here.
But at least in Canada its warm and sunny, they still claim there is Global

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2026 02:52 AM (Ia/+0)

388
Well, it was snowing last radar paint within the city limits of Travelers Rest. The prophecy has been fulfilled.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 31, 2026 02:55 AM (w6EFb)

389
Hi JQ!

I'm doing well.

I've dealt with winter in Wisconsin, Maryland, Chicago and Wyoming.

Shit happens.

Surprisingly, we haven't had a Wyoming winter here.

How are you?

I think of you often and want you to know I think you are an amazing woman with all you are going through.

I pray for you and your hubby.

You are a tough woman and I salute you dear.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 02:56 AM (3ek7K)

390 Thanks for the sweet words, fourseasons.

*salute* back atcha.

Most days, I feel like curling into a ball and just crying. But I try to carry on. Little things, a little at a time. I will get through this, somehow.

This place and the wonderful Morons here, have helped me stay sane(-er) than they will ever know.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm)

391

JQ,

This place is is amazing.

We are so blessed.

I hope Ace knows what an amazing place he has created.

There isn't any other place like this.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:04 AM (3ek7K)

392 So true, fourseasons. This place is amazing, and I'm so very glad it's here.

I read some of the day threads, but by the time I get to comment section, somebody else has already said what I think! Horde mind IS a thing, LOL.

Need to hit the tip jar again, it has been a while for me.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

393

Where has everyone gone?

It's Friday night.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:18 AM (3ek7K)

394 Where has everyone gone?
It's Friday night.
----------

Probably snuggling up under their blankets, anticipating *digging out* in the morning.

That, or they're tired of my late-night whining. LOL.

(sorry, horde!)

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

395 It's winter, deal with it.

Posted by: fourseasons

I'm still waiting. We had a -2 night last week but so far winter has been boycotting us. Wishing it would show up.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 03:24 AM (uaYsl)

396
Sock Monkey,

We feel cheated here in SW Wyoming.

It's going to be in the 50's this weekend. Very strange.

We are going to grill lots of stuff though.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:28 AM (3ek7K)

397 Before I attempted making poppers, I'd been re-arranging the pantry. Oooh, there was some expired stuff that needed to be trashed... and waste is a sin! Ugh.

Spent longer than anticipated in the pantry, LOL. At least poppers will be quick tomorrow night- just need to fill the pepper halves and give them a bacon-wrap. Easy peasy! There will be extras for freezing. No sense making a single batch after all the trouble, right?

Some day soon, I need to make a big batch of pot stickers. *That* is an all-day affair...

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)

398 Yeah, Bers! Exactly!

One mild winter day, I decided to peel the bark off of an old stump in the yard-- fk'n yellow jackets huddled under it, barely alive... I was happy to see them exposed to the cold! Fkrs.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)

Gas and a match. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 03:30 AM (snZF9)

399 I'm still waiting. We had a -2 night last week but so far winter has been boycotting us. Wishing it would show up.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 03:24 AM (uaYsl)

Going on 3 months of High Fog over the Central Valley here.... only had about 5 sunny days in the last 3 months.

Yeah... so much for solar power...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 31, 2026 03:32 AM (mP0Kj)

400 Now I'm hungry. Jalapeno poppers mmm.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 31, 2026 03:32 AM (lpTXP)

401 Gas and a match. lol
Posted by: Berserker
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Even better: I squished them under my boot.

Most satisfactory!

Didn't want to burn the stump-- it's a yard ornament now. (Rednecks here, ya know?!)

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)

402 Average winter I would have two and half to three feet of snow on the ground right now. 80 to 100 inches cumulative over the winter. We've had winters with considerably more than that. We've had maybe 14 inches this year. Biggest issue this year has been the road turning to ice. I've filled up my small trailer with sand at the county sand pile twice. No snow can mean every thing is tinder dry by the end of May. I'd rather have 12 feet of snow than a crackling dry, high fire danger summer.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 03:35 AM (uaYsl)

403 Now I'm hungry. Jalapeno poppers mmm.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Girl, I *just know!* that you'd like this batch-- extra habañero hot sauce! My lips tingled, just tasting the filling.

These are for me & my best friend since hubby can't have spicy food.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:36 AM (rdVOm)

404
Sock Monkey,

Yes. We need the moisture to lessen the wildfire risk.

We haven't had any snow this winter.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 31, 2026 03:39 AM (3ek7K)

405 Yeah... so much for solar power...
Posted by: Romeo13

Most of my outbuildings have solar lights on them. They work great in the summer time when it stays light until 930. Wintertime, forget it. I wear a headlamp to do nighttime feeding.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 03:40 AM (uaYsl)

406
Even better: I squished them under my boot.

Most satisfactory!

Didn't want to burn the stump-- it's a yard ornament now. (Rednecks here, ya know?!)

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)

I'm a firm believer in fire. lol

One night some years back during the summer I was in the garage working on a bike on the lift, and I had the garage door open. There were a few dudes hanging out. I wasn't paying attention because I was focused on the bike, and I hear one dude say shit there's a lot of bugs. I looked up and there were all kinds of shit flying around the lights. I grabbed a can of starting fluid, aimed it up, fire up a lighter and hit the nozzle and held it down. This huge brutal tsunami of fire just rolled across the ceiling all the way to door incinerating all before it. When I let go of the nozzle all you saw were dead bugs falling like confetti. All of it wiped clean like it was done by the hand of a fire god. Nothing survived. We laughed, I closed the door, and no more bugs. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 03:41 AM (snZF9)

407 Way to go, Bers! In your own garage, that is... LOL.

There's a bug zapper in our shop. Works great! Just sweep up the dead-fetti from time to time.

Thinking back-- Hawaii was great-- ever hear a gecko get zapped?

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZtttt!

Poor lizard. Just trying to get a quick snack...

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

408 We laughed, I closed the door, and no more bugs. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Propane weed burner is my favorite yellow jacket ground nest weapon. Living in the woods, it has some limitations when it gets dry. When it's dry out, I don't light the torch I just pump the Propane into the hole and toss a match in the hole. Not nearly as effective as frying them and always results in some pissed off yellow jackets looking to get even but I still do it.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 03:48 AM (uaYsl)

409 Way to go, Bers! In your own garage, that is... LOL.

There's a bug zapper in our shop. Works great! Just sweep up the dead-fetti from time to time.

Thinking back-- Hawaii was great-- ever hear a gecko get zapped?

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZtttt!

Poor lizard. Just trying to get a quick snack...

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

I use to run a bug zapper in the back. At the old house there was a small lake behind the yard. Frigging woods sounded alive, like jungle shit. I used to run the zapper every night and sometimes some big shit must have gotten in because it sounded like frankensteins lab. 30 second of continuous frying.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 03:51 AM (snZF9)

410 ...sounded like frankensteins lab. 30 second of continuous frying.
Posted by: Berserker
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Yep!

https://youtu.be/fOs1w3zzWCQ

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)

411 Propane weed burner is my favorite yellow jacket ground nest weapon. Living in the woods, it has some limitations when it gets dry. When it's dry out, I don't light the torch I just pump the Propane into the hole and toss a match in the hole. Not nearly as effective as frying them and always results in some pissed off yellow jackets looking to get even but I still do it.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 31, 2026 03:48 AM (uaYsl)

We were building a few retaining walls in the back yard of the old house one year. A friend was there helping and he was running the mower all over the place. We saw a yellow jacket hole. He pours a half gallon of 2 stroke pre mix gas into the hole. There were all these yellow jackets hovering above. I had found a small intact birds nest lying in the yard. so I stuck it on the end up a stick, lit it up and flicked it at the gas filled hole in the ground.There was a frigging orange/black mushroom cloud. The friend of mine yells "holy shit, did you see that, those bees just melted". The flame coming out of the hole lasted hours. It was like the flame on kennedy's grave. That was satisfying. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 03:58 AM (snZF9)

412 Pixy's nood.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2026 04:02 AM (bQ4nt)

413 We had some ground-nested yellow jackets behind a block retaining wall, and a dog what *loved* the sky-raisins...

I closed, but didn't quite latch, the gate back there & doggy got back to that hole in the blocks. Ugh! She just sat by the hole and ate & ate until I found her, all wobbly, after an hour or so.

She could stand, barely, but not walk! Called the vet, who recco'd Benadryl. Got those down her, and then she slept for HOURS...was so scared she wouldn't wake up... but she did, and was terribly hung-over for the rest of that day.

I was very careful to keep her away from there, until we took care of that confounded nest of asshoe things!

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)

414 Not a techie and don't want to muddy Pixy's thread. Ugh. I miss the all-night ONTs.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

415 Not a techie and don't want to muddy Pixy's thread. Ugh. I miss the all-night ONTs.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

I don't do the tech thread. I literally have nothing to contribute.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2026 04:19 AM (snZF9)

416 Me too, Bers. I read it sometimes, and comment sometimes, but... I have nothing of techie "value" to add.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:21 AM (rdVOm)

417 Sh1t, I really have not much of *value* to add anyway.

Pfft. Smh.

Good night I guess.

Posted by: JQ at January 31, 2026 04:26 AM (rdVOm)

Free Solo Cafe

Garden of the Gods in winter
Kristin_Mae Photography

The Acropolis in the snow.

Nature's Alarm Clock.

Raising adorable orphaned baby rhinos.

The Volonaut airbike, which the company claims is real, and not just a prop being moved around by a rope dangling from a crane which is digitally removed with CGI. The cost of the airbike, if it's real, will be $880,000, when it's ready for sale, if ever.

Big dog who was kept in a small crate for six years is now free to run and and play.

"Oatmeal" the dog lives in the pool.

It takes a village to raise a squirrel.

Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just stealing the main hook of prior hits and giving the actual writers no money or even credit?

Terrified rescue dog comes out of her shell.

Poor dog was kept immobilized on a chain too heavy to move for 13 years. When he was confiscated, he was put on the euthanasia list due to his immobility. But he was rescued and is living his last years with loving people.

That, sir, is a bear.

Border collie has moved up to herding horses.

Nate Bargatze on the responsibility of dog ownership. And the hazards.

Bargatze is interesting because he avoids all profanity and sexual stuff. I think he's popular, though, because he gets into truly edgy material: passive-aggressively fighting with his wife about nothing from the stage.

This is real courage in comedy. Speaking Truth to Wife.

Last weekend, without assistance or ropes or any other equipment*, star climber Alex Honnold climbed the 1667 foot 101 Tapei building. It was streamed live on Netflix, so I guess he got legal permission to do it?

pic.twitter.com/uPHbc9cgaL
— Otto Huang  (@OttoHuang120) January 26, 2026

Of course, that's easy-peasy compared to the climb he's most famous for.

* Okay, he had two pieces of equipment: His climbing shoes and a bag of talc to keep his hands dry.

Update: Huh, was this a publicity stunt to sell Taiwanese ramen noodles?

Posted by: Ace at 07:40 PM

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Posted by: Admirale's Mate at January 30, 2026 07:39 PM (/enuJ)

2 twoish

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at January 30, 2026 07:39 PM (/enuJ)

3 thirdish

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (/enuJ)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

5 nood duties are done

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at January 30, 2026 07:42 PM (/enuJ)

6 Top 10 baby! W00t!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 07:44 PM (GTqXr)

7 Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just....ICE ICE BABY

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 07:45 PM (NtVYv)

8 Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just stealing the main hook of prior hits and giving the actual writers no money or even credit?

Tell us about it
youtu.be/bdazIpDDrO8

Posted by: Garden of Delight (or maybe Killing Joke) at January 30, 2026 07:46 PM (gKWVE)

9 What makes that Airbike even stay up besides AI?

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

10 Airbike doesn't look fake at all, no siree.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 07:46 PM (GTqXr)

11
I hope Chico is a nice rooster, if such a thing exists, because those things can get mean as hell.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (hxCZf)

12
Volonaut Airbike is right out of James Bond.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (hxCZf)

13 I've about had it with this damn snow and we get snow in the Cafe! And day after tomorrow will be Fe-brrrrrrrr-ary!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (J+Psw)

14 If the gods had a garden, they wouldn't put it in Colorado Springs.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 07:48 PM (JjkYH)

15 * sniff sniff *

* no mephitic penguin or residual Axe Body Wash emanations detected *

Barkeep, whiskey shots all around!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

16 Have a trip planned to the Med. in May. Will end in Athens for 3 days. Stoked to see the Acropolis.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 07:49 PM (GTqXr)

17 Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just....ICE ICE BABY
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 07:45 PM (NtVYv)

The other 10% are Taylor Swift bitching about dating gay men.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 07:51 PM (JjkYH)

18 We have jet power, prop planes, large top bladed helicopters
and a Airbike

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)

19 Volonaut airbike

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Reminds me of the brief clip in the old Johnny Quest opening credits of two bad guys flying along.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 07:52 PM (J+Psw)

20 Reminds me of the brief clip in the old Johnny Quest opening credits of two bad guys flying along.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Greatest opening theme music ever!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2026 07:54 PM (cYBz/)

21 14 If the gods had a garden, they wouldn't put it in Colorado Springs.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 07:48 PM (JjkYH)

30 or so years ago it used to be a very Conservative town... Army Base for Spec Op types, Air Farce Academy, Rodeo Museum... fun bars like Meadow Muffins (which had a sign above the bar saying Budweiser, letting Ugly Women get Laid for over 100 years)...

Then, Colorado changed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)

22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWdhMVkeDeQ

Less than a Lambo.

Posted by: MkY at January 30, 2026 07:58 PM (q6tQZ)

23 Oh, Joachim Phoenix is drawing links between ice and the Israeli military.

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:58 PM (zZu0s)

24 We are going to be 50-50 in this upcoming Civil War

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

25 Volonaut bike looks like you're trying to hump a gas grill.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 07:59 PM (snZF9)

26 Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just stealing the main hook of prior hits and giving the actual writers no money or even credit?

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This is my new song dedicated to the President of Mexico.

The Sheinbaum's connected to the assbaum
The assbaum's connected to the retardbaum . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 07:59 PM (J+Psw)

27 Freeclimbing is self-nominating for a Darwin Award.

If you have kids, then shame on you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 08:01 PM (RIvkX)

28 30 or so years ago it used to be a very Conservative town... Army Base for Spec Op types, Air Farce Academy, Rodeo Museum... fun bars like Meadow Muffins (which had a sign above the bar saying Budweiser, letting Ugly Women get Laid for over 100 years)...

Then, Colorado changed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)

Colorado Springs tends to vote Republican.

Whether that means it's "conservative" or not, I don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 08:01 PM (H4a50)

29 That air bike looks like an ad out of the back of a comic book.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

30 Ace did it! Entire month of January Bat-free and Sea Stack-free! Cause for jubilation all-around!

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board of Trade at January 30, 2026 08:02 PM (oftw2)

31 The Volonaut airbike looks like something that can kill you very quickly.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:02 PM (vFG9F)

32 >29 That air bike looks like an ad out of the back of a comic book.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

Right next to the ad for Sea Monkeys and XRay specs.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:03 PM (GTqXr)

33 My favorite Bargatze set is when he talks about traveling into the past. He thinks he's too stupid to convince anyone in the past that he's from the future because he doesn't know anything.

"Yeah, in the future, we carry our phones around with us."

"How does that work?"

"I really don't know."

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at January 30, 2026 08:03 PM (dIske)

34 Volonaut airbike looks like it needs to be close to the ground.

What is the lift capacity and range? Could Special Forces or Space Marines use it in a stealth assault?

160th pilots probably are not worried.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

35 Thumbnail on ewetub:

On the plus side, Don Lemon will now be judged by a jury of 12 people, which is more than he ever had watching him at CNN.

Me: Sir, that is beautiful. *goldclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

36 on topic of Colorado, Rep-then-Senator Jaquez Lewis (D) is now a convicted felon.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

37 >34 Volonaut airbike looks like it needs to be close to the ground.

What is the lift capacity and range? Could Special Forces or Space Marines use it in a stealth assault?

160th pilots probably are not worried.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

Looks like it carries about 3 minutes of fuel before you plunge to your death.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:05 PM (GTqXr)

38 24 We are going to be 50-50 in this upcoming Civil War
Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

Some of us will be 50 cal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 08:05 PM (I40wl)

39 When I was a little kid I had a book about Robert Goddard and I was sure I could build a rocket like his and maybe even ride in it. I drew plans and everything. Alas, I never built it, much less rode in it, which is one reason I am still here today.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

40 Right next to the ad for Sea Monkeys and XRay specs.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:03 PM (GTqXr)

And where the idiot is looking at his hand. Hand? I'd be looking at Amy ******'s sweater melons.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

41 Rachel Corrie

You are supposed to go into the past with stock pick, and know where to get gold mines started.

Too far in the past, and there is no good dentistry.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:06 PM (u82oZ)

42 Looked up the Volonaut, intrigued by the sound of that jet turbine. I wondered how long it could stay up, and best info I found is flight time: 10 minutes. That’s the big limitation to its usefulness.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:06 PM (ai6/n)

43 Already saw a YouTube short on the Airbike, still not sure I buy that

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 08:06 PM (Ia/+0)

44 Heavy Meta

No air to air refueling in that rig.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:07 PM (u82oZ)

45 YouTube said 30 minutes on s electric charge

So add another 30 pounds beside yourself with the battery

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)

46 Ground hover is no way to go through life, Race Bannon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:08 PM (u82oZ)

47 >44 Heavy Meta

No air to air refueling in that rig.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:07 PM (u82oZ)

Unless your strapping a jerry can to your back - no bueno.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:08 PM (GTqXr)

48 ace.i just watched the Just Shoot Me episode that has to be your favorite. More so than the Chicken Pot Pie episode.

It's the episode where Finch was pursuing a threesome that he thought he had set up with Maya.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:09 PM (cwGMH)

49 Must have driven past the Garden of the Gods on the way up to Pikes Peak though can't remember seeing a sign for it.

Posted by: Decaf at January 30, 2026 08:09 PM (Z8jzG)

50 Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just stealing the main hook of prior hits and giving the actual writers no money or even credit?
__________
Not new:
Everybody's making money but Tchaikovsky
https://tinyurl.com/3yyudh9a

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 08:10 PM (AlhUl)

51 > It's the episode where Finch was pursuing a threesome that he thought he had set up with Maya.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:09 PM (cwGMH)

There were only two reasons to watch that show.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:10 PM (GTqXr)

52 As loud as the airbike sounded in that vid multiply it by 20 in person.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:10 PM (cwGMH)

53 Volonaut is a solution in need of a real problem.

Diamonds, fancy cars, and good meals will have a better return for the dick-length challenged men.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:10 PM (u82oZ)

54 This guy would be good at marriage counseling.

https://is.gd/ROhirK

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 08:11 PM (J+Psw)

55 Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:10 PM (GTqXr)

They are spectacular.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:11 PM (cwGMH)

56 Did you know that 90% of modern song "writing" is just stealing the main hook of prior hits and giving the actual writers no money or even credit?

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While waiting for automotive service in Walmart today -- cannot stand the shitty modern ~~music~~ crap they pipe in over the PA (both inside and outside, but particularly loud in the waiting room that wifey and I sat on a bench near the Pharmacy -- so strolled around inside and out.

Anywho, I was shocked upon returning to pick my car up that I heard a good song -- "Give A Little Bit" -- but then realized it was itself a cover of the original Supertramp song.

Wifey said "What is the point of covering a perfectly good song?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 08:12 PM (0Eh0f)

57 You were too judgmental to watch so you missed it!

Star Trek gives pacifist Klingon named "Jay-Den" two polyamorous refugee dads

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 08:12 PM (J+Psw)

58 wow, en fuego today, Ace!

have a Happy Weekend!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2026 08:13 PM (Cjt/F)

59 I guess Harold Lloyd wasn't all that.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 08:14 PM (AlhUl)

60 >Wifey said "What is the point of covering a perfectly good song?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 08:12 PM (0Eh0f)

Depends - SRV's Voodoo Child is a better rendition than Hendrix's (which is saying something). There are a number of examples where the cover is superior to the original.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:14 PM (GTqXr)

61 In a different age Hannold's feat of Soloing El Cap, would have been worthy of story and song.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2026 08:14 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Willowed from Woke Thread:

195 Blah Blah Blah.... the average temperature of the earf is maybe around 50 F or 18 C (my guess)...blah blah blah....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:43 PM (QGaXH)

Average Earth T is 15 C, or 59 degrees F
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)

So my eyeball guess was pretty close...

What is your source?

15 C is 288 K as I recall.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 08:14 PM (QGaXH)

63 From The Verge:

I have two daughters. My youngest is not yet two years old and will, I hope, be too young to remember anything about the armed, masked agents terrorizing Minneapolis. My oldest, as she’d proudly tell you, will be five next summer. I don’t know how much she understands, but I wanted to be prepared for anything she might ask, so I turned, as generations of parents have, to Sesame Street. Here’s their advice for ages four to five: “Children may be concerned about your safety or about being separated. Explain all the ways grown-ups can keep them safe—if they’re afraid of an event that happened far away, use the distance to reassure them.”

-

🤣🤣🤣
These people are litrally insane.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 08:14 PM (PHOGh)

64 Volonaut is a Dollar Store charcoal grill.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:15 PM (rarFa)

65 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

You would think that Star Fleet wants crew members and operators of star ships to be competent, mentally stable, and have no Daddy issues.

If you have a number of planets, and these dweebs show up, your filtering system is not working.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:15 PM (u82oZ)

66 I have a local report on today's supposed economic blackout day. I only had time to visit Walmart but they were remarkably busy, so maybe it's having less impact than the Marxists had hoped.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 30, 2026 08:15 PM (bXd6Z)

67 There are some plagiarism suits I can't believe they found for the plaintiff and a few where they found for the defendant. Specifically Led Zeppelin and Stairway to Heaven. Spirit got screwed.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:16 PM (cwGMH)

68 Update: Huh, was this a publicity stunt to sell Taiwanese ramen noodles?

I'm gonna guess that this is AI although, admittedly, I base that purely on the "HK AI Studio" logo in the top right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2026 08:16 PM (ExV1e)

69 The most ridiculous case was the Marvin Gaye estate winning against Blurred Lines.

Absolutely preposterous verdict.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2026 08:17 PM (XV/Pl)

70 In my town there was no boycott of closing down. maybe some retarded coffee shops or whatever, but overall nada.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 08:17 PM (PHOGh)

71 Must have driven past the Garden of the Gods on the way up to Pikes Peak though can't remember seeing a sign for it.

Posted by: Decaf at January 30, 2026 08:09 PM (Z8jzG)

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Have never heard of Garden of the Gods.

Was in Colorado Springs once for a job interview in the 90s and had a rental car. All I knew about it was the U.S. Air Force Academy was there -- so I went and visited it, most impressive.

I was extremely disappointed upon later learning that you can drive to the top (or near the top) of Pikes Peak! ARGGGGHHHHH! The inspiration for "America The Beautiful" and "amber waves of grain" and "purple mountain majesties
above the fruited plain!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 08:17 PM (0Eh0f)

72 They covered Muskrat Love twice.

Lord knows why.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:18 PM (cwGMH)

73 Pacifist gay Klingons? Sure. The Next Degeneration.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:18 PM (vFG9F)

74 Don't forget ICE Ice Baby and Queen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

75 >74 Don't forget ICE Ice Baby and Queen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

I recall that was more about using a sample riff without permission.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:20 PM (GTqXr)

76 Don't forget ICE Ice Baby and Queen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

Don’t know why but I consider it a David Bowie song more.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:21 PM (cwGMH)

77 ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner?

You can climb Pike Peak. It's a long, tough slog.

Or take a tram to the top. Car is by far the easiest.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:21 PM (u82oZ)

78 There were only two reasons to watch that show.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:10 PM (GTqXr)

David Spade and Wendie Malik.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:22 PM (ai6/n)

79 ShainS

The road goes up to 5 feet below the top of Pikes Peak.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:22 PM (u82oZ)

80 there was also Vanilla Ice's faggy defense of the blatant robbery, claiming that since he'd tweaked one note at the end it didn't count.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 08:22 PM (gKWVE)

81 I was extremely disappointed upon later learning that you can drive to the top (or near the top) of Pikes Peak! ARGGGGHHHHH! The inspiration for "America The Beautiful" and "amber waves of grain" and "purple mountain majesties
above the fruited plain!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 08:17 PM (0Eh0f)

Colorado, to me, is the heart of this country. It's the rugged, young, strong and beautiful uplift that represents all we aspire to be.

I'm not willing to give it over to the dirtbags and fairies from Californica.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 08:23 PM (rMtke)

82 David Spade and Wendie Malik.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:22 PM (ai6/n)

That was Rules of Engagement. My favorite sitcom.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:23 PM (cwGMH)

83 Blah Blah Blah.... the average temperature of the earf is maybe around 50 F or 18 C (my guess)...blah blah blah....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:43 PM (QGaXH)

Average Earth T is 15 C, or 59 degrees F
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)
-----

Allow Dr Willie Soon to esplain earth's temperature variation and timeline.

https://tinyurl.com/bdz22y48

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:23 PM (rarFa)

84 You can climb Pike Peak. It's a long, tough slog.

Or take a tram to the top. Car is by far the easiest.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:21 PM (u82oZ)

People have driven over the edge.

Usually not on purpose.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 08:24 PM (rMtke)

85 "SRV's Voodoo Child is a better rendition than Hendrix's "

I disagree and have since the first time I heard Stevie's version, which is very good, but not better. I think the SRV is mechanically more perfect and Jimi's is more fluid. What's better? I dunno. I do know Jimi did it upside down and backwards.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

86 David Spade and Wendie Malik.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:22 PM (ai6/n)

Never mind I was thinking Wendie was different actress.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:24 PM (cwGMH)

87 What stabilizes the Volonaut air bike? Why doesn’t it just tip over? Unless, of course, it flies suspended from a crane.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 08:24 PM (H6cKs)

88 Why the heck would someone ride around on a Vortigaunt?

Posted by: Barney Calhoun at January 30, 2026 08:25 PM (r9uko)

89 The view from Pikes Peak, to the east, show lots of urban sprawl.

To the south, you can see Cheyenne Mountain. And west you look at lesser peaks. Longs Peak is to the north.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:25 PM (u82oZ)

90 I remember a time when Ace and Iowahawk had a shared solo.

Garrett tried to hide jealousy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 08:25 PM (oT7pT)

91
ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner?
You can climb Pike Peak. It's a long, tough slog.
Or take a tram to the top. Car is by far the easiest.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I used to work with a guy that ran up, then back down, that trail once a week as long as snow wasn't on the ground at the bottom.

Same dude would try out for, and win a spot on the Vail ski patrol every year at 73 years old. Tougher than shoe leather.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 30, 2026 08:25 PM (QVmho)

92 BurtTC

The road up has a lot of curves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:26 PM (u82oZ)

93 >>I'm not willing to give it over to the dirtbags and fairies from Californica.
Posted by: BurtTC
--

Don't look but I think they have taken it from you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:26 PM (rarFa)

94 How much of a coincidence that Spade starred in two sitcoms with actresses both named Wendi?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:26 PM (cwGMH)

95 BifBewalski-

My hat's off to that man. He is a role model to couch potatoes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:27 PM (u82oZ)

96 73 Pacifist gay Klingons? Sure. The Next Degeneration. - fd

Sounds like "Star Trek: the Last Generation".

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 08:27 PM (2L+MU)

97 Depends - SRV's Voodoo Child is a better rendition than Hendrix's
——-

If a tune is perfectly good, then it probably doesn’t need covering though, which I think was her point.
——-

John Fogerty was sued for writing a tune that sounds a little bit like one of his other tunes.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:29 PM (VskgJ)

98

People have driven over the edge.
sually not on purpose.
Posted by: BurtTC

I miss the races to the top. Once they paved it all the way, it ruined the race. Now the bleeding heart assholes won't allow the race because it's 'dangerous'.

Check out Guy Martin's record breaking run.
https://youtu.be/PKR-L3_a7sk?si=BWi8lYeefeqx6ySe

Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 30, 2026 08:29 PM (QVmho)

99 For a good long while, "Something" by George Harrison was the most covered song in the world. Every singer did it.

Posted by: A Little Song, A Little Dance, A Little Seltzer Down Your Pants at January 30, 2026 08:29 PM (oftw2)

100 >I disagree and have since the first time I heard Stevie's version, which is very good, but not better. I think the SRV is mechanically more perfect and Jimi's is more fluid. What's better? I dunno. I do know Jimi did it upside down and backwards.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

That's a fair take. How about Long White Cadillac - Dwight's cover is better than the Blasters original.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:29 PM (GTqXr)

101 James T Kirk, father to an entire Star Sector.

Discuss.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 08:30 PM (u82oZ)

102 My car broke down at 4am in the Raton pass in winter. Slept in the car until sunrise. Most spectacular site to wake up to ever.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:31 PM (cwGMH)

103 https://tinyurl.com/yut8wevn

Is this just someone being blackpilled, or...?

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 08:31 PM (6Uni8)

104 What an honor to have such distinguished visitors to our country! I am so glad that the board members of Penguin Facts chose the Chilean Adventure Tour from the slate of travel opportunities offered by the Pacific/Atlantic Charter Organization! Please, ladies and gentlemen, it would give me great pleasure to capture this moment for posterity by taking your picture. If you all will kindly line up in front of the paredón – er, heh, I mean to say, that wall over there – I will snap a picture, and this squad of soldiers – that is to say, this purely ceremonial honor guard – will fire their fusiles – loaded with mere blanks, I assure you, mis amigos! - by way of a salute.

Ready, now? Ok, say queso! Ah, qué bonitas sonrisas! Now I count to three...

Preparen, apunten, fuego!

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 08:31 PM (2L+MU)

105 >If a tune is perfectly good, then it probably doesn’t need covering though, which I think was her point.
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I don't agree. A different arrangement can completely change a song - sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:33 PM (GTqXr)

106 That's a fair take. How about Long White Cadillac - Dwight's cover is better than the Blasters original.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:29 PM (GTqXr)

I like Dwight’s cover of Suspicious Minds better than Elvis’s cover of Suspicious Minds.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:33 PM (cwGMH)

107 You mean that when I cashed in my 401K to buy Carbon Credits from Dr. Al Gore I got scammed ???

I do not believe you because Professor Gore is an expert in Climate Change. He has a PHD in Meteorology from University of Arpitania which he got on the internet.

I have done my part to End Global Warming and what have you done ????

Posted by: Dweasel Clonbyd from Minniapplelos, Mn at January 30, 2026 08:34 PM (38587)

108 I not climb. Clumsy.
-Thog

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2026 08:34 PM (LHPAg)

109 The Volonaut Airbike is a nifty device.

But if you notice, it's two and a half minutes of edited and spliced video. How much fuel and how far do you think you can really get?

But I like it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 08:35 PM (oT7pT)

110 ——-

John Fogerty was sued for writing a tune that sounds a little bit like one of his other tunes.
Posted by: Common Tater
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They all sound alike.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:36 PM (rarFa)

111 102 My car broke down at 4am in the Raton pass in winter. Slept in the car until sunrise. Most spectacular site to wake up to ever.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:31 PM
I pulled a 30 foot camper through the Raton Pass in winter and was not sleepy at all.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2026 08:36 PM (LHPAg)

112 I have been living a long time with a broken bone, don't think I want a Airbike

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 08:37 PM (Ia/+0)

113 I don't agree. A different arrangement can completely change a song
——

Right, but “Give A Little Bit” is a perfectly good tune by itself. Can’t they just play that one? That was her point.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:37 PM (VskgJ)

114 >They all sound alike.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:36 PM (rarFa)

Better run through the jungle > old man down the road

Forgerty kinda mailed that in.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:38 PM (GTqXr)

115 If the motor dies on that thing you will have the glide path of a Fatboy. A loose connection, a faulty winding, a cold solder joint, you are going down like the proverbial rock.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:40 PM (vFG9F)

116 John Fogerty was sued for writing a tune that sounds a little bit like one of his other tunes.
Posted by: Common Tater
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They all sound alike.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:36

***

Cher has entered the conversation.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 08:40 PM (2WIwB)

117 Drove our motor home through Raton Pass a few times...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 30, 2026 08:41 PM (VCgbV)

118 >Right, but “Give A Little Bit” is a perfectly good tune by itself. Can’t they just play that one? That was her point.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:37 PM (VskgJ)

I understand. Could have just as easily been a Muzak version for her listening pleasure.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:41 PM (GTqXr)

119 Volonaut bike looks like you're trying to hump a gas grill.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 07:59 PM (snZF9)

Some men just gotta level up

Posted by: The Toster at January 30, 2026 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

120 Jim Croce

Bad Bad Leroy Brown

You Don’t Mess Around with Jim

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:42 PM (cwGMH)

121 "How about Long White Cadillac - Dwight's cover is better than the Blasters original.
Posted by: Heavy Meta"

If you can't do the cover at least as well as the original then don't bother.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:43 PM (vFG9F)

122 A loose connection, a faulty winding, a cold solder joint, you are going down like the proverbial rock.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:40 PM (vFG9F)

That is the problem with personal air cars: ANY failure by pilot or mechanism is catastrophic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

123 John Fogerty was sued for writing a tune that sounds a little bit like one of his other tunes.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:29 PM (VskgJ)

I saw Fogarty give an interview on that - CCR had a nasty breakup about royalties and rights and everything went into court. Fogarty wanted to go on solo, and his former friends sued to stop him. He told how the Judge told him he could, but he should make sure and sound different (or something)
Fogarty said he asked the judge, “I was the lead voice and I wrote all the songs. How am I supposed to not sound like myself?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:45 PM (ai6/n)

124 All future flying cars should be equipped with a parachute.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:45 PM (cwGMH)

125 >122 A loose connection, a faulty winding, a cold solder joint, you are going down like the proverbial rock.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:40 PM (vFG9F)

That is the problem with personal air cars: ANY failure by pilot or mechanism is catastrophic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

I feel cheated. I was promised flying cars since I was a kid. Hell, I expected to be living like George Jetson by now.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 08:45 PM (GTqXr)

126 I understand. Could have just as easily been a Muzak version for her listening pleasure.
——

LOL. No, you obviously do not

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:46 PM (VskgJ)

127 >The Volonaut airbike, which the company claims is real, and not just a prop being moved around by a rope dangling from a crane which is digitally removed with CGI. The cost of the airbike, if it's real, will be $880,000, when it's ready for sale, if ever.
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Betting it's CGI.

Nothing that small will sound like a jet engine unless it's got a whopping big ass gas tank. And it ain't got one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 08:47 PM (jtM2q)

128 I disagree and have since the first time I heard Stevie's version, which is very good, but not better. I think the SRV is mechanically more perfect and Jimi's is more fluid. What's better? I dunno. I do know Jimi did it upside down and backwards.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

Not Voodoo Child but just sayin'.

https://youtu.be/6Bj5szpvDM8

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2026 08:49 PM (ExV1e)

129 It gives me great joy to the the Climate Cult falling apart. Oh there’s plenty of True Believers who will go to their grave swearing their faithfulness; but all the money is being sucked out of propping it up. It’s failed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:49 PM (ai6/n)

130 The Rocketeer’s backpack sounded like that airbike, but I knew the Rocketeer was flying on pure fantasy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 08:51 PM (H6cKs)

131 I remember the Sears Pike's Peak Hill Climb slot car set from 1964. Cost $19.99. A lot of money then.

Too expensive for us but it looked great in the Christmas catalog.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 30, 2026 08:51 PM (y171U)

132 I'm such a f'n schmuck. Went and had my taxes done instead of opening a daycare. FML.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 08:52 PM (qw6Uy)

133 "Not Voodoo Child but just sayin'."

SRV was a master. What a loss.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 08:52 PM (vFG9F)

134 The Rocketeer’s backpack sounded like that airbike, but I knew the Rocketeer was flying on pure fantasy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 08:51 PM (H6cKs)

And Jennifer Connelly's rack.

And designed by Howard Hughes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

135 I always liked Hendryx’s “Little Wing”, sometimes people complain that the tune ends way too early, but I think that was part of the idea.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:55 PM (VskgJ)

136 Cam Higby 🇺🇸
@camhigby
23h
🚨 Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes clear that her city doesn’t need a Signal chats. Instead she’s going to mobilize the actual police force to do what Signal networks do in Minneapolis.

She will even have the SPD relay intel gathered on federal agents to “community partners” and ban usage of city property by agents.

Katie is a former professional protestor. She’s manipulating her office as mayor of one of the most powerful cities in the country to aid and abet domestic terrorists today, and resist the federal government.

https://tinyurl.com/4mvw38yj

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:56 PM (rarFa)

137 >>>All future flying cars should be equipped with a parachute.

Posted by: Opinion fact

>Gravitation, photon/light and time technology will propel us forward into the future. If you're looking for action - reaction propulsion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 08:57 PM (oT7pT)

138 John Fogerty was sued for writing a tune that sounds a little bit like one of his other tunes.
Posted by: Common Tater
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They all sound alike.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 08:36

Choppers in Vietnam.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2026 08:58 PM (RiE77)

139 There is no way having large cities being run by whack jobs that doesn’t end in utter failure. No chance.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:58 PM (VskgJ)

140 124 All future flying cars should be equipped with a parachute.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 08:45 PM (cwGMH)

You put your finger on a fatal problem for tech like that (literally): too high up in the air for a sudden fall to be survivable; too close to the ground for a parachute to work.

Related somewhat - a well known wing suit flyer was killed a few days ago jumping in the alps. All it takes is a slight miscalculation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 08:59 PM (ai6/n)

141 I generally don't like Fogerty, but I do like "The Old Man Down the Road".

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 08:59 PM (6Uni8)

142
NASA had to postpone the wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II due to cold weather after all. This will push earliest launch date to Feb 8 from Feb 6.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 09:00 PM (w6EFb)

143 I showed Pooky the "man of the house" bit because I thought he might relate. He said, "I don't even know why *I'm* here, and I live here!"

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to keep crackers down at January 30, 2026 09:01 PM (Wt5PA)

144 "sometimes people complain that the tune ends way too early, but I think that was part of the idea.
Posted by: Common Tater"

A lot of songs go on way too long. Keep it short and keep 'em wanting more.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 09:02 PM (vFG9F)

145 NASA had to postpone the wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II due to cold weather after all. This will push earliest launch date to Feb 8 from Feb 6.
Posted by: publius
------

Viton...I knew it, I knew it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 09:03 PM (XeU6L)

146 I liked “Put Me In Coach”, or whatever it’s called. He needed a hit from a financial perspective. That helped a lot, I guess.

Reading his autobiography, he really got hosed financially speaking. The band was about as big as the Beatles or Stones in the early 70s.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 09:03 PM (VskgJ)

147 None of these liberal pestholes should receive a fucking dime.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2026 09:03 PM (RiE77)

148 There is no way having large cities being run by whack jobs that doesn’t end in utter failure. No chance.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 08:58 PM (VskgJ)
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It's a minor miracle some cities have survived as long as they have.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ESVrU)

149 A lot of songs go on way too long. Keep it short and keep 'em wanting more.
Posted by: fd
---------

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: MacArthur Park at January 30, 2026 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

150 There is no way having large cities being run by whack jobs that doesn’t end in utter failure. No chance.
Posted by: Common Tater
------

Or small cities.

Posted by: MacArthur Park at January 30, 2026 09:06 PM (XeU6L)

151 re Artemis Deuce.

Imagine, if you will, that the British Navy had been working on one wooden sailboat that they were going to use to sail to Labrador in the winter. It was a leaky piece of crap that existed only because the King had a contract with London to supply it with wood (and not good wood).
But meanwhile the shipyards in Bristol and Liverpool were designing ironclads supplied from the ironworks up and down Staffordshire.
The Navy would be fools to be investing so much in this one stupid boat with decades-obsolete tech and inferior material.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 09:08 PM (gKWVE)

152 Good evening, all!

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 09:09 PM (Q9G/L)

153 Good evening Piper!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2026 09:10 PM (Cjt/F)

154 Piper

Good evening, Piper.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 09:11 PM (u82oZ)

155 Congress should confiscate NASA's rum and Trump should give everyone involved in Artemis the lash.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 09:11 PM (gKWVE)

156 151 ... good analogy, and yet here we (taxpayers) are ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2026 09:12 PM (Cjt/F)

157 That is the problem with personal air cars: ANY failure by pilot or mechanism is catastrophic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I know, right?
Zombie Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach shut up I know what I am doing

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2026 09:12 PM (cYBz/)

158 gKWVE

The graft of the lowest bidder and not keeping up with the manufacturing anomalies.

Gref says the main guy in charge of the craft is excellent. But he was brought in too late.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 09:12 PM (u82oZ)

159 A lot of songs go on way too long. Keep it short and keep 'em wanting more.
Posted by: fd

What are you talking about?

-- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2026 09:14 PM (cYBz/)

160 Did you know that 90% of classical music was stealing another composer’s music and altering it just enough to avoid ridicule?

Posted by: epador at January 30, 2026 09:17 PM (TRnzq)

161 None of these liberal pestholes should receive a fucking dime.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2026 09:03 PM (RiE77)

Any money spent should be on MOABs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 09:18 PM (snZF9)

162 "What are you talking about?

-- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
Posted by: Tonypete"

That is not one of those songs. The ones with 30 "baby"s at the end, or the long fade out with the refrain 100 times over.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 09:18 PM (vFG9F)

163 >That is not one of those songs. The ones with 30 "baby"s at the end, or the long fade out with the refrain 100 times over.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 09:18 PM (vFG9F)

I'm right here.

Posted by: Hey Jude at January 30, 2026 09:19 PM (GTqXr)

164 Katie is a former professional protestor. She’s manipulating her office as mayor of one of the most powerful cities in the country to aid and abet domestic terrorists today, and resist the federal government.

https://tinyurl.com/4mvw38yj
Posted by: Braenyard

She's received her orders. Time to create a new pressure point. I'm sure Gubner lil Bobby Ferguson has been whispering in her ear. Seattle will be different. The entire I5 corridor, from Eugene to Bellingham, is Antifa territory.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 09:20 PM (uaYsl)

165
HeyJude, I am ready to strangle you by the end.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 09:21 PM (vFG9F)

166 Since it's in the news, a few things we need to know about IRAN:

1. So far away.
2. All night and day.
3. I couldn't get away.

Posted by: The Toster at January 30, 2026 09:24 PM (rbvCR)

167 So Seattle is now a City State separated from the County.
Hope every cent of the Federal funds are cut off

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 09:26 PM (Ia/+0)

168 And the Seattle militia is ready to get attacked, sea and land

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 09:28 PM (Ia/+0)

169 >>>HeyJude, I am ready to strangle you by the end.

Posted by: fd

>When I heard McCartney and Obama singing that at a White House soiree, I could have sworn the JEF was singing 'Hey Joo.'

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 09:28 PM (oT7pT)

170 If they want their own country with open borders, we should give them California.

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 09:29 PM (OoFl2)

171 156 151 ... good analogy, and yet here we (taxpayers) are ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

That's where the sodomy comes in.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 09:31 PM (gKWVE)

172 Gwen Walz supposedly filed for divorce from Tim Walz yesterday.

Whoops.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 09:34 PM (qw6Uy)

173 alas, too true ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2026 09:35 PM (Cjt/F)

174 Gwen Walz supposedly filed for divorce from Tim Walz yesterday."

She's tired?

/

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 09:35 PM (XuXeR)

175 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: MacArthur Park"

Sure.

/ELP live

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR)

176 Spirit got screwed.
Posted by: Opinion fact

It's just nature's way of telling you something's wrong in song. Taurus (is that the instumental's name) came out in '68? Stairway was 1971 yet Randy California never said squeak about it - it was his family who sued after he died. Taurus is a nice instrumental. Stairway to Heaven may be the greatest rock song ever written and is so much more than the Taurus-inspired intro, such as that guitar solo (my 2nd favorite behind one recorded by FOTB Buck Dharma), and the tour-de-force the solo ends at. At least RC could've used Stairway to bring some attention to Spirit but didn't. I may be the only one here who has 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Not feeling bad for Spirit.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 30, 2026 09:38 PM (KAi1n)

177 She’s tired: it’s twue, it’s twue!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 09:39 PM (H6cKs)

178 Nate Bargatze is easily the funniest comic I have ever experienced. His delivery is so unusual, and clever, and simply funny.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 09:40 PM (0aYVJ)

179 🚨 Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes clear that her city doesn’t need a Signal chats. Instead she’s going to mobilize the actual police force to do what Signal networks do in Minneapolis.

She will even have the SPD relay intel gathered on federal agents to “community partners” and ban usage of city property by agents.

Katie is a former professional protestor. She’s manipulating her office as mayor of one of the most powerful cities in the country to aid and abet domestic terrorists today, and resist the federal government.

https://tinyurl.com/4mvw38yj
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

If/when the insurrection act is invoked it will be less than five minutes before the political leadership is Maduro'd or get OBL, their choice... Then silence.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 09:40 PM (/lPRQ)

180 "Gwen Walz supposedly filed for divorce from Tim Walz yesterday."

Turning the page?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 30, 2026 09:45 PM (KAi1n)

181 180 "Gwen Walz supposedly filed for divorce from Tim Walz yesterday."

Turning the page?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

Preserving assets.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 09:46 PM (IhIKR)

182 Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 09:46 PM (Ia/+0)

183 "Gwen Walz supposedly filed for divorce from Tim Walz yesterday."

Turning the page?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

Preserving assets.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Probably distancing herself and turning states evidence.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 09:49 PM (qw6Uy)

184 > If/when the insurrection act is invoked it will be less than five minutes before the political leadership is Maduro'd or get OBL, their choice... Then silence.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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The administration seems very reluctant to invoke the Insurrection Act. No clue why... but I figure it's a purely political one.

I think all they really want is compliance at the minimal level. That's more or less what Homan wanted/offered to Minneapolis... minimal compliance with federal law. And all that is is just telling the feds where and when the city or state is releasing the illegals.

Note... they're still just releasing the illegals into the landscape.

The feds are not even trying to get the sanctuary enclaves to follow the letter of the law other than this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 09:50 PM (jtM2q)

185 I may be the only one here who has 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Not feeling bad for Spirit.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 30, 2026 09:38 PM (KAi1n)

I don’t have it, but I have listened to it! That’s a great obscure album; there’s more pure musical creativity in that album than in the sum total of every piece of music recorded over the last 26 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 09:50 PM (ai6/n)

186 Seattle will be different. The entire I5 corridor, from Eugene to Bellingham, is Antifa territory.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 09:20

Is there a bag limit or are they considered pests?

Posted by: RI Red at January 30, 2026 09:52 PM (UqAH7)

187 176 It's just nature's way of telling you something's wrong in song. Taurus (is that the instumental's name) came out in '68? Stairway was 1971 yet Randy California never said squeak about it - it was his family who sued after he died. Taurus is a nice instrumental. Stairway to Heaven may be the greatest rock song ever written and is so much more than the Taurus-inspired intro, such as that guitar solo (my 2nd favorite behind one recorded by FOTB Buck Dharma), and the tour-de-force the solo ends at. At least RC could've used Stairway to bring some attention to Spirit but didn't. I may be the only one here who has 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Not feeling bad for Spirit.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 30, 2026 09:38 PM (KAi1n)

Yep. Stairway is much more than the Taurus sounding melody. It's three songs in one. Wistful acoustic guitar intro, mid tempo 12 string with electric piano, blazing full hard rock ending.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 30, 2026 09:55 PM (y171U)

188
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The administration seems very reluctant to invoke the Insurrection Act. No clue why... but I figure it's a purely political one.”

I understand why - Trump does not believe it benefits him or the MAGA movement to push this into total confrontation, especially since that’s what the left wants.

I suspect he’s right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 09:56 PM (ai6/n)

189 Is there a bag limit or are they considered pests?
Posted by: RI Red

Deputize the Proud Boys.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 09:58 PM (uaYsl)

190 Gwen Walz can't testify. Spousal immunity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:01 PM (u82oZ)

191 ONT

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 10:02 PM (u82oZ)

192 Remember the adage about making even the wrong people do the right thing.

He may well have to invoke the Insurrection Act. But he has to exhaust the legal remedies. Americans want the system to work as advertised.

The problem is a bunch of saboteurs are embedded like ticks at local, state, and federal levels determined to fuck everything up. That needs fixed. He is giving them the opportunity to do the right thing. They are exposing themselves plainly for everyone to see.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 10:06 PM (sD+rY)

193 ONT up

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 10:07 PM (qw6Uy)

194 I love Nate Bargatze!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 10:08 PM (WONhk)

195 If Gwen Walz goes through with a divorce then she can be compelled to testify against her former husband.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 30, 2026 10:41 PM (H6cKs)

The Week In Woke

Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor, Tim Walz, makes the Stunning and Brave Announcement that he will never run for political office again. As if it's xis choice! This is as bad as Kristen Stewart saying she can't "freely work" in the US so she'll be filming her zero-budget middle aged woman student film in Latvia. That's not a choice, that's just reality.

But note he only says he won't run for office -- he may still serve.

Reportedly, Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor and corrupt Democrat Senator and perpetual presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar have worked out a corrupt deal. He drops out of the governor's race, she enters it, she wins, and then she appoints him as senator to take over for her.

Amazing.

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is now an inconvenient embarrassment. It was published 20 years ago, and made plenty of ~~predictions~~ prophecies, but none of those Dooms have yet come to pass.

Gore shared dramatic graphs.
Polar ice? Gone, any day now.
Sea levels? Twenty feet in the "near future," which, in political time, means "before the checks clear."
Arctic summers ice-free by, oh, pick a year, any year; 2013, 2014, five to seven years from whenever he was speaking.
Snows of Kilimanjaro? Vanished within a decade.
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Coastal cities? Should be holding snorkel conventions by now.
Reality, being the stubborn jerk that it is, refused to cooperate with Tipper's husband.
Arctic ice dips and bobs like it's on a budget seesaw--it never quite disappears.
Sea levels creep up a modest few millimeters each year, and at this rate, your great-great-grandkids might need taller beach chairs.
Snow still falls on Kilimanjaro, while cities keep building condos on the water like it's prime real estate.
No mass evacuations, no sirens, just... life.
Deadlines came and went quieter than a mime convention. There wasn't a press conference with Gore saying, "Oops! My bad; turns out the models were a little more enthusiastic than I thought." Just new deadlines, fresh urgency, yet using the same PowerPoint.

Now if only Star Trek makes the same realization:

Paul Embery
@PaulEmbery
10h
Some of us have been arguing for a long time that the BBC's obsession with promoting hyper-diversity in its drama productions -- even in period dramas -- was preachy and inauthentic and was alienating viewers. Needless to say, the usual accusations were thrown at us. Now an independent review, commissioned by the BBC itself, has found that the over-representation of ethnic minority characters, especially in period dramas, can feel "clunky", "inauthentic" and "preachy" to the viewer. It concludes: "The BBC should aim for an organic and authentic approach to diversity rather than it looking forced or tick box." Interestingly, the authors state: "We found our interviewees of colour as emphatic on this point as those who were white."

Dan Zaksheske
@RealDanZak
BREAKING: The Department of Education ruled that San Jose State violated Title IX by allowing trans-identifying male volleyball player Blaire Fleming to compete on the women's team.
@OutKick was the first outlet to report a team forfeiting against SJSU, which later led to several more forfeits in protest

🚨🚨 If you haven�t seen his male advantage, you need to watch this.

This is Brayden �Blaire� Fleming dominating in the San Jose State vs Fresno State match with 20 kills and .410 hitting %. https://t.co/p2PXHmZ3Oa pic.twitter.com/h14TrYSjUB
— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) January 29, 2026

OMG

The grown man who yelled at a girl and called her a �c*nt� for supporting ICE has reportedly been identified as the treasurer for the District 12 Arizona Democratic Party https://t.co/xfYAmtz2DD pic.twitter.com/iSamtpdK23
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026

The first openly gay lesbian Mexican judge in Texas, named "Speedlin Gonzales," and no, that's not a racist joke, that's her name, has been arrested for handcuffing an attorney in the jury box. She has refused to take down the gay flags she hangs in her court (illegal political messaging from what is supposed to be a dispassionate objective judge) and routinely congratulates attorneys whose politics she supports on their victories -- victories she handed them.

Texas Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez who was just arrested for handcuffing an attorney, was in a battle over her pride flags. She claims she was �targeted� for being asked to remove all her lgbtq merch from around the courtroom.

These DEI judges are a national embarrassment. https://t.co/7kMoUBu5Eh pic.twitter.com/vKpTMtQBeY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2026

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
36m
Lgbtq Judge Rosie who was just arrested was involved in multiple scandals and was even ordered to take an additional course on judicial ethics.
- reportedly congratulated attorneys on winning cases in her court on her official FB page
- was found with a loaded gun at the airport and received a fine
- was ordered to remove pride flags and entered a years-long battle
- now facing a felony charge for unlawfully handcuffing an attorney over a dispute on courtroom procedure

Here she is standing next to the sodomy flag while wearing a Mexican tricolor sash.

Would you feel as if this judge was ruling without fear or favor if you had the misfortune to be hailed into her court?

Black Conservative Perspective has two good clips below. The first you may have already seen, of overrated femmy communist DEI actor

The clip starting at 3:25 might be new to you. In it, the "actress" and "comedian" Amanda Seales -- I never heard of her either, but apparently she has a comedy special called, I josh thee not, I Be Knowin' -- says "the quiet part aloud," as Foreman says. She explains that the movement is made up of two kinds of people, those who fight in the streets and sometimes get justifiably shot by police -- the "outside people," she calls them -- and the pampered rich communist leaders who sit on their fat asses and incite the "outside people" to risk their lives while they risk nothing. She calls these people -- people like herself -- "inside people," and says the "inside people" are smart people who are too valuable to work "outside" because their skills at incitement -- or "bullhorning," she calls it -- are too precious.

The dumb people, on the other hand, are really good at being cannon fodder and useful corpses.

At the end of her explanation that their are Dumb Doers who get shot and Smart Leaders who get paid, she says that unknown enemy forces may someday come knocking on her door so when you think about it, aren't we all risking our lives for the cause?

It's pretty great.

According to new polling, a comfortable majority of Americans (as much as 64%) want all illegals immigrants deported. A majority also want legal migration reduced.

The takeaway is that most Americans simply don�t care about Alex Pretti or Renee Good.pic.twitter.com/11dZwmMD41 https://t.co/3RuXj8AzYF
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) January 28, 2026

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1
One look at Speedy-Gonzales and you know she's a Sapphist. Of the Rosie the Bonecrusher type.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (tgvbd)

2
Lonely here...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (tgvbd)

3 Of course I read the post...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (VCgbV)

4 I couldabeen a contendah.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (jc0TO)

5 Instead of a bum which is what Iyam.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (jc0TO)

6 The picture I saw of the judge showed her with a lot less weight. It did NOT improve her looks at all.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (VCgbV)

7 Crazy in one thing, crazy in all things.

There is probably a latin phrase for this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (jc0TO)

8 According to CBS news Texas A&M just ended their Woman's Studies program

Posted by: javems at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (zFsEm)

9 Can't wait for Al Gore's follow-up movie about how nothing happened as he predicted.

Posted by: Random PJ at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (+jscL)

10 willowed
Lemon no bail was a given. He is still charged and will be tried.

is the judge that declared no bail also presiding?

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (8uzBS)

11
There is probably a latin phrase for this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (jc0TO)

___________

Morbus in uno, morbus in omnium.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:55 PM (tgvbd)

12 2 Hey, Hadrian. I hope you are well and having a drink.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:55 PM (77rzZ)

13 If I'm not mistaken, that's a very visible Jupiter hanging out next to the moon tonight.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 06:56 PM (dIske)

14
I hope you are well and having a drink.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:55 PM (77rzZ)

_________

Quite well, thanks, but still concerned for Her Majesty and The Big Dummy. They are near this evening's destination of Salem, VA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:57 PM (tgvbd)

15 Speedy Gonzales was a funny cartoon. That judge looks very unfunny and probably eats a lot of crappy food. She appears to have gas. Or is constipated. Perhaps some bananas and rice will fix that.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 06:57 PM (Q0yOR)

16 According to CBS news Texas A&M just ended their Woman's Studies program
Posted by: javems at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (zFsEm)

I'm sure they were just about to publish their first fact they discovered too.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)

17 Judge Speedy-Gonzalez looks like she’s wearing a Mexican flag thingy around her neck.
Pride a Mexican flag waving judge is bad? Shocka

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (Hkcdp)

18 Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor, Tim Walz, makes the Stunning and Brave Announcement that he will never run for political office again.

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Harvard is looking for another gay black female President.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (0Eh0f)

19 'Speedlin Gonzales'..

That's just wonderful. Her parents had a sense of humor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

20
This is NOT a wise Latina

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (IifOV)

21 Texas A&M just ended their Woman's Studies program
Posted by: javems

Qatar ain't payin for dat.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (gKWVE)

22 Did Brayden even let the women on his side even make any plays?

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Seriously? Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez.

Just too easy. Gonna let this one float by.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (0aYVJ)

24 >>> Reportedly, Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor and corrupt Democrat Senator and perpetual presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar have worked out a corrupt deal. He drops out of the governor's race, she enters it, she wins, and then she appoints him as senator to take over for her.

It's a small club and we're not in it.

Does Mike Lindell have a legitimate chance to be governor? Surely if they will hire Jesse Ventura, they'll hire anybody. And the voting fraud stuff revelations are proving he wasn't a rightwing crackpot.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (gWBY1)

25 Hey, it got willowed on an earlier thread, but I gots a quextion for any of our Jewish Hordelings who know written Hebrew well. It involves both linguistics and mathematics.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (77rzZ)

26 I have so many problems with anthropogenic global warming it is hard to rank them, but I try.

A. Firstly, is the Earth warming? Maybe, a little bit. It's hard to say with our limited data.
B. Are we causing it, I don't see much evidence of that. We would need a much better understanding, if possible, of a million constantly changing variables.
C. If it happening, is it a bad thing? I don't think so, in fact, I am in favor of causing more warming if we had that ability.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

27 But note he only says he won't run for office -- he may still serve.

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The SCOTUS is looking for another gay black female retard Justice.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (0Eh0f)

28 I was conditioned and indoctrinated lo these many years to think the sodomites were all creative, artistic, loving and caring folks who only wanted to love and get married. The truth is they are a violent, angry, disordered, mentally ill people who lust for blood and the deaths of millions while voting democrat and trying to molest other people's children.

Posted by: The Truth at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (pbej3)

29 Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez is not that bad...

It/they/Them is breathing, So I would do it, but don't tell Hillary.....

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (38587)

30 that's a very visible Jupiter hanging out next to the moon tonight.
Posted by: Orson

Luna better watch her ass. Zeus was a randy god.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

31 Luckily the AZ guy who called that girl on the street the C word either got fired or stepped down.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (gWBY1)

32 Nobody could have predicted 20 years ago that Al Gore's understanding of Carbon might be a hoax.

I suspect Al will become heavily invested in the AI bubble and make another $200MM off of the taxpayers thru corrupt legislators.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (oT7pT)

33 Is throwing the insult 'Hood Rat' racist?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (zZu0s)

34 Amanda Seales is one loud mouthed jive Turkey, ummm hmmmm.

Wasn’t what she said contradictory? And incoherent?

Posted by: Henry at January 30, 2026 07:01 PM (tWkg3)

35 BREAKING: Bexar County, TX Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez ARRESTED for allegedly unlawfully having an attorney HANDCUFFED and locking him in a jury box

Rosie was celebrated as the first openly gay judge to be elected in Bexar County
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They just want to visit each other in the hospital.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 07:02 PM (E0p3T)

36 Dyke judge does not understand the concept of judicial impartiality.

I have no doubt she must be quite a tyrant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 07:02 PM (RIvkX)

37 I have so many problems with anthropogenic global warming it is hard to rank them, but I try.

A. Firstly, is the Earth warming? Maybe, a little bit. It's hard to say with our limited data.
B. Are we causing it, I don't see much evidence of that. We would need a much better understanding, if possible, of a million constantly changing variables.
C. If it happening, is it a bad thing? I don't think so, in fact, I am in favor of causing more warming if we had that ability.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

Nobody in the climate disaster field seems to notice that if we did get a bit warmer, a crapton of arable land opens up in Canada and Siberia.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:02 PM (8avO+)

38 If someone is awarded a Nobel Prize and the science behind their achievement turns out to be junk science, can they be forced to give it back?

I like how the Nobel Prize committee got in a snit fit over the Venezuelan chick gifting her medallion to Trump, but they have nothing to say on Al Gore's junk science tarnishing their award. Or Obama's win for that matter.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (gWBY1)

39 In twenty years, all Left-Wing Females will be uglier than Jabba The Hutt !!!!!

Hopefully the species will die off in 5 - 10 years like Spotted Owl..

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (38587)

40 Can't wait for Al Gore's follow-up movie about how nothing happened as he predicted.
Posted by: Random PJ at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (+jscL)

Manbearpig 2: Look! A Squirrel!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)

41 In fairness, my fourth chakra is still rising.

Posted by: Al Gore at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)

42 Is there a difference between a modern day climate change scientist / hysteria person and an ancient priest of Baal or Enlil who was saying "The crops will fail because Enlil is mad and we must appease him by you sending me half your money and your nubile daughter! I'm the expert!!"

If mean, if we are begging the Gods to help the weather, I would imagine we'd have a lot better success begging Jesus and doing some repenting, ya know?

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (/ZkOF)

43 He drops out of the governor's race, she enters it, she wins, and then she appoints him as senator to take over for her.

Amazing.

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If Thune magically grew a pair and the Senate went back to a speaking-only filibuster, will the rules at least allow for "Tampon Time" breaks?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (0Eh0f)

44 Chances that Albert Gore Chakra 2 is on the Epstein logs are very high.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 07:04 PM (gKWVE)

45 Nobody in the climate disaster field seems to notice that if we did get a bit warmer, a crapton of arable land opens up in Canada and Siberia.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:02 PM

If the Sahara high shifted a hundred miles north, the desert would become a verdent belt again, as it once was.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 07:04 PM (jc0TO)

46 According to CBS news Texas A&M just ended their Woman's Studies program
Posted by: javems at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (zFsEm)

A&M football program hardest hit.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 30, 2026 07:04 PM (LSR8N)

47 Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is now an inconvenient embarrassment. It was published 20 years ago, and made plenty of ~~predictions~~ prophecies, but none of those Dooms have yet come to pass.

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I think I once called him "Nostragoreus."

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:05 PM (0Eh0f)

48 Al Gore has been very quiet lately. You would think his chakra would need attention and he would be raping someone soon.

Hey Al old buddy! Let's go! Arrrrgh!

Posted by: Al Gore's Foreskin at January 30, 2026 07:05 PM (pbej3)

49 Damn! That judge is BUTCH!
Should not it have the shades of brown gay flags?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 07:05 PM (/lPRQ)

50 Is there a difference between a modern day climate change scientist / hysteria person and an ancient priest of Baal or Enlil who was saying "The crops will fail because Enlil is mad and we must appease him by you sending me half your money and your nubile daughter! I'm the expert!!"

If mean, if we are begging the Gods to help the weather, I would imagine we'd have a lot better success begging Jesus and doing some repenting, ya know?
Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (/ZkOF)

there's a lot more evidence of the weather gods anger. Remember how the warming conventions used to be iced in by freak storms?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (8avO+)

51 You can't impeach judges in Texas?

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

52 >>> I have so many problems with anthropogenic global warming it is hard to rank them, but I try.

Lefty professors of mine were the ones that told me in my science classes that we were still coming out of the last ice age. And showed evidence that there was global warming in the middle ages, England had the climate of Southern Italy and they grew grapes.

Until England turns Mediterranean again, and the scientists stop fudging their numbers and data to get grant money, I'm not fretting too much.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (gWBY1)

53 Polar ice? Gone, any day now.

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NYT Headline from 2014: "The End of Snow."

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (0Eh0f)

54 Rosie was celebrated as the first openly gay judge to be elected in Bexar County

___________________________

I have a gripe. How come I'm never invited to these "celebrations"? I keep hearing about celebrations occurring everytime someone is a first.

Celebrated as the first woman to hold the position as...
Celebrated as the first cunnilingus enjoying woman to hold the position of...
Celebrated as the first illegal immigrant to serve as a police officer while illegally possessing a firearm (Maine)...
Celebrated as the first president to have an IQ qualifying him for disability....
Celebrated as the first candidate to win election as a man who died two months before election day....

I want in on these parties.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (dIske)

55 In twenty years, all Left-Wing Females will be uglier than Jabba The Hutt !!!!!

Hopefully the species will die off in 5 - 10 years like Spotted Owl..

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (38587)

In 20 years?? Have you looked around? They're there.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (snZF9)

56 Gee, I wonder why a majority of Americans want a halt to all immigration into the U.S. when we have the Somalis showing everybody the benefits of importing third-world savages.

No wonder Schumer agreed to consider DHS funding separately: the Dems shutdown the government for illegals, they're going to get crushed at the polls. Not just the GOP engages in "failure theater." In a couple of weeks, Chuckie going to tell his mouth-breathers, "The Bad Orange Man is being mean" but keep funding DHS because ICE is funded until 2028 and everybody couldn't care less if a bunch of TSA drones are told the take a hike.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (pJWtt)

57 Also: most of that San Jose women's volleyball team was filing suit against being forced to play with / share a locker room with this perverted guy.

And the teams that took a stand and forfeited their matches against that guy were quite brave and I applaud their willingness to stand up against the LGBT mafia.

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (/ZkOF)

58 Sea levels? Twenty feet in the "near future," which, in political time, means "before the checks clear."

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After which DogEater and Kommie-la purchased beach-front homes.

Is good to be in Politburo, comrades!

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:07 PM (0Eh0f)

59 We used to call Al Gore #manbearpig

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (RIvkX)

60 We are looking forward to working with President Trump on establishing colonies on the so-called Greenland.

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)

61 Al Gore has been very quiet lately. You would think his chakra would need attention and he would be raping someone soon.

Hey Al old buddy! Let's go! Arrrrgh!
Posted by: Al Gore's Foreskin at January 30, 2026 07:05 PM (pbej3)

Biden gave him a medal of freedom. I think that means no more bribe checks.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (8avO+)

62 All stand for the "honorable" judge diesel dyke!

Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (89Sog)

63 Reportedly, Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor and corrupt Democrat Senator and perpetual presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar have worked out a corrupt deal. He drops out of the governor's race, she enters it, she wins, and then she appoints him as senator to take over for her.

Klobuchar just started her forth 6yr term a year ago so it may be Senator Walz for almost 5 years.

Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (F3Dlr)

64 Also: most of that San Jose women's volleyball team was filing suit against being forced to play with / share a locker room with this perverted guy.

And the teams that took a stand and forfeited their matches against that guy were quite brave and I applaud their willingness to stand up against the LGBT mafia.
Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (/ZkOF)

Also dorm rooms and hotel rooms.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (8avO+)

65 Erica Gonzales, the reporter, looks like she's holding a dildo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 07:09 PM (rarFa)

66 Pro tip -- delete the text that says "advertisement" in block quotes so that no one knows you are using an adblocker.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 07:09 PM (1iXwP)

67 You’re Blair trans volleyball guy, graduate college.

OK, now what?

Posted by: Henry at January 30, 2026 07:09 PM (tWkg3)

68 No mass evacuations, no sirens, just... life.

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I've been assured over 10,000 times throughout the past few decades by "our betters" that we were all gonna die.

/Where's Greta "Pol Tot" Thunberg when you need her?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:09 PM (0Eh0f)

69 Does it really count if it was a horse?

Posted by: Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor at January 30, 2026 07:10 PM (TylIK)

70 Wasn't Greenland one of the places the true Penguins- the Great Auks- nested?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:10 PM (zZu0s)

71 >>> a comfortable majority of Americans (as much as 64%) want all illegals immigrants deported.

For those of you in Rio Linda that is 2 to 1.
Very favorable in a civil war.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 07:10 PM (/lPRQ)

72 It's all been a Pretti Good week, Ace.

That volley ball player is not a pretty fake woman. Whoa. Now let's see you play with your sex, bozo.

The butch judge would be my luck if I was arrested and ever had to go before a judge (not planning on it,thanks). At least she wears her butch with pride. I like identifiers for lesbos as I remain clueless unless it is obvious. Lipstick lesbians confuse me since college.

I have sadly not been productive today as IT's BEEN SO MUCH FUN!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 07:10 PM (WONhk)

73 RETARD!

Posted by: Donny Two Scoops, driving by in the beast at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (ULPxl)

74 Pro tip -- delete the text that says "advertisement" in block quotes so that no one knows you are using an adblocker.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 07:09 PM

Ace is out and proud.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (jc0TO)

75 Did Tipper Gore have a tight enough grip on Al's scrotum that he won't appear anywhere in Jeffrey Epstein's registry?

Al always seemed wooden and rancid.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (oT7pT)

76 I have a gripe. How come I'm never invited to these "celebrations"? I keep hearing about celebrations occurring everytime someone is a first.

Celebrated as the first woman to hold the position as...
Celebrated as the first cunnilingus enjoying woman to hold the position of...
Celebrated as the first illegal immigrant to serve as a police officer while illegally possessing a firearm (Maine)...
Celebrated as the first president to have an IQ qualifying him for disability....
Celebrated as the first candidate to win election as a man who died two months before election day....

I want in on these parties.
Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (dIske)
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Will there be cake? I'd only go if there was cake...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (ESVrU)

77 61 Al Gore has been very quiet lately. You would think his chakra would need attention and he would be raping someone soon.

Hey Al old buddy! Let's go! Arrrrgh!
Posted by: Al Gore's Foreskin at January 30, 2026 07:05 PM (pbej3)

_______________________________

He was actually in Davos heckling. And, I'm not over emphasizing that. He was sitting in the audience and was heckling Howard Lutnick during his speech. At the end he booed him loudly.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (dIske)

78 Celebrated as the first president to have an IQ qualifying him for disability....
Celebrated as the first candidate to win election as a man who died two months before election day....

I want in on these parties.
Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (dIske)

Celebrated as the first Orson to comment on Ace of Spades Blog after 7 pm on Jan 30 2026....

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (8avO+)

79 My favorite part of the Alphabet People adopting the rainbow for their flag is the constant reminder that the Sodom & Gomorrah fire treatment is still on the table; the rainbow is a symbol of God's promise not to drown the world again, but He never said He wouldn't burn it all down.

Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (Sy6m/)

80 "We found our interviewees of colour as emphatic on this point as those who were white."

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At least British blacks hated Hamilton.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:12 PM (0Eh0f)

81 13 If I'm not mistaken, that's a very visible Jupiter hanging out next to the moon tonight.
Posted by: Orson

Still no word on Uranus?

Posted by: The Great Poof! at January 30, 2026 07:12 PM (oftw2)

82 How dare you!

Posted by: Greta on a Shelf at January 30, 2026 07:12 PM (vo1eO)

83 They scumbag in Arizona got fired from his real estate job. I haven't heard if the Dems bounced him , though I wouldn't be surprised to see him run for office. The McCain's might help him as q

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 07:13 PM (IDEQi)

84 No mass evacuations, no sirens, just... life.

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I've been assured over 10,000 times throughout the past few decades by "our betters" that we were all gonna die.

/Where's Greta "Pol Tot" Thunberg when you need her?
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:09 PM (0Eh0f)

Repeatedly sailing to Gaza looking for starving Gazans while eating the 200 pounds of supplies on her boat.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:13 PM (8avO+)

85 Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (dIske)

Celebrated as the first Orson to comment on Ace of Spades Blog after 7 pm on Jan 30 2026....
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (8avO+)

ALL HAIL ORSON, SECOND OF HIS NAME!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:13 PM (zZu0s)

86 these posts should be titled

...While You Were Being Left Alone

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 07:13 PM (ciYHQ)

87 One look at Speedy-Gonzales and you know she's a Sapphist. Of the Rosie the Bonecrusher type.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Probably has
"Cvnt Puncher"
tattooed in dripping red letters on her upper arm.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 07:13 PM (/lPRQ)

88 Wasn't Greenland one of the places the true Penguins- the Great Auks- nested?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:10 PM

The great auk inhabited cold North Atlantic coastal waters, breeding on rocky islands with easy access to the ocean, primarily in areas like Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and the British Isles. They required specific nesting sites that were remote and protected from predators, which limited their breeding colonies to about 20 locations.

The great auk, also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It was not closely related to the penguins of the Southern Hemisphere, which were named for their resemblance to this species.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 30, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

89 Which one of you Morons coined the name Doom Gobblin for Greta?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (jc0TO)

90 In 20 years?? Have you looked around? They're there.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Hell, Gloria Steinem is still alive.
By the way, she was a CIA op.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (rarFa)

91 >>> 26 I have so many problems with anthropogenic global warming it is hard to rank them, but I try.

A. Firstly, is the Earth warming? Maybe, a little bit. It's hard to say with our limited data.
B. Are we causing it, I don't see much evidence of that. We would need a much better understanding, if possible, of a million constantly changing variables.
C. If it happening, is it a bad thing? I don't think so, in fact, I am in favor of causing more warming if we had that ability.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

Hi!

Posted by: GREENland at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (ULPxl)

92 Reportedly, Minnesota's first openly homosexual governor and corrupt Democrat Senator and perpetual presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar have worked out a corrupt deal. He drops out of the governor's race, she enters it, she wins, and then she appoints him as senator to take over for her.

Klobuchar just started her forth 6yr term a year ago so it may be Senator Walz for almost 5 years.
Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:08 PM (F3Dlr)
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"Governor graft" must have dried up, so Walz is looking to get in on "Senator graft."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (ESVrU)

93 Judge Speedy-Gonzalez looks like she’s wearing a Mexican flag thingy

Probably has her brother, Speedo Gonzalez, reading to the kids at story hour.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (yr56r)

94 one of my sons was at A&M when Robert Gates was picked as President of the school. His first move was to kill the Journo college.

"All they do is run down the school".

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (8uzBS)

95 If you haven’t seen his male advantage, you need to watch this.

This is Brayden “Blaire” Fleming dominating in the San Jose State vs Fresno State match with 20 kills and .410 hitting %.

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Has anyone ever seen Brayden “Blaire” Fleming and Brittney Griner in the same room at the same time?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (0Eh0f)

96 Great auks were found throughout the North Atlantic.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 07:15 PM (77rzZ)

97 My favorite part of the Alphabet People adopting the rainbow for their flag is the constant reminder that the Sodom & Gomorrah fire treatment is still on the table; the rainbow is a symbol of God's promise not to drown the world again, but He never said He wouldn't burn it all down.
Posted by: SciVo at January 30, 2026 07:11 PM (Sy6m/)

I think you'll find that the Flooding promise isn't legally binding....

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:15 PM (8avO+)

98 Still no word on Uranus?
Posted by: The Great Poof!

Still no real plans to probe it since 1986, sadly.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 07:15 PM (gKWVE)

99 Speedy looks like a diesel dyke who's wearing flannel shirt and denim under the robe, but I doubt she walks the walk. Probably doesn't know the difference between a spanner and a spud wrench.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 30, 2026 07:15 PM (36QIT)

100 one of my sons was at A&M when Robert Gates was picked as President of the school. His first move was to kill the Journo college.

"All they do is run down the school".
Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 07:14 PM (8uzBS)

What, wait? Where is this hero now??

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:16 PM (8avO+)

101 Saw a current pic of NYHarbor and only the forearm and torch of the Statue of Liberty are above water. Al Gore was right!

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at January 30, 2026 07:16 PM (oftw2)

102 It's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall.

Posted by: Ray Charles at January 30, 2026 07:18 PM (m9doz)

103
Hard to pick between my favorite two Algore moments:

The 5 minute make-out session with Tipper at the podium of the 2000 Democrat Convention, or

Rocking along with John Fogerty at Ford theater when the "Ain't no Senator's son" lyric of Fortunate Son was performed.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 07:18 PM (Y8DZL)

104 Just found out Catherine O’Hara died.

Bummer.

Loved her in Best in Show.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2026 07:19 PM (XV/Pl)

105 She has refused to take down the gay flags she hangs in her court (illegal political messaging from what is supposed to be a dispassionate objective judge) ...

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Does her courtroom also have a naked statue of Lady Justice with no blindfold, holding a pair of testicles instead of scales (with penis attached) and -- instead of a sword -- holding a gun to her head?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:19 PM (0Eh0f)

106 It's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall.
Posted by: Ray Charles at January 30, 2026 07:18 PM

To see and be seen?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

107 Would you feel as if this judge was ruling without fear or favor if you had the misfortune to be hailed into her court?

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"THAT'S A MAN, BABY!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:20 PM (0Eh0f)

108 She looks a lot like the other Rosie in Ireland.

Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 07:20 PM (EtfYd)

109 102 It's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall.
Posted by: Ray Charles

youtube.com/watch?v=uZt1xKtPbUQ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 07:21 PM (rarFa)

110 "Governor graft" must have dried up, so Walz is looking to get in on "Senator graft."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

He's collecting pensions. Maybe he will retire to China and take his loon wife and activist daughter with him.

Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:21 PM (F3Dlr)

111 102 It's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall.
Posted by: Ray Charles at January 30, 2026 07:18 PM (m9doz)

see. that's what happens.

Posted by: Allen Iverson at January 30, 2026 07:22 PM (w/O5Q)

112 What, wait? Where is this hero now??

I think he's about to be a DE at TxDOT.

Oh, you meant Gates? Lives in Washington near the mountains.

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 07:23 PM (8uzBS)

113 Mark Holodnak (or whatever) from Arizona and yelling at girls, he sho' is ugly! Need to trans, man, to an ugly woman! Or just wear a burlap bag over your head to spare the rest of us! WHOA! He lost the looks lottery in all areas. He doesn't even have a "nice personality!"

Nose like a rotten potato. The rest offers nothing positive.

Some people should not be allowed in public. *Granted I think my family says this about me, but not because of the way I look.

In the definition of "troll" his mug should be featured. He looks like the troll, as I imagined, who hid under the bridge when someone read The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Scary! RUN!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 07:23 PM (WONhk)

114 mob of protesters descend upon a group of girls in Phoenix who took selfies with ICE agents
A call from my daughter (if I had one) that she was being mobbed would have had me running red lights to obtain a police escort, and me exiting my vehicle with at least two weapons in open carry mode - and more than two magazines.

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 07:23 PM (Cphwz)

115 Another insufferable politician we made to get passed over

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)

116 I said it before, but I think Pretti was actually suicidal.

Someone said he was fired "for cause" from his job. Has anything more come out? I am willing to bet he was trying to be martyred. Maybe not killed, but roughed up for the cause.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 07:24 PM (1iXwP)

117 Is there a reason the men's volleyball net is 7 1/2" higher than the women's?

Of course not.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 07:24 PM (yr56r)

118 The dumb people, on the other hand, are really good at being cannon fodder and useful corpses.

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"If you make the most of your education, study hard, and make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq."

-- John F'ing Kerry, speaking at Pasadena City College in 2006

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:24 PM (0Eh0f)

119 while wearing a Mexican tricolor sash
In violation of her oath, seems like.

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 07:25 PM (Cphwz)

120 If any person was a candidate for a burqa, that judge is it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 07:25 PM (snZF9)

121 There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in Speedy's ass.

Where do they find these activist fucks and how do they get in the door?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 07:26 PM (oT7pT)

122 I turned on a show about Cleopatra and...she was black.

Not Greek like in the actual history, not Egyptian like you'd assume if you aren't familiar with history.

Click.

Of course I hear Netflix made a movie about a Viking King and had him played by...a black woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:26 PM (sKqQm)

123 The takeaway is that most Americans simply don’t care about Alex Pretti or Renee Good.

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Four years from now: "Who?"

"Former FAFO Darwin Award Winners from four years ago."

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (0Eh0f)

124 Serve? Like hard time?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (i0Hi3)

125 I was at a Stevie Wonder concert, some drunk tossed a bottle at him and Stevie ducked. Been skeptical ever since. Also very leery about the whole Helen Keller thing.

Posted by: Nobody's Fool at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (oftw2)

126 Where do they find these activist fucks and how do they get in the door?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Lavender Mafia

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (gKWVE)

127 103
Hard to pick between my favorite two Algore moments:

The 5 minute make-out session with Tipper at the podium of the 2000 Democrat Convention

I referred to that as a tonsillectomy.

Then I threw up.

I'd say my favorite Gore moment was when a masseuse referred to him as a Sex Poodle who wanted her to reach his special chakra. I laughed hysterically over this for awhile.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (WONhk)

128 This Holodnek guy is/was a realtor in Phoenix. I found him on Realtor.com the other day and several folks had already left pretty brutal reviews based on this incident, but another review was older and suggested that he was not a real people-pleaser. Profile is now gone.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 30, 2026 07:28 PM (4b7CV)

129 There seems to be a few conservative Black YouTube video guys

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:28 PM (Ia/+0)

130 One of the greatest differences between the left and the right is looking at our reactions to Global warming.

The right looks at decades of predictions that were all wrong and says "these guys are full of bullshit"

The left sticks its fingers in its ears while going "I can' hear you!" and then berate us that no really in 10 years the earth will die if we don't end fossil fuel use NOW.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:29 PM (sKqQm)

131 Nobody could have predicted 20 years ago that Al Gore's understanding of Carbon might be a hoax.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (oT7pT)

Vast numbers of us did exactly that. ???

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 07:29 PM (Cphwz)

132 Also very leery about the whole Helen Keller thing.
Posted by: Nobody's Fool

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I never believed any of that stuff with her, but I never cared enough to look into it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 07:30 PM (1iXwP)

133 > "Governor graft" must have dried up, so Walz is looking to get in on "Senator graft."
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I'm not entirely sure he was smart enough to get in on it on the ground floor. Sure... he was grifting, who in politics isn't?

I think the entire Somali fraud scheme was done behind his back. Maybe thinking as VP he'd be "pliable" for things. He just doesn't strike me as remotely intelligent.

And IMO his political career is toast. But... who knows.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 07:30 PM (jtM2q)

134 123 The takeaway is that most Americans simply don’t care about Alex Pretti or Renee Good.

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Four years from now: "Who?"

"Former FAFO Darwin Award Winners from four years ago."
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (0Eh0f)

_______________________________

Hi there. Remember me? I was so fantastically stupid, and my demise wonderfully horrific, that it's hard to forget. Everytime someone orders flat bread, or pancakes....who do they think of....MEEEEEeeeeee!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at January 30, 2026 07:30 PM (dIske)

135 Of course I hear Netflix made a movie about a Viking King and had him played by...a black woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:26 PM (sKqQm)

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That was the mediocre TV series "Vikings: Valhalla" (History Channel sequel to the very good -- until they killed off Ragnar (spoiler alert!) -- series "Vikings").

And yes, you could hear a loud collective groan across the fandom at the time ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:31 PM (0Eh0f)

136 In fairness, my fourth chakra is still rising.
Posted by: Al Gore at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)

/hammers it back down with a 5 pound sledgehammer/

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 07:31 PM (Cphwz)

137 Rigged deal by Walz and Klobuchar. Trump's words: "They're not bringing their best."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 07:31 PM (EoDGC)

138 Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_
Stephen Colbert: “Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That’s an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”

-
At least the Gestapo had a sense of fashion!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 07:31 PM (J+Psw)

139 Wasn't Greenland one of the places the true Penguins- the Great Auks- nested?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:10 PM (zZu0s)

What about the Mostly Satisfactory Auks?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM (8zz6B)

140 I was at a Stevie Wonder concert, some drunk tossed a bottle at him and Stevie ducked. Been skeptical ever since. Also very leery about the whole Helen Keller thing.

There have been claims since she first made the news that Helen's nurse made up much of what is attributed to her. Is it true? Hard to say now obviously.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM (sKqQm)

141 toby928(c)

IF you took all of mankind's energy output, double it to add for the "disturbance of Gaia", that is still 1/300,000,000 of the energy the Earth gets from the Sun.

We are so insignificant, we are not even a rounding error on a flat baseline.

Publius, you want to check my math? I ran out of fingers and toes and appendages a while bac in the calculationk.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM (u82oZ)

142 123 The takeaway is that most Americans simply don’t care about Alex Pretti or Renee Good.

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Four years from now: "Who?"

"Former FAFO Darwin Award Winners from four years ago."
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:27 PM (0Eh0f

In a month, they're both gonna be the "oh, yeah" response without looking up from the phone. They stupidly got themselves killed to satisfy the needs of a handfull of very wealthy people that would not have ever acknowledged them. Dumb.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM (4b7CV)

143 Everytime someone orders flat bread, or pancakes....who do they think of....MEEEEEeeeeee!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at January 30, 2026 07:30 PM

Honestly, I get name-dropped here *way* more than you do.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

144 my favorite Gore moment was when a masseuse referred to him as a Sex Poodle who wanted her to reach his special chakra. I laughed hysterically over this for awhile.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

My instinct at the time was "yaaahh you're just saying that for the attention" and then immediately Tipper filed for divorce.
There must have been a pattern. (Apart from me being wrong.)
Dave Barry once made a joke about Al trolling for poon on the internet (which Al invented), and now I have to wonder if Barry had heard rumors too.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 07:33 PM (gKWVE)

145 Klobuchar just started her forth 6yr term a year ago so it may be Senator Walz for almost 5 years.
Posted by: old chick
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Members and Senators get lifetime pensions (and damned good ones) at 5 years. Is Timmy looking at a new grift?
I.worked a few places back before defined contribution plans (401k) took over from defined benefit plans (pensions). The shortest vesting period in any of them was 6 years for a 30% benefit, scaling up to full benefit at 15 years. The other two didn't pro-rate it, a full 10 years or nothing. Is it amazing as how the bosses bonus is always structured easier than the workers, and how the law makers make laws for themselves? /sarc

Posted by: buddhaha at January 30, 2026 07:33 PM (36QIT)

146
109 102 It's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall.
Posted by: Ray Charles
youtube.com/watch?v=uZt1xKtPbUQ

Love Etta James! Here's some more traditional music:

youtube.com/watch?v=uZt1xKtPbUQ

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 07:33 PM (Y8DZL)

147 That was the mediocre TV series "Vikings: Valhalla" (History Channel sequel to the very good -- until they killed off Ragnar (spoiler alert!) -- series "Vikings").

And yes, you could hear a loud collective groan across the fandom at the time ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:31 PM

It went downhill a bit after they killed off Athelstan. Up until that moment I thought it was his story, a sort of What I saw among the Vikings.

I also enjoyed The Last Kingdom and was very happy that they completed the whole story arc with that one.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (jc0TO)

148 Stephen Colbert: “Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That’s an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”

That's because once the German National Socialist took over they killed anyone that opposed them so why would they need to mask up?

And let's be clear if Colbert was in Germany under Hitler and made the same comments about the Fuhrer he makes about Trump he would already be dead.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (sKqQm)

149 Publius, you want to check my math? I ran out of fingers and toes and appendages a while bac in the calculationk.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I'd help but that digit is kinda sore right now.

Posted by: Bill Gates, Jr at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE)

150 He calls for a revolution but it's the other side (the Right) who is starting a Civil War?

These people can't be any more retarded.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (cwGMH)

151 I said it before, but I think Pretti was actually suicidal.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

He had a dog that has been said he adored and took on hikes, etc. It recently died, I read it passed a few months back.
It's possible he was of the mind to go out with the fantasy image of a hero, not an unemployed loser.

Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (F3Dlr)

152 Celebrated as the first cunnilingus enjoying woman to hold the position of...
Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 07:06 PM (dIske)

Ummmm... I think that one would have happened a LONG time ago........

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 07:35 PM (Cphwz)

153 The left sticks its fingers in its ears while going "I can' hear you!" and then berate us that no really in 10 years the earth will die if we don't end fossil fuel use NOW.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:29 PM (sKqQm)

We are also out of Oil, and have all died to gun violence.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2026 07:35 PM (mP0Kj)

154 I'm not entirely sure he was smart enough to get in on it on the ground floor. Sure... he was grifting, who in politics isn't?

I think the entire Somali fraud scheme was done behind his back. Maybe thinking as VP he'd be "pliable" for things. He just doesn't strike me as remotely intelligent.

------------

Tampon Tim was just another ChiComm useless idiot.

It's possible that the ChiComms -- intent on destabilizing the USA from within and collapsing us without a shot -- paid him (and who knows how many others there and nationwide?) to look the other way.

As Peter Schweizer proves in his latest book: The Mexican Cartels (and Reconquista Movement); the ChiComms; and the Muslim Bros are actively subverting, undermining, funding, sponsoring, and attempting to destroy America.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:36 PM (0Eh0f)

155 135 I enjoyed both shows and groaned at the black chick being queen or whatever. Valhalla entertained me. I haven't seen the last season because you need Netflix and that's a nope from me.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 07:36 PM (Q0yOR)

156 Bexar County is San Antonio. The Cartels own that city like they owned Caracas.
A sideshow freak like her is useful just to run interference and keep people’s eyes off the massive amount of official corruption going on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 07:36 PM (ai6/n)

157 151 I said it before, but I think Pretti was actually suicidal.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

He had a dog that has been said he adored and took on hikes, etc. It recently died, I read it passed a few months back.
It's possible he was of the mind to go out with the fantasy image of a hero, not an unemployed loser.
Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (F3Dlr)

Saw unverified reports he deleted most if not all of his social media content?

Suicide by Cop so he could be a martyr? It would be the ONLY way anyone would ever remember his name.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2026 07:37 PM (mP0Kj)

158 I like when Al Gore went on a late night show and commented that the earth's inner cores were a million degrees.

Retard level intelligence.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 07:37 PM (cwGMH)

159 Al Gore is an idiot. He picked Lieberman for his running mate when he should have picked that old criminal Bob Graham. Floridians loved Bob Graham. Floridians would have voted for Al because that is how stupid they were and still are.

Posted by: Zombie Lawton Chiles at January 30, 2026 07:37 PM (pbej3)

160 I ran out of fingers and toes and appendages a while bac in the calculationk.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM

We certainly enjoyed your capability to count to twenty-two!

Posted by: The Signoras of Augusta Bay Port Facility at January 30, 2026 07:37 PM (0sNs1)

161 99 Speedy looks like a diesel dyke who's wearing flannel shirt and denim under the robe, but I doubt she walks the walk. Probably doesn't know the difference between a spanner and a spud wrench.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 30, 2026 07:15 PM (36QIT)

Sure she does. Those are the names of her various dildoes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 07:38 PM (I40wl)

162 Stevie Wonder once used the stand-up pay phone next to the one that I was using, ATL airport. That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 07:38 PM (XeU6L)

163 The Signoras of Augusta Bay Port Facility

On the nose!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 07:38 PM (u82oZ)

164 I really H8 our Marxists

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)

165 I said it before, but I think Pretti was actually suicidal.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

He had a dog that has been said he adored and took on hikes, etc. It recently died, I read it passed a few months back.
It's possible he was of the mind to go out with the fantasy image of a hero, not an unemployed loser.
Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (F3Dlr)

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Munchausen's-by-Sheltie?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:39 PM (0Eh0f)

166 So one day at my watering hole I hear Walx claim the he needed IVF to get his wife pregnant.
The he describes the process and I ask someone watching the TV is that IVF.
He say no that is insemination.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 30, 2026 07:39 PM (gbOdA)

167 Walz is openly gay?

Did I miss the announcement?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (O/gWh)

168 Yikes. That Arizona guy has a face that launched a thousand Chris Hansens

Posted by: Wally at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (0e5Te)

169
And IMO his political career is toast. But... who knows.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 07:30 PM (jtM2q)

From major party VP nom to can't run for Governor in sixteen months is quite a slide.

Posted by: Liz Cheney at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (w/O5Q)

170 Skip

Compared to how I feel, hate is such a weak word.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (u82oZ)

171 Speedy looks like a diesel dyke who's wearing flannel shirt and denim under the robe,
----
Chain wallet?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (XeU6L)

172 What we can learn from Blaire Fleming tragic outing and how to protect yourself. Basically, this group of garbage human beings running a wordpress site with a bunch of extensions targeted an otherwise completely stealth transgender player and forcibly outed her.

She played for years without any issue. She was a mediocre player in a mediocre league, and no one had any problem until she was outed against her will.

my trans friend competed in hundreds of races, usually ending up mid-field. One day… ONE DAY her nutrition is on point, she’s at the peak of her current fitness schedule, no bike issues, able to get perfect position for a 3rd place finish AND SUDDENLY it’s a problem for the sport.

NO ONE is transitioning so they can dominate in sports. That’s ridiculous. And the "common sense" argument has no weight in any of the transgender issues of sports, what is a women, there are only two genders, etc. ad nauseum. It was once "common sense" that the earth was flat.

There is a compromise available: the regulatory bodies of individual sports could set their own regulations for what level of hormones/transitioning is acceptable.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (ycI94)

173 But you exclusionary bastards missed it!

Star Trek gives pacifist Klingon named "Jay-Den" two polyamorous refugee dads

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (J+Psw)

174 In 2022, female high school volleyball player Payton Mcnabb was severely injured by a high-speed volleyball hit by a trans female -- whose (his) name has not been released.

From the looks of that game, the sport hasn't learned anything about protecting females
.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (otJlS)

175 So gee, who are these "protesters" that are demanding all deportations are "Nazi/Fascist/Evil Empire" actions?

They are idiots and paid activists, and communists and foreign based/funded terrorists. Yet they have mostly been given full support by the mainstream (terrorist) media (and anti-America Democrats, of course).

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (vbXSk)

176 nood, nood I say

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (/enuJ)

177 167 Walz is openly gay?

Did I miss the announcement?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (O/gWh)

He hasn't denied it.

Posted by: davidt at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (Q+gd/)

178 > As Peter Schweizer proves in his latest book: The Mexican Cartels (and Reconquista Movement); the ChiComms; and the Muslim Bros are actively subverting, undermining, funding, sponsoring, and attempting to destroy America.
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:36 PM (0Eh0f)
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A fair amount (a lot) of the monies used to destabilize the US is from China. Several of the billionaires fingered as funding the unrest are associated with the ChiComs.

It is, at heart, a color revolution aimed at us. And it's ongoing. With (at least) part of our government's approval.

Mull that over....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (jtM2q)

179 Honestly, I get name-dropped here *way* more than you do.
Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

It's your disarming smile.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2026 07:41 PM (8zz6B)

180 I think the entire Somali fraud scheme was done behind his back. Maybe thinking as VP he'd be "pliable" for things. He just doesn't strike me as remotely intelligent.

And IMO his political career is toast. But... who knows.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 07:30 PM (jtM2q)

No way. He may not be a prime mover, but they need his signature for too much for him to be a dupe. He's dirty.

In fact that might explain why he wanted Veep if he saw this blowing up.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:42 PM (8avO+)

181 Stevie Wonder once used the stand-up pay phone next to the one that I was using, ATL airport. That's all I got.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 07:38 PM (XeU6L)

Did you wave to him ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 07:42 PM (NtVYv)

182
Oops! My bad; I meant to link to this interesting music video about a foreign culture dealing with trans issues:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 07:42 PM (Y8DZL)

183 Al Gore is an idiot. He picked Lieberman for his running mate when he should have picked that old criminal Bob Graham. Floridians loved Bob Graham. Floridians would have voted for Al because that is how stupid they were and still are.

Posted by: Zombie Lawton Chiles at January 30, 2026 07:37 PM (pbej3)

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Did Gore and his team ask Lieberman if he was an Israeli double-agent and working with Mossad?

/Yeah, we've come a long way baby in a quarter of a century ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 07:42 PM (0Eh0f)

184 There is a compromise available: the regulatory bodies of individual sports could set their own regulations for what level of hormones/transitioning is acceptable.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 07:40 PM (ycI94)

I always said call their bluff and allow only fully transitioned males to play women's sports. Ain't one of them going to cut off their junk.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 07:42 PM (cwGMH)

185 26 I have so many problems with anthropogenic global warming it is hard to rank them, but I try.

A. Firstly, is the Earth warming? Maybe, a little bit. It's hard to say with our limited data.
B. Are we causing it, I don't see much evidence of that. We would need a much better understanding, if possible, of a million constantly changing variables.
C. If it happening, is it a bad thing? I don't think so, in fact, I am in favor of causing more warming if we had that ability.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

I think what gets overlooked, not mentioned, perhaps purposely, is the matter of 'scale'. The predictions I recall are maybe 1 degree C or 2 degrees F total warming. What never gets mentioned is that the average temperature of the earf is maybe around 50 F or 18 C (my guess). On an absolute temperature scale, 18C is almost 290 degrees above absolute -0-. So when we talk temperature rise, it's maybe 1 degree above the ~300 that we're already at.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:43 PM (QGaXH)

186
These DEI judges are a national embarrassment.

=================

They're a national threat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 07:44 PM (hxCZf)

187 166 So one day at my watering hole I hear Walx claim the he needed IVF to get his wife pregnant.
The he describes the process and I ask someone watching the TV is that IVF.
He say no that is insemination.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 30, 2026 07:39 PM (gbOdA)

So, dude couldn't get it up. OK. What kinda porn did they give him to produce the sample? That would be telling.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 07:44 PM (I40wl)

188 "He had a dog that has been said he adored and took on hikes, etc. It recently died, I read it passed a few months back.
It's possible he was of the mind to go out with the fantasy image of a hero, not an unemployed loser."

And some reports say he was fired for some salacious activity with ? his patients, or whatever. He did not just quit, he was fired with cause, as I heard it.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2026 07:44 PM (vbXSk)

189 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 07:32 PM

We certainly enjoyed your capability to count to twenty-two!
Posted by: The Signoras of Augusta Bay Port Facility at January 30, 2026 07:37 PM

Wait, NaCly Dog is a Vulcan?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 30, 2026 07:44 PM (ePaHF)

190 Stephen Colbert: “Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That’s an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”

That's because once the German National Socialist took over they killed anyone that opposed them so why would they need to mask up?

And let's be clear if Colbert was in Germany under Hitler and made the same comments about the Fuhrer he makes about Trump he would already be dead.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 07:34 PM (sKqQm)

Along with his family, his friends, his teachers, the dude who delivered milk, his neighbors, etc

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2026 07:45 PM (snZF9)

191 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 07:45 PM (u82oZ)

192 Suicide by Cop so he could be a martyr? It would be the ONLY way anyone would ever remember his name.
Posted by: Romeo13

It's possible he wanted to die, but, also possible the rioting was just an excuse to show his seething rage at his own circumstances and not intentional suicide by cop.

I've rewatched the video of his kicking the cop car, he is walking away when the cop jumps out to confront him and he actually takes a step toward the cop before he turns tail and runs for the sidewalk.
I think he knew then that he had taken his hero fantasy too far.

Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (F3Dlr)

193 So when we talk temperature rise, it's maybe 1 degree above the ~300 that we're already at.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:43 PM (QGaXH)

During the Medieval Warming Period, settlers planted and grew grapes in Greenland. If it weren't for the plague, Europe would have doubled its population twice, at least. During the Cool Years (various names for that period), the Thames froze over and people died like flies from exposure, among other cold related maladies.

Which is the better scenerio?

And how did man-made any damned thing cause either high or low?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (I40wl)

194 And Colbert would suffer a very slow, painful death.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (otJlS)

195 I think what gets overlooked, not mentioned, perhaps purposely, is the matter of 'scale'. The predictions I recall are maybe 1 degree C or 2 degrees F total warming. What never gets mentioned is that the average temperature of the earf is maybe around 50 F or 18 C (my guess). On an absolute temperature scale, 18C is almost 290 degrees above absolute -0-. So when we talk temperature rise, it's maybe 1 degree above the ~300 that we're already at.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:43 PM (QGaXH)

Average Earth T is 15 C, or 59 degrees F

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)

196 >>>I like when Al Gore went on a late night show and commented that the earth's inner cores were a million degrees.

Retard level intelligence.

Posted by: Opinion fact

>Al Gore has all of the charisma of a beached elephant seal. But his constitution and longevity are remarkable.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 07:49 PM (oT7pT)

197 And Colbert would suffer a very slow, painful death.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 07:47 PM (otJlS)

Or he would just disappear and no one would mention it out of fear. THAT is the world they want for us. If you doubt that, just remember the J6 guys. And remember how many of our brave public servants even had the balls to mention them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

198 >>>I like when Al Gore went on a late night show and commented that the earth's inner cores were a million degrees.

Retard level intelligence.

Posted by: Opinion fact

>Al Gore has all of the charisma of a beached elephant seal. But his constitution and longevity are remarkable.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 07:49 PM (oT7pT)

I'm old enough to remember when Al Gore was notable for being Pro Life.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 07:50 PM (8avO+)

199 Oh, Joachim Phoenix is drawing links between ice and the Israeli military.

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

200 Headline:

EU democracy now has fewer guardrails than the average hooker

By Rachel Marsden
January 31, 2026

https://tinyurl.com/y3vmnrsu

"The unelected European Commission is basically using policy and the absolute outer bounds of executive prerogative powers (that is, the powers to decide foreign policy and national security strategy) as a substitute for the checks and balances of legal due process. And they absolutely neglect to define any terms in a way that people can understand, avoid punishment, or even argue coherently that they’re not in breach. You want to accuse someone of working for Russia? What does that even mean? It’s not like we’re talking about Russian officials here.

There seems to be a rampant and ridiculous assumption that because someone works in another country and agrees with its approach on certain things, they’ve abandoned their integrity and values at the border – along with their critical faculties. As if employment abroad automatically comes with a complimentary lobotomy."

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 08:21 PM (rbvCR)

201 The brain washing is real. Went to my weekly stitching group at a local church and took a new friend for the first time. I go to get away from the ugliness of the world. But it’s everywhere. One of the women informs us that she asked the pastor to lead us in prayer over the situation in Minneapolis. Everyone, except me, and possibly my new friend, is a flaming liberal in the blue hive I must live in. The prayer was as awful as I anticipated. Sniffling and literal tears for the two evil monsters who attacked ICE officers. A tiny prayer for ICE that officers would see the error of their ways and find some humanity and refuse to work. No tears for the raped, sex trafficked, or murdered victims of illegal immigrants. No compassion for the officers who risk their lives and the lives of their families trying to keep us safe. It was disgusting. I thought they were insufferable when Trump got elected both times and BLM. But this is going to be so much worse. I think I may have to stop going to stitch, because I’m biting my tongue so hard it’s going to detach permanently, or I’m going to explode. Stay well everyone. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Posted by: Annie Rose at January 30, 2026 08:26 PM (MQoxb)

202 Great week in woke thread!

"The takeaway is that most Americans simply don’t care about Alex Pretti or Renee Good."

This is 100% correct.

Posted by: jocon307 at January 30, 2026 08:32 PM (EuROc)

203 I dont think Lemon is going to flee to Ukraine to fight in the trenches.

Posted by: torabora at January 31, 2026 12:08 AM (J7Xka)

As Illegals Flee LA, Rent Prices Fall to a Four Year Low

The LA Times doesn't make this connection, of course.

It's all just a coinky-dink.

It just so happens that the biggest deportation drive since Eisenhower's poorly-named "Operation Wetback" coincides with the first fall in LA rental costs since, well, forever.

There's "increased housing supply," they say. No word about decreased housing demand.

"Finally, a renter's market": L.A. rent prices drop to four-year low
L.A. metro area rent prices dropped to a four-year low in December, with the median rent falling to $2,167.
Increased housing supply -- 15,095 apartments completed in 2025 -- combined with decreased demand is shifting power back toward renters for the first time in years.
Sandra Gomez braced for impact as she opened the lease renewal offer for her East L.A. apartment in September. She paid $2,000 for the last 12 months, but since the unit wasn't covered by L.A.'s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, her landlord could jack up the price for the next lease.
The new price? $1,950.
"I thought it was a mistake," Gomez said. "Since when does rent get cheaper in L.A.?"
For years, L.A. has been one of the costliest cities in the country for renters. Annual price hikes seemed inevitable, and finding the perfect apartment felt more like a competitive sport.
But data suggest that the market could be ever so slightly shifting.
The median rent in the L.A. metro area dropped to $2,167 in December -- the lowest price in four years, according to data from Apartment List that analyze new leases for one- and two-bedroom apartments in a given month. The median rent for L.A. County also dropped to a four-year low of $2,035.
The last time L.A. rents were that low was January 2022, in the wake of a furious pandemic home-buying market that saw a wave of renters buy homes for the first time, leaving apartments empty and bringing prices down.

I wonder if this drop-off mirrors a national trend.

The drop-off mirrors a national trend, as the U.S. median rent dropped to a similar four-year low in December. But within Southern California, the downturn is unique to L.A. Over the same stretch, rents rose or remained steady in Orange, Ventura and San Bernardino counties and in California as a whole.

I guess national rents are also affected by LA's supposed "increase in housing supply."

Opinions also vary on the cause, but the clearest explanation seems to be a simple case of supply and demand.

Tell me more about the demand, LA Times.

No? Don't want to talk about that?

Although L.A. has generally lagged in housing construction compared with cities such as San Diego, 2025 was a big year for new apartments hitting the market, despite several hundred multifamily buildings burning in the Palisades and Eaton fires.
...
Renters are starting to notice that the landlord-tenant balance of power is shifting, ever so slightly, toward tenants. On a Reddit post discussing the drop in rental prices, one user wrote that they pay $3,200 for a two-bedroom apartment in Koreatown, but now, the building has six vacant units listed for about $2,800.
Another user wrote that they secured a lease for $1,000 less than the previous tenant paid after noticing the unit had sat on the market with multiple price cuts.
Anthony Moore has lived in his North Hollywood apartment complex for two years, paying $2,700 for a two-bedroom unit. In the fall, he noticed similar units in the same complex listed for $2,500.
"I pay month to month, so I wasn't tied to my lease," he said. "I called my landlord and told him I wanted to pay what the other units were listing for or I would move out."
He now pays $2,500.

The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.

It's amazing -- the media screams incessantly that deporting illegal workers will cause a labor crisis, but they absolutely refuse to mention the fact that a net-negative immigration rate will naturally cause housing prices (and all other prices) to fall.

🇺🇸Dr. Oz exposes $3.5 Billion Hospice Fraud Ring in Los Angeles Tied to Russian-Armenian Mafia

On the ground in Van Nuys, Los Angeles: in a single four-block radius, there are 42 hospices, many with Cyrillic signage, boarded up windows, and no visible patients or staff� pic.twitter.com/G6gEHX0XXm
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 28, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (W2Pud)

2 How many willowed comments from the previous thread are gonna show up here?

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (77rzZ)

3 Somewhere, TJM is smiling.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (ULPxl)

4 And when Oz pointed this out they called him racist

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

5 But what has Trump done about the affordability crisis?!

Posted by: TJM's phone at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (GBKbO)

6 Hopefully he smiles somewhere Prometheus free.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 30, 2026 06:04 PM (EkDIl)

7 ‘ No word about decreased housing demand.’

Actually, the LAT do specifically mention this. They don’t tie the decrease to the obvious reasons tho.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:04 PM (r0S8E)

8 "I thought it was a mistake," Gomez said. "Since when does rent get cheaper in L.A.?"

Gavin! Get another fire going!

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (TylIK)

9
Beef prices are too high! What's Trump gonna do about it, huh?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

10 Imagine how good it would be if we could actually deport them all...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (VE6XX)

11 I had trouble calling up the thread.
Is Pixy drunk again?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (2WIwB)

12 Unexpectedly!!!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (ULPxl)

13 Trumps's ICE has killed so many people that housing has become plentiful. Cemetery plot are fetching a premium though.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (vFG9F)

14 Doctor Oz better watch his cornhole !

Posted by: Zardoz at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (NtVYv)

15 There is no correlation! We have no idea why these bad things happen.

Posted by: LA City Council at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (qFwJc)

16 The Rent's Too High Guy will be pleased.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (vFG9F)

17 What bugs me - this thievery is OBVIOUS. Anyone can see it. You can drive around town and see it. Nobody hides it. These are not master criminals here.

And nobody said or did anything, for YEARS. All our government officials...did nothing. Didn't even try.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (vOtXJ)

18 11 No, but the hamsters are. It’s Friday evening y’know.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (77rzZ)

19 Immigrants leaving, yes.

Also leftoid locusts leaving California to go enshittify other places? Yes.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (5aZAZ)

20 >>> 9
Beef prices are too high! What's Trump gonna do about it, huh?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

I... I don't think he can get my heifer pregnant.

I need to schedule a vet appointment for her to get AI. No, not ChatGPT you Morons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (ULPxl)

21 I can not imagine a rent low enough that would make me want to live in LA.

Let alone walk in LA.

Which nobody does.

Posted by: Missing Persons at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (jtM2q)

22 The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.
________
There is no way that can have any beneficial effect. It is pure calamity. Millions will die horribly.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:08 PM (AlhUl)

23 $2,500? I’d expect pool a maid and butler for that kind of money.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2026 06:08 PM (yw3eV)

24 Hey those landlords can't give all of those *donations* to democrats if they can't increase rental rates every year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (0N4FZ)

25 CA could have elected Larry Elder as governor during the recall, and could have elected a builder as the LA mayor. Instead they chose to reelect Newsom and they chose Bass. They chose poorly.

Rumors that Mel Gibson might run for Governor have any legs? If Passion of the Christ 2: Disciples Boogaloo does well, a lot of his sins might be forgiven by hollywood. Money forgives a lot in that town. Drunken antisemitic rants are child's play in our modern era.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (gWBY1)

26
One operation stole $16 million; the ringleader served just two years.

===============

Brilliant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (hxCZf)

27 Opinions also vary on the cause, but the clearest explanation seems to be a simple case of supply and demand.
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Holy crap! The journalism industry might some day in the not-too-distant future discover....economics!

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (TN0g+)

28 So, let's see, if we deport illegals we will have:

Less crime
Less identity theft
Cheaper housing
Lower welfare costs
Balanced budgets

But in exchange:
Rich people might have to pay more for their nanny's and gardeners.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (vOtXJ)

29 "$2,500? I’d expect pool a maid and butler for that kind of money.
Posted by: Eromero"

It's like that in Atlanta too. More than double what my mortgage payment was for 20 years.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

30 the clearest explanation seems to be a simple case of supply and demand.
Tell me more about the demand, LA Times.

Not deportees... people bailing out of California!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (qo38o)

31 I can do exactly what Oz is doing here. I can find some crime being committed (perhaps some guy on the corner selling drugs) point and say...."That there is a crime."

I hate PT Barnum Politicians. And, that includes those in the Trump Administration. If you want to get your mug on camera and enlighten us on the criminal situation, then indentify it, charge it, prosecute it and convict it....THEN, you can put your mug in front of camera and say..."Hey, look what I just did."

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)

32 9
Beef prices are too high! What's Trump gonna do about it, huh?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

Dude, don’t have a cow!

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (pSzdp)

33 I can not imagine a rent low enough that would make me want to live in LA.

Let alone walk in LA.

Which nobody does.
Posted by: Missing Persons
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Eh, what are words for?

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (TN0g+)

34 Damn. I thought Hospice was the best run section of the Medicare system. I guess it has no oversight.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (cwGMH)

35 deporting illegal workers will cause a labor crisis"

"Learing Crisis"

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (XuXeR)

36 It just so happens that the biggest deportation drive since Eisenhower's poorly-named "Operation Wetback" coincides with the first fall in LA rental costs since, well, forever.
-ace

I think you meant to say 'accurately named'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

37 >>> It's amazing -- the media screams incessantly that deporting illegal workers will cause a labor crisis

The media is also failing to report that when businesses like the meat plants are cleaned out of illegal workers, and the plant posts new job openings, those jobs are filled fast by Americans, with a line out the door of people wanting to get hired.

Americans WILL do the jobs illegals do...as long as they aren't paid illegal slave wages.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (gWBY1)

38 There are rentals available in L.A. is the same thing as when the nasty, crusty Port-O-Potty's door is unlocked and says "vacant".

Hey, if you gotta go, you gotta go.

Posted by: Pot-O-Gold Septic Service at January 30, 2026 06:12 PM (pbej3)

39
It just so happens that the biggest deportation drive since Eisenhower's poorly-named "Operation Wetback" coincides with the first fall in LA rental costs since, well, forever.

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I think Wetback is a great name.

This is the age of "Had Enough of This Shit."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (hA/c/)

40 When his name comes up I always ask if he's given up his Turkish citizenship yet?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (cwGMH)

41 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (SRRAx)

42 Sister in law in Long Beach has lost her housekeeper. Employed her for years. Obvious illegal. SIL is a big time lefty. I feel so sorry for her predicament… Oh, wait, no I don’t.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (pSzdp)

43 Increased housing supply is a real thing. Many projects got delayed during COVID and are only now coming online. It takes at least 5 years to plans and build any sizeable housing development.

I’d also like to see home buying has fared during this time. My best guesstimate is that buying was soft the last few years because of Biden’s insane interest rates, but has now picked up. That would mean some renters are now buyers.

But surely, kicking out hordes of illegals certainly decreased demand. I’d like to see the rental rates broken down by cost. I’d assume the illegals were renting at the low end and this jacking up prices there.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (r0S8E)

44 Foreigners are raping Americans both literally and financially.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (Vh9CX)

45 Here in Utah, Democrats are attacking Republican signature gatherers and tearing up gathered signatures.

The Democrats convinced a state judge to throw out the Utah congressional map and instead substitute one drawn by far leftists, guaranteeing the creation of a far left stalinist house district. State GOP is trying to get the law the judge relied on overturned. And now Democrats are attacking the signature gatherers.

Direct, naked violence to prevent Democracy. https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/01/29/ utah-republican-signature-gatherers-assaulted-as- national-activist-groups-aim-to-repeal-redistricting-law/

Take out the spaces.

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (/ZkOF)

46 41 Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (SRRAx)

Hello, beautiful. I did, indeed, buy the yarn.😁

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (pSzdp)

47 "The median rent in the L.A. metro area dropped to $2,167 in December "

In New Orleans (a different LA) I paid $400/mo for a two bedroom in a nice neighborhood, two blocks from the lake. Of course that was the 1990s, but still, I can't imagine paying $2k for rent.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (vbXSk)

48 This kind of phenomena can easily happen when you open the borders and you let a third-world shithole empty out their prisons and asylums and subsidize the inmates' journey to America.

Welcome to the Melting Pot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:16 PM (oT7pT)

49
And when Oz pointed this out they called him racist
Posted by: It's me donna

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Now it's the Armenians who are mightily offended that someone notes that a mess of fraudsters are Armenian.

We are plagued with this tribalist bullshit. People leave their shitty old countries because they can't get ahead thanks to nepotism, tribalism, caste systems, other types of favoritism and all that garbage -- and then they replicate it in America.

I don't know how many generations it takes for these identity-obsessed immigrants to get the hell over themselves; seems some take longer than others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (hxCZf)

50 I’d also like to see home buying has fared during this time.
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Numbers we discussed this morning included total sales of around 6 million homes during 2021 (crazy cash and rates in the 2's), the number dropped to just over 5 million in 2022 when rates began to rise, and that the number for 2025 looks to be just over 3.9 million homes.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (TN0g+)

51 Illegals could pay exorbitant rent prices because they lived 10 to a two bedroom apartment.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (0KSrI)

52 Willowed, from Sam McGee:

>>> So here's some awful stuff going down in Utah. Violence against Republican signature gatherers. https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/01/29/ utah-republican-signature-gatherers-assaulted-as- national-activist-groups-aim-to-repeal-redistricting-law/

Background: Utah has 4 Congressional districts, all gerrymandered to give moderate GOP advantage. Leftists hate that. So they got a state judge to throw out our congressional maps and instead use a map designed by some far left group in Virginia, guaranteeing them a seat that would make Stalin look conservative. The state GOP is gathering signatures to repeal the law the judge used. And now leftists are attacking the signature gatherers and destroying the gathered signatures. The comments to that article are all about "The GOP is trying to protect Trump so it's ok to hurt the gatherers!!! REEEE!"

I hope Ace or some blogger sees this. Just open, in your face violence now from leftists.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (gWBY1)

53 Who's having bananas and rice tonight? They say if you do, you'll get rich.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

54 I was reliably informed by my friends' ex-wife's PhD lefty bitch mother that the homeless problem in L.A. was due to insufficient housing. If I could stand that midwit retard I might follow up and see if the homeless problem has disappeared as well.

Posted by: Croaker at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (AUB4U)

55 Illegals are killing Americans. Woman's 22 year old daughter severely disabled after an illegal ran into her and fled the scene:

https://tinyurl.com/2f6erxpz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (Bw1/o)

56 Friend at work said his gardener disappeared recently

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)

57 The median rent in the L.A. metro area dropped to $2,167 in December "

That’s cheap! Median rent in NYC is $4000. In Manhattan? $5000.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:20 PM (r0S8E)

58 56 Friend at work said his gardener disappeared recently
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)
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Do any Haitians live nearby?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:20 PM (AlhUl)

59
I don't know how many generations it takes for these identity-obsessed immigrants to get the hell over themselves; seems some take longer than others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (hxCZf)

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Some of us never have.

Posted by: The Irish at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (tgvbd)

60 Sam McGee, you'd think Utah lefties would realize, after the shooting of Charlie Kirk, that political violence in Utah is a bad look. But I bet the MN lawlessness has emboldened them.

Turning one of Utah's districts blue would be huge, and once done it will be almost impossible to undo. I get why they are so desperate to make it happen. I just hate that when the left is having victories on gerrymandering, making other blue states bright blue, Utah might have a big loss.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (gWBY1)

61
I think the general public not on the take/grift are the minority. It seems everywhere you look people are stealing from the governments.

The working poor are the suckers. They work to pay for the grifters.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (IifOV)

62 51 Illegals could pay exorbitant rent prices because they lived 10 to a two bedroom apartment.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (0KSrI)

That's here.. We live in an area with vineyards and a lot of winery workers.. Multiple people and cars at homes. Of course this is a sanctuary City, County, State so they are pretty much still here.. Average price for a small 3 bedroom is about 2500 dollars

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (VE6XX)

63 Where’s Fox Butterfield on this one?

Despite fleeing immigrants, rent prices become more affordable….

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (Hkcdp)

64 Wow, who could have seen that coming...except all of us.
And don't look now, but wages will go up too, as the supply of cheap under-the-table labor dries up.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (XMwZJ)

65 Friend at work said his gardener disappeared recently
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)

Is his name Samwise Gamgee? Because I might know where he went.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (0aYVJ)

66 My first rental... a one bedroom "junior" apartment in Alexandria, VA circa 1985 was $550/month.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (jtM2q)

67 Yum yum shit
Yummy shit pebbles
In my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (29YUm)

68 >>> Who's having bananas and rice tonight? They say if you do, you'll get rich.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

I did love that one Somali lady at a hearing, that was like we are so much more than the stereotype of bananas and rice! And then when she went on, the only example she had was...to bring up bananas and rice. Not sending their best.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (gWBY1)

69
Lots of school districts seeing plunging enrollments as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (tgvbd)

70 Scott Pressler has been getting signatures in Utah.
He’s tireless!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Hkcdp)

71 Ohhh, supply and demand work after all

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

72 Russian Armenian? I would not have thought that would be a mafia combo. Of course have heard of russian mafia and not surprised at Armenian mafia but the combo seems weird to me.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Sokdp)

73 46 41 Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (SRRAx)

Hello, beautiful. I did, indeed, buy the yarn.😁
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (pSzdp)

Hooray!

When we went on our Alaska cruise, I gave into temptation most grievously - her name was "Quviut", and I was powerless to resist her charms....

I felt kinda guilty about it, but one month later, I was diagnosed with this aggressive cancer, given less than a year to live, and hence my " catchphrase" was born.

To my credit, EVERYBODY got little Quviut scarves for Christmas that year (and so did a couple of lucky Texas MoMe attendees).

I don't think I have any of that yarn left, so I stopped feeling guilty about the money I spent 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (SRRAx)

74 Turning one of Utah's districts blue would be huge, and once done it will be almost impossible to undo. I get why they are so desperate to make it happen. I just hate that when the left is having victories on gerrymandering, making other blue states bright blue, Utah might have a big loss.
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (gWBY1)

They are doing to Utah what they did to Colorado. Glad we moved to Idaho, but I am seeing plenty of signs that the same thing is happening here. Outrunning the locusts is exhausting.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (0aYVJ)

75 AK prices for real estate are high. Everything is up here. My mortgage for two acres and a two bedroom with awesome garage and three useful outbuildings is about $2500, so a steal. But in Anchorage it would be twice that.

My son’s two bedroom condo is $1100 plus condo fees are $340. No land. In not the best part of town. Spenard has its charms but low rent ain’t one of them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (pSzdp)

76
Rumors that Mel Gibson might run for Governor have any legs? If Passion of the Christ 2: Disciples Boogaloo does well, a lot of his sins might be forgiven by hollywood. Money forgives a lot in that town. Drunken antisemitic rants are child's play in our modern era.
Posted by: LizLem

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I saw an X post where he was complaining about the state of California politics while a supertitle "Should I run for governor?" floated over his image.

And Jewish people are forbearing to a fault as we know. Not long after his antisemitic rant, I attended a conservative event in L.A. where a Jewish lawyer guest speaker said that Yes, he would speak to Mel Gibson. He wasn't being Mr. Squish, just Mr. I'm Willing To Listen and Forgive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (hxCZf)

77 68 >>> Who's having bananas and rice tonight? They say if you do, you'll get rich.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

I did love that one Somali lady at a hearing, that was like we are so much more than the stereotype of bananas and rice! And then when she went on, the only example she had was...to bring up bananas and rice. Not sending their best.
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (gWBY1)
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My fear is that they ARE sending their best. She's as good as it gets.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (AlhUl)

78 I now want to chip the illegals. So when stuff happens and they scurry like cockroaches when the light hits them. Where do they go? Did the self deporters really deport for money? Or move to NJ.

If we had chips in them we could tell. In the event they are settling down to create more fraud and bambinos.

I don't want to be chipped, nor normal people as the sign of satan, but for illegals I am all for it. So it's not for all, just illegals when they are arrested and stupidly set free to murder and rape again in blue states.

For the first time I am liking Dr. Oz.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (WONhk)

79 Russian Armenian? I would not have thought that would be a mafia combo. Of course have heard of russian mafia and not surprised at Armenian mafia but the combo seems weird to me.
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An Armenian owned an Italian restaurant in OKC a decade or so ago. Great food, and nothing but Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin playing on the sound system.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 30, 2026 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

80 Like the fly-by-night truck companies that close up under one name and open up under a new one. Thoese "hospices" will do the same thing, unless the government gets qiae.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 06:26 PM (Xbquz)

81 LizLem, she was speaking because allegedly ICE mishandled her resulting in a concussion - hence, the bandaids.

Then she got arrested a few days ago for harassing ICE. She’s more than bananas and rice, she’s beating ICE, heh. Victim card revoked!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:26 PM (Hkcdp)

82 On Thursday evening, Newsom announced that his office was filing a civil rights complaint with HHS, accusing Oz of discrimination, The Associated Press reported. According to the complaint, Newsom’s office argued that Oz, in a video, “spewed baseless and racially charged allegations” that risked chilling participation in hospice and home care programs among the Armenian community.

The governor’s office noted Oz's claims had “already caused real-world harm” by reducing business at an Armenian bakery that is shown in the video.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 06:27 PM (GITLP)

83 don't think I have any of that yarn left, so I stopped feeling guilty about the money I spent 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (SRR

Quiviut is a drug. So nice to work with and wear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:27 PM (pSzdp)

84 What Utah had a law was that an "independent commission" would draw our congressional districts.

The net result is that we got a far left NGO drawing our districts, and all the leftists are screaming that it's fascist and illegal to want anything different, and now they are using force to try to prevent any changes.

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 06:29 PM (/ZkOF)

85 As expected.

@LeadingReport
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3m
BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 06:29 PM (mlg/3)

86
Looking at $2500/mo for a student efficiency near the UC Berkeley campus.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (hA/c/)

87 I remember getting into an argument with that bright spark John Podhoretz over email about the Passion. He insisted it was an antisemitic movie. My point is that Mr Gibson was saying ALL OF HUMANITY sucked ass (except Mary.) There was a reason Gibson used his own two hands on film to drive the nails. He is as guilty as any.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

88 85 As expected.

@LeadingReport
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3m
BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Monday he has to be in a courtroom in MPLS.

Posted by: beckster at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (I7J98)

89 Not sending their best.

she's as good as they got

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (8uzBS)

90 22
'The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.
There is no way that can have any beneficial effect. It is pure calamity. Millions will die horribly.'

Still worth it to have the illegals gone.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (fd80v)

91
16 The Rent's Too High Guy will be pleased.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM

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From Heaven.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (hA/c/)

92 Missed previous thread: Anybody who believed that CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists, were centrists, are either lying or retarded.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (Iz+f5)

93 Scott is in Utah? Oh, I feel so much better about the signatures getting got in Utah, then. He is the best.

He's hinted at running for office. He would be AMAZING. But he is also irreplaceable at the moment for what he does. As we've learned from Charlie's death, some people truly are one of a kind. Scott is one of those. He needs to get replacements for his work in place, before he leaves it to run for office. People who are as dedicated, tireless, and ethical as he is. We can't afford to lose him just yet.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (gWBY1)

94 BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Just like J'6rs not

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

95 Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all. Then, just before this past Christmas it started up again on it's own. I went into my subscriber account and it still showed me as 'Cancelled'. I was going to call them but then - going thru the accumulated 'junk mail' - I found a card from them saying I was getting a 'free' subscription starting Dec until May.

I'm going to call them and tell them 'don't bother'. I only get the Sunday paper in print - but I don't want my neighbors to see it on my driveway.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:33 PM (QGaXH)

96 Every time I drop something it always hits the exact point on the dish/item to crack or break ??

HOW DOES IT KNOW ???????????????????

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (38587)

97 The governor’s office noted Oz's claims had “already caused real-world harm” by reducing business at an Armenian bakery that is shown in the video.
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 06:27 PM (GITLP)

There's a hospice in an Armenian Bakery??

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (8avO+)

98 Two-tier justice system in the US.
Lemon has Very Important Work this weekend, you guys!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (Hkcdp)

99 I don’t believe that they grow much of either bananas or rice in Somalia. Rice requires a huge amount of moisture. Seems like bananas would, too.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (77rzZ)

100 BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Just like J'6rs not
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)
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Huh. Wonder what took so long...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (ESVrU)

101 I saw Bananas & Rice open for Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park in 1981.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (oT7pT)

102 In my little slice of heaven here, rent for an average, 3 br, 2 ba cookie-cutter home on postage-stamp lot is running about 5K/month.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (QGaXH)

103 Ace: " Eisenhower's poorly-named 'Operation Wetback'"

I think that was a great name. Trump should have used it for his deportation operation.

Posted by: Ralph at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (8WZD4)

104 Drop is Turkish and he drew attention to Armenian fraud. Boohoo. Not racist.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (Hkcdp)

105 Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all. Then, just before this past Christmas it started up again on it's own. I went into my subscriber account and it still showed me as 'Cancelled'. I was going to call them but then - going thru the accumulated 'junk mail' - I found a card from them saying I was getting a 'free' subscription starting Dec until May.

I'm going to call them and tell them 'don't bother'. I only get the Sunday paper in print - but I don't want my neighbors to see it on my driveway.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:33 PM (QGaXH)

I had that with the Tribune in Chicago. Cancelled, then hiccup and I was getting it without paying. I just tossed it and laughed at them. If they though giving me a free paper helped their business more than just lying about circulation numbers, fine. This was in the late 80s

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:36 PM (8avO+)

106 There’s lawmaking at Armenian bakeries - delicious!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:37 PM (Hkcdp)

107 Now see I can buy Russians and Armenians setting up a fraud ring to rake in easy money that the feds were handing out. Much harder for me to buy 100s of Somalians setting up all those various frauds w/o some helpful state bureaucrat walking them through the process in exchange for a cut.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (Sokdp)

108
Missed previous thread: Anybody who believed that CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists, were centrists, are either lying or retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum

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I don't know who believed it, and I'm so jaded that I don't know who will care about it. I do hear energy prices are rising there, and QOL will probably fall in other ways. That might make a few people vote for a better Democrat when her term is up. And by "better," I mean someone who uses even more OPM than Spanberger does.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (hxCZf)

109 42 Sister in law in Long Beach has lost her housekeeper. Employed her for years. Obvious illegal. SIL is a big time lefty. I feel so sorry for her predicament… Oh, wait, no I don’t.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (pSzdp)

I mentioned here a few days ago - our gardener lost his helper. I didn't ask why, just thought 'one less box of See's Candy I have to spring for at Christmas....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (QGaXH)

110 Argh, autocorrect: “lahmajun “

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (Hkcdp)

111 Rental Property prices falling in LA ????

GLOBAL WARMING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (38587)

112 "Operation GTFO" > "Operation Wetback"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:39 PM (0Eh0f)

113 Armenians were one of the few ethnic groups in the Russian Empire (along with the Baltic Germans) who didn’t mind being ruled by the Russians.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:39 PM (77rzZ)

114 >>> don't think I have any of that yarn left, so I stopped feeling guilty about the money I spent 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (SRR

Glad you splurged!! No regrets.

My mother-in-law is a hooker herself (and has the mug to prove it!), and I keep wondering what crocheting doodads to buy her as gifts. She also has fibromyalgia, so has super sensitive skin, and gets cold easily. I will add Quiviut wool to the list! I bet she'd love it, and it sounds perfect for her. Much better than another Joanne's Fabric gift card.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (gWBY1)

115 OT: Fuck. Ed is on about the Beatles again...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

116 The last time L.A. rents were that low was January 2022, in the wake of a furious pandemic home-buying market that saw a wave of renters buy homes for the first time, leaving apartments empty and bringing prices down.

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How many trillions of dollars in Covid PsyOps Feral Gubmint fraud provided the funds to purchase all those homes by former renters?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (0Eh0f)

117 There was a time ... granted, long ago ... when Democrats were the hawks on immigration because it lowered working wages and increased prices on the good and services the working class used the most.

I'd like to vote for that party. But it no longer exists.

Posted by: Nope at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Ddi7K)

118 Heh. Ewetub is featuring a video on the 'nationwide walk out' is solidarity with Minneapolis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

119 My mother-in-law is a hooker herself (and has the mug to prove it!),
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (gWBY1)
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Things I never thought I'd see on AoSHQ...This sentence is much funnier taken out of context.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (ESVrU)

120
To be fair, Lemon isn't much of a flight risk, and if he does, who cares?

Let him pay his own way back and forth to Minneapolis for court from any bolt hole he and his husband squat in.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (Y8DZL)

121 When Iran is free California is going to see another exodus. Lots of Iranians are going to repatriate.
Same is going to happen with Cuba.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (0KSrI)

122 115 Wait, Ed Driscoll is my brother-in-law???

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (77rzZ)

123 >>> Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all.

They called Larry Elder "the black face of white supremacy" when he ran for governor. They are gutter trash. Glad you are well rid of them.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (gWBY1)

124 The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.
There is no way that can have any beneficial effect. It is pure calamity. Millions will die horribly.'

Still worth it to have the illegals gone.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (fd80v)

Net Neutrality smiles...

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (LSR8N)

125 OT: Fuck. Ed is on about the Beatles again...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

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Ed Sullivan?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (0Eh0f)

126 I'd like to vote for that party. But it no longer exists.
Posted by: Nope at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Ddi7K)

They weren't majority communists then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

127 Bad news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]

@InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)

128 Increased housing supply is a real thing. Many projects got delayed during COVID and are only now coming online. It takes at least 5 years to plans and build any sizeable housing development.

I’d also like to see home buying has fared during this time. My best guesstimate is that buying was soft the last few years because of Biden’s insane interest rates, but has now picked up. That would mean some renters are now buyers.

But surely, kicking out hordes of illegals certainly decreased demand. I’d like to see the rental rates broken down by cost. I’d assume the illegals were renting at the low end and this jacking up prices there.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (r0S8E)

For a while during COVID several big corps were buying up houses and holding them. I believe Trump blocked that kind of thing and they probably are divesting themselves. Like the Chicken/Egg issue, this probably was a Biden distortion in the market for infiltration of illegals.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (8avO+)

129 I mnew Lemon wasn't going to suffer a jailing

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)

130
I'd be safe and warm,
if I was in L.A.

Posted by: zombie Mama Cass at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

131 The places rent has gone down are mostly the places no one wants to live because there are no jobs. The places people actually work, and thus need to be near, arent coming down at all.

This is not about tapped out renters deciding to not have a place to live. Multifamily construction has been at historic highs for several years.

Unless you’re getting paid in a foreign currency or performing a forex hedge your rent is not cheaper due to dollar devaluation lol. People need to learn the difference between the DXY and inflation

One of factors people miss is lot of rental properties are shifting from short rentals so that is causing an increase in inventory as well.

I can’t stand this economic fascism. Cheaper rents are destroying landlords ability to profit. The falling price of gasoline is causing more climate change. Trump is destroying the American way of life. I can’t handle this anymore. /s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (ycI94)

132 Bad news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]

@InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)

maybe UNICEF could collect pennies in the EU for ya.

Trump would be a God Emperor for life if he got the UN to move to Geneva or somewhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:45 PM (8avO+)

133 I'd be safe and warm,
if I was in L.A.
Posted by: zombie Mama Cass at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

it actually was cold and wet this last week.

better than firestorms, tho.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:45 PM (8avO+)

134 OT: Fuck. Ed is on about the Beatles again...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

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Ed Sullivan?
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM

Mr. Ed?

Posted by: Wilbur at January 30, 2026 06:45 PM (0sNs1)

135 Trump should purchase the Turtle Bay property, lol!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:46 PM (Hkcdp)

136 Lewis Cass >>>> Mama Cass

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:46 PM (77rzZ)

137 >>> Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all.

They called Larry Elder "the black face of white supremacy" when he ran for governor. They are gutter trash. Glad you are well rid of them.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (gWBY1)

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At least The Times is not owned by a Chinese South African Billionaire who got rich here and -- of course -- hates America.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:46 PM (0Eh0f)

138 I saw this in the L.A. suburbs in 2009. In the recession, jobs disappeared. So all of the sudden all the people pushing stolen grocery carts full of food down my street every day evaporated. The guy, probably an immigrant, that they hired to collect them in his truck disappeared.

The jobs left, so they left.

Posted by: Random PJ at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (+jscL)

139 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)
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I imagine the graft and corruption that goes on in that building dwarfs anything a group of Somalis could get away with in Minnesota.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (ESVrU)

140
For a while during COVID several big corps were buying up houses and holding them. I believe Trump blocked that kind of thing and they probably are divesting themselves. Like the Chicken/Egg issue, this probably was a Biden distortion in the market for infiltration of illegals.
Posted by: Oldcat
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The Biden Corporation changed up the housing market like I've never seen it. It wasn't good for buyers or sellers. It was dead in the water as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (rarFa)

141 Isn't this like the third time Don 'Cheesedick' Lemon has been down the Rabbit Hole? He's a kept property.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (oT7pT)

142 >>> 131 The places rent has gone down are mostly the places no one wants to live because there are no jobs. The places people actually work, and thus need to be near, arent coming down at all.

Because no one wants to live and work in LA...Nice try Reddit.

(And thanks for all the intercepted transmissons! It's one of my fave recurring things in the blog comments.)

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (gWBY1)

143 Hawaiian Judge orders all LA Landlords to raise rental prices to help the Democrats in the Mid Term elections...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (38587)

144 FIFY

Good news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]
InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (Ia/+0)

145 Jim Kunstler’s latest piece is about our newest Bond villain in Shanghai.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (77rzZ)

146 I'd be safe and warm,
if I was in L.A.
Posted by: zombie Mama Cass at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

Those 2 fellas in The Mamas and Papas were humping the blonde chick but did either one hump ol' Mama Cass?

She was fat and ugly but come on, love the one your with!

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Boomer at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (pbej3)

147 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)
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Make them pay their overdue NYC parking tickets as well. They probably total about the same as the GNP of some mid sized country by now.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (dIske)

148 69
Lots of school districts seeing plunging enrollments as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (tgvbd)

plunging necklines > plunging enrollments

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (QGaXH)

149 139 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.

So................... What is your point ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (38587)

150 Someone said it best "get rid of the fraud and America's debt doesn't exist". Might be a bit of hyperbole, but not that much

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (IDEQi)

151 Armenians were one of the few ethnic groups in the Russian Empire (along with the Baltic Germans) who didn’t mind being ruled by the Russians.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:39 PM (77rzZ)

Too bad they let NATO run an op on them a year or so back cut ties with Russia. They first lost about a third of their land to a neighbor. And Turkey is looking at them with interest from another direction.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (8avO+)

152 Cass Gilbert > Lewis Cass > Mama Cass >>>> Cass Sunstein

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (0Eh0f)

153 >>> UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse

Will they leave NYC? Pretty please?

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (gWBY1)

154 148 Depends on the neckline.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (77rzZ)

155 UN should just close up shop for a few months until funds are secured

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

156 UN. The time for honoring yourselves has come to an end.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (0KSrI)

157 I mnew Lemon wasn't going to suffer a jailing
Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)

Now you sit in your luxury suite and think about what you did, young man!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (0aYVJ)

158 34 Damn. I thought Hospice was the best run section of the Medicare system. I guess it has no oversight.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Hospice care is primarily covered by Medicare Part A for beneficiaries with a terminal illness (6 months or less to live), providing up to 100% coverage for comfort-focused care.

It is also covered by Medicaid in nearly all states, as well as by most private insurance plans.

The latter, under Medicaid and several Medicare advantage programs, seems to open the door to fraud.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (NFX2v)

159 147 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.

Price of NYC Hookers drops to all time low .....

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (38587)

160 Plunging enrollment = public school consolidation and teacher/administrator layoffs?

They’ve used immigrants to backfill the kids whose parents fled to private schools due to poor quality, violence, and indoctrination. Propped up with illegals’ kids no more!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (Hkcdp)

161 >>>BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.

So................... What is your point ????

Posted by: Jackson K.

>It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (oT7pT)

162 Lemon no bail was a given. He is still charged and will be tried.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (0KSrI)

163 NOOD Week in Woke

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (0Eh0f)

164 >It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (oT7pT)

Outside of the Western...er Trumpian Hemisphere. Far Outside.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (8avO+)

165 He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC

Have Mamdami raise the rent and dial it back to April

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (8uzBS)

166 I see a judge took the death penalty off the table in the Mangione case. Dude shot an innocent, unarmed man in the back in broad daylight in cold blood. If we were a proper country he should have been hanged before the week was out.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (QGaXH)

167 136 Lewis Cass >>>> Mama Cass
Posted by: Bulg

Been to the site in Sault St Marie where he tore down the British flag and trampled on it. A great Michiganian.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (Y8DZL)

168 162 Lemon no bail was a given. He is still charged and will be tried.

Put him in a cell with Bubba from Backwoods WV that has not seen a woman in 10 years...

Ride'n Cowboy...

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (38587)

169 It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (oT7pT)

Bangladesh. It's still a shithole 54 years later. Savages.

Posted by: Zombie George Harrison at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (pbej3)

170 Medicare Advantage is fraud on the face of it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (rarFa)

171 169 It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Not on my lawn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:56 PM (rarFa)

172 The School District of Philadelphia is proposing to close 20 public schools, impacting nearly 5,000 students starting in the 2027-28 school year.

See, they've 'nudged' a great deal of their illegal population out to ring (or further) counties via corporation and non-profits, or to northeast and southwest Philly.

Suddenly, empty buildings that had needed lots of C19 $ to improve ventilation and remove asbestos for the 10th or so consecutive years.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (NFX2v)

173 88 85 As expected.

@LeadingReport
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3m
BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Monday he has to be in a courtroom in MPLS.
Posted by: beckster at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (I7J9

Would serve the judge right if Lemon skips to a non-extradition jurisdiction.....

Would serve Lemon right of the non-extradition jurisdiction is one of those places that gives gays free flying lessons off tall buildings.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (QGaXH)

174 I'm makin' a list, and checkin' it twice, mouthbreathers.

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

175 BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Just like J'6rs not
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

Is his butthole sore ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 07:01 PM (NtVYv)

176
Good news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]
InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM

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After the incidents of chickenshit sabotage the last time Trump gave a speech there, I'm in favor of doing anything possible to ruin them faster. Clowns.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 07:02 PM (hA/c/)

177 96 Every time I drop something it always hits the exact point on the dish/item to crack or break ??

HOW DOES IT KNOW ???????????????????

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (38587)

By the same magic your thermos knows to keep cold things cold and hot things hot...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (QGaXH)

178 7000 homes were burnt in the Palisades. 40% of Pacific Palisades was Jewish. So Mayor Karen Bass ordered an LAFD stand-down while the Jewish section of town burned down.
This is comparable to what Hitler did, though on a smaller scale.

Posted by: wferrin at January 31, 2026 06:39 PM (klfIL)

Virginia's Governor Sold Herself as a Moderate Centrist as a Candidate.
Surprise! In Office, She's a Radical Leftist

I know you're all stunned.

Karol Markowicz:

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger was sworn in just a few weeks ago, but the tornado of bad policy is already swirling around her state.
Spanberger's very first order of business was reversing Gov. Glenn Youngkin's Executive Order 47, which had allowed for coordination between the Virginia State Police and the Department of Corrections and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That coordination was important because it allowed the federal and state governments to cooperate to remove people in the country illegally who had committed additional crimes. That it was necessary for Spanberger to make it harder to deport criminals is a tell that her moderate campaign commercials will instead translate into a much further left administration.
Spanberger isn't alone in moving Virginia sharply leftward. Both branches of the state legislature are now also controlled by Democrats, and they're introducing policies that no one campaigned on. House Bill 863 would reduce minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter and child pornography. If Spanberger ran on "let's let rapists off easy," the Virginia electorate somehow missed it. In fact, Spanberger's campaign ads highlighted her law enforcement experience and that she's a moderate who works with both sides of the political aisle.

...
Then there's House Bill 1442, which would prevent any enforcement of immigration law near polling locations. We're told it's very rare for illegal immigrants to vote in our elections and yet the Virginia legislature thinks a law like this is a high priority for the state. Why would immigration operations interfere with polling locations unless there are illegal immigrants voting at those polling locations?
...

Democrats are going to spend the next four years moving Virginia as far left as they can get away with -- unless Virginians stop them. Virginians who want to save their state have to keep pointing out that Spanberger the candidate is not Spanberger the governor, and that the state government being fully controlled by the Democratic Party is turning lawlessness and social engineering into policy. Virginia can be saved from this, before it becomes another failed blue state with residents running for the door, but they need to act quickly.

Obviously they want to tax everything. To increase affordability, they say.

Virginia Democrats are proposing a slew of new hikes, pushing to have consumers to pay up for their gym memberships, Amazon orders, leaf blowers, and over a dozen other tax hikes. All of this comes after the Democrats and Governor Abigail Spanberger ran on "affordability," a message that flies in the face of the new proposals.
The new tax bills are pushing for a tax on all of the following areas:
Higher sales taxes on all Virginia counties and cities
Personal property tax on electric leaf blowers as well as electric landscaping equipment
Large employer tax
Ammunition and firearms tax
New income tax brackets
A delivery tax, set to hit Amazon orders, FedEx and UPS orders, as well as Uber Eats in Northern Virginia
Gym membership tax
Counseling tax
New car tax and highway usage fees
Storage facility tax
Investment income tax
Event tax
Vehicle repair tax
Dry cleaning tax
Fantasy sports tax
Rideshare tax
Dog walking tax
Digital personal property tax
Increase in taxes in the Arlington area for hotels
Statewide speed camera (not a tax, but additional fines)

They have big plans for all that new money "liberated" from taxpayers: They're going to buy themselves fucking houses.

Virginia Democrat politicians propose "unlimited" grants for home purchases for the most deserving constituency of all -- Virginia Democrat bureaucrats.

While the entire country focuses on Minneapolis for the next 48 hours, Democrats in Virginia have passed a bill out of committee that allows government bureaucrats to receive unlimited taxpayer funding to buy a house.

This is their definition of delivering on �affordability.�� pic.twitter.com/eq1lYKqS3Q
— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) January 25, 2026

Virginia Democrats introduced legislation to tax fantasy sports contests. pic.twitter.com/9sqGMNkKiP
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) January 29, 2026

Bonus: Remember the guy who blocked DOGE from entering his offices? The guy who ran the taxpayer-funded grift the Africa Development Foundation?

Yeah, there was a reason he didn't want anyone looking at his records.

Top Official Of USAID-Linked Foreign Aid Agency To Plead Guilty To Taking Bribes
African Development Foundation CFO admits he routed money to friend's African 'pass-through' in exchange for kickbacks

By Luke Rosiak
Jan 30, 2026 DailyWire.com
Top Official Of USAID-Linked Foreign Aid Agency To Plead Guilty To Taking Bribes
Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation / ADF
The chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, a federal agency affiliated with USAID, will plead guilty to steering grants and contracts in exchange for bribes.
The previously-obscure African Development Foundation became a darling of the Left when its CFO, Mathieu Zahui, locked its doors to prevent Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from entering. Democrat politicians framed it as an act of moral courage, and left-wing media called the group "the little agency that could."
But on Friday, the Department of Justice said Zahui admitted that he was doing exactly what conservatives have suspected is common in foreign aid: Laundering money through poor nations and then back to D.C. insiders, who used it to enrich themselves.
According to court papers filed Friday, the African Development Foundation sent $800,000 to a Kenya-based company run by Zahui's friend. The friend paid Zahui a kickback of $12,000, and the company kept $134,886 for doing no work.
The rest of the money was simply a "pass-through" where the Kenyan company paid bills that the agency owed to other people. That made it appear that more money was going to African aid as opposed to bureaucratic overhead, and added a layer that concealed where the agency's money was actually going.
Zahui has agreed to plead guilty to accepting gratuities and making a false statement to a federal law enforcement officer, after he lied to the USAID Office of Inspector General about having received the kickbacks. He could face up to seven years in prison.

Today started out as a slow news day but now there are a lot of stories being leaked out for a Friday burial.

Posted by: Ace at 05:15 PM

Comments

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1 *tap tap*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (ULPxl)

2 Not anywhere near as stunned as the main page is by this news; it's turned completely white!

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 30, 2026 05:30 PM (PD1kJ)

3 Is this the Gnostic Nood?

Hidden, secret, privileged?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

4 I feel like I was teleported here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)

5 Someone stole the front page.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (8mulE)

6
*steps out of wormhole*

Afternoon, folks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (tgvbd)

7 Spanberger isn't alone in moving Virginia sharply leftward. Both branches of the state legislature are now also controlled by Democrats, and they're introducing policies that no one campaigned on.
====

Same pattern as California.

The Party rules now. There is "no consent of the governed."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (RIvkX)

8 *tap tap*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (ULPxl)
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How did you even find this thread?

Is there a secret handshake?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (ESVrU)

9 So was CBD returning to or departing from the country earlier today, hmm???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

10 Well thanks to the homepage vaporizing I am able to make the top ten while being almost 20 minutes late.

Yeah, I guess.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (4QwTz)

11 The hamsters must have escaped from the Epstein Islands, like lemmings

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (gKWVE)

12 Something happened to the site....

Some people did some things?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (QGaXH)

13 * no "consent of the governed."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (RIvkX)

14 Abigail Spermburper

Spanberger or Spamburger ? That's gross

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (NtVYv)

15 No, there's nothing here, either.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 05:35 PM (TylIK)

16
Compare and contrast with our Federal GOPe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:35 PM (tgvbd)

17 oops...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:36 PM (QGaXH)

18 >>> 8 *tap tap*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (ULPxl)
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How did you even find this thread?

Is there a secret handshake?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (ESVrU)

The main page has everything it always does, except you know, the CONTENT.

The list of the most recent headlines is still down the left side, above where the MoMee announcements are, and then you can hover over the link to see the post #, but the link isn't quite right!

So, you need to remember or save somewhere...

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=[super secret post #]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (ULPxl)

19 *tap tap*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (ULPxl)
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How did you even find this thread?

Is there a secret handshake?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (ESVrU)

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Thanks for the link, Helena!

While I've only paid for the time-travel membership, Helena must have paid for the space-travel membership.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (0Eh0f)

20 The orange is green!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (2UnvF)

21 And we're back!

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (PD1kJ)

22 Commies always lie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (mlg/3)

23 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

24 Yikes, thanks for the detective work, Pixy!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (ULPxl)

25 I don't mind so much that politicians lie to get into power or a Democrat ends up a radical crank. its just why are people so worthless and stupid as to fall for it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (PYyV9)

26 Both branches of the state legislature are now also controlled by Democrats"

But we're still arguing who goes to the shad plank cookout!

/ the VA Gooop

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (XuXeR)

27 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

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I'll pass on to the last thread, thanks Pixy!

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (0Eh0f)

28 My crack team of hackers will get you yet, Ace!

Posted by: Bill Gates at January 30, 2026 05:41 PM (aSobn)

29 Dems never found a tax they didn't love

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 05:41 PM (VE6XX)

30 Finally able to find a thread again as the main page is back. Thanks Ace, thanks COBs. All I had was J.J.'s thread from this morning in another tab.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 30, 2026 05:41 PM (O7YUW)

31 It's their own fault for voting for people with the letter 'D' after their names.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:41 PM (QGaXH)

32
why are people so worthless and stupid as to fall for it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (PYyV9)

___________

"Hey, Rocky. Wanna watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:41 PM (tgvbd)

33 compare photos. She is a trans clone of Heydrich

Posted by: Avi at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (ieodf)

34 Barky did too, cover up his Red Diaper upbringing

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

35 sent $800,000 to a Kenya-based company run by Zahui's friend. The friend paid Zahui a kickback of $12,000, and the company kept $134,886 for doing no work.

$12,000 seems like a pittance on $800,000 until you realize that our government officials are making it up in volume.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (TylIK)

36 "If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a FLAME-THROWER to this place!"

What are you doing next Tuesday? Say 10am?

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (ciYHQ)

37 All your server are belong to us

Posted by: Halfhand at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (EFrJp)

38 I'm firmly convinced that Spanberger is merely a less-ambitious version of Hillary. She's a terrible human being. She merely lacks Hillary's level of evil because she's lazy.

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (TN0g+)

39 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa

I hate those tiny typos!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (qo38o)

40 You elected an asshole who wished a mother's kids were murdered in front of her.

I find my sympathy meter broken.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

41 So, you need to remember or save somewhere...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (ULPxl)

Or you can cheat and peek in your browser history for a previous comment thread and then paste in the end number. Since I can never remember where I save stuff.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (8mulE)

42 Leftists out to loot the country

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

43 But did she run on being a moderate? Because she has never been a moderate…

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (OoFl2)

44 "Digital personal property tax"

How do they assess that? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

45 40 You elected an asshole who wished a mother's kids were murdered in front of her.

I find my sympathy meter broken.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

They didn't care.. They hated Trump that much

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 05:44 PM (VE6XX)

46 Famously bewigged Jesse Waters just gave a list of the Fat Presidents, to mock Pritzker. He included Garfield.

James Garfield was six feet tall and weighed 185.
Next time I meet Jesse Waters I'm going to knock him down.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 30, 2026 05:44 PM (zdLoL)

47 Governor Sold Herself as a Moderate Centrist as a Candidate."

Nah. Pro abortion. Pro big government.
And a state gop that's so tied up with seniority that they can't wipe their own asses....

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:44 PM (XuXeR)

48 14 Abigail Spermburper

Spanberger or Spamburger ? That's gross
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (NtVYv)

Abagail Beecher >> Abigail Spanberger

Posted by: Freddy Cannon at January 30, 2026 05:45 PM (QGaXH)

49 23 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

So ace broke it. Good to know who to point the finger at.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 30, 2026 05:45 PM (8mulE)

50 It is hard to believe the free houses for bureaucrats thing is real. This is the definition of looting the treasury.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:45 PM (zZu0s)

51 Tiny typos
In the wine
Make me feel happy
Make me feel fine

Posted by: Zardoz at January 30, 2026 05:46 PM (NtVYv)

52 Sad to say, the Agency is largely Democrats. Not radical Left like her, so I am surprised at the magnitude of her flip flops.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 05:46 PM (SiYcf)

53 Off 'wow - he's still around' sock.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:46 PM (QGaXH)

54 Taqiyya

The Dems are using the Muzzie trick of lying.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2026 05:46 PM (qFwJc)

55 The hampsters are back on the wheel!

And living in VA it's going to be a shitshow for a while. Gird your lions.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 05:46 PM (Q0yOR)

56 Something triggered the hampsters? Are they ok? Do they need counseling?

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 05:47 PM (vFG9F)

57
Contrary to vicious rumors, William Howard Taft never got stuck in a bathtub. He did, however, overflow a bathtub one time. He had to get oversized tubs after that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:47 PM (w6EFb)

58 Oh wow a leftist deep state CIA hag lied to everyone and enough AWFLs, government simps, and soy-soaked faggots bought it enough to get her elected along with that dude who straight up said he wanted to shoot a Republican in the head, and now they're in the Finding Out phase?

Good. Fuck 'em. I've been saying that my family being able to leave that shithole state almost a decade ago was a blessing from God that we didn't realize at the time, but I sure as hell realize it now.

I have zero sympathy for these retards any longer.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 05:47 PM (5aZAZ)

59 Virginians have only themselves to blame. Voting for a CIA spook for governor and they thought they could trust her ads? Someone from the state said it was a pocketbook election. I'll never understand how voting in Dems to destroy local business and raise taxes because "DOGE was hurting some of our fed jobs" was a pocketbook choice. It was cutting off your nose to spite your face and any fool should have known it. Sure the D's didn't run on killing regular businesses and raising taxes on everything but Ds always do those things.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (hhkIi)

60 Virginia can be saved from this, before it becomes another failed blue state with residents running for the door, but they need to act quickly.

Just like the Titanic could be saved.

Sorry Virginians, you self fucked yourself to death.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (a4flb)

61 The voters of virginia deserve what they are going to get good and hard. They either refused to look at her record or they lied to themselves and voted for her and they are going to pay insanely higher taxes. I say good. To paraphrase the good book, you reap what you sow.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (0N4FZ)

62 So glad I moved to Missouri a few years ago.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (2UnvF)

63 It's getting close to martini time. Make it dirty with three olives.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (oT7pT)

64 Also fuck the VA GOP for not finding a better candidate than Winsome Sears. She seems like a nice and good person but holy shit she couldn't campaign her way out of a wet paper bag with a razor blade in both hands. What a useless fucking organization.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 05:49 PM (5aZAZ)

65 People are still falling for "centrist" Democrat?

I figured the VA voters knew what they were getting, and now they're getting it. Good and hard.

Posted by: Shenanigans at January 30, 2026 05:49 PM (wGun1)

66 Are the hampsters back to dancing?

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at January 30, 2026 05:49 PM (r9uko)

67 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.

----------------

Can we get Pixy a coding job at StopICE.net?

I keed, I keed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:49 PM (0Eh0f)

68 Everybody kept telling them what would happen, but they just had to get them some of that moderate democrat.

Posted by: Clay at January 30, 2026 05:50 PM (y7KMV)

69 Taqiyya

The Dems are using the Muzzie trick of lying.

I only lied about not being a thief.

Posted by: Abigail Ocean at January 30, 2026 05:50 PM (TylIK)

70 Taxing dog walkers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 05:50 PM (VE6XX)

71
Donroe Doctrine update: Panama Supreme Court just annulled their contracts with China to operate the Panama Canal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (w6EFb)

72 Remember, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts said it himself, "Its a tax."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (YlWIZ)

73 She'll be a "moderate" again when she runs for president

Posted by: brak at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (RuMUX)

74 I'm willing to bet that the things introduced in Virginia will have NYS commies saying "we'll double down on that"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (IDEQi)

75 Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 05:49 PM (5aZAZ)

Bullshit. She was t an unknown. She was good Lt Governor . She delivered a great conservative message and pointed out exactly what this post is talking about about . The fault is with the voters.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (cwGMH)

76 I don't mind so much that politicians lie to get into power or a Democrat ends up a radical crank. its just why are people so worthless and stupid as to fall for it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Maybe they didn't "fall for it". Northern Virginia, which are the suburbs of DC, and parts of Richmond and couple of other urban areas (Newport News?) are Democrat and will vote for this. It's the same story, over and over...
"Urban" voters will vote Democrat because of ....reasons. Voters in the rest of Virginia are likely appalled by this. And a lot of it is voter turnout. Bring out your dead, and turn out your vote.

Thus endeth the lesson for the day

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (vcOmj)

77 Reading Hildabeast is funding the Illegals protection

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)

78 "Digital personal property tax" = pron.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (Kt19C)

79 "You elected an asshole who wished a mother's kids were murdered in front of her."

I thought that was Jay Jones, the candidate for Attorney General who said that. However, they elected him as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (oT1li)

80 Point of order: are we 100% positive that Virgina voters actually elected her?

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (24ME/)

81 They should play what’s happening in Virginia in every competitive House race for the midterms.

You know, in addition to the whole illegal immigrants are our best constituents thing.

We need to dick punch these people.

Virginia is going to be gone.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (u/66v)

82 Are we here? I looked at the previous thread and it' now the third back. I'm not sure we're where we are supposed to be.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (rarFa)

83 2 * nothing = nothing

Posted by: DaveA at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (FhXTo)

84 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)
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That's what the hamsters want you to think.

That tiny typo was probably a cry for help.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 05:53 PM (ESVrU)

85 I don't know what people expected to happen.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 05:53 PM (vFG9F)

86 You know these two stories are likely related?

U.S. cuts all this aid bullshit, much of which was bribery and graft, and cycled back to the U.S.

Government workers in Viginia, realize the gravy train is over, and overwhelmingly elect a far-left Dem for office.

Far left Dem IMMEDIATELY starts taxing everything in sight and gives handouts to government workers.

Hence the graft and fraud money is restored.

Whew! That was a close one!

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 05:53 PM (vOtXJ)

87 So tofu dregs high speed rail in Venezuela collateral forgives the loan? Cool!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 05:53 PM (YlWIZ)

88 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

Thanks, Pixy. I was half expecting Captain Kirk to float by semi-transparently.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (wVcYX)

89
Democrats in Virginia are going to tax anything that moves, breathes, or speaks.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (IifOV)

90 70 Taxing dog walkers ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January

And gym memberships. The silver lining is it may be the catalyst to get my middle child out of RIC. She finally votes R and this happens.

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (OoFl2)

91 @Pixy Misa: I thanked Ace, I thanked the COBs, but I didn't think you'd be around at this time to fix the site.

Thank you Pixy!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (O7YUW)

92 But, but they’re “moderates”.

I mean, how many times are voters gonna fall for “can you pick up that quarter for me” gag from Democrats and their media division?

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (u/66v)

93 Sure the D's didn't run on killing regular businesses and raising taxes on everything but Ds always do those things.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (hhkIi)

Very well put.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

94 Also fuck the VA GOP for not finding a better candidate than Winsome Sears. She seems like a nice and good person but holy shit she couldn't campaign her way out of a wet paper bag with a razor blade in both hands. What a useless fucking organization.
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They ran a "fundamentally non-serious" choice who was occasionally anti-Trump and wondered why they didn't win.

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (TN0g+)

95 Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

Thanks very much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (oT1li)

96 Sorry Virginians, you self fucked yourself to death.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (a4flb)

And not in the fun way.

Remember to hydrate guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (zZu0s)

97 (If you drive a car, car) I'll tax the street
(If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat
(If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat
(If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet
Taxman!

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (vbXSk)

98 Bullshit. She was t an unknown. She was good Lt Governor . She delivered a great conservative message and pointed out exactly what this post is talking about about . The fault is with the voters.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (cwGMH)
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She was a good Lt. Gov! I totally agree with that, but her campaign was the definition of softcock GOPe bullshit and failed to motivate the voters in any way. Hell, even Youngkin and his people were smart enough to recognize that the schools were going to be the flashpoint issue in his election and hammer that message like Bill Clinton hammering an intern.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (5aZAZ)

99 When Spangenberg was sworn in she had a white pleather coat that if it was black would have made her look like an officer in the Gestapo. So white coat makes her the Herstapo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (IDEQi)

100 I can't give enough thanks to the Lord we are out of Virginia. That said, this morning, we went to the DMV in Arkansas to register our car, and it was closed. Nothing about inclement weather closure on the website or the office's phone.

A gal also waiting there checked the Farcebook page for the office - all those lovely folks were on strike in support of ICE resistance.

I am now praying every one of those lovely folks are checking out the options at "Jobs-r-us" on Monday.

Posted by: moki at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (wLjpr)

101 For any Jewish Hordians who know Hebrew well, I gots a quextion about written Hebrew. A combined linguistic and mathematical one.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (77rzZ)

102 80 Point of order: are we 100% positive that Virgina voters actually elected her?
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 30, 2026

Well she had her 2 previous elections stolen for her, third time is the charm?

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 05:55 PM (OoFl2)

103 When will "independent voters" learn that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat politician. There are only Dem politicians who lie. Think back to the votes in Congress on issues dear to the progressive wing. The Democrats vote in lockstep no matter what they said in their campaign. Wasn't there a resolution or maybe it was a bill about blocking transgenders from women's sports and all the Dems voted against it. How can anyone think there are moderate Dems?

Posted by: George V at January 30, 2026 05:56 PM (HUbHH)

104 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

I guess Virginians are getting what they voted for - good and hard. And they have at least another year before these money-grubbing whores can be voted out of office.

Oh, well.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 05:56 PM (SRRAx)

105
Let Virginians live under the boot they voted for.

Good & Hard.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 05:56 PM (IifOV)

106 Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 05:54 PM (TN0g+)

Sears told people exactly what would happen and she was right. I don't understand anytime a Republican loses some people just have to idiotically blame the candidate.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (cwGMH)

107 let's look on the bright side, she did not take oath of office on the Khhhhoran...

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (g47mK)

108 I have zero sympathy for these retards any longer.

Honestly, I'm torn. I have friends in California, Virginia, Colorado, Washington state, and even New York. They don't vote for and don't "deserve" to get railed by the majority's policy preferences but, in the end, that's how our system works. Unfortunately, there's no way to insulate the minority from the stupidity of the majority.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (Fs0KI)

109 $12,000 seems like a pittance on $800,000 until you realize that our government officials are making it up in volume.
Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 05:42 PM (TylIK)

the $800,000 isn't real to them, only the $12,000. It is always stunning how little people will sell their souls for.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (vOtXJ)

110 I thought that was Jay Jones, the candidate for Attorney General who said that. However, they elected him as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (oT1li)

That is what I meant. Same voters. Same mark of Cain.

Fuck. Off. Virginia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (zZu0s)

111 10 homeless people dead - presumably of hypothermia -in NYC after new Mamdani administration stopped forcing people off the streets - so how is this the 'warmth of collectivism'? Sounds like more rugged individualism..along with criminal negligence...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (QGaXH)

112

Then: Virginia Is For Lovers

Now: Virginia Is For Tax Assessors

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (wVcYX)

113 I know there'll be a lot of "they voted for it" but, did they?

How much fraud was in this VA election?

Even if the GOP candidate did poorly in the run up to the election (and she did) was there any canvasing done to see how people actually voted outside the capitol city enclave?

I don't subscribe to the "they voted for it" narrative until I see the actual metrics... and those, for whatever reason are not widely publicized even though I'm sure they're out there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (jtM2q)

114 We have a few Virginians here, what is their take ??? why did Sears fail ?

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (g47mK)

115 Look, "no" Jay Jones ran after being exposed functionally jerking off to double tapping a political rival and having his widow hold their two dead sons calling the children "fascists in training" so spare me the protestations that that the radical moonbattery in the Vagina Donkey Party is some "shocking swerve" like 1998 Vince Russo is penning it for the WWF.

You get what you vote for, and despite my foster family being hammered by it because of their idiot neighbors yes Vaginia your neighbors *are* that retarded.

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 05:58 PM (MUJd1)

116
Well, well, according to the top of the Daily Mail, Commie Mamdani's mother is in the Epstein files, spending some time at Ghislaine's place.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:58 PM (w6EFb)

117 23 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

Nice work! Thank you Pixy!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (QGaXH)

118 >>> 80 Point of order: are we 100% positive that Virgina voters actually elected her?
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 30, 2026 05:52 PM (24ME/)

I can think of several Virginians who I know did not vote for this cvnt, and besides, she's see eye ay.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (ULPxl)

119 They are going to have to get serious as in that busting the code and the doxxers wasn't even and en garde.

Stop all foreign money. The hard way if necessary.
Arrest and forbid the takers obtaining public office-ever.
Stop all local grafters - Soros and the like, NGOs.
Arrest and forbid the takers for holding office.

If this isn't done soon you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (rarFa)

120 Also, hey Star Trekkers. I’m convinced that the writers named James KIRK after James COOK, one of the greatest maritime explorers in history.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (77rzZ)

121 If you go for a walk I’ll tax your feet……
- G. Harrison

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (yw3eV)

122 A Zahui always pays his debts.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (wBaIH)

123
Saw another video of a woman in Virginia bitching about her electric bill going from $200 per month to $620 per month, which is more than her car payment. She looks like an AWFL so no doubt she voted for this.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (IifOV)

124 Spongeburger is the one who said that she hates Virginians, and they couldn't wait to line up and vote for her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (PYyV9)

125 114 Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (g47mK)

The Virginians I spoke with last month in person feel like Sears leaned too much into her identity and never quite got around to pointing out how Squad adjacent Spannerberger was....

I also think they underestimated how true believer their democrat neighbors really are on the sexual deviancy bit.

Add in the PRIDE the democrats showed in backing Jones despite the murder fantasies and perversely momentum was on team D's side partially because of the shutdown.

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (MUJd1)

126 Well, well, according to the top of the Daily Mail, Commie Mamdani's mother is in the Epstein files, spending some time at Ghislaine's place.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:58 PM (w6EFb)

*types* *deletes comment on Ghidlane's huge, evil rack*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

127 >>>I don't subscribe to the "they voted for it" narrative until I see the actual metrics... and those, for whatever reason are not widely publicized even though I'm sure they're out there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Every election 'they' won, this century, was fraudulent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (rarFa)

128 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (ULPxl)

I know three that didn't vote for her , but they live near the NC border. Farming family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (oT1li)

129 I don't subscribe to the "they voted for it" narrative until I see the actual metrics... and those, for whatever reason are not widely publicized even though I'm sure they're out there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (jtM2q)
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I have given this some thought and I have come down on the side of the voters are fucking retards rather than some massive amount of voter fraud. I'm willing to be proven wrong but I would also not bet against myself.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (5aZAZ)

130 >>> 123
Saw another video of a woman in Virginia bitching about her electric bill going from $200 per month to $620 per month, which is more than her car payment. She looks like an AWFL so no doubt she voted for this.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (IifOV)

"What did you think de-carbonization looked like?"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (ULPxl)

131 123 Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (IifOV)

Correct, and the correct thing to do is to either be silent, or remind them "vote red this fall out of spite."

No door 3.

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (MUJd1)

132 Nood

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (W2Pud)

133 Following the 2022 midterm elections, Sears stated in a Fox Business interview that Trump was a "liability" and it was time for a new leader, noted in The Washington Post and ABC News.
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She did this to herself.

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

134 She must share a code of honor with the thieves, murderers. Rapiers. And selling body.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (EyfuW)

135 Personal property tax on electric leaf blowers as well as electric landscaping equipment

______________________________

Where the hell did they pull this from? It's like someone is sitting in a room perusing the Consumer Price Index, and they catch wind of a popular product a lot of people are buying, leading to a new tax to get a piece of the profits.

Two years ago states were outlawing gas powered leaf blowers to encourage the Climate Change nonsense.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (dIske)

136 It is hard to believe the free houses for bureaucrats thing is real. This is the definition of looting the treasury.

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They didn't care.. They hated Trump that much

Psalm 7:15-16: "He scoops out a pit and digs it deep, and then falls into the hole he has made. His mischief recoils upon his own head; his violence comes down on his own skull."

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (a4flb)

137 >>> 129

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I have given this some thought and I have come down on the side of the voters are fucking retards rather than some massive amount of voter fraud. I'm willing to be proven wrong but I would also not bet against myself.
Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (5aZAZ)

*sigh*

Posted by: AND at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (ULPxl)

138 Lived there eleven years, turned blue for Obama forever.. Blue cities, red rural areas. Now adopting insane policies, like Illinois (without all the debt,.yet). That's why I'll be leaving Illinois.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (fUDtc)

139 "I have given this some thought and I have come down on the side of the voters are fucking retards rather than some massive amount of voter fraud. I'm willing to be proven wrong but I would also not bet against myself.
Posted by: ballistic"

Those fucking retards on the right didn't show up to vote.
That's all it would take.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (vFG9F)

140 Trump never lent support to her , did he.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (g47mK)

141 Point of order: are we 100% positive that Virgina voters actually elected her?

It's not the vote that counts, it's convincing them that their vote counted and, gosh, better luck next time!

Posted by: Uncle Joe at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (TylIK)

142 Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (MUJd

I don't think they were paying attention then. I'm in Texas and I heard Sears talking how Spasberger was a radical.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (cwGMH)

143 it's been about seven years since I spoke to my batshit crazy sister in Springfield that I am 100% sure voted for the loon new governor. She's on her deceased husband's military pension so I doubt she'll see a raise in that.

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (8uzBS)

144 IMO Sears looked good on paper but she was not charismatic enough. Plus, the media hammered her, put up horrendous pics of her, and Spamburglar was baked into the cake. Like Terry McAwful. Wasn't anything going to stop them from putting in their candidate. Plus, NoVA is retarded - it's really DC/MD lite. And VA Beach, Richmond, Hampton Roads, Norfolk all are always going to vote Demoncrat because reasons. Blacks vote Demonrat by and large. Yes, Trump has moved that needle but not here in VA or not from what I could tell.

And friends/old co-workers up in NoVA were all "Trump is evil, blah blah blah" with no proof and never reading or listening to what he was actually saying and doing. TDS and the brain rot runs deep with those types. You are never, ever going to change their mind.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (Q0yOR)

145 111 10 homeless people dead - presumably of hypothermia -in NYC after new Mamdani administration stopped forcing people off the streets - so how is this the 'warmth of collectivism'? Sounds like more rugged individualism..along with criminal negligence...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:57 PM (QGaXH)
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Sounds more like the soulless evil of leftism as it has existed for the last 100+ years.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

146 I know some Virginians that didn't vote for any of this shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (0KSrI)

147 61 The voters of virginia deserve what they are going to get good and hard. They either refused to look at her record or they lied to themselves and voted for her and they are going to pay insanely higher taxes. I say good. To paraphrase the good book, you reap what you sow.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (0N4FZ)

It's not just the governor, they voted in a demoncrat legislature to double-down on stoopid!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:04 PM (QGaXH)

148 NOOD

Hell Lay rents Unexpectedly!!! drop.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:04 PM (ULPxl)

149 61 The voters of virginia deserve what they are going to get good and hard. They either refused to look at her record or they lied to themselves and voted for her and they are going to pay insanely higher taxes. I say good. To paraphrase the good book, you reap what you sow.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 05:48 PM (0N4FZ)

Gonna be California the Atlantic....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (QGaXH)

150
1) I bet the Virginia voters couldn't care less about Spanberger's lurch to the left.

2) I also bet she's a gutless captive of the hard left same as Kathy Hochul, same as all of them.

GUTLESS GUTLESS GUTLESS

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (hxCZf)

151 Those fucking retards on the right didn't show up to vote.
That's all it would take.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (vFG9F)
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Yep. That too.

We, collectively, suck ass at turning out for elections in general, but off-year elections specifically.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (5aZAZ)

152 So, Virginia is getting what the voters wanted good and hard. Lots of stuff on twitter about energy prices. LOL

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (qFwJc)

153 142 Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (cwGMH)

We are not normies, and as others pointed out Sears throwing Trump under the bus in 22 did not sit well with her target audience in the rurals.

She was not as retarded as Aftyn Behn....

That's a pretty low bar to hop over.

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (MUJd1)

154 We, collectively, suck ass at turning out for elections in general, but off-year elections specifically.
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Why is is MY job to go to a movie? Its YOUR job to make a movie so compelling that I CAN'T WAIT to go see it!

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (TN0g+)

155 64 Also fuck the VA GOP for not finding a better candidate than Winsome Sears. She seems like a nice and good person but holy shit she couldn't campaign her way out of a wet paper bag with a razor blade in both hands. What a useless fucking organization.
Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 05:49 PM (5aZAZ)

I feel the same way about the California GOP - look who they give us as candidates - TV and radio personalities?

Last guy who pulled that off successfully in California was Ronald Reagan. I don't consider Ah-nold a successful Governor nor a real Republican.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (QGaXH)

156 James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII
SURROUNDED: O’Keefe & the OMG team under attack in Minneapolis. Frozen projectiles hurled at us. We barely made it out.

We go LIVE tomorrow at 1 PM with our full video report of hidden camera footage from inside the mob.

Watch live on our channels:

YouTube: youtu.be/@okeefemedia
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xcancel.com/JamesOKeefeIII
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The NGO money is there, the Unionista's are there
BUT the majority of people there are TRUE BELIEVERS.

In a middle class neighborhood, all white, not that old. Hanson's got an article out, Minnesota
is the new South Carolina.

We need Andrew Jacksonian to kick some butt. Now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (rarFa)

157 Winsome-Sears was one of the few donations I made this past cycle. I recall in 2010 I had 10 candidates I supported financially. Star Parker was the only one that didn't make it.

was thoroughly disappointed in Nikki Haley, didn't really like Rubio until now so that one washed, the rest were fairly solid out of the box

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (8uzBS)

158 68 Everybody kept telling them what would happen, but they just had to get them some of that moderate democrat.
Posted by: Clay at January 30, 2026 05:50 PM (y7KMV)

Everybody's saying she campaigned as a moderate and once in power ripped the mask off and went 'bwaa-ha-ha-ha'!

No - stupids - this IS a 'moderate democrate'.

Don't vote for people with the letter 'D' after their name!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (QGaXH)

159 eh...Rand Paul is in there...

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (8uzBS)

160 The new tax bills are pushing for a tax on all of the following areas:

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There is no tax on urination and defecation?

I am disappoint.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (0Eh0f)

161 Personal property tax on electric leaf blowers as well as electric landscaping equipment

Not that I was worried about killing Gaia, but tired of replacing fuel lines because of ethanol contamination in the fuel, I migrated from gas powered to buying Echo X Series Battery systems.

Kind of nice not having to futz with gasoline, oil, noise, hot engines, winterizing, etc. just slap a battery on and go do it.

Motors are MUCH quieter than two-stroke anything. But $1600 for back-pack Mexican bagpipe is pretty obscene. Then they want to slap taxes on it. And if you don't do yard maintenance, slap fines.

They hate human flourishing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 06:12 PM (a4flb)

162 I know it's hard for you to believe, but this is what most Americans want. People will be flocking to move to Virginia like crazy now. Gonna need to build a wall to keep people out!

Posted by: Sid at January 30, 2026 06:12 PM (XXghx)

163 Winsome-Sears was one of the few donations I made this past cycle.

Her campaign was miserable. Why vote for Winsome-Sears? Because she is black and wants to be known for being black and having a high elected office while being black.

Basically vote for Winsome-Sears because she is black.

That is pretty damned selfish reason to run - insecurities and vanity.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (a4flb)

164 I hate ethanol in gas and I'm pissed a Navarro justifying ethanol as a place to dump corn liquor when China doesn't buy our corn.

I say let China find another source and we'll eat the corn that is left. Quit with the ethanol.

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (8uzBS)

165 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Does that mean we shifted alternate timelines again? Maybe the one where you guys know how to make that killer Mac & Cheese? Because hint I really liked than one hint.

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (ciYHQ)

166 Why vote for Winsome-Sears?

Spanburger was the only reason.

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (8uzBS)

167 Democrats have to tax to keep from running out of other people's money

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)

168 A gal also waiting there checked the Farcebook page for the office - all those lovely folks were on strike in support of ICE resistance.

I am now praying every one of those lovely folks are checking out the options at "Jobs-r-us" on Monday.
Posted by: moki
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Complain to Gov. and State Reps/Senators. Pretty responsive in Arkansas due to term limits.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (2swu2)

169 Zero chance the guy holding the origin of the money hose is only getting 12000 while sending 130,000.

Absolutely zero.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (8avO+)

170 Last guy who pulled that off successfully in California was Ronald Reagan. I don't consider Ah-nold a successful Governor nor a real Republican.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (QGaXH)

Don't sell him short, by CA GOPe standards he was the second coming of Christ himself. A one term pause in the power dive to death and destruction was very welcome.

A little while later the CA GOPe committed collective suicide to make sure it never happened again.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:29 PM (8avO+)

171 Ethanol is not going away. All the companies are tooled for it. It's baked in the cake. It will be easier to let diesel be diesel cut the blue bottle and let Toyota or whomever have a go at it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (rarFa)

172 I’m convinced that the writers named James KIRK after James COOK, one of the greatest maritime explorers in history.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (77rzZ)
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Actually, it was the other way around.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (RIvkX)

173 Don't forget all the violations of the 2d Amendment she and the legislature will be signing into law. And the one about not being allowed to verify eligibility for federal funds.

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (Cphwz)

174 Just want to say a quick word of thanks to the VA GOP who gave us… Winless Smears and…

The Trump voters who can’t be bothered to vote if the ballot isn’t orange.

Posted by: SMFH at January 30, 2026 08:28 PM (1/hwe)

Epstein Docs: Bill Gates Sought Secret Antibiotics to Slip His Wife So She Wouldn't Know He'd Given Her an STD He Got from Epstein's Hookers

Nice.

Nice.

It look like you're trying to cure an STD....

Posted by: Clippy

See below the jump

Also, NBD, but Epstein gave top Obama advisor and Democrat operative Kathryn Ruemmler a $10,000 handbag.

That's not bribery, right?

'OH MY GOD!!!!! I am dying': Jeffrey Epstein Showered Obama White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler With Gifts, Including $9,400 Hermes Handbag and Four Seasons Spa Treatment, Emails Show

Ruemmler, who told CNN Epstein never 'compensated' her, accepted the gifts years after Epstein's sex crimes were public knowledge
Chuck Ross and Collin Anderson
January 30, 2026

Former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler has attempted to downplay a steady drip of revelations about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by claiming he never "compensated" her. Newly released emails, however, show the convicted sex criminal showered Ruemmler with luxury gifts, including a $9,400 Hermes handbag, an Hermes-branded Apple watch, and a spa treatment package at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., emails reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
The gifts, revealed in documents released Friday by the Department of Justice, came years after allegations of Epstein's sex crimes against children became public knowledge and undercut Ruemmler's attempts to distance herself from Epstein.
Ruemmler, now the top lawyer for Goldman Sachs, has faced intense criticism as troves of Epstein records shed light on her relationship with the sex pest. When CNN reported last month that Ruemmler advised Epstein on media strategies, she told the outlet she "did not represent him and was not compensated by him."
The documents released Friday show otherwise. In emails ranging from 2014 to 2019, Ruemmler routinely corresponded with Epstein's associates to accept gifts or express her gratitude to Epstein. In some cases, she asked for specific items.
The priciest gift likely came in August 2016, when Epstein purchased Ruemmler a $9,400 handbag from the French luxury brand Hermes. Epstein took a particular interest in ensuring Ruemmler received the bag, directing one of his associates, Lesley Groff, to "confirm receipt with Kathy" and "follow up to make sure it happens." When Ruemmler received the bag, she wrote to Groff, "OH MY GOD!!!!! He is in so much trouble!!!! I am dying. It is so beautiful," as Groff relayed to Epstein. Used versions of the same bag--a Jypsiere 31--now sell for around $5,000.

Some two years later, in November 2018, Epstein bought Ruemmler an Hermes edition of the Apple Watch, which retails for $1,300. Emails show that Ruemmler asked for a specific model and watch band and said the gift was "so sweet of Jeffrey!"
"If truly okay with him to do the Hermes, I would love the 40 mm, stainless Hermes with bleu indigo swift leather double tour," Ruemmler wrote at the time. "I'll wear that one every day, whereas the sportier ones I would likely only wear on weekends or when exercising, etc." When Epstein's associate, Groff, relayed the gift to Epstein's accountant, Richard Kahn, Groff wrote, "I knew Kathy would want Hermes." Epstein bought another Apple Watch for Steve Bannon around the same time, according to the emails.
Epstein also appeared to be attuned to Ruemmler's schedule and professional achievements. He booked a "full half day" spa appointment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown for Ruemmler in August 2016, writing to an associate, "she won her case and needs some pampering." The associate responded with a credit card authorization form and said, "Kathy will go either today or tomorrow she says..." A massage and facial at the luxury hotel can cost upwards of $1,000.
Epstein appeared to provide other gifts of unknown value to Ruemmler. In December 2014, an Epstein associate emailed Ruemmler to inform her that Epstein planned to send his housekeeper to "deliver your ring to you!!" In February 2019, an Epstein associate sent a reminder email to an unidentified individual reading, "Reminder: Bottle of wine and note card to be delivered to Ruemmler today. Let me know once it has been delivered so I can tell Jeffrey."

Wow. In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD�s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing. 😳 pic.twitter.com/XNA0vNWTcI
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 30, 2026

Meanwhile:

JUST IN🚨: Jonathan Turley just dropped a bombshell on the Fulton County FBI ballot seizure:

�A judge found PROBABLE CAUSE � that�s not given lightly.�

This is HUGE. A federal judge reviewed the evidence and signed off, meaning there's enough to believe a crime occurred and� pic.twitter.com/pmyZuT9GMA
— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) January 30, 2026

HOW EVERY 2020 LAWSUIT WENT:

Plaintiff: "Your honor, here are these images that absolutely prove ballots were duplicate scanned."

GA Judge: "Ok yeah, but you can't prove there were enough of those to reverse the election outcome."

Plaintiff: "That's why we're requesting we be� https://t.co/G9sUXFNtgk
— TruthHammer4EVA (@TruthHammer4EVA) January 30, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 04:32 PM

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1 Need a shot, doc.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Kt19C)

2 It look like you're trying to cure an STD....

Posted by: Clippy at January 30, 2026 04:34 PM (jGJov)

3 Ah!!!! Italicans!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (kgE5c)

4 Yeah, but where did Bill Gates get those moobs? Hmmmm?

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 04:36 PM (moGJJ)

5 Always that Epstein Island would have the finest entertainment, very clean, very clean girls....
I guess not

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 04:36 PM (/lPRQ)

6
Don't look now, but it's Italicans all the way down!

Where's ICE when a blog needs then?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:37 PM (xG4kz)

7 Hey Tatiana, you made sure to wash that strap-on thoroughly right? Oh yeah you don't speak English. Well I'm sure it'll be ok...

Posted by: Bill Gates at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (RuMUX)

8 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (LdBR/)

9 Yeah, but this is only limited to Georgia.

/sarc

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (moGJJ)

10 Let those of us who HAVEN'T gotten the clap from Russian prostitutes and sought clandestine medications to keep our wives from finding out cast the first stone

Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2026 04:39 PM (HIHJq)

11 It boggles my mind that a purse could be worth
$10, 000. If you want to bribe me or keep me quiet give me money. And no, I've never received a bribe or payoff and can't imagine that I would. I've also had the same crummy black purse for about 10 years because I've never been a fashionista or whatever the equivalent for purses is.

Also, Bill Gates is-creepy, evil weirdo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 04:39 PM (7RYym)

12 A freshly minted PFC fresh out of BMT knows to wear protection with a hooker.

I guess that wisdom hasn’t worked its way up to the billionaires class.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 04:40 PM (moGJJ)

13
"Really , Melinda, she was just being all handsy with me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:40 PM (xG4kz)

14 when will the RICO charge hit the dems? The fraud is all over the place. As we all knew.

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 04:40 PM (8uzBS)

15 >>> Ruemmler, who told CNN Epstein never 'compensated' her, accepted the gifts years after Epstein's sex crimes were public knowledge.

What does her OGE 450 and 1040 say?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 04:40 PM (/lPRQ)

16 That poor Russian prostitute.

Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2026 04:41 PM (HIHJq)

17 2 It look like you're trying to cure an STD....
Posted by: Clippy

Probable threadwinner at #2. Well played.

Posted by: mikeski at January 30, 2026 04:41 PM (VHUov)

18
Billy coulda got antibiotics used for fish tanks. Nust saying...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:41 PM (xG4kz)

19 They should go after that shitbag AG in Michigan. She helped perpetuate voter fraud there.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 04:41 PM (moGJJ)

20 and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

Bill, you know that only boys can catch or transmit that STD, right...?

Posted by: Dr. Epstein at January 30, 2026 04:41 PM (7kply)

21 bill gates and a hooker....seriously? with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him and he goes and pays for some infected pu$$y.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

22 Trump is releasing these Epstein files to distract from the Epstein files.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

23 I'm Wart, Genital Wart. Bill Gate's wart. Not his wart. Not his wart! I'm... I'm the wart. He's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Genital "Wart" Gates. That's what they call me, or Genital Wart Head. They'll call me that. "Genital Wart Head's coming."

Posted by: Genital Wart Gates at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (pbej3)

24 Almost feel sorrow for these people. Sold their souls for dross and will never know the treasures of heaven. They chose poorly.

Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (ehY6c)

25 Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?

Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)

26 earlier I was going to post "they released the last batch of epstein docs and there's nothing there" -- to annoy the people claiming there's a cover up of "the client list" and that Patel, Bondi, and Bongino are all in on the cover-up.

You know, Candace Owens listeners.

Anyway, glad I didn't post that.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (1wjle)

27 "a $9,400 handbag from the French luxury brand Hermes."

The dumb-ass things that some people value highly. SMH.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (N8ZBc)

28 Visual for the day. Bill Gates having sex with young hooker. Eyes rolled back in his head, moobs flapping, sweat dripping down the bottom of his glasses.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (moGJJ)

29 Kathryn Ruemmler looks kind of like Kirsten Gillibrand if the latter didn't have a torrid love affair with hohos.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

30 bill gates and a hooker....seriously? with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him and he goes and pays for some infected pu$$y.

Maybe the hookers stopped offering protection after they reached 15 years old and required that you start using another 12 year old.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

31 Where are all the Bondi haters today?

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (moGJJ)

32 26 earlier I was going to post "they released the last batch of epstein docs and there's nothing there" -- to annoy the people claiming there's a cover up of "the client list" and that Patel, Bondi, and Bongino are all in on the cover-up.

You know, Candace Owens listeners.

Anyway, glad I didn't post that.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (1wjle)

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Your restraint is admirable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

33 Russian hookers.....

With Democrats, its always projection

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 04:45 PM (WCWLA)

34 Visual for the day. Bill Gates having sex with young hooker. Eyes rolled back in his head, moobs flapping, sweat dripping down the bottom of his glasses.

This will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to keep our lunch down.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

35 "Visual for the day. Bill Gates having sex with young hooker. Eyes rolled back in his head, moobs flapping, sweat dripping down the bottom of his glasses."

In Intel 8080 assembler:
PUSH
POP
PUSH
POP
NOP
NOP
NOP
HLT

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:45 PM (N8ZBc)

36 I wasn't a fight Epstein had with Gates, Epstein made a draft email for his pal Boris who was Gates's science advisor who was in a difficult situation with Gates.

Apparently it was this Boris, not Epstein, whom Gates asked for the antibiotics to administer to Melinda unknowingly.

In another email dropped today, Epstein asks his pal Ehud Barak with a smiley emoji to tell a Qatari official that Epstein isn't Mossad.

Posted by: TITP at January 30, 2026 04:45 PM (r3hkP)

37 Ewwwwwew

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 04:46 PM (W2Pud)

38 bill gates and a hooker....seriously? with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him

And yet he picked Mrs. Kevin Kline. Sumpin' wrong with that boy...

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 04:46 PM (TylIK)

39 >>>Visual for the day. Bill Gates having sex with young hooker. Eyes rolled back in his head, moobs flapping, sweat dripping down the bottom of his glasses.

Oh yeah uhhhhh ohhhh I hope my anti-virus is fully updated ohhhhh

Posted by: Bill Gates at January 30, 2026 04:46 PM (RuMUX)

40 23 I'm Wart, Genital Wart. Bill Gate's wart. Not his wart. Not his wart! I'm... I'm the wart. He's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Genital "Wart" Gates. That's what they call me, or Genital Wart Head. They'll call me that. "Genital Wart Head's coming."
Posted by: Genital Wart Gates
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LOL and John Candy too is laughing his ass off somewhere.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:47 PM (2swu2)

41 I said this in an earlier thread... I was surprised at how genteel Epstein's writing was in his emails, telling Bill to pound sand and that he wouldn't step down from the boards he was on.

I thought the language of a man who kept a painting of Clinton in drag in his house would talk more like Tom Cruise's character in Tropic Thunder. Instead he talked like Charles Augustus Milverton, a Victorian villain scheming blackmail plots before Sherlock Holmes thwarts him.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:47 PM (gWBY1)

42 This is the quality of our ruling class.

Surreptitiously drugging their wives to cover up their pedophile crotchrot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 04:47 PM (BI5O2)

43 They were trying to hide it. The shitlibs are just incompetent.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:48 PM (SI0IF)

44 I'd like to reexamine the Gates Dossier with the Russian hookers and golden showers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 04:48 PM (oT7pT)

45
"WHAT kind of hooker?"

"Russian, Melinda! Honest!"

"I know you'd shoot prematurely, you wad, but WHAT kind of hooker was she? Or was it a he?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:48 PM (xG4kz)

46 @nicksortor
Here are ALL 12 pages of the indictment against Don Lemon and his co-conspirators
Pretty damning stuff in here

His middle name is actually Renaldo?

Donald Renaldo Lemon. That is as bad as Julia Gulia. No wonder he turned out so messed up.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:48 PM (gWBY1)

47 I still cannot get past the fact that Epstein was having text conversations with a Democrat congressman during a hearing and it didn't really even cause a scandal

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:49 PM (PYyV9)

48 Epstein got the death penalty. If the powers that be want you dead, they will find a way.

Gee the guards just turned their backs for a few minutes....

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 04:49 PM (E7+ue)

49 2020 Election shenanigans ...

In a just world, Maricopa County would be next.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at January 30, 2026 04:49 PM (3ZUWJ)

50 Funny things are moving just over 5 years after the 2020 election.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 04:49 PM (2ap+5)

51 Can I get out my tinfoil yet?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 04:49 PM (AlhUl)

52 bill gates and a hooker....seriously? with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him

As Charlie Sheen put it: you aren't paying them for sex, you're paying them to leave afterward.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:50 PM (PYyV9)

53 Where are all the Bondi haters today?
-
Appreciating the Don Lemon arrest, if that's okay with you.

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 04:50 PM (vSvIl)

54 Was taking $10k gifts wrong?
Because to be fair nobody told me it was.
-Costanza Defence

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 04:50 PM (PHOGh)

55 I'm totally convinced enough fraud happened in GA to swing the election, it would be powerful though if it really could be proven the world and in a courtroom.

I just dont even know what to believe anymore in terms of seeing tweets with examples.

Posted by: Leupold at January 30, 2026 04:50 PM (eIzlH)

56 Some of you have put the visual of Bill Gates having sex in my brain and I despise each and every one of you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 04:50 PM (2UnvF)

57 I still cannot get past the fact that Epstein was having text conversations with a Democrat congressman during a hearing and it didn't really even cause a scandal
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:49 crotch rotation.

It was the USVI delegate. Some crooked black lady, iirc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 04:50 PM (BI5O2)

58 Russian bridgw player in her 20s, tried to get epstein to invest 500k in an online bridge platform. He said no. She was introd to bim by Boris Nikolai. Epstein later paid her tuition, at the behest of Gates. So, bridge, russian girl, boris, gates. Not saying she had the clap. Plenty of other russian girls around ....

See article in guardian. May 2023.

Posted by: Antibiotic resistent std at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (xj28v)

59 I wonder if Jeffrey Epstein ever slipped antibiotics to Melania unknowingly. Anybody ask the Clintons?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (oT7pT)

60 47 I still cannot get past the fact that Epstein was having text conversations with a Democrat congressman during a hearing and it didn't really even cause a scandal
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:49 PM (PYyV9)

Not a real congressman. Just the non voting, talking kind.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (SI0IF)

61 >>> Here's a major reason why the FBI and DNA Tulsi Gabbard just raided Fulton County...

Ackshully, I still don't get why Tulsi was there.
A couple of gunts repeatably feeding the same ballot stacks through does not imply foreign involvement.... Unless they were working for the Russian!!! Or Chyna.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)

62 "Alright, you guys are going on R&R. Now you don't wanna take home a souvenir for Mary Jane Rotten crotch, do you. Well the key is as simple as your ABCs, always be careful. Put a raincoat on it. And when you get back, see Doc before you go to sick bay, just in case. Might keep some shit off your record."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (gm9Sb)

63 I guess it shouldn't be shocking that broadly speaking the people getting the wealth, status and power in our society are venal degenerates.

Posted by: They inherit the earth at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

64 I have no interest in a $10,000 handbag.

I have a few that are a couple hundred bucks and I take care of them and I use them and enjoy carrying them. But a Hermes or LV or Gucci are just coated canvas with leather detailing. And they are made in China or northern Italy with slave labor.

Look at Roots Canada or Portland Leather. Good stuff. Quality made. And I love my Orla Kieley backpack.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (W2Pud)

65 Then: They would never steal an election
Now: They would never wish death on innocents
Next: They would never commit mass murder.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (RIvkX)

66 Donald Renaldo Lemon. That is as bad as Julia Gulia. No wonder he turned out so messed up.
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:48 PM (gWBY1)
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He never got to play "The Countess and the Chauffeur."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (OvMCw)

67 We made it legal to knowingly infect others with AIDS.
Which is attempted murder.
Assemblyfag Weiner pushed that up our keisters and all the Democrats voted for it. After they had their noon orgy.

Posted by: Commiefornia at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (KtOUo)

68
"Dammit, it's just not happening!"

"Got the Blue Balls of Death again, Billy? Here, let Natasha help you coax Little Willy out of the briar patch."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (xG4kz)

69
It look like you're trying to cure an STD....

Posted by: Clippy

Do you mean drippy?

Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (m2V8L)

70 If an Epstein email drops in the forest and the MFM doesn't tell anyone, does it matter?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 04:52 PM (jc0TO)

71 25 Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?
Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)
_______
Take it from Eric Swalwell. Chinese are safer.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 04:52 PM (AlhUl)

72 21 bill gates and a hooker....seriously? with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him and he goes and pays for some infected pu$$y.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

That's not how you do any of that.

Posted by: The Sultan of Brunei's Harem Keeper at January 30, 2026 04:52 PM (w/O5Q)

73 bill gates and a hooker....seriously? with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him and he goes and pays for some infected pu$$y.
==
Tbf, there is a non trivial chance she was kgb.

Posted by: Antibiotic resistent std at January 30, 2026 04:52 PM (xj28v)

74 Now you gotta avoid Russian Hookers AND Melinda Gates.

Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:53 PM (nqSPo)

75 Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?
Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)
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He must have failed middle-school health class.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (ESVrU)

76 Bill Gates has absolutely no self control. He's admitted part of his desire to make Americans stop eating beef is because he is obsessed with it and can't stop eating it himself.

He can't control his own beef consumption, and if he is such a genius and can't do it, what hope do the icky peasants have? They must be protected from themselves!
So he is going to ban beef, to save you from the evils of beef.

And he tried to administer drugs overseas to sterilize women, to save them from the evils of unprotected sex, because he cannot control his own sexual behavior.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (gWBY1)

77 Now you gotta avoid Russian Hookers AND Melinda Gates

Both of those seem petty easy to dodge

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (PYyV9)

78 2020 lawsuits tweet is like illegal voter fraud discussion with a leftist

There is no fraud.

How do you know?

Because there’s never been any proof.

Nobody has ever investigated. So we should look for evidence then and see if there is proof?

No!

Why?

Because there’s never been any fraud so it’s a waste of time.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (PHOGh)

79 Afternoon, All.

I missed the morning threads due to a medical issue I had early this morning.

I got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

80 New Jersey wants to join the New Confederacy and keep Illegals from getting deported

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)

81 have a few that are a couple hundred bucks and I take care of them and I use them and enjoy carrying them. But a Hermes or LV or Gucci are just coated canvas with leather detailing. And they are made in China or northern Italy with slave labor.

Chinese working in the Italian leather goods sweatshops mostly were killed off in the initial wave of Sars Covid 2

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (KtOUo)

82 CDC sez: "There were more than 2.2 million reported STIs in 2024, and compared to a decade ago, overall cases are 13% higher; congenital syphilis is nearly 700% higher."

IDNKT! I thought the rates were much much higher than that. Huh.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (N8ZBc)

83 Things I did not need to read today...That image of Bill Gates having sex is not something I want to imagine. Eww. What a screwed up world this is. Stop the world, I want to get off. *cues up Randy Stonehill*

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (Q0yOR)

84
Donald Renaldo Lemon

That's mighty raimondo adjacent, fellow hordians

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (xG4kz)

85 Our "betters" are pretty disgusting.

Posted by: DJ at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (uosPt)

86 Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?
Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)
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He must have failed middle-school health class.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (ESVrU)

Must've gotten abstinence only sex ed in school.

Posted by: Probably not. But it's a funny thought. at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (TbWk/)

87 Bill Gates has always been a weird little shrimpy dude.

Now we have confirmation lol

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM (5aZAZ)

88 Melinda Gates is one ugly dude.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (2UnvF)

89 I am still curious about the way Trump has handled this. He claimed to be worried at one point about 'innocent people getting hurt' but all we've seen is embarrassing revelations about leftish figures. So was that all just rope a dope to get the unanimous vote out of Congress to release it all?

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (vSvIl)

90 Bulg...I HAD aFib.
Used a CPAP for a few months.
Last EKG good to go.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (KtOUo)

91
I got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

I have AFib.. It's very treatable

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (VE6XX)

92 Bill Gates responded angrily, claiming it is all fiction. Epstein, he says, made it all up.

Melinda could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (qYucH)

93 Poor girls. So sordid and gross.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (wGerL)

94 I got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg
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May the Lord extend his mercy and healing toward your condition.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:57 PM (2swu2)

95 Bulg that is tough

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 04:57 PM (Ia/+0)

96
Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?
Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)
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He must have failed middle-school health class.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I fo recall reading sometime in the past that the Gates parental units were huge backers of Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (xG4kz)

97 Prayers sent up for you Bulg. DX with afib 7 years gone and I feel fine, with meds. Walking is beneficial.

Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (ehY6c)

98 "Melinda Gates is one ugly dude."

Melinda and Bill had the perfect meet-cute: his glasses were always scuzzy, and she would often gently remove and clean them for him. Tender moments.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (N8ZBc)

99 Bill Gates, all oiled up and having sex, glasses on, ala Lumbergh:

You can just go ahead and move a little bit to the left. Yeah, that's it. Great.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (wVcYX)

100 >> New Jersey wants to join the New Confederacy and keep Illegals from getting deported

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)

I hope I get to meet Tom Homan

Posted by: DJ at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (uosPt)

101 It depends on the what definition of "steal" is.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (AlhUl)

102 What’s the point of humiliating ex-Gates?

Posted by: Joe at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (Uy/WF)

103 89 I am still curious about the way Trump has handled this. He claimed to be worried at one point about 'innocent people getting hurt' but all we've seen is embarrassing revelations about leftish figures. So was that all just rope a dope to get the unanimous vote out of Congress to release it all?
Posted by: Methos
========
Brer Rabbit in the briar patch says Hi.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (2swu2)

104 Melinda Gates is one ugly dude.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 04:56 PM (2UnvF)
*****
Seen Sen. Schumer's?

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (KtOUo)

105 79 Prayers up, my friend. It's very treatable. You should be good to go soonest.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (Q0yOR)

106 No straining on the toilet!

Posted by: Bulg's Holter Monitor at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (RIvkX)

107 94 Amen.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (N8ZBc)

108 USAA just dropped me a love note saying New Jersey made a regulatory change and therefore they have to raise the rates on my umbrella policy...checks notes...

Oh yeah, 40 %. "On average" across the state.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (qYucH)

109 79 Bulg, pro tip. When I had to wear a Holter Monitor I made the mistake of going to the library and the bank. Results from the monitor were rather scrambled, and the nurse and tech felt it may have been from going through the detectors at the bank and library. They weren't sure, but the next time around, avoiding detectors, the tests weren't messed up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (gm9Sb)

110 I got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

=====

Absolutely. I had post-op AFib and it was concerning but the beta blockers were great.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (2ap+5)

111 Having bugs is kind of a tradition at Microsoft.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (1iXwP)

112 Boris Nikolai was a member of tbe gates foundation. Harvard md. Did not practice. A bioscience investor. Also close to.Epstein. he was named a backup executor of epsteins estate in the will!

Posted by: Antibiotic resistent std at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (xj28v)

113 71 25 Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?
Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)
_______
Take it from Eric Swalwell. Chinese are safer.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 04:52 PM (AlhUl)

Of course you are correct. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Bun Sen, Lead Reseearcher at South Wuhan Veneral Disease Laboratory and Gay Pangolin Dating Service at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (w/O5Q)

114
Hermes-branded Apple watch

Really? That's some typical AWFL cheap-assed shit. If she had any class, she would have insisted on something like an Omega. Even the current Rolex watches (despite recent rumors about partial Chinese manufacturing).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

115 Bill Gates had to pay women to suck on his moobs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (IDEQi)

116 Brer Rabbit in the briar patch says Hi.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:58 PM (2swu2)
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Some of us saw this coming from the get-go.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)

117 111 I laughed.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 05:00 PM (Q0yOR)

118 Will that 100K commie database be made public?

Inquiring revanchists want to know.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 05:00 PM (BI5O2)

119 I missed the morning threads due to a medical issue I had early this morning.

I got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

That sucks. The good news is there is a multitude of treatment options. Good vibes your way.

Posted by: Heart literally aquiver at January 30, 2026 05:00 PM (TbWk/)

120 79 Afternoon, All.

I missed the morning threads due to a medical issue I had early this morning.

I got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)
______
May the Lord bless you.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 05:00 PM (AlhUl)

121 I don't know what thread to ask this in...is anyone going to see the Melania movie in theaters?

Amazon paid for it, I plan to just see it when it streams on Prime. But I also don't want the libs to have the narrative of "Look at that Eastern European white trash Melania, her movie bombed! MAGA is falling!" Because I know they will. Never mind most documentaries don't make a lot of money.

Conversely, footage of Mamdami during his campaign was filmed, and is being turned into a documentary. And I'm sure dems will treat this as essential viewing for any good lib, like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Inconvenient Truth were. If you don't see it you are racist.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (gWBY1)

122 I’ll take a different track. I have some empathy for Gates. The man makes some dumb mistakes and it cost him dearly. I get he’s been involved in some left wing stuff. But he’s one of those people whose dna makes him sometimes chase unusual or strange ideas. Yeah he’s got a billion or whatever. But that doesn’t make up for what these things take from you personally. I wish the man well. Maybe he can make up for it in other ways.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (LLQU7)

123 Bulg a prayer for complete and speedy healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (RIvkX)

124 sweat dripping down the bottom of his glasses."

Glasses?

Sweaty asses...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)

125 63 I guess it shouldn't be shocking that broadly speaking the people getting the wealth, status and power in our society are venal degenerates.
Posted by: They inherit the earth
========
Race between the Lords of the Universe and the poor in degeneracy. The permanent poor often don't care about their behavior and the rich have enough wealth as insulation to behave the same way.

There is a reason that Alfred P. Doolittle wants to be saved from the trap of Middle Class Morality.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (2swu2)

126 Sure, I could use a condom but, hey, when will I ever be in Haiti again? Ha, ha.

Posted by: Bill Gates at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (jc0TO)

127 I want to know how Bill gave his wife antibiotics "secretly." I realize this is not the point, but I have questions. Maybe he screwed up and gave her testosterone instead, as she looks a bit manly to me.It would be difficult, unless in liquid form and still icky, to sneak her antibiotics. Maybe he gave her injections after he knocked her out at night.

A walloping meatloaf of news today!

The "walloping meatloaf" is in memory of my brother, who used to send me thick letters in college that were hilarious...knowing I hated our mother's meatloaf with the texture of a sponge. This is what he called his letters to me.

We never did figure out what on earth she did to the meatloaf (he watched me pretend to eat it while covering it or putting in a paper napkin).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (WONhk)

128 Hermes, Herpes ? What's the big deal?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (NtVYv)

129 So not only is it microsoft, but drippy.

Ol' drippy Gates.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 05:02 PM (1iXwP)

130 Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg"

Done.

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:02 PM (XuXeR)

131 Karen Rheummler, eh? Sounds nice.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2026 05:02 PM (yw3eV)

132
Stop the presses! Bombshell news! Bill Gates is a degenerate asshole!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:02 PM (tgvbd)

133 Bill Gates said his penis is so buggy he is changing its pet name to "Windows 11"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 05:03 PM (qYucH)

134 I have AFib.. It's very treatable
Posted by: It's me donna

That's what I understand, so that's what I'm hoping it is.

And thank you for all the well-wishes and prayers.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

135 >>>Bill Gates had to pay women to suck on his moobs

Posted by: Smell the Glove

>Was he lactating in those tender moments?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 05:03 PM (oT7pT)

136 I also have questions as to how Epstein knew about everyone's penis. I thought normal men don't look at urinals.

I am thinking orgies and every day is the summer of love at Pedo Island.

I should go be productive.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:03 PM (WONhk)

137
Shagging Russian Hookers is dangerous. Didn't Bill's dad tell him anything?
Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nqSPo)

Double-rubbers, and always piss after being with a hooker.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (y9nCu)

138 I wish the man well. Maybe he can make up for it in other ways.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Guy harassed female employees for years at Microsoft, sex party addict, purposefully gave sterilizing vaxxes to unwitting Third Worlders, and was involved in the great Covid scam.

Frankly, the only empathy I have left for Gates is that he needs to publicly confess his sins and go somewhere where the rest of us never hear of him again.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (2swu2)

139 There is a reason that Alfred P. Doolittle wants to be saved from the trap of Middle Class Morality.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (2swu2)

Wif a li'l bit o' bloomin' luck.

Posted by: Blimey guv'ner! at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (TbWk/)

140 Melinda looked good when she was 19. Hey nineteen

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (NtVYv)

141 This thread delivers.

Horrible, terrible images but it DOES deliver.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (Q0yOR)

142 I should go be productive."

Where's the fun in that?

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (XuXeR)

143 133 Bill Gates said his penis is so buggy he is changing its pet name to "Windows 11"
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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LOL. You gotta point there.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:05 PM (2swu2)

144 USAA just dropped me a love note saying New Jersey made a regulatory change and therefore they have to raise the rates on my umbrella policy...checks notes...

Oh yeah, 40 %. "On average" across the state.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (qYucH)
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Allstate just sent us a letter they "miscalculated" the premium due for house insurance.

The mistake was they did not charge us enough.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:05 PM (RIvkX)

145
Let's also put some perspective on that "$9,400 Hermes bag". This was during the Kenyan Muslim's fake presidency. That means using today's massively devalued currency (thank's vegetable Joe), that bag was probably worth the equivalent of $20,000.

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

146 Bill was still having sex w Melinda!?!
EEEEWWWWW

Posted by: Heirloominati at January 30, 2026 05:05 PM (W7fvb)

147 Virginia Democrats propose dog walking and grooming tax

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 05:06 PM (GITLP)

148 LOL. You gotta point there"

Hey, that's our job!

/logitech

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:06 PM (XuXeR)

149 Let's also put some perspective on that "$9,400 Hermes bag". This was during the Kenyan Muslim's fake presidency. That means using today's massively devalued currency (thank's vegetable Joe), that bag was probably worth the equivalent of $20,000.
Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

What's the difference between Hermes and Herpes ?

Herpes is free.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (NtVYv)

150 I think there's a fungus among us.

Posted by: Bill Gate's Rancid Dick at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (jtM2q)

151 Melinda posts infrequently on twitter, I'm seeing. But she did post in support of the Twin City twits that hot themselves killed tangling with ICE recently. One snippet:

"No one in the United States should ever have to fear losing their life for taking peaceful, principled action in support of their beliefs."

Scrolls down to September - no mention of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Rex B at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (GI9/m)

152 Herpes is free."

Nope. $20, same as...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (XuXeR)

153 Epstein probably knew about every guys penis because he had secret cameras all over his island, ranch and townhouse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (IDEQi)

154 Damn, Bill. That's fucking hilarious.

One of the richest men alive and he passes an STD on to his wife, then has to ask thr guy who provided the sex slave what to do. Stupid motherfucker with money.

That is something Hunter might do.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

155 Oh, Bulg. If you do in fact suffer from Afib they might want to put you on a blood thinner. If it's Warfarin, discuss alternatives and there are many out there nowadays. Warfarin (Coumadin) requires a lot of dietary restrictions and frequent blood work. I got lucky and keep my INR under control with an Aspirin regimen (also for pain relief) and a little booze (doc nods head in approval).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (gm9Sb)

156 I’ll take a different track. I have some empathy for Gates.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 05:01 PM (LLQU7)
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I have none. The guy is a Bond-style supervillain, despises the poor, wants to eradicate 90% of humanity all because he made big bucks in the early days of tech and has set himself up as a demigod of wisdom ever since. Reaping what he sowed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (ZOv7s)

157 Some of us saw this coming from the get-go.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Take a bow. But others were just so sure that they would get Trump or get Mossad from those Epstein documents when every bit of direct evidence pointed the other way.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (2swu2)

158 Mister Scott: "with his money he has to have tons of women throwing themselves at him and he goes and pays for some infected pu$$y."

I kinda assume any and all professional P is a biohazardous forbidden zone - even the "Certified Clean" stamped ones. Thing is, if he didn't go professional, his legal liability was going to the moon. And not our local Moon. We're talking a moon of Uranus.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (gLikB)

159 Bill Gates gave his wife Star Trek: Discovery?

The monster!!!!

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (f1kZG)

160 143 133 Bill Gates said his penis is so buggy he is changing its pet name to "Windows 11"
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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LOL. You gotta point there.
Posted by: whig

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Probably closer to Windows 3.0

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (1iXwP)

161 Bill Gates said his penis is so buggy he is changing its pet name to "Windows 11"
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Shut it down. Winner.

Posted by: Antibiotic resistent std at January 30, 2026 05:09 PM (xj28v)

162 "Where are all the Bondi haters today?"

They switched to team "tehran tucker" qtaralson. Pay is better.

Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 30, 2026 05:09 PM (89Sog)

163 147 Virginia Democrats propose dog walking and grooming tax
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 05:06 PM (GITLP)

Of course they do. They're like the tax man in the Popeye movie.

The Tax Man: Well, first of all, there's 17¢ new-in-town tax, and there's 45¢ rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87.
Popeye: Uh, who's this Commodore?
The Tax Man: Is that the nature of question? There's a nickel question tax.

Posted by: If you take a walk I'll tax your feet at January 30, 2026 05:09 PM (TbWk/)

164 154 Damn, Bill. That's fucking hilarious.

One of the richest men alive and he passes an STD on to his wife, then has to ask thr guy who provided the sex slave what to do. Stupid motherfucker with money.

That is something Hunter might do.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I think Hunter would also want a good pegging followed by a crack session with his underage niece. Dunno if Billy Gates is into that or not.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:09 PM (2swu2)

165 The true lifestyles of the rich and famous

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 05:09 PM (0KSrI)

166 Epstein probably knew about every guys penis because he had secret cameras all over his island, ranch and townhouse
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (IDEQi)
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He might even have made them to a short arm inspection as part of the humiliating initiation ritual.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

167 Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

Will keep you in prayer. A nurse in the congregation I serve has been treated with AFIB with some kind of meds and it's under control.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 05:10 PM (guLpK)

168 >>> The man makes some dumb mistakes and it cost him dearly.

Karma is a b***. And he makes more than dumb mistakes.

"Since the early 2000s, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (Gavi), Global Health Innovative Technology Fund and PATH, all heavily funded by the Gates Foundation, have been distributing vaccines
and drugs to vulnerable populations in Africa and India. In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded experimental malaria and meningitis vaccine trials across Africa and HPV vaccine programs in India. All of these programs resulted in numerous deaths and injuries, with accounts of
forced vaccinations and uninformed consent. Ultimately, these health campaigns, under the guise of saving lives, have relocated large scale clinical trials of untested or unapproved drugs to developing markets where administering drugs is less regulated and cheaper.
With the revelation of such abuses, the shortcomings of the current accountability regime for NGOs must be addressed in two critical areas: monitoring projects and monitoring potential influences and exploitation between donors and NGOs."

https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu
/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&
context=annlsurvey

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 05:10 PM (gWBY1)

169 I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg

I'll pray for you Bulg, but concerned. There's a Reptile Zoo near me and those monitors are big. Look bitey, too.

Posted by: Tommy Turtle at January 30, 2026 05:10 PM (oftw2)

170 got back from the doc a few minutes ago, and he suspects it might be AFib. So I've got to wear a monitor on my chest for the next 24 hours, and keep a diary of any further incidents I have during that time.

Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

Prayers that all will be well.

I wore my holter for two days in November. Saw the cardiologist PA a week ago and was told my rhythm, while abnormal, is no big deal. But, as I knew, I need to lose wt and try to behave.

All will be well. It will. You've had stress and that can make my rhythm go bonkers (in 2005). Went through the mill and the diagnosis was: stress.

If you do have a-fib it is easily treated.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:10 PM (WONhk)

171 155 Oh, Bulg. If you do in fact suffer from Afib they might want to put you on a blood thinner. If it's Warfarin, discuss alternatives and there are many out there nowadays. Warfarin (Coumadin) requires a lot of dietary restrictions and frequent blood work. I got lucky and keep my INR under control with an Aspirin regimen (also for pain relief) and a little booze (doc nods head in approval).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (gm9Sb)

Warfarin sucks.. I take Eliquis... No dietary restrictions.. Trouble is it's $500 dollars a month. My Doctor hooked me up with a Canadian pharmacy... $40 dollars a month...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

172 89 I am still curious about the way Trump has handled this. He claimed to be worried at one point about 'innocent people getting hurt' but all we've seen is embarrassing revelations about leftish figures. So was that all just rope a dope to get the unanimous vote out of Congress to release it all?
Posted by: Methos

no it was Trump listening to stupid Bibi who was worried about Israel connections coming out from the Epstein files.

now we've got dozens of DOJ attorneys working on redacting and releasing the Epstein files instead of working on urgent Minnesota, election fraud, etc matters.

if Trump had stuck to his original plan they could have dribbled the files out when they had time along with UFO files and everything else he promised transparency on.

but deciding to simply withhold the files prompted a backlash in Congress and the media/democraps claiming Trump was trying to protect his own doings with Epstein

Posted by: TITP at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (r3hkP)

173 I also have questions as to how Epstein knew about everyone's penis. I thought normal men don't look at urinals.

There are other ways. For example, by saying "this water's deep", one can prompt the unwary into revealing that it is also cold.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (Riz8t)

174 No, I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

Posted by: Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Sexual Wellness Experts at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (rMeLE)

175 My heart was racing like crazy when I was in bed this morning, but the worst part was when I got up, my legs were too weak to support my weight. The doc speculated that it was because my legs weren't getting enough blood.

It took me a couple of attempts to navigate the maybe 10 feet from the bed to the stairs, where I clung tight to the railing. And then I had to brace myself with my arm against the bathroom wall behind the toilet when I inevitably had to pee. Fortunately, the living room couch is right next to the bathroom.

Pounding heart is unpleasant, but falls scare the shit out of me. Fortunately, I did not fall between the bedroom and the couch.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

176 Turley: We did not see evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

Are you fucking kidding me?! Any sentient human being could see the evidence.

Posted by: Butch at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (98xTj)

177 What's the difference between Hermes and Herpes ?

Herpes is free.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:07 PM (NtVYv)
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The gift that keeps on giving...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ESVrU)

178 Epstein tapes on CSPAN stat!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (YlWIZ)

179
Where did this hooker tell Bill about his "problem"?

At the buffet of the Harrow Club, perhaps?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (xG4kz)

180 Bill Gates responded angrily, claiming it is all fiction. Epstein, he says, made it all up.

Honestly, Epstein seems like a really malicious guy so it wouldn't surprise me if that were true.

Melinda looked good when she was 19.

Yeah but they almost all do.

And thank you for all the well-wishes and prayers.

Definitely God be with you. I had it for a while and it was sugar-related, seems to have gone away unless I really, really push things too far.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (PYyV9)

181 I'm a bookkeepers son...

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

182 Take a bow. But others were just so sure that they would get Trump or get Mossad from those Epstein documents when every bit of direct evidence pointed the other way.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:08 PM (2swu2)
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It never made any sense. As Trump himself said, "If they have anything on me, you would have heard about it in 2016." Irrefutable logic, but logic is increasingly optional.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ZOv7s)

183 Oh, and Bulg, the two times I recorded anything in my diary were not heart related, but I thought my agitation might trigger something exciting.

I have mild allergies to adhesives and at night I went bonkers, applied OTC steroid cream around the adhesive and took a Benedryl vs ripping it off of me shrieking.

I was asked about this as it did not trigger anything, my agitation.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:12 PM (WONhk)

184 If you do have a-fib it is easily treated.

Hot iron.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 05:13 PM (Kt19C)

185 Here's a major reason why the FBI and DNA Tulsi Gabbard just raided Fulton County, and it is mind-blowing.

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Director of National Asskicking?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:13 PM (0Eh0f)

186 It look like you're trying to cure an STD....

Posted by: Clippy
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I LOVE THIS PLACE!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 30, 2026 05:13 PM (xvV+O)

187 Prayers would be most welcome.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

You got it! Take care of yourself.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 30, 2026 05:13 PM (XPM1I)

188 So, so many liars. That bit about Gates and his STDs has to be so embarrassing. Let's hope he's forever branded by it the way Geraldo never recovered after Capone's vault.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 05:13 PM (qBdHI)

189 Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (77rzZ

That does sound scary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 05:14 PM (guLpK)

190 The Russian hooker was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 30, 2026 05:14 PM (rMeLE)

191 Somalia is the Gaza Nueva. Whattaya mean closing time?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 05:14 PM (YlWIZ)

192 185 Here's a major reason why the FBI and DNA Tulsi Gabbard just raided Fulton County, and it is mind-blowing.

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The statute of limitations has expired?

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 05:14 PM (2ap+5)

193 It never made any sense. As Trump himself said, "If they have anything on me, you would have heard about it in 2016." Irrefutable logic, but logic is increasingly optional.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The left and the fever swamps on the Right join together in not making sense. I go to a few such sites from time to time to hear their latest idiotic takes and I see where a few commenters here get their talking points here.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:15 PM (2swu2)

194 While I try not to think of Bill Gates either nekkid or having sex with anything, when I saw photos of that wheelchair scientist Hawking, I was creeped out forevermore.

I can't even look at him. I know he's dead and all that, but I speak the truth. Stuff of nightmares! I wonder if he got an STD, if so, probably made him happy! Blergh.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:15 PM (WONhk)

195 This means Bill was able to get it up for Melinda. That's some serious sex drive.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 30, 2026 05:15 PM (wGerL)

196 Pounding heart is unpleasant, but falls scare the shit out of me. Fortunately, I did not fall between the bedroom and the couch.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:11 PM (77rzZ)
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Fair warning, some of the prayers you get will come from Catholics. Side effects may including wanting to say a Hail Mary or an unexplained desire to read Tolkien.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (ZOv7s)

197 Bulg, ask Dr Web about doing a valsalva to slow down the heart rate. Might help kick your heart back into a normal heart rate. Like hold your breath and bear down as in a bowel movement to bring you back to a normal rate. Works for me.

Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (ehY6c)

198
>>>Bill Gates had to pay women to suck on his moobs
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Does he have underarm moobs?

Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (Qd1DT)

199 The statute of limitations has expired?
Posted by: Oglebay

Nope, doesn't work that way. Tolling is a concept that a lot of law students fail to get but it is a VERY complicated matter not found in most statutory law. Has to do with when the clock starts for the statute of limitation and part of that is when an continuing conspiracy hides the facts on purpose. That means the clock starts running when disclosure happens.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (2swu2)

200
Bill Gates needs to just lay low for a while, a few years maybe. Or the rest of his life. Just go dig a hole and hide in it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (w6EFb)

201 194 While I try not to think of Bill Gates either nekkid or having sex with anything

Lol. Good point.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 05:17 PM (guLpK)

202 >>> Bill Gates gave his wife Star Trek: Discovery?

OT, I am loving all the Youtube videos mocking the new Star Trek "Star Trek meets Hogwarts" show, they are hilarious.

People have pointed out that previous Starfeet captains and leaders are aspirational. You WANT to be like Kirk, Picard, Sisko, etc. In the new one, Holly Hunter makes the acting choice to make it impossible for her character to sit in a chair properly.

(Insert TNG face palm meme)

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gWBY1)

203 Oh, Bulg. If you do in fact suffer from Afib they might want to put you on a blood thinner. If it's Warfarin, discuss alternatives and there are many out there nowadays. Warfarin (Coumadin) requires a lot of dietary restrictions and frequent blood work. I got lucky and keep my INR under control with an Aspirin regimen (also for pain relief) and a little booze (doc nods head in approval).
Posted by: bill in arkansas

My wife takes a blood thinner because of a heart attack she had several years ago. Every time she bumps her head just a little bit, she's afraid of brain bleed.

No thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

204 Oh oh, Ace blew up the blog again

Not a nood, a whiteout.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 05:17 PM (1iXwP)

205
Bill Gates looks like a guy who's under a restraining order to stay a mile away from any school.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:17 PM (tgvbd)

206 I think the main page went boom again. Not loading for anybody else?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 30, 2026 05:18 PM (XvL8K)

207 Not a nood, a whiteout.

I prefer the gray mode

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 05:18 PM (PYyV9)

208 Director of National Asskicking?
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:13 PM (0Eh0f)
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I saw a report that she's crashing the national conference for the Secretaries of State, so she can tell them all what's coming. Should be fun.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:18 PM (ZOv7s)

209
Social distance, Bill. Stay 6' away from the Russian pee-whores.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:18 PM (w6EFb)

210 204 Oh oh, Ace blew up the blog again

Not a nood, a whiteout.
Posted by: bob
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Once is by accident, twice is by enemy action, three times or more, Ace.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:19 PM (2swu2)

211 Uh oh. Wasn't me!!

Posted by: Weasel at January 30, 2026 05:19 PM (PVV5z)

212 Oh oh, Ace blew up the blog again"

It's the Windows Time Machine

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:19 PM (XuXeR)

213 10 Let those of us who HAVEN'T gotten the clap from Russian prostitutes and sought clandestine medications to keep our wives from finding out cast the first stone

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My aunt found out her ex husband was cheating on her when the doctor told her she had gonorrhea. She told the doctor but I only been with my husband...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 05:19 PM (Wnqw0)

214 Bill Gates: the REAL Russian collusion!

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 05:19 PM (gWBY1)

215 Mind if I hang out here for a while? The lobby is a little bare at the moment.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 30, 2026 05:20 PM (CwhoI)

216 I prefer the gray mode"

Grey. Heathens.

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:20 PM (XuXeR)

217 200
Bill Gates needs to just lay low for a while, a few years maybe. Or the rest of his life. Just go dig a hole and hide in it.
Posted by: publius
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That is the sort of person that only Bill Gates and the Lord himself can fix. But pride is a cardinal sin so Billy won't do it most likely.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:20 PM (2swu2)

218 Social distance, Bill. Stay 6' away from the Russian pee-whores.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:18 PM (w6EFb)
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Him wanting to use prostitutes makes perfect sense. He's a control freak, and already got taken to the cleaners once.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)

219 Is anyone gonna email him?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (1iXwP)

220 >> Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:04 PM (2swu2)

Hater.

lol.

There are a lot of people I’d like to duct tape to a metal chair, baste with an acetylene torch and throw down the fire stairs. He’s pretty low on that list.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (LLQU7)

221 CDC sez: "There were more than 2.2 million reported STIs in 2024, and compared to a decade ago, overall cases are 13% higher; congenital syphilis is nearly 700% higher."

IDNKT! I thought the rates were much much higher than that. Huh.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:55 PM

I recall having to spend $10 to get tested for syphilis before the county would issue us a marriage license back in 1980. If you had a positive result you could not get a license until you got treated and had two negative tests. All of that was at your own expense.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (0N4FZ)

222 Bill Gates hacked Ace of Spades!

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (PD1kJ)

223 It's back!!! Time glitch healed on blog.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (2swu2)

224 Tousi > Tulsi

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)

225 AOS got hit hit with a bombcyclone of snow. It's the Day After Tomorrow, climate change . Won't someone think of Ace

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:22 PM (IDEQi)

226 Someone fire up the Pixy signal...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 05:22 PM (XuXeR)

227 The statute of limitations has expired?
Posted by: Oglebay

Nope, doesn't work that way. Tolling is a concept that a lot of law students fail to get but it is a VERY complicated matter not found in most statutory law. Has to do with when the clock starts for the statute of limitation and part of that is when an continuing conspiracy hides the facts on purpose. That means the clock starts running when disclosure happens.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (2swu2)

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And my understanding is that active cover-ups are also considered part of the conspiracy -- and thus start the clock ticking anew with each successive instance.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:22 PM (0Eh0f)

228 If anyone deserved a $9400 Hermes bag, it was the poor hooker(s) who got assigned to Bill Gates. Blech!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 05:22 PM (qBdHI)

229 I'm thinking Bill Gates wiped out the main page. Maybe he's a lurker with festering boner?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 05:22 PM (oT7pT)

230 Global Cooling is so intense, the entire blog has been eradicated by glaciers.

Posted by: Zombie Al Gore at January 30, 2026 05:23 PM (PD1kJ)

231 Lady in Black: "Let's hope he's forever branded by it the way Geraldo never recovered after Capone's vault."

I kinda thought it was Katrina Cannibalism reportage that did him in. Whatever. Glad he's disappeared.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 05:23 PM (gLikB)

232 And my understanding is that active cover-ups are also considered part of the conspiracy -- and thus start the clock ticking anew with each successive instance.
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:22 PM (0Eh0f)
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I think they were trying to run out the clock in some way, but this opens up a massive can of worms just in time for the midterms.

But nothing ever happens.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:23 PM (ZOv7s)

233 They insist on donating AIDS infected blood, they decriminalized that, too.

The San Francisco AIDS era was a case study how the homosexual lobby thwarted public health officials and public hygiene. Fauci was up to his balls in that shit too, apparently.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 05:23 PM (04lxq)

234 Good luck, Bulgar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:24 PM (zZu0s)

235 I have really good leather and suede purses and shoes. I would rather die than wear faux leather plether anything.

None cost more than $100 and have lasted decades. I would never want an expensive Hermes anything as I am not to be labeled. #Freebird!

Was the lawyuh paid to keep quiet? Or was she simply a loose cannon on the prowl for stuff? I am confused about her. I think to keep quiet or an intermediary to Obungo?

Give me the $10k instead, thanks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:25 PM (WONhk)

236 They insist on donating AIDS infected blood, they decriminalized that, too.

The San Francisco AIDS era was a case study how the homosexual lobby thwarted public health officials and public hygiene. Fauci was up to his balls in that shit too, apparently.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 05:23 PM (04lxq)
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Weird how the need for anonymous buggery always trumps public health. Every. Damn. Time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)

237 The San Francisco AIDS era was a case study how the homosexual lobby thwarted public health officials and public hygiene. Fauci was up to his balls in that shit too, apparently.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 05:23 PM

Pretty sure that little toad was *literally* up to his balls in that mess.....or at least up to his butt hole.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 05:25 PM (0N4FZ)

238
The San Francisco AIDS era was a case study how the homosexual lobby thwarted public health officials and public hygiene

______________

There was a cure but Ronnie Raygun and Jesse Helms suppressed it to kill all the gays!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:26 PM (tgvbd)

239
I was driving through town about an hour or so ago, and the weather gal came on the radio, telling us we were under an extreme cold warning from tomorrow until Monday.

She happily informed us that occurs when temperatures will be at 50 below or more. So, upstate SC is going to be -50F. You'd think that would've struck her as a bit odd indeed.

Actual criteria is temps and/or windchill below 5F for some time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:26 PM (w6EFb)

240 What color is a green orange?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 05:26 PM (2UnvF)

241 I think I know how Gates got the idea for downloading updates you can't refuse now.

Posted by: Thatch at January 30, 2026 05:26 PM (i0077)

242 Who had a higher Valtrex bill, Bill Gates or Hunter Biden?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 05:26 PM (qBdHI)

243 There are a lot of people I’d like to duct tape to a metal chair, baste with an acetylene torch and throw down the fire stairs. He’s pretty low on that list.
Posted by: Marcus T
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I don't hate him but simply his redemption will have to start with him getting down on his hands and knees begging the Lord and the world for forgiveness. I don't see him doing that.

That is his business between him and the Lord. Gates is simply an example of what happens when someone shuts out the Lord (compare him with Truitt Cathy, founder of Chick Fil A for example), yet Stan makes sure he flourishes for awhile.

Then Stan inevitably breakes his tools because Stan's pride is a magnitude greater as is his eternal despair for what he did. So he gets his jollies by revenging himself on the lord's creation of humanity. Gates was prideful but hid his sin in the darkness of whores and now it has been revealed to the entire world of his degeneracy.

Next will come more relevations of him and Epstein to the point where no one with any authority will want to be seen publicly with Gates nor partner with him in any way.

Same ending to Billy Clinton and Killary as well.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (2swu2)

244 Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 30, 2026 05:20 PM (CwhoI)
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That was a lesbian bakery in Civic Center back in the day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)

245 Ace needs to get a tablet that is nothing but an on air monitor of the main page. Like radio stations have.

Just hang it on a wall and have it refresh every 1 min. to show the main page is still up, and not bedortlted.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (1iXwP)

246 Oh boy protests from the Somali Youth Movement, Palestinian action, and all kinds of AWFLs in blue states. I live in one but this will be more performative BS which could tip into violence in blue states . Ho-Hum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (IDEQi)

247 Apologies for 227 -- I didn't read whig's comment closely enough and ended up repeating what he said -- only far less eloquently.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (0Eh0f)

248 Did ace ban himself again?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (ESVrU)

249 His middle name is actually Renaldo?

It's was given to me at my bathhouse baptism. What of it?

Posted by: Donaldo Renaldo LeMondo at January 30, 2026 05:28 PM (TylIK)

250 I wonder if ace hitting the button sets off a red alert klaxon at chez pixy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 05:28 PM (zZu0s)

251 She happily informed us that occurs when temperatures will be at 50 below or more. So, upstate SC is going to be -50F. You'd think that would've struck her as a bit odd indeed.

--

I'm in the upstate too. Chris Justus has everyone's hair on fire, just like last weekend.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (qBdHI)

252 Well, *somebody* broke the front page.

NOOD psycho Spanberger:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/
?post=418316

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (ULPxl)

253 Pretty sure that little toad was *literally* up to his balls in that mess.....or at least up to his butt hole.
Posted by: Mister Scott

He actually did in person bathhouse research back in the day.

"Dr. Fauci Visited Gay Bathhouses and Bars to Study HIV

From the Advocate, Feb. 8, 2021.
"I went down to Greenwich Village and I went into bathhouses to essentially see what was going on there," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview."

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (2swu2)

254 "What do you see?"

"Infinity?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:30 PM (ZOv7s)

255 Oh boy protests from the Somali Youth Movement, Palestinian action, and all kinds of AWFLs in blue states. I live in one but this will be more performative BS which could tip into violence in blue states . Ho-Hum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (IDEQi)

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We saw what looked like a group of middle schoolers all gathered together at the corner of a strip mall and wondered what was going on.

Then I remember hearing that schools were going to let kids out to go protest. Gotta train those young commie revolutionaries early ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:30 PM (0Eh0f)

256 Bulg, ask Dr Web about doing a valsalva to slow down the heart rate. Might help kick your heart back into a normal heart rate. Like hold your breath and bear down as in a bowel movement to bring you back to a normal rate. Works for me.
Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 05:16 PM (ehY6c)

This works for me when my heart gets jumpy.

Don't do it after Taco Bell.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:30 PM (NtVYv)

257
It's like being in the last uncontaminated place after a nuclear war.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:31 PM (tgvbd)

258 >> Chris Justus has everyone's hair on fire, just like last weekend.

He's a bit overwrought. My late cousin used to remark about how over the top he could be. He used a lot of non-standard terminology, sort of made up his own stuff, and that pissed cuz off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (w6EFb)

259 "I went down to Greenwich Village and I went into bathhouses to essentially see what was going on there," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview."

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (2swu2)

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"Free Anal Swabs For All!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (0Eh0f)

260 Looks like mu.nu took it good and hard with Gates' dick

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (gKWVE)

261 What do you give a girl that has everything ?

Penicillin

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (NtVYv)

262 What happened to the main page?

Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (lJ0H4)

263 nood that breaks Ace's place!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (qo38o)

264 247 Apologies for 227 -- I didn't read whig's comment closely enough and ended up repeating what he said -- only far less eloquently.

Posted by: ShainS
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No apologies needed, you said it more clearly than I. I usually take about three drafts sometimes to get to that level of clarity because I think while I type and sometimes the two diverge when I have a new thought intrude.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (2swu2)

265 I say, I say, NOOD

https://acecomments.mu.nu/
?post=418316

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

266 Mind if I hang out here for a while? The lobby is a little bare at the moment.

Man, when Ace hits the return key- bang! He's out of the room in a flash!

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (TylIK)

267 >> That is his business between him and the Lord. Gates is simply an example of what happens when someone shuts out the Lord (compare him with Truitt Cathy, founder of Chick Fil A for example), yet Stan makes sure he flourishes for awhile.

No argument at all from me on that.

I found redemption when God pulled me off the trash heap. He’s always there for you. Always. He’s an awesome God.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (LLQU7)

268 At least on my little blog at least once a week I'd make some mistake that screwed up the formatting. Thankfully I would usually catch it pretty fast. HTML is programming, of a sort, and you know what that is like.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (PYyV9)

269 Another fun quote from teh Fauci Interview
"So that's exactly what he did. "I went to the Castro District. I went down to Greenwich Village, and I went into bathhouses to essentially see what was going on," he said.

"The epidemiologist in me went, 'Oh, my goodness, this is a perfect setup for an explosion of a sexually transmitted disease.' And the same thing going to the gay bars and seeing what was going on, and it gave me a great insight into the explosiveness of the outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease," Fauci continued."

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (2swu2)

270 Not sure what happened. Looking into it.

I tried just rebuilding the latest post but it didn't work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (BLOW1)

271 @255 Shaun, we were supposed to have protests in my city including a bike ride protest at 2:30. Didn't go look but its 14° with 18-20 inches of snow and ice is all over the place. Would have liked to see a demolition derby with injuries, but it probably wasn't that big. The summer should be nuts around here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (IDEQi)

272 The main page is back, but the comments for the new post disappeared.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 30, 2026 05:35 PM (PD1kJ)

273 What happened?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 05:36 PM (AlhUl)

274 Did we vanish for awhile? Weird.

I probably did something, Ace! Sorry!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:36 PM (WONhk)

275 "The epidemiologist in me went, 'Oh, my goodness, this is a perfect setup for an explosion of a sexually transmitted disease.' And the same thing going to the gay bars and seeing what was going on, and it gave me a great insight into the explosiveness of the outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease," Fauci continued."
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (2swu2)
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"And then I refrained from doing anything to stop it."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (ZOv7s)

276 Shain not Shaun damn hotdog fingers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (IDEQi)

277 Okay.. Who broke the thread ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

278 Oh SURE, as soon as I start trying to help, he stomps me. :/

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (ULPxl)

279 Was eating supper, so missed it

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)

280 What happened?
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 05:36 PM (AlhUl)

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Well, Bill Gates banged some Russian hooker and yada yada yada the blog broke.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (2UnvF)

281 270 Not sure what happened. Looking into it.

I tried just rebuilding the latest post but it didn't work.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:34 PM (BLOW1)

Some people did some things...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (QGaXH)

282 "Not sure what happened. Looking into it.

I tried just rebuilding the latest post but it didn't work.
Posted by: Pixy Misa "

1. Russians
2. Chinese
3. Penguins

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (vFG9F)

283
I found redemption when God pulled me off the trash heap. He’s always there for you. Always. He’s an awesome God.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 05:33 PM (LLQU7)

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And what does it take? True contrition and firm purpose of amendment. Judas could have been a saint even after betraying Jesus but he gave into despair and killed himself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (tgvbd)

284 And then I figured out how to get a fuckton of money from the government.

Fauci.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (0KSrI)

285 Did we vanish for awhile? Weird.

I probably did something, Ace! Sorry!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:36 PM

It's been a freaky Friday, hasn't it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Wnv9h)

286 >>> 282 "Not sure what happened. Looking into it.

I tried just rebuilding the latest post but it didn't work.
Posted by: Pixy Misa "

1. Russians
2. Chinese
3. Penguins
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (vFG9F)

No Iranians or klantifags?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (ULPxl)

287 nood working now!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (qo38o)

288 Well, Bill Gates banged some Russian hooker and yada yada yada the blog broke.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 30, 2026 05:37 PM (2UnvF)
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I remain convinced that the "pee tape" is of Hunter. Wanting to piss on Obama's bed is right on brand for the family.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)

289
*dusts hands off*

The roof is leaking and the foundation is shot. Might have to knock it all down and rebuild.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (tgvbd)

290 The gun is good, the penis is evil, the penis shoots seeds

Posted by: Zardoz at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (NtVYv)

291 "No Iranians or klantifags?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket "

I was just doing the top three.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 05:40 PM (vFG9F)

292 There was a tiny typo in the post that triggered the blog software, which freaked out and broke the page. All fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 05:39 PM (BLOW1)

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:41 PM (0Eh0f)

293 And what does it take? True contrition and firm purpose of amendment. Judas could have been a saint even after betraying Jesus but he gave into despair and killed himself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 05:38 PM (tgvbd)
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God is good, but the theological arguments for how people that hate us and want us dead or worse can still find heaven I find tiresome as all fuck, honestly.

I could simply do without all of this. What happens after we shuffle off this mortal coil is between each one of us and our Creator. That doesn't mean I have to sit here and wax poetic about how I might rub elbows with Bill Gates in the afterlife or hope for anyone's particular redemption. Some souls belong in hell.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 05:43 PM (5aZAZ)

294 So here's some awful stuff going down in Utah. Violence against Republican signature gatherers. https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/01/29/ utah-republican-signature-gatherers-assaulted-as- national-activist-groups-aim-to-repeal-redistricting-law/

I took out spaces.

Background: Utah has 4 Congressional districts, all gerrymandered to give moderate GOP advantage. Leftists hate that. So they got a state judge to throw out our congressional maps and instead use a map designed by some far left group in Virginia, guaranteeing them a seat that would make Stalin look conservative. The state GOP is gathering signatures to repeal the law the judge used. And now leftists are attacking the signature gatherers and destroying the gathered signatures. The comments to that article are all about "The GOP is trying to protect Trump so it's ok to hurt the gatherers!!! REEEE!"

I hope Ace or some blogger sees this. Just open, in your face violence now from leftists.

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 05:44 PM (/ZkOF)

295 Getting the crabs from a sleezy hooker, passing them off to your wife, then try to get some other sleeze to come up with a drug to hide the crabs.

Wasn't that an episode of "trailer park boys"?

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 30, 2026 05:45 PM (jrgJz)

296 Speaking of STD's...over a decade ago, after retiring from a job from hell with irritating, vapid, neurotic and boring women in a cubicle farm, well, I got massive hives. This was two weeks later.

I went to a derm I had never met (who looked like Olive Oyl) as well as being possibly a lesbo. She made me take off all of my clothes without a gown for modesty.

Because I had itchy palms in the midst of this, she informed me I might have syphilis and ordered bloodwork (which confirmed I did not have syphilis and I fired her). I called my husband as soon as I got in my car, enraged. Told him I will kill him, etc. although he has never given me anything to worry about, even on his frequent business trips. Poor man. By then we had been married for 30yrs or so.I think I apologized but don't remember.

The new derm ran blood tests for liver stuff and nothing was abnormal except me. Diagnosis? My favorite: stress.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:47 PM (WONhk)

297 Well no wonder Gates' wife hated Epstein and divorced Bill...he gave her an STD...ha ha, what an asshoe.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 30, 2026 05:51 PM (MmTZZ)

298 >>> Here's a major reason why the FBI and DNA Tulsi Gabbard just raided Fulton County...

Ackshully, I still don't get why Tulsi was there.
A couple of gunts repeatably feeding the same ballot stacks through does not imply foreign involvement.... Unless they were working for the Russian!!! Or Chyna.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)

All the Dems are taking money from Russia China the Mideast or from our foreign aid NGOs ostensibly in those places that kick back money here. Plenty of reason for Tulsi and her 80 orgs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:16 PM (8avO+)

299 Speaking of STD's...over a decade ago, after retiring from a job from hell with irritating, vapid, neurotic and boring women in a cubicle farm, well, I got massive hives. This was two weeks later.

I went to a derm I had never met (who looked like Olive Oyl) as well as being possibly a lesbo. She made me take off all of my clothes without a gown for modesty.

Because I had itchy palms in the midst of this, she informed me I might have syphilis and ordered bloodwork (which confirmed I did not have syphilis and I fired her). I called my husband as soon as I got in my car, enraged. Told him I will kill him, etc. although he has never given me anything to worry about, even on his frequent business trips. Poor man. By then we had been married for 30yrs or so.I think I apologized but don't remember.

The new derm ran blood tests for liver stuff and nothing was abnormal except me. Diagnosis? My favorite: stress.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:47 PM (WONhk)

I usually think I might have dry skin in those situations myself.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (8avO+)

300 @35 -- Should I be embarrassed or proud that I know what that code means?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (XMwZJ)

301 "I went down to Greenwich Village and I went into bathhouses to essentially see what was going on there," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview."

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 05:29 PM (2swu2)

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"Free Anal Swabs For All!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (0Eh0f)

I'm sure it gave him an extra charge to know they were spreading disease to each other. Sicko.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (8avO+)

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Posted by: Find A Plumber Royston at January 31, 2026 05:13 AM (Qng/U)

Unbelievable: Left-Wing Judge Dismisses "Murder By Use of Firearm" Charge Against Luigi Mangione to Spare the Left-Wing Hearth-Throb the Death Penalty

Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

This judge was known to be a left-wing partisan who had already made a series of rulings favorable to the Deadly Dreamboat.

Now she throws out two counts he's obviously guilty of just to keep the death penalty off the table.

A federal judge has taken the death penalty off the table for Luigi Mangione, sharply narrowing the government's options in the high-profile case tied to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street in December 2024.
U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett ruled Friday that prosecutors cannot pursue capital punishment, dismissing two federal counts that would have put the death penalty in play -- murder through the use of a firearm and using a firearm with a silencer to commit a crime of violence.
Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges stemming from the fatal shooting, which authorities say occurred as Thompson was walking into a conference in Midtown Manhattan. While the death penalty is now off the table, Mangione still faces two federal stalking counts that carry a potential sentence of life in prison without parole if he is convicted.

Lefties Love Luigi.

Man allegedly posed as FBI agent in apparent attempt to spring Luigi Mangione from prison

The Minnesota man was charged with impersonating an FBI agent after he showed up at a federal prison in New York City claiming to have a court order to release Mangione

Minnesota Man, huh?

A Minnesota man was charged Thursday with impersonating an FBI agent after he showed up at a federal prison in New York City claiming to have a court order to release an inmate, identified by a law enforcement source as accused killer Luigi Mangione.
Mark Anderson, 35, was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn late Wednesday after prison workers asked to see his credentials and he produced a Minnesota driver's license and "claimed to be in possession of weapons," according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for thr Eastern District of New York.
Anderson also claimed "that he was an FBI Agent in possession of paperwork 'signed by a judge' authorizing the release of a specific inmate," the complaint states.
The inmate is not named in the court document.
"Anderson also displayed and threw at [Bureau of Prisons] officers numerous documents," the complaint states. "They appear to be related to filing claims against the United States Department of Justice."
In his backpack, BOP workers found a barbecue fork and a "round steel blade" that resembled a pizza cutter.
Anderson had traveled to New York from Minnesota for a job opportunity that didn't work out, and had been working at a pizzeria, the law enforcement source said.

Another leftist achiever.

Posted by: Ace at 03:40 PM

Comments

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1 Can the Feds appeal this insane ruling?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (buPQP)

2 Ooh! A new post! Ooh!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (giMmT)

3 Is say unbelievable too, but it's totally believable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2026 03:42 PM (mzMU/)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Unfortunately not unbelievable at all.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (fZiTB)

6 'Oh, ya got to have friends ...'

Posted by: Bette at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (3ZUWJ)

7 Minnesota Man, huh?

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The spin off is almost never as good as the original.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

8 Someone said that the opinion acknowledges up front that it is an insane opinion that doesn't make sense?

Posted by: SimoHayek at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (02HPh)

9 He's on video pulling a gun and killing a man by shooting him in the back.

Explain to me how you take the murder charge off the table?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

10 I don't care if the kid fries, but can we reopen the asylums got Minnesota men (if there truly are any left.)

Posted by: spongeworthy at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (sLLbN)

11 I want to thank Mom and Dad, my piano teacher, my high school western civ teacher, and my earliest influences in perfecting my art, for my honor today as Post Premiere.

Now, in keeping with other artistes, I have a half hour screed on my personal political opinions I would like to convey to the audience at home....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (buPQP)

12 9 He's on video pulling a gun and killing a man by shooting him in the back.

Explain to me how you take the murder charge off the table?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

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By being a bad judge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

13 Unless you are in some Southern States the death penalty is rarely carried out...He should rot in prison without parole

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (VE6XX)

14 There's a Queensrÿche lyric out there somewhere that would apply to this judge, I'm guessing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

15 1 Can the Feds appeal this insane ruling?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (buPQP)

+ 1

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (S6amQ)

16 we discussed this morning, it looks like there may be a problem with the wording of the Federal Statute that led to this.

This should be prosecuted under State Law, but NY doesn't allow the DP either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (giMmT)

17 "Explain to me how you take the murder charge off the table?"

Bribe. BIG bribe.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (N8ZBc)

18 What did he kill the guy with then?Dud he throw the bullets into him?

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (YwEeS)

19 I bet if Loogie Manbone looked like Rainn Wilson he would not be getting this bizarre tongue bathing. There's a good chance he walks. Sheesh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (PSEDc)

20 My understanding of the grounds for the decision comes from a Gothamist article that alleged that the judge dismissed the charges solely to foreclose the death penalty.

To no one's surprise this is not a valid basis to dismiss charges.

Posted by: Penfold at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Fbt5B)

21 This guy is gonna walk out of prison after a few years served for the pre meditated murder of a man. He is already a celebrity and will land a high paid gig on cnn when he gets out of jail in a few years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (0N4FZ)

22 In his backpack, BOP workers found a barbecue fork and a "round steel blade" that resembled a pizza cutter.

I mean, WTAF?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

23 How is she able to do that? Was he indicted on those charges?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (cwGMH)

24 Unbelievable: Left-Wing Judge Dismisses "Murder By Use of Firearm" Charge Against Luigi Mangione to Spare the Left-Wing Hearth-Throb the Death Penalty
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On the contrary, I find this entirely believable. Leftist judges are out of control and answer to no one but themselves.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (ESVrU)

25 I have a pizza cutter and I'm not afraid to use it!

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (7kply)

26 Kirk's killer will also skate, never get what he deserves in this world as punishment. Satan has a plan for the tranny shooter.

Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (ehY6c)

27 Tyrant in black needs the Dugan treatment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (OYMjn)

28 I mean, WTAF?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

I know, right? Where is the peel?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

29 I did a quick search… this judge looks exactly like you might think…. Pudgy Karen

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (/iXAp)

30 How much is the bodycam screwup by the one cop going to affect the case? And the search warrant too?

Idiots.

Posted by: pookysgirl, still sick at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (Wt5PA)

31 The George Soros Plan of electing left-wing judges and AG's seems to be working well for the Democrats all across this country.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (NpAcC)

32 Luigi Mangione was almost sprung from jail with the help of a pizza cutter?

So perfectly South Park.

Posted by: fly gal at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (g8IDW)

33 Tyrant in black needs the Dugan treatment.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2026 03:47 PM (OYMjn)

His daughter needs to be blown up by Ukrainians?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

34 Officials became suspicious when the FBI agent identified himself as Special Agent Alonso Moseley.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 03:48 PM (6ZSsV)

35 I can't imagine how the murdered man's family must be feeling. Everything in NY seems to be geared to protect killers and evildoers.

Posted by: Decaf at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (Z8jzG)

36 Okay, can the judicial ruling be appealed?

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (pDt9x)

37 Dude as FBI agent

Talk about winning stupid prizes, maybe he'll room with Don Le'Mon in the graybar hitel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (OYMjn)

38 FBI: Pizza Hut Division.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

39 I thought high grade idiots came from Florida.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (PV3WW)

40 Some day when the Marxists take over he will get out

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (Ia/+0)

41 I thought the trumpet player was dead.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)

42 Explain to me how you take the murder charge off the table?

With a "No problem. Barely an inconvenience..."

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (7kply)

43 Luigi Mangione was almost sprung from jail with the help of a pizza cutter?

So perfectly South Park.

Posted by: fly gal at January 30, 2026

***
"They killed Luigi!!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2026 03:50 PM (wzUl9)

44 I've read this story at a few places, but nobody says what the judge ruled. What was her legal reason for throwing out the charges?

Posted by: No Name Today at January 30, 2026 03:50 PM (8mulE)

45 Judge Garnett, a Biden appointment recommended by Schumer. A graduate of Columbia Law. Decision not a surprise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 03:50 PM (IDEQi)

46 It's easy. You just have to change the reality of the crime to match the lesser charge you want to try.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 03:50 PM (0U5gm)

47 Was it a semi-automatic, full-auto pizza cutter?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Y1sOo)

48 He's on video pulling a gun and killing a man by shooting him in the back.

Explain to me how you take the murder charge off the table?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

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I keep thinking that people who can excuse that are capable of doing the same.

Posted by: Decaf at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Z8jzG)

49 Elric, you are right there. Please give us the scoop. el Doctoró Blade.

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Wmg4n)

50 This is why there can be no peace.

They're literally dropping murder charges to protect their people.

It's literally true that you won't necessarily be charged with murder if you murder the right sort of person.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (oSeBJ)

51 I thought the trumpet player was dead.
Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)

It wasn't a trumpet.

Posted by: Zombie Chuck Mangione at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

52 "In the order dismissing charges, Garnett wrote that the murder through the use of a firearm and weapons charges required the element that the murder was committed "during and in relation to" another federal crime that is considered a "crime of violence."

The judge noted that stalking could be done nonviolently, and that owning a silencer, although illegal, was not necessarily a crime of violence.

The problem is that when Congress wrote the law, they wrote it to say that Murder with the DP attached must have been carried out along with a separate crime of violence. That was a stupid way to write the law.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (giMmT)

53 "Everything ~~in NY~~ Democrats do seems to be geared to protect killers and evildoers." FIFY.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (N8ZBc)

54 Officials became suspicious when the FBI agent identified himself as Special Agent Alonso Moseley.
Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026

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Ha! That goes back a ways.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (wzUl9)

55 BTW, that judge will get removed for obvious corruption.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (PV3WW)

56 50 This is why there can be no peace.

They're literally dropping murder charges to protect their people.

It's literally true that you won't necessarily be charged with murder if you murder the right sort of person.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (oSeBJ)

The Left fights tooth and nail for their monsters.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (uEmCf)

57 Minnesota criminal drives himself to the prison.

No wonder Tim Walz is governor.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (BI5O2)

58 Second look at the Unibomber?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (g8Ew8)

59 Pizza cutter with the thing that goes up?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (OYMjn)

60 ot:

It's a < 2 mile walk from CMU to the Synagogue that got shot up.

Posted by: DaveA at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (FhXTo)

61 I saw Hearth-Throb open for Confagnation at Cain's Ballroom in '22.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (oThr7)

62 Ace, I'm not sure this was judicial activism. The federal "murder" statute is an odd-ball charge that isn't really "murder" as that term is usually understood. It requires an additional element that requires that the killing be committed during another "crime of violence."

The best the prosecutors could come up with for the other "crime of violence" was "stalking." Meh. Even I'm not sure about that.

If the judge really wanted to tank the case, she could have ruled that the backpack search was illegal (it was done without a warrant). She didn't. She ruled that the very incriminating items in the backpack (manifesto, gun, etc) are admissible. That was a big win for the prosecution.

This creepy loser still faces charges in the case that could put him away for life. And there's the state prosecution for murder-two as well. As I've said here before, I still think this fucker is gonna walk, unfortunately.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

63 And yet again, judicial tyranny continues because there's no cost whatsoever to it. There's never a price to pay.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (PYyV9)

64 GOPe: la-la-la, nothing to see except rainbows and sunshine.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (mlg/3)

65 Was it a semi-automatic, full-auto pizza cutter?
Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026

***
You know without looking it has a thing that goes up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (wzUl9)

66 We are too beholden to the law.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (2ap+5)

67

just more new rules
that the left isnt going to like very much
when they start getting implemented in red states
and theres a lot more red states than blue ones

Posted by: sound awake at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (g7ym/)

68 Pro pizzamen use a great big f'n chef's knife to cut pizza. Did he have one of those?

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (N8ZBc)

69 Flugelhorn?

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (UjdFS)

70
The best the prosecutors could come up with for the other "crime of violence" was "stalking." Meh. Even I'm not sure about that.

Shooting a man in the back isn't considered violent?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

71 Defund the judiciary.

Problem solved.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (TezPK)

72 What did he kill the guy with then?Dud he throw the bullets into him?

Posted by: steevy

In a sane city, that would still qualify for capital punishment if it killed him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (0U5gm)

73 Federal convictions can be pardoned by the next dem president anyway, can't they?

Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (YpWtw)

74 I keep thinking that people who can excuse that are capable of doing the same.
Posted by: Decaf

No. They're just eager to have others do it. The judge wouldn't dare sully her dainty hands with such scut work, don't cha know?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (mlg/3)

75 Pro pizzamen use a great big f'n chef's knife to cut pizza. Did he have one of those?
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026

***
I bought one of those pizza cutter wheels once. I'd have had more success using a Texas spur on the pizza. Went back to a knife and fork.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2026 03:54 PM (wzUl9)

76 With a "No problem. Barely an inconvenience..."
Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 03:49 PM

Lawless judges are tight!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (Wnv9h)

77 Elric, you are right there. Please give us the scoop. el Doctoró Blade.
Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Wmg4n)
____

Please see my comment above. The short answer is that the federal "murder" crime isn't really "murder" as we understand it. It's an odd-ball crime that requires murder the murder be committed during another "crime of violence." Very odd formulation.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

78 Pre-meditation and terrorism not a consideration for the DP.

Did they previously drop the terrorism charge?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (cwGMH)

79 Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
-
How so?

The courts are obviously not going to be part of the solution to the communists.

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (vSvIl)

80 This is why there can be no peace.

They're literally dropping murder charges to protect their people.

It's literally true that you won't necessarily be charged with murder if you murder the right sort of person.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (oSeBJ)

Soros DAs mean you usually won't even be charged

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (8avO+)

81 I thought high grade idiots came from Florida.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Ever been to Boston?

Wicked pissah!

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (TezPK)

82 just more new rules
that the left isnt going to like very much
when they start getting implemented in red states
and theres a lot more red states than blue ones

Posted by: sound awake

While I appreciate the intent, I have to say that this is the worst haiku I have ever encountered.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (0U5gm)

83 Judges need to be held accountable for obvious bad rulings. They are there to apply the law not to overthrow the law. These judges need to be kicked off the bench. It's obvious they are too stupid or too bias to make any rulings.

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (E7+ue)

84 Very unfortunate that the stuff they "found" in the backpack will be allowed. I don't get it. They didn't have a warrant. There's not exceptions to this!
Edit:there are explanations of the exemptions below

No death penalty is huge. Getting that evidence tossed would have really increased their chances at trial. Without it, there was still other evidence that could have been used to convict him, but this significantly increases his odds at being convicted.

I can't wait to read his book. The next presidential candidate needs to pardon him now. There's a list of hardened criminals Trump pardoned. IDGAF about this we go high when they low bullshit. Luigi deserves a pardon more than 100% of those people.

Pam Bondi jeoperadized this entire case by pushing for the death penalty. No judge would allow this to be a death penalty case. Luigi might fucking walk. That would be the worst failure of a US Attorney General in modern times.

Like it matters. The Establishment hates this man with burning passion. Even if he is found innocent they will never let him be. Smart at any rate. They would make him a martyr if they were to give him the death penalty.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (JCZqz)

85 Minnesota criminal drives himself to the prison.

Yeah but how much is parking?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (Kt19C)

86 Pizza cutter wheels work ok if you sharpen the cutting edge.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (PV3WW)

87 Flugelhorn?
Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026

***
Die Fliedermaus (harking back to this morning's Art Thread)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (wzUl9)

88 And yet again, judicial tyranny continues because there's no cost whatsoever to it. There's never a price to pay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Ah but they will rue the day!

Posted by: Vichy GOP at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (ciYHQ)

89 Okay, can the judicial ruling be appealed?
Posted by: tubal

Yes. Pizza peeled!

Posted by: fly gal at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (g8IDW)

90 Please see my comment above. The short answer is that the federal "murder" crime isn't really "murder" as we understand it. It's an odd-ball crime that requires murder the murder be committed during another "crime of violence." Very odd formulation.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

Possibly some legerdemain to try and boost it out of being a state charge without the "crossing state lines" folderol.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (8avO+)

91
I can't wait to read his book. The next presidential candidate needs to pardon him now. There's a list of hardened criminals Trump pardoned. IDGAF about this we go high when they low bullshit. Luigi deserves a pardon more than 100% of those people.

Unbelievable

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (VE6XX)

92 So, The Missus insists I do All Pizza Cutting and I must do it with The Wheel Pizza Cutter.

Just one of those quirky little quite things she does, I guess.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (DgMqy)

93 The best the prosecutors could come up with for the other "crime of violence" was "stalking." Meh. Even I'm not sure about that.

Shooting a man in the back isn't considered violent?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
______

You need a killing plus another separate crime of violence. A killing alone isn't enough. The prosecution conceded as much.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

94 A BBQ fork? A pizza wheel? Sounds like some good eatin'!

Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (ufJfM)

95 We havd a two tier justice system, 1 for Leftists and the other for everyone else.

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)

96 84 I can't wait to read his book. The next presidential candidate needs to pardon him now. There's a list of hardened criminals Trump pardoned. IDGAF about this we go high when they low bullshit. Luigi deserves a pardon more than 100% of those people.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (JCZqz)

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Why does he deserve a pardon?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

97 The courts are obviously not going to be part of the solution to the communists."

1930s Spain says "have a cerveza"

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (cGjQu)

98 So our side is at the "No Justice No Peace" inflection point now. Funny old world, it is.

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (pDt9x)

99 Anderson had traveled to New York from Minnesota for a job opportunity that didn't work out
......

Shoulda stayed home and opened a Learing Center.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

100 Yes. Pizza peeled!

Posted by: fly gal at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (g8IDW)
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*golf clap*

Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (YpWtw)

101 Maybe I need to find a holster so I can carry my pizza cutter with me on my hikes to protect myself.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (S6amQ)

102 84 Like it matters. The Establishment hates this man with burning passion. Even if he is found innocent they will never let him be. Smart at any rate. They would make him a martyr if they were to give him the death penalty.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (JCZqz)

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The left has so many martyrs, one more won't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

103 willowed:

Homan's got a PHD in pissology.
On their leg and sensitive parts too.
With absolutely no hesitation, good publicity too.
PAIN, hahahahahah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (hG1+u)

104 You need a killing plus another separate crime of violence. A killing alone isn't enough. The prosecution conceded as much.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

So the prosecution is throwing the case. Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (mlg/3)

105 84 Like it matters. The Establishment hates this man with burning passion. Even if he is found innocent they will never let him be. Smart at any rate. They would make him a martyr if they were to give him the death penalty.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (JCZqz)

There's no such thing as "Found Innocent", and those lefty assholes know it because they scream it from the mountaintops every time someone is found Not Guilty of rape.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (iXqHn)

106 At his age, life is far worse. If he even gets tried.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 30, 2026 03:59 PM (Vvh2V)

107 Can we raze MN to the ground yet? We can airdrop pamphlets to warn the law abiding citizens.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 03:59 PM (oT7pT)

108
You need a killing plus another separate crime of violence. A killing alone isn't enough. The prosecution conceded as much.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

That's REAL retarded, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

109
Shooting a man in the back isn't considered violent?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

Parse what he said carefully. What you describe is the Primary act of Violence. But the Federal Law also requires a secondary act of violence to have been committed along with the primary, or else it cannot be used.

It's a badly written law.

In judicial rulings "conservative" and "liberal" don't mean what we think they do politically. A "Liberal" judge will simply reinterpret the law to mean whatever he wants it to mean in order to keep things moving along.

A "conservative" judge will refuse to rewrite the law, since that's the legislature's job. He or she will simply toss the mess out of court and tell the Legislature to try again. If a criminal goes free - well that's the legislature's fault, not the judge's.

This is actually a pretty conservative legal ruling.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 03:59 PM (giMmT)

110 Ah but they will rue the day!
Posted by: Vichy GOP at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM

"Rue the day? Who talks like that?"

Posted by: Chris Knight at January 30, 2026 03:59 PM (Wnv9h)

111 You need a killing plus another separate crime of violence. A killing alone isn't enough.

The law is a ass.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Fs0KI)

112 Please see my comment above. The short answer is that the federal "murder" crime isn't really "murder" as we understand it. It's an odd-ball crime that requires murder the murder be committed during another "crime of violence." Very odd formulation.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

Possibly some legerdemain to try and boost it out of being a state charge without the "crossing state lines" folderol.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (8avO+)
_____

Yes, and also to get to the death penalty. The "regular" federal murder charge is still in the case, but doesn't carry the death penalty. It's kinda like murder-one versus murder-two in NY state. Both are "murder," but murder-one is murder plus an additional element.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

113 Release Mangione and let the people seek real justice. Fuck the Judge Twat.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Hpgos)

114 I am not sure the guy really deserves the death penalty, but removing charges just to avoid the possibility is judicial tyranny, its abuse of power, but it will continue forever until some checks and penalties arise to stop this kind of thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (PYyV9)

115 Pro pizzamen use a great big f'n chef's knife to cut pizza. Did he have one of those?
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (N8ZBc)

There's a thing with a heavy curved blade and two handles on each end so you can cut the whole diameter in one go.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (8avO+)

116 What we need is Judge Roy Bean

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

117 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (hG1+u)

118 There was a Vietnamese cook that I knew made his own pizza wheel out of heavy pieces of carbon steel and sharpened razor-blade sharp. Would have made a formidable weapon.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (g8Ew8)

119 It's literally true that you won't necessarily be charged with murder if you murder the right sort of person.
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This is why, as was the case with Goode and Petti, there is no option other than "shot while resisting arrest."

Prosecution is pretty much a waste of time and effort in dealing with Democrats.

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (vSvIl)

120 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?"

With a twist of Lemon?

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (cGjQu)

121 117 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (hG1+u)

He's gonna be very popular

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (VE6XX)

122 110 Ah but they will rue the day!
Posted by: Vichy GOP at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM

"Rue the day? Who talks like that?"
------------------
The Roos.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (Hpgos)

123 117 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (hG1+u)

Just play them some smooth jazz.

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (pDt9x)

124 This will not be a popular opinion, I'm sure, but you have to be precise in the charging documents. Precise in the language used. Not overcharge, or use the wrong statute. Not have grandstanding amateur feds swoop in and do any of the above. In short, you can't give these assholes any reason for dismissal. See Comey, James. James, Leticia. Lemon, C. Sucker.

Unless of course if it is a Democrat charging a conservative. Then none of that matters.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 30, 2026 04:01 PM (MZ+PY)

125 I am not sure the guy really deserves the death penalty, but removing charges just to avoid the possibility is judicial tyranny, its abuse of power, but it will continue forever until some checks and penalties arise to stop this kind of thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (PYyV9)

lying in wait / conspiracy like stipulations don't qualify for the elevation? They should. Isn't like this was a spur of the moment thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+)

126 Prosecution is pretty much a waste of time and effort in dealing with Democrats"

Read that as "prostitution "...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (cGjQu)

127 1 Can the Feds appeal this insane ruling?
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Yes. Interlocutory appeal.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (2swu2)

128 You need a killing plus another separate crime of violence. A killing alone isn't enough. The prosecution conceded as much.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

So the prosecution is throwing the case. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (mlg/3)
______

Prosecution had no choice. That's what the statute requires to get to the death penalty. See my comment above. The "regular" murder charge is still in the case. But that charge doesn't carry the death penalty. In order to get to the death penalty, you need murder plus a separate crime of violence.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

129 "I bought one of those pizza cutter wheels once. I'd have had more success using a Texas spur on the pizza."

Yeah, I've never used any but dull ones. Dull like kindergartner scissors.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (N8ZBc)

130 I think the actionable point here is that if you want to kill someone in cold blood, you need to get them to NYC first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (0U5gm)

131 This was a political assassination intended to terrorize other CEOs the Left doesn't like.

Are there not statues that allow for the DP to be applied ?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (cwGMH)

132 Just play them some smooth jazz."

Feels so Good.

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (cGjQu)

133 So the prosecution is throwing the case. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 03:58 PM (mlg/3)

Trump told Bondi to go for the DP on this one. It should have just gone through State Law charges, but NY doesn't have a DP anymore. Bondi used the Federal Murder with DP charge, but as we're pointing out, it's a badly written, messed up law.

I am not picking on either Bondi or Trump, but his was a minefiled that Bondi was ordered to go into. No choice for her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (giMmT)

134 Like it matters. The Establishment hates this man with burning passion.

One of the most painful lies the left tells themselves is that they are still the oppressed minority resistance against THe Man.

They ARE the man, they are the establishment. They control education, entertainment, business, news, science, law, government, religion, all aspects of society and civilization. They are the powerful.

Its like calling white people the "majority" and other ethic backgrounds "minority" despite whites being about 16% of the population worldwide.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (PYyV9)

135 117 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?

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If internet rumors are true, Luigi's a bottom with a preference for Black guys. He'll be fine.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (0bjKf)

136 133
Trump told Bondi to go for the DP on this one. It should have just gone through State Law charges, but NY doesn't have a DP anymore. Bondi used the Federal Murder with DP charge, but as we're pointing out, it's a badly written, messed up law.

I am not picking on either Bondi or Trump, but his was a minefiled that Bondi was ordered to go into. No choice for her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (giMmT)

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Matt Gaetz would have done it perfectly!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

137 Pizza?

Meh. No, thanks.

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (cGjQu)

138 The lefties mad at insurance companies, justifying the Mangione shooting, still haven't connected the dots that Obamacare enriched the insurance companies, and made them even more insensitive to the policy holders. Because the media doesn't want them to.

Nope...let's shoot an exec, and then get turned into a heartthrob for the single woke Karens. That will solve things.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (gWBY1)

139 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (hG1+u)

He's a hero. I'm betting he gets his pick of the asses to shove his meatstick in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

140 Yeah, I've never used any but dull ones. Dull like kindergartner scissors.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (N8ZBc)

I have a pretty decent all metal one. It for some reason gets all black if I don't dry it after cleaning it, annoying.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (8avO+)

141 One of the sparks that led to the Spanish Civil War was the recently elected leftwing government giving its street thugs full license to murder opposition political figures.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

142 115 Pro pizzamen use a great big f'n chef's knife to cut pizza. Did he have one of those?
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (N8ZBc)

There's a thing with a heavy curved blade and two handles on each end so you can cut the whole diameter in one go.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (8avO+)

I think that's called a mezzaluna.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (S6amQ)

143 138 The lefties mad at insurance companies, justifying the Mangione shooting, still haven't connected the dots that Obamacare enriched the insurance companies, and made them even more insensitive to the policy holders. Because the media doesn't want them to.

Nope...let's shoot an exec, and then get turned into a heartthrob for the single woke Karens. That will solve things.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (gWBY1)

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American healthcare was fixed with the ACA.

Or are you a racist?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

144 Luigi deserves a 45acp brain lobotomy
He planned the murder and carried it out

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)

145 Just what weapon did Magione use to backshoot and kill the victim? Did he point his finger and say "bang bang you're dead". I mean the man was killed with a firearm. How can this judge dismiss the charge? Well she's a Democrat and probably believes that Mangione can get pregnant.

Posted by: comanche voter at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (cB7nX)

146 117 How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (hG1+u)

Sometimes the people you think are going to be the rape-bitches end up getting treated like kings.

Example : Jared Fogle. You would have thought they'd give him the Jeffrey Dahmer treatment.

But nope.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (iXqHn)

147 If internet rumors are true, Luigi's a bottom with a preference for Black guys. He'll be fine."

So, no Miralax?

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (cGjQu)

148 >>> In his backpack, BOP workers found a barbecue fork and a "round steel blade" that resembled a pizza cutter. Anderson had traveled to New York from Minnesota for a job opportunity that didn't work out, and had been working at a pizzeria, the law enforcement source said.

Media rewriting the narrative: A minnesota man was arrested with the tools of his trade in his backpack...

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (gWBY1)

149 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image (Something said by someone in some book )

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (pDt9x)

150 It's good to be a Demonrat I guess. These "judges" are bullshit. Two tier justice for the country. I would say I am surprised but each day I am not. It's just another level of the insanity.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (Q0yOR)

151 lying in wait / conspiracy like stipulations don't qualify for the elevation? They should.

I see death penalty being the required penalty for someone who is a severe threat to society at large and who has committed a heinous crime. Not just "I got mad and waited for the guy my girl was cheating with" but "I hate left handed people and killed as many as I could find and damn well still will keep doing so."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (PYyV9)

152 114 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (PYyV9)

Right he just committed murder one, but it was against a CEO so we should probably let America's oldest Tween

Luigi Mangina used his MIND to kill the guy.

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (MUJd1)

153 The lefties mad at insurance companies, justifying the Mangione shooting, still haven't connected the dots that Obamacare enriched the insurance companies, and made them even more insensitive to the policy holders. Because the media doesn't want them to.

Yes, if the exec was guilty for profiting off of Obamacare then isn't Obama just as guilty since he created it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

154 Was it Bueller who said you have to replace the judges in order to make real reforms?

Because this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (Hkcdp)

155 In for a minute...
Yeah, falsely convict and imprison cops for NOT killing a black man with enough fent in his system to kill an elephant.
Don't convict for using a firearm a man who murdered another with a firearm.

All makes sense in Leftist logic. Guns bad unless they use them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (ynpvh)

156 One of the sparks that led to the Spanish Civil War was the recently elected leftwing government giving its street thugs full license to murder opposition political figures."

Indeed. History may repeat...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (cGjQu)

157 Are there not statues that allow for the DP to be applied ?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (cwGMH)

If he had done this in Texas or any of the other states that still allow the DP, yes it could have been. But he did it in NY, a criminal's haven.

And now we're finding out that Congress forgot to make assassinations punishable by the DP when they wrote the Federal statute.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (giMmT)

158 At first I was confused and mad, but now he'll be anally raped to death instead of "put to sleep"

Bye, fucker. hope it hurts

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (XLfSN)

159 153
Yes, if the exec was guilty for profiting off of Obamacare then isn't Obama just as guilty since he created it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

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Obama couldn't predict that the ACA wouldn't lead to utopia.

This is the fault of wreckers and hoarders who prevented it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

160 >>>"Rue the day? Who talks like that?"

Posted by: Chris Knight

>A black, Jewish, female Shakespeare? Huzzah!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (oT7pT)

161 "There's a thing with a heavy curved blade and two handles on each end so you can cut the whole diameter in one go.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (8avO+)

I think that's called a mezzaluna."

Dual-handled chef's knife.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (N8ZBc)

162 Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

So political assassination doesn't allow for the DP?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (cwGMH)

163 Something said by someone in some book"

Well, it was over a hundred years ago...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:07 PM (cGjQu)

164
Prosecution had no choice. That's what the statute requires to get to the death penalty. See my comment above. The "regular" murder charge is still in the case. But that charge doesn't carry the death penalty. In order to get to the death penalty, you need murder plus a separate crime of violence.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

Normally I resist the urge to say, there ought to be a law. In this case there ought to be a law that lets you get the death penalty for this type of crime.
Maybe not, I don't know enough to have an opinion but YOLO

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 04:07 PM (S6amQ)

165 Manually operated scimitar.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:07 PM (N8ZBc)

166 Nope...let's shoot an exec, and then get turned into a heartthrob for the single woke Karens. That will solve things.
Posted by: LizLem
.......

They're gonna be so disappointed when he marries Bubba.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 04:07 PM (UjdFS)

167 The judge's reasoning seems screwy. But she may have increased the odds of loser shooter boy getting convicted. Squeamish jurors that can't dispute the evidence will now have the "its just prison and L could be pardoned or have his sentence commuted once orange-man bad is out of office" carrot to do to the right thing now.

I don't understand the lefts love affair with evil killers, they did the same thing with the Boston marathon bomber, and that was full on cowardly craven terrorism against wimmin and children.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 04:07 PM (hhkIi)

168 U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett apparently wants a living martyr so the MFM/Hollyweird crowd can deify him through interviews, movies, and retrospectives on their hero.

I cannot believe we have people running courts who are so poisonous to justice.

After voter reform, the nation needs to get to Judicial Reform. Law really doesn't mean law and hasn't in forever; it remains politics.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 04:07 PM (gLikB)

169 American healthcare was fixed with the ACA.

The left says all three of these things interchangeably:

1) Obamacare fixed American healthcare and we HAVE to preserve it or people will die

2) American health care is the worst in the world

3) Changing American health care laws is racist, evil, and mean (when a Republican is in charge)

4) We must change the American health care laws because if we don't it is evil, racist and mean (when a Democrat is in charge)

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

170 154 Was it Bueller who said you have to replace the judges in order to make real reforms?

Because this is getting ridiculous.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (Hkcdp)

No, that line was in Nayib Bukele's Day Off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (giMmT)

171 >>How long is Mangione going to survive in prison?

Long time. He has a purdy mouf.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Y1sOo)

172 44 I've read this story at a few places, but nobody says what the judge ruled. What was her legal reason for throwing out the charges?
Posted by: No Name Today

Okay, Mangione still faces two charges that bring life in prison without parole charges.

The specifics are that death penalty, as per Scotus, requires an aggravating factor above and beyond simple murder. Aka murder for money, murder for hate, etc.

The federal statute he was charged under was using a suppressor in commission of a murder and stalking prior to the murder. Judge concluded neither of those were predicate crimes of violence so the aggravating factor allowing the death penalty under the federal statutes no longer exist.

Scotus dealing with criminal history has been parsing which crimes are traditional crimes of violence and which are not. That district judge was interpreting those decisions to apply to the statute.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (2swu2)

173 Seems to me if someone is murdered their rights have been violated. Like their right to live.

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (E7+ue)

174 They're gonna be so disappointed when he marries Bubba."

Guess who's catching...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (cGjQu)

175 I doubt Luigi will do especially badly in prison. Cons hate people who attack women and children (because they aren't around to protect theirs) but just some guy who killed an exec? Unless he's a complete idiot, he'll fare normally in prison as I understand it.

The people who do badly in prison, according to convicts and prison guards, are the people who are disrespectful and impolite, arrogant, or demanding. It can be surprising what is considered disrespectful, something like peeing standing up for example but it makes sense if you really think about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (PYyV9)

176 151 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:05 PM (PYyV9)

Conspiratorial murder for political purposes to change policy is the classical definition of terrorism, good to know you think the Mangina shoot was not particularly bad for society at large....

our of curiosity what homicides against their ideological foes on the left would find your leniency?

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (MUJd1)

177 169 The left says all three of these things interchangeably:

1) Obamacare fixed American healthcare and we HAVE to preserve it or people will die

2) American health care is the worst in the world

3) Changing American health care laws is racist, evil, and mean (when a Republican is in charge)

4) We must change the American health care laws because if we don't it is evil, racist and mean (when a Democrat is in charge)

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

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The American government doesn't spend any money on healthcare, you know. They spend it all on the Pentagon instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

178 In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can’t explain this Holy pain

Waiting for days longer
’til sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way

Posted by: Vichy GOP at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (ciYHQ)

179 Did pizza cutter guy ever stop to think that feds taking custody of a high-profile prisoner might be preceded by a phone call, and also that the FBI would send more than one dude for such an assignment?

That's rhetorical, of course, as progressivism precludes logical thought.

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at January 30, 2026 04:08 PM (We5PL)

180 MAN ALLEGEDLY ENGAGED IN SEX ACTS WITH VACUUM: A man is in custody after allegedly walking nude around a Florida resort and publicly engaging in a sexual act with a vacuum cleaner. Deputies responded to the Windsor Hills Resort in Kissimmee after they got calls saying a man was exposing himself. The man was identified as 51-year-old Kevin Dale Westerhold, who reportedly hosts an Airbnb property in the area, and is now facing charges of exposure of sexual organs as the investigation continues.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (NtVYv)

181 There's a thing with a heavy curved blade and two handles on each end so you can cut the whole diameter in one go.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:00 PM (8avO+)

I think that's called a mezzaluna.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 04:04 PM (S6amQ)

close, but those are for chopping herbs on a cutting bowl. What I am thinking of is much longer to cut across the entire pizza in one chop, then spin to do the next one. Saw a YT clip of some woman in a pizzeria chopping a pizza out of the oven like a dervish with one. It was like 20"" blade or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)

182 Do Cape Cod Original potato chips count as a major food group?

Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (rj6Yv)

183 If they can get a jury to convict him, I predict he'll be pardoned within the next dem president's first year in office. He'll probably get a ticker tape parade too

Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (rxRAc)

184 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (giMmT)

NY DP allowed for killing law enforcement I think:

But we are talking about Federal charges not state.

I think a terrorism charge also applies.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (cwGMH)

185 Occasionally in talking to lefty LIVs I'll point out that "back in the day" you could see a doctor, even a specialist!, in a short period of time and the price wouldn't break the bank. They'll agree until I point out "back in the day" ended shortly after Obamacare was passed.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

186 Just let him go, and hope he has an accident. It's less aggravating.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 30, 2026 04:10 PM (cS1cw)

187 This is insane on the judge’s part. But it’s NY, he was never going to given the death penalty by a jury.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 04:10 PM (PHOGh)

188 MAN ALLEGEDLY ENGAGED IN SEX ACTS WITH VACUUM: A man is in custody after allegedly walking nude around a Florida resort and publicly engaging in a sexual act with a vacuum cleaner.

Well that story sucked

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

189 Unshakable belief in a higher power, one that will hand out true justice in the next life, because this world is a fallen one incapable of such, is one of the few things that grounds me and keeps me sane. It helps me from stroking out when I hear a cold blooded murder, who killed someone vigilante style on the street, will skate the full justice of the law.

Justice is only blind when she isn't being whored out for politics.

I do pity the woke lefties that only believe justice is possible in this life, and they MUST be one the "right" side of history, according to their sense of justice. Because I think it explains a lot of their mental illnesses and their TDS.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (gWBY1)

190 185 Occasionally in talking to lefty LIVs I'll point out that "back in the day" you could see a doctor, even a specialist!, in a short period of time and the price wouldn't break the bank. They'll agree until I point out "back in the day" ended shortly after Obamacare was passed.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

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"Why can't the world be the 80s again?"
-the left, doing everything possible to prevent anything like the 80s from happening again

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

191 I think a terrorism charge also applies.

I think that will be a tough one to prove. Typically terrorism is defined as something like "violence done to a civilian population in an attempt to influence or change government policy." If you try hard enough you can Kevin Bacon your way there in this instance but you have to convince a somewhat hostile jury.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (PYyV9)

192 I would love to see the reasoning behind this

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (NtVYv)

193 Whenever DJIA, SP500, and Nas have a down day simultaneously, my crappy little portfolio gains. Flight to Quality, or Run for Cover? Sell all that overpriced growth crap, suckas; welcome to ValueLand.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (N8ZBc)

194 >>Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (NtVYv)

"It's a Flowbee! I was just trimming the verge!!!"

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (ZcsJV)

195 193 Whenever DJIA, SP500, and Nas have a down day simultaneously, my crappy little portfolio gains. Flight to Quality, or Run for Cover? Sell all that overpriced growth crap, suckas; welcome to ValueLand.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (N8ZBc)

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Friday and last day of the month.

Sell for profits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

196 I can see the verdict now: Jurors find him not guilty, and also vote to send his prosecuting attorneys to the guillotine.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (GD2xa)

197 I think a terrorism charge also applies.

I think that will be a tough one to prove. Typically terrorism is defined as something like "violence done to a civilian population in an attempt to influence or change government policy." If you try hard enough you can Kevin Bacon your way there in this instance but you have to convince a somewhat hostile jury.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (PYyV9)

It was certainly done to change corporate policy, even the leftists would agree.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (8avO+)

198 Meh. The women here think Luigi is dreamy. One of them wants to write him a letter and tell him how much she loves him. Not kidding. It’s so weird.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (W2Pud)

199 116 What we need is Judge Roy Bean
Posted by: It's me donna
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What we need to do is play their game.
Round up Mayorkas, Weisman, Fauci and the most egregious judges and put them in jail.

When they come with a writ to release them tell them it's invalid. Let the lawyers bleed them dry through the courts.

No standing
Invalid
I can't hear you

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (hG1+u)

200 He'll probably get a ticker tape parade too

"Maybe we can hook him up with a job!"
--University of Illinois

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (PYyV9)

201 murder through the use of a firearm and using a firearm with a silencer to commit a crime of violence.
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A silencer is not illegal. Having a firearm is, in New York. I think.

In federal law, to be death penalty eligible. You have to be doing a violent crime first, that then results in murder. Armed bank robbery, shoot a guard. At least thats what i heard. Oddly just shooting someone doesnt get you the chair in fed law. They tried to use stalking, a crime but judge said not violent. Eh.

Posted by: Law will make you wish it didnt at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (xj28v)

202 190 "Why can't the world be the 80s again?"
-the left, doing everything possible to prevent anything like the 80s from happening again
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

While shouting "RE-CREATE '68!!!".

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (iXqHn)

203 When the govt tries to make things affordable prices for those things increase faster than inflation sometimes by several orders of magnitude.

See education, health care and housing as exhibits a,b and c.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (PHOGh)

204 The simple answer is that the law should be back to what it was until the wave of do-gooder criminal sympathy took root in the 60's.

ALL premeditated murder should be punishable by the Death Penalty. No conditions, no aggravating circumstances required, no other elements needed. ALL Premeditated murder should be punished by Death, just like we used to do. Period.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (giMmT)

205 You need a killing plus another separate crime of violence. A killing alone isn't enough. The prosecution conceded as much.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

That's REAL retarded, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

It makes sense, because 90% of murders are state crimes. For the Feds to get involved...the Federal Government has to be involved in some way. On Federal property, against a federal employee, or (as alleged in this case) while committing another Federal violation. But, it sounds like the Federal violation here didn't meet the criteria/threshold needed. It doesn't seem that far off. The State can (and should) charge him with murder, but as for the feds...it's really not their case.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (JCZqz)

206 You know Who Else wasn't expected to survive long in prison?

Speaking of "can't wait to read his book..."
We'll be lucky if he doesn't get funding in there to start a prisoners' revolt party and take over the whole country.
Not like it's never happened before.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (zdLoL)

207 In a win for prosecutors, Garnett said they could present evidence to the jury from Mangione's backpack that he had at the time of his arrest at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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I think people are exaggerating about the judge.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (6ZSsV)

208 >>There's a thing with a heavy curved blade and two handles on each end so you can cut the whole diameter in one go.

It's called a Bat' Leth.

Posted by: Big Mike Obama at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (ZcsJV)

209 168 U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett apparently wants a living martyr so the MFM/Hollyweird crowd can deify him through interviews, movies, and retrospectives on their hero.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026
04:07 PM (gLikB)

Pardoning a dead guy just doesn't demonstrate the power of a fully functional Democrat Party. The standard is Guilty as Sin and Free as a Bird.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (w/O5Q)

210 "Why can't the world be the 80s again?" Make that 1950s, please.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (N8ZBc)

211 It was certainly done to change corporate policy, even the leftists would agree.

Yeah and if you worked hard enough you could possibly link that to government policy through legislation or executive order making these changes, but I think its a stretch and again, a NY Jury probably wants to give him a medal to begin with so its a bit of an ask.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (PYyV9)

212 "Why can't the world be the 80s again?"
-the left, doing everything possible to prevent anything like the 80s from happening again

This is another odd thing about the left on the one hand the past was irredeemably racist and evil, and yes they mean the 1980s, but on the other hand they'll tell you modern Republicans are so extreme unlike the ones in the 80s and earlier.

This is a real philosophical odd spot for them, because we have obviously gone way way to the left over the last few generations while things have gotten in their views worse.

Yes I know pointing this out to them doesn't work they stick their heads in the sand and just play pretend they don't believe BOTH to be true.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

213 Judge: Luigi Mangione accidentally gave the victim lead poisoning... Accidents happen all the time...

MSM: He's a good boy, just look at his middle school soccer team pictures

Idiot White Women: He's so dreamy. He totally fixed health care...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Wnqw0)

214 one. Saw a YT clip of some woman in a pizzeria chopping a pizza out of the oven like a dervish with one. It was like 20"" blade or something.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)

Found it, it's called a pizza rocker cutter and it kind of looks like a mezzaluna only it's not as moon shaped it has a flatter blade and looks deadly and like it'd work great for fast pizza cutting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 04:14 PM (S6amQ)

215 >>> The American government doesn't spend any money on healthcare, you know. They spend it all on the Pentagon instead.

Oh, they do...just for illegals. Hardworking Americans can go hang.

I knew when Obama said if you like your plan you can keep your plan it was a bald faced lie. It didn't take being a Cassandra to see that.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:15 PM (gWBY1)

216 >>"Why can't the world be the 80s again?" Make that 1950s, please.

Back when the world's problems could be solved with the back of your hand.

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at January 30, 2026 04:15 PM (ZcsJV)

217 A silencer is not illegal.

I think suppressors are potentially illegal, at least if you don't have a license. It is also likely that using one in the commission of a crime increases penalties in NYC.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:15 PM (PYyV9)

218 Meh. The women here think Luigi is dreamy. One of them wants to write him a letter and tell him how much she loves him. Not kidding. It’s so weird.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (W2Pud)

Used to be a survival strategy for women when the strongmen from another district killed all the men and took them captive. Hook up with the strongest dude you could and you and your kids might make it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:15 PM (8avO+)

219 212 This is a real philosophical odd spot for them, because we have obviously gone way way to the left over the last few generations while things have gotten in their views worse.

Yes I know pointing this out to them doesn't work they stick their heads in the sand and just play pretend they don't believe BOTH to be true.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

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I've noted this weird dichotomy of yearning for major elements of the past personally and then hating on anyone who talks about returning to any policy from the past (unless it's tax brackets for the super rich).

"Why do I no longer feel save in my city anymore?"

"Well, because of all the policy changes since the late 60s."

"Does that mean you want to return of Jim Crow?!"

"In Philadelphia?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

220 "You have to be doing a violent crime first, that then results in murder."

I'd say "shooting someone in the back multiple times" is a pretty violent crime.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (gLikB)

221 "Why can't the world be the 80s again?" Make that 1950s, please.

Again, I'm reminded of the movie "Don't Worry Darling" which is supposed to be a paean to how men are terrible and we need feminism but when you watch it makes you wish you lived in the 50s...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

222 CEOs should be beating feet out of NYC by the G5 load.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (jc0TO)

223 215 >>> The American government doesn't spend any money on healthcare, you know. They spend it all on the Pentagon instead.

Oh, they do...just for illegals. Hardworking Americans can go hang.

I knew when Obama said if you like your plan you can keep your plan it was a bald faced lie. It didn't take being a Cassandra to see that.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:15 PM (gWBY1)

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$5 trillion a year.

The federal government spends $5 trillion a year on healthcare directly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

224 Bastard shot the guy in the back.

He deserves to die.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (jnZe8)

225 Of course Luigi McMurderface wasn't stalking Thompson. He just happened to be out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel where Thompson was staying and just happened to have a gun with a suppressor attached. All a very likely and innocent coincidence.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (M0V4/)

226 Used to be a survival strategy for women when the strongmen from another district killed all the men and took them captive. Hook up with the strongest dude you could and you and your kids might make it.

Works for gamma males in prison as well. Don Lemon knows what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

227
VERY SAD . A good friend of mine, after 7 yrs of medical school and training has been fired for one minor indiscretion. He slept with one of his patients and can no longer work in the profession. What a waste of time, effort, training and money. He's still paying on his school loans. This just goes to show one minor mistake can ruin your life. Thoughts for him and his family. He really is a great guy and a brilliant veterinarian.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (hG1+u)

228 UPDATE:
Maids contracted to work at his Airbnb just quit.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

229 I do not, do not like the prosecutor trick of piling on multiple charges just to terrify defendants into making a deal or get a conviction, and maybe this was one of those instances, but I also don't like judges imperially reducing charges to aid a sympathetic defendant.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (PYyV9)

230 Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Yeah, for the criminals.

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (E7+ue)

231 >>> Used to be a survival strategy for women when the strongmen from another district killed all the men and took them captive. Hook up with the strongest dude you could and you and your kids might make it.

One of the women in Squid Games did that. Did not end well for her or the alpha male...

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:18 PM (gWBY1)

232 Even if this guy does get a sentence of death, what are the odds that it will be carried out before natural causes take over?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 04:18 PM (ESVrU)

233 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:13 PM (PYyV9)

He attempted to terrorize all healthcare corporate officers. The Left agrees with that. And supports it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 04:18 PM (cwGMH)

234 by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (hG1+u)

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 30, 2026 04:18 PM (Vvh2V)

235 31 The George Soros Plan of electing left-wing judges and AG's seems to be working well for the Democrats all across this country.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Let's lock him up, de-bank him, and clawback all his money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (hG1+u)

236 Maids contracted to work at his Airbnb just quit.

Well that blows for me then

Posted by: The guy's Bissell at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

237 I think suppressors are potentially illegal, at least if you don't have a license. It is also likely that using one in the commission of a crime increases penalties in NYC.
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Personally, I've never understood why our troops are not equipped with silencers. All that Night Vision and Thermal Vision is cheated once you stop banging away.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (Hpgos)

238 227 A vet who sleeps with his 'patients?' That's ... ambiguous.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (N8ZBc)

239 So you can’t be charged with murdering someone with a firearm even though the person was murdered with a firearm?

Our legal system is horseshit. We should be shooting the lawyers and judges.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (SI0IF)

240 Your honor his name was Mangione I figured he was gonna make a pie. Fuggitaboutit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (IDEQi)

241 one. Saw a YT clip of some woman in a pizzeria chopping a pizza out of the oven like a dervish with one. It was like 20"" blade or something.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)

Found it, it's called a pizza rocker cutter and it kind of looks like a mezzaluna only it's not as moon shaped it has a flatter blade and looks deadly and like it'd work great for fast pizza cutting.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 04:14 PM (S6amQ)

Yeah, that's the kinda thing. Good way to leave a limb on the pizza too, I guess if you are careless

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (8avO+)

242 If they ever go to the library, it is full of bubble poppers. They only came to dox.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (EyfuW)

243 >>> Thoughts for him and his family. He really is a great guy and a brilliant veterinarian.

You eff ONE goat...as the old joke goes.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:19 PM (gWBY1)

244 I <3 Luigi xOxOxO

Posted by: U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett at January 30, 2026 04:20 PM (jGJov)

245 Would motions to impeach be futile, or might they scare some of these "judges".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 04:20 PM (AlhUl)

246 The federal government spends $5 trillion a year on healthcare directly.

I believe I read that in Oregon and several other states, health care and health insurance is the biggest private employer. This happened directly because of Obamacare. The state government is, of course, the biggest overall.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:20 PM (PYyV9)

247 I'd say "shooting someone in the back multiple times" is a pretty violent crime.
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Another violent crime first. Armed robbery of a bank. Then you shoot murder a guard. That works. Apparently hit men cant get the chair in federal court unless they punch the vic before they shoot them. Ridiculous isnt it.

Posted by: Law will make you wish it didnt at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (xj28v)

248 VERY SAD . A good friend of mine, after 7 yrs of medical school and training has been fired for one minor indiscretion. He slept with one of his patients and can no longer work in the profession. What a waste of time, effort, training and money. He's still paying on his school loans. This just goes to show one minor mistake can ruin your life. Thoughts for him and his family. He really is a great guy and a brilliant veterinarian.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM (hG1+u)

I hear the Red Cresent Gazan Hospital and UN Compound is hiring.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (2WIwB)

249 " 9 He's on video pulling a gun and killing a man by shooting him in the back.

Explain to me how you take the murder charge off the table?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)"

Meh. Just one more step closer to "eh.fuck it, all you dipshits line up in front of the pit"

Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (K6SBR)

250 @180 MAN ALLEGEDLY ENGAGED IN SEX ACTS WITH VACUUM

Vacuum sweeper hoses are 1.25 inches, 1.5 inches, 2 inches, and 2.5 inches, with 2.5 inches being a common size. A sweeper hose cannot accommodate a full-grown man. This little fellow wasn't "engaged," he was just being a pest. And that's illegal in Florida.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (zdLoL)

251 VERY SAD . A good friend of mine, after 7 yrs of medical school and training has been fired for one minor indiscretion. He slept with one of his patients and can no longer work in the profession. What a waste of time, effort, training and money. He's still paying on his school loans. This just goes to show one minor mistake can ruin your life. Thoughts for him and his family. He really is a great guy and a brilliant veterinarian.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 04:17 PM

I am so slow.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

252 Oh this is another fun one with lefty LIVs...

LL: Insurance companies should have to approve all claims!

Me: Ok, are you willing to pay substantially more personally then?

LL: Oh hell no, health insurance costs are already way too high! The government should pay for it.

Me: Ok so you want to pay MUCH higher taxes like the europeans then?

LL: Oh hell no I already pay too much in taxes

Me: So where does the money come from?

LL: RICH PEOPLE

Me: But you live in a $2M house and vacation in Europe you are rich

LL: No, really rich people!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

253 Was there an unusual buzzing sound coming from the judge's crotch area when she ruled this?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

254 Personally, I've never understood why our troops are not equipped with silencers. All that Night Vision and Thermal Vision is cheated once you stop banging away.

And their hearing is not great after all the shooting. I think suppressors affect long distance accuracy slightly but I am not sure it matters with how much lead gets thrown down range in an average firefight.

He attempted to terrorize all healthcare corporate officers.

Yeah there probably is a lesser, non-federal charge of terrorizing or something like that. Like, a civilian version of terrorism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:22 PM (PYyV9)

255 you can’t be charged with murdering someone with a firearm even though the person was murdered with a firearm?
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Headline was shit writing. He is charged still, but he cant get the death penalty.

Posted by: Law will make you wish it didnt at January 30, 2026 04:23 PM (xj28v)

256 Can I be held in his cell?

Posted by: Don Le Mon at January 30, 2026 04:23 PM (d+vNl)

257 Unreal.

Premeditated murder on a public street. Not guilty by way of being a wagging caterpillar eyebrow "dreamboat." Gag. Harfing quietly.

Their hero! Kill The Man who suppresses them! Or something retardo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 04:23 PM (WONhk)

258 Christopher R Taylor: "I think suppressors are potentially illegal, at least if you don't have a license..."

Yeah, if you don't allow yourself to get rotorooted by the Feds due to possessing an NFA item and buying and holding the Tax Stamp, you're committing a felony.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 04:23 PM (gLikB)

259 The law is an ass.

Posted by: Mr. Bumble at January 30, 2026 04:23 PM (jc0TO)

260 I'm mad about this, but my understanding is federal murder charges that carry the death penalty are unusually rare. Like treason. It's usually state charges.

I would argue though this did rise to the level of terrorism like a Timothy McVeigh. But of course a liberal judge is going to find every loophole possible because deep down they love this guy.

I always wonder, if some VA federal bureaucrat denied health treatment to a veteran and a MAGA type murdered them in cold blood, also a hero?

Posted by: Leupold at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (eIzlH)

261 "It's a Flowbee! I was just trimming the verge!!!"
Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 04:12 PM (ZcsJV)

THE FLOWBEE HAS BLADES INSIDE

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (NtVYv)

262 Suppressors are illegal in NY, but are legal on the Federal level and many states. I have almost a dozen now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (SI0IF)

263 At some point, someone needs to explain to me why leftists like to have criminals loose and walking around. Do they really believe they will never become the victims of said criminals? And if so, how are they pulling that off, exactly?

I know commies all believe they will be the commissars and not the proletariat, which is patently false, so I suppose they can believe anything.

But this is complete denial of reality. LALA Land.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (I40wl)

264 LL: RICH PEOPLE

Me: But you live in a $2M house and vacation in Europe you are rich

LL: No, really rich people!

Like Bernie Sanders going from "millionaires must pay their fair share and are our enemies" to "billionaires must pay..." once he became a millionaire.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (PYyV9)

265 And their hearing is not great after all the shooting. I think suppressors affect long distance accuracy slightly but I am not sure it matters with how much lead gets thrown down range in an average firefight.
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Most of a gunfight is inside of 100m.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (Hpgos)

266 >>>A vet who sleeps with his 'patients?' That's ... ambiguous.

Also, vets don't go to medical school. They go to vet school.

But other than that...

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (Y1sOo)

267 Well now someone in genpop can shank him in the neck a dozen times in 20 seconds. Probably better this way.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (KtOUo)

268 Found it, it's called a pizza rocker cutter and it kind of looks like a mezzaluna only it's not as moon shaped it has a flatter blade and looks deadly and like it'd work great for fast pizza cutting.
Posted by: CaliGirl

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$5 more for extra toppings

Posted by: Tony's Pizza at January 30, 2026 04:25 PM (1iXwP)

269 Of course Luigi McMurderface wasn't stalking Thompson. He just happened to be out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel where Thompson was staying and just happened to have a gun with a suppressor attached. All a very likely and innocent coincidence.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 30, 2026 04:16 PM (M0V4/)

There was a funny SF story of a planet where the natives were real peaceful but fanatics about golf. When an earthling goes on a crime rampage they do nothing, but when he tries to steal a jewel encrusted golf club one resists and he kills him. He's shocked that the crime was not murder, but interrupting the golf game. Two other aliens pledge to break the guy out....after one, or maybe three more rounds of golf....

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:25 PM (8avO+)

270 I am so slow.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

I had to go back and re-read it after seeing Tammy's LOL emojis.

So, you are not the only one.

:/

Posted by: Just some random passer by at January 30, 2026 04:25 PM (89Sog)

271 A bit OT...
A dude in California got busted for having a "fortified underground" where he had 13 firearms and 10,000 rounds of ammo. Personally I'd call that a good start.
There was also an allegation of growing weed. Well, that sucks for him.
Here at the Diogenes barrel, they'd find a lot of whiskey.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 04:26 PM (2WIwB)

272 Law will make you wish it didnt: "Ridiculous isnt it."

Yep. Absurdity on stilts.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 04:26 PM (gLikB)

273 For the record, Luigi looks like a hairy overgrown goomba to me. Not the least bit attractive. So whomever is salivating over his visage probably needs to get out a bit more than at present.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 04:26 PM (I40wl)

274 Suppressors are illegal in NY, but are legal on the Federal level and many states.

I think its more that the Trump administration is not enforcing any penalties, but technically its still illegal? I a not clear on this one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:26 PM (PYyV9)

275 "The federal government spends $5 trillion a year on healthcare directly."

Healthcare is a scarce economic good with price inelasticity of demand. (Did I say that right?) IOW: people will pay any $amount to anybody who they believe can save them from dying, and severe pain. They usually don't fret much when it has to be other people's money. So healthcare providers can raise prices at whim.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:27 PM (N8ZBc)

276 I hear the Red Cresent Gazan Hospital and UN Compound is hiring.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 04:21 PM (2WIwB)

Baaaad joke, baaaaad

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:27 PM (NtVYv)

277 188 MAN ALLEGEDLY ENGAGED IN SEX ACTS WITH VACUUM: A man is in custody after allegedly walking nude around a Florida resort and publicly engaging in a sexual act with a vacuum cleaner.

Well that story sucked
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

***********

To be fair, we should probably withhold judgment until we've seen pics of the vacuum.

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at January 30, 2026 04:27 PM (We5PL)

278 And their hearing is not great after all the shooting. I think suppressors affect long distance accuracy slightly but I am not sure it matters with how much lead gets thrown down range in an average firefight.

He attempted to terrorize all healthcare corporate officers.

Yeah there probably is a lesser, non-federal charge of terrorizing or something like that. Like, a civilian version of terrorism.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:22 PM (PYyV9)

Even before the cult of the sniper took over the army has had an idea that infantry rifles should be able to hit something very far off, despite the fact that most gun exchanges are at pretty short ranges in reality. They did a lot of futzing with the M-16 because of that IIRC.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (8avO+)

279 182 Do Cape Cod Original potato chips count as a major food group?
Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 04:09 PM (rj6Yv)

Cape Cod chips are the Captain Crunch of the potato chip world ...

Damn things cut my mouth to shreds

Posted by: browndog shakes out his coat at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (3sXRv)

280
PizzaCutterGate

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (IifOV)

281 To be fair, we should probably withhold judgment until we've seen pics of the vacuum.
Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at January 30, 2026 04:27 PM (We5PL)

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (I40wl)

282 The law is more the problem here than the judge. I do not see that she is a left winger trying to save him or set him free. I know this will make me unpopular. I call it like I see it, always. Read the rulings - there were several - and justifications.

Always happy to be wrong and she may yet make a monkey out of me. But today is not Monkey Day.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (6ZSsV)

283 Health care, which probably included insurance before the unACA was 1/6 of the economy. I've no idea what it is now. But that is just a function of being a rich country. If people or the country can afford it, most of them are going to spend money to try to stay healthy, and then to stay alive longer. Only a few are going to go "eh, when its my time its my time and I aint messing with medical quacks to try to squeeze out a few extra months"

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (hhkIi)

284 227 I set my drink down just in time. LOLOLOL

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 04:28 PM (Q0yOR)

285 They usually don't fret much when it has to be other people's money. So healthcare providers can raise prices at whim.

One thing I've tried to point out to LIVs is if they want the government to pay for healthcare it will determine what they get and what they don't, whereas if they pay they can make that choice.

"But the healthcare I want costs more then I can afford!" Ok. Now multiply that by 330 million. The problem doesn't go away.

Either individuals pay for their own care, or governments do and governments will always be incentivized to cut costs so they can spend the money they have on other things...like their own graft

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:29 PM (sKqQm)

286 190 185 Occasionally in talking to lefty LIVs I'll point out that "back in the day" you could see a doctor, even a specialist!, in a short period of time and the price wouldn't break the bank. They'll agree until I point out "back in the day" ended shortly after Obamacare was passed.

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Back in the 70s and 80s when I was a rambunctious kid who got injured a lot, I went to the emergency room probably 10 times. We did not have medical insurance and my parents were able to pay for it despite being relatively poor. Not only were the prices much lower but you could make arrangements with the hospital or doctor to make payments. Then the democrats decided that they could get people to vote for them by promising free healthcare and service has gone down and prices have gone up ever since.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Wnqw0)

287 This is another example: when the left takes power, there will be no limits to trampling rights. Follow laws they want to. BAMN

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 04:30 PM (B43cA)

288 To be fair, we should probably withhold judgment until we've seen pics of the vacuum.

One day soon Japan will introduce a life looking sex bot and the world will never be the same...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)

289 "MAN ALLEGEDLY ENGAGED IN SEX ACTS WITH VACUUM"

Charles Bronson cracked a case just like that, 13 secs:
youtube.com/watch?v=wCyGd4AngcE

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:30 PM (N8ZBc)

290 Ed Driscoll has a new Beatles post up at Instapundit.

Posted by: breaking news! at January 30, 2026 04:30 PM (RuMUX)

291 Old lady whispered to her husband. " I just let out a huge silent fart, what shlould I do ?"

The Husband: Change the battery in your hearing aid.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:31 PM (NtVYv)

292 I think its more that the Trump administration is not enforcing any penalties, but technically its still illegal? I a not clear on this one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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No. Under federal NFA law, you also have to obey state laws so you can be charged federally if you have a suppressor or cause such to be transferred across state lines into a prohibited state.

Right now, Congress eliminated the $200 tax stamp requirement to acquire a suppressor (or an Short Barrelled Rifle) but that spending bill does not override the NFA federal requirements to be legal in the state you are purchasing in and registration with fedgov.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:31 PM (2swu2)

293 They did a lot of futzing with the M-16 because of that IIRC.
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Mostly the Squad Automatic Weapon changed the lethality of M16 in close combat cuz they wanted the SAW effective on area targets out to 600m+. This created a need for a heavier 5.56mm round and full powder charge which turn the M16 into an ice pick at close quarters.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Hpgos)

294 >>> Like Bernie Sanders going from "millionaires must pay their fair share and are our enemies" to "billionaires must pay..." once he became a millionaire.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (PYyV9)

All good comrades have summer homes! It was amazing how breezily he brushed off having three homes like it was nothing.

Seriously, he should, as a good commie, let Somali refugees squat in his summer home for free when he's not using it.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:31 PM (gWBY1)

295 290 When does he not? He is tiresome. Never had an original thought.

Posted by: turambar at January 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Q0yOR)

296 Then the democrats decided that they could get people to vote for them by promising free healthcare and service has gone down and prices have gone up ever since.

You can still get a big discount from the hospital by paying cash up front instead of going through insurance, but at least some states prohibit you from doing so if you HAVE insurance.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:32 PM (PYyV9)

297 Again... not dealing with the judicial coup on day one has got to be one of Trump's major disappointments. One of the reasons there are rulings like this is because the judiciary knows "nothing will happen." The administration has demonstrated they're not willing to pull the same shit *biden's crew did. Mostly because the judges are on the left's side.

It's going to keep biting us in the ass until it's addressed... BAMN.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 04:32 PM (jtM2q)

298 Mumia is still a prison celebrity in the Pennsylvania state prison after murdering a police officer

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 04:32 PM (Ia/+0)

299 You file some forms with the ATF with a picture and your fingerprints, get approved, pay the tax (now $0). If it’s legal in your state laws, of course.

You legally now have a suppressor. I shoot with them all the time.

Same process for Maxine guns, SR, SBS, AOWs, and destructive devices.

You can even make your own suppressors. As long as you file the forms and get approved. If you made one and didn’t, that would be illegal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:32 PM (SI0IF)

300 282 The law is more the problem here than the judge. I do not see that she is a left winger trying to save him or set him free. I know this will make me unpopular. I call it like I see it, always. Read the rulings - there were several - and justifications.

Always happy to be wrong and she may yet make a monkey out of me. But today is not Monkey Day.
Posted by: ...
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We will see if the prosecutors appeal. The more important issue is that the knapsack is in as evidence which means the gun and suppressor. So forensics can match the bullet to the gun confirming it is the murder weapon. Important in a circumstantial case.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:32 PM (2swu2)

301 Didn't read the comments so it's definitely already been said, but this is the most believable thing on the face of the earth.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 04:33 PM (5aZAZ)

302 Right now, Congress eliminated the $200 tax stamp requirement to acquire a suppressor (or an Short Barrelled Rifle) but that spending bill does not override the NFA federal requirements to be legal in the state you are purchasing in and registration with fedgov.

OK that was what I heard about

Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:33 PM (PYyV9)

303 Back in the 70s and 80s when I was a rambunctious kid who got injured a lot, I went to the emergency room probably 10 times. We did not have medical insurance and my parents were able to pay for it despite being relatively poor. Not only were the prices much lower but you could make arrangements with the hospital or doctor to make payments. Then the democrats decided that they could get people to vote for them by promising free healthcare and service has gone down and prices have gone up ever since.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Wnqw0)

A bit before COVID I fell and broke an arm. I had changed jobs so my old insurance's term was ending and I paid for the operation in cash. Got a bit of rehab paid for before things ran out.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:33 PM (8avO+)

304 "Mumia is still a prison celebrity in the Pennsylvania state prison after murdering a police officer."

MIT paid Angela Davis to speak in 2023. Judge-killing celebrity.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:34 PM (N8ZBc)

305 Compare this to how the judges on the J6 cases allowed the Prosecution to pile on all the charges they could think of so as to create a plea deal necessity for the defendent instead of rolling the dice on Federal felonies.

Make no mistake. By taking the death penalty off the table without justification, the Judge is limiting the strategy of the prosecution to get the defendent to change his not guilty plea.

Total egregious misapplication of the Bench.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

306 Remember the list of grievances the colonialists placed in the Declaration of Independence? This modern, renegade American judicial system would fit perfectly in that list.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 30, 2026 04:34 PM (SLFJJ)

307 .
Why has no one done the right thing and disfigured the sexy perp?

Posted by: Marooned at January 30, 2026 04:34 PM (kt8QE)

308 A bit before COVID I fell and broke an arm. I had changed jobs so my old insurance's term was ending and I paid for the operation in cash. Got a bit of rehab paid for before things ran out.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 04:33 PM (8avO+)

Had the same thing happen when I was younger. Took me 3 years to pay for that broken arm.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (NtVYv)

309 "217 A silencer is not illegal.

I think suppressors are potentially illegal, at least if you don't have a license. It is also likely that using one in the commission of a crime increases penalties in NYC.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:15 PM (PYyV9)"

It's not a license, you need to get approval to pay the tax stamp and have it on the NFA registry.

The feds do not fuck around on those laws for us peasants, I (personally) know someone who ended up dead over them. They will kill your ass, and possibly any number of other people along the way.

Non-goverment possession of silencers is 100% banned in NY state, zero exceptions. This means they're federally banned also. At best one might pass through with them in a locked container to and from other states, per federal law, but in practice the state will arrest you if discovered and you will 100% go to jail and the feds won't help you even though the state prosecution is unlawful.

Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (K6SBR)

310 The women's think he's dreamy....

Until he pops a cap in their ass.

Oh well, it's New York. Shouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (E7+ue)

311 The .308 in the M-14 was "overpowered", almost unusable in full auto and they over corrected that with the 5.56mm with too small a round.

Something in between should have been developed, the British actually had a good round with the .280 British, but it was rejected for NATO.

there's all sorts of solutions now and the 5.56 has been improved.

Posted by: Leupold at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (eIzlH)

312 283 Health care, which probably included insurance before the unACA was 1/6 of the economy. I've no idea what it is now. But that is just a function of being a rich country. If people or the country can afford it, most of them are going to spend money to try to stay healthy, and then to stay alive longer. Only a few are going to go "eh, when its my time its my time and I aint messing with medical quacks to try to squeeze out a few extra months"
Posted by: PaleRider

About 18 percent now. Reached 20 percent in 2020 due to Covid.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:36 PM (2swu2)

313 One reason we have the death penalty, and did not eliminate it in the 70s when much of Europe did, is because there were a string of "progressive" jurisdictions that went soft on crime and let murders out with light sentences. They killed again.

The death penalty survived in the USA because the public did not trust the government to keep these monsters off the streets. This is my opinion as someone who followed the arguments at the time and interpreted them thusly. The Left wanted to eliminate it and said "lifetime in prison is more just," but the public knew better -- they knew that "lifetime" really only meant until the next wave of progressive reforms to let criminals walk free.

Just adding this here for context. We have reached the point where the current progressive wave is even preventing the charges to get to a death penalty. For a terrorist assassination, no less.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 30, 2026 04:36 PM (1iXwP)

314 "MAN ALLEGEDLY ENGAGED IN SEX ACTS WITH VACUUM"

Its a plot by Big Vacuum.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 04:36 PM (2WIwB)

315 Make no mistake. By taking the death penalty off the table without justification, the Judge is limiting the strategy of the prosecution to get the defendent to change his not guilty plea.

Total egregious misapplication of the Bench.
==
Eh. I think i will wait before i set my hair on fire. He's going down. He is proud of what he did and will take credit for it.watch.

Posted by: Law will make you wish it didnt at January 30, 2026 04:36 PM (xj28v)

316 310 The women's think he's dreamy....

Until he pops a cap in their ass

———-

Oh, that’s exactly what they’re dreaming about…

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (SLFJJ)

317 Note for the NFA stuff, even if the tax is zero you still need the paperwork for it.

That's actually a trap that has been set, regulating with a tax of zero is verboten, but the law has been upheld because it's a tax... the lawsuits are ongoing.

Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (K6SBR)

318 Lemmiwinks: "Then the democrats decided that they could get people to vote for them by promising free healthcare and service has gone down and prices have gone up ever since."

Guess what else broke the bank WRT healthcare? Illegal immigration. Hospitals were/are forced to treat those who go to the ER. So there's an endless and (up until recently) exponentially growing pressure at the single most expensive component of healthcare and social services.

And as long as there's political pressure to save the "poor and oppressed" with concomitant taxing to send to the hospitals, the hospitals are fine with it. Business is good. Not really an optimal allocation of resources and forgetting any concept of fairness to it all. It can't help but fail.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (gLikB)

319 Non-goverment possession of silencers is 100% banned in NY state, zero exceptions. This means they're federally banned also. At best one might pass through with them in a locked container to and from other states, per federal law, but in practice the state will arrest you if discovered and you will 100% go to jail and the feds won't help you even though the state prosecution is unlawful.
Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (K6SBR)
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If you want to take a silencer/suppressor across state lines, you have to file a form with the ATF notifying them and the suppressor has to be legal in the state to which you intend to take it.

The NFA is a retarded travesty of bullshit and should have been ruled unconstitutional years ago, but here we are.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 04:38 PM (5aZAZ)

320 I always wonder, if some VA federal bureaucrat denied health treatment to a veteran and a MAGA type murdered them in cold blood, also a hero?

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No, cuz nuance and shit

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Wnqw0)

321 @Inevitablewest
🚨BREAKING: The UN has issued a letter to its 193 member states warning that they face 'imminent financial COLLAPSE' after Donald Trump cut US funding
The globalists are panicking! 🔥

They have to actually pay their own bills now, and realize their socialist paradises are built on quicksand?

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 04:39 PM (gWBY1)

322 At best one might pass through with them in a locked container to and from other states, per federal law, but in practice the state will arrest you if discovered and you will 100% go to jail and the feds won't help you even though the state prosecution is unlawful.
Posted by: heya

I rate that claim as true. NYC in particular is vicious where even air travelers forced to go through La Guardia or JFK get stranded in transit and the airport demands that they pick up their firearms, suppressors, etc. Picking them up means you get arrested and charged.

Frankly NY State is a horrible state legally and the Trump prosecutions just illustrated why any corporation or group should leave it and now Delaware for more business friendly places to incorporate and do business.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:39 PM (2swu2)

323 'The UN has issued a letter to its 193 member states warning that they face 'imminent financial COLLAPSE' after Donald Trump cut US funding'

Good!

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:40 PM (N8ZBc)

324 nood

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 04:41 PM (N8ZBc)

325 Until he pops a cap in their ass.

"I can fix him!"
--AWFL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 04:43 PM (PYyV9)

326 That's actually a trap that has been set, regulating with a tax of zero is verboten, but the law has been upheld because it's a tax... the lawsuits are ongoing.
Posted by: heya
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Miller case in 1939 used the justification of taxes to allow the US government to do what law scholars believed was impossible under the Commerce Clause doctrine of the time. That being said, the NFA, under modern commerce clause understanding is likely to be found constitutional if people try to push it to Scotus. Note that the PLCAA also relies on Commerce Clause and that would be vulnerable along with FOPA if the NFA itself was overturned.

Machine guns are not going to be legalized for the masses by this Court and probably not by Congress either. IMHO, widely available suppressors and removal of SBR/Shotguns are more important anyway for most people.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (2swu2)

327 I wouldn't bring anything sharper than a banana or more shooty than a nerf gun to NYS.

Fuck that place.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (5aZAZ)

328 I'm having a slice of cheap tombstone frozen pizza at this very moment. Don't feel like cooking on Friday.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (oT7pT)

329 "311 The .308 in the M-14 was "overpowered", almost unusable in full auto and they over corrected that with the 5.56mm with too small a round.

Something in between should have been developed, the British actually had a good round with the .280 British, but it was rejected for NATO.
Posted by: Leupold at January 30, 2026 04:35 PM (eIzlH)"

It was developed. The M1 garand was originally, what, .276? It got retooled for WW2 because they wanted to use the mountians of 30-06 they had.

Dumb decision when they turned around and shoved more ammo into the sea in 1945 and 1946 than they fired in the war, out of pure laziness, rarher than secure, repareiate, or break it down.

5.56 is on the small end, and the M16 in particlular is problematic with small bolt lugs that make it hard to upgrade caliber, but overall it works. Nobody complains 5.45 isn't enough in Ukraine. It just isn't relevant in the big picture.

Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 04:45 PM (K6SBR)

330 Machine guns are not going to be legalized for the masses by this Court and probably not by Congress either. IMHO, widely available suppressors and removal of SBR/Shotguns are more important anyway for most people.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (2swu2)
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Full auto anything is...fun, every now and then. I mean who doesn't want to squeeze the trigger for a few seconds on a belt-fed? Faggots, that's who...but for most every day purposes it's just a really expensive way to waste ammunition.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 04:46 PM (5aZAZ)

331 "Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 04:44 PM (2swu2)"

The modern frt's make machinegun laws obsolete. Anyone can snag one now, effectively.

Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 04:46 PM (K6SBR)

332 They were trying to hide it. It was just done with the typical level of shitlib incompetence.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:47 PM (SI0IF)

333 Suppressors are illegal in NY, but are legal on the Federal level and many states. I have almost a dozen now.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 30, 2026 04:24 PM (SI0IF)
****
Hold my beer.

Posted by: Commiefornia at January 30, 2026 04:48 PM (KtOUo)

334 LizLem: "They have to actually pay their own bills now, and realize their socialist paradises are built on quicksand?"

I'd love to laugh (and I am), but then I look again at US debt. Holy Moley.

I mean, we might be on the most stable sand, but it's still sand. Collapse of the dollar would be Armageddon.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 30, 2026 04:51 PM (gLikB)

335 I want to know how Bill gave his wife antibiotics "secretly." I realize this is not the point, but I have questions. Maybe he screwed up and gave her testosterone instead, as she looks a bit manly to me.

A walloping meatloaf of news today!

The "walloping meatloaf" is in memory of my brother, who used to send me thick letters in college that were hilarious...knowing I hated our mother's meatloaf with the texture of a sponge. This is what he called his letters to me.

We never did figure out what on earth she did to the meatloaf (he watched me pretend to eat it while covering it or putting in a paper napkin).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 04:59 PM (WONhk)

336 Posted above under wrong post.

Yes I am sober.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 05:00 PM (WONhk)

337
"But the healthcare I want costs more then I can afford!" Ok. Now multiply that by 330 million. The problem doesn't go away.

Either individuals pay for their own care, or governments do and governments will always be incentivized to cut costs so they can spend the money they have on other things...like their own graft
Posted by: 18-1
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It began with AIDS.
Insurance companies told Reagan they could not afford to pay out for treatments or they would go Bankrupt and everyone will DIE. (Fauci's in there somewhere) But that's when everything changed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 05:15 PM (hG1+u)

338 At the new post I'm getting a blank white page.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 05:19 PM (hG1+u)

339 This page isn’t working
ace.mu.nu is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (hG1+u)

340 I've never understood why our troops are not equipped with silencers. All that Night Vision and Thermal Vision is cheated once you stop banging away."

That wasn't my experience as gunner for the LAV-25. 25mm M242 Bushmaster Chain Cannon. Part of our Qual was at night, never had a problem with the flash blinding night vision. We didn't have thermals on the LAV-25 in the 90s but our LAV-ATs did. It was common to use them to spot targets and even adjust our fire and I can't recall them ever complaining either.

Poor ATs. Supposed to be our insurance against T-72s but their optics were so advanced that they were routinely being called up to the front of the pack to take a look-see. Back and forth all night long.

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 05:27 PM (ciYHQ)

341 NOOD psycho Spanberger:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/
?post=418316

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (ULPxl)

342 How could you dismiss that charge? Murder through the use of a firearm.?

He bought the gun
stalked his target
Intended to kill him
Did kill him.

None of this is in dispute.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 05:59 PM (vOtXJ)

343 You know of course the only reason Winsome Smith lost is racism. And sexism.

Look, it's what they would say if the positions were reversed.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 06:00 PM (vOtXJ)

344 The Feds need to check to see if there is evidence of interactions between Mangione and this pizza boy. If there is, add FEDERAL conspiracy charges. As Mangione traveled across state lines to commit his crime, it should work.
And, for that matter, his victim headed a multi-state corporation.
Take a page from the Federal response to biased state courts. Charge offenders with FEDERAL crimes, if the state courts won't do their job.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at January 31, 2026 09:49 AM (7Rs+y)

"StopICE" Website Used to Track ICE Vehicles and Agents Hacked, All User Information Downloaded and Forwarded to FBI

Via Twitchy.

🚨🚨 MAJOR BREAKING : The largest ICE license plate tracker, StopICE, has been compromised 🚨🚨

First, follow @astrarce and @bitchuneedsoap .

If you visit the StopICE license plate tracker, you will note all their plates have been overwritten with the following image: pic.twitter.com/mApcV2Gsdg
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 29, 2026

The owner of the site is Sherman Austin of Long Beach, California. pic.twitter.com/6Dz1pgzvv2
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 29, 2026

They're all miserable losers and incompetents:

🚨🚨 BREAKING : Quick - take a look at the front page of StopICE dot net 🚨🚨

For context, StopICE is the biggest ICE doxxing website out there.

Follow @astrarce and @bitchuneedsoap . pic.twitter.com/ySw3KGEWth
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 30, 2026

Unrelated, except that they're all losers and incompetents:

LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents, drawing dozens of protesters to a Lynwood restaurant.

We tried speaking with an apparent organizer but received little explanation. pic.twitter.com/5Y6HH0ikqQ
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) January 29, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 02:48 PM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

2 LOL.

Haxor.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

3 /points and laughs

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (OUMaO)

4 LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents, drawing dozens of protesters to a Lynwood restaurant.

We tried speaking with an apparent organizer but received little explanation. pic.twitter.com/5Y6HH0ikqQ

— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) January 29, 2026

Soon, it won't be feds doing the shooting.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Tell me the site was vibe coded. Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (YG+k7)

6 Just like the Gestapo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (J+Psw)

7 Hard to be underground when they shine a light on you.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Hpgos)

8 Can the hack have been done by a guy who pretended to go tranny to get a promotion?

That would be amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

9 LOLGF

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (gKWVE)

10 Honestly, these damn fools are so used to all the institutions having their backs I'm not sure most have the first conception of OpSec...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (OUMaO)

11 5 Tell me the site was vibe coded. Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (YG+k7)
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My guess is vibe coding or outsourcing to some cheap-ass incompetent code farm in India.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (5aZAZ)

12 Paging Nelson Muntz....

Posted by: Dr. T at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (lHPJf)

13 Can Higby just posted operation documents for StopIce - they want “flashpoints” that include chaos, possible injuries.

@camhigby

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Hkcdp)

14 That image of homan on the ice plate website is a chefs kiss.

Imagine the brown note feeling they got when they saw that.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:52 PM (i0Hi3)

15 If this is real, then why is the StopICE website still functioning?

I'd love this to be real. But it seems fake to me. That pic of Tom Homan? Come on now.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

16 13 Can Higby just posted operation documents for StopIce - they want “flashpoints” that include chaos, possible injuries.

@camhigby

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Hkcdp)

=======

But Trump hasn't had these people fired into the sun, which means that Trump is done deporting people.

All is lost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

17 Even their location coordinates, because users signed up for updates, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 02:52 PM (Hkcdp)

18 That's how to do it...shine the light on these insects and watch them scurry for the safety of Mama's labia.

Posted by: Expose Them All at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (R/m4+)

19 The Mexican flag was a nice touch..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (VE6XX)

20 We tried speaking with an apparent organizer but received little explanation.

The explanation is they love to indulge irrational rage.

I believe that vice is called "wrath."

Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (syXXq)

21 20 I believe that vice is called "wrath."

Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (syXXq)

======

"Had my taste. I calmed down."
-Achilles

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

22 My dearest hope is that the hackers also randomly changed the plate numbers and letter so even if they rebuild their database, the various versions are out of sync.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (rbvCR)

23 Imagine being so desperate to protect gangster, murderers, human traffickers, child molesters and rapists that you fight to stop their being arrested and deported.

We knew this would happen though; deporting the tens (hundreds?) of millions of illegals guts the left's power and funding.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (PYyV9)

24 All your code are belong to us.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 30, 2026 02:54 PM (bNf8H)

25
Another good news day.

Looking forward to the Oscars to see Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Micheal Moore, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielburg and all the other commies wearing black arm bands over the fall of their beloved People's Republic in Cuba.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (Y8DZL)

26 TSA workers harassed...

Second look at Antifa?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (0bjKf)

27 “Who’s doxxing the doxxers?”

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (SLFJJ)

28
OT
Damnit. My basic training buddy just died on the 13th. Buried on the 27th at the Central TX Veteran's Cemetary.

I'm going to have to stop and pay my respects to him at the end of March when I go to TX A&M.

SGM Leonard wwas a damned good NCO. He and his wife raised three outstanding boys, all three turned out to be damned finee NCOs as well.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (QVmho)

29 "Watch out, you might get what you're after."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (YlWIZ)

30 10 Honestly, these damn fools are so used to all the institutions having their backs I'm not sure most have the first conception of OpSec...

They've convinced themselves they're the reincarnation of Mata Hari, Mossad, and the French Resistance rolled into one. They don't realize they're just Benny Hill, with Yackety Sax playing in the background.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (Riz8t)

31 Oh, thank the Lord.

Ed Driscoll didn't let a Beatles anniversary pass Instapundit by without notice.

Thank you, Ed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

32 HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (ULPxl)

33 "Hello, StopICE,

We're in ur base doxxing ur d00dz!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (ESVrU)

34 Even DataR is now saying the site is back up as before. I think what really happened is the site was hacked by pranksters who posted the messages and pics with Tom Homan. But no personal data was compromised.

I'd like to see confirmation from federal law enforcement that they have the names and are investigating. I don't think I saw that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

35 "vibe coded"

That's my go-to dev methodology now. It's faster to fix a batch of Grok's code than it is to write the whole thing from scratch. I have gotten very very lazy. Don't worry, it's not for production

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (N8ZBc)

36 I admit they've picked the right time to protest ICE. Getting groceries today was a beotch. Almost fell several times.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (AlhUl)

37 If this is real, then why is the StopICE website still functioning?

I'd love this to be real. But it seems fake to me. That pic of Tom Homan? Come on now.

It's real. I saw it when it was down, and it really truly had the Tom Homan picture. The owner has regained control and restored it from a backup twice now. (The second hack was the red text screenshot Ace posted).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (2ocoG)

38 These people are frothing at the mouth and should be under quarantine like Old Yeller.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (oT7pT)

39 Imagine being so desperate to protect gangster, murderers, human traffickers, child molesters and rapists that you fight to stop their being arrested and deported. ………

We know from prior evidence that Antifa has all those type of criminals you listed . They are protecting their own.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (cwGMH)

40 23 Imagine being so desperate to protect gangster, murderers, human traffickers, child molesters and rapists that you fight to stop their being arrested and deported.

We knew this would happen though; deporting the tens (hundreds?) of millions of illegals guts the left's power and funding.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I think it could be easily 30-40 million but I doubt 100 million figures.

From 2024 Census Bureau,
"April 9, 2024 — From 2010 to 2022, the nation’s foreign-born population increased by 15.6%. According to a new report The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2022 released by the U.S. Census Bureau today, the foreign-born population was 46.2 million (13.9% of the total population) in 2022 compared to 40.0 million (12.9% of the total population) in 2010."

So add in mebbe 20-30 million illegals to that total.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (2swu2)

41 "The owner if the site is Sherman Austin of Long Beach, California."

Quiet, you.

Posted by: Mr. Peabody at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (yFLFB)

42 I believe that vice is called "wrath."

Possessing it is called "wroth". I am wroth with wrath.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (Riz8t)

43 Surveying Reddit, it looks like they're trying to cope by claiming it's all a scam, at least for now.

But some are already moving on to the next stage and crying that they're about to get "night of the long knives'd."

Posted by: Dr. T at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (lHPJf)

44 Sherman Austin of Long Beach
———

Can you be more specific? What’s his address? When he is he usually home? Gotta recent pic? Etc.

The only way to stop the madness is to use their rules. They have largely operated without consequences for a very long time.

Now they are attempting to codify it into law, if you hadn’t noticed.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (QFADP)

45 I saw this earlier in the day on X. Talk about being pwned. And called out publicly for being a lousy coder.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (jtM2q)

46 Just did a little diving on that "Matt Beran" mentioned above. He seems to be removing a lot of stuff and privatizing all his social media.

He's an IT guy living in Chaska, MN.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (dIske)

47 But no personal data was compromised.

Several of the names were posted on X.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (2ocoG)

48 33 "Hello, StopICE,

We're in ur base doxxing ur d00dz!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (ESVrU)

So who was paying this Sherman Austin guy ? Do they know that ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (VE6XX)

49 clueless ICE tracker participant. "its okay, I didn't use my real name on the site, wait what do they mean locations? how could they get that info?".

Not that I have any clue how location would be gotten myself, I'd think it would be just an ISP#, then if the feds were sufficiently motivated they could then go to the internet providers with a warrant to find out who was using that ISP#. But Im just an engineer who codes some math stuff, not a computer expert.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (hhkIi)

50 OK, we have the information.

Almost as much as Google holds.

Use AI to go after the nodes. And find the will to stop this support for criminal, murdering, foreign nationals.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (u82oZ)

51 If this is real, then why is the StopICE website still functioning?

I'd love this to be real. But it seems fake to me. That pic of Tom Homan? Come on now.

It's real. I saw it when it was down, and it really truly had the Tom Homan picture. The owner has regained control and restored it from a backup twice now. (The second hack was the red text screenshot Ace posted).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (2ocoG)
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I meant "real" in the sense that the names were hacked and sent to the feds. See my second comment above.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

52 Tell me the site was vibe coded. Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (YG+k7)
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My guess is vibe coding or outsourcing to some cheap-ass incompetent code farm in India.

Posted by: ballistic

Or (and I really, REALLY hope this happened) contracted to someone who was, shall we say, not quite as down with the struggle as advertised...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 30, 2026 02:59 PM (OUMaO)

53 Hey now, if we are gonna start protesting the TSA. I might have to show up for that.

Posted by: Seriously at January 30, 2026 02:59 PM (xj28v)

54 I hope some people get prosecuted included congressmen who are working on this spying

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 02:59 PM (Ia/+0)

55 These people are frothing at the mouth and should be under quarantine like Old Yeller.

I believe that vice is called "wrath."

Possessing it is called "wroth". I am wroth with wrath.

I am now wroth with frothing wrath. Beware!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:59 PM (Riz8t)

56 Rico them, you have names now and I am sure there are logs of them planning criminal actions.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (0N4FZ)

57 Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

Are we back to nothing will happen?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (cwGMH)

58 DataRepublican reporting that everyone on the list got a text message from StopICE.net telling them the FBI was on the way. Reddit is melting down.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2017288438265844077

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

59 40
So add in mebbe 20-30 million illegals to that total.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (2swu2)

======

"Even if a Democrat wins the next election, we're always just one election away from Republicans winning again. And they're not going back to 'Just leave 'em alone.'"
-the thinking

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

60 > LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents

Does ICE also get issued those bitchin' polyester shirts?

I think I'd hold out for something more Hugo Boss if I were gonna join an ACTUAL!!!!!! NAZI!!! organization like ICE.

But that's just me. The sartorial preferences of others may differ.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (IG3/x)

61 MAJOR BREAKING : The largest ICE license plate tracker, StopICE, has been compromised

Passwords? Just use admin:admin. May I ask who's calling..."

*click!*[\i]

Posted by: StopICE Developer Support- Bangalore at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (1fRPh)

62 The hackers should have add3d The Price IsRight's sad trombone sound as well as Ho.ans meme.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (5T0Wv)

63 I swear I saw someone saw God blessed Donald Trump because his enemies are all stupid.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (cuae1)

64 43 Surveying Reddit, it looks like they're trying to cope by claiming it's all a scam, at least for now.

But some are already moving on to the next stage and crying that they're about to get "night of the long knives'd."

Posted by: Dr. T at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (lHPJf)

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"But there's nothing illegal about obstruction of justice if I really don't like the policy!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

65 DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Reddit starting to notice.

Yeah, the hackers of StopICE weren't kidding.

I can personally testify that the names, logins, passwords, locations (down to coordinates), and phone numbers of 100K+ users were all sent to FBI, ICE, HSI, and more.

Sherman Austin was given time to tell his users of this security breach. Sherman Austin failed his lesson.

Blade, you have to fight Jennica in mortal kombat. Good luck, deaf people have extra senses and stuff.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

66 Wroth with writhing wrath.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:01 PM (N8ZBc)

67 As soon as Homan is done winding down special operations for immigration, the US Attorney should announce he has been staffed up by an equal number of agents for investigating Somali fraud, and specifically following the money trail to Jacob Frey and Retard.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:01 PM (2Wwko)

68 63 I swear I saw someone saw God blessed Donald Trump because his enemies are all stupid.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (cuae1)

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Mitt Romney's enemies (well, the Democrat ones) were just as stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

69 35 That's my go-to dev methodology now. It's faster to fix a batch of Grok's code than it is to write the whole thing from scratch. I have gotten very very lazy. Don't worry, it's not for production
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (N8ZBc)

How useful would it be to ask it to try to teach someone who has never written (functional) code before how to start?

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:02 PM (iXqHn)

70 Hey, remember when hackers downloaded all GAB user info? Wasn’t Parker hacked as well, then shutdown?

Seems fair for StopIce to be hacked and is users taunted.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 03:02 PM (Hkcdp)

71 everyone on the list got a text message from StopICE.net telling them the FBI was on the way. Reddit is melting down.

Unintentional admissions of guilt aren't admissible in court, are they?

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (ittVa)

72 DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Reddit starting to notice.

Yeah, the hackers of StopICE weren't kidding.

I can personally testify that the names, logins, passwords, locations (down to coordinates), and phone numbers of 100K+ users were all sent to FBI, ICE, HSI, and more.

Sherman Austin was given time to tell his users of this security breach. Sherman Austin failed his lesson.

Blade, you have to fight Jennica in mortal kombat. Good luck, deaf people have extra senses and stuff.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)
______

What does DR look like? "Fighting" might not be the best solution, ya know ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

73
But no personal data was compromised.

Several of the names were posted on X.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM

someone on the twits posted a "front door picture" of one of the miscreant's apartments

suposably

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (tljrc)

74 SGM Leonard wwas a damned good NCO. He and his wife raised three outstanding boys, all three turned out to be damned finee NCOs as well.
Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (QVmho)

Condolences for your loss. May he rest in peace and his memory be joyful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

75 So those 100 thousand can expect a knock on the door....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (VE6XX)

76 "Even if a Democrat wins the next election, we're always just one election away from Republicans winning again. And they're not going back to 'Just leave 'em alone.'"
-the thinking
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Communism is the opiate of the left. They simply shifted from religious belief to materialist leftist views as their new religion and Marx/Gramsci are their prophets. So every political battle to them takes on the aura of a holy war against infidels.

Same with Muzzies.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (2swu2)

77 "But there's nothing illegal about obstruction of justice if I really don't like the policy!"

Its like the people arguing that if someone is not arrested and no indictments have been issued yet for fraud or violently opposing ICE then it isn't illegal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (PYyV9)

78 72 What does DR look like? "Fighting" might not be the best solution, ya know ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Mostly deaf, blonde girl who probably weighs 110 pounds at most.

She gonna scissor kick you to death!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

79
That's a shame.

Posted by: In my best Seinfeld voice at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (Hy+/V)

80 What does DR look like? "Fighting" might not be the best solution, ya know ....

She's cute. But she also has a husband who makes bourbon that I need to try.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

81 60 > LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents

Does ICE also get issued those bitchin' polyester shirts?

I think I'd hold out for something more Hugo Boss if I were gonna join an ACTUAL!!!!!! NAZI!!! organization like ICE.

But that's just me. The sartorial preferences of others may differ.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (IG3/x)

Lefties had a massive sexual fetish for Nazi Uniforms up until about 2012.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (iXqHn)

82 75 So those 100 thousand can expect a knock on the door....
Posted by: It's me donna
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My guess is official letters sent first.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (2swu2)

83 "How useful would it be to ask it to try to teach someone who has never written (functional) code before how to start?"

Every time I use Grok, I learn new and useful stuff. It's a great teaching tool, IMHO.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (N8ZBc)

84 76 Communism is the opiate of the left. They simply shifted from religious belief to materialist leftist views as their new religion and Marx/Gramsci are their prophets. So every political battle to them takes on the aura of a holy war against infidels.

Same with Muzzies.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (2swu2)

I'd say that Mario Mieli is their current prophet.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (iXqHn)

85 80 She's cute. But she also has a husband who makes bourbon that I need to try.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

=====

It's the new Blanton's.

Impossible to get...probably perfectly fine at most.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

86 The only way we can lose to these dipshit protestors is not fighting back.

Same with Somali fraudsters - the only way they can get away with it is if we let them.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (vOtXJ)

87 Surveying Reddit, it looks like they're trying to cope by claiming it's all a scam, at least for now.

But some are already moving on to the next stage and crying that they're about to get "night of the long knives'd."

Posted by: Dr. T at January 30, 2026 02:57 PM (lHPJf)

======

"But there's nothing illegal about obstruction of justice if I really don't like the policy!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
______

Odd that they chose Night of the Long Knives. Lotsa homos and perverts got knifed that night ...

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (iFTx/)

88 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (YwEeS)

89 Mitt Romney's enemies (well, the Democrat ones) were just as stupid.

Yeah the left has for the most part always been stupid. Its just that the right is weak, conflicted, and often compromised.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (PYyV9)

90 Will anything happen?

Posted by: The person who always wonders at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Hy+/V)

91 83 Every time I use Grok, I learn new and useful stuff. It's a great teaching tool, IMHO.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM (N8ZBc)

I'd be starting from nothing, and I know most people would insist I find a more intimidating and rigorous method of beginning, but...

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:05 PM (iXqHn)

92 According to one of the hackers, @bitchuneedsoap, StopICE's database had the real name, address, phone number, and a GPS location for every user.

It'll be super easy for the feds to threaten everyone. Barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (2ocoG)

93 TSA workers harassed...
-----

Restaurant workers should have limited their beverage containers to 1 ounce or less.

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (TN0g+)

94 Lefties had a massive sexual fetish for Nazi Uniforms up until about 2012.

Like with the Handmaid's Tale stuff, my guess is that they are huge on Nazi roleplay in private.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (PYyV9)

95
She gonna scissor kick you to death!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

Did someone say scissor?

Posted by: Ellen DeGeneres at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

96 92 According to one of the hackers, @bitchuneedsoap, StopICE's database had the real name, address, phone number, and a GPS location for every user.

It'll be super easy for the feds to threaten everyone. Barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (2ocoG)

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If it's anything like access to the Slack channels, the organizers required verification of identity to get involved.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

97 That's gonna bur for a while.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

98 This is how the normies can fight the leftist loons. Keep hitting them with stuff like this .
DataRepublican was id'ed by the left and they tried to boycott her husbands distillery. Normies responded by buying out his entire stock.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (IDEQi)

99 What about the guvmint employees running the Signal chat?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (Hy+/V)

100 Shit coding was a lot more fun when it was YOUR information getting hacked.

Posted by: The DNC at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (ittVa)

101 I'll bet somebody's password was 4321.

Any takers?

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (3ZUWJ)

102 Like bananas and rice.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 03:08 PM (vOtXJ)

103 Apparently some guy pretending to be FBI tried to bust Luigi Mangione out of jail.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2026 03:08 PM (YwEeS)

104 I'll bet somebody's password was 4321.

Any takers?
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (3ZUWJ)

Pa55w0rd1

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

105 DataRepublican was id'ed by the left and they tried to boycott her husbands distillery. Normies responded by buying out his entire stock.

He's got a limited edition one signed by DR now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:08 PM (2ocoG)

106 I don't have a scissoring partner anymore.

Posted by: Rebecca Good at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Hy+/V)

107 Maybe the hackers can use mad hacking skills to match the names to pictures and face recognition software from the protests with a tote board of how many times the individual helped out on stopice

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (i0Hi3)

108 Cover your eye, Ladies

Snoopy Happy Dance!
Snoopy Happy Dance!
Snoopy Happy Dance!

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (ciYHQ)

109 Who know the future was going to be this funny?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (qFwJc)

110 Let's be honest it is difficult to work up sympathy for TSA workers, like IRS. When I learned of the mob's scam to defraud the federal government of gas taxes to the tune of hundreds of millions a year, I was lacking in tears.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (PYyV9)

111 LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents

The alphabet? That'll cost extra.

Posted by: Quality Learing Center at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (ittVa)

112 I see that Catherine O'Hara died age 71. Not many SCTV alum are left.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (0U5gm)

113 Please don't squeeze the Sherman

Sherman Austin, fucked up name, what's his middle name WInston?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (NtVYv)

114 I think that the phrase is 'waxing wroth'. I would take umbrage, but I don't know where it is.
[consults Atlas]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (XeU6L)

115 Going to go out on a very short limb here but if the fib ever gets around to using this data breach against anyone who had an account on that site the hawaiian judge will rule all evidence inadmissible in court because the breach was a criminal act.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 03:10 PM (0N4FZ)

116 104 I'll bet somebody's password was 4321.

Any takers?
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (3ZUWJ)

Pa55w0rd1
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

I once legitimately had to tell someone back in high school "You didn't get hacked if your password is ASDF".

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:10 PM (iXqHn)

117 >>> Sherman Austin was given time to tell his users of this security breach. Sherman Austin failed his lesson

He knew that data was compromised and probably given to the feds, and didn't tell anyone. Great leader material right there!

The good thing about this and the Signal debacle is it demoralizes the plebe normie foot soldiers the leaders are counting on to do all of the on the ground dirty work. They get cold feet and everyone is a suspect. Making paranoid people even more paranoid. It will cause chaos and disruption in the ranks. Good.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:10 PM (gWBY1)

118 According to one of the hackers, @bitchuneedsoap, StopICE's database had the real name, address, phone number, and a GPS location for every user.

It'll be super easy for the feds to threaten everyone. Barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (2ocoG)

=====

If it's anything like access to the Slack channels, the organizers required verification of identity to get involved.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:07 PM (GBKbO)
_____

"Who would be dumb enough to put in all their personal info just to access some dumb hater app?"

-- Tea App Users

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:10 PM (iFTx/)

119 Someone on Twixxer posted a video of a truck handing out meals and pre-printed signs (on sticks) for protesters to carry. The left has been huffing and overdefending for a while now. Why, ALL protests are organized!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (PYyV9)

120 118 "Who would be dumb enough to put in all their personal info just to access some dumb hater app?"

-- Tea App Users

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:10 PM (iFTx/)

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"Wait...I can earn a $5 gift card if I give you all my info?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

121 When I go to stopice.net it looks like it's functioning. No red and black "not kidding" screen.

Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (syXXq)

122 Going to go out on a very short limb here but if the fib ever gets around to using this data breach against anyone who had an account on that site the hawaiian judge will rule all evidence inadmissible in court because the breach was a criminal act.

Sure, but there's plenty of fun that can be had with the breach short of actual legal action. They're afraid, as Neil Patrick Harris said.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (2ocoG)

123 We have Amber Rose also along with Niki Minaj.

She just told Adriana Grande to shut the fuck up about ICE.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (cwGMH)

124 So the app tracker. The users ID and their location. That how they reported where ICE was at and spread it on network. So there is like 100k people. A percentage will be able to be treated to the Jan 6th fun and games. Strange days.

Posted by: Seriously at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (xj28v)

125 No arrests, no injuries.
Apparently no public nuisance or harrassment laws either.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (wBaIH)

126 I wonder how many mentally ill people will commit suicide because "They will never take me alive!!!!!"

Posted by: SimoHayek at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (/ZkOF)

127 112 I see that Catherine O'Hara died age 71. Not many SCTV alum are left.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 03:09 PM (0U5gm)

Eugene Levy will somehow end up being the last one standing.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (iXqHn)

128 When I go to stopice.net it looks like it's functioning. No red and black "not kidding" screen.

It's been hacked twice now and Sherman has restored it from a backup both times. So yes, it's working again. For now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (2ocoG)

129 >>>Did someone say scissor?

Posted by: Ellen DeGeneres

>Didn't her English estate recently get flooded out by the local river? Survey says, She's a dope!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (oT7pT)

130 The mistaken identity happened last summer as well about 12 miles from me in Woodstock. A couple of guys were eating lunch at a restaurant on the main street . They were driving a black Tahoe. The restaurant was surrounded by protesters until the cops showed up. The guys were tech salesman. My leftist area is a protest heaven of leftist stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (IDEQi)

131 Oh, phone app activity. I'm behind the times and think in terms of someone logging into their laptop for any activity like entering "ICE" vehicle information into a database.

LOL, if I had tons of free time I'd have gotten the app and put in the plate #s for AWFULs with tranny flags etc to add a bunch of noise. I wouldn't have skills to hack the site.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (hhkIi)

132 How useful would it be to ask it to try to teach someone who has never written (functional) code before how to start?
Posted by: XTC

Plenty of resources out there to teach you to code for free if you want it. Start with an easy language and work your way up.

Open Source Python is often one language that teaches useful concepts. MariaDB is a useful SQL derivative that can teach you key database operations. Start with something that is massive but free like FEC campaign contribution databases. Then play around with them.

Learning R gives you some stats programming ability.

Easiest way to do it on the cheap is find a linux distribution (free to download) do live sessions with a live disc or usb, and run the various free compilers on that linux distro for your coding. R and Maria would require putting those also on the live CD/USB. Lots of free programming lessons/resources in Linux world. And Linux nowadays is a piece of cake to run compared with decades ago.

Reaching the point where Windows 11 is getting more troublesome to maintain than a Linux machine unless you gotta have Office 365 or certain windows only programs.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:12 PM (2swu2)

133 “Who’s doxxing the doxxers?”
Posted by: Cray Cray
__________

Willie Dixon?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 30, 2026 03:12 PM (XvL8K)

134 Imagine being so desperate to protect gangster, murderers, human traffickers, child molesters and rapists that you fight to stop their being arrested and deported. ………

We know from prior evidence that Antifa has all those type of criminals you listed . They are protecting their own.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Exactly. St. Kyle of Kenosha whacked three with rap sheets as long as your arm.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 03:12 PM (qw6Uy)

135 Find your local ICE office, take them a Dunkin' Donuts gift card, and tell them thank you.

Posted by: Weasel at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (1S3fY)

136 Awesome news. Citizen journalists and seemingly quasi- random X data posters are really doing a number here.

Some might say they are doing the job the FBI refused to do...for the record I'm hoping I'm not correct in that hypothesis.

Posted by: GigantorX at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (x8k2o)

137 LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents, drawing dozens of protesters to a Lynwood restaurant.

We tried speaking with an apparent organizer but received little explanation.
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Iceberg, Goldberg, what's the difference?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Hx0tZ)

138 If you don't ever want to forget your password, "password" is a great password.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (vFG9F)

139 Sherman Austin, fucked up name, what's his middle name WInston?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

Last seen in the company of a dog answering to "Mr. Peabody"...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (OUMaO)

140
First World Problems:

This morning, my yootoob feed was about 75% hawt foreign chicks with big, perky boobs. And all was as Dog intended.

About an hour ago, it turned into the All Roger Waters, All The Time Radio Show. I didn't even watch a single RW or Pink Floyd video.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (y9nCu)

141 I guess it figures that the self-proclaimed anarchist would use Shermanator83 as his screen name. For someone trying to go under the radar and dox illegally, one might not set up a Wiki page.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (dIske)

142 SGM Leonard wwas a damned good NCO. He and his wife raised three outstanding boys, all three turned out to be damned finee NCOs as well.

Posted by: BifBewalski-

May his Family & Friends be Blessed with Peace and Strength ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (3ZUWJ)

143 140
First World Problems:

This morning, my yootoob feed was about 75% hawt foreign chicks with big, perky boobs. And all was as Dog intended.

About an hour ago, it turned into the All Roger Waters, All The Time Radio Show. I didn't even watch a single RW or Pink Floyd video.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 03:13 PM (y9nCu)

======

I had a word with the algo.

It's because you didn't like and subscribe!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

144 There is a group of twatters randos who have been penetrating/exposing/sabotaging the Signal chat groups and fighting the license plate reading thing for a while. Don't think DR was first or even possibly most active in this.

In any case I still don't understand how it's legal for non-LE to access license plate data.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (U/Byj)

145 132 Easiest way to do it on the cheap is find a linux distribution (free to download) do live sessions with a live disc or usb, and run the various free compilers on that linux distro for your coding. R and Maria would require putting those also on the live CD/USB. Lots of free programming lessons/resources in Linux world. And Linux nowadays is a piece of cake to run compared with decades ago.

Reaching the point where Windows 11 is getting more troublesome to maintain than a Linux machine unless you gotta have Office 365 or certain windows only programs.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:12 PM (2swu2)

One thing I will say is that even though I'm not exactly old by Horde standards, I'm still old enough that this isn't going to lead to a job, it's just going to be a hobby.

So it doesn't need to be business/enterprise focused at all.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (iXqHn)

146 hawaiian judge will rule all evidence inadmissible in court because the breach was a criminal act.

"Hold it, Jenkins! Before you type '12345', let's get a warrant signed..."

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (ittVa)

147 He's got a limited edition one signed by DR now.

And people keep posting about getting their bottle on X, and mine hasn’t even shipped yet!

!!!
!

More seriously, I ordered some of their other stuff a few weeks ago, and really like their chile vodka and their Mountain Summit Amburana finished whiskey.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (EXyHK)

148 It's been hacked twice now and Sherman has restored it from a backup both times. So yes, it's working again. For now.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (2ocoG)

Thanks for the info. I really want to believe they've been hacked but I also want to make sure the stuff I believe is true.

Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (syXXq)

149 Now that the New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl, can they play the Bob Kraft Massage Sex Tape at halftime?

Ahh! Me so horny!
Me love you long time!

Posted by: 2 Live Crew at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (R/m4+)

150 In any case I still don't understand how it's legal for non-LE to access license plate data.

It is kind of shocking how much personal data is freely available if you know where and how to look. Stuff like the layout of the interior of your house, how much money you are worth, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (PYyV9)

151 >>> DataRepublican was id'ed by the left and they tried to boycott her husbands distillery. Normies responded by buying out his entire stock.

One of the best examples of Streisand Effect I can think of! Good for them.

I found out yesterday, in researching Polygamy Porter, that the Wasatch Brewing Company was bought out by the company that owns monster energy drinks. And they closed down their downtown SLC location. Corporate pikers. Squatter's is one of my fave restaurants connected to one of their brewpubs. I hope it doesn't close eventually.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (gWBY1)

152 This is so satisfying.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (T53xy)

153 Apparently the guy running it did a year in the fed pen for anarchist behavior that included something to do with explosives...

Commie shit bags. Hippie poison never ends.

Posted by: Seriously at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (xj28v)

154 handing out meals and pre-printed signs (on sticks)

Meals on sticks?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (Kt19C)

155 122 Going to go out on a very short limb here but if the fib ever gets around to using this data breach against anyone who had an account on that site the hawaiian judge will rule all evidence inadmissible in court because the breach was a criminal act.
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Doesn't work that way. Exclusionary rule only applies to illegal evidence acquired by government or its agents, not rando hackers. What would be a better attempt would be chain of custody but that can be cured with ancillary documentation.

Resist aka Hawaiian District judges are losing at an incredible rate now on appeal. And those appeals are being heard on a shorter and shorter timeline to the extent that the district judges issuing ridiculous opinions are getting stuffed in lockers only a couple of days later. That is light speed for appellate courts.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (2swu2)

156 Either way, the FBI and DOJ cannnot just sit around on this. Roll them up, charges, jail, trails....whatever you have to do. Start punching and don't stop until our enemies are smashed pulp on the street.

This is the time, if we don't want another commie revolution in our streets this spring/summer you have to go all the way.

Posted by: GigantorX at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (x8k2o)

157 When they turn on their computers a full screen notice should come on, "We are the Government and we know who you are and where you are". "See you soon".

Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (E7+ue)

158 So the stop ICE guy says he started in Jan 2024 in his linkedin profile.

The first I start hearing about the site on leftwing forums was in 2025.

Did it take that long to get noticed by lefties or did someone in the left's hierarchy pick it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

159 Don't auto insurance people have access to license plate info? Or at least plausibly they have access?

I wonder if someone in that industry is helping out.

Posted by: SimoHayek at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (/ZkOF)

160 And two counts (incl. one carrying capital punishment option) dismissed against the POS Mangione. ????

What technical effery is this? How can a clear case of a premeditated psycho murder not be subject to any charge in the menu?

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (U/Byj)

161 LOL, if I had tons of free time I'd have gotten the app and put in the plate #s for AWFULs with tranny flags etc to add a bunch of noise. I wouldn't have skills to hack the site.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (hhkIi)

Just switch every 7 to a 3 and every E to a W then so on. Hash the data up and let it look normal. I would suggest that as the third hack

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (rbvCR)

162 144 There is a group of twatters randos who have been penetrating/exposing/sabotaging the Signal chat groups and fighting the license plate reading thing for a while. Don't think DR was first or even possibly most active in this.

In any case I still don't understand how it's legal for non-LE to access license plate data.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (U/Byj)

I think they were using a legit portal by used bytow truck companies to access dmv information. Of course that is meant to allow towers to reach owners. So they abused the system.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (i0Hi3)

163 That's gonna be some sphincter tightening for some AWFLs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (n5tGW)

164 >>> Sherman Austin, fucked up name, what's his middle name WInston?

Tank?

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (gWBY1)

165 My guess is official letters sent first.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:04 PM

But will they be sternly worded?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (+gtr5)

166 hawaiian judge will rule all evidence inadmissible in court because the breach was a criminal act.

IAMAL but I believe that if evidence is obtained illegally it is admissible as long as law enforcement did not do the illegal act or pay for/set it up. If I break into a house to steal something and find a bunch of little kids tied up as sex slaves, I can tell the cops and they can act on it, use that in court. If the cops tell me to break in then its a problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (PYyV9)

167 My Dearest Tyrone

I hope this finds you well. Give your homies a heads up that some delicious white meat is coming soon to a Cell Block near you. I'm delighted to fund the special attention they require (attached). Let me know when that runs out.

Fennagin Again

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (ciYHQ)

168 LATEST: TSA workers eating dinner were mistaken for ICE agents, drawing dozens of protesters to a Lynwood restaurant.
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Not "protestors" you liar. Terrorists.

Shoot them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (RIvkX)

169 163 That's gonna be some sphincter tightening for some AWFLs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (n5tGW)

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"I downloaded an app. And now my husband is divorcing me."
-a future headline

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

170 I noticed in that last video the “protesters” were waving Mexican flags…. Great public relations savvy!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (YobFY)

171 Resist aka Hawaiian District judges are losing at an incredible rate now on appeal. And those appeals are being heard on a shorter and shorter timeline to the extent that the district judges issuing ridiculous opinions are getting stuffed in lockers only a couple of days later. That is light speed for appellate courts.
Posted by: whig

Maybe SCOTUS back channeling "don't make us get involved"?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (qw6Uy)

172 In a few states it has come out that the cops use license plate scanners to scope up all the data on all the cars they encounter, that data is then stored and referenced so you can identify where any car has been at any time without a search warrant...

This routinely gets noted as unconstitutional and yet they keep doing it...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

173 Python is my go-to now. Love the built-in collection datatypes, and the abundance of libraries that offer every functionality you'd ever need. I come from the strong-type language school, but I'm getting very used to this on-the-fly typing stuff.

Bad things about Python: they keep breaking old code with new syntaxes and features. Maybe only half the code samples you find online will compile as is, because they were obsoleted so fast. My current bugaboo is the venv crap that came with Python 3.8. A lot of extra hassle for no benefit I can see.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (N8ZBc)

174 What technical effery is this? How can a clear case of a premeditated psycho murder not be subject to any charge in the menu?
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (U/Byj)

He wasn't violent about the murder. He just murdered a guy. Casual has it's benefits, it seems.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

175 Now that the New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl, can they play the Bob Kraft Massage Sex Tape at halftime?

Ahh! Me so horny!
Me love you long time!
Posted by: 2 Live Crew at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (R/m4+)

One of the voters against Bill Belichick but for Kraft said he voted against Belichick because of Deflate Gate.

Must be a lefty because of the cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (cwGMH)

176 Think about it from a CI perspective. They now have the names and ID’s of all the people in a certain geographic location who will potentially move against them. They can also speak with their employers and ask simple questions like if they knew their employee is engaged in potentially illegal activity.

This is gloriously going on many bad places for them.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (4v5BO)

177 Resist aka Hawaiian District judges are losing at an incredible rate now on appeal.

I mean, the Supreme Court literally ordered lower federal courts to stop trying to block the executive department from taking actions, but they still keep trying :/

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (PYyV9)

178 I see that Catherine O'Hara died age 71. Not many SCTV alum are left.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

KEVIN

Posted by: Adriane the Not Really a Movie Critic Critic . . . at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (3ZUWJ)

179 Someone needs to start a website that allows people to track leftwing ahole politician's car, where they eat, when they travel, where they go to meetings, etc. See if they like being hunted.

Posted by: Db at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (p4bw2)

180 I hope a ton of Leftys logged in this morning, and then immediately contracted a severe case of a$$hole pucker factor.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (HlyYF)

181 When they turn on their computers a full screen notice should come on, "We are the Government and we know who you are and where you are". "See you soon".
Posted by: Case at January 30, 2026 03:16 PM (E7+ue)

"You are enjoined from destroying any evidence on your electronic devices under penalty of law. Agents will be contacting you in person within the next 48 hours to receive your devices."

Imagine the boost to the economy as thousands of activists have to buy new computers and phones after beating their current ones to bits with a hammer.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (rbvCR)

182
Apparently the guy running it did a year in the fed pen for anarchist behavior that included something to do with explosives...

Hmmmm. That sounds VERY familiar. OG Horde Morons will understand.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (y9nCu)

183 It is kind of shocking how much personal data is freely available if you know where and how to look. Stuff like the layout of the interior of your house, how much money you are worth, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Databrokers have to respond by deleting a lot of that information upon request. Google, for example, has a removal request from its search database of links for example. You can use several info removal firms either by paying or in the case of Optery, you can find out who has what for free and manually request deletion, Privacy Bee just tells you who has your data. Both have paid removal functions as well where they act on your behalf to remove the data and keep it removed during the subscription time.

Always whack a mole but if you work at privacy, you can limit what is released. Same with email accounts that allow aliased email addresses to be sprinkled about the internet at registration websites.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (2swu2)

184 But some are already moving on to the next stage and crying that they're about to get "night of the long knives'd."

Posted by: Dr. T

Ha, they might actually arrive at the FO stage soon!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (qo38o)

185 And two counts (incl. one carrying capital punishment option) dismissed against the POS Mangione. ????

What technical effery is this? How can a clear case of a premeditated psycho murder not be subject to any charge in the menu?
Posted by: rhomboid
_________

From the opinion:

“The analysis contained in the balance of this opinion may strike the average person — and indeed many lawyers and judges — as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law...”

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (XvL8K)

186 171 Maybe SCOTUS back channeling "don't make us get involved"?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 03:17 PM (qw6Uy)

======

Many more appellate judges are actually serious jurists than district court judges.

And the number of district court judges flashing their asses all the time is a tiny minority of the total.

Precedent has been set on almost every issue, and the appellate judges are tired of dealing with all this shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

187 OT
Damnit. My basic training buddy just died on the 13th. Buried on the 27th at the Central TX Veteran's Cemetary.

I'm going to have to stop and pay my respects to him at the end of March when I go to TX A&M.

SGM Leonard wwas a damned good NCO. He and his wife raised three outstanding boys, all three turned out to be damned finee NCOs as well.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM Vmho)

Good to see he was buried in a Vets cemetery. Tried to get my Dad in one at Ft. Knox but thy said they were full.

Got him in a nice little place though.

Posted by: javems at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (rhotX)

188 Imagine the boost to the economy as thousands of activists have to buy new computers and phones after beating their current ones to bits with a hammer.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:19 PM (rbvCR)

"Wipe, like with a cloth?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

189 Bad things about Python: they keep breaking old code with new syntaxes and features. Maybe only half the code samples you find online will compile as is, because they were obsoleted so fast. My current bugaboo is the venv crap that came with Python 3.8. A lot of extra hassle for no benefit I can see.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM

Stay with 2.7.

If it was good enough for Abraham and Guido, it's good enough for thee.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (+gtr5)

190 There is a group of twatters randos who have been penetrating/exposing/sabotaging the Signal chat groups and fighting the license plate reading thing for a while. Don't think DR was first or even possibly most active in this.

In any case I still don't understand how it's legal for non-LE to access license plate data.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (U/Byj)
_______

Depends on the state. But in some states, all you need is a license plate number and you can pull up all the registration info, including owner, VIN, etc.

You might need a subscription to a DMV service, but you'd be shocked how much private info you can find and it's all legal to get.

As a lawyer in a big firm, I had access to all kinds of background-search services. I knew party girls who would ask me to run names of guys they met. It was hilarious the info I was able to find.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

191 One of the voters against Bill Belichick but for Kraft said he voted against Belichick because of Deflate Gate.

Must be a lefty because of the cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (cwGMH)

Even more absurd because Belichick had nothing to do with deflategate… that was a Brady operation

Belichick was involved with/guilty of spygate but that was a big nothing burger as well

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (YobFY)

192 One of the voters against Bill Belichick but for Kraft said he voted against Belichick because of Deflate Gate.

That annoys me as much as the Astros sign stealing scandal and Lance Armstrong's blood doping scandal. EVERYBODY was doing it. They just won too much with it and pissed off their rivals.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (PYyV9)

193 They seem nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (zZu0s)

194 Doesn't work that way. Exclusionary rule only applies to illegal evidence acquired by government or its agents, not rando hackers. What would be a better attempt would be chain of custody but that can be cured with ancillary documentation.
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Also, they will use the data for targeted investigation. They know who when where to subpeona for phone fecords. That solves evidence problems.

Posted by: Seriously at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (xj28v)

195 Hmmmm. That sounds VERY familiar. OG Horde Morons will understand.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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That particular Indiana related fcker needs to hurry and and meet his judgment for what he did in his life.

Someone that deserves a host of people pissing on his grave.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (2swu2)

196 Also some serious questions about use of the FLOCK traffic cam system in Mpls, apparently. The randos I mentioned earlier were on this last week, bigly.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (U/Byj)

197 >>> In any case I still don't understand how it's legal for non-LE to access license plate data.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:14 PM (U/Byj)

Veronica Mars is on Netflix now and I've been rewatching it. Apparently all you need is to be a teenage girl that can fake a German Accent that sounds like the main staff assistant at the police dept, and call into the PD IT dept. Ask them to run the plate for you. Boom! You've got it.

Then you find out the license plate is your mom's, and she was at a sleazy hotel with your ex boyfriend's dad. Possibly sleeping together. Draaaaaama!

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (gWBY1)

198 A little searching says their are alternative to stopice.net which were created in April and June of 2025 - when the left started freaking out about ICE...which makes sense.

I'm still wondering about the origin date for Stop ICE because this would be from when the Biden Junta and the FNM told us there was no immigration problem whatsoever and Biden's ICE wasn't doing much anyway...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

199 Imagine the boost to the economy as thousands of activists have to buy new computers and phones after beating their current ones to bits with a hammer.

Posted by: Kindltot

With today's memory and storage prices? They won't dare...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (OUMaO)

200 of the voters against Bill Belichick but for Kraft said he voted against Belichick because of Deflate Gate.
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There was also a.sign stealing thing later???

Posted by: Seriously at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (xj28v)

201 Haven't read through the comments, but it appears stopice.net doesn't have that front page anymore?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (qBdHI)

202 197 Veronica Mars is on Netflix now and I've been rewatching it. Apparently all you need is to be a teenage girl that can fake a German Accent that sounds like the main staff assistant at the police dept, and call into the PD IT dept. Ask them to run the plate for you. Boom! You've got it.

Then you find out the license plate is your mom's, and she was at a sleazy hotel with your ex boyfriend's dad. Possibly sleeping together. Draaaaaama!

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (gWBY1)

=====

Ah...one of those shows with a cracker jack first season that become melodramatic nonsense by the end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

203 Databrokers have to respond by deleting a lot of that information upon request.

They do, but only for stuff gathered by data mining. But a ton of stuff is just just publicly available records like the stuff I mentioned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (PYyV9)

204 Veronica Mars is on Netflix now and I've been rewatching it. Apparently all you need is to be a teenage girl that can fake a German Accent that sounds like the main staff assistant at the police dept, and call into the PD IT dept. Ask them to run the plate for you. Boom! You've got it.

TBH you can get away with a hell of a lot of stuff if you know the right way to ask it and sound authoritative.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

205 Haven't read through the comments, but it appears stopice.net doesn't have that front page anymore?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (qBdHI)

It didn't for a while, but it's back on now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

206 Also, they will use the data for targeted investigation. They know who when where to subpeona for phone fecords. That solves evidence problems.
Posted by: Seriously
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Yep. Even illegally acquired information can be used to start collateral 'clean' investigations. Exclusionary rule is a lot more toothless nowadays than it used to be. And I suspect a lot of criminal prosecutions actually rely on Stinger or possibly other NSA data from fusion centers to kick off local 'clean' investigations of show me the man and I will show you the crimes sort.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (2swu2)

207 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (YobFY)

Might have been spy gate ( not aware of that one) . I just remember it was a gate. I just defaulted to deflate.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:23 PM (cwGMH)

208 Everyone was freaking out about the "sophistication" of the Signal chat group this past week, but I honestly think it's a small group not used to operating in the real world. Are they going to be able to keep up this frenetic pace for even a month more? Probably not, especially with their funding identified and (hopefully) cut off soon.

Posted by: pookysgirl, using English II vocab at January 30, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)

209
This routinely gets noted as unconstitutional and yet they keep doing it...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

Like the Federal Firearms Registry that the ATF totally doesn't have because it's illegal.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 03:23 PM (y9nCu)

210 Stay with 2.7. If it was good enough for Abraham and Guido, it's good enough for thee.

Heh. I actually have stayed with 2.7 for a couple of things. I wrote the CMS for my web site using Django 1. It only runs locally, and it would be a major pain to update it to either modern Django or modern Python.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 30, 2026 03:23 PM (EXyHK)

211 Veronica Mars worked because the lead was cute as a button and Enrico Colantoni is an underrated actor

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:24 PM (sKqQm)

212 Ah...one of those shows with a cracker jack first season that become melodramatic nonsense by the end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

You just described Lost

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:24 PM (YobFY)

213 I hope the handful of retards who actually used their .gov addresses when registering stocked up on cat food.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 30, 2026 03:24 PM (CwhoI)

214 I'd like to see confirmation from federal law enforcement that they have the names and are investigating. I don't think I saw that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

From an intel pov, I have to ask why you would give your target usable info? Access to their networks could lead to more valuable intel. Let them wonder. I don't want the basement dwellers rounded up, I want the entire network crushed, skinned and fileted.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 03:24 PM (uaYsl)

215 208 Everyone was freaking out about the "sophistication" of the Signal chat group this past week, but I honestly think it's a small group not used to operating in the real world. Are they going to be able to keep up this frenetic pace for even a month more? Probably not, especially with their funding identified and (hopefully) cut off soon.

Posted by: pookysgirl, using English II vocab at January 30, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)

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The tactics showed surprising sophistication, but it felt like the numbers were padded with people who were only marginally involved.

"I was walking my dog and saw an SUV that looked suspicious. Here's the plate. I would have followed, but Poochie was taking a number 2."

Combine that with the St. Paul hotel "riot" and "protest" which was a total of 40 people...20 of whom were journalists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

216 Based on the fact this reporter is good looking and talking to Shallenberger, but mostly because she is good looking, I assume she reports for right side news sites.

Anyway, first hand form the Commie riots.

https://tinyurl.com/46eu8p43

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Lm9+/)

217 How useful would it be to ask it to try to teach someone who has never written (functional) code before how to start?

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 03:02 PM (iXqHn)

"Functional" as a noun or a verb? As a verb, ok but you would have better luck picking a specific language and looking at online docs. As a noun, not very useful at all.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (TIizU)

218 5 Tell me the site was vibe coded. Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker

99% likely. I'll see if there's anything definitive.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (BLOW1)

219
As a lawyer in a big firm, I had access to all kinds of background-search services. I knew party girls who would ask me to run names of guys they met. It was hilarious the info I was able to find.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

Ive seen one of those things you guys can run one time and it's crazy. Every car, loan, address, phone number, loan, bankruptcy etc. I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (S6amQ)

220 212 Ah...one of those shows with a cracker jack first season that become melodramatic nonsense by the end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

You just described Lost

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:24 PM (YobFY)

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I think I described 98% of shows that go on for more than 2 seasons and have any kind of serialized nature.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

221 good....good...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

222 There are a lot of people with skills. You can restore from a backup but that doesn’t shut the door they entered through. In fact sometimes it just recreates the problem. It can also give the hackers a view into wha changes you’re trying to make. It feels like he’s trying to cover his ass and in doing so is making a lot of mistakes.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (4v5BO)

223 One of the things jihadis figured out quickly is the best away to avoid American SIGINT was to just meet in person.

And the US is very very good at SIGINT and traditionally not particularly good at any other type of espionage...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

224 I think I described 98% of shows that go on for more than 2 seasons and have any kind of serialized nature.

The Heroes effect: I have a great idea for a show! Damn it got picked up again, now what? Uh... *scrambles and comes up with crap*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:26 PM (PYyV9)

225 Also some serious questions about use of the FLOCK traffic cam system in Mpls, apparently. The randos I mentioned earlier were on this last week, bigly.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 03:21 PM (U/Byj)

There is a rumor that Mangione's arrest was facilitated by the facial ID function in the McDonald's automatic kiosks that may or may not have been accessed by the NSA or related agencies doing a favor for the FIB, so doubly screwed, they might be.

Panopticon means panopticon.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:26 PM (rbvCR)

226 221 good....good...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

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Oh, come on.

Oldboy is better than that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

227 In a few states it has come out that the cops use license plate scanners to scope up all the data on all the cars they encounter, that data is then stored and referenced so you can identify where any car has been at any time without a search warrant...

This routinely gets noted as unconstitutional and yet they keep doing it...
Posted by: 18-1

Hell, just ask. I'm either at work, at Walmart/Sam's, Home Depot or home.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 03:26 PM (qw6Uy)

228 They do, but only for stuff gathered by data mining. But a ton of stuff is just just publicly available records like the stuff I mentioned.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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There are ways to shield those as well. Usually shell LLCs.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (2swu2)

229 I just got a notification from Malwarebytes that this website, *checks notes* irs.gov was compromised.

Probably nothing...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (rMeLE)

230 and congrats to Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (xcxpd)

231 Sooner or later we are going to see terrorism

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

232 I guess that would be "a noun or an adjective."

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (TIizU)

233 and congrats to Sponge
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (xcxpd)

WOOT!

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

234 Ive seen one of those things you guys can run one time and it's crazy. Every car, loan, address, phone number, loan, bankruptcy etc. I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.

Yeah there's a lot out there for free. With a subscription or paying for the service, its astounding what is out there to discover. You have no secrets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (PYyV9)

235 Catherine O'Hara musical interlude, singing Sally's Song live:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mTm-ajQ13LA

The cover of the song by Amy Lee of Evanescence is divine in a goth rock way, but I'll always love Catherine's simple version.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=At1EZPjIbQo

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (gWBY1)

236 Seems Mr. Austin has also failed to secure his current address. Hope he likes getting GOP solicitations in the mail.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (EFrJp)

237 This routinely gets noted as unconstitutional and yet they keep doing it...
Posted by: 18-1

Because the exclusionary rule remedy only applies if they use the evidence in court, not for investigations.

British though have a system where the coppers themselves, if they violate the law, can be sued or charged themselves on issues like trespass. Better by far than the exclusionary rule which the US is the main proponent of. Most jurisdictions lean more to the British model, than the US.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (2swu2)

238 Might have been spy gate ( not aware of that one) . I just remember it was a gate. I just defaulted to deflate.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:23 PM (cwGMH)

Spygate was 2007 timeframe when Belichick had his assistants videotape a Jets practice (which is technically against the rules)… the NFL subsequently intentionally destroyed the tapes so no one ever got to look at them… 2014 deflategate Tom Brady had some get let some air out of the balls to make them easier to throw but the big scandal is he subsequently lied to Goodell about it…. Both were full of sound and fury signifying nothing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (YobFY)

239 226 221 good....good...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

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Oh, come on.

Oldboy is better than that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

That ending though....I know you say 'deserves' got nothing to do with it but....it feels like the protagonist got the raw deal for little to nothing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (xcxpd)

240 "I have a great idea for a show! Damn it got picked up again, now what? Uh... *scrambles and comes up with crap*"

Exhibit: The Great Gazoo on The Flintstones.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (N8ZBc)

241 The Heroes effect: I have a great idea for a show! Damn it got picked up again, now what? Uh... *scrambles and comes up with crap*

Stranger Things had this problem in spades. It was supposed to end after season one (El and the monster were supposed to be tied together) but Netflix decided they wanted more seasons so they got them. But...the writers didn't really know where they wanted to go from there.

They got lucky with some really, really good child actors and 80s nostalgia but...by the 5th season they brought in a bunch of meh actors and dumped any pretense the show was really set in the 80s.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

242 Sooner or later we are going to see terrorism
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Turn on the tv. Its been happening for quite a while now.

Trumps.ear. insurance guy in the back, kirk in the neck.

Posted by: Hello at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (xj28v)

243 Yeah, baby!!! J6 those A-holes!!

Posted by: GraniteLady at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (SEshB)

244 239 That ending though....I know you say 'deserves' got nothing to do with it but....it feels like the protagonist got the raw deal for little to nothing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (xcxpd)

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Perhaps.

But he was humbled...and made quiet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

245 As a lawyer in a big firm, I had access to all kinds of background-search services. I knew party girls who would ask me to run names of guys they met. It was hilarious the info I was able to find.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

Ive seen one of those things you guys can run one time and it's crazy. Every car, loan, address, phone number, loan, bankruptcy etc. I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (S6amQ)
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Yup. All of that is now available to the public. You do have to pay a service for it, but it's like $50. Even just a phone number can lead to the name and then a full background check.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

246 Meals on sticks?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 03:15 PM (Kt19C)

shish-ka-bobs

Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 03:30 PM (ZNSbE)

247 There are ways to shield those as well.

Some of them, but a lot are required by law as public records (like your basic house layout). Being a PI is a lot easier than it used to be, but at the same time you cannot really write a gumshoe novel like they used to be. Its like writing James Bond novels in the modern era; they just don't work any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:30 PM (PYyV9)

248
shish-ka-bobs
Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 03:30 PM (ZNSbE)

Bobs and vagene!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

249 Apparently all you need is to be a teenage girl that can fake a German Accent that sounds like the main staff assistant at the police dept, and call into the PD IT dept.

Don’t know about police departments, but I’m pretty sure a good percentage of the compromised accounts at the university I used to work for were from leveraging the help desk. At one point, they even had a database of passwords for one of the services, and would give out the existing password. So if it was a hack, the real user wouldn’t even necessarily know.

A couple of us managed to end that practice as soon as we found out about it, but other less obvious issues remained unresolved when I left. Insecurity questions were likely a major attack vector, since their entire purpose is to enable accessing an account without knowing the password.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 30, 2026 03:30 PM (EXyHK)

250
Yeah there's a lot out there for free. With a subscription or paying for the service, its astounding what is out there to discover. You have no secrets.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (PYyV9)

The one I saw I think was a lexis nexus background check and it had everything about this person, ever.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (S6amQ)

251 Help! I just got a bunch of messages from the StopICE phone number. What's going on?!?!

It's just a fake scam. They can spoof the number to make it look like it's from StopICE.

Think this through. If they’re texting people who’ve actually given the site their number, it means they have access to the user data.

Well here’s hoping we don’t get night of long knives’ed but that’s probably the way is going. Call your senators daily demanding the abolition of ice or it’ll be our heads.

What a depressing way to start the day. If you were just on the site viewing things then you are fine. People actually uploading licenses plates and locations are breaking federal law and they are currently looking to throw the book at people, so I would be worried.

Oh no the gov knows i know ICE is made of illegal criminals who will have to hide for the rest of their lives because of the crimes they've committed.

Hackers took over the website, took all the user data and sent it to law enforcement. whoever is on here saying to not worry is wild.

Fighting fascists comes with inherent risks. I say come and take it, dickweeds.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (JCZqz)

252 I think I described 98% of shows that go on for more than 2 seasons and have any kind of serialized nature.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

Yep… back to today’s MR discussion this is why Breaking Bad was so great. The arc of the story to the very final episode (the final SCENE of the final episode) was consistently outstanding

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (YobFY)

253 Someone on Twixxer posted a video of a truck handing out meals and pre-printed signs (on sticks) for protesters to carry.
Posted by: Christopher

...and a smile spread across Fen's face that made all the creatures of the forest shriek in terror

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (ciYHQ)

254 216 Based on the fact this reporter is good looking and talking to Shallenberger, but mostly because she is good looking, I assume she reports for right side news sites.

Anyway, first hand form the Commie riots.

https://tinyurl.com/46eu8p43
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Lm9+/)

model-hot. That gap in her teeth just makes her sexier IMO

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (xcxpd)

255 The left then: If you've done nothing wrong you shouldn't be worried about government surveillance

The left now: ORANGE HITLER IS GOING TO SEND ME TO A CAMP!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

256 Hell, just ask. I'm either at work, at Walmart/Sam's, Home Depot or home.

Replace Home Depot with Lowe's and you will find me.

Posted by: Oh noes! at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (HcoTw)

257 Weren't the nazis challenging the regular German police before coming to/taking power? Yeah, you, antifa.

Posted by: Rex B at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (sdSI9)

258 251 What a depressing way to start the day. If you were just on the site viewing things then you are fine. People actually uploading licenses plates and locations are breaking federal law and they are currently looking to throw the book at people, so I would be worried.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (JCZqz)

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"Breaking federal law should be consequence free!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

259 What I would like to see is a middle of the night, flashbang, Delta raid on Neville Roy Singham.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (uaYsl)

260 Exhibit: The Great Gazoo on The Flintstones.

One of my favorite satires on this is when The Simpsons had a show with a new character: a skateboarding cool dog! Just to mock the "we need a new character" thing on TV shows.

Now we need a new satire about a show that has been on TV far too long and lost its way long ago. See also: South Park.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (PYyV9)

261
Well here’s hoping we don’t get night of long knives’ed but that’s probably the way is going. Call your senators daily demanding the abolition of ice or it’ll be our heads.

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If you don't will you drop the "fascist" BS

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Vh9CX)

262 252 I think I described 98% of shows that go on for more than 2 seasons and have any kind of serialized nature.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

Yep… back to today’s MR discussion this is why Breaking Bad was so great. The arc of the story to the very final episode (the final SCENE of the final episode) was consistently outstanding

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (YobFY)

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Vince Gilligan makes like half of the 2% that doesn't do this.

He's one of the only people working in television who actually understands the medium.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

263 Damnit. If I'm going to the barrel, might as well put the Ackbar sock on so I'll like it.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (JCZqz)

264 263 Damnit. If I'm going to the barrel, might as well put the Ackbar sock on so I'll like it.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (JCZqz)

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I got you, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

265 244 239 That ending though....I know you say 'deserves' got nothing to do with it but....it feels like the protagonist got the raw deal for little to nothing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:28 PM (xcxpd)

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Perhaps.

But he was humbled...and made quiet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

It's a real Tragedy, that's what it is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (xcxpd)

266 Ive seen one of those things you guys can run one time and it's crazy. Every car, loan, address, phone number, loan, bankruptcy etc. I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:25 PM (S6amQ)

Depending on the state, the public databases give lots of information, even more if one is an ex con. Secretary of State, workers comp, ag department, Contractors' board, USDoT safety site (SAFER) and the state judicial department. Even more is the unclaimed property site, and there are a few others like Labor Contractor and Custodial registration in some states if you suspect there is a tie in to a specific industry.

I used to do this stuff for a paycheck. I only used my superpowers for good, I promise.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

267 265 It's a real Tragedy, that's what it is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (xcxpd)

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Complete with hammer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

268 >>> Ah...one of those shows with a cracker jack first season that become melodramatic nonsense by the end.

It was on the WB I think, and then it merged with the CW and they meddled. The first two seasons had little executive meddling and are great. The CW meddling era is meh. But I'm glad fans rallied, and we got a Veronica Mars movie to wrap things up! Kind of.

They had talked about a spinoff where she joins the FBI. Would have been fun. The actress has Disney Frozen money now, and doesn't financially need to do all the show reboots like everyone else did just to pay the bills.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:34 PM (gWBY1)

269 Fighting fascists comes with inherent risks. I say come and take it, dickweeds.

With the German National Socialists "fighting fascists" would get you literally killed. Yes, even peaceful protest

Somehow these same people jump from TRUMP IS HITLER to acting like attacking cops is a perfectly normal thing in America and back like a metronome

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

270 259 What I would like to see is a middle of the night, flashbang, Delta raid on Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Sock Monkey *

Delta force extraction raid because Neville is pretty much staying in Shanghai China these days. Medea is the one running around and palling around with MTG.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:34 PM (2swu2)

271 The new Nazis have a sense of humor.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (UjdFS)

272
Complete with hammer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

That's hot!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

273 The Reddit meltdown on this has been glorious.

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (OoFl2)

274 They had talked about a spinoff where she joins the FBI. Would have been fun. The actress has Disney Frozen money now, and doesn't financially need to do all the show reboots like everyone else did just to pay the bills.

Didn't she partly fund the movie arguing that her success was because of the show? She actually really did "give back" unlike most Hollywood bubbleheads

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

275 Vince Gilligan makes like half of the 2% that doesn't do this.

Taylor Sheridan is the other, although I guess Yellowstone ended pretty badly. And he doesn't write women very well heh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (PYyV9)

276 The FBI should go after those 100k on StopICE like they went after the J6'rs.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (qoLdL)

277 268 They had talked about a spinoff where she joins the FBI. Would have been fun. The actress has Disney Frozen money now, and doesn't financially need to do all the show reboots like everyone else did just to pay the bills.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:34 PM (gWBY1)

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Kristen Bell was also on a long running prime time comedy/drama, The Good Place.

That's probably where most of her money comes from.

Long running network television gigs pay as well as the highest paid Hollywood stars.

The stars of Scrubs were making $75,000 per episode in the final season of 26 episodes. That's roughly $2 million.

Friends stars were making $1 million per episode.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

278 When I go to stopice.net it looks like it's functioning. No red and black "not kidding" screen.
Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2026 03:11 PM (syXXq)

If you're convinced that it's nothing then join up.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 30, 2026 03:36 PM (g8Ew8)

279 This is new to me but may be old news to the horde, but one reason Minnesota prosecutors refuse to indict the Church invaders is because they were joining in on the attack...

https://tinyurl.com/bddpjrkw

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:36 PM (buPQP)

280 Depending on the state, the public databases give lots of information, even more if one is an ex con.

Exactly. Its just a matter of knowing that you can look this stuff up and who to ask. I used a reverse phone number lookup on people and stumbled on a site that gives a bunch of that info for free, like net worth. Its an estimate, but it was pretty close for me and people that I knew.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (PYyV9)

281 275 Vince Gilligan makes like half of the 2% that doesn't do this.

Taylor Sheridan is the other, although I guess Yellowstone ended pretty badly. And he doesn't write women very well heh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (PYyV9)

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I like the handful of movies he's made, but everything I've heard about Yellowstone is that it's just primetime soap opera.

That only works when David Lynch is making it completely arch in Twin Peaks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

282 "And he doesn't write women very well heh."

Women who are intolerably insane, and the men who love them.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (N8ZBc)

283 Depending on the state, the public databases give lots of information…

In Texas, where someone lives is easy to find from the county web site. All you need to know is their first or last name, and what county they’re in. I can’t imagine that this data hasn’t been skimmed, so there will be other databases that provide the info without knowing the county.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (EXyHK)

284 People yelling "fascist" couldn't define fascism if they tried. They're sheep who follow the crowd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (IDEQi)

285 Sherm's pucker factor is eleven. Are we not entertained?
f'ing cockroach he is.

Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (ehY6c)

286 284 People yelling "fascist" couldn't define fascism if they tried. They're sheep who follow the crowd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 03:37 PM (IDEQi)

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"Bully. It means bully."
-George Orwell, 1948

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

287 The stars of Scrubs were making $75,000 per episode in the final season of 26 episodes. That's roughly $2 million.

Friends stars were making $1 million per episode.

Yeah, basically that's what kills TV shows. After a while there's just no profit in there, no matter how popular a show is, especially with a big cast like Friends.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (PYyV9)

288
I used to do this stuff for a paycheck. I only used my superpowers for good, I promise.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

I'm sure all this free online research has been a boon to the stalker community.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (S6amQ)

289 What I would like to see is a middle of the night, flashbang, Delta raid on Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 03:32 PM (uaYsl)
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His Chinese security team would probably object and it would be tough to extract him from Shanghai, where he lives.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (buPQP)

290 Ive seen one of those things you guys can run one time and it's crazy. Every car, loan, address, phone number, loan, bankruptcy etc. I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Get your credit frozen at all three credit reporting services is my recommendation. You can always unthaw it briefly for loans and then refreeze it.

It is also relatively easy to contaminate databases by using various names for yourself, alias emails, lies on matters like birthdays on websites, etc. If they want data they shouldn't have to buy something, then feel free to lie away to screw with their resale of your data.

Using a glyph like the artist previously known as Prince would be a big database breaker. And you see some of those illegal characters used in voter registration databases on purpose so a routine query won't winkle them out.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (2swu2)

291 Taylor Sheridan is the other, although I guess Yellowstone ended pretty badly. And he doesn't write women very well heh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:35 PM (PYyV9)

Yeah the last season of Yellowstone was disastrously bad. He shoulda bent over backwards to accommodate Cosner. Cosner was the show; without him the bottom fell out

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (YobFY)

292 Fighting fascists comes with inherent risks. I say come and take it, dickweeds.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (JCZqz)

Your terms are accepted...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (VE6XX)

293 Delta force extraction raid because Neville is pretty much staying in Shanghai China these days. Medea is the one running around and palling around with MTG.
Posted by: whig

Scoop that b*tch up too!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (uaYsl)

294 Weren't the nazis challenging the regular German police before coming to/taking power? Yeah, you, antifa.

IN interwar Germany the establishment right was unable to stop leftwing street violence and the establishment left generally helped their farther left brethren.

This led to the NAZIs/SA being one of the few groups willing and able to rumble back and brought them some measure of popularity.

The left often brings this up in disparaging appeals to law and order but honestly the lesson everyone should learn is allowing street violence will always lead to bad things even if you think it helps your party in the short term and the FNM sure isn't going to go talk to Democrat Pols about that...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

295 Kind of funny because yesterday a bunch of "people" in Escondido were all up in arms because the Escondido Police Department was going to allow ice to do target practice at their range. I didn't realize there was such a bastion of those people in Escondido, but it makes sense given that context from yesterday.

Posted by: keena at January 30, 2026 03:39 PM (4Aqsh)

296 What would make this even funnier? If it was Haxored from someone Overseas....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2026 03:39 PM (mP0Kj)

297 >>Taylor Sheridan is the other, although I guess Yellowstone ended pretty badly. And he doesn't write women very well heh.
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That's easy. Start with a man, then take away reason and accountability.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (bNf8H)

298 >>> They got lucky with some really, really good child actors and 80s nostalgia but...by the 5th season they brought in a bunch of meh actors and dumped any pretense the show was really set in the 80s. Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

The actress that played Robin decided her character was gay, and forced them to change the script to make her gay. Had she not, that could have been a really interesting love square. Instead we got her making out with a candy striper nurse in a closet.

And yes, the Duffer Brothers compromising on a streamlined vision in order to print more Netflix cash didn't help. I will say, the fourth season is my favorite! They made all the superfluous side characters actually have purpose and their own arcs. Tied things back together, only to mess it up again in season 5.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (gWBY1)

299 So someone working at the Mexican restaurant notified their anti-ice buddies that what they thought were ICE agents eating there and they should come immediately to harass them. They should be sued. The excuse of "it was just a case of mistaken identity" is bullshit. Tough. Lose your business.

Same with the deli in Minneapolis earlier this month with IT contractors who were eating there and a deli worker notified their anti-ICE network that they were ICE agents and they were surrounded and harassed as they left the deli. They should be sued in to oblivion and lose their business.

Posted by: Cheri at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (oiNtH)

300 285 Sherm's pucker factor is eleven. Are we not entertained?
f'ing cockroach he is.
Posted by: kingsman

I would imagine that lawsuits are incoming for Sherman as we speak by his dissatisfied customers. CA makes it pretty easy to sue tech companies for privacy leaks. Sherman is kind of in the same situation on criminal law--time to pay for a very good lawyer.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (2swu2)

301 People yelling "fascist" couldn't define fascism if they tried. They're sheep who follow the crowd

Take your average Mussolini speech on domestic policy, translate it, and modernize the language and 90%+ of leftists would cheer.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

302 I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.

And that’s the information used for out-of-wallet identity verification for opening and sometimes even accessing bank accounts and other financial accounts. It’s a huge problem and the solution isn’t obvious.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (EXyHK)

303 His Chinese security team would probably object and it would be tough to extract him from Shanghai, where he lives.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (buPQP)
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Anyone have Batman's number?

He has some experience in this area...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (ESVrU)

304 292 Fighting fascists comes with inherent risks. I say come and take it, dickweeds.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (JCZqz)

Your terms are accepted...
Posted by: It's me donna

Just because he wears a leather thong and bitch sandals around a bunch of mostly naked dudes doesn't mean he looks like Leonidas in 300 when saying Molon Labe.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (JCZqz)

305 298 And yes, the Duffer Brothers compromising on a streamlined vision in order to print more Netflix cash didn't help. I will say, the fourth season is my favorite! They made all the superfluous side characters actually have purpose and their own arcs. Tied things back together, only to mess it up again in season 5.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (gWBY1)

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I gave up after the 3rd.

It had just gotten boring.

Dolley kept up with it, and I was in the room while she was watching the final episode. Seemed...dumb. I was mostly playing DOOM, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

306 I'm sure all this free online research has been a boon to the stalker community.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:38 PM (S6amQ)

Yep. Which is why a) I don't do it for fun, and b) everyone should own a gun

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (rbvCR)

307 Tied things back together, only to mess it up again in season 5.

I remember the early seasons of the show FELT like the 80s.

By season 5 though it felt like the show was set in 2025.

Lazy, lazy writing.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

308 You do have to pay a service for it, but it's like $50. Even just a phone number can lead to the name and then a full background check.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Yeah but use some common sense. That's what got Hoyt in trouble - defamation based off false positives. There's even a warning on the home page that results may not be 100% accurate.

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 03:42 PM (ciYHQ)

309 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (S6amQ)

310 "Bully. It means bully."
-George Orwell, 1948

One of the very weak points of the Captain America movie was him explaining why he wants to fight Nazis (and not Japanese??): he doesn't like bullies. That's like saying you oppose rape because its rude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (PYyV9)

311 >>> 302 I was kind of shocked at the info that's out there.

Apparently the UK police have tech now that lets you access everything on a phone without needing the person's password.

So you can get arrested for mean tweets, and then the police don't even need a warrant to access your phone.

Yeah, I'm never ever moving to the Uk!

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (gWBY1)

312 You mean... we're not fighting fascists, we are the fighting fascists?!

Posted by: Soros-funded Antifa at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (7kply)

313 I think season 4 of stranger things was good - but the lesbo stuff felt forced.

And yes they ruined all of the lead up in season 4 by making the big bad a useless idiot in season 5.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

314 David Spade making a good living from residuals from Just Shoot Me and Rules of Engagement. Both had a 5 year + run.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (cwGMH)

315 I gave up after the 3rd.

It had just gotten boring.

Dolley kept up with it, and I was in the room while she was watching the final episode. Seemed...dumb. I was mostly playing DOOM, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:41 PM (GBKbO)
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Same here. I thought the premise of Season 3 was pretty weak and it was hard to suspend my disbelief that a Soviet spybase was located under a U.S. shopping mall--staffed by Soviet soldiers who didn't speak English.

Also, DOOM >>> Stranger Things.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (ESVrU)

316 model-hot. That gap in her teeth just makes her sexier IMO
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 30, 2026 03:31 PM (xcxpd)

It means she can whistle a rousing tune during a bj.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (g8Ew8)

317 I would imagine that lawsuits are incoming for Sherman as we speak by his dissatisfied customers. CA makes it pretty easy to sue tech companies for privacy leaks. Sherman is kind of in the same situation on criminal law--time to pay for a very good lawyer.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:40 PM (2swu2)

Better? he has to identify and contact everyone whose information was breached, by Federal Law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (mP0Kj)

318 315 Same here. I thought the premise of Season 3 was pretty weak and it was hard to suspend my disbelief that a Soviet spybase was located under a U.S. shopping mall--staffed by Soviet soldiers who didn't speak English.

Also, DOOM >>> Stranger Things.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 03:43 PM (ESVrU)

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Same here?!

You were watching with us? How did you get in my house?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

319 Fighting Fascism is just Communists Fighting anything not a Communist

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (Ia/+0)

320 His Chinese security team would probably object and it would be tough to extract him from Shanghai, where he lives.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That would be to their detriment. I would love to hear another impromptu presser by PDT, similar to the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi one. Still my favorite Trump moment.
tiny.cc/2hsx001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 30, 2026 03:44 PM (uaYsl)

321 Party upstairs ...

Posted by: Bette at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (3ZUWJ)

322 Better? he has to identify and contact everyone whose information was breached, by Federal Law.
Posted by: Romeo13
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So far he is resembling a river in Egypt, De Nile. Been funny to follow Data Republican's X posts today on this issue. I suspect she is having fun as well.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 03:45 PM (2swu2)

323 The authoritarians supposedly hate authoritarianism. And the violent people supposedly hate violence. And the racists supposedly hate racists. And all of them hate the Jews.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (6ZSsV)

324 Not that I have any clue how location would be gotten myself, I'd think it would be just an ISP#, then if the feds were sufficiently motivated they could then go to the internet providers with a warrant to find out who was using that ISP#. But Im just an engineer who codes some math stuff, not a computer expert.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (hhkIi)

if the app has permissions on the phone, it can read location information from the hardware and do what it likes with it. If it saves the info in local storage it could be read by the hacker and saved.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (8avO+)

325 This Anti Fascism is just the mantra of 1941 Communists, it never ended

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Ia/+0)

326 Been a bad day. My daughters best ever dog died and I've got a stomach bug and the squirts.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS)

327 I say come and take it, dickweeds.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

We must really suck at being Nazi, these punks should regard us as that Voldemort chap. I feel like some of you aren't putting your back into it...

Do you really want me to run Remedial Nazi classes every 3rd weekend again? Let's get sinister gents, come on!

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 03:51 PM (ciYHQ)

328 IN interwar Germany the establishment right was unable to stop leftwing street violence and the establishment left generally helped their farther left brethren.

This led to the NAZIs/SA being one of the few groups willing and able to rumble back and brought them some measure of popularity.

The left often brings this up in disparaging appeals to law and order but honestly the lesson everyone should learn is allowing street violence will always lead to bad things even if you think it helps your party in the short term and the FNM sure isn't going to go talk to Democrat Pols about that...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

The Nazis were leftist street thugs, they just weren't Communist ones. They profited by the fact that more people were anti-communist and that even Communists were just in competition. When the communist thugs were crushed, most of the rank and file just became Nazi brownshirts with little problem.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 03:52 PM (8avO+)

329 326 Been a bad day. My daughters best ever dog died and I've got a stomach bug and the squirts.
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Stay close to the throne and get some Man's Wipes. Oh, and eat cheese.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 03:53 PM (Hpgos)

330 As an engineer myself, I absolutely LOATHE the term "coder".

The Reddit community thinks all you have to do is copy/pastes/modify to. "Code"

None of these losers would stand a chance I'm writing their own shit. "Crowd source" means "group of similarly angry retards"

It funny as fuck to watch them burn though.

I hope they are all shitting themselves

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 30, 2026 03:55 PM (XLfSN)

331 Homan's got a PHD in pissology.
On their leg and sensitive parts too.
With absolutely no hesitation, good publicity too.
PAIN, hahahahahah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 03:56 PM (hG1+u)

332 Commies did create the need for NAZIs. Street Fighting Men are always needed to punch commies in the throat.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 03:57 PM (Hpgos)

333 squirt, yeah. One of my favorite words. Just the letters of the word.

Other than that, i don't give it a thought.

There is a joke around here i can't find it. Maybe something to do with fireman.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 30, 2026 03:59 PM (EyfuW)

334 To dox or not to dox. That is the question.
Dox them. Dox hard. The Doxer. A Dox in the box.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 30, 2026 04:03 PM (EyfuW)

335 Gentlemen, make your time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

336 I TOTALLY LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

In yo' face, dimwits!

A great time to be an American! What a great week!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 04:25 PM (WONhk)

337 Sherman Austin is a convicted Anarchist. There are so few of those philosophers convicted.

Posted by: wferrin at January 30, 2026 04:26 PM (lCdHU)

338 Stop Ice needs to be busted for aiding the Enemy the UN/Globalists they all deserve Life in prison

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 30, 2026 05:03 PM (wGqjj)

339 *somebody* broke the front page.

NOOD psycho Spanberger:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/
?post=418316

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 05:32 PM (ULPxl)

Court Rules that Carnegie Mellon University Can Be Held Accountable for Taking Qatar Money to Permit Antisemitic Hatred on Campus

From the Wall Street Journal: a student is suing Carnegie Mellon University. She says that she was harassed by antisemitic Muslims, but was discouraged from filing a complaint.

She is suing on the theory that Carnegie Mellon discriminated against her because they were paid $1 billion by Qatar to permit antisemitic attacks on campus.

A judge refused to dismiss this complaint and says that a "reasonable jury" may well find that Carnegie Mellon allowed the brutalization of its Jewish students due to the Qatar bribe. So the case goes forward.

Eitan Fischberger
@EFischberger
Newly unsealed federal court orders point to massive Qatari funding shaping Carnegie Mellon's behavior and enabling antisemitism on campus:
🔸 A federal judge said a reasonable juror could conclude that CMU's reliance on over $1 billion from Qatar motivated the university to accommodate donor expectations
🔸 Qatari entities helped fund the salary of CMU's DEI and Title IX coordinator, and the university was required to consult with the Qatar Foundation before hiring her
🔸 Multiple DEI officials involved in handling antisemitism complaints had work ties to Qatar, including trips, funding, or employment connected to the Doha campus
🔸 The court explicitly warned that Qatar and its affiliates could be a source of antisemitic influence on university policy and complaint handling
🔸 Similar contracts at CMU and Northwestern University require faculty and students to respect Qatari law, which criminalizes criticism of the Qatari government
🔸 Department of Education data shows Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of US universities by far, outpacing China and Saudi Arabia
Academic freedom and student civil rights should not be contingent on appeasing foreign autocracies. Congress needs to take this problem seriously, fast.

Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79
To summarize: Carnegie Mellon took over $1 billion from Qatar and gave the Qatar Foundation a say in the hiring of their VP of DEI, and now the school is being sued by a Jewish student who says the VP of DEI discouraged her from filing a formal antisemitism complaint...yikes.

Posted by: Ace at 01:22 PM

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1 THE BLADE BEATS

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

2
Qatar is out ally and friend. I see no problem with taking money from them. What we need to really look out for are the Joos.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at January 30, 2026 01:22 PM (IifOV)

3 I wonder what Cucker Tarlson thinks about this?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

4 Cucker Qatarlson will be all over this story!

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 01:23 PM (TZcsC)

5 Another Qatar baby that just won't be thrown out...

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (FpHTM)

6 I live in their heads! Bwahahahahaha!

Posted by: Cucker at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

7 A judge refused to dismiss this complaint and says that a "reasonable jury" may well find that Carnegie Mellon allowed the brutalization of its Jewish students due to the Qatar bribe. So the case goes forward.
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She's going to have a very hard time proving her case.

But first hurdle is passed, I suppose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (MABZ1)

8
Hey, Qatari Money spends as well as Saudi money.

-Tucker Carlson

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (IifOV)

9 "Somehow, somewhere the WOOKE RAIGHT is to blame..." Games Lamsey

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (mlg/3)

10 I love this! CMU is SUCH a bunch of twats

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 30, 2026 01:25 PM (emBoF)

11 VP of DEI discouraged her from filing a formal antisemitism complaint...yikes.

Not yikes. yea, it's about time for some rational thought.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 01:25 PM (qo38o)

12 So, punative damages on the order of the donation, right?

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 01:25 PM (vSvIl)

13 🔸 Qatari entities helped fund the salary of CMU's DEI and Title IX coordinator, and the university was required to consult with the Qatar Foundation before hiring her
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold the phones here.

I have been hearing - for years if not decades - that *any* strings on *any* money given to *any* institution by *any* government or affiliated entity was Literally Fascism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:25 PM (MABZ1)

14 Even putting aside this girl's claims she was personally discriminated against, how can it possibly be legal for American colleges to take money from hostile foreign powers? Of course the money is a bribe to influence policy and hiring. It should be illegal on its face.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

15 Good. Now can someone go after Columbia University, please?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 01:26 PM (ZeH0U)

16 10 I love this! CMU is SUCH a bunch of twats
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 30, 2026 01:25 PM (emBoF)

Philly shitting on Pittsburgh.

Proudest tradition in the Mid-Atlanic.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:26 PM (FpHTM)

17
1 Billion dollars isn't chump change. Foreign money in education is an insidious blight on our system.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (IifOV)

18 OT
Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.

Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

19 At the University where I don't teach anymore except for when I need beer money, I would, every so often, walk down into the student union hall and after passing all the student support groups for LGBTQ+. Hispanics, ragheads, etc, I would stop and ask where the Jewish Student council was located. The looks I received were excellent!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (2WIwB)

20 Of course the money is a bribe to influence policy and hiring. It should be illegal on its face.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Confucius Institutes: *Whistles innocently*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (a+4eV)

21 🔸 Similar contracts at CMU and Northwestern University require faculty and students to respect Qatari law, which criminalizes criticism of the Qatari government
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Where?

If they have a campus in Qatar, then fine. Follow the local laws there and if you don't like them, then don't do business in that locality.

But if they are attempting to uphold Qatari law *here*, that is a pretty damn significant problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (MABZ1)

22 Qatar is about to become a bit less wealthy...

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (g47mK)

23 Qatari Law = Sharia Law

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (g47mK)

24 >>>Qatar is out ally and friend. I see no problem with taking money from them.

Seconded!!!

Posted by: John Bolton at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (jGJov)

25 🔸 Department of Education data shows Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of US universities by far, outpacing China and Saudi Arabia
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Yes. That is old news.

Qatar sends the money and sets the policy, Red China sends the spies and sets the policy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (MABZ1)

26 I see there is a fake CoD bundle that adds Renee Good as a playable character.

The best part? Someone comments, "The best character to beat those annoying kids on the server with you"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

27 Columbia allows anti jewish attacks for free

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (q7NZH)

28 "Similar contracts at CMU and Northwestern University require faculty and students to respect Qatari law, which criminalizes criticism of the Qatari government"

This itself is astonishing. What is meant by 'require'? What's the oversight and enforcement of such requirements? Man, the discovery on this should be something provided the Qataris don't offer a settlement to make this go away.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 30, 2026 01:29 PM (CwhoI)

29 🔸 Similar contracts at CMU and Northwestern University require faculty and students to respect Qatari law, which criminalizes criticism of the Qatari government
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And these people bleat on and on about "academic freedom" when the *domestic* government requires them to uphold the *domestic* laws involving fair play and free speech.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:29 PM (MABZ1)

30 Qatar is about to become a bit less wealthy...
Posted by: runner

no, I think Carnegie Mellon is about to get DEI'd.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 01:29 PM (qo38o)

31 I'm sure Andrew Carnegie and the Mellons would be thrilled to learn that the college they founded has been sold to the highest bidder.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 30, 2026 01:29 PM (MZ+PY)

32 Hilarious, Northwestern has had 3 Jewish presidents in a row including the current one.

Posted by: anon2020 at January 30, 2026 01:29 PM (RqMDa)

33 RIP
@BNONews 2m
Catherine O'Hara, who starred as mom Kate McCallister in "Home Alone" and Moira Rose in "Schitt's Creek", has died at 71

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 01:30 PM (mlg/3)

34 I see there is a fake CoD bundle that adds Renee Good as a playable character.

There's a real mod for Pretti. Kids are loading it up and shooting him with rocket launchers and stuff.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 01:30 PM (2ocoG)

35 Hilarious, Northwestern has had 3 Jewish presidents in a row including the current one.

Nobody hates practicing Jews more than atheist/Marxist Jews.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 01:30 PM (2ocoG)

36 THE BLADE BEATS
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:22 PM

Um...TMI?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (kgE5c)

37 My sister is a CMU grad. Math. Listens to NPR every morning. Will never hear of this.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (KiBMU)

38 Aye, they're just honoring the ancient Scottish custom of xe who pays the piper calls the tune.

Posted by: Angusy McAngusface at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (C1Xju)

39 She's going to have a very hard time proving her case.

But first hurdle is passed, I suppose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Carnegie Mellon will settle most likely to avoid discovery is my guess. Discovery will be nasty given that Qatar as a donor basically had large input on their DEI VP.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (2swu2)

40 I know you all beat me to it but Tucker hardest hit.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (mxcbL)

41 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Dang. She was one of my favorites. She was awesome in all the Christopher Guest movies like Best in Show.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (PSEDc)

42 A judge refused to dismiss this complaint and says that a "reasonable jury" may well find that Carnegie Mellon allowed the brutalization of its Jewish students due to the Qatar bribe. So the case goes forward.
++++
She's going to have a very hard time proving her case.

But first hurdle is passed, I suppose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (MABZ1)
_______

I don't think she has to prove she was religiously discriminated against because of the Qatar bribe. I think all she has to do is prove that she was discriminated against because she is Jewish. It doesn't matter why. Put another way, I don't think "motive" is an element of a Title VI claim. But it certainly helps to have a motive. The bribe is a nice gift-wrapped motive.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

43
Confucius Institutes: *Whistles innocently*
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (a+4eV)

***

When I was teaching a group of Chinese business students, the University allowed a CI office to be established. They set it up right across from the classroom. The guy they had there was right out of central casting for an agent for the Ministry for State Security. The students were scared shitless by him.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (2WIwB)

44 Philly shitting on Pittsburgh.

Proudest tradition in the Mid-Atlanic.

nope I like Pittsburgh. Pitt is a great school.

boys who want to go into STEM and went to a great private boys school - told don't bother applying to CMU. they no take white boys.

Pitt took a bunch of kids from their school tho.

I hold a grudge!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (emBoF)

45 Make em go broke honey - bankrupt them into oblivion.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (VkY89)

46 oh no Catherine O'Hara! gosh I loved her

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (emBoF)

47 Irrelevant to this university, but perhaps not irrelevant to the overall wider topic of college, I saw an interesting ad recently.

It was for one of these online colleges that advertises heavily. It boiled down to, "sure, lots of people are saying college isn't worth it and are choosing to do something else instead, but we provide really good value so you should still consider us."

That's a a *huge* shift in approach. If they're taking that tack, they're probably hearing that a lot during recruitment. "College? Nah. GFY" must be increasingly common if they're now directly addressing it in advertising.

I hope that these guys as essentially a commercial college are just the first visible crack that ultimately brings down the colleges. Outfits like CMU are in a different category and will be immune to that kind of change, but most schools are not in that category.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:33 PM (MABZ1)

48 18 OT
Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Oh how sad. I enjoyed her as Moira Rose too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 01:33 PM (mxcbL)

49 I don't care about the origin of the money, I care that the university so clearly supports and defends race hatred while pretending to be anti-racist. And nearly all of them do it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:33 PM (PYyV9)

50 Similar contracts at CMU and Northwestern University require faculty and students to respect Qatari law, which criminalizes criticism of the Qatari government

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In America? Required Qatari law? This elicits a giant WOW from me. Just wow...

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 01:33 PM (qBdHI)

51 I don't think she has to prove she was religiously discriminated against because of the Qatar bribe. I think all she has to do is prove that she was discriminated against because she is Jewish. It doesn't matter why. Put another way, I don't think "motive" is an element of a Title VI claim. But it certainly helps to have a motive. The bribe is a nice gift-wrapped motive.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
++++
:: sniffs air ::

I smell a settlement with no admission of guilt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:34 PM (MABZ1)

52 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Dang. She was one of my favorites. She was awesome in all the Christopher Guest movies like Best in Show.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (PSEDc)

***

Beautiful eyes.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 01:34 PM (2WIwB)

53 41 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Dang. She was one of my favorites. She was awesome in all the Christopher Guest movies like Best in Show.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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Yes she was. Effective actress far beyond sketch comedy. RIP.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:34 PM (2swu2)

54 18 OT
Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.

Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM

71 is young. That's sad. I enjoyed her comedy, along with John Candy.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 01:34 PM (IifOV)

55 She's going to have a very hard time proving her case.

But first hurdle is passed, I suppose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (MABZ1)

CMU atty: there's no need for that time wasting
discovery. Here is a large cash settlement attached to this innocent NDA

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 30, 2026 01:34 PM (LSR8N)

56 CMU is influence and power.

They get a slap but shall never fall out of good graces.

EdScoop dot com: Carnegie Mellon, Gates Foundation fund AI-powered learning platform
The university and philanthropic organization are spending $55 million to support a new initiative hoped to boost student outcomes.
By EdScoop Staff, January 29, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:35 PM (NFX2v)

57 Beetlejuice, Best In Show, Schitts Creek, and I loved her in her role as a producer in the series "Studio" on AppleTV+.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 30, 2026 01:35 PM (KiBMU)

58 boys who want to go into STEM and went to a great private boys school - told don't bother applying to CMU. they no take white boys.

In the 80s and 90s CMU was one of the elite computer science schools on the strength of their white boys. Not so much now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 01:36 PM (2ocoG)

59 By the way, every leftist on social media is screaming and lighting their hair on fire that a reporter was arrested, a reporter!!!!. Their entire argument is if a reporter is arrested, then we are in a fascist tyranny. That's it: any time any reporter is arrested, fascism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:36 PM (PYyV9)

60 Carnegie Mellon University? Isn't that where Rodney Dangerfield went to college? The triple lindy was outstanding.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 01:37 PM (oT7pT)

61 When I was teaching a group of Chinese business students, the University allowed a CI office to be established. They set it up right across from the classroom. The guy they had there was right out of central casting for an agent for the Ministry for State Security. The students were scared shitless by him.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Back in the day, I taught Administrative Law and our university had a contract to teach local government officials from China. There was always an intel minder in the all Chinese cohort classes. The other students would always defer to him and usually that student was the worst in the class relying on his classmates to get him through the class with a minimal passing grade. Saw that pattern for several years until the contract ended.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:37 PM (2swu2)

62 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.

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That's sad. I liked her. RIP Kevin's mom.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 01:38 PM (qBdHI)

63 The Paolo is, how you say, inured to exclamations of "Wow!".

Posted by: Paolo at January 30, 2026 01:38 PM (C1Xju)

64 The university and philanthropic organization are spending $55 million to support a new initiative hoped to boost student outcomes.
By EdScoop Staff, January 29, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:35 PM (NFX2v)

No student outcomes were in fact boosted.

Posted by: *Morgan Freeman narrator voice* at January 30, 2026 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

65 By the way, every leftist on social media is screaming and lighting their hair on fire that a reporter was arrested, a reporter!!!!. Their entire argument is if a reporter is arrested, then we are in a fascist tyranny. That's it: any time any reporter is arrested, fascism.

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Do they mean that reporters who break the law shouldn't have to face justice like any other schlub? Interesting take.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (qBdHI)

66 Look, no institution is going to sell its soul for a few hundred thousand.

Wait. You said A BILLION?!?!? Sold.

Posted by: Wally at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (65cLN)

67 I was looking up consent decrees and there are a lot of them related to discrimination by educational institutions with the DoJ on the siding with those discriminated against. So I don't see why the DoJ can't pile on Carnegie-Mellon with this case.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (Vh9CX)

68 So whig beat me to the NDA aspect at #39.

This is a perfect example for why I comment before reading all comments. If I thought before I spoke, I'd never say anything.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (LSR8N)

69 "The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi"

Was he really a journalist? /R But we had to hear and read that for frigging years.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (NFX2v)

70 Do they mean that reporters who break the law shouldn't have to face justice like any other schlub? Interesting take.

That is their argument. I mean they are trying to portray it as "innocent reporter arrested for merely reporting a protest!" but basically that's what they are saying. Oh, their other argument: "a couple judges refused to issue an arrest warrant!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (PYyV9)

71 Oh, for fun, Robby Starbucks snagged an Epstein memo recording that Billy Gates told him that Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.

Part of the massive 3.5 million documents dropped today.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (2swu2)

72 What is needed now is a Northern Poverty Law Center to investigate these yankee universities for all their hifalutin ways, rayciss operations and just down home good old fashioned assholery.

Posted by: Morris Dees, Con Artist and Race Baiter at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (+GuN/)

73 65 Do they mean that reporters who break the law shouldn't have to face justice like any other schlub? Interesting take.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (qBdHI)

=======

Absolutely anything a leftist reporter does in advancement of the narrative is legal.

Also anything a leftist does in advancement of the narrative is legal.

Also anything a MAGAt does any time anywhere other than demand Trump release the Epstein files is illegal and punishable by a non-partisan DOJ.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

74 boys who want to go into STEM and went to a great private boys school - told don't bother applying to CMU. they no take white boys.

In the 80s and 90s CMU was one of the elite computer science schools on the strength of their white boys. Not so much now.

It still is. By some metrics, it's the top CS department in the country. They're also very strong in robotics.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)

75 The university and philanthropic organization are spending $55 million to support a new initiative hoped to boost student outcomes.

what... what the hell does that even mean? I know I am getting older but things make less and less sense to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (PYyV9)

76 69 "The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi"

Was he really a journalist? /R But we had to hear and read that for frigging years.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:39 PM (NFX2v)

I've always assumed it was a cover story and that he was more likely part of his uncle's gun-running operation.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (FpHTM)

77 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Dang. She was one of my favorites. She was awesome in all the Christopher Guest movies like Best in Show.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 30, 2026 01:31 PM (PSEDc)
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And the voice of Sally and Shock in Nightmare Before Christmas.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (OvMCw)

78 Qatar's in the big leagues. They've apparently got lots of capital to spend on influence.

They "gifted" the US president a goddamn airliner... that Trump is chomping at the bit to get flying before he leaves office.

Anyone think Trump's not the slightest bit "influenced" by that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (jtM2q)

79 NDH update:

Happy Friday. The past 24 hours have been a whirlwind of changes. All positive. Mom came off incubation yesterday and is very coherent. She is communicating with me and her medical team as if she wasn't even in sedation for 5 days. Today she will be working with physical and speech theraphy but already they are saying she is reaponding beyond what they expexted.

She wanted me to let you all know she misses you.

Id expect her to be back tobher chatting ways here very soon as she is already asking for her phone.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (WhGni)

80 Damn. The old SCTV cast are fading away. RIP Katherine.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (vqA1l)

81 Why does it always surprise me when liberal and leftist institutions suspend all their high-minded thinking when it comes to pursuing power and filthy lucre?

We hate racism, unless you give us a billion $, then it's okay?

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (vOtXJ)

82 Serious question: does Carlson need to register as a foreign agent of Qatar?

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (2L+MU)

83 78 Qatar's in the big leagues. They've apparently got lots of capital to spend on influence.

They "gifted" the US president a goddamn airliner... that Trump is chomping at the bit to get flying before he leaves office.

Anyone think Trump's not the slightest bit "influenced" by that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (jtM2q)

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That gift was first offered under Biden, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

84 That was from her daughter on the twitters

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (WhGni)

85 75 The university and philanthropic organization are spending $55 million to support a new initiative hoped to boost student outcomes.

what... what the hell does that even mean? I know I am getting older but things make less and less sense to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (PYyV9)

it means makework bullshit to give more money to admin and their cronies.

Posted by: Which is what it always means at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (TbWk/)

86 Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 01:34 PM (IifOV)

I wonder if it was the result of the Covid shot? There's no way to know that and I didn't know her, but I have known at least 15 people from my congregation or friends or family members of theirs who either died from cancer over the past couple of years or have cancer now, and it had been heartbreaking. Every day I pray Fauci has some accountability in this life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Bw1/o)

87 69 "The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi"

Was he really a journalist? /R But we had to hear and read that for frigging years.
Posted by: L

Nope foreign Qatar agent who supported the losing faction in the internal Saudi royal family squabbles. Al Thani family was on the side of the losers as well and the reason that they damn near got removed by the other Gulf States and Saudi Arabia before they got the hint to not mess in other people's sandboxes.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (2swu2)

88 O'Hara was good in Schitt's Creek with Eugene Levy

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2026 01:43 PM (Fe9ZC)

89 Qatar is about to become a bit less wealthy...
Posted by: runner

no, I think Carnegie Mellon is about to get DEI'd.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 01:29 PM (qo38o)

I was talking about Islamic Republic of Iran and Qatar who serves as their money launderer. They share an oil field, sell Iran's oil and keep shitton of profit. That's why they think the can afford to buy America. I think this little arrangemetn is about to change. Qatar may have to focus less on bribing America and more on safeguarding the al Thani regime.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 01:43 PM (g47mK)

90 Dei offices at university and corporations are nothing more than political kommisar office to enforce the political orthodoxy of those who can gain control over them.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 01:43 PM (i0Hi3)

91 >>>Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.
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Some news reports top all others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 01:44 PM (hG1+u)

92 Anyone think Trump's not the slightest bit "influenced" by that?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Doubtful as the plane won't fly until he leaves office anyway. Qatar tries to buy friendz but if Iran goes, they will be alone in a very hostile neighborhood.

We can then close our base there as well.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:44 PM (2swu2)

93 80 Damn. The old SCTV cast are fading away. RIP Katherine.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (vqA1l)

Are Martin Short and Eugene Levy the only ones left?

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:45 PM (FpHTM)

94 2/3 of CMU is Asian.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2026 01:45 PM (Fe9ZC)

95 Even putting aside this girl's claims she was personally discriminated against, how can it possibly be legal for American colleges to take money from hostile foreign powers? Of course the money is a bribe to influence policy and hiring. It should be illegal on its face.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

I don't know that Qatar is designated a hostile foreign power. Not like France, say.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:45 PM (8avO+)

96 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

97 79. Id expect her to be back tobher chatting ways here very soon as she is already asking for her phone.
Posted by: banana Dream

Very nice news.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (NFX2v)

98 47

I think there is something to that observation. Overall college enrollment is dipping, especially among boys.
I read a really interesting essay from Postcards from Barsoom on substack about the loss of prestige when institutions become overwhelmingly female, and how universities are right at the cusp.
I think what will happen is a few top ones will survive but most of the credentialing will move to online programs. When you just need the price of paper saying you finished the value difference is just too large to sustain.

Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (tBu82)

99 Thornton Melon > Carnegie Mellon

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

100 Some news reports top all others.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Microsoft OS has had a problem with viruses for years. Now we know why.

Robby Starbucks on X has the rest of the funny memo where Epstein apparently memorialized conversations by emailing himself with the contents.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (2swu2)

101 As a devout Christian , I fail to see the problem here.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (Bq1P8)

102 71 Oh, for fun, Robby Starbucks snagged an Epstein memo recording that Billy Gates told him that Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD. - whig

I never would have figured Gates as a "playah". Guess you can't judge a book by its four-eyed, iguana-faced cover.

On the other hand, if you're having to pay in order to canoodle with Slavic cuties, are you really a playah?

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (2L+MU)

103 Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.

Women get mad about the silliest little things, huh

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (gKWVE)

104 Yes "higher education" is the seed of our demise. Of course K-12 is right behind it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 30, 2026 01:47 PM (xvV+O)

105 87 Nope foreign Qatar agent who supported the losing faction in the internal Saudi royal family squabbles. Al Thani family was on the side of the losers as well and the reason that they damn near got removed by the other Gulf States and Saudi Arabia before they got the hint to not mess in other people's sandboxes.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (2swu2)

It should be noted that that losing faction was Al-Waleed Bin-Talal's faction.

The same Al-Waleed Bin-Talal who basically owned the Bush Family.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:47 PM (FpHTM)

106 98 47

I think there is something to that observation. Overall college enrollment is dipping, especially among boys.
I read a really interesting essay from Postcards from Barsoom on substack about the loss of prestige when institutions become overwhelmingly female, and how universities are right at the cusp.
I think what will happen is a few top ones will survive but most of the credentialing will move to online programs. When you just need the price of paper saying you finished the value difference is just too large to sustain.

Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (tBu82)

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Last I saw is that overall enrollment is 60% female.

That's already overwhelmingly female.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

107 Universities Receiving Funding from Qatar:

Cornell University $2.3 billion
Carnegie Mellon University $1 billion
Texas A&M University $992.8 million
Georgetown University $971.1 million
Northwestern University $734 million
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) $103.4 million
Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar $1.8 billion

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:47 PM (NpAcC)

108 The university and philanthropic organization are spending $55 million to support a new initiative hoped to boost student outcomes.

what... what the hell does that even mean? I know I am getting older but things make less and less sense to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (PYyV9)

it means makework bullshit to give more money to admin and their cronies.
Posted by: Which is what it always means at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (TbWk/)

Well for sure it does not mean give them a rigorous and objective engineering education so they can get great jobs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (8avO+)

109 > Carnegie Mellon University? Isn't that where Rodney Dangerfield went to college?

Dangerfield attended "Grand Lakes University" in Back to School. The actual school they filmed at was University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Yp6az)

110 >>>>>>Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.
-----------

Some news reports top all others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than other

>Poor Bill Gates. I wonder if he was getting golden showers from those Russian girls like the Orange Man bad?

He gave his wife an STD and half of the company.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (oT7pT)

111 Meanwhile, Virginia Democrats are trying to close VMI.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Bq1P8)

112 it means makework bullshit to give more money to admin and their cronies.

Sure, but what did they intend for "improving student outcomes" to mean???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (PYyV9)

113 It's sometimes fun to compare GDPs.

America is due for 5.4% in Q4 of 2025.

Canada?

0.0

How's that trade war going, Canada?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

114 112 Sure, but what did they intend for "improving student outcomes" to mean???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (PYyV9)

Make them even more loyal Marxists.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (FpHTM)

115 Interesting that the Qatar contributions weren't for a faculty chair or to endow a building, it was a flat-out bribe to create a behavioral staff and student process structure for the entire university.

Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (rj6Yv)

116 Qatari entities helped fund the salary of CMU's DEI and Title IX coordinator, and the university was required to consult with the Qatar Foundation before hiring her

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this is my favorite. I bet the same thing happened across America where Qatar selected DEI commissars. To make sure that Muslim Brotherhood is flourishing on campuses. And elsewhere. Got a complaint about Muslim Bros screaming death to Jews, and Globalize the intifadah, you must go to your DEI officer first. Who will find you extremely Islamophobic. Got that?

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)

117 Not at all surprised Qatar is funding Georgetown, they're the place which gave Jonathan AC "Rape Rape" Brown a faculty position. Brown is a convert to Islam and husband to an OG Muslim Brotherhood scion, and is probably best known for writing a book defending Islamic slavery including the sex kind.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (gKWVE)

118 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

https://tinyurl.com/53hbfz4c

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

119
The DOJ’s charge has elevated what began as a state assault case into a serious federal prosecution.

This is for the guy that douched Omar with vinegar. It pisses me off not because of the elevated charge, but because the protestors attacking ICE agents aren't getting similar treatment.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (n5tGW)

120 118 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

https://tinyurl.com/53hbfz4c

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

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MAGA better do anything possible to ensure that leftists never gain power.

BAMN.

Our livelihoods are on the line. Just as leftists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

121 >> How's that trade war going, Canada?

We’re right here you know.

Posted by: China at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Bq1P8)

122 I think there is something to that observation. Overall college enrollment is dipping, especially among boys.
I read a really interesting essay from Postcards from Barsoom on substack about the loss of prestige when institutions become overwhelmingly female, and how universities are right at the cusp.
I think what will happen is a few top ones will survive but most of the credentialing will move to online programs. When you just need the price of paper saying you finished the value difference is just too large to sustain.

Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at January 30, 2026 01:46 PM (tBu82)

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Last I saw is that overall enrollment is 60% female.

That's already overwhelmingly female.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
_____

If overall is 60%, then traditional liberal-arts is significantly higher. STEM still has a lot of guys, so if you take that out of the equation the remaining non-STEM fields will be even higher than 60%. Too bad The Blade isn't in college now.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

123 Why does it always surprise me when liberal and leftist institutions suspend all their high-minded thinking when it comes to pursuing power and filthy lucre?

We hate racism, unless you give us a billion $, then it's okay?
Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 01:42 PM (vOtXJ)

anti Semitism has always been an exception for leftists, its perfectly fine.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (8avO+)

124 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Who are they going to get to pay Kevin's grandmother in the next Home Alone installment where Kevin forgets to take his son on vacation with the family?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

125 I admit that I didn't think the Texas Aggies were going to be kissing Gulf ass for cash. I'd have pegged Southern Methodist for that venality.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (gKWVE)

126 122 If overall is 60%, then traditional liberal-arts is significantly higher. STEM still has a lot of guys, so if you take that out of the equation the remaining non-STEM fields will be even higher than 60%. Too bad The Blade isn't in college now.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah. Go for mechanical engineering, but join a fraternity.

Also, work out and develop some jokes.

You'll be swimming in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

127 76. I've always assumed it was a cover story and that he was more likely part of his uncle's gun-running operation.
Posted by: XTC

87. Nope foreign Qatar agent who supported the losing faction in the internal Saudi royal family squabbles. ...
Posted by: whig
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Thank you for responding.

You're far more adept about international politics than I.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:51 PM (NFX2v)

128 The logical part of my brain tells me that FBI files contain every crackpot tip that the FBI receives and that there's no way this Gates thing is true.
But the "Fuck that guy" part of my brain tells me I'll be glad to repeat that Gates story.

Posted by: Wally at January 30, 2026 01:51 PM (65cLN)

129 It's sometimes fun to compare GDPs.

America is due for 5.4% in Q4 of 2025.

Canada?

0.0

How's that trade war going, Canada?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Take Alberta out of canucukastan's GDP and they are at -2.2%

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (xvV+O)

130 Suppose that the Court does eventually decide that the Qatar money was indeed applied as a bribe to promote anti-semitism.

Guess what that opens up next. Carnegie Mellon acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign Country. That's a FARA violation on the Federal level. And, I could see the current administration pursuing it to send a message to all the other universities out there.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (dIske)

131 You'll be swimming in it.

"too male, pale, and stale, application denied"
--Admissions

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (PYyV9)

132 It should be noted that that losing faction was Al-Waleed Bin-Talal's faction.

The same Al-Waleed Bin-Talal who basically owned the Bush Family.
Posted by: XTC
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True and likely involved in some degree with 9/11 as it is clear that Saudi embassy officials were involved in the care and support of the 9/11 hijackers. I always thought the longterm ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar from 1980's to 2005, was a slimeball. He could well have been who authorized the embassy officials to do what they did.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (2swu2)

133 If overall is 60%, then traditional liberal-arts is significantly higher. STEM still has a lot of guys, so if you take that out of the equation the remaining non-STEM fields will be even higher than 60%. Too bad The Blade isn't in college now.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

I figure the proportion of cute, sensible girls is about 10 percent, dropping with the number of years at the uni.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (8avO+)

134 129 Take Alberta out of canucukastan's GDP and they are at -2.2%

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (xvV+O)

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"We rule by importing 8 million Indians in a decade!"
-Ottawa

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

135 Someone should ask Melinda but I suspect that part of her payout in the divorce is she wasn't allowed to talk about the rash on Bill's penis.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (gKWVE)

136 She wanted me to let you all know she misses you.

Id expect her to be back tobher chatting ways here very soon as she is already asking for her phone.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 01:41 PM (WhGni
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Good news indeed. Praying for a speedy recovery.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (5uWUa)

137 @libsoftiktok
Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

https://tinyurl.com/53hbfz4c
Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

So, the new phrase that pays is 'concentration camps.'

GFY. I want to see you pull a full gainer off the top of the Empire State Building, you twatwaffle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

138 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

https://tinyurl.com/53hbfz4c

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (NpAcC)
_________

Meh. This is all performance art. "Pick me!" The new NPC download has gone out that every half-assed dickwad loser has to make a TT or whatever dumb social media calling on other half-assed dickwad losers to ... do something.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

139 I do feel bad for Jewish people.

People shouldn't be permitted to say mean things to them.

Posted by: Sad World at January 30, 2026 01:53 PM (JBvW7)

140 Take Alberta out of canucukastan's GDP and they are at -2.2%
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (xvV+O)

like those numbers haven't been enhanced, too.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:53 PM (8avO+)

141 137 So, the new phrase that pays is 'concentration camps.'

GFY. I want to see you pull a full gainer off the top of the Empire State Building, you twatwaffle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

I wonder if fed law enforcement, which hears that Democrats are going to prosecute them for the lawful application of immigration law, will apply any lessons they learn to how forcefully they try to deport people who illegally give Democrats increased political power merely by their presence?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

142 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

https://tinyurl.com/53hbfz4c

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (NpAcC)
_________

Meh. This is all performance art. "Pick me!" The new NPC download has gone out that every half-assed dickwad loser has to make a TT or whatever dumb social media calling on other half-assed dickwad losers to ... do something.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

They also won't find any MAGA in their bubble communities.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:54 PM (8avO+)

143 You'll be swimming in it.

"too male, pale, and stale, application denied"
--Admissions

Universities are loathe to let male enrollment fall below 40%, because once it does, women don't want to go there either, so many of them have what is effectively AA (lower standards) for males.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Riz8t)

144 131 You'll be swimming in it.

"too male, pale, and stale, application denied"
--Admissions
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (PYyV9)

Probably why a lot of white dudes who want to get into the CS program troon out.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:54 PM (FpHTM)

145 Shortbus request at (JBvW7)

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 01:54 PM (gKWVE)

146 >>>Someone should ask Melinda but I suspect that part of her payout in the divorce is she wasn't allowed to talk about the rash on Bill's penis.

Posted by: gKWVE

>Penis? Look at his face. He's melting.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (oT7pT)

147 [snip]

And elsewhere. Got a complaint about Muslim Bros screaming death to Jews, and Globalize the intifadah, you must go to your DEI officer first. Who will find you extremely Islamophobic. Got that?

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)

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What if your DEI officer is the Mayor of your city screaming "death to Jews, and Globalize the intifadah?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (LBpnK)

148 So, the new phrase that pays is 'concentration camps.'

There is a video out of a guy pretending to be a leftist feeb easily getting a woman with the "in this house" placard out front to admit she wants all conservatives in "reeducation camps"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (PYyV9)

149 So glad my university closed its campus in Dubai in 2010.

There are currently no other campuses anywhere in the Middle East.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (Y1sOo)

150 So, the new phrase that pays is 'concentration camps.'

GFY. I want to see you pull a full gainer off the top of the Empire State Building, you twatwaffle.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)
*******
They are getting people worked up to believe it's ok to kill us because they think we're Nazis.

Judges and juries will probably feel it's justified.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (NpAcC)

151 RIP Catherine O'Hara.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (N8ZBc)

152 146 >Penis? Look at his face. He's melting.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (oT7pT)

Maybe that's why he wants to block out the sun.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (FpHTM)

153 Cases like this and Mann getting his butt handed to him warm the coccles of my heart. Which is good because I just took a two and a half mile walk in 16° weather

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (IDEQi)

154 There is a video out of a guy pretending to be a leftist feeb easily getting a woman with the "in this house" placard out front to admit she wants all conservatives in "reeducation camps"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (PYyV9)

But we're the nazi fascists.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

155 Looking at CMU's leadership, apparently the DEI hire is the "Vice Provost for Community, Culture and Engagement"

They probably took out DEI after Trump was sworn in.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (9mw3J)

156 Suppose that the Court does eventually decide that the Qatar money was indeed applied as a bribe to promote anti-semitism.

Guess what that opens up next. Carnegie Mellon acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign Country. That's a FARA violation on the Federal level. And, I could see the current administration pursuing it to send a message to all the other universities out there.
Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 01:52 PM (dIske)

and also it makes them guilty of a huge civil rights violation to organize oppressive mobs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+)

157 If overall is 60%, then traditional liberal-arts is significantly higher. STEM still has a lot of guys, so if you take that out of the equation the remaining non-STEM fields will be even higher than 60%. Too bad The Blade isn't in college now.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Yeah. Go for mechanical engineering, but join a fraternity.

Also, work out and develop some jokes.

You'll be swimming in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:51 PM (GBKbO)
____

I was pre-law. I was an athlete and played in a semi-pro rock band. The gender ratio wasn't as favorable as it is now, but I was still crushing it. Sadly, I was dirt poor at the time.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

158 What league do semi-pro rock bands play in?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

159 News:
Guterres warns of UN's 'imminent financial collapse'

Don’t threaten me with a good time pal.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 01:57 PM (WhGni)

160 as usual I didn't say that right - ok so CMU is highly desirable to boys who want to go into STEM, like mine.

the girls' school DID send girls to CMU

the boys' school (they are affiliated) could NOT

it was the gender and the race and the location (PA). all dings. the boys school had more ivy placements however. it was just known (to the admissions people) not to bother applying to CMU

and that played out ... no one got in.

it's just annoying. I assume they just would rather have kids from other states (also girls)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (emBoF)

161 What if your DEI officer is the Mayor of your city screaming "death to Jews, and Globalize the intifadah?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (LBpnK)

He is just criticizing Israel !! He is allowed to criticize Israel!!

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)

162 Thank you for responding.

You're far more adept about international politics than I.
Posted by: L

Khasshoggi, instead of his uncle Adnan, the arms dealer, was a registered agent of Qatar in the US and basically slapped his name on Qatar ghostwritten PR statements as a 'journalist'. Basically a front man for the Al Thani family that was also stirring up trouble in Saudi royal succession at the time.

MBS took it personally and had Khashoggi painfully wacked by Saudi intel peeps.

Wasn't reported much here but the Saudis and the rest of the Gulf States don't much like the Al Thanis and at one point during the Trump I term, I think, threatened to invade and remove them.

Wiki
"In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, the Maldives, Mauritania, Senegal, Djibouti, the Comoros, Jordan, the Tobruk-based Libyan government and finally the Hadi-led Yemeni government severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and blocked Qatar's airspace and sea routes along with Saudi Arabia blocking the only land crossing over its relations with Iran, Al-Jazeera reporting negative information about other GCC states and Egypt and the country's alleged support of Islamist groups."

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (2swu2)

163 So, the new phrase that pays is 'concentration camps.'

There is a video out of a guy pretending to be a leftist feeb easily getting a woman with the "in this house" placard out front to admit she wants all conservatives in "reeducation camps"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (PYyV9)

That's been true since 1980 at least

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (8avO+)

164 From Twitter:

Somaya ☭ | holy communism, batman
@arguablysomaya
it’s just crazy that right wingers just get to be wrong. like all the time. and nothing happens to them. i know this isn’t a new development by any means but it’s crazy how blatant it is

Nothing happens to people who disagree with this knucklehead! What a crime!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (PYyV9)

165 By the way, the brave "inclusive" leaders at CMU have to make sure female staff wear hijabs and follow the no alcohol police in Qatar.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (9mw3J)

166 This is horrible.
- Cucker Tarlson

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (PHOGh)

167
Kathy Griffin urges her followers

what fucking followers?

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (QVmho)

168 155 Looking at CMU's leadership, apparently the DEI hire is the "Vice Provost for Community, Culture and Engagement"

They probably took out DEI after Trump was sworn in.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (9mw3J)
_______________________________

A lot of entities followed that track. Even some within the government. They just changed their designation. Many moved the DEI reps to the Legal offices and called them "compliance officers" without removing their job description or hierarchy.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (dIske)

169 You'll be swimming in it.

The problem is that "it" will have green hair in a lesbian-style bowl cut, at least one septum piercing, the dreaded double-bird-hands, and a Luigi Mangione sex doll.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (2ocoG)

170 103 Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.

Women get mad about the silliest little things, huh
Posted by: gKWVE at January

The divorce was probably after he told her to calm down. Or tried to slip her antibiotics. One or the other.

Posted by: Piper at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (Wmg4n)

171 They are getting people worked up to believe it's ok to kill us because they think we're Nazis.

Exactly. As many have said before, they don't call us Nazis because they understand fascism or believe we are. They call us Nazis so its okay to kill us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (PYyV9)

172
what fucking followers?
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (QVmho)

And what the f*ck did she do to her face?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

173
164 From Twitter:

Somaya ☭ | holy communism, batman
@arguablysomaya
it’s just crazy that right wingers just get to be wrong. like all the time. and nothing happens to them. i know this isn’t a new development by any means but it’s crazy how blatant it is

Nothing happens to people who disagree with this knucklehead! What a crime!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (PYyV9)

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It's our fault for undermining pure communism and turning the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cambodia, and Zimbabwe into right-leaning fascist dictatorships.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

174 What league do semi-pro rock bands play in?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I think that's called the bar band circuit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (mlg/3)

175 >>>Maybe that's why he wants to block out the sun.

Posted by: XTC

>Sunblock, 30BB SPF.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (oT7pT)

176 RIP Catherine O'Hara.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 01:56 PM (N8ZBc)
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A wonderful actress and comedienne. RIP.

Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (rj6Yv)

177 Gates seems exactly like the type of guy to pay for Epstiens girls.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (n5tGW)

178 Sorry - just got back from being out all morning.

Re: Previous thread - Do you think Don Lemon will drop the soap on purpose in the slammer?

I think we all know the answer to this one.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (cYBz/)

179 Money? The dickens you say.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (YlWIZ)

180 Somaya ☭ | holy communism, batman
@arguablysomaya
it’s just crazy that right wingers just get to be wrong. like all the time. and nothing happens to them. i know this isn’t a new development by any means but it’s crazy how blatant it is

Nothing happens to people who disagree with this knucklehead! What a crime!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (PYyV9)
++++
"Holy" and "Communism" should never appear in the same sentence (except this one, of course, which merely describes the basic problem).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (MABZ1)

181 I think China has bigger priorities than fomenting unrest in Minneapolis.

Zhang Youxia Left Mystery Letter? Xi’s Brutal Military Purge and Secret Killings Revealed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBRQ6mjQWw

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Riz8t)

182 What league do semi-pro rock bands play in?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)
____

The league with bands that will take any amount of money to play college parties, local bars, small theaters, etc. Hell, I woulda done it for free.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

183 In fact, I don't think in Qatar that an America woman wearing her hijab is actually allowed to walk in stride with a man. They must be 2 steps or more behind.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (9mw3J)

184 135 Someone should ask Melinda but I suspect that part of her payout in the divorce is she wasn't allowed to talk about the rash on Bill's penis.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Mongolian Dick Rot.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (2swu2)

185 William F. Buckley was from Qatar, right?

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 02:01 PM (6ZSsV)

186 179 Money? The dickens you say.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (YlWIZ)

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Leftists are immune to money, so it's obvious that these decisions were made by right wing corporatists who refuse to let universities be truly communist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

187 The TRULY Evil are abetted by the Venal and the WEAK.

Those who hate Good for being Good because their are so bored with the status quo that doesn't serve them, that hey would gun you down and set fire to your children and then send you a bill for the bullets.

The desperate and truly evil are a very small part of the population, but their influence is vast -- to get you to not only FEAR EVIL because it is Evil, but the fail to uphold Good for being Good.

Up/Down/Right/Left -- all are their playthings.
Is there anything more powerful than a People who have been Lied to and Cheated out of a future worth having?

Guess we're gonna find out.
"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025

WHO's the Deplorable?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at January 30, 2026 02:01 PM (ZmlER)

188
I think that's called the bar band circuit.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 01:59 PM (mlg/3)

I did shots of Crown Royal with Dimebag at a Howard Johnson's in Arlington, TX as he scoped out a metal band called Cactus Jaw. Vinnie Paul was in the strip club next door.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

189 181 I think China has bigger priorities than fomenting unrest in Minneapolis.

Zhang Youxia Left Mystery Letter? Xi’s Brutal Military Purge and Secret Killings Revealed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBRQ6mjQWw

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Riz8t)

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Eh.

Large organization with many tentacles that can work effectively independently of each other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

190 I meant the cusp of collapsing prestige, not cusp of being female dominated.

Anecdotal support of online programs: My wife is doing online school and very pleased with it. It is quite affordable and she will get just as good of a piece of paper as I have from traditional university. Plus the schedule flexibility is good as she is also working and starting a business.

Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (tBu82)

191 Silver spot price on Comex at $84.61 per oz. This is a huge drop since yesterday. and has nothing to do with the fundamentals of Silver. Try to buy actual physical Silver at this dip in price, and you will find very little is available. For example Silver Eagles in Quantity less than 20 each are selling for $101.09 on SD Bullion. China is attempting to corner the physical silver supply by paying $149.00 per oz for the metal in Shanghai. Gold at $4759 per oz is also down dramatically.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Da7Vv)

192 Yeah, I'm sure you were are real pussy-slayer back in the day. We all were.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Y1sOo)

193 Meanwhile, Virginia Democrats are trying to close VMI.
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at January 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Bq1P

I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (2WIwB)

194 Eh.

Large organization with many tentacles that can work effectively independently of each other.

There's a reason they try to cut off the head first.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Riz8t)

195 163 So, the new phrase that pays is 'concentration camps.'

There is a video out of a guy pretending to be a leftist feeb easily getting a woman with the "in this house" placard out front to admit she wants all conservatives in "reeducation camps"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 01:55 PM (PYyV9)

That's been true since 1980 at least
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 01:58 PM (8avO+)
__________________________

There's a good example of this in Canada. Not much of a Jordon Peterson fan, but he was ordered to have a series of "sensitivity training" sessions which is another name for "re-education" which he gladly stated he was willing to attend, and planned on streaming. However, no one was willing to go up against him in that situation, so it's still pending for well over a year now.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (dIske)

196 Haw! How much of the dough do you think will actually leave Hillary's sticky fingers?

"Hillary Clinton Fundraises for Minneapolis Rioters".

https://tinyurl.com/54tchwdd

She probably figures, "Somalians, Haitians, what's the difference?"

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (2L+MU)

197 I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.

Right? I mean, who could have predicted this? Oh wait, I did. Many people did.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Riz8t)

198 Zhang Youxia Left Mystery Letter? Xi’s Brutal Military Purge and Secret Killings Revealed

PLA's had multiple purges in the last 2-3 years. Xi's wasting the clock on any military relevance China might still have.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (2ocoG)

199 Our goal is to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Hy+/V)

200 >>>Texas A&M University $992.8 million

as long it helps the football team it's ok with me!!!

Posted by: Aggies at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (jGJov)

201
I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (2WIwB)

They voted for it.

Reap it, bishes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

202 I don't think she has to prove she was religiously discriminated against because of the Qatar bribe. I think all she has to do is prove that she was discriminated against because she is Jewish.
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Does she have big melons like Ben Shapiro's sister? I am a discriminating man.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (Hpgos)

203 Plan to do what exactly Kathy?

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (PHOGh)

204 I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.

The ones outside of the DC suburbs, probably.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (2ocoG)

205 When did we stop using the term "actress" and why?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (3ImbR)

206 185 William F. Buckley was from Qatar, right?
Posted by: ...
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Some crap came out about Buckley yesterdayt and the reason for his purges in the 90's. Take it with a grain of salt but the gist of the article was that ole Bill Buckley was dipping out of the NR funds to support his lifestyle as he wasn't nearly as rich as he pretented to be so when donors wanted people like Joe Sobran, etc. gone, Bill obliged.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (2swu2)

207 197 I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.

Right? I mean, who could have predicted this? Oh wait, I did. Many people did.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Riz8t)

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All I've seen is headlines.

I've yet to seen an interview with a Democrat voter who's angry about the proposed bills and new fees.

Though, I also haven't looked.

So, I suspect there are some.

But I also suspect that most are perfectly happy with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

208 201
I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 02:02 PM (2WIwB)

They voted for it.
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You mean the Yankee imports and their exotic imports voted for it.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (Hpgos)

209 Catherine O'Hara from SCTV and Home Alone has died . A funny lady

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (IDEQi)

210 They voted for it.

Reap it, bishes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

So you're saying a CIA candidate was legitimately who got the most cast ballots in a fair election? Pull the other one.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

211 I bet a lot of Virginians are getting whiplash from their glorious new governor's hard turn to the left.

The ones outside of the DC suburbs, probably.

No, they're the ones who were under no illusions about Spanberger. It's the useful idiots in NoVa who are surprised.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (Riz8t)

212
update from Misti about Neidermeyers Dead Horse:

NDH is off intubation and is coherent & communicating and is in good spirits

@NeidsG

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (tljrc)

213 the first movie date my husband took me on was to Beetlejuice. Nothing beats Catherine O'Hara in Day-O.

https://tinyurl.com/38xcp7jx

Posted by: barbarausa at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (enw9G)

214 When did we stop using the term "actress" and why?
Posted by: IrishEi at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (3ImbR)

Around the same time the Constitution was revealed to say you can't call female flight attendants "stewardesses."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

215 update from Misti about Neidermeyers Dead Horse:

NDH is off intubation and is coherent & communicating and is in good spirits

@NeidsG
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (tljrc)

Good news

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (VE6XX)

216 update from Misti about Neidermeyers Dead Horse:

NDH is off intubation and is coherent & communicating and is in good spirits

@NeidsG
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (tljrc)

God is Great.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

217 167 Kathy Griffin urges her followers

what fucking followers? - BifBewalski

To quote the late, great Archie Bunker, she could rub liver on her behind and cats wouldn't follow her.

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 02:06 PM (2L+MU)

218 Large organization with many tentacles

Japs?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Kt19C)

219 All I've seen is headlines.
I've yet to seen an interview with a Democrat voter who's angry about the proposed bills and new fees.
Though, I also haven't looked.
So, I suspect there are some.
But I also suspect that most are perfectly happy with it.

They won't be when it comes time to cut the checks and when little Aidan's GT classes are cut and he gets rolled into GenPop.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

220 You mean the Yankee imports and their exotic imports voted for it.

Unfortunately, I think there were plenty of native Virginians who worked for the Federal govt who voted for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 02:06 PM (8Xy/A)

221 NoVa AWFLs who are the core Dem voter are probably just fine with what’s transpiring in VA.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 02:07 PM (PHOGh)

222 So you're saying a CIA candidate was legitimately who got the most cast ballots in a fair election? Pull the other one.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

I'm told election fraud never happens.

Also, republican voters stayed home. Again.

Because their candidate wasn't the best candidate ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

223 NDH ... is coherent & ... is in good spirits

In other words, she wouldn't be a good fit in the ONT

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:07 PM (gKWVE)

224 NoVa AWFLs who are the core Dem voter are probably just fine with what’s transpiring in VA.

They may be right now, but wait until the proposed changes take effect.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

225 Large organization with many tentacles

Japs?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Kt19C)

That's hot.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

226 Guterres warns of UN's 'imminent financial collapse'

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Whatever shall we do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (L/fGl)

227 What league do semi-pro rock bands play in?

The "Wherever they haz groupies league".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Da7Vv)

228 Guterres warns of UN's 'imminent financial collapse'

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Whatever shall we do?

Buy champagne?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

229 Catherine O'Hara, Danny Elfman, Peewee Herman LIVE singing their parts from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

YT: LINK https://tinyurl.com/24xymvkr

Posted by: mrp at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (rj6Yv)

230 Both the ideas that the criminalization of criticism of Qatar should be respected in the US and that American courts should be a weapon in the hands of Jews to outlaw anti-Semitic opinions or expression are contrary to the fundamental freedoms of Americans established in our founding principles.

The importation of these ancient tribalisms has grossly distorted our freedoms and manner of governance.

Posted by: TITP at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (6Q9y6)

231 O'Hara was perfect in Beetlejuice. I don't know why everyone was playing up her role in Home Alone

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (gKWVE)

232 All I've seen is headlines.

I've yet to seen an interview with a Democrat voter who's angry about the proposed bills and new fees.

Though, I also haven't looked.

So, I suspect there are some.

But I also suspect that most are perfectly happy with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Until they get taxed too.

Democrats can no longer actually do things in office like reduce congestion, etc. by building roads so instead they will simply take the taxes and fritter them away on their constellation of ngos and useless government sinecures for half wits.

Simply the Democrat party has become a dysfunctional racket to where the insiders are enriched and the rest of the population can f*ck right off. I think it is because these state and local governments no longer rely on actual votes from the precincts but easy to manufacture ballots and ballot fraud.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (2swu2)

233 the first movie date my husband took me on was to Beetlejuice. Nothing beats Catherine O'Hara in Day-O.

https://tinyurl.com/38xcp7jx
Posted by: barbarausa at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (enw9G)

She was only 71. Wonder how many boosters she'd had.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

234 Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:04 PM (2swu2)

I was just trying to think of a catchy name associated with the Right

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (6ZSsV)

235 222 I'm told election fraud never happens.

Also, republican voters stayed home. Again.

Because their candidate wasn't the best candidate ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

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I wonder what would have happened if Youngkin hadn't been a total cuck and had instead torn apart the election infrastructure in Richmond and Arlington like DeSantis tore apart the same in Broward County...

That Youngkin was ever considered a serious national candidate is an embarrassment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

236 Very few entries here in the "Tucker Carlson Clown-off" of absurd but fake quotes that are too believable.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (HXT0k)

237 NDH is off intubation and is coherent & communicating and is in good spirits

Good to hear and praise God for the healing and progress so far. I hope to hear continued good news and to see them back here soon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (PYyV9)

238 NoVa AWFLs who are the core Dem voter are probably just fine with what’s transpiring in VA.

They may be right now, but wait until the proposed changes take effect.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

—

Their counterparts in California, Oregon and Washington from have voted Dem for 20 years straight while the same was happening there.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (PHOGh)

239 I'm told election fraud never happens.

It's only allowed when the ceremonial toilet in Atlanta is flushed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (2ocoG)

240 This bikini blonde with generous underboob loves to travel, but avoids Qatar:
http://tiny.cc/iacy001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (MABZ1)

241 220 You mean the Yankee imports and their exotic imports voted for it.

Unfortunately, I think there were plenty of native Virginians who worked for the Federal govt who voted for her.
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Fen, I've watched the Yankee imports 'reconstruct' VA since 1965. They never stop until they turn a nice place into a shithole. After that, they move to Florida.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (Hpgos)

242 224 They may be right now, but wait until the proposed changes take effect.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

======

It'll be Republicans' fault for not addressing the affordability crisis and hating the gays.

Partisans, man. They don't reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

243 O'Hara and Eugene Levy were wonderful in A Mighty Wind.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (PSEDc)

244 So you're saying a CIA candidate was legitimately who got the most cast ballots in a fair election? Pull the other one.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

I'm told election fraud never happens.

Also, republican voters stayed home. Again.

Because their candidate wasn't the best candidate ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
____

Yea, it's the native republican voters who got what they deserved. Shitberger was beatable. It wouldn't have been easy, but it could have been done. But we never had a chance because we stayed home. Same in NJ, and to a lesser extent NYC.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

245 Looks like Qatar is sending a lot of first-time-callers over here. 6Q9y6 is another one

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (gKWVE)

246 "NoVa AWFLs who are the core Dem voter are probably just fine with what’s transpiring in VA."

They won't be the least bit aware of it, because their social media alpha queen bee talking point sources won't tell them anything but good about any of it, IF they tell them anything at all.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (enw9G)

247 Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”
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Who?

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (6ZSsV)

248 Their counterparts in California, Oregon and Washington from have voted Dem for 20 years straight while the same was happening there.
Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 02:09 PM (PHOGh)

California has comedically obvious election fraud, implemented under cover of illegals skewing the census numbers. I would assume Oregon and Washington do as well, but they're less obvious about it.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (2ocoG)

249 In other words, she wouldn't be a good fit in the ONT
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:07 PM (gKWVE)
++++
A shoe-in for the Book Thread, though...

And great news!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (MABZ1)

250 One of my best friends, a guy I grew up with, graduated from CMU with the first degree in what is called Artificial Intelligence now. I forget the exact wording.

Brilliant guy. Ended up making his fortune automating the coffee trading on Wall St.

Retired at 45. Died in a plane crash.

RIP DJ

Spent a number of nights in the CS building on the mattresses they set up above the overhead ceiling. Some guys wouldn't leave the building for days at a time.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (jnZe8)

251 So I see Sydney Sweeney Had to "address" Being known as MAGA Barbie... I didn't know she was considered that... She handled it well..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (VE6XX)

252 AFAIK, Qatar (and SA) are nominally 'allies' of the USA. Fuck them.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (N8ZBc)

253 This bikini blonde with generous underboob loves to travel, but avoids Qatar:
http://tiny.cc/iacy001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (MABZ1)

Wow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

254 This bikini blonde with generous underboob loves to travel, but avoids Qatar:
http://tiny.cc/iacy001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:10 PM (MABZ1)
_____

That's too AI and too masculine. TBWNB. The Blade misses Bat Girl.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

255 Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

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You know, train schedules and such.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (L/fGl)

256 I was just trying to think of a catchy name associated with the Right
Posted by: ...

If Buckley was around today, very possible he would take the money. Lowry certainly shoveled all sorts of money there and produced corporate pap for its donors. NR used to be supported by its subscribers but as those fell, the whole organization became a pr agent for hire to anyone with a buck. That is how you got nepots like Jonah, Jason Steorts, K. Williamson, and other loathsome types writing leftist screeds while pretending to be pro American.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (2swu2)

257 Underboob girl is AI.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (PHOGh)

258 The Blade misses Bat Girl.

Bat Boy from the Weekly World News got married?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (2ocoG)

259 Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

We have. Tho probably not in the way she envisions...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (XuXeR)

260 "They may be right now but wait until the proposed changes take effect."

And what do you think will happen then? Do you think the AWFLs will admit they were wrong? Have you ever met an AWFL?

Posted by: Wally at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (65cLN)

261 This OTHER bikini blonde who might be better also doesn't visit Qatar:
http://tiny.cc/kacy001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:14 PM (MABZ1)

262
Bat Boy from the Weekly World News got married?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (2ocoG)

Boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

263 What’s the word on the new fed chair? I’ve never heard of him, is he good, bad, meh?

Lest we forget Powell was also appointed by Trump. So no guarantees.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 02:14 PM (PHOGh)

264 My back is very cross with me today. Resorting, reluctantly, to aspirin.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:15 PM (N8ZBc)

265 https://x.com/4TrumpDogs/status/
2017303236319879547

I want the screenshot to be real.

I want it so bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

266 And what do you think will happen then? Do you think the AWFLs will admit they were wrong?

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And then, the pigs evolved wings and began to fly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:15 PM (L/fGl)

267 California has comedically obvious election fraud, implemented under cover of illegals skewing the census numbers. I would assume Oregon and Washington do as well, but they're less obvious about it.
Posted by: Ian S.
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All of those states use cheat by mail ballots as their primary election method. That produces something on the order of 15-20 percent margin of cheat versus the older 5-10 under in person voting systems with limited absentee ballots.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (2swu2)

268 I for one don't like antisemitism used as a stalking horse for a "Hatespeech" regime. Yes Qatar is odious and yes the antisemitism is real. But that pearl of lawyering "good facts make bad law" may apply here.

Posted by: Zek at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (5FPX4)

269 125 I admit that I didn't think the Texas Aggies were going to be kissing Gulf ass for cash. I'd have pegged Southern Methodist for that venality.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 01:50 PM (gKWVE)

They have a campus in Qatar.

Always creeped me out (Class of '82) -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (SRRAx)

270 5FPX4, and another one!

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (gKWVE)

271 This OTHER bikini blonde who might be better also doesn't visit Qatar:
http://tiny.cc/kacy001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:14 PM (MABZ1)
________

Looks like a young Kim Cattrall. TBWB.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

272 I want the screenshot to be real.

I want it so bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Me, too. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (MABZ1)

273 It still is. By some metrics, it's the top CS department in the country. They're also very strong in robotics.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)

Along with UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech. Or you could just buy a copy of K&R, do the exercises at the end of the chapters, and save $350,000.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (TIizU)

274 272 Me, too. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (MABZ1)

====

"Everyone near DC on 1/6 should be hanged!"

"No one who tracked and harassed federal law enforcement in Minneapolis should face even a hint of legal repercussions for moral acts in favor of our undocumented neighbors!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

275 It still is. By some metrics, it's the top CS department in the country. They're also very strong in robotics.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)
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Yeah, and like UC Berkeley, it has survived the stench of its institutional affiliation so far. I don't know how much longer these very good programs can continue to be held separate from overall institutional behavior.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:18 PM (MABZ1)

276 > But if they are attempting to uphold Qatari law *here*, that is a pretty damn significant problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (MABZ1)

Do you think they'd accept a grant, no matter how large, that had the condition that they teach the evils of socialism and refrain from criticizing capitalism?

They would not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 02:18 PM (IG3/x)

277 It's only allowed when the ceremonial toilet in Atlanta is flushed.
Posted by: Ian S.
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One flush if the ballots come by land, two if they come by sea from China.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (2swu2)

278 Guterres warns of UN's 'imminent financial collapse'

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Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (L/fGl)

cut off funding.

If the UN has any use it is as a meeting place for international delegates to discuss foreign disagreements. These people are on their own nation's payroll and can buy their own hotel rooms.

Everything else to it is just shit.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (8avO+)

279 https://x.com/4TrumpDogs/status/
2017303236319879547

I want the screenshot to be real.

I want it so bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
___

"Submitting plates"?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

280 Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”

I would venture to say that the very few donks who live in my neighborhood are probably more afraid of being identified by us than we are of being identified by them.

And what does Kathy have in mind? Does she want her fellow leftists to egg their neighbors' houses? Poison their dogs? "SWAT" them?

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (2L+MU)

281 I suspect JBvW7, 6Q9y6, 5FPX4 might be the same guy.
The first one did snark. The second one went with "Jews are using the courts as weapons". The third one almost sounds reasonable unless you understand the trajectory of the first two.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (gKWVE)

282 it’s just crazy that right wingers just get to be wrong. like all the time. and nothing happens to them. i know this isn’t a new development by any means but it’s crazy how blatant it is

People are focusing on the fact she is hinting that something bad should happen to people that disagree with her but I want to focus on the other part.

How does she know right wingers are wrong? She didn't give specifics, but this generally falls into one of two categories

1) Philosophy/morality - leftists will claim with a straight face that if conservatives don't support "trans rights" or "gay marriage" or any number of leftist goals they are not morally wrong but factually wrong.

2) The narrative cocoon - the other side of this is leftist disavow any information that does not come out of the approved leftist curated narrative sources. So COVID did not come out of a Chinese lab, the clot shot had no side effects, and Haitian immigrants did not eat wildlife in OH. Why? Well the approved documents say so!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

283 http://tiny.cc/kacy001

Birthing hips.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (Kt19C)

284 Wow. In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

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Well, that proves it. He's a gentleman. And a genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (L/fGl)

285 279
"Submitting plates"?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

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To be looked up by their headquarters/inside sources in Minneapolis.

Stalking law enforcement with the intention to intimidate is illegal.

Being part of a large conspiracy to impede law enforcement is illegal.

All it would take to undo this is a law enforcement arm willing to do what it's allowed to do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

286 226 Guterres warns of UN's 'imminent financial collapse'

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Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (L/fGl)

That's terrible. I cant imagine what will become of all those fine people. I wish them the best in their future endeavors.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:21 PM (i0Hi3)

287 In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

Apparently he also got Russian hookers to pee on him. The Steele dossier was real, it just wasn't about Trump.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:21 PM (v8+Kf)

288 284 Wow. In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

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Well, that proves it. He's a gentleman. And a genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (L/fGl)

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It's obvious that Bondi personally changed the content of this email. It obviously original said Trump.

This is just further proof of Trump's guilt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

289 All of those states use cheat by mail ballots as their primary election method. That produces something on the order of 15-20 percent margin of cheat versus the older 5-10 under in person voting systems with limited absentee ballots.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (2swu2)

Democrats have been cheating at the ballot box for generations before mail in voting was even thought of. To be fair, though, they may have forgotten the old dodges in this modern age.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:22 PM (8avO+)

290 286 226 Guterres warns of UN's 'imminent financial collapse'

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Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:08 PM (L/fGl)

Put a for sale sign out front

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:22 PM (VE6XX)

291 Wow. In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

Remember in their divorce Bill was going to fight her request for a large chunk of his estate. Until she did an interview mentioned Bill was an Epstein client and then he signed the papers.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

292 "Submitting plates"?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

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To be looked up by their headquarters/inside sources in Minneapolis.

Stalking law enforcement with the intention to intimidate is illegal.

Being part of a large conspiracy to impede law enforcement is illegal.

All it would take to undo this is a law enforcement arm willing to do what it's allowed to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

293 "Submitting plates"?

License plates.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (v8+Kf)

294 292 Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, license plates.

Of unmarked cars presumed to be law enforcement. To uncover undercover vehicles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

295 submitting plates for mobile flash mob activity, and for doxxing

Posted by: barbarausa at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (enw9G)

296 Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

The #1 Antifa ICE license plate website was brutally hacked yesterday by some friends of DataRepublican. The entire user list was taken and given to Tom Homan and the database destroyed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (v8+Kf)

297 295 submitting plates for mobile flash mob activity, and for doxxing
Posted by: barbarausa at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (enw9G)

So who did it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (VE6XX)

298 bikini blonde with generous underboob loves to travel, but avoids Qatar: http://tiny.cc/iacy001

STURDY!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (Kt19C)

299 Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

The Stop ICE types use these license plates to go harass ICE agents. One assumes its how Renee Goode knew where to block the road for example.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (sKqQm)

300 > Along with UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech. Or you could just buy a copy of K&R, do the exercises at the end of the chapters, and save $350,000.
Posted by: front toward enemy at January 30, 2026 02:16 PM (TIizU)

You're confusing "computer science" and "programming".

While there are areas of overlap, those aren't the same at all.

It's been a while since I read my copy but to the best of my knowledge K&R doesn't touch on algorithmic complexity at all, or for that matter anything other than the most basic algorithms.

It's a programming manual. A damned good one -- it's a model of clarity and conciseness that others should aspire to emulate, even after all this time -- but still a programming manual.

If you want to teach yourself *computer science*, you're gonna need Knuth, Sedgewick, or CLRS (or however many other authors they've added by now).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (IG3/x)

301 Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, license plates.

Of unmarked cars presumed to be law enforcement. To uncover undercover vehicles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Ah. These leftwing toads have no lives and nothing better to do, do they?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

302 296 Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

The #1 Antifa ICE license plate website was brutally hacked yesterday by some friends of DataRepublican. The entire user list was taken and given to Tom Homan and the database destroyed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (v8+Kf)

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My screenshot was from someone freaking out because of an FBI visit presumably stemming from the overall investigation that the hack is within the realm of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

303 Apparently he also got Russian hookers to pee on him. The Steele dossier was real, it just wasn't about Trump.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:21 PM (v8+Kf)

It was all projection.

That's why Democrats "elected" a guy guilty of every single big thing they accused Trump of.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (6ZSsV)

304 I predict the next post to be about Don Lemon.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (2m2UF)

305 My screenshot was from someone freaking out because of an FBI visit presumably stemming from the overall investigation that the hack is within the realm of.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

Some Dem politician I hope...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (VE6XX)

306 Ah. These leftwing toads have no lives and nothing better to do, do they?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)
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Many, perhaps most, of them are employees doing the jobs for which they were hired.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (MABZ1)

307 301 Ah. These leftwing toads have no lives and nothing better to do, do they?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

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I saw one interaction from the Signal leak where someone was submitting a plate that ended with, "I'd keep following, but I'm out walking my dog and have to get him home."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

308 Facts in the case,
"a Jewish student of Israeli descent, alleges she was subjected to “pervasive anti-Jewish discrimination” during her time at the university.

The five-count complaint, filed by the Lawfare Project on Canaan’s behalf, claims systematic antisemitic behavior and abuse beginning in 2018 by CMU faculty and administration.

The alleged abuse began when Mary-Lou Arscott, studio professor at CMU’s School of Architecture and associate head for design fundamentals, purportedly denied Canaan a homework assignment extension so she could attend an Oct. 29, 2018, memorial service for victims of the Oct. 27 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

In 2022, the complaint alleges, Arscott commented on a project Canaan created about the conversion of a public space into a private space through an eruv, and said a wall in the project looked like the wall Israelis used “to barricade Palestinians out of Israel.” Canaan also alleges that Arscott said she should instead focus on “what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.”

Canaan claims she reported Arscott’s behavior to her studio professor who told her not to worry because Arscott wouldn’t be grading her. Cont.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (2swu2)

309 I was just trying to think of a catchy name associated with the Right
Posted by: ...

If Buckley was around today, very possible he would take the money. Lowry certainly shoveled all sorts of money there and produced corporate pap for its donors. NR used to be supported by its subscribers but as those fell, the whole organization became a pr agent for hire to anyone with a buck. That is how you got nepots like Jonah, Jason Steorts, K. Williamson, and other loathsome types writing leftist screeds while pretending to be pro American.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:13 PM (2swu2)

Never got the admiration of Buckley. The only group he managed to openly fight were Right Wing competitors.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (8avO+)

310 247 Kathy Griffin urges her followers to make lists of who’s MAGA in their community and “start to plan”
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Who?
Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 02:11 PM (6ZSsV)

Granny mcfloppy ass should be asked to elaborate on the plan. Is she throwing with that Giancarlo clown?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (i0Hi3)

311 I never would have figured Gates as a "playah". Guess you can't judge a book by its four-eyed, iguana-faced cover.
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Stories abound, him throwing whore, pool parties.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (hG1+u)

312 Wow. In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

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Proves Fauci right. If he'd just maintained six foot distance from the cookers, he'd been fine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (L/fGl)

313 I keep seeing TBWB. What do it mean?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

314 >>> I predict the next post to be about Don Lemon.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 02:24 PM (2m2UF)

I'm hoping for another Vampirella make up art thread

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (3uBP9)

315 My screenshot was from someone freaking out because of an FBI visit presumably stemming from the overall investigation that the hack is within the realm of.

Yup. Between that, the Signal chats, and Antifa's nationwide centralized command and control site being disabled there's real panic happening and it's delightful.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (v8+Kf)

316 'Never got the admiration of Buckley.'

WFB was a bad writer. There, I said it.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (N8ZBc)

317 I saw one interaction from the Signal leak where someone was submitting a plate that ended with, "I'd keep following, but I'm out walking my dog and have to get him home."

Basically "I was gonna stop the Nazis, but then I got high".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (v8+Kf)

318 315 Yup. Between that, the Signal chats, and Antifa's nationwide centralized command and control site being disabled there's real panic happening and it's delightful.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (v8+Kf)

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The federal government got really good at fighting insurgencies.

All it took was leadership to say, "Use those methods on America's actual enemies."

The lawful neutral types who dominate the agencies just hop to the command.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

319 According to the complaint, Arscott sent Canaan a link to a “violently antisemitic blog,” the The Funambulist, and copied CMU’s chief diversity officer and the vice provost of diversity, equity and inclusion on the email.

When Canaan complained, other professors turned on the student, telling her to stop “acting like a victim” and that they would not “be an advocate for the Jews,” the complaint alleges.

Lawfare Project attorney Ziporah Reich said Arscott is an “extremely influential” person at CMU. Riech noted that another professor, whom Canaan turned to for help, said she was reticent to speak up against Arscott because Arscott helped her get hired at CMU and she “needed to be careful about what she did.”

The lawsuit lists detailed reports Canaan allegedly made to various school administrators who either ignored her pleas, failed to take any action to protect her, punish her abusers, or in the case of the schools Title IX coordinator, “aggressively discouraged Canaan from filing a formal complaint which would have trigged an investigation of Arscott."
https://tinyurl.com/Complaint-in-District-Court

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (2swu2)

320 I keep seeing TBWB. What do it mean?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)
________

The Blade Would Bang

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

321 Never got the admiration of Buckley.

Buckley legitimized Rush Limbaugh. We owe him for that. Not much else really though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (v8+Kf)

322 302 296 Yea, but what are the "plates"? License plates? Of LE vehicles? What good does that do?

The #1 Antifa ICE license plate website was brutally hacked yesterday by some friends of DataRepublican. The entire user list was taken and given to Tom Homan and the database destroyed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:23 PM (v8+Kf)

What a shame. So much work lost. I wish them the best on their upcoming visit from the fbi.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (i0Hi3)

323 TJM I've been wondering about the legal recourse to this organized interference with LE. Confident there are various laws that could be used. DOJ saying funders are being investigated. Too much to hope that they're being investigated for funding illegal activity of the sort just mentioned? Because funding in itself seems OK (1st Amendment and probably many other things).

Related, sheriffs now busting up the nonsense outside federal center in/near Mpls. Anyone here know if the fed center is in Hennepin County? Assume it is. That means the center of the infection is actually changing their performance, bigly.

The thing a few nights ago was in Maple Grove, separate govt./PD. Totally normal vigorous response. Of course if local PDs/sheriffs do their jobs, most of this harassment will be squashed or diluted quickly.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (U/Byj)

324 More on DJ, CMU grad,

The Company was extremely hot to trot trying to hire him. He had all kinds of interviews. They were actually following him around at one point.

DJ said it was really hard trying to find out what he would be working on with them. He got them to admit they had tapped into major communication trunks and scanned for the use of certain keywords, like "bomb".

This was in 1976,

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (jnZe8)

325 320 I keep seeing TBWB. What do it mean?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

The bride wore black ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (VE6XX)

326 holy hell whig

see? CMU sucks I told you guys

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (emBoF)

327 Yup. Between that, the Signal chats, and Antifa's nationwide centralized command and control site being disabled there's real panic happening and it's delightful.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (v8+Kf)

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The federal government got really good at fighting insurgencies.

All it took was leadership to say, "Use those methods on America's actual enemies."

The lawful neutral types who dominate the agencies just hop to the command.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, and it's not hard to do either. Helps that our domestic terrorists are fucking idiots.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

328 WFB was a bad writer. There, I said it.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (N8ZBc)

F*ck you.

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (n9ltV)

329 >>> The Blade Would Bang
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

Is this like the Mikey cereal commercials?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (3uBP9)

330 If he'd just maintained six foot distance from the cookers, he'd been fine.

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Damn autocucumber!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (L/fGl)

331 327
Yea, and it's not hard to do either. Helps that our domestic terrorists are fucking idiots.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

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Complacency from decades of authorities not rolling them up.

When was the last time? The WTO protests in the 90s?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

332 'Never got the admiration of Buckley.'

WFB was a bad writer. There, I said it.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (N8ZBc)

SCTV did do a decent parody of him that was funny

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (8avO+)

333 > Stories abound, him throwing whore, pool parties.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (hG1+u)

Seems like that's very often the case when guys who had no game at all in high school wind up with bimbo attractants like money, fame, or political power. It's "Yo! Ho! Ho!" and a bottle of rum. Maybe with some cocaine on the side.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 02:30 PM (IG3/x)

334 I'd love to see their whole administration go down hard

Posted by: night lifted at January 30, 2026 02:30 PM (kJmLc)

335 Stories abound, him throwing whore, pool parties.

I mean, he's pretty much the original template for the geeky computer nerd, what did anyone think he was going to do with billions of dollars? Found a nunnery?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:30 PM (PYyV9)

336
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Well, that proves it. He's a gentleman. And a genius.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (L/fGl)

We should trust him in his quest for vaccines and DNA manipulation treatments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

337 The "Stop ICE" website has been hacked and the hackers claim they sent the users data to FedGov.

http://tiny.cc/5bcy001

What the website did:
It had a live interactive map showing confirmed and unconfirmed ICE sightings.
A plate tracker for reporting and checking license plates of suspected ICE vehicles.
News updates.
"Know your rights" documents.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2026 02:31 PM (Yp6az)

338 Greedy administrators.
Why do we have to give them hundreds of millions in grant money if they are getting $1 billion from Qatar????

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 02:31 PM (Hkcdp)

339 Buckley wasn't as good as El Rushbo's schtick of him.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 30, 2026 02:31 PM (DgMqy)

340 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 02:31 PM (Ia/+0)

341 >>I keep seeing TBWB. What do it mean?

No one here cares other than you, I think.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 02:32 PM (Y1sOo)

342 I keep seeing TBWB. What do it mean?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

The bride wore black ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (VE6XX)

I believe it's the binary would / would not from The Blade.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

343 I would like to think that those "tow truck" companies using the dmv databases to dox people may have crossed a line that can get all their assets seized. I'm sure there are legalities and assurances to not use the data other than for making contact with the owner to return the car.

This operation is rising to the level of RICO and organized crime levels of intimidation.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:32 PM (i0Hi3)

344 Who is surprised a Cultural Marxist Seminary is funding or spreading Leftist Propaganda?

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 02:32 PM (Ia/+0)

345 Never got the admiration of Buckley. The only group he managed to openly fight were Right Wing competitors.
Posted by: Oldcat

The TV personality of someone being openly conservative is why. Easy for some people to feel the person on the screen is fighting for them. Harder to do that with mere words in a book or magazine. Buckley's opponent was mainly the Soviet Union style communism on behalf of the nat sec state, not liberalism mutating into leftism as such. I found Buckley absurb doing things like smoking marijuana outside the legal limits of the US so he could say he never violated the laws of the US.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:32 PM (2swu2)

346 335 Stories abound, him throwing whore, pool parties.

I mean, he's pretty much the original template for the geeky computer nerd, what did anyone think he was going to do with billions of dollars? Found a nunnery?

One wonders about the geekiness of Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie et al. Were they different? They knew enough to give away metric buttloads of money, so I kind of think they were.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:33 PM (Riz8t)

347 Never got the admiration of Buckley. The only group he managed to openly fight were Right Wing competitors.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:25 PM (8avO+)

He vanquished the LaRouchites, and banished them from any sort of media reporting.

And it turned out Lyndon was more right than anyone wanted to admit.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 02:33 PM (rbvCR)

348 I predict the next post to be about Don Lemon.
Posted by: tankdemon
......

Will he tell all about his sexy, sexy night in jail?

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 02:33 PM (UjdFS)

349 Buckley legitimized Rush Limbaugh. We owe him for that. Not much else really though.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Oh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:33 PM (hG1+u)

350 They knew enough to give away metric buttloads of money, so I kind of think they were.

Yeah but only in the last decade of their lives. Gates has started to do that now too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:34 PM (PYyV9)

351 What "plans" would Kathy Griffin have in mind for her MAGA neighbors ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:34 PM (VE6XX)

352 "And it turned out Lyndon was more right than anyone wanted to admit."

I've seen a few old John Birch vids. I ask myself "we're these guys REALLY so far off base?"

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:34 PM (N8ZBc)

353 He vanquished the LaRouchites, and banished them from any sort of media reporting.

And it turned out Lyndon was more right than anyone wanted to admit.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Whose tool was he?
That is the question.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:35 PM (hG1+u)

354 The story about Gates getting STDs from Russian hookers is too funny . Leftist I know on Facebook are still screaming "release the Epstein files" . Okay

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 02:35 PM (IDEQi)

355 Yeah but only in the last decade of their lives. Gates has started to do that now too.

Fair point.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 02:35 PM (Riz8t)

356 You can believe her. She's an African American Studies graduate.

BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

357 I found Buckley absurb doing things like smoking marijuana outside the legal limits of the US so he could say he never violated the laws of the US.
Posted by: whig

Can you imagine Buckley being on trial for smoking weed in the U.S., say in San Francisco? I'd pay to be on that jury.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 30, 2026 02:36 PM (KAi1n)

358 Related, sheriffs now busting up the nonsense outside federal center in/near Mpls. Anyone here know if the fed center is in Hennepin County? Assume it is. That means the center of the infection is actually changing their performance, bigly.

The thing a few nights ago was in Maple Grove, separate govt./PD. Totally normal vigorous response. Of course if local PDs/sheriffs do their jobs, most of this harassment will be squashed or diluted quickly.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (U/Byj)

Looks to me that Minneapolis is inside Hennepin entirely. St Paul is in a different county (Ramsey)

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:36 PM (8avO+)

359 Jeez. Qatar has a shitload of money to throw around if they gave 1 bill to just one woke university.

They probably would have done it for free.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

360
BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

Biden told y'all Trump was gonna put y'all back in chains.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

361 What "plans" would Kathy Griffin have in mind for her MAGA neighbors ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:34 PM (VE6XX)

Murder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

362 BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery

She was shackled! With handcuffs! Why, its like Pam Grier claiming her mom had to hide her eyes from all the lynched blacks in the midwest. They just invent crap and everyone nods.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:38 PM (PYyV9)

363 360
BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

There's some twisted logic

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:38 PM (VE6XX)

364 Se Lemon did get arrested, but doubt it will go far before he gets saved

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 02:38 PM (Ia/+0)

365 "I found Buckley absurd doing things like smoking marijuana outside the legal limits of the US"

That would make a good Miami Vice episode.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:38 PM (N8ZBc)

366 I never would have figured Gates as a "playah". Guess you can't judge a book by its four-eyed, iguana-faced cover.
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He used to pick up the young blond employees in his business, screw them for a while, and then send them on to a better paying job in his offices in Australia.
It got so bad women employees started wearing T-shirts with the logo, "Pick Me Next"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

367
That would make a good Miami Vice episode.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:38 PM (N8ZBc)

They never did get Calderone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

368 >Will he tell all about his sexy, sexy night in jail?
Posted by: wth at January 30, 2026 02:33 PM (UjdFS)

Dear Penthouse, this one night, in county lock up...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (GTqXr)

369 12:06 pm and the opening riff from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders...

Posted by: I miss Rush at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Hy+/V)

370 Leftist I know on Facebook are still screaming "release the Epstein files" . Okay

Yeah they haven't gotten the new NPC download, they are not supposed to talk about that any more now that files are being released.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (PYyV9)

371 You can believe her. She's an African American Studies graduate.

BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Because they used handcuffs, belly chains and leg irons. Same as with any other criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (qw6Uy)

372 91 >>>Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.

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Is that what made him so interested in world health???

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Wnqw0)

373 Fucking Mellonheads.

Melons > Mellons

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

374 Whenever I heard Buckley speak, I thought I was in a fag bar.

Posted by: Dude sounded like a fag at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (R/m4+)

375 >>>BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery

*makes Ken Jeong jacking off gif motion.*

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Y1sOo)

376 He vanquished the LaRouchites, and banished them from any sort of media reporting.

And it turned out Lyndon was more right than anyone wanted to admit.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Whose tool was he?
That is the question.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:35 PM (hG1+u)

I don't recall him doing jack against LaRouchies, who were a Democrat problem. It was the John Birch society.

There was a funny moment in the 90s when LaRouchies infiltrated the Dem ticket in Illinois with people with normal sounding names as opposed to the ethnic slavic names of the real ticket. They won all the primaries in the state but Governor and the governor had to denounce the entire ticket.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:40 PM (8avO+)

377 12:06 pm and the opening riff from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders...
Posted by: I miss Rush at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Hy+/V)

Her dad had to tell her to stop being a twatwaffle and let Limbaugh use the tune.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

378 What "plans" would Kathy Griffin have in mind for her MAGA neighbors ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 02:34 PM (VE6XX)

I imagine she is going to walk outside and scare them to death

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 02:40 PM (6ZSsV)

379 > Leftist I know on Facebook are still screaming "release the Epstein files" . Okay

All the sub-literate morons on Reddit and X are screaming to "release the unredacted Epstein files."

Oh? We shouldn't protect the privacy of victims? What about videos of underaged minors engaged in sexual acts? Those too? If those exist, you're asking them to release child pr0n. You know that, right?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2026 02:40 PM (Yp6az)

380 Leftist I know on Facebook are still screaming "release the Epstein files" . Okay

Yeah they haven't gotten the new NPC download, they are not supposed to talk about that any more now that files are being released.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

They're gonna shit themselves when it's the Bill Gates/Bill Clinton Show.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2026 02:40 PM (qw6Uy)

381 *BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery.*

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Marcia at January 30, 2026 02:40 PM (Hy+/V)

382 365 Crockett and Tubbs pursue drug-smuggling subs that deliver quarter-ounces of ditchweed to rich NYC fop on his yacht lying 12 miles off the coast.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (N8ZBc)

383 91 >>>Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.

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Is that what made him so interested in world health???
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Wnqw0)

No, it was stealing the patents of the inventions people would invent on his grants to improve world health.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (8avO+)

384
Is that what made him so interested in world health???
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Wnqw0)

He's not interested in health. He's interested in population control.

He thinks there should be less than 1bn on the planet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

385 "O’Hara suffered from Situs inversus — an extremely rare condition in which all of an individual’s organs appear on the opposite side of their body than the regular population."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (bNf8H)

386 > DJ said it was really hard trying to find out what he would be working on with them. He got them to admit they had tapped into major communication trunks and scanned for the use of certain keywords, like "bomb".

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2026 02:28 PM (jnZe

When I was going to grad school at (famous CS university) way back in the previous century (though not as far back as 1976) one of the labs I considered joining required that you be a US citizen, as they had lots of DoD funding. This lab had a surprising amount of physical security as well (no armed guards, but maybe only a couple of levels down from that).

The prof who ran the lab described their current research something like "well, suppose someone goes missing in the woods, like their car breaks down or their plane crashes or whatever... it would be nice to have a program that could look at aerial photos and locate vehicles among the visual clutter, so that a rescue operation could be carried out."

Yup. The only reason DoD would spend cubic fucktons of money is to improve search and rescue operations. There's no other reason they could be interested in finding vehicles concealed in terrain. Nope.

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (IG3/x)

387 Bill Buckley was a navel-gazing pudwhacker.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (5aZAZ)

388 Is that what made him so interested in world health???
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Wnqw0)

No! But it made my titties grow fat and enormous. Man Boobs! I have Man Boobs!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (R/m4+)

389 The convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein appeared to threaten Bill Gates and tried to blackmail the multi-billionaire over his extramarital affair with a Russian bridge player, according to a new report published by the Wall Street Journal.

...
Remember. Remember. Snaps fingers!

Posted by: May 2023 at January 30, 2026 02:42 PM (xj28v)

390 You know, probably wouldnt take a week to make Qatar a territory and we already have a base there to stage from..stop a lot of annoying things and probably pay off the national debt...we should have Marco look into it

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 30, 2026 02:42 PM (hQX9q)

391 12:06 pm and the opening riff from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders...
Posted by: I miss Rush

Today it'd be My Country Was Gone by the Cold Hard Facts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:43 PM (J+Psw)

392 Crockett and Tubbs pursue drug-smuggling subs that deliver quarter-ounces of ditchweed to rich NYC fop on his yacht lying 12 miles off the coast.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:41 PM (N8ZBc)
_________

"Why didn't I think of that?"

-- That Titan Sub CEO Dickhead

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

393 Whenever I heard Buckley speak, I thought I was in a fag bar.
Posted by: Dude sounded like a fag at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (R/m4+)

His shit was all fucked up

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 02:43 PM (NtVYv)

394 "They never did get Calderone."

My favorite ep was with the 'synthetic cocaine' chemist who smoked a giant hit of his product, and instantly dropped DRT.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:43 PM (N8ZBc)

395 Buckley legitimized Rush Limbaugh. We owe him for that. Not much else really though.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Oh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:33 PM (hG1+u)

never heard that and don't believe it. He always sneered at flyover culture.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:43 PM (8avO+)

396 They never did get Calderone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Spoiler!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 30, 2026 02:43 PM (0bjKf)

397 "the opening riff from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders..."

the farms of Ohio had been replaced by shopping malls...

...and now those malls are being demolished...

...because they are deserted...

...or populated by loiterers...

...they should put nature parks in their place...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 30, 2026 02:45 PM (DgMqy)

398 BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

Actually human trafficking is like slavery. Fortunately for this lady, she can pretend it isn't because they aren't African American

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 02:45 PM (rbvCR)

399 329 >>> The Blade Would Bang
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

Is this like the Mikey cereal commercials?
Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM (3uBP9)
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LMAO...nice.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 02:45 PM (dIske)

400 never would have figured Gates as a "playah". Guess you can't judge a book by its four-eyed, iguana-faced cover
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He dropped out of school and lived just off th3 vegas strip in a no tell motel while writing code. He realized that the killer app needed to sell computers was sex.. porn.

Yeah. Evil little.shit.

Posted by: Gates of Hell at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (xj28v)

401 Guilty pleasure: "Miami Vice" (2006). Good Mann, but disrespected by some.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (N8ZBc)

402
"The Unmaking of a Mayor" was a funny book.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Y8DZL)

403 They're gonna shit themselves when it's the Bill Gates/Bill Clinton Show.

It already is, they just are ignoring those parts and yelling PEDO louder at Trump.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (PYyV9)

404 Cultural Marxist screaming slavery?
She can go screw herself

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)

405 366 I never would have figured Gates as a "playah". Guess you can't judge a book by its four-eyed, iguana-faced cover.
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He used to pick up the young blond employees in his business, screw them for a while, and then send them on to a better paying job in his offices in Australia.
It got so bad women employees started wearing T-shirts with the logo, "Pick Me Next"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

If i were a guy in that situation competing for a similar post I would sue for sexual discrimination. The skanks who did the nasty with him got a leg up and everyone else gets the sfaft.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:47 PM (i0Hi3)

406 402
"The Unmaking of a Mayor" was a funny book.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Y8DZL)

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Politics was a show even in the 50s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 30, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

407 He dropped out of school and lived just off th3 vegas strip in a no tell motel while writing code. He realized that the killer app needed to sell computers was sex.. porn.

Yeah. Evil little.shit.
Posted by: Gates of Hell at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (xj28v)

He, like all the other billionaire tech "geniuses" rode the backs of the dudes that did the actual work and cashed in, bigly.

Gates, Jobs, Cuban.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

408 Bill Gates = Chad

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:48 PM (J+Psw)

409 ...appeared to threaten Bill Gates and tried to blackmail the multi-billionaire over his extramarital affair with a Russian bridge player...
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A bridge player, because of course it was a bridge player and not a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. I wonder what his name was (the bridge player)?

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 02:48 PM (TN0g+)

410 >>> 41 Catherine O'Hara of SCTV, Home Alone, etc. fame has died. She was 71.
Posted by: Tuna at January 30, 2026 01:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Oh no!! One of the few Hollywood people I genuinely adored. Whatever she was in she always made it better.

Was also Sally in Nightmare Before Christmas, and sang the pretty "Sally's Song" in that. Recently she was the voice of an animal in The Wild Robot and was great. Always charming, and yet her roles did something a little different each time. She didn't just play the same person over and over.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 02:48 PM (gWBY1)

411 Guilty pleasure: "Miami Vice" (2006). Good Mann, but disrespected by some.
Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:46 PM (N8ZBc)

Bad casting. I didn't get through 20 minutes of that movie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

412 Musk, who is not a fan of Gates is going to have a field day with today's document drop. Probably already has. I don't subscribe to "X".

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 02:48 PM (dIske)

413 everyone else gets the shaft.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 02:47 PM (i0Hi3
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Well, technically....

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 02:49 PM (5aZAZ)

414 381 *BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery.*

Sure, Jan.
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170 years plus of fweedum and she's still butt hurt. WTF?

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 02:49 PM (Hpgos)

415 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

416 412 Musk, who is not a fan of Gates is going to have a field day with today's document drop. Probably already has. I don't subscribe to "X".
Posted by: Orson
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I resisted for a long time because it is a time suck. But nowadays, you get more access to raw news feeds than you do from media.

I have no wishes to comment there though. Just read as you have to sort out the trash from treasure quickly in a general feed.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (2swu2)

417 I keep thinking I am missing something not signed up go X

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

418 Guilty pleasure: "Miami Vice" (2006). Good Mann, but disrespected by some.

It was really well done, went a bit overboard to be cool, but it was overall well written and very well directed. Very beautiful to look at and listen to. There is a reason that nearly every major star in the past 30 years were guest stars on the show, often before anyone knew them (like Ed O'Neill, Jimmy Smits, Ben Stiller, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Julia Roberts, Dennis Farina, etc).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (PYyV9)

419 nood

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:50 PM (N8ZBc)

420 Have you ever tried searching the text in an email on outlook? CTRL-F ? Heck no, that will just forward your email. Why? Because at microsoft they were doing tests of the user interface and CTRL-F was search like every single other software but one tester said no, CTRL-F was forward on this shit email program he used to use so CHANGE IT! And that's what they did. Immediately. That tester? Bill Gates.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (3uBP9)

421 "I keep thinking I am missing something not signed up go X"

Rage to the N'th power, 24/7. I had to quit.

Posted by: gp at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (N8ZBc)

422 It was really well done, went a bit overboard to be cool

I mean the show, not the movie. The movie went way, WAY overboard at being dreary, depressing, and miserable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (PYyV9)

423 bridge player, because of course it was a bridge player and not a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. I wonder what his name was (the bridge player)?
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Article in guardian 2023. Named 20 something year old russian girl who wanted Epstein to invest half a mil in an online bridge site. He did not. She was introd to him by boris nikoli. A Gates emee, and the Boris in the epstein email. Epstein later, at Gates urging paid her tuition to school. I dont know that she gave anyone the clap. Plenty of other russian girls about who can do that.

Posted by: Gates of Hell at January 30, 2026 02:52 PM (xj28v)

424 never heard that and don't believe it. He always sneered at flyover culture.

Rush himself told the story. He got invited to one of Buckley's hoity toity cocktail parties basically as a curiosity, they hit it off, and Buckley started telling people to listen to him.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:54 PM (2ocoG)

425 "A source told the Daily Mail that Lemon was seen being handcuffed while flanked by FBI and Homeland Security agents, and he ‘didn’t look overly happy:"
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Have you seen the pictures?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 02:54 PM (hG1+u)

426 Rage to the N'th power, 24/7. I had to quit.

You can set the feed now to strict chronological from people you follow, which helps a great deal.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 02:54 PM (2ocoG)

427 Wow. In the Epstein emails DOJ dropped, Jeffrey sent himself emails memorializing a fight he had with Bill Gates. In it he says that Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian hookers, and then asked Jeffrey for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing.

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Well, that proves it. He's a gentleman. And a genius.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at January 30, 2026 02:20 PM (L/fGl)
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Good thing he already cut a deal on his divorce settlement. Otherwise he'd be looking at Greeter jobs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (2Wwko)

428 CMU was one of the finalists in an early DARPA program to demonstrate speech recognition.

They wanted to automate their phone spying in real-time.

Good idea considering the bulk of data.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (jnZe8)

429 > He, like all the other billionaire tech "geniuses" rode the backs of the dudes that did the actual work and cashed in, bigly.

Gates, Jobs, Cuban.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 30, 2026 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

While Jobs didn't invent the tech directly, he was one smart motherfucker. There were literally dozens of Apple-equivalent computer companies at the time. Jobs made the difference there.

Gates, on the other hand, lucked into getting the contract to supply what became MS-DOS/PC-DOS to IBM (as I recall, his dad had contacts there). He didn't write MS-DOS. He bought it. The guy who actually wrote it had hacked it together in a couple of weeks so he could have a rudimentary OS for the new 8086/8088 processor. Gates offered him $50K for it (conveniently failing to mention that IBM wanted to buy a gazillion copies). My dude was all "$50,000 for two week's work? Fuck yeah!"

Then Gates turned around and stiffed IBM by making it a requirement that he be able to sell the OS to other companies. Result: IBM got its lunch eaten by PC clones.

Gates isn't stupid either. He's smart and ruthless.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (IG3/x)

430 Xavier University in New Orleans is a large recipient of Qatar's money

Posted by: javems at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (rhotX)

431 >>> 372 91 >>>Melinda was pissed when she found out that a Russian hooker gave Gates a penicillin resistant strain of VD.

Even better... in a recent dump of new Epstein File docs, Jeffery talks to Bill about how Bill asked him for the names of antibiotics to slip to Melinda without her knowing, so she wouldn't realized he'd cheated on her. And talked about how Epstein arranged for Bill to be introduced to the Russian hookers.

When it comes to eating burgers and schtupping women, Bill Gates apparently has zero self restraint.

Epstein was being pressured by Bill to resign from boards, I think one was the bill and Melinda gates foundation. In the emails he refuses.

I will say this, Epstein writes very properly. I thought his emails would sound crass, and instead he sounds like a Victorian gentleman. Like Charles Augustus Milverton plotting his next blackmail scheme, before Sherlock Holmes can foil him.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (gWBY1)

432 NOOD

klantifags got hacked

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 02:56 PM (ULPxl)

433 BLM activist who organized church takeover cites her "African American Studies" degree, says being arrested was like slavery
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Golly, maybe organizing church takeovers is a bad idea. Just a thought...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 02:58 PM (XeU6L)

434 SCTV did do a decent parody of him that was funny
Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 02:29 PM

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So did Johnny Carson

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 30, 2026 03:33 PM (1Au9i)

Corrupt Jihadist Antifa AG Keith Ellison Will Notify ICE When Wanted Criminal Illegals Are Being Released from Jails

Homan says he'd like to reduce the federal presence in the corrupt foreign shithole city of Minneapolis, and who can blame him.

But he does have a condition: Minnesota must give up its sanctuary state illegality.

Looks like they caved.

White House border czar Tom Homan announced on Thursday that Minnesota county jails will begin sharing information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they are scheduled to release illegal immigrants who have criminal backgrounds.
During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison "has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail."
This announcement marks a significant shift in the state's approach to working with federal immigration authorities. Previously, they refused to allow local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE and Border Patrol to apprehend and remove illegal immigrants -- even those who committed violent crimes.
Homan said the Minnesota Department of Corrections has consistently honored ICE detainers and stressed that any reduction in the number of federal agents in Minnesota would be contingent on continued cooperation from state and local officials.
"As we see cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen," he said.

🚨 BREAKING: Tom Homan confirms Minnesota county jails will now NOTIFY ICE when public safety threat illegal aliens are being released, so they can be transferred to ICE agents

This is HUGE!

That's why President Trump deployed Tom Homan.

"AG Keith Ellison clarified for me� pic.twitter.com/F6d4lDHu4I
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026

🔥Tom Homan CALLS OUT Democrats attacking ICE:

"Where were they the last 4 years when the numbers of women and children sex-trafficked was at an all time high?

Where were they when a quarter of a million Americans died from fentanyl coming across the border?

Where were they� pic.twitter.com/fjlyN9Ob8M
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 29, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 Homan did a great job, here.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:11 PM (ZcsJV)

2 Also, Mornin' Ace.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:11 PM (ZcsJV)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 30, 2026 12:12 PM (NcvvS)

4 Seattle is going full retard.

*pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (W2Pud)

5 I'm sure Minnesota leadership will honor this deal like Hamas does cease fires.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (T7MPm)

6 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (7UsVt)

7 Man this Ace guy sure does serve up a lot of meaty poasts. Morning day and night. HE CAN'T BE STOPPED!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 30, 2026 12:14 PM (3uBP9)

8 We'll see how long Minnedishu holds up its end...

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 12:14 PM (iXqHn)

9 I have a feeling Walz had a Moment of Clarity.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2026 12:15 PM (svLOV)

10 Looks like they caved.
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For now.

There is a world of difference between *saying* you will do something, and *actually* doing it.

Ellison playing "just the tip, I promise" with this strikes me as pretty likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:15 PM (MABZ1)

11 Good to see Minnesota cave. Of course, they are lying their asses off but still good to see them cave.

Posted by: Wet Taco at January 30, 2026 12:15 PM (R/m4+)

12 Homan, Hegseth, and Rubio are all tied for first in PDJT's cabinet this first year.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 30, 2026 12:15 PM (T7MPm)

13 Baby steps in the right direction.

I'd hate to go up against Homan in a negotiation.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:15 PM (YAkU9)

14 I'm sure Minnesota leadership will honor this deal like Hamas does cease fires.

Posted by: Cray Cray

That right there is a night in the blackpill box. You are correct, of course, that if they think they can cheat, they will. That's why the withdrawal of ICE is conditional on compliance. I'd bet that Homan will be watching closely.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

15 "may notify" is a very flexible term. I wouldn't trust muzzie Ellison as far as I could throw him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 12:16 PM (IDEQi)

16 "As we see cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen," he said.
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Ah, the ole' "trust but verify?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:16 PM (MABZ1)

17 .... that county jails may notify ICE....

I'm very suspicious.
There is a big difference between MAY and SHALL.
Big difference in firearm permit staes that "May issue" and "shall issue".

Legally MAY = MIGHT ....If I feel like it

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at January 30, 2026 12:16 PM (2Nfh9)

18 🔥Tom Homan CALLS OUT Democrats attacking ICE:

"Where were they the last 4 years when the numbers of women and children sex-trafficked was at an all time high?
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In line?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (MABZ1)

19 EV thread slows...stops.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (XeU6L)

20 Question: Will it just be a case that they will begin refusing to check into the status of the criminals they arrest and release so they can just go "Oh we didn't know he was here illegally?"

Posted by: buzzion at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (3tZV2)

21 Three strikes and you're out. Democunts had their three chances to turn public sentiment against ICE, and they failed. The three were Dead Dyke, Dead Rico Suave, and Abandoned Cute Kid in Hat. After these backfired, even the retards in MN realized they had no plays left, so they cut a deal. We'll see whether they honor it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

22 Question: Will it just be a case that they will begin refusing to check into the status of the criminals they arrest and release so they can just go "Oh we didn't know he was here illegally?"
Posted by: buzzion at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (3tZV2)
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Probably could treat it that way. Anyone who looks Latino just walks out, no questions asked. Or doesn't get arrested at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (MABZ1)

23 "I cannot spare the man. He fights."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (qFwJc)

24 I have a feeling Walz had a Moment of Clarity.

That idiot's last moment of clarity was when he stared out of his mother's birth canal and said "Hmmm, this is different".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

25 " county jails may notify ICE of the release dates"

I don't know how it was not illegal for state of MN to tell the county jails that they could not cooperate with ICE before. But now it comes down to whether the local authorities will protect their residents or will keep using immigration status as an excuse to sic some violent thugs on the normal folk.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (hhkIi)

26 I'm sure Minnesota leadership will honor this deal like Hamas does cease fires.
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (T7MPm)

I wonder what earned this compliance? I wonder if third persons were advised that their Signal traffic had been intercepted and that keeping Ellison on the straight and narrow was the only way to keep from revealing all.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (rbvCR)

27 4 Seattle is going full retard.

*pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*
Posted by: nurse ratched
=====
Be safe.

The No Cis-hood of the Traveling Leftist Rage Mutants show is coming to Seattle possibly. So the violent raging itinerant assholes of the US will head there for their paychecks.

But the funny thing is that ICE has no obligations to meet the nutjobs there. ICE has a broad number of sanctuary jurisdictions to target and is not obligated to show up where the mutants and Dem politicians want them to.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (2swu2)

28 I wouldn't trust them 100%, they might slip some out then start over letting Illegals go free.
Marxists don't quit

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (7UsVt)

29 EV thread slows...stops.

Not unlike an EV.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

30 Three strikes and you're out. Democunts had their three chances to turn public sentiment against ICE, and they failed. The three were Dead Dyke, Dead Rico Suave, and Abandoned Cute Kid in Hat. After these backfired, even the retards in MN realized they had no plays left, so they cut a deal. We'll see whether they honor it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)
++++
:: shakes magic 8-ball ::
"Outlook not so good"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (MABZ1)

31 How can this be?? I was assured from all directions that TACO Trump would back down and Kristi Noem would be fired etc…. Instead the commie Muslim backs down.

Well as always we have to wait and see if the actions match but it looks like Homan got a win. I’ll take it… not yet tired of winning. I took the white pill today

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (YobFY)

32 Here’s the slight of hand:

No illegal will be deemed a public safety threat by Minnesota authorities.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Y1sOo)

33 My suspicious mind (insert Elvis earworm here) says all Homan had to do was walk into the conference room with a 4in thick file on Walz, Frey, and Ellison and lay them on the desk, Usual Suspects style.

Silence while they read for about a minute.

"This is just what we have on each of you so far."

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (YAkU9)

34 But all the media and all the pants-wetting Republicans have been telling me that the anti-ICE protestors were winning!!
The Death of Pretti was going to bring down the whole Trump Administration!

And now MN has folded like a Dollar Store tent?
For ... nothing?

What's going on?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (HXT0k)

35 "may notify" ICE?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (wrEn7)

36 >>I have a feeling Walz had a Moment of Clarity.

I have a feeling Walz, Frey and Ellison were showed outlines of the potential criminal cases / liability they were exposed to and those potential cases were the leverage to force their cooperation.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (ZcsJV)

37 I don't know how it was not illegal for state of MN to tell the county jails that they could not cooperate with ICE before. But now it comes down to whether the local authorities will protect their residents or will keep using immigration status as an excuse to sic some violent thugs on the normal folk.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (hhkIi)
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It wasn't - and isn't - legal. They do it anyway. "Sanctuary" policies are an act of nullification. A nullification crisis has been brewing over it for some time.

Marijuana legalization, too, to a lesser degree.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (MABZ1)

38 And they believe he'll do it? Really? Who is there to make sure ?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Vvh2V)

39 But the funny thing is that ICE has no obligations to meet the nutjobs there. ICE has a broad number of sanctuary jurisdictions to target and is not obligated to show up where the mutants and Dem politicians want them to.

These people are...not smart.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

40 Still don't understand how a "man" (Tampon Timmy, so the gender is a bit unclear) who literally sent armed thugs (albeit armed only with paintball guns, armed nonethelss) to shoot at citizens merely for sitting on their own front porch just a handful of years ago can be taken seriously when complaining that actual law enforcement is using "gestapo tactics."

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (2m2UF)

41 Ask yourself why a corrupt AG agreed with this. Also, why other blue states are looking for the same deal.

It’s mainly because the want the ICE presence reduced so they can keep illegals who are not criminals or have a valid removal order.

By the way, that’s what Democrats along with a Republican assist are trying to do with the DHS funding. They want to change the removal process and reduce it to zero by changing the judicial order and process.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (3arSl)

42 That Minnesota attorney general belongs in prison. By any means necessary

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (XLfSN)

43 Haven't seen a single "journalist" ask what this dumb-ol-engineer me yelled at the TV when I heard Homan use the MAY.

Will the county jails absolutely and every time notify ICE?

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (2Nfh9)

44 I heard that Ellison had refuted Homan's statements?

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (FLx59)

45 4 Seattle is going full retard.

*pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (W2Pud)

***

Yup.
Finished the 1911...moving on to the Baby Eagle.

PS...guess who is going to the Super Bowl?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB)

46 I have a feeling Walz, Frey and Ellison were showed outlines of the potential criminal cases / liability they were exposed to and those potential cases were the leverage to force their cooperation.
Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (ZcsJV)
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I hope so.

And I hope the executive reneges on that deal as soon as it gets what it wants, and sends them all to the federal pen anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:20 PM (MABZ1)

47 22 Question: Will it just be a case that they will begin refusing to check into the status of the criminals they arrest and release so they can just go "Oh we didn't know he was here illegally?"
Posted by: buzzion at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (3tZV2)
++++
Probably could treat it that way. Anyone who looks Latino just walks out, no questions asked. Or doesn't get arrested at all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Cop radio traffic won't help the locals do that.

It will be pretty obvious of state and local non compliance and Walz, Ellison, and now the Lt. Gov effectively have gimp suits on them now where the federales can jerk at will. Omar too.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:21 PM (2swu2)

48 But muh TACO!!!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ULPxl)

49 I don't believe a thing these people say, but last I heard Idiot Trump got rolled by Genius Walz. Did I mishear?

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 12:21 PM (6ZSsV)

50 Corrupt Jihadist Antifa AG Keith Ellison Will Notify ICE When Wanted Criminal Illegals Are Being Released from Jails

Wait a minute...you mean these aren't all law abiding scientists curing cancer that Trump is deporting?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

51 They say.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y)

52 So- Democrats midterm rallying cry is for illegal immigrants.

And fraud.

And corrupt elections.

That’s quite a plan.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 12:21 PM (3arSl)

53 Seattle is going full retard.

*pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (W2Pud)
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Over what? ICE? Super Bowl? Antifa? Trannies?

I mean, this is a pretty deep well...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (MABZ1)

54 "This is just what we have on each of you so far."
Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM (YAkU9)

The dreaded "Manila Envelope Quotient"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)

55 It wasn't - and isn't - legal. They do it anyway. "Sanctuary" policies are an act of nullification. A nullification crisis has been brewing over it for some time.

I suppose it depends on what "sanctuary" means. If it means local LE doesn't have to cooperate with ICE, I believe there's at least a case to be made there. If it means obstruction and attack, then there is no case to be made.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

56 My wife was scheduled to fly home from LA today but changed plans to fly another day when she found out ICE “protesters” (ie rioters) plan to be out in force nationwide today to disrupt things, including travel. Bastards….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (YobFY)

57 Three strikes and you're out. Democunts had their three chances to turn public sentiment against ICE, and they failed. The three were Dead Dyke, Dead Rico Suave, and Abandoned Cute Kid in Hat. After these backfired, even the retards in MN realized they had no plays left, so they cut a deal. We'll see whether they honor it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)
++++
:: shakes magic 8-ball ::
"Outlook not so good"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:18 PM (MABZ1)
_____

Which is why I read Homan's statement as saying he wants to see compliance before he pulls ICE out. He's no fool.

Even if they don't comply and nothing really changes, this is still a big win for Trump and the good guys. Part of the reason for the big push in MN was to deter other assholes across the country. Watching MN cave like little bitches is gonna demoralize the rest. Notice already that outside of some lunatic places like Portland, there hasn't been much anti-ICE activity. And there there was, the idiots were immediately arrested (such as at the hotel in NYC).

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

58 Tom Homan CALLS OUT Democrats attacking ICE:

"Where were they the last 4 years when the numbers of women and children sex-trafficked was at an all time high?

Where were they when a quarter of a million Americans died from fentanyl coming across the border?

Where were they?" pic.twitter.com/fjlyN9Ob8M

- Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 29, 2026

In their basements with some young "neighbors"?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (ULPxl)

59 By the way, that’s what Democrats along with a Republican assist are trying to do with the DHS funding. They want to change the removal process and reduce it to zero by changing the judicial order and process.
Posted by: Vengeance
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Not going to happen. Easy veto to sustain for Trump. And Law Enforcement is considered an essential service under the budgeting act. Plus House and Senate can go to reconciliation for its budget which kills the filibuster over it.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (2swu2)

60 My guess is President Trump in that chat with Walz got him the riot act, Walz doesn't run the country

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (7UsVt)

61 "may notify" is a very flexible term. I wouldn't trust muzzie Ellison as far as I could throw him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 12:16 PM (IDEQi)

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When I heard that during the Homan press conference I started screaming "MAY? MAY? WTF happened to SHALL!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 12:23 PM (0Eh0f)

62 Will Notify ICE When Wanted Criminal Illegals Are Being Released from Jails

Dress them in a t-shirt and tell them they're free to go.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 12:24 PM (1fRPh)

63 Which is why I read Homan's statement as saying he wants to see compliance before he pulls ICE out. He's no fool.

Even if they don't comply and nothing really changes, this is still a big win for Trump and the good guys. Part of the reason for the big push in MN was to deter other assholes across the country. Watching MN cave like little bitches is gonna demoralize the rest. Notice already that outside of some lunatic places like Portland, there hasn't been much anti-ICE activity. And there there was, the idiots were immediately arrested (such as at the hotel in NYC).
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
++++
More or less my read on it, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:24 PM (MABZ1)

64 Fine.. But what do they consider a "public safety threat" is the question

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

65 Trust, but verify (repeatedly and heavily).

- altered Gipper quote

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (5yDGQ)

66 >> Not going to happen. Easy veto to sustain for Trump. And Law Enforcement is considered an essential service under the budgeting act. Plus House and Senate can go to reconciliation for its budget which kills the filibuster over it.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (2swu2)

I only wonder what it is that Republicans agreed to change in the DHS funding bill. You know, the one that was already negotiated before they shot that commie twit.

If Murkowski, Cassidy and Tillis are involved it’s nothing good.

I think republicans are going to regret this.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (3arSl)

67 OT: This new pre-workout stuff I got has a terrible aftertaste.

The caffeine is nice though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (bss/y)

68 Maybe now ICE will stop taking naked people out into the woods and dropping them off.

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2017206166670266370

Posted by: huerfano at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (98kQX)

69 IF this holds and they shed their Sanctuary status it's a big win and a playbook for the admin going forward. Plus it shows "The People" what the real issues are and it isn't ICE/DHS.

As long as the investigations of Somali Fraud (and whatever other fraud) is done and people are cuffed I'm for it. The admin still needs to infiltrate the insurgency and cut them down to nothing, though, or this continues to occur and each time it will be worse.

Posted by: GigantorX at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (x8k2o)

70 "Where were they the last 4 years when the numbers of women and children sex-trafficked was at an all time high?"

Telling the 14-year-old prostitute to put some ice on it?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

71 Seattle is going full retard.

*pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*
Posted by: nurse ratched

They just had to pay out 30 mil for the last time they let the crazies take over.
Of course, they will learn nothing because it's not their money.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 30, 2026 12:26 PM (0MjtC)

72 Ellison is a democrat and a rice and banana eating POS..

Odds are he's going to do a rug pull

The good news is, I doubt Homan will play that

Posted by: Blanco at January 30, 2026 12:26 PM (q83gU)

73 By the way, that’s what Democrats along with a Republican assist are trying to do with the DHS funding. They want to change the removal process and reduce it to zero by changing the judicial order and process.

I think there is an interesting thing that happened with this. The left has been arguing that ICE is just randomly deporting people and that's why we need a full judicial process.

But you'll notice they haven't been able to identify a deported citizen.

Which means the current process works fine because the only "due process" illegals are due is "can you prove you are in fact a citizen or a legal alien?"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:27 PM (sKqQm)

74 >>Seattle is going full retard.

Are they going to put a second statue of Lenin up?

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:27 PM (ZcsJV)

75 Odds are he's going to do a rug pull

The good news is, I doubt Homan will play that
Posted by: Blanco at January 30, 2026 12:26 PM (q83gU)
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I agree on the former.

I am cautiously optimistic on the latter.

"He agreed. He failed to uphold his agreement. The Marines will now be administering Minnesota" would be fine...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:27 PM (MABZ1)

76 Firearm owners are well aware of the giant difference between MAY and SHALL

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at January 30, 2026 12:27 PM (2Nfh9)

77 Notice already that outside of some lunatic places like Portland, there hasn't been much anti-ICE activity. And there there was, the idiots were immediately arrested (such as at the hotel in NYC).
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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This is a war, not a battle, so MNPLs was a tactical victory for Trump, while enforcement continues elsewhere.

The effects are being felt in housing/rental prices, labor markets, and decreased crime/ods. That is the strategic level, not whether OPTICs of Dems braying victory like the jackasses they are about MNPLs.

I think it is a problem that reveals the Dem violent left can concentrate on this or that city and mobilize outside resources to do so but at the risk of exposing their entire network of interrelated criminals and politicians.

Tet offensive did teh same in Vietnam to the Viet Cong. It never was much of a threat after it got exposed and crushed. It was the NVA and US Congress fecklessness that threw away S. Vietnam to the commies in 1975.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (2swu2)

78 67.

What you using? I stopped C4 and went to 8oz of black coffee mixed with 5g of creatine and a half glass on milk.

Pre-workout made my teeth and scalp itch.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (YAkU9)

79 But he does have a condition: Minnesota must give up its sanctuary state illegality.
-
Much as I like seeing the Democrats' street armies taking a beating, this does seem to be a win, in that it frees up agents for the next place.

Also, I hear Don Lemon is in cuffs somewhere, so it seems like it's shaping up to be a good day.

Posted by: Methos at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (vSvIl)

80 "During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison 'has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail.' "

Uh . . . "may notify"? How about "will"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (wzUl9)

81 Terry's Hot and Spicy Pork Rinds are really hot and spicy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (Q2aWo)

82 Seattle is going full retard.

Are they going to put a second statue of Lenin up?
Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:27 PM (ZcsJV)
_______

No. They're gonna put up a statue of tranny Lenin named Lenina.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

83 Maybe now ICE will stop taking naked people out into the woods and dropping them off.

What the left thinks they are doing: This will scare all those LIVs into opposing ICE

What the left is actually doing: [Juan]Hey Maria, maybe its time we got one of those free flights home, I hear they let some guy go naked outside. Do you know how cold it is right now?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

84 "Where were they the last 4 years when the numbers of women and children sex-trafficked was at an all time high?"

Where would the political profit have been in that? *scoffs I Democrat*

Posted by: 29Victor at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (0MjtC)

85 >>Seattle is going full retard.

That happened 11 years ago when Pete Carroll decided to pass rather than “run the damn ball” with Marshawn Lynch…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (YobFY)

86 Tet offensive did teh same in Vietnam to the Viet Cong. It never was much of a threat after it got exposed and crushed. It was the NVA and US Congress fecklessness that threw away S. Vietnam to the commies in 1975.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (2swu2)
++++
The most effective combatant in the Tet Offensive was Walter Cronkite.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:29 PM (MABZ1)

87 Nothing will happen to Don LeMon in jail that he didn't already have planned for this weekend.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:29 PM (YAkU9)

88 Seattle is going full retard.

*pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM (W2Pud)
++++
Over what? ICE? Super Bowl? Antifa? Trannies?

I mean, this is a pretty deep well...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:22 PM (MABZ1)

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Hypovitaminosis D.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 12:29 PM (0Eh0f)

89 Homan has a very satisfied post coitus look on his face.

Reporters noted he was whistling "I'm gonna sex u up" on the way to his meeting with ellison.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 12:29 PM (i0Hi3)

90 Homan started as a cop in 1983, immigration in 1984 and yet people think he's being played for a fool.

Let him do his job without all the peanut gallery assuming he's a dunce that will be shocked if and when the agreement is broken.

Posted by: old chick at January 30, 2026 12:29 PM (F3Dlr)

91 The effects are being felt in housing/rental prices, labor markets, and decreased crime/ods. That is the strategic level, not whether OPTICs of Dems braying victory like the jackasses they are about MNPLs.

I noticed that the left has significantly decreased complaints about the cost of housing. They haven't dropped it yet like the cost of eggs, but I suspect we are getting to that same point....

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:30 PM (sKqQm)

92 87 Nothing will happen to Don LeMon in jail that he didn't already have planned for this weekend.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:29 PM (YAkU9)

Nope.. Even inmates have standards

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 12:30 PM (VE6XX)

93 85 >>Seattle is going full retard.

That happened 11 years ago when Pete Carroll decided to pass rather than “run the damn ball” with Marshawn Lynch…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (YobFY)

Fact check-- accurate

Posted by: 29Victor at January 30, 2026 12:30 PM (0MjtC)

94 4 Seattle is going full retard.
==

To paraphrase Adam Smith, there's a great deal of retard in a leftist city.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 30, 2026 12:30 PM (0bjKf)

95 So Dom Lemoan is headed to the pokey.

Posted by: kingsman at January 30, 2026 12:30 PM (ehY6c)

96 MA, CA, IL, etc. may be taking notice of this development.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 30, 2026 12:30 PM (rJ48h)

97 Trump said he was impressed with the professional signs that were made for the radical protesters and wants to get them to make him signs.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (NpAcC)

98 Well, for those that say it doesn't matter who you vote in as President - Trump is jailing people that attacked a church instead of jailing people for praying outside an abortion clinic.

Quite a change

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

99 Keith Ellison will now notify ICE, that is so white of him.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (ufFY8)

100 Homan has a very satisfied post coitus look on his face.

I...never want to read those words in that order again.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

101 TIME OUT!!

Posted by: Andy Reid at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (ZcsJV)

102 Is there a General Strike today?

Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (S1eZI)

103 >>> The No Cis-hood of the Traveling Leftist Rage Mutants show is coming to Seattle possibly.

Probably not after the ruling that just happened. It's been six years since Chaz/chop terrorized downtown Seattle. But the city was just determined by a jury to be on the hook for the killing of a boy during the 2020 lawlessness. And the dad was awarded THIRTY MILLION. So the city might think twice before allowing summer of love 2: woke boogaloo. They don't want several repeat court cases. It's fine if the peasants revolt, but not if the city is on the hook for actual money.

Two sad things are that Jenny Durkan retired with no consequences and a golden parachute, and the taxpayers are shelling this out, not her. And that no matter how much money is rewarded, a boy is dead. No amount of money will bring him back.

@KatieDaviscourt
JUST IN — A jury has found the City of Seattle negligent and liable for the 2020 CHAZ/CHOP killing of Antonio Mays Jr.
The family has been awarded roughly $30 MILLION.
Watch as Antonio Mays Sr. breaks down in tears after hearing the verdict.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (gWBY1)

104 Good, now investigate all the theft of goverment services, aka Somali pirate action.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (h3wuo)

105 LEMON SQUEEZED~!
DON DID DONE

Posted by: NYPost Tryouts at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (mlg/3)

106 85 >>Seattle is going full retard.

That happened 11 years ago when Pete Carroll decided to pass rather than “run the damn ball” with Marshawn Ellison.
osted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (YobFY)

This year I bet they line up their star wide out in the backfield for an up the middle blast on the goal line.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (i0Hi3)

107 Maybe now ICE will stop taking naked people out into the woods and dropping them off.

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2017206166670266370
Posted by: huerfano at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (98kQX)
___

I wish this was true. It is not true.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

108 I only wonder what it is that Republicans agreed to change in the DHS funding bill. You know, the one that was already negotiated before they shot that commie twit.

If Murkowski, Cassidy and Tillis are involved it’s nothing good.

I think republicans are going to regret this.
Posted by: Vengeance
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Doesn't matter, and for Cassidy to do much, it means he risks losing his primary. Murcow is already an enemy Dem in all but name so no surprise there. Tillis is the one with YOLO now just like Burr was before him.

In the end, stasis of status quo is more likely than any substantial changes to ICE. And the Dems need 4 votes from the GOP in reconcilation, not three as Vance can break ties.

Then you have the House. Simply put, I think Trump made the deal because big things going on in Iran theater right now and enough data was gathered in MN to create serious risks for MN pols if they persist in the Resist.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (2swu2)

109 Seattle is going full retard.

That happened 11 years ago when Pete Carroll decided to pass rather than “run the damn ball” with Marshawn Lynch…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30,

***

They need to sign Lynch to a one day contract and then when they are on the one yard line, give him the ball. Just once.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (2WIwB)

110 Is there a General Strike today?
Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (S1eZI)
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"They" called for one.

I doubt there is much participation outside of public schools and NGOs. Few people sign up to be laid off in the next wave.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (MABZ1)

111 Is there a General Strike today?
Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (S1eZI)

Does this mean the Pentagon will be closed?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (rbvCR)

112 We only have 809 generals. Probably not enough to affect anything.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (Q2aWo)

113 Is there a General Strike today?"

That's it! No Bearclaws!

/general fatass

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (XuXeR)

114 105 LEMON SQUEEZED~!
DON DID DONE
Posted by: NYPost Tryouts at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (mlg/3)

Everytime someone plays led Zeppelin in the pokey, le moan shudders.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (i0Hi3)

115 Hmmm
A anti-ICE protest in Tacoma.
Bwahahahaha!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

116 We only have 809 generals. Probably not enough to affect anything./i]

Hegseth should gather them all together and announce the first 400 to finish a mile run get to keep their jobs...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

117 ... Probably not after the ruling that just happened. It's been six years since Chaz/chop terrorized downtown Seattle. But the city was just determined by a jury to be on the hook for the killing of a boy during the 2020 lawlessness. And the dad was awarded THIRTY MILLION. So the city might think twice before allowing summer of love 2: woke boogaloo. They don't want several repeat court cases. It's fine if the peasants revolt, but not if the city is on the hook for actual money. ...
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (gWBY1)
++++
It's just taxpayer money. Issue another bond.

Even "good" politicians don't care about taxpayer money. Bad ones gleefully waste it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (MABZ1)

118 @KatieDaviscourt
JUST IN — A jury has found the City of Seattle negligent and liable for the 2020 CHAZ/CHOP killing of Antonio Mays Jr.
The family has been awarded roughly $30 MILLION.
Watch as Antonio Mays Sr. breaks down in tears after hearing the verdict.

Posted by: LizLem
========
We shall see if Seattle appeals or pays out. Most such verdicts are drastically reduced on appeal but if Seattle chooses to eat the $30 million cost for cosplay Revolutionaries, then it will be so.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (2swu2)

119 What you using? I stopped C4 and went to 8oz of black coffee mixed with 5g of creatine and a half glass on milk.

Pre-workout made my teeth and scalp itch.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (YAkU9)

This is Jocko's stuff. Nitro Pop. 200mg of caffeine.

Creatine, I disliked the bloated feeling. Plus, I was having a lot of lower back tension and soreness and stopped for a bit to see if that helped. I cannot deny it seems to work really well for building muscle and made the workouts feel good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

120 FWIW, HEB was super busy...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (XuXeR)

121 We only have 809 generals. Probably not enough to affect anything./i]

Hegseth should gather them all together and announce the first 400 to finish a mile run get to keep their jobs...

Hopefully he's combing all their CVs looking for any sign of DEI enthusiasm, and firing those who had it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

122 LEMON CN-ENDED
* a bit too soon, sure

Posted by: NYPost Tryouts at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mlg/3)

123 The pessimist in me says that Walz got a backdoor plea deal in return for shutting down the terrorism. Hopefully, we at least get back the money he stole.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (0U5gm)

124 announce the first 400 to finish a mile run get to keep their jobs..."

Second prize is a set of steaknives?

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (XuXeR)

125 My suspicious mind (insert Elvis earworm here) says all Homan had to do was walk into the conference room with a 4in thick file on Walz, Frey, and Ellison and lay them on the desk
Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM

One of these lives has a future. The other does not.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (jc0TO)

126 It was snowing earlier. They haven't even cleared up last weeks snow yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Q2aWo)

127 announce the first 400 to finish a mile run get to keep their jobs..."

Second prize is a set of steaknives?

Coffee?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

128 got a backdoor plea "

He's a back door man?

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (XuXeR)

129 120 FWIW, HEB was super busy...
Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (XuXeR)

Went to 2 grocery stores this morning and there were people there and I'm in a sanctuary city in a a sanctuary County in a sanctuary State..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (VE6XX)

130 It's just taxpayer money. Issue another bond.

Even "good" politicians don't care about taxpayer money. Bad ones gleefully waste it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (MABZ1)

Yep. Just another excuse to raise taxes like the governor is doing with the state. I'm sure that the current Seattle leadership see this as a win.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (0MjtC)

131 It's just taxpayer money. Issue another bond.

This is a core problem with a lot of this stuff. The lefty bureaucrats got to virtue signal, the taxpayers get to pay for it.

In theory that should motivate those taxpayers to vote better but I know plenty of lefty LIVs and they don't make those sort of connections.

Oh my taxes went up? /Sees headline about payout to Mays's family doesn't read article
Its because of that damn Trump!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)

132 The pessimist in me says that Walz got a backdoor plea deal in return for shutting down the terrorism. Hopefully, we at least get back the money he stole.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (0U5gm)
++++
I strongly suspect he was offered one.

And if he was, I hope the feds renege and go after him anyway - after getting what they want.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (MABZ1)

133 Great idea, call for a general strike when 80% of the population is still dealing with the aftermath of a giant winter storm

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (FLx59)

134 Coffee?"

Only for closers...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

135 My suspicious mind (insert Elvis earworm here) says all Homan had to do was walk into the conference room with a 4in thick file on Walz, Frey, and Ellison and lay them on the desk
Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:19 PM

One of these lives has a future. The other does not.

We're ruling out breaking a pool cue in half?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

136
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican

Holy crap what a piece of 💩 that Sherman Austin is. Lying to his users outright like that.

--------------

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican

Reddit starting to notice.

Yeah, the hackers of StopICE weren't kidding.

I can personally testify that the names, logins, passwords, locations (down to coordinates), and phone numbers of 100K+ users were all sent to FBI, ICE, HSI, and more.

Sherman Austin was given time to tell his users of this security breach. Sherman Austin failed his lesson.

https://is.gd/PDk7OD

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (uy4P1)

137 Is there a General Strike today?
Posted by: Mr. Bean Natural at January 30, 2026 12:31 PM (S1eZI)
++++
"They" called for one.

I doubt there is much participation outside of public schools and NGOs. Few people sign up to be laid off in the next wave.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:32 PM (MABZ1)
________

NYC is just like any other day today. I suspect even the layabout losers in mommy's basement look at the single-digit temps today and said "nah, I'll stay here and get high."

Think about the stupidity of a movement trying to get people out into the streets, and they schedule it for ... a Friday on one of the coldest days of the last 10 years. Genius!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)

138 I noticed that the left has significantly decreased complaints about the cost of housing. They haven't dropped it yet like the cost of eggs, but I suspect we are getting to that same point....
Posted by: 18-1
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Ironically the exceptions to all that good news are in sanctuary states and cities. Their rental/housing prices are still increasing, wage growth stalled, and crime not falling as much.

Democrats can now only win when they lie about their proposed policies except in very deep blue states or cities. Even Holchul told Mamdani that his income tax hike was not going to happen for NYC.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (2swu2)

139 >I cannot deny it seems to work really well for building muscle and made the workouts feel good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

Creatine also has significant cognitive benefits. Worth the few lbs of water weight IMO.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (GTqXr)

140 123 The pessimist in me says that Walz got a backdoor plea deal in return for shutting down the terrorism. Hopefully, we at least get back the money he stole.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (0U5gm

He talks like he didn't agree to anything...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

141 People are loving Rubio lately. He's fine. He's carrying out Trump's directives faithfully and competently, which is much better than we've seen in the past.

But, for me, I see him as just a loyal soldier.

There are two administration officials I see as standouts - Hegseth & Homan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (BI5O2)

142 And by the way, the big news which I mentioned this morning is that Republicans have now passed all spending bills through regular order. That’s the first time that’s happened since 1997 fiscal year.

That’s being lost in all the other bullshit.

It’s also an FU to all the people who said it wouldn’t be done.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (3arSl)

143 MN has fought Trump to a bit of a draw so far.

Only cost Soros two crazy retards and maybe a couple disposable NPC politicians, maybe.

Fight is not close to over. Hopefully Trump is shifting his aim higher in the commie food chain than some pachouli-smelling SSRI wine-swilling skank on the street with a triple canopy bush.

When Alex Soros is done, it will be a good day.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (c6Vz1)

144 I see the guy that drives the recycling* pickup truck driving around today so no general strike for him.

*Aka the other garbage truck because it all goes to the same place, literally, people have put trackers in the recycling...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

145 And if he was, I hope the feds renege and go after him anyway - after getting what they want.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Wait, the Fed never welch a deal... oOh, you're right.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (mlg/3)

146 132 The pessimist in me says that Walz got a backdoor plea deal in return for shutting down the terrorism. Hopefully, we at least get back the money he stole.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2026 12:35 PM (0U5gm)
++++
I strongly suspect he was offered one.

And if he was, I hope the feds renege and go after him anyway - after getting what they want.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:36 PM (MABZ1)

I love to come here to speculate, and read the speculations. It is Evergreen. This is not a criticism, BTW. It’s fun.

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)

147 >>>
"He agreed. He failed to uphold his agreement. The Marines will now be administering Minnesota" would be fine...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:27 PM (MABZ1)

That is an acceptable outcome

Posted by: Blanco at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (q83gU)

148 I think all Homan wanted, or was willing to take, was an agreement that Minneapolis would abide by the bare minimum requirements under federal law regarding the release of illegals back into the community. That minimum being the feds are told when this release will occur.

Whether this is a "win" is debatable. Whether the city and the state abide is too.

FWIW I think we'll back to rioting by this time next week. If not sooner.

And we'll be revisiting all this shit again with the next leftist, sanctuary city/state that decides not to cooperate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (jtM2q)

149 Think about the stupidity of a movement trying to get people out into the streets, and they schedule it for ... a Friday on one of the coldest days of the last 10 years. Genius!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)
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The protests were one part. Unlikely, given conditions.

The "strike" is another. You can stay home and do that. But most people won't, because this is simply not worth losing your job over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (MABZ1)

150 Coffee?"

Only for closers...

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

---------------

"Cocking is for closers!"

/Arec Bardwin, murderer walking free

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 12:40 PM (uy4P1)

151 During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison "has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail."

"May" is not mandatory like "shall" or "must." It's the language of possibility or unfettered discretion. At best it's permission rather than prohibition, but still means nothing in terms of concrete action.

Posted by: Watch what they do, not what they say at January 30, 2026 12:40 PM (TbWk/)

152 Hegseth should gather them all together and announce the first 400 to finish a mile run get to keep their jobs...

"Congratulations! Assume push-up positions..."

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 12:40 PM (1fRPh)

153 I can personally testify that the names, logins, passwords, locations (down to coordinates), and phone numbers of 100K+ users were all sent to FBI, ICE, HSI, and more.

Sherman Austin was given time to tell his users of this security breach. Sherman Austin failed his lesson.

Posted by: ShainS
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Thanks ShaneS for the comedic gold.

Austin's nothing to see here message that some people did something but we are all ok smacks of flop sweat and legal dread.

I can see lots of privacy lawsuits in his future if not criminal charges.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:40 PM (2swu2)

154 149 Think about the stupidity of a movement trying to get people out into the streets, and they schedule it for ... a Friday on one of the coldest days of the last 10 years. Genius!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)
++++
The protests were one part. Unlikely, given conditions.

The "strike" is another. You can stay home and do that. But most people won't, because this is simply not worth losing your job over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (MABZ1)

Most of the strikers are likely paid by ngos for the purpose of striking and protesting. Nobody will notice they are gone.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (i0Hi3)

155 Also is 'clean' the new fitness buzzword? I am seeing it on everything: protein, pre workout, creatine, etc etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

156 115 Hmmm
A anti-ICE protest in Tacoma.
Bwahahahaha!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

Outside Union Station- so right across from UW Tacoma, near a high school and at a trolly stop. They're pretty good at logistics.

Mass homelessness, garbage streets, rising crime and unsafe parks, but they're going to protest ICE. Lovely.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (0MjtC)

157 I can personally testify that the names, logins, passwords, locations (down to coordinates), and phone numbers of 100K+ users were all sent to FBI, ICE, HSI, and more./i]

If anyone has access to this data can they look to see if Doodad Pro is there? The guy was an important Obama contributor so he must still be active in D politics right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

158 The Coke Zero shelf price is up to $8.99 for a six pack of Litres. $1.50 a litre. Those little 1 shot bottles of liquor are only $1.99.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Q2aWo)

159 Think about the stupidity of a movement trying to get people out into the streets, and they schedule it for ... a Friday on one of the coldest days of the last 10 years. Genius!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)
++++
The protests were one part. Unlikely, given conditions.

The "strike" is another. You can stay home and do that. But most people won't, because this is simply not worth losing your job over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (MABZ1)
_______

I think it's being pitched as "don't go to work, go riot instead." Regardless, all businesses here are open, subways and buses are running, etc. This is another huge flop.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

160 119.

We should do a fitness thread here sometime. Not a lot of good fitness stuff for people over 40+ who didn't win the Genetic Powerball and weren't sportsballers.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (c6Vz1)

161 And we'll be revisiting all this shit again with the next leftist, sanctuary city/state that decides not to cooperate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (jtM2q)
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That we will, but this is one of the reasons for what has happened in MN - to discourage others from playing the same game.

Some surely will play anyway, but some may well not. "MN tried this, got nothing, capitulated, and there was no broader wave of support. Not playing. Just call the feds and let them pick this {murderer|rapist|drug runner|kidnapper|con artist} up."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (MABZ1)

162 Creatine also has significant cognitive benefits. Worth the few lbs of water weight IMO.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 12:38 PM (GTqXr)

BUT, it made tomato anything like radioactive as far as stomach acid for me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

163 160 "May" is not mandatory like "shall" or "must." It's the language of possibility or unfettered discretion. At best it's permission rather than prohibition, but still means nothing in terms of concrete action.
Posted by: Watch what they do, not what they say at January 30, 2026 12:40 PM (TbWk/)
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Yes. This.

See also: "May issue" vs. "Shall issue" concealed carry permit states.

"May issue" is code for "You best be a card-carrying member of the democrat ruling class if you want one."
Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (oqH4h)

“ Might” would be a better choice of words.

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (pDt9x)

164 Great idea, call for a general strike when 80% of the population is still dealing with the aftermath of a giant winter storm

Who is actually going to answer that call? College students and baristas?

* insert "Oh noooo, thas' turrible" meme here *

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Fs0KI)

165 And we'll be revisiting all this shit again with the next leftist, sanctuary city/state that decides not to cooperate.

It wasn't that long ago people were arguing Trump folded.

I'll take small regular wins. Beats what we had under Shrub or, shudder, the Biden Junta

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)

166 I think it's being pitched as "don't go to work, go riot instead." Regardless, all businesses here are open, subways and buses are running, etc. This is another huge flop.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
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Yup. "I'm gonna risk my job for rioters burning down their city in support of criminals" is a pretty hard sell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:43 PM (MABZ1)

167 But, for me, I see him as just a loyal soldier.
There are two administration officials I see as standouts - Hegseth & Homan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

His bio will be an interesting one, for sure. I can only guess he had his head shoved into the DC locker after being elected as a TEA partier, tried to play Good Steward, and then watched Trump bust through the Cathedral.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 12:43 PM (mlg/3)

168 I'm sick and working today because I don't want my employer to think im a communist liability with violent tendencies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 12:43 PM (BI5O2)

169 We only have 809 generals. Probably not enough to affect anything.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:33 PM (Q2aWo)

I wonder if we have any modern day Fightin’ Joe Hooker’s or Ambrose Burnside’s….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:44 PM (xT8gx)

170 >> BUT, it made tomato anything like radioactive as far as stomach acid for me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

Dis you try mixing it with different things, or pre mixing it and then adding it to something like oatmeal?

They did that in the TBI study I was involved in.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:44 PM (++1kQ)

171 During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison "has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail."

Sounds like the fat bastard had been telling the county jails that they couldn't do that, not that it was discretionary and done under their own volition.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 30, 2026 12:44 PM (luW68)

172 I'm sick and working today because I don't want my employer to think im a communist liability with violent tendencies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2026 12:43 PM (BI5O2)
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I had to take a day off one of these "general strike" days once, to deal with doctors. I called and asked for the day off. I updated my boss with outcomes at the end of the day. I brought receipts in case asked for. I did *not* want him thinking I was one of those commies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (MABZ1)

173 No deal was made. The prosecutions are coming. They were all reminded that i have the power to Pardon. I told them it is a multistep process. If they wish to fulfill those conditions step one is they dont turn felons loose, hold them for Ice. There will be more steps....

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (xj28v)

174 or Ambrose Burnside’s….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:44 PM

That guy went out with a bang.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (jc0TO)

175 155. Clean for me just means I have no safe place to get steroids. They treat that shit like heroin thanks for Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuns.

I think I if a chick can go recreate her entire body with plastic surgery to make more on OnlyFans an electrician should be able to use steroids so his back doesn't hurt so bad after work.

My body my choice.

I'd do steroids in a heartbeat if they still sold them in TJ.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (c6Vz1)

176 We shall see.

Here's a small part of Philadelphia's approach:

No ICE Detainers Honored Without Warrant: The city does not hold non-citizens in custody beyond their scheduled release date based on an ICE detainer (a request to hold someone for up to 48 hours) unless ICE presents a signed judicial warrant.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (NFX2v)

177 Might have been said above but I think the "may notify" is because previously they were prevented from notifying ICE. So now they are able to.

But it isn't a "must notify".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (n5tGW)

178 >BUT, it made tomato anything like radioactive as far as stomach acid for me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

Have you tried gel cap instead of powder. It may be a total placebo effect, but my recovery is much better since I began regularly taking post workout.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (GTqXr)

179 Outside Union Station- so right across from UW Tacoma, near a high school and at a trolly stop. They're pretty good at logistics.

Mass homelessness, garbage streets, rising crime and unsafe parks, but they're going to protest ICE. Lovely.
Posted by: 29Victor at January 30, 2026 12:41 PM (0MjtC)

Hey, the Glass Museum is right there, have you no respect!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (rbvCR)

180 One of the things I wasn't really prepared for with getting older is the number of things that can cause your stomach acid to go out of wack...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (sKqQm)

181 The only mistake I really see that the Feds made is that they went in unprepared for the Leftists attempting to block them. Should have had resources on hand to immediately detain and transport anyone trying to block operations, for example. That weakness emboldened the opposition.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (giMmT)

182 "151 During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison "has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail."

"May" is not mandatory like "shall" or "must." It's the language of possibility or unfettered discretion. At best it's permission rather than prohibition, but still means nothing in terms of concrete action.
Posted by: Watch what they do, not what they say at January 30, 2026 12:40 PM (TbWk/)"

We'll see if they actually follow through.

We have a close family friend recently murdered by some dipshit that had no business being in the country in the first fucking place, this is getting really infuriating.

Posted by: heya at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (+ruSa)

183 This busty brunette with a nice smile hopes this actually indicates some degree of capitulation by MN:
http://tiny.cc/p7cy001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (MABZ1)

184 The "may" is almost certainly the proper word in this context because before this jurisdictions were not allowed to do the normal/safe thing and notify ICE of releases. So "may" is a complete reversal in policy. Dunno if the idiocy is codified in law in MN as with SB57 in CA. But use of "may" makes perfect sense here.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (U/Byj)

185 Dis you try mixing it with different things, or pre mixing it and then adding it to something like oatmeal?

They did that in the TBI study I was involved in.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:44 PM (++1kQ)

I tried it with protein and just water. The odd thing is it just seemed to be tomato. I have no idea why. I could take aspirin and it would not do anything out of the ordinary.

Honestly the biggest thing was the lower back pain. Stopping it seems to have caused that to subside.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

186 And we'll be revisiting all this shit again with the next leftist, sanctuary city/state that decides not to cooperate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 12:39 PM (jtM2q)
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That we will, but this is one of the reasons for what has happened in MN - to discourage others from playing the same game.

Some surely will play anyway, but some may well not. "MN tried this, got nothing, capitulated, and there was no broader wave of support. Not playing. Just call the feds and let them pick this {murderer|rapist|drug runner|kidnapper|con artist} up."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:42 PM (MABZ1)
_____

And MN even had the "bananas and rice" girl! I mean, if she couldn't pull it off, who could?

It still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

187 think it's being pitched as "don't go to work, go riot instead."
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Riot??! My ass. You need a fcking space suit to go outside today.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at January 30, 2026 12:47 PM (xj28v)

188 The only mistake I really see that the Feds made is that they went in unprepared for the Leftists attempting to block them. Should have had resources on hand to immediately detain and transport anyone trying to block operations, for example. That weakness emboldened the opposition.

The problem is that the solution is sending more people and if you do that you can send out fewer overall groups

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

189 143 MN has fought Trump to a bit of a draw so far.

Only cost Soros two crazy retards and maybe a couple disposable NPC politicians, maybe.

Fight is not close to over. Hopefully Trump is shifting his aim higher in the commie food chain than some pachouli-smelling SSRI wine-swilling skank on the street with a triple canopy bush.

When Alex Soros is done, it will be a good day.

Posted by: sifty boones
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Not quite true, it exposed all the fraud networks, exposed the violent raging assholes and their funding, did not please the rank and file Minnesotas for 2026 elections, foreign criminal assholes were still deported from MNPLs, and so on.

Sort of like the Battle of Coral Seas, a tactical victory by the Trump administration in service of larger strategic moves throughout the country.

Resist! as a strategy is failing as the self deportation train has reached now about 3 million with wages increasing, housing prices and rentals falling, less inflation, and remarkably less crime and drug deaths by od.

Getting hung up on personalities or specific instances instead of watching the overall nationwide indicators is a good way to blackpill oneself. MNPLs is not that important.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (2swu2)

190 59 Brigades. 809 Generals.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (Q2aWo)

191 >>Creatine also has significant cognitive benefits. Worth the few lbs of water weight IMO.

Yes. But this will be delayed at least 30 days with dosages around 5g per day.

You can frontload for 2-3 weeks with 2x-4x this dosage, safely, and speed that up.
Your muscles will use up the majority of the dosage until they have absorbed all they can...only then will there be sufficient stores to spur cognitive healing/growth.

At least...as I understand the studies.

Posted by: Andy Reid at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ZcsJV)

192 Time Management SockOFF

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ZcsJV)

193 Have you tried gel cap instead of powder. It may be a total placebo effect, but my recovery is much better since I began regularly taking post workout.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (GTqXr)

I tried gummies and I never seemed to get the same benefit as the powder I tried (or side effects.) May have been the brand as it was about the same time the study came out that a lot of leading brands did not have the listed amont in them (or any at all in some cases.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)

194 ... Sherman Austin was given time to tell his users of this security breach. Sherman Austin failed his lesson.

https://is.gd/PDk7OD
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 12:37 PM (uy4P1)
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Would it have mattered? Disclosure is the correct and appropriate thing to do, but the horses had left the barn. Had StopICE notified its users right away, it would have affected only those with burner phones who knew how to use them properly. Everyone who used his real phone - or used his burner sloppily - is fucked anyway. The breach happened. They got it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:49 PM (MABZ1)

195 No protestors to be seen out here today. A bit disappointing, to tell the truth.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 12:49 PM (q7NZH)

196
Tet offensive did teh same in Vietnam to the Viet Cong. It never was much of a threat after it got exposed and crushed. It was the NVA and US Congress fecklessness that threw away S. Vietnam to the commies in 1975.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:28 PM (2swu2)

A lot of historical illiterates don't understand that there were 3 Vietnam Wars. The Viet Minh kicked the shit out of the Frogs in the 50s, the US won a messy war against the VC and NVA in the 60s-70s, and about 2 years afterwards the NVA invaded the South with conventional arms/tactics and the US Congress stabbed the ARVNs in the back allowing the NVA to win the 3rd war.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 12:49 PM (y9nCu)

197 My precious!

Gold and silver taking a beating today.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

198 And MN even had the "bananas and rice" girl! I mean, if she couldn't pull it off, who could?

It still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

But can miss bananas and rice read her own cursive?

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 30, 2026 12:49 PM (MGB5H)

199 still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.
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I am starting to the the collective IQ of minnesota is pretty low. Even before the somalis.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (xj28v)

200 It still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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They are trapped in their own narratives of oppressed and oppressor and cannot see how normies view their constructed narrative. They saw a lying and stupid Somali deserving jail and deporation while the leftists saw St. Joan.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (2swu2)

201 Personally I want every ILLEGAL fck out of the country I don't care what "good person" they are at the moment or have been getting away with for how many years. Criminal illegal? Ousted with extreme violence as they are a dangerous foreign invader. But Trump wants to avoid "the firestorm" as he did w Fauci during his first term. So instead of giving the left a shit sandwich (as we get left and right) they get a tiny turd on a cracker and they still scream. Not good enough. Next prez? Doubt it.

Posted by: McMasters at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (hyQrc)

202 Creatine supplements? Just eat meat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Q2aWo)

203 >> Honestly the biggest thing was the lower back pain. Stopping it seems to have caused that to subside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

Guy that was in the study with me had the same issue. He then changed to pre mixing the creatine with warm milk and adding it to oatmeal. It seemed to mostly subside after that. It’s also about the dosage. They played around a lot to find the right amount. FWIW

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (++1kQ)

204 Who sells gold? I want to have a scrooge mcduck pool.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (q7NZH)

205 or Ambrose Burnside’s….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:44 PM

That guy went out with a bang.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 12:45 PM (jc0TO)

Battle of the crater… LoL

He also did a bang up job at his namesake bridge at Antietam!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (xT8gx)

206 US Congress stabbed the ARVNs in the back allowing the NVA to win the 3rd war.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Yep. We threw away victory in that case.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (2swu2)

207 It still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

DataRepublican pointed out after the Soros Spawn's babbling debut at Davos, that the left doesn't value actual rhetoric. The only thing that counts is performance in the NewSpeak. They only want and need signaling to the Anointed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 12:51 PM (mlg/3)

208 And make sure you know where the creatine comes from. The chicoms have flooded the market with inferior garbage.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:51 PM (++1kQ)

209 Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
They arrested Don Lemon. This is horrifying. I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent, this absolutely cannot stand.

-
Another journalist of some renown on Don Lemon.

Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm... no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man! "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (L/fGl)

210 184 The "may" is almost certainly the proper word in this context because before this jurisdictions were not allowed to do the normal/safe thing and notify ICE of releases. So "may" is a complete reversal in policy. Dunno if the idiocy is codified in law in MN as with SB57 in CA. But use of "may" makes perfect sense here.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 12:46 PM (U/Byj)

Wouldn't shall be better than may?

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (mxcbL)

211 And make sure you know where the creatine comes from. The chicoms have flooded the market with inferior garbage.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:51 PM (++1kQ)
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That is their MO...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (MABZ1)

212
I am starting to the the collective IQ of minnesota is pretty low. Even before the somalis.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at January 30, 2026 12:50 PM (xj28v)

Two words: Governor Jesse Ventura

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (y9nCu)

213 >You can frontload for 2-3 weeks with 2x-4x this dosage, safely, and speed that up.
Your muscles will use up the majority of the dosage until they have absorbed all they can...only then will there be sufficient stores to spur cognitive healing/growth.

At least...as I understand the studies.
Posted by: Andy Reid at January 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ZcsJV)

That's exactly what I did when I began and have been taking 5g/day for the past year. Definitely notice my recovery is much better post workout.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (GTqXr)

214 We all know how democrats lie. Democrats lie about everything.

What is the over/under on when the Minnesota donkey commies go back on this deal?

I'm going with under two weeks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (xvV+O)

215 >>Guy that was in the study with me had the same issue. He then changed to pre mixing the creatine with warm milk and adding it to oatmeal. It seemed to mostly subside after that. It’s also about the dosage.

Overnight Oats are a great way to do this. You can prep 2-3 days worth at a time. Add Protein, Creatin and/or Collagen.
It is fine cold, better warmed up a bit...
Add Fruit/Berries right before you eat it.

Good stuff.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (ZcsJV)

216 Yeah great. I want all illegal aliens deported, not just the ones that have committed serious crimes.

Posted by: Major Healey at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (abIsI)

217 201 Personally I want every ILLEGAL fck out of the country I don't care what "good person" they are at the moment or have been getting away with for how many years. Criminal illegal? Ousted with extreme violence as they are a dangerous foreign invader. But Trump wants to avoid "the firestorm" as he did w Fauci during his first term. So instead of giving the left a shit sandwich (as we get left and right) they get a tiny turd on a cracker and they still scream. Not good enough. Next prez? Doubt it.
Posted by: McMasters
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You will never have perfection on this earth. So take the winnings you get. It was and is always about self deportation rather than ICE or Border Patrol.

Remove the incentives of jobs, welfare, stealing while the risks of detention and deportation rise, most of the economic illegals will leave.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (2swu2)

218 185.

I started using 5g three times a day in hot water and a dash of salt. It made that "My Kidneys Are Going to Explode" feeling go away. YMMV.

I'm 53 now, which I guess is a signal that everything good will make my stomach hurt now.

Throw the new T1D on top of that pile and it makes for some interesting workouts now.

Like every time I get over 85lbs on the bar for overhead presses becomes a multiple choice question:
Am I going to: A. Shit my pants? B. Get dizzy and pass out and drop this on my head? C. Make it happen.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (vBKFG)

219 >208 And make sure you know where the creatine comes from. The chicoms have flooded the market with inferior garbage.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:51 PM (++1kQ)

True for any / all supplements including whey protein.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (GTqXr)

220 IIRC Lincoln finally fired Burnside after his took the Army of the Potomac on its ill fated “mud march”… and that was AFTER the Fredericksburg debacle….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (xT8gx)

221 @jemelehill
They arrested Don Lemon. This is horrifying. I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent, this absolutely cannot stand. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (L/fGl)
++++
I agree. It must not stand that journalists get some kind of special, favorable treatment just because of their profession.

The opposite needs to be true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:54 PM (MABZ1)

222 still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.

She's a muslim black woman, the left will tell you she has absolute moral authority. And the funny part is the left will tell you that if you expected her to be able to express a cogent though you are racist...because she's a muslim black woman

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

223
Wouldn't shall be better than may?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (mxcbL)

ILLEGAL ALIEN RELEASES SHALL BE REPORTED TO ICE UNDER PAIN OF DEATH

Posted by: OrangeManBad the Merciless at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (y9nCu)

224 >>>> Honestly the biggest thing was the lower back pain. Stopping it seems to have caused that to subside.

If your back pain is lower back...really pay attention to your quads and hamstrings.

I have found that keeping them strong and stretched out goes a long way in mitigating the issue.

Either goes and you get hip/pelvis issues that only exacerbate the pain/discomfort.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (ZcsJV)

225 Hopefully there’s no fine print like “we will notify ice at the discretion of the secretary of such and such”.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (PHOGh)

226 It still mystifies me that someone thought it was a good idea for the anti-ICE cause to put that illiterate, misshapen abomination, with skin like sandpaper, and dressed like a goth Handmaid's Tale, in front of a microphone to babble about Somali food. She made Rachel Jeantel look like a mensa candidate.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

DataRepublican pointed out after the Soros Spawn's babbling debut at Davos, that the left doesn't value actual rhetoric. The only thing that counts is performance in the NewSpeak. They only want and need signaling to the Anointed.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 12:51 PM (mlg/3)
_

Oh, I get that and to some degree I agree. You sell the sizzle, not the steak. But my point was that the Somali CHUD was so repulsive there was no way putting in front of a video camera was gonna help the cause. Now, if she looked like a young Iman, that would be a different story.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

227 197 My precious!

Gold and silver taking a beating today.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Momentum trading and a pivot from crypto drove the prices beyond sustainable levels. Swings made worse by those playing on the margin and doubt as to whether metals investment houses actually have physical metal to back their paper assets they sold.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (2swu2)

228 Just a guess, not a WAG, a bit above that, but playing ball on the appropriations package is probably driven by the same thing as the deliberate inaction on the largest part of the mass illegal migration disaster - fear of disrupting in any way what is hopefully a building economic surge.

Logical, but very likely unwise. Both in itself and because there is not much peril for the economy from either, especially the latter if they would simply adopt a flexible and "transitional" strategy (i.e. give industries a timetable and help to become illegal labor-free).

Because seeing how degraded the country is (the surveys show jaw-dropping ignorance and gullibility across the board on "is ICE being too mean??"), the 90% of the problem involving "he's been here 15 years and he's nice and works hard!!", there's no basis to expect a serious effort to deal with it.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (U/Byj)

229 Jemele Hill has always been a DEI hack going all the way back to her days with ESPN. Any show she was on was an automatic change the channel

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:56 PM (xT8gx)

230 Back pain? Do squat jumps. Works for me.

lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 12:56 PM (++1kQ)

231 "Looks like they caved."

Let's wait and see if they actually keep their word.

Posted by: Mhandisi at January 30, 2026 12:57 PM (z8a7x)

232 230.

Typing the words jump squats makes my back twinge.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 12:58 PM (vBKFG)

233 Celebrating Demon's arrest.

https://is.gd/My9aiP

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 12:58 PM (L/fGl)

234 That wording is mighty weaselly and leaves an opening you could drive Stacey Abrams through:

During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison "has clarified for me that county jails may (MAY!) notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail."

(emphasis added by ME)

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 30, 2026 12:58 PM (TezPK)

235 "Looks like they caved."

No. MN will do jack shit to help ICE. The admin got rolled again.

Posted by: Major Healey at January 30, 2026 12:59 PM (abIsI)

236 CaliGirl, just guess/explaining the word used.

Previously, jurisdictions prohibited by state policy from doing something

Now, they may do something.

Doesn't necessarily imply anything one way or the other.

As Homan said, performance-based policy, so to the extent they don't cooperate, feds will adjust resources accordingly.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 12:59 PM (U/Byj)

237 Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2026 12:59 PM (bss/y)

238 >>Back pain? Do squat jumps. Works for me.

Maybe work up to the squat sets and squat jumps...

I had the disc at L4/5 removed 16 years ago, after tearing that disc back in the early 90s. 90+% of the disc was gone after it finally ruptured.

Leg days keep me mobile.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:59 PM (ZcsJV)

239 Jemele Hill has always been a DEI hack going all the way back to her days with ESPN. Any show she was on was an automatic change the channel.

Jemele Hill is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with her, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at January 30, 2026 01:00 PM (R/m4+)

240 9 I have a feeling Walz had a Moment of Clarity.
----------------
Recall, Trump had a phone conversation with him, recently. Shit happens.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 01:00 PM (Hpgos)

241 Brother, squat jumps are the source. Do a set, then do a set of pull ups. Rinse repeat. After about 4 sets you’ll either be dead or satisfied.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 01:00 PM (++1kQ)

242 221 @jemelehill
They arrested Don Lemon. This is horrifying. I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent, this absolutely cannot stand. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (L/fGl)
++++
I agree. It must not stand that journalists get some kind of special, favorable treatment just because of their profession.

The opposite needs to be true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:54 PM (MABZ1)

That cocksucker wasn't just reporting on something that took place, he was arrested for planning and participating in a criminal conspiracy to disrupt, harass and terrorize churchgoers. So fuck you, Jemele.

Posted by: Not even remotely a "free speech" issue at January 30, 2026 01:00 PM (TbWk/)

243 I'm reading that may as a may now instead of of we ain't gonna ever.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 01:01 PM (0KSrI)

244 I only wonder what it is that Republicans agreed to change in the DHS funding bill. You know, the one that was already negotiated before they shot that commie twit.

If Murkowski, Cassidy and Tillis are involved it’s nothing good.

I think republicans are going to regret this.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 30, 2026 12:25 PM (3arSl)

They gave away any leverage they had. Keeping it all together they could say find DHS and we’ll give you this spending in this agency. Now they don’t have that anymore.

Whatever the negotiations end up being, end result will result in a weaker ice. I just hope they’re not stupid enough to agree to the warrants or de-masking Dem demands.

Imagine having to get millions of warrants from left wing judges. And forcing agents to identify themselves will mean doxxing and violence against all of their families. Who’s gonna want to work with that hanging over them? Nobody that’s who.

If any of these two are agreed to by the gop it’s the end of deportations.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 01:01 PM (PHOGh)

245 Honestly the biggest thing was the lower back pain. Stopping it seems to have caused that to subside.

If your back pain is lower back...really pay attention to your quads and hamstrings.

I have found that keeping them strong and stretched out goes a long way in mitigating the issue.

Either goes and you get hip/pelvis issues that only exacerbate the pain/discomfort.
Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2026 12:55 PM (ZcsJV)
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Child's Pose. Every morning. It made a real difference for me.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

246 Most annoying thing about being an older weight lifter:

Any program that requires a time machine to work properly.

Option 1. Go back 25 years and live your whole life differently.

Option 2. Be 19 and genetically gifted.

Here are some pictures of young athletes that have been in sports since they were larvae.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:01 PM (vBKFG)

247 It wasn't that long ago people were arguing Trump folded.

I'll take small regular wins. Beats what we had under Shrub or, shudder, the Biden Junta
Posted by: 18-1
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Actually pretty big wins in some areas, smaller in others and a few losses/casualties.

Just like a war, no engagement always results in the good guy winning but you have to look at the overall course of the war to determine whether you are winning or losing.

The Democrats are not winning, not advancing their policies nor winning public arguments.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:02 PM (2swu2)

248 BTW… 38 year old Novak Djokovic beats a much younger Jannik Sinner to make the Australian Open final… he’s already won the AO 10 times in the past. True greatness…. And he refused the covid jab! I’ll be pulling for the guy in the finals against Carlos Alcaraz where he’ll again be the underdog. It’s remarkable because tennis is a young man’s game

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 01:03 PM (xT8gx)

249 Right now, Don Lemon is dropping the soap and picking it up on purpose.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 01:03 PM (++1kQ)

250 IIRC Lincoln finally fired Burnside after his took the Army of the Potomac on its ill fated “mud march”… and that was AFTER the Fredericksburg debacle….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2026 12:53 PM (xT8gx)
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Yes, that is correct.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 30, 2026 01:03 PM (OvMCw)

251 Thanks Rhomboid.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 30, 2026 01:04 PM (8+C2v)

252 Jasmine Crockett Melts Down Over Don Lemon’s Arrest With Expletive-Laden Rant

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 01:04 PM (GITLP)

253 @jemelehill
They arrested Don Lemon. This is horrifying. I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent, this absolutely cannot stand. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 12:52 PM (L/fGl)
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I agree. It must not stand that journalists get some kind of special, favorable treatment just because of their profession.

The opposite needs to be true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 12:54 PM (MABZ1)
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Another 80/20 issue. Also, the entire thing made LeHomo look more desperate than a closeted homo circling the prom punch bowl hoping the football QB will notice him. "Hey, here I am at a church, we're threatening ladies and old people, please like and subscribe!"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

254 Someone mentioned that the first time Congress has passed bills in regular order since 1997.

Haven’t seen that reported anywhere. I don’t even think Mr Peepers Johnson said that.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (++1kQ)

255 242 That cocksucker wasn't just reporting on something that took place, he was arrested for planning and participating in a criminal conspiracy to disrupt, harass and terrorize churchgoers. - Not even remotely a "free speech" issue

An attempt to extend any right infinitely is going to cause it to collide with another right. It's a matter of balance. Looks like Lemon just fell off the tightrope.

Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (2L+MU)

256 241.

The sheer number of great exercises my broke-ass body can't do at this point needs dataRepublican to map.

I see people doing that awesome shit and stare like an urchin looking into a toy store.

I still move the weights, but slow and carefully like one of the Golden Girls some days.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (vBKFG)

257 On paper this is a win for Trump. But Democrats never actually do what they agree to. They are lying sacks of shit. As soon as ice moves on, they’ll stop. It’s as plain as day.

Posted by: Really?? at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (PHOGh)

258 You pays your money. You takes your chances.

https://is.gd/XSdNRP

DON'T CLICK! IT'S RACIST!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

259 An attempt to extend any right infinitely is going to cause it to collide with another right. It's a matter of balance. Looks like Lemon just fell off the tightrope.
Posted by: Paco at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (2L+MU)
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LOL not even.

He took a swan dive off it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:06 PM (MABZ1)

260 Imma looking forward to Cuber and Iran being liberated by Trump while Schumer is shutting down the government. This would make me very happy.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 01:06 PM (Hpgos)

261 Because seeing how degraded the country is (the surveys show jaw-dropping ignorance and gullibility across the board on "is ICE being too mean??"), the 90% of the problem involving "he's been here 15 years and he's nice and works hard!!", there's no basis to expect a serious effort to deal with it.
Posted by: rhomboid
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I would not believe any polling whatsoever nowadays without checking its internals. I read the internals of the most recent foxnews poll and it included about a 30 percent voluntary response for interviews sought out by cell phone texts. It also was not sampled geographically nor weighted for such. Trash poll to drive an agenda.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:06 PM (2swu2)

262 197 My precious!

Gold and silver taking a beating today.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 30, 2026 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

When my hoard goes down to zero value, I will have shiny baubles to hang on my Christmas tree, at least.

Posted by: tubal at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (pDt9x)

263 These people held children hostage in that church preventing their parents from getting to them, they should be put in PMITA prison.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (n5tGW)

264 One expects the abeyance afforded Trump by the Biden FBI and DOJ has not been forgotten.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (wBaIH)

265 You pays your money. You takes your chances.

https://is.gd/XSdNRP

DON'T CLICK! IT'S RACIST!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (L/fGl)
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Is this real? That pic looks AI to me.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

266 259.

They never know the day their gay and race cards will suddenly overdraw.

It's always a surprise.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (vBKFG)

267 You pays your money. You takes your chances.

https://is.gd/XSdNRP

DON'T CLICK! IT'S RACIST!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 01:05 PM (L/fGl)
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Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Ugh, what a nightmare that is going to be for everyone involved

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (MABZ1)

268 Is this real? That pic looks AI to me.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
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It was on TV! It must be real!

I hope it isn't real.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:08 PM (MABZ1)

269 257 On paper this is a win for Trump. But Democrats never actually do what they agree to. They are lying sacks of shit. As soon as ice moves on, they’ll stop. It’s as plain as day.
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I would imagine that ICE/BP have a deep insight on how the crazies are organized and activated. Maybe they guide the FBI to the bad guys with this intel?

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 01:08 PM (Hpgos)

270 Jasmine Crockett Melts Down Over Don Lemon’s Arrest With Expletive-Laden Rant

Did she waggle her head side to side like a cockatoo and say "Oh no you di'nt?"

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2026 01:08 PM (Fs0KI)

271 265.

Has anyone interviewed the tech support guy she calls when he is traveling for work?

Freak Squad > Geek Squad

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:09 PM (doKBk)

272 During a press conference, Homan explained that Attorney General Keith Ellison "has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE of the release dates of criminal public safety risks so I can take custody upon the release from the jail."

MAY is the key word above. I don't expect the Hennepin County Sheriff - Minneapolis's county - to voluntarily do it. Along with a lot of other counties.

Posted by: Gref at January 30, 2026 01:10 PM (5rh/l)

273 Is this real? That pic looks AI to me.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
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It was on TV! It must be real!

I hope it isn't real.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:08 PM (MABZ1)
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It could be real, but as I understand how IV works, they do a lot of genetic and other testing during the pregnancy. It's not like they just pull a fertilized embryo out of a tube and turkey-baster it in. So I'm not sure how they wouldn't have known that the kid wasn't theirs until birth. Or maybe they did know, but didn't abort.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

274 IIRC Lincoln finally fired Burnside after his took the Army of the Potomac on its ill fated “mud march”… and that was AFTER the Fredericksburg debacle….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Burnside commanded three of the worst Union debacle. The Burnside Bridge assault at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg. After the war, he became a politician and ran on his war record and won.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 30, 2026 01:11 PM (L/fGl)

275 254 Someone mentioned that the first time Congress has passed bills in regular order since 1997.

Haven’t seen that reported anywhere. I don’t even think Mr Peepers Johnson said that.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Yep and it destroyed all the remaining Obama and Biden base level spending levels. Any new CR will be on the new GOP levels, not the Dems old ones from years before.

As I see, too many people are seeking perfection, eager to claim defeat before any evidence, and ignoring any positive evidence to the contrary. Too many people are hooked on the black pill and simply can't or won't spit it out.

And a bill funding DHS can specifically go through reconcilation which makes policy changes impossible to do if they have any substantive content more than budgetary impact.

No filibusters on spending bills under reconcilation.

The other move would be put SAVE Act into the DHS spending bill and force it through by narrowing the filibuster.

Let the Dems (and weak GOPe types) try to then oppose both Voter ID and Immigration Enforcement.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:11 PM (2swu2)

276 267.

Joe Hallenbeck knew how to find out the truth.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:11 PM (KspkQ)

277 It could be real, but as I understand how IV works, they do a lot of genetic and other testing during the pregnancy. It's not like they just pull a fertilized embryo out of a tube and turkey-baster it in. So I'm not sure how they wouldn't have known that the kid wasn't theirs until birth. Or maybe they did know, but didn't abort.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 30, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/)
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Or the clinic did know and didn't disclose it, hoping that nobody would find out - and having the bad luck to get it *really* wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:12 PM (MABZ1)

278 Oh yes but question is whether the "traffic analysis" approach to surveys is valid in this case. That is all of them, of varying quality, show the same trend. Possible that the quality is so low overall that they're getting the trend reversed.

Main point was that something is driving an approach to a pretty desperate and weak Dem opposition (they were initially quite panicked over their "shutdown" strategy, as they should have been, since it was likely to fail and further cement their deserved image as insane arsonists opposing normal LE activity). If the (permanent) uselessness of the GOP in the form of the usual cretins was the driver, then so be it.

But I think it's an unwise fixation on not interrupting what I think is an unstoppable (excluding major black swans) economic surge that is building.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2026 01:12 PM (U/Byj)

279 I would imagine that ICE/BP have a deep insight on how the crazies are organized and activated. Maybe they guide the FBI to the bad guys with this intel?
Posted by: pudinhead
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DHS can be used as it has its own enforcement team, don't have to involve the Feebs.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:12 PM (2swu2)

280 209 Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
They arrested Don Lemon. This is horrifying. I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent, this absolutely cannot stand.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare

Food for the Podcast. (Booted out of everything else over the years, it came to that.)

I thought she was solely into empowering Black women.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:12 PM (NFX2v)

281

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

3 illegal aliens were just arrested after FIRING GUNS on a packed Texas highway — even opening fire on a FAMILY

Send them to CECOT!

These are the Democrat heroes and voters people like Tim Walz want to protect. Absolutely vile.

https://tinyurl.com/52mum8kp

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2026 01:12 PM (NpAcC)

282 I suppose the good thing about this is the non-commie counties in MN can now notify ICE. But generally these criminals hang out in the big cities.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 01:13 PM (n5tGW)

283 282 I suppose the good thing about this is the non-commie counties in MN can now notify ICE. But generally these criminals hang out in the big cities.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2026 01:13 PM (n5tGW)

Yup.

Posted by: Gref at January 30, 2026 01:14 PM (5rh/l)

284 Burnside commanded three of the worst Union debacle. The Burnside Bridge assault at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg. After the war, he became a politician and ran on his war record and won.
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Lee's lieutenants asked Lee whether they should curl their left flank at Fredericksburg. Lee's answer was 'its Burnside, he will come straight down the middle.' Lee was right.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 01:15 PM (Hpgos)

285 *pops popcorn*
*field strips 1911*
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 12:13 PM

Shit Status:

[X] Real
[ ] Other Than Real

I pity da fools.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2026 01:15 PM (kgE5c)

286 19 EV thread slows...stops.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Shortest Haiku ever!

Posted by: Piercello at January 30, 2026 01:16 PM (NRGJj)

287 286.

Needs more cherry blossoms.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:17 PM (R1U9t)

288 I thought she was solely into empowering Black women.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:12 PM

I thought she was solely into scissoring Black women.

FIFY

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2026 01:17 PM (4p0Xq)

289 But I think it's an unwise fixation on not interrupting what I think is an unstoppable (excluding major black swans) economic surge that is building.
Posted by: rhomboid
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All surveys are pretty much garbage at this point. You can take my professional word on that as someone who has done field work surveys for fedgov, have colleagues that are pollsters, etc. AAPOR saw this coming in the 2000's as a profession and now it is here.

Basically the whole RDD model is fatally broken in a world of cell phones, area codes not matching the phone, contaminated sampling methods, and magic weighting where the coasts are overemphasized in sampling and a persistent shy Tory effect is obvious.

Polling is broken and not likely to be fixed anytime soon. Ditto for voting given persistent patterns of Democrat fraud in cheat by mail states like CA.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:17 PM (2swu2)

290 287 Needs more cherry blossoms.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 30, 2026 01:17 PM (R1U9t)

Suddenly reminded I wanted to order some sakura tea...

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2026 01:19 PM (FpHTM)

291 The Democrats are not winning, not advancing their policies nor winning public arguments.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2026 01:02 PM (2swu2)

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Democrats' actions the past few years have solidified them as the party of illegals, trannies and fraud.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 01:19 PM (syu79)

292 Democrats' actions the past few years have solidified them as the party of illegals, trannies and fraud.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2026 01:19 PM (syu79)

Don't forget Islamists!!!

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2026 01:20 PM (6ZSsV)

293 Dems are the Party of Somalis.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 01:22 PM (Hpgos)

294 NOOD CLU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2026 01:23 PM (MABZ1)

295 288. I thought she was solely into scissoring Black women.

FIFY
Posted by: Minnfidel

🤫

🤣🤣

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 01:24 PM (NFX2v)

296 293 Dems are the Party of Somalis.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 30, 2026 01:22 PM (Hpgos)

And they want to keep that out of the news. Because Hispanics typically have no love for people with you-know-what skin color. And the feeling is mutual.

Posted by: Gref at January 30, 2026 01:25 PM (5rh/l)

297 there is no national database listing all the people who have been murdered by illegals. There should be.
Greg Guttfield waved some papers during The Five and said it had the names of women murdered by illegals...that should be made public.

After all, if Renee Good and that cashew-headed agitator had been murdered by illegals, no one would know their names. There'd be no big funerals or protests, no calls for a nationwide strike.

and that list should include people killed by illegals who are drunk drivers or unlicensed truck drivers.

Even if the list isn't completely accurate, it will raise awareness and give the families of the deceased a small measure of vindication or closure.

Posted by: vivi at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (NddcJ)

298 There is a world of difference between *saying* you will do something, and *actually* doing it.

Ellison playing "just the tip, I promise" with this strikes me as pretty likely.

You're missing the whole picture. Antifa nationwide has had severe damage done to their infrastructure by white-hat hackers this week. Several of the ICE trackers are down and have had their entire user list extracted and sent to the FBI, DHS, and ICE. Similarly, Antifa's central dispatch system was completely destroyed, but not before its user list was extracted and sent to authorities.

Elected Democrats are on those lists. Mostly low-level, but not all. Also, following Cam Higby, lots of people have gotten onto the various Signal chats and leaked stuff, and an actual mole has leaked Antifa's training and tactics manuals. There is actual panic going on, and that was before the Minnesota cops had arrested them two days in a row.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2026 01:28 PM (2ocoG)

299 MAY is the key word above. I don't expect the Hennepin County Sheriff - Minneapolis's county - to voluntarily do it. Along with a lot of other counties.

this!

The only concession Homan got was that Ellison won't bring charges against the people who run the jails if they turn over criminal illegals in their custody. Meanwhile the entire government will be telling those same people 9behind the scenes) that they will have no future if they do it. Unfortunately, Homan is just trying to paper over a clear retreat by Trump.

Posted by: Brian at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (UhEJ/)

300 "I got that white girl..." Nothing

"Assault me mother fucker! ". Omg he was nurse!!!

I'm glad pretti is dead

I'm glad good is dead

I hope many more of the violent crazies kill themselves over their perceived "grief"

Not one of these adult violent babies give a rats ass about anything except themselves and Reddit virtue.

I've had enough of these monsters fucking up my country.

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 30, 2026 01:32 PM (XLfSN)

301 I think Homan should walk into every meeting with a sanctuary state administrator with a thick manila envelope and say "This is what we have on you. So far." Whether they have anything on those dirtbags or not. You know they're all dirty and guilty of something.

Posted by: vivi at January 30, 2026 01:33 PM (NddcJ)

302 The Minnesota Vikings should change their name and logo to The Minnesota Pirates.

Posted by: vivi at January 30, 2026 01:35 PM (NddcJ)

303 Let's never forget.

Timmy Walz had Keith Ellison take over as special prosecutor in Derek Chauvin's felony kneeling case, where he upped the murder charges and dropped the manslaughter option for the jury, thus ensuring a murder conviction.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 30, 2026 01:36 PM (dtajH)

304 The real problem remains in Minneapolis.

That, by the way, puts the police and sheriffs in handcuffs. If they hand over illegals, the mob comes for them, if they don't ICE comes in.

Honestly, I think the police would prefer to take on the mob. They know the dirt bags they have in their jails and would like nothing better to ship them home - it makes their jobs much easier in the long run.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 01:38 PM (vOtXJ)

305 DO MICHELLE WU NEXT! DO MICHELLE WU NEXT!

Posted by: red speck at January 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Ve/HL)

306 ICE caved first by pulling out its masked agents

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 30, 2026 02:53 PM (bUHj0)

307 Drug addicts are currently saving 100s of millions of dollars per year because of the drop in fentanyl prices in the last year.
Price is as low as 50 cents per pill wholesale

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 30, 2026 02:55 PM (bUHj0)

308 You're missing the whole picture.
Posted by: Ian S.

Does this Philly Soros DA play into your analysis? Running his mouth in desperation? Or is he a separate problem?

I don't understand how a city official can threaten POTUS and Federal Agents and still be breathing.

Then again, I don't understand why Soros and Sons haven't eaten a cruise missile for meddling with America?

Posted by: Fen at January 30, 2026 03:06 PM (ciYHQ)

309 Newly released Epstein documents mention Trump 100s of times
Claim girl bit his weird shaped penis after forced oral sex
Claim STDs (herpes?) from Russian girls

Ace will ignore
Release on Friday. Taking out the trash day. But this is the opening night of the biggest movie event of the year!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 30, 2026 03:42 PM (bUHj0)

310 “…has clarified for me that county jails may notify ICE…”

The op word here is “may”. Don’t hold your breath Ellison and company will contact ICE.

Posted by: RobertM at January 30, 2026 03:46 PM (btIS/)

311 I wouldn't trust Keith Ellison any further than I could heave his mangy Muslim loving carcass. OTOH modern management theory suggests that when a weak performer shows improvement in any direction, you encourage that. So we shall see.

Posted by: comanche voter at January 30, 2026 04:06 PM (cB7nX)

312 Hold on!

"Some" people were saying that President Trump folded.

Does not seem that way, pikers!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 04:26 PM (WONhk)

313 Jihadists need to all be deported for life from America

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 30, 2026 05:05 PM (wGqjj)

314 .

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